For more than a hundred centuries the Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the master of mankind by the will of the gods and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustable armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whom a thousand souls die every day, for whom blood is drunk and flesh eaten. Human blood and human flesh - the stuff of which the Imperium is made.

Imperial Guard platoons are made up of several squads of guardsmen. The massed firepower of the combined squads makes them a deadly opponent, capable of out shooting almost anything. A squad consists of 10 Guardsmen.

Heavy Weapon Teams are either part of normal Imperial Guard squads or they can be grouped together to create support squads that provide cover for the advancing troops. This set enables you to build up to 3 Imperial Guard Catachan Heavy Weapon Teams. Each team of two Jungle Fighters can be equipped with any one of the following weapons: Lascannon, Heavy Bolter, Missile Launcher, Auto Cannon or Mortar. It is possible to give all teams the same heavy weapon to build a Support squad.

There was a time when bikes were simply another piece of equipment to the Traitor Legions but years within the Warp have changed this. The bike is almost an extension of its rider, both covered in cruel spikes and jutting horns. The roar of the bike’s engine is the growl of a snarling beast that fires the damned soul of its rider to acts of greater recklessness. They trail brimstone and death in their wake as the harbingers of the dark legions.

Chaos Lords are the most powerful of the Chaos Space Marines. With the genetic advantages of a Space Marine and the blessings of the Dark Gods there are few more dangerous entities in the galaxy. The Chaos Lord takes up a single HQ choice. 

This Battle Force is a great starting point for a Dark eldar army or can be used to expand an existing force.

The Dark Eldar strike rapidly from their ships and warp portals, descending upon the enemy on their sleek Raiders. Utilising a grasp of anti-grav technology far more sophisticated than any other race, the Raiders allow the Dark Eldar to attack savagely into the heart of the enemy, giving them little chance to react or muster a defence.

A Raider may be included in your Dark Eldar army as a transport for a Warrior squad, a Grotesque squad accompanied by a special character, a Wych squad, or your Dark Eldar Lord and his or her Retinue.

Riding ultra-fast jetbikes, Reavers combine speed with excellent skill at close quarter fighting. They race ahead of the main Dark Eldar attack, slicing through enemy squads without pause.

A Reaver Jetbike squad may be included in your Dark Eldar army as a Fast Attack choice.

Few Wyches survive their first duel, but those who live learn quickly. This blister contains 2 random Wyches with assault weapons.

Mandrakes are the most malevolent of the Dark Eldar, preying on their own kind from the shadows of Commorragh. Who can say how a Dark Eldar Lord can entice these vile creatures to serve him in battle. What prizes can be offered to beasts who crave flesh and blood and little else?

Mandrakes may be included in your Dark Eldar army as an Elite choice.

Highly skilled with their shuriken catapults, Dire Avengers are deadly on the attack and immovable in defence. Dire Avengers are chosen in squads of between 5 and 10 models. A single model in the squad may be upgraded to an Exarch. The box contains enough parts to make 7 Dire Avengers and 1 Dire Avenger Exarch.

The Wave Serpent is the main troop carrier of a craftworld's army. Protected inside its hull and force field, Guardians and Aspect Warriors can be transported in safety to any part of the battlefield. Its powerful anti-grav engines give it great speed, making it possibly the best troop transport in the galaxy.

Constructed from the complex psycho-plastic known as wraithbone, Wraithguard are not living warriors, they are artificial constructs which house a spirit stone containing the soul of an Eldar warrior. Only in times of great need are the dead stirred from their slumber and brought to battle, but the sturdy armour and devastating wraithcannon have won many battles which otherwise would have been lost.

Wraithguard may be included in your Eldar army as an HQ choice.

The ubiquitous transport vehicle of the Imperial Guard, Chimeras are extremely durable and practical vehicles, capable of mounting an array of infantry support weapons. Over the millennia, it has proved its reliability time and time again and remains a potent symbol of the Imperial Guard.

A Chimera transport may be included in your Imperial Guard army as a Transport upgrade for a Command squad and its Officer, Hardened Veterans, Ogryns, Storm Troopers, Techpriest Enginseers, Infantry squad, or Armoured Fist squads.

The Imperial Guard contains countless regiments raised on innumerable worlds. Few, if any, have been as loyal, resourcful or courageous as the Cadian shock troops. Ever since the Horus Heresy, Cadia has guarded the entrance to the Eye of Terror and as a consequence the entire world is given over to mastering the art of battle and constructing weapons of war. Cadian regiments have fought in thousands if Imperial Crusades and have served all over the Imperium. Even on the distant worlds of the Eastern Fringe there are colonies formed around the veterans of mustered-out cadian regiments. Such is their reputation that many other regiments emulate their equipment and tactical doctrines, although few can match their prowess.

