Getting the Wife into Warmahordes

I would agree with Gumba that if she is more interested in painting than playing then she shouldn't worry about mechanics, but your descriptions are pretty apt from an aesthetic or gameplay standpoint. Maybe add that Ret is more scifi/anime but otherwise those do a pretty good job of describing the look and feel. Alternatively just take her to the gallery at privaterpress.com or the wall of the local game shop and let her look around.

Her tastes are pretty wide and varied so the aesthetics, while important, won't be a big deal. And, as I said, we'll go over the aesthetics too to find one she likes. But I'd like her to choose an army she likes on concept, then aesthetics.

1) Cygnar isn't really America.  They're a feudal monarchy. I would just describe it that way, as there is no democracy at play, nor is there really anything "American" about them.  For Cygnar, I'd say "Electric techno-wizards, strong economy, and gun mages."

2)  Khador is more a of Czarist Russia (they have an emperor and a feudal society).  I'd say "poor but sturdy eastern european country with more people than money, and more ambition than morals."

5)  "magician" hunting?  That's kind of wierd.  I think of people hunting David Copperfield or Houdini...  They hunt wizards.  I would say, think elven fringe terrorists; something out of Ghost in the Shell, but elven.

8)  There's really nothing american indian about trolls except that they live in a tribal organization and some ride buffalo; one could draw parallels to the early U.S. treatment of the native peoples in terms of displacement, but that is getting a little too deep.  I would just say "tribal, blue people who are very strong with crazy regeneration abilities."

9)  Circle doesn't hate civilization, per se; they know that too much civilization will cause the Devourer Wurm to return to Caen and destroy the world.  They are eco-terrorists who use werewolfs, golems, and wild tribes to combat the spread of civilization."

Also, good luck getting her into the game, sounds like fun!

Edit:  Also, for Legion, I wouldn't call them "blighted dragon people," because the Nyss and Ogrun are not dragon people, they are elves and Ogrun.  I would say they are Dark Elves or blighted elves with twisted Dragonspawn warbeasts.

How so?

For me Cygnar is, astetically, a historical mix of sorts. Colonial America/England with tricorns and flintlocks (gun mages), WW1 trench warfare (trenchers), and early industrial Tesla-esque steampunk. Plus a couple knights for flavor. Its actually what drew me to them in the first place.

Cygnar is like America if tesla was allowed to invent everything and remained a commonwealth country