Sep 13, 2007

Mighty Empires free Warhammer rules (PDF)

As any GW slave should be able to tell you, legendary Mighty Empires WHFB expansion (learn more) has been sort of re-released. Really, have a look. Problem is the new ME is no longer the Warhammer board-game/campaign rule set it used to be, but more of a lovingly and admittedly skillfully sculpted tile-based map system, that sort of heavily focuses on the tile bits. Actually it's just a collection of plastic hex-tiles accompanied by a ridiculous shallow and rather pointless rules booklet. My guess is you're supposed to either use your own campaign system or the pretty amazing one and more professional one from the General's Compendium.

Then again, the older version of Mighty Empires would be a mightily -tehe- serious alternative too. Happily, Games Workshop US have been kind enough to release the original 1990 Mighty Empires rulesbook in downloadable PDF format. For free! Simply follow this link and grab all 64 pages of it. Then hop over to GW's UK servers, click and grab some of the original tiles, print them on something sturdy and play away. It's absolutely worth it.

Related @ Gnome's Lair: Nemesis Crown PDFs, Battle for Skull Pass review, Chaos stunties, the Blood Bowl novel

14 comments:

  1. (rips off wardrobe door, heads over to Uk servers.....).. a rather inexpensive way of tiling the bathroom... thank you Gnome

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  2. Not sure it's waterprof though. Stiil, inexpensive...

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  3. Thanks to you, the missus thinks I'm now studying via these PDFs more than playing games :P

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  4. That was the plan my friend. Keep up a productive face while wasting ourselves on games and good ol' fashioned opium...

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  5. ..speaking of which.... we're out of poppies....

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  6. Oh dear... That's terrible, terrible... Let's vote something appropriate.

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  7. (draws up voting sloga...)

    increase military presence in Afghanistan.. guarantee your poppy source....

    how's that?

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  8. Feck it.

    Ridiculous.

    Bah!

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  9. Warhammer rules PDFs, Elderly AND opium? I've been away too long...

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  10. That's why you won't get any cookies with your opium dear Father.

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  11. Where do you find the tiles? I have downloaded the rules, but can't find the tiles mentioned.

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  12. Yes, where do you download the tiles?

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  13. Yes where do you find the mighty empires tiles I lookd everywhere for the darned things. Heeellllppppp!@!!!!

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  14. I'm afraid I don't know. You could though buy the new ones from GW.

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