Cadian Shock Troops may be included in your Imperial Guard army as a Troops choice.

The Kasrkin are the elite of the Cadian military. They are marked out while they are still in the Youth armies and enrolled in special academies where they receive training that is more than a match for that provided to Imperial Storm Troopers. They are utterly dedicated to the preservation of Cadia and follow an ethos of duty and honour that is both impressive and intimidating.Cadian Kasrkin may be included in your Imperial Guard army as an Elites choice. These models are also perfect for representing Imperial Storm Troopers in any Witch Hunter or Daemonhunter army.

The Thirteenth Penal Legion is better known as Schaeffer's Last Chancers. Led by the fiercely uncompromising Colonel Schaeffer, the unit is the last stop for psychopaths, recidivists, thieves and other assorted scum otherwise destined for the firing squad. Schaeffer's ethos is simple; he will give the troops in his charge one chance to win the God-Emperor's forgiveness and in so doing save their souls. He will give them this chance by leading them into the most dangerous warzones to perform the most suicidal missions. Then, if they live, as his second-in-command Kage has continued to do, as much out of a desire to see Schaeffer dead as anything else, he will lead them into another potential death-trap.

Colonel Schaeffer and seven Last Chancers may be included in your Imperial Guard army as an HQ choice. Colonel Schaeffer and eight or more Last Chancers may be included in your Imperial Guard army as both an HQ choice and a Troops choice.

Commissar Gaunt, entrusted with the command of the emergent Tanith regiments, was forced to make a decision that shaped his own destiny and that of the surviving troops. Evacuating as many of the soldiers as he could during the Chaos attack, Gaunt robbed the Tanith of a chance to fight and die with their homeworld. Two whole regiments were lost. The remaining men, alone and without a planet to call home, now call themselves "Gaunt's Ghosts".

Since that point and his subsequent promotion to Colonel-Commissar, Gaunt has slowly won the devotion and respect of the one surviving regiment, leading them through hellish theatres of war to glorious victory time and time again.

Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt may be included in your Imperial Guard army of 1,500 points or more as an HQ choice.

The Tactica Imperium normally uses specific titles to refer to Officer ranks; Junior Officers are listed as Lieutenants, Senior Officers are named as Captains or Colonels. In practice, the Imperial Guard is drawn from so many different worlds, many of which speak varying dialects - or even totally different languages - so that the actual titles applied to officers can vary wildly.

A Cadian Officer may be included in the Command platoon of your Imperial Guard army as an HQ choice.

A Space Marine Commander may be included in your Space Marine army as an HQ choice. He may be also be accompanied by a Command squad.

Space Marines are Humanity's finest warriors. Genetically tailored for their role and utterly loyal to the Emperor, the Space Marine Chapters represent Mankind's greatest hope of victory in the unending wars for survival. A Space Marine is stronger and tougher than an ordinary human, with faster reflexes and superior coordination. All Space Marines belong to a warrior cult. Space Marines are therefore spiritual brothers as well as brothers in arms. This dual role as physical and spiritual warriors is very important, and it is what makes the Space Marines so dedicated.

Space Marines Tactical squads may be added to your Space Marine army as a Troops choice.

Space Marines are Humanity's finest warriors. Genetically tailored for their role and utterly loyal to the Emperor, the Space Marine Chapters represent Mankind's greatest hope of victory in the unending wars for survival. A Space Marine is stronger and tougher than an ordinary human, with faster reflexes and superior coordination. All Space Marines belong to a warrior cult. Space Marines are therefore spiritual brothers as well as brothers in arms. This dual role as physical and spiritual warriors is very important, and it is what makes the Space Marines so dedicated. Assault squads strike hard and fast. Their jump packs allow them to rapidly close with the enemy, and there are few adversaries who can withstand them once they are caught in bloody mêlée.

Space Marines may be added to your Space Marine army as a Troops choice.

All Space Marine Chapters maintain a number of suits of the revered and rightly feared Tactical Dreadnought armour or Terminator armour, as it is more commonly known. The armour is massively bulky and contains a full exoskeleton arrangement of fibre bundles and adamantium rods to support the heavy gauge plasteel and ceramite plates that form the outer carapace. A wearer of Terminator armour can move and operate with remarkable freedom and agility considering the sheer mass of the actual armour.

Space Marine Terminators may be added to your Space Marine army as an Elite choice.

