Games Workshop has now made the Legacy Army Lists for several classic Warhammer Fantasy Battles factions available in PDF form for free. If you're diving into Warhammer: The Old World with the likes of Dark Elves or Skaven, you can now grab your rules.

Legacy Army Lists // Warhammer: The Old World

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You will need a copy of the new The Old World Rulebook to play with these lists but if you've got a good friend who has access to the rules already, you'll no doubt be a happy bunny. Included within the PDF, you'll find pretty much the same selection of gameplay material that is found in Forces Of Fantasy or Ravening Hordes for the other factions of The Old World.

To that end, these are complete lists with army composition rules, statistics for all of the typical miniatures found in the faction during 8th Edition, magical items, spells and special rules. The armies won't be available to play in official tournaments from Games Workshop but I would bet that any good-natured tournament organiser at your local club or friendly local gaming store is going to let you use your old toys and have some fun.

I had feared that these lists were going to be a little lacking but it seems like there's nothing really to set them apart from the official lists. These armies just won't get updated in the future (but who knows, they might change their minds) and won't get model support from Games Workshop. There are plenty of 3D Printable options (and physical ones) and more out there that people could use to help make these armies nowadays so it's not too bad.

Even if the Legacy Army Lists don't get the support from Games Workshop, I'm sure the community that is growing around the game will look to support and tweak them as they see more play. They were doing it for years previously so why stop now?

Will you be launching back into The Old World with some of these Legacy Armies?