Karak Norn: The Ledger is Open
The Karak Norn Wargaming Club has operated in Switzerland since 2003. We are a circle of old-ass veterans and enthusiastic padawans who settle scores over the tabletop during the cold winter evenings and the long, hot summer nights.
We do not chase the new; we master the best of the best. From the grand strategy of World in Flames to the brutal skirmishes of Mordheim and Blood Bowl, we play the systems that represent the pinnacle of the hobby (with special care given to Warhammer Fantasy 6th Edition and Warhammer 40,000 3rd Edition).
The Jump to the Modern Age
There is a divide in our ranks. The Longbeards among us insist on the most perfect editions (valuing the nostalgia tactical depth and "Golden Era" logic of systems like WHFB 6th). However, the Younglings see these classics for what they have become: a mountain of documents required just to play a balanced game.
The beauty of 6th Edition was its freedom, allowing for wild combinations that the community eventually had to regulate with layers of restrictions, tournament standards, and endless FAQs. The result is a pile of weathered papers, clipped White Dwarf articles, and analog photocopies that are nearly impossible to implement properly at the table. Meanwhile, modern games like The Old World (TOW) offer the convenience of frequent digital balance updates.
To bridge this gap, we are actively developing and maintaining the Warhammer Fantasy 6th Definitive Edition project. It is a single-stop digital resource with the standard tournament ruleset included (making it easy for new and veteran players (and our own kids) to enjoy this wonderful edition without being overwhelmed by 20-year-old paperwork).
To power this project, we are collecting, translating and digitizing the archives of our own physical files: The Norn Consensus. Born in 2004, one year after the foundation of the Karak Norn Wargaming Club, the Consensus developed as a quiet, internal referee baseline shared among a modest network of tournament organizers and local clubs across the DACH area, anchoring some Swiss and Austrian competitive circles.
Rather than a public-facing, widely published expansion pack, the Consensus functioned as a living, uncurated record of table-side arbitration. Its contents were widely scattered across handwritten field notes taken during matches, physical club meeting minutes, private mailing list drafts, and loose text fragments stored on old local hard drives. The archive documents an organic post-tournament feedback loop: whenever a bizarre rules deadlock forced a referee to make an immediate "coin toss" decision at the table to save match time, the details were brought back to the club. The elders and regional tournament organizers (TOs) would subsequently debate the interaction, analyze the wording across multiple printings, and codify a permanent resolution to eliminate future friction.
Our current process of digitization is a dedicated hybrid recovery effort: we are translating handmade field notes originally scribbled in local Swiss German (Schwiizerdütsch), carving into old salvaged mailing lists, and extracting text fragments from old club hard drives. As we process these archives to ensure absolute compatibility with modern digital rules engines, we are also actively curating the data to remove obsolete entries (like trial lists or Ravening Hordes) or rules that were later officially clarified by Games Workshop themselves in subsequent errata updates.
This is our second attempt at digitization (the first was lost during the Yahoo! Groups shutdown) and we do not intend to let that knowledge vanish again.
The Dammaz Kron
This blog is the Dammaz Kron: the Great Book of Grudges for the Karak Norn club. It is where we record our grudges, our battles, and our triumphs.
We intend to share battle reports in the classic White Dwarf style (because we love the format) to record our matches for later discussion and improvement. These reports allow us to test updated army-build rulesets for our leagues and seasonal tournaments, ensuring we can polish every list before the event. Each entry serves as a record of tactical errors, rules conflicts, and the mechanical refinements that keep the system sharp.
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The debt is recorded. The knowledge is shared.
Khazukan Kazakit-ha
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Karak Norn Wargaming Club Est. 2003 | Switzerland
karaknornwargaming@gmail.com
