Over the last few months, I’ve been privileged to be part of a group of contributors who have been developing a Community FAQ for Old World.
This document aims to be a tool for interested Tournament Organisers (TOs) and players. Our goal is to provide missing rules, clarify unclear rulings and explain rules where clarification is needed.
The questions answered in this document are sampled by contributing TOs and are based on questions from their player base.
This FAQ does not aim to be binding or official in any way and is made with the sole purpose of improving the flow of games. Every interested TO or local community organiser is welcome to participate in our work. If you’re interested in taking part, please join the FAQ Discord server.
To make it easier for everyone, the structure of this document follows the individual phases of the turn. Within the phases, the given FAQs are again ordered by categories (Keywords).
Remember, the document is searchable via PDF.
Contributors
How Decisions are Reached
When a question is submitted, contributors will considered whether the question needs an FAQ, or whether Games Workshop has a clear written rule, or an FAQ themselves that answers the question.
If the question is considered ambiguous the contributors will discuss the rule and the possible answers. These are then put to a vote.
If a Games Workshop FAQ is released at a later date which answers the question, the FAQ for this will be removed to avoid any potential confusion.
The PDF is laid out in a clear manner, with sections corresponding to the main rule book. Each question has a voting ID, which the committee can review in case it either needs to revisit the question or remove it from the Unofficial FAQ. References to relevant rules are also included below the question to allow the reader a reference check.
The Unofficial FAQ (Download)
Thanks!
Can we get a printer friendly version?
I’ve been told, they’ll do it as a printer friendly version on the next update.
Hi, my name is Candide and I’m part of the French community of Warhammer the Old World.
I’m helping organizing events in my region, am happy acting as referee/judge in those events (frankly, even more than playing in them) and consider myself as a rules guru for the game.
I salute your efforts to provide the community some answers to questions that Games Workshop did not answer yet in their FAQ.
I’d like to join your committee, since you say being open to new members, to help you in the matter. Please contact me by email about this.
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Candide
oh my, the shieldwall FAQ is absolutely stupid and not making sense. So a King with a two handed runic weapon has to use it and allows shieldwall to be used. The same King owning a shield, but not being able to use it due to the rule of magic weapons being primarily used makes the unit not able to shieldwall. That makes as much sense as the nonsense rules GW writes himself.
Thanks for the feedback. I’ve told the others and they’re going to revisit that question. As you’re right, it makes no sense.
thx alot. I know GW rules are hard to handle it’s all spread out and often so contradicting.