Opis
The General’s Handbook is an essential update for all gamers in the
Mortal Realms, packed with content for every kind of player. Expanding on the
core rules, it’s an essential companion to matched play, toolbox for open play
and treasure trove for narrative play all in one!
Inside this
year’s softback General’s Handbook, you’ll find…
The Player’s
Code – a code of conduct for players of Warhammer Age of Sigmar designed to
encourage sportsmanship and good play for all gamers.
New rules
for open play, including…
The Open War Army Generator – designed
to generate armies for any kind of open play games, making the process of
picking an army for your games quick and simple by selecting a small, medium, or
large force.
Open War Terrain – presents four different methods of
setting terrain up before your games, including an optional terrain generator,
and optional rules to provide instructions for where you place terrain on your
battlefield.
Open War Close-quarters Battle Generator – turn your dining
table into an epic battlefield with rules for playing in limited
spaces.
Hidden Agendas – spice up your games secondary objectives that
represent the secret goals of the armies fighting a battle.
New
rules for narrative play, including:
– Streets of Death – expanded
rules for urban combat in the Mortal Realms, allowing you to battle through
cities with rules for narrow streets, demolitions, sewers, barricades and
more
– Arcane objectives – a table that adds extra narrative dimensions to
the objectives in your games
– Regiments of Renown – customise your chosen
units to represent their prowess in battle with six tables of special
abilities
– Elixia, the Shattered City – a historical setting in the Mortal
Realms that’s perfect for small-scale narrative battles
– Raids and Ambushes
– thrilling asymmetric battles where one player ambushes or raids a
defender.
– Naming your Heroes – generate names for your chosen champions
with tables for the Stormcast Eternals, Slaves to Darkness, Khorne, Nurgle,
Tzeentch, Slaanesh, Skaven, Ironjawz, Gloomspite Gitz, Idoneth Deepkin, and
Nighthaunt
– Mercenary Companies – recruit notorious mercenaries to any army,
regardless of Grand Alliance, from Gargants to Fyreslayers
New
rules for matched play, including:
– Updated rules for Pitched
Battles – including guidance on army size, points limits, battlefield roles,
allied units, warscroll battalions and more, essential for tournament play
–
12 Pitched Battle battleplans – each offering their own tactical challenges
–
Pitched Battle tournaments – a set of rules designed to help you arrange your
own tournaments that can be modified as you see fit
– Meeting Engagements – a
set of rules that let you play fast, balanced games on small-sized battlefields
designed to provide all the thrills of matched play in less than 90 minutes,
plus six new Meeting Engagement Battleplans and suggested tournament
rules
PLUS:
Conquest Unbound – updated allegiance
abilities, including battle traits, command traits and artefacts of power for
Darkling Covens, Dispossessed, Free Peoples, Seraphon, Wanderers, Slaves to
Darkness, and Ironjawz
Pitched Battle Profiles – a separate, 32-page
booklet containing pitched battle points values, unit sizes and battlefield
roles for the units you can use in games of Warhammer Age of Sigmar, also
including scenery, endless spells, Compendium and Forge World
models
About This Edition
Only available while
stocks last, this Warlord Edition of the General’s Handbook includes a host of
exclusive accessories in addition to the softback General’s Handbook 2019 and
Pitched Battle Profiles booklet, including:
30x battleplan cards supplied
in a card sleeve – 20x matched play battleplan cards, 6x Meeting Engagement
battleplan cards, 4x narrative play battleplan cards
13x scenery warscroll
cards supplied in a card sleeve
135x small format cards – 4 decks each
supplied in a card sleeve:
Deck 1 – 36x Force cards
Deck 2 – 36x Open
War generator cards (12 maps, 6 Objectives, 6 Twists, 6 Ruses, 6 Sudden
Death)
Deck 3 – 6x Triumph cards, 18 x Hidden Agenda cards, 10x Mercenary
Company cards.
Deck 4 – 11x Arcane Objective cards, 18x Open War Terrain
cards
1x double-sided card token sheet featuring 6 objective markers, 3
starstrike markers, 2 summoning rulers, 6 command point markers, 24 terrain
markers to mark the following effects: Damned, Arcane, Inspiring, Deadly,
Mystical, Sinister, Overgrown, Entangling, Volcanic, Commanding, Healing, and
Nullification, 6 Battleshock markers, and 1 Mystic Shield marker.
