>>96743254
I disagree
the problem with ronjaws and kruleboys isn't that they don't have a bridge, because they do have one, their bridge is not a third element that sits in-between them but both building from a core concept that's simple, an orc, each of them taking just one step to separate it from that starting point (an orc but skinny, or an orc but 'hard')
meanwhile the dwarf concepts that have been turned into aos armies were already separated by one degree from the middle point, so the aos result is something that might get considered "overwrought" (a dwarf, but berserker, but with fire, and magic gold runes in its skin that..., or a dwarf but engineer, and a skynaut, and using magic gold gas that...)

so the problem between a dwarf soup and an orc soup is different, in the latter the problem is that they would arguably have bridges with moonclans and gitmobs too but are split arbitrarily, and this arbitration is poorly justified or hypocritical
if they were together they would exist without a real middle ground but they would still be perfectly in balance because the 4 extremes they represent are equal thematic opposite poles that each starts from simpler and already affine core concepts
and those can be juxtaposed or mixed in various functional ways


dwarf soup, due to the way larger chasm between the concepts, does indeed have a problem in the lack of a bridge, but that's not a problem that there would be between normal dwarfs and fire dwarfs, that's a problem that there would be between fire dwarfs and sky dwarfs
the problem with a soup of fire dwarfs and normal dwarfs is that the resulting combination is lopsided, because the two aren't opposites*
that lopsidedness would be solved by the dwarf soup have kharadrons too