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ARMIES

ARMIES

By Rick Priestley

With Lex van Rooy

Production by Andy Hall

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Picking the Army . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Tomb Kings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Chaos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Orc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

High Elf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Dwarf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Skaven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Lizardmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Bretonnia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Kislev . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Dark Elf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Vampire Count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Daemon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Araby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Acknowledgements

"Lex," wrote Andy on May 31st "... could you also write a short acknowledgements piece for the credits page, so I don't miss anyone

deserving off.", and all of a sudden I end up back on the critical path of the V2.2 Armylist publication. Luckily the first weekend of

June is a 3-day one, so I managed to get this out in time.

Now this is not the easiest of tasks as there was a LOT of input from a lot of different sources, both in the conceptual stages and

during the later playtesting. So I will opt for the easy way out and will hereby thank everyone that put their ideas forward in the

Experimental Rules Feedback and General Discussion forum on the SG site and those that participated in the Warmaster Yahoo

group.

After that came the playtesting feedback. Those people willing to play around with some of the wild and wacky ideas that ended up

in some of the Army lists to give them more (or a more specific) flavour, deserve a BIG "thank you" too. Players at several events I

attended over the last year (Memphis GT, Vancouver Get Together, Warmuster, EuroGT) had to suffer playing with the almost finalized

V2.2 lists, and in several cases playtesting in these more competitive environments yielded results that forced us back to the drawing

board. Overall, thanks to the BIG community participation, I think we created a nice new Frankensteinian monster for all of us to

play around with.

The one army I can stick more specific credits on is the (soon to be) Araby army. Both the fan-based Oriental Design Team, captained

by UllGitYer/Wayne Rozier and the ideas of the late Steve Hambrook, contributed much towards the development of the Araby army

at the start of the project. I’d also like to thank Matt Keefe who kicked this all off, back when he was running Warmaster.

And special thanks go to my trusty side-kick and his lovely spouse; Forum answer-MOD John Bennison and his wife Carol. With my

obvious blind spots when it comes down to reading stuff you have mulled over for more then a year, his assistance in re-reading all

the material, especially with the experience/motivation of being the answer-MOD eventually being ASKED all sorts of questions on

the list after publication, proved worth its weight in wine. His wife Carol went over all the material for typos allowing us to provide

Andy with as clean a document as possible.

Lex

This publication is dedicated to the memory of Steve Hambrook

– still greatly missed.

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Introduction

This supplement to the Warmaster game contains all of the army

lists for all of the supported races at the time of writing in 2005.

Since the publication of Warmaster in 2000 the number of armies

available has grown one at a time from the original six to thirteen

complete armies. Rules for the new armies have been covered in

different supplements and magazines over the ensuing years.

Inevitably some variation has crept into the presentation along

the way. To complicate matters further, some of the additional

armies have been printed in both preliminary and updated

versions, whilst minor corrections have also been incorporated

into the original army lists. This book updates all of the armies,

including the original armies, and is intended to serve as a

definitive reference for these armies for the foreseeable future.

FORMAT

The army lists follow the conventional format for the army lists

given in the Warmaster rulebook. To avoid splitting the

information about army selection from the army lists themselves

a short section has been added describing how to choose armies;

this is not substantially different from the original version but has

been reworded somewhat to aid clarity. Illustrated descriptions

of the different troop types have been included in each list;

descriptions previously incorporated into the special rules have

therefore been removed. The special rules for each troop type

have been updated and put into a standard phrasing as far as this

is practical. The spells for each army have been revised and

added to the army list itself. Relevant magic rules pertaining to

characters have been incorporated into the special rules for the

appropriate entries. Rules for war machines unique to an army

have been included as part of the special rules for that army.

Overall, the intention has been to put all the information

required for each army into one place if at all possible. Note that

significant changes have been made to many spells and some war

machines compared to the rulebook - all such changes effectively

replace the rulebook versions.

Author's Note. References to not being able to cast the same

spell on the same unit more than once have been removed from

the spell descriptions as superfluous. Ie it is taken as read that a

unit or character cannot be affected by the same spell more than

once in the same turn as covered by the 2002 updates (included

in the 2002 Annual and also on the Warmaster web-site).

ALTERNATIVE UNITS

Since Warmaster was written we have produced a variety of new

troops for all the original six armies as well as most of the

additional armies. In all cases new models are intended to

substitute for existing entries in the army lists. For example

Empire Knights of the White Wolf count as Empire Knights, High

Elf Phoenix Guard count as High Elf Spearmen. No new rules

have been created just because new models have been produced.

This allows us to add variety to the armies without unbalancing

either individual armies or the game as a whole. Apart from

simply adding variety this is a useful way of identifying units with

particular magic weapons or banners. These substitutes are listed

under the appropriate army list entries in a separate appendix:

further new items will hopefully be added to the range in time.

FURTHER ARMIES

We have not included in this book any of the variant or converted

armies that have previously been featured in Warmaster

magazine or Fanatic magazine. However, whilst Warmaster

players want to develop further armies using the models already

available, or conversions, then these will hopefully be added to

the Warmaster website as downloads for players to use as they

see fit.

Picking the Army

This section of the Warmaster Armies book explains how to

choose equally matched armies to take part in a battle and

updates the section in the main rulebook p126 and 127.

In theory there is no reason why forces have to be equal, but

most players prefer to fight battles between armies that are,

notionally at least, the same fighting value. To facilitate this, all

units are allocated a points value that reflects their worth in a

typical battle.