Bike squadrons are often used for reconnaissance missions into enemy held territory. When part of a larger battleforce, their speed and hitting power gives the Space Marine commander a fast, hard hitting punch to his attack.

Space Marine Bikes may be added to your Space Marine army as a fast Attack choice.

The Rhino allows the Space Marines to move swiftly to seize an objective or strike deep into the heart of an enemy force. Certain Space Marine squads (as indicated in their army list entry) can use Rhinos to move rapidly across a battlefield.The Rhino is without doubt the most ubiquitous vehicle in the arsenal of the Space Marines. Not only does it serve as a transport in virtually every Chapter, but also its hull is the basis of numerous variants such as the Predator, Razorback, Whirlwind and Vindicator.In its personnel carrier configuration it is proof against any small arms fire and can even resist plasma or autocannon hits. Normally it is only lightly armed, although it can be fitted with an additional storm bolter and a deadly hunter-killer missile to make it a more dangerous proposition in its own right.The main strength of the Rhino, however, is its lethal cargo of ten power-armoured Space Marines. With the Rhino these Space Marines can hit and run or storm into the heart of an enemy position to deliver the kind of swift, decisive blow that would be inconceivable on foot. This versatility makes the Rhino the workhorse of the Adeptus Astartes and an honoured piece of Imperial war gear. A Rhino Transport may be included in your Space Marines army as a transport for Space Marine Troops.

The Land Raider is one of the most potent machines of destruction in the Imperium. Space Marines and Space Marine Terminators may use the Land Raider as a transport. A Space Marine Land Raider may be included in your Iron Hands army as a Heavy Support choice

The Space Marine Command Squad may be added to your Space Marine army as an HQ choice. Space Marine Command Squads may accompany a Space Marine Commander, Librarian, or Chaplain into battle

Attack bikes often accompany bike squads to provide heavy weapons support. When fielded as squadrons, they are highly mobile units with enough firepower to destroy even the largest enemy units or blow apart tanks with their short-ranged multi-meltas.

Space Marine Attack Bikes may be added to your Space Marine army as a Fast Attack choice.

The addition of a turret-mounted weapon system to a Rhino creates the infantry combat vehicle called a razorback. Many Chapters swear by their use, attesting that the extra firepower provided by the Razorback more than makes up for the reduced transport capacity.

A Razorback Transport may be included in your Space Marines army as a transport for Space Marine Troops.

The Whirlwind fires barrage after barrage of rockets into the enemy army, softening them up while the Space Marines get into position. It can even fire when out of sight, behind a hill or jungle.

A Space Marine Whirlwind may be included in your Space Marines army as a Heavy Support choice.

The Predator tank can be configured in a number of different ways. The Annihilator optimizes the Predator's tank-hunting capabilities with its multiple lascannons. Alternatively, it may be armed with heavy bolters in the sponsons to give it a powerful punch against infantry and light vehicles, while its turret-mounted tankbusting lascannon deals with any armoured foes it encounters.

A Predator Destructor may be included in your Space Marines army as a Heavy Support choice.

A Dreadnought is piloted by a mighty warrior who has been saved from death by his internment within its armoured sarcophagus. In this way the warrior can continue to vanquish the foes of the Emperor for many centuries, or even millennia.

A Dreadnought may be included in your Space Marine army as a Elite choice.

The Typhoon is fitted with Typhoon missile launchers. The missiles are simply a larger version of the frag missiles fired by a normal missile launcher. They are excellent against enemy infantry. A single Typhoon takes up a Fast attack choice. The box contains a single model.

Exceptional warriors amongst the Space Marines are inducted into the prestigious first company, where they receive additional training in all aspects of warcraft. Many learn how to use the dreaded Terminator suits, while others excel at other forms of fighting. All are equipped to the highest standard, and they are most often seen at the forefront of the fighting.Space Marine Veterans may be added to your Space Marine army as an Elites choice.

All Space Marine Chapters maintain a number of these revered suits of armor and they are among a Chapter’s most prized relics.This boxed set contains five Space Marine Terminators sculpted by Dave Thomas, Mark Harrison, Martin Footitt, and Jes Goodwin.

A Terminator Close-Combat Squad may be included in your Space Marine army as an Elite choice.

Space Marine Librarians use their psychic powers to unleash devastating attacks on their enemies, as well as augmenting their own physical prowess. Space Marine Librarians can make special psychic attacks against their opponents. Librarians are responsible for all interstellar communication with the power to project their minds through warp space. They are also the adjudicators of the Chapter's psychic population, dividing psychic mutants into those whose powers are dangerous and those whose powers may be used by the Imperium. Only the most powerful of those suitable psykers can become a Space Marine Librarian.

