Warband Fantasy Rules provides all the rules you need to bring great battles between fantasy armies to your tabletop.
Using miniature figures and terrain, you can fight battles from the glorious sword and sorcery epics you’ve read about.
Miniatures are based on 10x5cm bases, allowing you to create miniature vignettes or dioramas for each unit.
Warband is designed to be simple to learn and difficult to master, and so it uses a single consistent task resolution method throughout the rules. Whether you’re trying to get a unit of warriors to move, seeing how effective it’s shooting or fighting is, or how well it has defended itself, you’ll be using the same dice pool mechanism. You determine the number of dice to roll and each result of 4+ is a success. The more successes you roll, the better your units will do, and the more likely you are to win. Simple!
Of course fighting a good tactical battle, getting your units into advantageous situations, and making effective command decisions will mean you’ll be far more likely to win. Coming up with effective tactics for your chosen army to defeat your opponents is what will take you time to master.
So with Warband’s intuitive rules you’ll be fighting the battle not the rulebook, and hopefully having a lot of fun into the bargain!
You’ll be able to decide which of the fantastic races you’d like to command and then construct your force from the lists provided.
Warband includes complete army lists for twelve armies, with abilities, options, spell lists, and descriptions including;
Barbarian men, Dark elves, Dragon men, Eldritch vampires, Goblins, High elves, Hill dwarves, Lizardmen, Samurai apes, Taurians, Undead, and Wood elves. Each army is balanced by being constructed from a fixed 500 point cost. Powerful units cost more so are rarer. A typical warband will have 10-12 units, representing an army of maybe 3000 warriors.
Army composition and optional upgrades are highly flexible, allowing you to build the force that best fits your style of play. If you’d like to command a horde of bison riding barbarians, rampaging minotaur’s, skirmishing ghouls, or serried ranks of deadly elven archers then you’ll find something to suit you in the Warband rules. This flexibility means that you should be able to play with your favourite fantasy race in a way that suits your personal style and preferences, while your force still retains a unique and interesting character.