Warmaster

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Warmaster is a Tabletop game, located in the Warhammer World. It is played with sightly smaller miniatures than WHFB, which are used in much larger numbers. In fact, Warmaster is the counterpart to Epic or Epic Armageddon for Warhammer Fantasy.

Warmaster was created by Rick Priestley, and published first March 2000. The core rulebook "Warmaster" was published as a hardcover, there was no boxed game. All miniatures for Warmaster are made of metal. Inside the core rulebook you will find the general rules and the rules for the following armies:

• Highelfs
• Tombkings of Khemri
• the Empire
• Dwarfs
• Orcs and Goblins
• Chaos - Chaos Warriors and Chaos Marauders

Until July 2000 miniatures for all this army lists were published. At least Warmaster wasn't as popular as thought by Games Workshop.

Warmaster at Specialist Games

After the publication of the last miniatures of the army ranges published in the book the game was handed over to Fanatic Games - a branch of Games Workshop that was later called Specialist Games.

There siege equipement and a bunch of new armies were created and published:

• Kislevites
• Bretonnians
• Truthsayer, Dark Emissary and Fen Beast
• Dark Elves
• Lizardmen
• Skaven
• Vampire Counts
• Demons - in fact the Demon Army from Storm of Chaos
• Special Characters from Storm of Chaos
• Araby

Also a magazine was published - called Warmaster Magazine or Warmag - which contained all the rules for those new armies, special szenarios, rules for Siege warfare and Ships and house rules for converted armies like

• Natives/Defenders of Albion
• Wood Elves
• Dogs of War
• Weihnachtsmann Army - a fun-armylist published in a December Warmag.

Some of those rules - official as well as house rules - were re-published in a book called Warmaster Annual.

Later Specialist Games was re-integrated into the Games Workshop main company and they stopped the publication of the Fanatic Magazine. Nearly the complete content of those magazines re-appeared on the Specialist-Games-Homepage as pdf-files, to download for free as well as new material.

Weblinks/Sources

• Warmaster on the Specialist Games Page