Imperial Armour

Imperial Armour Volume 2, detailing vehicles used by the Space Marines, the Inquisition and the Sisters of Battle

Imperial Armour is a series of rules supplements to the Warhammer 40,000 table-top game, along with an associated range of vehicle-size resin model kits. Both are produced by Forge World, a subsidiary company of Games Workshop.

The Imperial Armour range and rules supplements are designed to incorporate vehicles referred to in the fiction and background material produced for the Warhammer 40,000 fictional universe, but not included in the Codexes due to a variety of reasons. These include super-heavy vehicles (such as the Imperial Baneblade), specialised variants of standard vehicles (such as Tau Empire Hammerhead Gunships modified to carry different turret weapon configurations), aircraft, immobile defenses, and non-combatant vehicles. Vehicles that are featured in the Imperial Armour books are available from Forge World as multi-part resin model kits, or as a series of resin components that can be used to convert existing plastic and metal models. The Imperial Armour range is not limited to conventional vehicles, as the Orks are known to use massive creatures called Squiggoths, and the Tyranids do not possess any vehicles, instead using extremely large bioformed creatures.

List of Imperial Armour books

Early Imperial Armour rules supplements are written by Warwick Kinrade, later ones by Warwick Kinrade and/or Alan Bligh.

Starting in 2015, Forgeworld stopped using the `Volume X' notation, using just Imperial Armour and the title of the book.

Currently valid books

Outdated books

The rules contained in the following books are no longer valid, having been superseded by later editions of the Warhammer 40,000 game and other Imperial Armour books.


Model Masterclass

Forge World has also published two Model Masterclass books, which focus on painting the often very large and extensive models they produce:

References

  1. ↑ This single book replaces Volumes Five, Six and Seven. It is also sometimes referred to as Imperial Armour 14.
  2. ↑ Sometimes referred to as Imperial Armour Volume 11 (Second Edition).
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