The new edition of Warhammer Underworlds is currently up for pre-order, and with the two new warbands, Rivals decks, and four Grand Alliances boxes on their way soon, it’s going to be very busy in Embergard.
To get you prepared for the game, the Warhammer Design Studio has prepared free downloadable rules documents, most of which are available now.
These include the full core rules of the game so you can start learning the rules now, and an Organised Play guide to ensure you have valid warbands and decks for the Rivals and Nemesis formats. There’s also a Warhammer Underworlds tournament companion which has details and advice for running your own events.
There will also be a rules updates document released soon, which will contain the first rules updates and FAQs for the new edition.
Also available for immediate download are the digital warband rules for 13 warbands in the rotation for Organised Play. These are the most recently released warbands that haven’t yet been repackaged for the new edition: the Farstriders (Flex), the Sepulchral Guard (Take and Hold), Ironsoul’s Condemnors (Flex), Mollog’s Mob (Mastery), Thorns of the Briar Queen (Take and Hold), Spiteclaw’s Swarm (Strike), Zarbag’s Gitz (Take and Hold), the Skinnerkin (Strike), the Brethren of the Bolt (Mastery), the Thricefold Discord (Mastery), Cyreni’s Razors (Flex), Daggok’s Stab-ladz (Mastery), and Zondara’s Gravebreakers (Mastery).
You can take these rules and pair your models with any of the four Rivals decks in the Embergard Core Set, or the forthcoming Reckless Fury and Wrack and Ruin decks, and you’ll be ready to start playing.
Finally, you are also able to download rules for all remaining warbands from the previous edition – the ones which aren’t entering the Organised Play rotation at this time. Each warband has its own fighter card, with a choice of two warband warscroll cards for each Grand Alliance, offering two ways to play each warband.
Order warbands can play as Crusaders (Take and Hold) or Protectors (Flex). Chaos warbands are Corruptors (Flex) or Slayers (Strike), while Death warbands fight using either Dark Majesty (Mastery) or Necromancy (Flex). Destruction warbands play as either Brutal (Strike) or Kunnin’ (Flex).
Many of these warbands will return later in the edition in a similar manner to the four Grand Alliance boxes, granting them their own warscroll and updated fighter cards. At this point, you can expect some other warbands to rotate out of the Organised Play formats as these new ones replace them – we’ll have more on that in future!
