This essential add-on gives you new ways to enjoy competitive Warhammer Age of Sigmar games for the first season of 2022-23, including updated battle plans and pitched battle profiles for every unit and army. This bundle includes two books: the 96-page hardcover General's Handbook and the 34-page softcover Field Battle Profiles book.
Inside this season's General's Handbook, you will find:
– An introduction to the Pitched Battles setup for Warhammer Age of Sigmar balanced play, including guidance on the Battle Ready paint standard for your miniatures and a full list of official publications that can be used in Pitched Battles. – Detailed background information on Gallet, the windswept continent of Ghur where the action takes place. You'll learn all about this arid landscape, the beasts that live there, and the tunnels beneath it. – Region of War rules for Gallet, Splintered Land, with special rules that focus on strengthening Battleline troops, a terrifying new Realmsphere spell for all Wizards, and an aggressive Realm Command available to all players. – Two additional main battalions that players can include in their army: Expert Conquerors, well versed in capturing objectives, and Bounty Hunters, tasked with defeating the most powerful enemies. – Six grand strategies that dictate an army's objectives in battle by offering victory points if completed by the end of the game, whether you spread your veterans across the battlefield in a show of dominance or eliminate the core of your opponent to show that there is no place for the weak – Eight battle tactics that can be used to gain an advantage each turn by earning additional victory points, such as taking revenge on fallen warriors with an Eye for an Eye, or choosing to Outmaneuver your opponent's veterans by driving them off an objective. – 12 battle plans to set up games of Warhammer Age of Sigmar, with a variety of special rules and victory conditions, such as claiming volatile amber bone deposits in the Realmstone Cache, fighting in the twisted tunnels of Nidus Paths or fighting to the bitter end in a claustrophobic turf war – Updated warsheets for the next 17 Endless Spells: Horrorghast, Ethereal Void Pendulum, Chronomantic Gears, Emerald Life Swarm, Geminids of Uhl-Gysh, Malevolent Maelstrom, Prismatic Palisade, Purple Sun of Shyish, Quicksilver Swords, Grinding Jaws of Ravenak, Soul Trap Shackles, Choking Tide, The Burning Head, Umbral Spellportal, Soulscream Bridge, Shards of Valagharr, and Lauchon the Soulseeker – The basic rules and player code for games of Warhammer Age of Sigmar
Please note: The General's Handbook's ring layout and battle plan layout have been designed so that the book can be folded to save space, while still providing an overview of essential information for easy reference. once the game has started.
Inside this season's Battlefield Profiles book, you'll find:
– An introduction to pitched battle profiles and descriptions of the four different types of battlefield roles: Artillery, Battleline, Behemoth, and Leader. – Details on how to use allies in Pitched Battles this season – Updated pitched battle profiles for every unit, faction and Grand Alliance in Warhammer Age of Sigmar, as follows:
Order: Cities of Sigmar, Daughters of Khaine, Fyreslayers, Idoneth Deepkin, Kharadron Overlords, Lumineth Realm-lords, Seraphon, Stormcast Eternals, and Sylvaneth.
Chaos: Beasts of Chaos, Swords of Khorne, Disciples of Tzeentch, Hedonites of Slaanesh, Maggotkin of Nurgle, Skaven and Slaves to Darkness.
Death: Flesh-eater Courts, Nighthaunt, Ossiarch Bonereapers, and Soulblight Gravelords.
Destruction: Gloomspite Gitz, Ogor Mawtribes, Orruk Warclans, and Sons of Behemat.
– Updated pitched battle profiles for the 17 endless spells of Malign Sorcery and Forbidden Power, and Krondspine Incarnate of Ghur.
FURTHER: The General's Handbook 2022 also comes with a card token board, containing 14 double-sided tokens as follows:
- 10x Objective / Prime Objectives - 1 Battle Tactics Token: Gain Momentum / Head-to-Head - 1 Battle Tactic Token: Eye for an Eye / Outmuscle - 1 Battle Tactic Token: Desecrate Their Lands / Against All Odds - 1 Battle Tactics Token: This is mine/barge through enemy lines
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