Space Marine Librarians may be added to your Space Marine army as an HQ choice. They may also be accompanied by a Command squad.

The skeletal form of a Necron Warrior is a spine-chilling sight, as bullets and lasblasts bounce harmlessly from its metallic limbs. The gauss flayer which it wields is no less terrifying, as it strips its target atom by atom; in a heartbeat it dissolves skin, muscle and then disintegrates bone until nothing remains.

Necron Warrior squads may be added to your army as a Troops choice.

Necron warriors fused to skimming flyers are known and feared as Destroyers. They are a heavily altered form of the Necron Immortal, equally broad with a more pronounced spine from which their terrible weapons draw their power. The speed and ferocity of their attacks are undiminished by their antiquity, and they remain at the forefront of the red harvest.

A Necron Destroyer may be added to your Necron army as a Fast Attack choice.

The Monolith combines the properties of transport craft, armoured destroyer and Necron power icon. Its ponderous form floats across the battlefield, its crystal core pulsing with sickly energy, powerful beams of gauss lightning whipping from its weapon mounts. The frontal section is capable of opening a dark portal and transporting Necrons to the battlefield to cause fresh havoc.

A Monolith may be included in your Necron army as a Heavy Support choice.

The most sophisticated of the C'tan's servants, the Necron Lords act as leaders and energy loci for the Necron Warriors. Clad in crumbling vestments and wielding ancient, arcane staffs, they are a chilling sight on the battlefield, directing their warriors' attack in unnatural silence. The patina of age mars the silvered perfection of their forms and they wear the accumulated power of millennia like a robe. Glittering arcs of energy surround their every gesture and soulless fires burn in their empty eye sockets .

A Necron Lord may be mounted on a Destroyer platform, becoming a Destroyer Lord. This platform allows the Lord to rise over the battlefield and dive down with deathly speed to destroy his enemies.

A Necron Lord or a Necron Destroyer Lord may be included in your Necron army as an HQ choice

The most sophisticated of the C'tan's servants, the Necron Lords act as leaders and energy loci for the Necron Warriors. Clad in crumbling vestments and wielding ancient, arcane staffs, they are a chilling sight on the battlefield, directing their warriors' attack in unnatural silence. The patina of age mars the silvered perfection of their forms and they wear the accumulated power of millennia like a robe. Glittering arcs of energy surround their every gesture and soulless fires burn in their empty eye sockets.

These arachnoid creatures are artificial constructs created to maintain the ancient Necron tomb complexes. Their many eyes stare out from a featureless, metallic block. The hooded carapace of a Tomb Spyder provides essential protection while their flexible metal limbs repair Necron technologies, which they will also fight to protect.

Up to three Tomb Spyders may be included in your Necron army as a single Heavy Support choice.

The Imperium first encountered Genestealers on the moon of Ymgarl long before they were alerted to the approach of the hive fleets. Only with time has it been learned that Genestealers are vanguard organisms for the Hive, created to seek out and undermine potential prey-worlds by infiltration. Genestealers are legendary ferocious close combat opponents, with lighting fast reflexes and deadly claws, capable of ripping through adamantium.

The Tyranid Warriors are among the most important Tyranids on the battlefield. Not only are they large and powerful fighters, but they also fulfil a pivotal role in Tyranid swarms. The warriors act as psychic resonators, amplifying the psychic bond of the Hive Mind and transmitting its power to the smaller, less-receptive creatures around them. Like officers marshalling their armies, the Tyranid Warriors lead the lesser creatures into battle, directing their troops to their appointed stations in the greater plan.

A Warrior Brood may be added to your Tyranid army as an Elite or HQ choice.

The Hive Tyrant is a large and massively powerful Tyranid creature, the closest thing to a leader of a battlefield swarm yet seen. Like many Tyranids, they seem able to mutate rapidly, and several different physical characteristics have been reported. All Hive Tyrants are highly psychic, and their relationship to the Hive Mind is closer than even that of Tyranid Warriors. The Hive Tyrants embody the Hive Mind completely, but their destruction does not diminish it in any way.

Little is known for certain about the complex relationships between these creatures, but some of the Imperial Techno-Magi believe that Hive Tyrants are the consort-minds of the Hive Queen that forms the repository of the hive fleet's own collective consciousness.

The vast majority of the Orders Militant is made up of Battle Sisters. Orphans raised by the Schola Progenium, Battle Sisters are well disciplined and highly devoted to the Emperor. Their greatest strength is their unquenchable faith in the God-Emperor of Mankind, in whose name they bring fiery retribution to the mutant, the witch and the heretic.

