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BASICS
Warhammer Skirmish is a 48-page full color supplement
for Warhammer Fantasy Battles. It retails for $3.95 USD
and is produces by, you guessed it, Games Workshop.
STORYLINE
There is no single storyline here. Warhammer Skirmish is
a set of scenarios, a few rules, and a whole slew of
modeling tips and projects for you to use in Warhammer
Fantasy. All of the scenarios are based around smaller
point value games, with an emphasis being put on the
story behind the fight. Each scenario details the models
that each side can use (sometimes with strict limits and
others let you buy whatever you want from the selected
army), a map of the battlefield, what your objectives are,
deployment rules, special rules, what other troops/models
could also be used, and finally how you can fit in the
skirmish as part of a larger (standard) battle. Many of
them also have terrain building tips and projects like
building a monolith or an oasis. Longtime players may
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Have seen these projects before, but everything is
wrapped up in a nice bundle here.
PRESENTATION
Absolutely top notch. The interior text is all very easy to
read, the pictures are clear and the maps, while just a tad
on the small side, are detailed and easy to replicate in
your games. If you’re at all familiar with White Dwarf then
you know what this booklet looks like.
VALUE
Let’s start off with Warhammer Fantasy players. If you
want something fresh to play that you can knock off in
around an hour, quite likely even less time than that, then
drop your four bucks here. But, I’ve already got rules for
smaller scale battles in the Warhammer Fantasy rule
book. Ok, yes you do, but this supplement is not really
about rules. It’s about the games themselves and why
your guys end up fighting my guys. Unless you have an
absolute aversion to playing a game that doesn’t require
you to fill the table with troops I think you’ll enjoy this.
Ok, now for the non-Warhammer Fantasy players. I was
very pleasantly surprised with how much of the
Warhammer Skirmish book can be used in other games.
Realistically, Games Workshop is using Warhammer
Skirmish to give players of Warhammer Fantasy
something new to do (duh!) and maybe bring in some new
players that might be scared off by full-blown armies.
Yeah, you need the Warhammer Fantasy rulebook if you
want to play ‘Warhammer’ skirmishes, but I found each
scenario useable in games like Chainmail and Chronopia
also. In fact, an industrious GM could even use one of the
scenarios as part of a role-playing game. Having multiple
uses always makes me like something more and this
booklet really does that. Even if you’re not a player or fan
of Warhammer Fantasy you could spend $4.00 in a whole
lot worse ways. It’s about the cost of a single miniature
and how many of those do we all probably have that are at
the bottom of a bitz box waiting to get painted.
If you head over to the Games Workshop website you’ll
also find a section devoted to Warhammer Skirmish. It’s
full of skirmish stuff. In fact, it’s so full of stuff that you
might question buying the booklet. All of the scenarios in
the booklet are also on the web for free. So, why drop the
four bucks? I happen to like the feel of a book in my
hands and even though I’ll be printing off the twenty or so
scenarios from the site that are not in the book they won’t
look as nice as the ones in the book and I’ll save the ink,
paper and time of printing off half of them myself.
www.games-workshop.com