Cities of Death

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Cities of Death is an expansion for the Warhammer 40,000 table top battle game, produced by Games Workshop. The book's predecessor was Codex Battlezone: Cityfight.

Cities of Death introduces rules for fighting battles inside cities, and using guerilla warfare. It introduces gaming devices known as stratagems, which give the player the ability to lay traps or enhance his forces, which add flavour to games. It also has sections on modelling city terrain, and examples of armies and army lists modelled around city-fighting.

Three buildings were released: a Manufactorum (An Adeptus Mechanicus factory), a Santcum Imperialis (Imperial equivalent of a church), and a Basilica Administratium (Imperial office). In addition, a set of counters to represent various stratagems, were also released alongside the book, as well as barricades and other small terrain pieces.

The Medusa V campaign was launched around the same time as Cities of Death, and was used to promote the book.