Warhammer Age of Sigmar: General's Handbook - Pitched Battles 2021

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: General's Handbook - Pitched Battles 2021 (Last Chance)

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Manufacturer: Games Workshop

Please note: The ring-bound design of the General's Handbook and layout of the battleplans have been designed so that the book can be folded flat to save space, while still providing an overview of the essential information to easily reference once the game has begun.

Inside the General's Handbook, you'll find:

• High-level background information on Ghur, the Realm of Beasts, which is the setting for this General's Handbook and Pitched Battle Season.

• A focused description of the war of Thondia, the area in Ghur which is in the midst of desperate conflict. Thondia is key to the current narrative of Warhammer Age of Sigmar, and is part of the setting for this General's Handbook and Pitched Battle Season.

• Rules for a new Region of War (The Ghurrish Heartlands) which include two special rules (Predators and Prey and Seismic Shift), one additional Realmsphere Magic spell available to all Wizards (Metamorphosis), and one additional Realm Command which all players have access to (Feral Roar).

• Two additional core battalions that players can include in their army in addition to the Core Battalions included in the core rules: Alpha-Beast Pack and Hunters of the Heartlands.

• Rules for eight grand strategies that dictate what an army will try and achieve during the battle.

• Rules for eight battle tactics that can be used to determine who won the game.

• A photocopiable scoring sheet

• Guidance on the minimum accepted standard for using miniatures in Pitched Battle games of Warhammer Age of Sigmar.

• 12 battleplans for the Pitched Battle 2021 season: Marking Territory, Savage Gains, First Blood, Power Struggle, Survival of the Fittest, Tectonic Interference, Apex Predators, The Vice, Tooth and Nail, Feral Foray, Power in Numbers, and The Veins of Ghur.

• A list of all the official publications which can be used when building an army for use in Pitched Battles.

• Updated warscrolls for the following 17 endless spells:
  ‣ Horrorghast
  ‣ Aethervoid Pendulum
  ‣ Chronomantic Cogs
  ‣ Emerald Lifeswarm
  ‣ Geminids of Uhl-Gysh
  ‣ Malevolent Maelstrom
  ‣ Prismatic Palisade
  ‣ Purple Sun of Shyish
  ‣ Quicksilver Swords
  ‣ Ravenak's Gnashing Jaws
  ‣ Soulsnare Shackles
  ‣ Suffocating Gravetide
  ‣ The Burning Head
  ‣ Umbral Spellportal
  ‣ Soulscream Bridge
  ‣ Shards of Valagharr
  ‣ Lauchon the Soulseeker


• The Warhammer Age of Sigmar core rules

Inside this year's Pitched Battle Profiles book, you'll find:

• An introduction to Pitched Battle Profiles and descriptions of the four different types of battlefield role: Artillery, Battleline, Behemoth, and Leader.

• Details on how to use allies in Pitched Battles in the 2021 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, Blades 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 from Malign Sorcery and Forbidden Power.

The General's Handbook 2021 also comes with a card token board, which contains 14 double-sided tokens as follows:
• 10 Objective / Prime Objectives
• 1 Battle Tactic Token - Broken Ranks / Bring It Down!
• 1 Battle Tactic Token - Aggressive Expansion / Conquer
• 1 Battle Tactic Token - Slay the Warlord / Monstrous Takeover
• 1 Battle Tactic Token - Ferocious Advance / Savage Spearhead


Due to distribution restrictions we are only able to ship this product to the United States, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.