As a matter of principle the points values of individual units are

considered in proportion to the army as a whole so that troops

of comparable fighting value may be a few points more or a few

points less in some armies. This is intentional. In these cases the

marginal difference in points is done to restrict or increase the

choices available to the player.

THE ARMY

Army lists and rules are provided for 13 official Warmaster

armies. All armies are chosen in the same fashion using the

appropriate list. The army lists are included on the following

pages and you may wish to skip forward to your favoured army

as you read through the rest of this section.

ARMY SIZE

Both sides select troops and characters up to the same maximum

points value. Three 'standard' sized battles are considered here.

Smaller and larger battles, or battles with intermediate points

values, can also be arranged as discussed later.

Small battle 1000 points per side

Medium battle 2000 points per side

Large battle 3000 points per side

A small battle is ideal for beginners or for demonstrating the

game but the tactical possibilities are limited. Small battles are

more susceptible to the fortunes of dice rolling than are large

battles. Medium sized battles are considered the usual kind and

will typically last for a whole evening's play - although

experienced players have been known to cram four or more such

battles into a single day. Large battles require more leisure but

offer a varied game that better reflects the subtleties of the

command system.

Substantially bigger battles can be fought with even more points

per side if players wish. Beware that a very large game can take

an entire day or even several days to complete. There is no real

maximum limit beyond the number of models and the size of the

gaming area available.10,000 points or more is certainly feasible.

With very large armies it helps to have additional players to help

move troops and roll dice.

Note that the army size indicates the maximum points value that

can be spent. Armies can have fewer points than this value but

cannot have more. Often it is impossible to spend the odd few

points so a medium sized '2000 point' army might have only 1995

points of models. Such an army is still a 2000 point army as far

as we are concerned. It is the maximum permitted value that

determines the army size not the actual points spent.

The army lists are designed to work with armies of round

thousands of points (1000, 2000, 3000, etc). However, it is also

possible to choose armies of other sizes - say 1500 or 750. This is

slightly less convenient but useful if players are still building

their armies and want to use units as they are purchased. This is

explained under Selecting the Army.

ARMY LISTS

Begin with the army list for your chosen army. The different lists

include all the units available for each side together with their

game stats, points values and special rules where appropriate.

Most of this information is condensed into a single stat line for

each unit. Any additional information is noted as special rules

after the army list itself. Stat lines are presented as follows:

Troop

Halberdiers

Infantry

–

2/–

–

Type. This describes the type of troop unit or character stand:

Infantry, Cavalry, Monster, Artillery, Machine, Chariot, General,

Wizard or Hero. Mounts for characters are sometimes optional

and are included as a separate line as Monstrous Mount or

Chariot Mount.

Attack. The basic number of dice rolled in combat by each stand

in the unit.

Hits. The number of hits the unit can suffer before one stand is

removed.

Armour. The score required to nullify a hit struck on the unit if

it has armour (3+, 4+, 5+ or 6+). A unit with no armour has a

value of 0.

Command. The Command value of a character.

Unit Size. The number of stands in a unit.

Points per Unit. The points value of a unit or character of that

type.

Min/Max. This defines the minimum and maximum number of

units of that type which an army must include per 1000 points of

army size. A dash indicates there is no restriction.

SELECTING THE ARMY

Choose units and characters to make up the army. You can

choose up to a maximum total value appropriate to the size of

game. For example, High Elf Spearmen are 60 points per unit so

5 such units are worth 300 points.

Players are not entirely free to select forces as they want. Some

units must always be included and some other units can only be

included in limited numbers. These restrictions are indicated by

the minimum/maximum column (min/max) in the army lists. The

min/max value consists of two numbers separated by a slash – for

example 1 / 2. The first number shows the minimum number of

that unit/character the army must include for every 1000 points

of army size. The second number shows the maximum number

of that unit/character the army can include for every 1000 points

of army size.

For example, in a Bretonnian army, Squires are min/max 1/4. This

means that in a 1000 point army the player must include at least

1 unit but cannot include more than 4. In a 2000 point army the

minimum is therefore 2 and the maximum 8, in a 3000 point

army minimum 3 maximum 12, and so on.

If an entry includes a dash instead of a number this means no

minimum or maximum applies. The player can chose as few or

as many of this troop types as he wishes within the limitations of

the points available. For example, –/2 means that in a 1000 points

army there is no minimum and the maximum is 2, 1/– means

there is a minimum of 1 and no maximum.

All armies must include a single General. An army can never

include more than one General no matter how what its size. The

Min/Max column is given as 1 to show this.

You may have decided your armies will be chosen to 1500 points

or some other odd number. In this case determine min/max

values by rounding your actual army size down to the next full

1000's. So, a 1500 point army is selected using the minimums

and maximums for a 1000 point army, a 2250 point army is the

same as a 2000 and so on.

If your chosen army size is less than 1000 points then use the

1000 point maximums but ignore the minimums. Very small

games can be a useful exercise for learning the rules but be

warned that the game does not work particularly well with

extremely small forces and battles may feel bewilderingly rapid.

The value of any permitted magic items is added to that of the

unit or character that carries them. Magic items must be allocated

to specific characters and a separate note made. This will

increase the points value of the unit or character appropriately,

and the total cost must be taken into account when working out

victory points. See Magic p72 of the Warmaster rulebook.

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