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Rick Priestley

with Stephan Hess & Alessio Cavatore

COVER ART

Geoff Taylor

ARTISTS

John Blanche, Alex Boyd, David Gallagher, Nuala Kennedy,

Neil Hodgson, Karl Kopinski & John Wigley

GRAPHIC DESIGN

John Blanche, Alan Merrett & Talima Fox

MODEL MAKERS

Chris Smart & Mark Jones

MINIATURES DESIGNERS

Dave Andrews, Gary Morley, Trish Morrison,

Alan Perry, Tim Adcock, Colin Grayson, Mark Bedford,

Mark Harrison, Alex Hedström, Juan Diaz & Shane Hoyle.

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Richard Baker, Neil Green, Martin Footitt, Matt Parkes,

Keith Robertson, Chris Smart & Dave Thomas

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Multitudes march to war. Innumerable bodies merge

into a single mass like insects beneath the eye of a

colossus. Columns stretching invisibly into the

distance twist their way along roads pounded to

dust beneath iron-shod feet. Before them lie the

border lands of the enemy, dark forests that

swallow armies as easily as a toad swallows a fly,

swelling rivers whose distant banks shimmer under

a hazy sun and finally, a wall of black-towered

fortresses whose serried battlements rise in stony

defiance of would-be conquerors.

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gamed with armies of model warriors who have not

dreamed of recreating the ultimate big battle. Such a

battle wouldn’t be just a battle – or rather not just the

immediate confrontation between rival warriors – but

would encompass the manoeuvre and counter-

manoeuvre of armies, the disposition of whole brigades

and the execution of bold strategies as imaginative as

they are ambitious. As venerable generals will know, few

games offer such opportunities, preferring instead to

restrict themselves to the minutiae of individual combat

and the intricate details of weapons and armour. Such

things have their place, without doubt, but there surely

beckons a bigger and altogether grander challenge.

And that, I guess, is what the Warmaster game is all

about! I haven’t enough room here to tell you the details.

Flick through the book and you’ll get an idea of how the

game is structured. The photographs will show you what

the model armies look like far more effectively than

words can describe. What I would like to say is that

Warmaster is a very different game to games you might

have played before. Indeed, it is very different from

Games Workshop’s well known Warhammer game, for

example, because it represents an entirely different level

of conflict. Veteran players who have become expert at

other games, particularly at Warhammer, may at first find

some of the concepts in Warmaster disturbingly

unfamiliar. As these concepts underpin the whole game

it’s probably worthwhile taking a look at these from the

start.

Warmaster is fundamentally a game based on a general’s

ability to command rather than on his troops’ ability to

fight, although that will come in useful too! Each turn of

the game reflects the time taken to consider, formulate,

communicate and enact decisions made by the general

rather than the literal time it might take for a man to walk

or run a certain distance or shoot an arrow. Indeed, as in

real wars, we must assume that our warriors spend a

great deal of time awaiting orders and relatively little

time actually moving or fighting. This idea underpins the

whole Warmaster game. Enough pre-ambling for now!

I’ve expounded further upon the thinking behind the

game at suitable points in the book where I felt it helped

explain why specific rules work in certain ways.

Therefore it only remains for me to say that I hope you

enjoy exploring, playing and (as I would make no claims

to perfection) improving upon the Warmaster game as

much as I’ve enjoyed creating it.

Stone shatters with a crack like thunder and

broken towers tumble upon the crowds below.

Hundreds are crushed in a moment as a mass

of dark stone crashes to the ground but the

undiminished tide surges forwards, scrambling

over the ruins of the fortress wall. With a

thousand voices, the horde proclaims its

possession of the land it has won - a new

nation forged in battle to rule all others!

Through the smoke and ruin of destruction they

advance, an unstoppable army whose ranks spill

into the broad plain as effortlessly as a flood

tide. You look upon them with the unshakeable

pride of the indomitable Warmaster.

