Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Player-count sensitive
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Marshal ranked regiments, monsters, cavalry, and war machines in sweeping fantasy battles across the World of Legend.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Read the full game description
Warhammer: The Old World is a mass-battle tabletop wargame set in Games Workshop’s World of Legend. Two commanders build armies from ranked infantry, cavalry, chariots, monsters, heroes, spellcasters, and war machines, then maneuver those formations across a battlefield where facing, charges, combat resolution, morale, and magic all matter. The core rulebook supplies the shared system; army books and journals define individual forces. Deep list-building and positional play reward preparation as much as decisive action on the table.