Inquisitor Lord Karamazov goes to battle sitting on his Throne of Judgement. This ancient relic was presented to Karamazov upon his ascension to the rank of inquisitor Lord.

To the Adepta Sororitas, those who seek absolution as a Sister Repentia occupy a state of grace that many aspire to, yet few ever attain, for to earn redemption is to give oneself entirely to the will of the Emperor. Confession and penance are part of a Sister's everyday existence, and those who fall short of the Sisterhood's rigorous codes may, in the most extreme of cases, find themselves exiled from their order and banished into groups armed with the mighty ceremonial evisverators and led into battle by the harsh mistresses.

Sisters Repentia may be added to your Witch Hunters army as an Elites choice.

The Rhino allows the Space Marines to move swiftly to seize an objective or strike deep into the heart of an enemy force. Certain Space Marine squads (as indicated in their army list entry) can use Rhinos to move rapidly across a battlefield. The Black Templars have used Rhinos in their crusades across the galaxy as an armored personnel carrier.

Those Fire Warriors who have proven themselves in battle earn the right to wear a battlesuit and bear the name of Shas'ui. They are experienced fighters who have fought the deadliest foes and triumphed. Their loyalty and skill is beyond question, and the best and bravest of them may be honoured by being elevated to become a bodyguard to their Shas'o or Shas'el. Teams of Crisis Battlesuit warriors will have fought together for many years and, in many cases, will have performed the Ta'lissera ritual where the warriors swear oaths of communion and loyalty to one another, placing the welfare of the team ahead of their own personal desires.

kroot Carnivore squads are the most common auxiliaries serving alongside the Tau armies. The Kroot worlds have long been part of the empire, ever since a tau expeditionary force helped liberate several kroot enclaves from Ork domination. The Kroot warriors have a strict code of honour and, in return for the support of the Tau empire, supply large numbers of warriors as exclusive mercenaries. Their self-sufficiency and unparalleled fieldcraft are a major asset to the Tau and a useful contrast to their more technologically dependent masters. Kroot squads may also contain the lumbering Krootox and agile Kroot Hounds.

Whilst the Tau find the Kroot's predilection for eating the flesh of their vanquished foes barbaric, it is hoped that prolonged exposure to the Tau's sensibilities and culture will eventually purge them of this distasteful habit. Despite this, the Kroot are afforded virtually the same level of respect as a Tau, since their skill at arms is much valued by the less physically able Tau. The Kroot are honoured for their martial prowess and are rewareded for their efforts, as befits loyal citizens of the Tau empire.

It is said that Aun'Va is the oldest and the wisest of his caste. He has counselled the greatest leaders of the Tau for longer than any can recall, and his hand can be seen at work behind much of the Tau history. He is the most senior Ethereal upon T'au, sitting upon the councils that rule not just the sept but the entire empire. His word is heeded by every member of his caste, for his counsel has ever proven wise and true. (3 figures + scenic base)

Through the long, secret history of the Inquisition there have been many who have advocated the study and harnessing of Warp entities in order to defeat the dark Gods. To some, such men are luminaries; to others they are radicals, individuals dangerously close to crossing the line and becoming one with the enemy. Such radical Inquisitors may even employ the services of bound Daemonhosts to further their ends - testimony to their success in taming the forces of Chaos according to them, but proof positive of their corruption to others.

Daemonhosts may be added to your Daemonhunters army as an Elites choice.

The Dwarfs are the most tenacious and determined warriors of the Warhammer world. Their mountain holds are under constant pressure from Orcs, Goblins and Skaven so they must frequently march out to defend their homes and hoards. Even in defeat they record and remember every affront and will miss no opportunity to settle their grudges with the edge of an axe.

Night Lords attack by surprise and show absolutely no mercy to their unfortunate victims. Night Lord commanders are skilled raiders and will often plan attacks out in every detail to gain maximum effect without risking troops.

Command the forces of Chaos as they seek to implement their dark plans in the Pyrus Reach. Only Dark Millennium, the Warhammer 40000 CCG gives you the chance to interact with a storyline with nearly 20 years of development.

Think about every time you've played a game of Warhammer and you've wondered about the cause and effect of your hard fought battle. What sparked off the conflict and who picks up the pieces? An Assassin steals in to the enemies camp at night to kill the opposing general, picking his way through the weary towards his goal. A small band of fearful warriors must survive wave after wave of shambling zombies to warn a nearby village of an imminent attack. Stubborn Dwarfs guard the deep tunnels under their mountain holds against all manner of horrors. There are all sorts of adventures you can play out with the aid of the Warhammer Skirmish rules.