T here can be few people who have collected and

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CONTENTS

Introducing Warmaster . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Game Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Game Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Command phase at a glance . . . . . . . 12

The Command phase . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Initiative movement . . . . . . . . . . 13

Ordered movement . . . . . . . . . . 13

Giving an order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Command penalties . . . . . . . . . . 15

Charge!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Brigades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Movement at a glance . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Movement distances . . . . . . . . . . 19

Formation & movement . . . . . . . 20

Moving by initiative . . . . . . . . . . 22

Units which move off the table . . 23

Generals, Wizards & Heroes at a glance . . 52

Generals, Wizards & Heroes . . . . . . 53

Game values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Characters as game pieces . . . . . 54

Characters & terrain . . . . . . . . . . 54

Orders from Wizards & Heroes . . . 54

Blunders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Character movement . . . . . . . . . 56

Joining a unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Enemy moving through characters. . 56

Characters and shooting. . . . . . . 57

Characters in combat . . . . . . . . . 57

Monstrous and chariot mounts . . . 57

Flying units at a glance . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Flying units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Initiative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Home back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Moving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Terrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Fortified troops . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

End of the battle at a glance . . . . . . . 62

The End of the battle . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Turns complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Player concedes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Withdraw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Victory points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Sieges & fortresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Fortresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Model fortresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Troops on ramparts . . . . . . . . . . 91

Gateways and breaches. . . . . . . . 91

Shot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Battering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Assaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Siege machines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

To Arms! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Battle honours & umpires . . . . . . . 113

Battle honours . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

The role of the umpire . . . . . . . 114

Games with several players

on each side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Campaigns of conquest . . . . . . . . . 117

An easy option . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

To map or not to map . . . . . . . 117

Creating a new land . . . . . . . . . 118

Making a map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Creating nations . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Fighting campaign battles . . . . . 119

Ships and boats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

The role of ships . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Moving ships and boats . . . . . . 122

Embarking and disembarking . . 123

Attacking a ship . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Fighting from ships. . . . . . . . . . 123

Shooting phase at a glance . . . . . . . . . 24

The Shooting phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Attack value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

How to calculate casualties. . . . . 26

Driving back enemies . . . . . . . . . 27

Shooting at charging enemy . . . . 28

The role of missile troops. . . . . . 28

Combat phase at a glance . . . . . . . . . 30

Combat phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Combat engagement . . . . . . . . . 32

Moving chargers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Attack modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

How to calculate damage . . . . . . 38

Combat results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Supporting troops . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Retreats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Pursuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Enemy Destroyed . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Advance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Fall backs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Reforming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Defended & fortified troops . . . . 45

Multiple combats . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Confusion at a glance . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Confusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

When do units become confused? . 49

Confused units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Making way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

ADVANCED RULES

The aim of the game . . . . . . . . . 66

The spirit of the game . . . . . . . . 66

Artillery and machines . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Stands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Artillery in combat . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Terrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Shooting overhead . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Artillery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Magic items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Casting spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Empire spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Undead spells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Orc spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

High Elf spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Chaos spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Dwarf anti-magic spells. . . . . . . . 75

Magic items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Magic standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Magic weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Devices of power . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Battlefields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Setting up scenery . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Table size and deployment areas . . 79

How long does the battle last? . . 79

Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

ARMY LISTS

The stat line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

How to pick an army . . . . . . . . 127

Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Units/characters . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Magic items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

The Empire army . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

The Undead army . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

The Chaos army . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

The Orc army . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

The High Elf army . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

The Dwarf army . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

APPENDICES

Appendix 1 – Examples of play . . . . 144

Appendix 2 – Notes on Terrain . . . . 147

Appendix 3 – Warmaster at a Glance . 148

Glossary of Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Warmaster Play sheet . . . . . . . . . . 159

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“

Truly it was said of him,

beyond count are his

warriors and beyond

measure his might.”

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