Warhammer 40,000: Battle Manual

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Warhammer 40,000: Battle Manual Author(s) Rick Priestley, Game design consultant : Bryan Ansell Editor(s) Games Workshop Cover Artist David Gallagher Released 1992 Pages 106 ISBN 1 872372 53 8 Followed by Warhammer 40,000: Vehicle Manual

A 1st edition rules expansion, released 1992 along with a companion volume, the Warhammer 40,000: Vehicle Manual.

Description

This book redescribe all the weapons in Warhammer 40000 since the original volume published in 1987. It also redefines the rules of Hand-to-hand combat, which drew heavily from Warhammer Fantasy Battle in the 1987 publication. The shooting rules were also updated, and the deviation rules were renamed as the process known as "scatter".^[1]

Contents

Introduction

Weapons

Shooting

Hand-to-hand combat

Pistols

Basic Weapons

Heavy Weapons

Support weapons

Grenades

Force Weapons

Catalogue Pages

Card sections

See Also

• Warhammer 40,000: Vehicle Manual

Sources

• 1 : Warhammer 40,000: Battle Manual, pg. 3, Introduction