We hope you’re ready to rumble… because the General’s Handbook 2019 is on the way! Check out the next pre-order up from Games Workshop!
According to Warhammer Community, this year’s handbook has two sections: the guide to gaming and a set of “Pitched Battle profiles.”
GW says all this new content will help you create a plethora of customized battles.
Narrative gamers will enjoy extra tactical and thematic depth and bring the cities of the Mortal Realms to life with new Streets of Death rules. Arcane Objectives and rules for Raids and Ambushes inject additional narrative depth into any battle, while a set of new mercenary companies – usable in Pitched Battles too! – let you hire some of the Mortal Realms’ most notorious sell-swords to your army, including Gargants, Maneaters and more!
For open play, getting set up and throwing down in the Mortal Realms will be simpler than ever thanks to new battleplan and army generators. Whatever the size of your collection and whatever your gaming space, you’ll be able to put together a thrilling battle with a few dice rolls.
For matched play, you can look forward to loads of new battleplans offering challenges for tournament players and club nights alike. Other tweaks to pitched battles – new Triumphs, command abilities available to any army, and terrain features – add even more depth and choice to the thriving competitive scene for Warhammer Age of Sigmar. Meanwhile, Meeting Engagements let you enjoy all the thrills of matched play in a fraction of the time and with smaller armies.
In addition to all these goodies, this year’s General’s Handbook includes allegiance abilities for factions with expanded rules for some of them. To help with list writing, GW has produced the new Pitched Battle profiles in a totally separate booklet. That includes “the latest points adjustments plus profiles for a number of Compendium units, endless spells and terrain.”
The Warlord Edition
This version of the General’s Handbook is packed with exclusive goodies that’ll come in handy for all of your games. A double-sided card token sheet gives you objective markers, starstrike markers, 9” rulers for bringing on units from reserve or through summoning, battleshock markers, a mystic shield marker and 24 terrain markers that’ll ensure you’ll never accidentally charge into Deadly terrain again!
Meanwhile, 30 battleplan cards are great for keeping track of which mission you’re playing, including no fewer than 20 options for your Pitched Battles plus battleplan cards for Meeting Engagements and narrative play.
Lastly, 135 small-format cards allow you to take full advantage of a number of rules in the book with easy references for anything from mercenary companies to Hidden Agendas!
However you play, the Warlord Edition promises to make your games that little bit easier to run – but hurry! This edition will only be available online and while stocks last.
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