Before battle can begin, you have to build your warband and fill in a warband roster. The roster records the progress of your warband, its fighters, their equipment and many other details. During the campaign, your roster will constantly be updated as new fighters are recruited, injured or killed. To build your warband, follow these steps:

1: Choose your faction

Select a faction from the following list. Each faction has their own aesthetic, theme and playstyle.

Skaven

Mercenaries

2: Recruit fighters

Once you have chosen your warband’s faction, you can start adding fighters to your warband roster. When doing so, you must follow these restrictions:

• The warband must include at least 3 fighters and no more than 15 fighters.
• The warband must have one fighter with the Leader keyword. A warband can never have multiple fighters with the Leader keyword.
• At the start of the campaign, no more than 4 fighters can have the Hero keyword (including your leader).
• The combined points values of all the fighters and their equipment cannot exceed 500 gold crowns.

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Wizards and Priests

Whenever a fighter with the Wizard or Priest keyword is added to your warband, you must randomise an ability from their spell book. Roll a die and consult the ability chart next to their fighter profile.

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3: Equip fighters

All fighters must be equipped as follows:

• A fighter may only be equipped with weapons and equipment available to their faction (see their corresponding faction page). Equipment marked with a skull may only be used by fighters with the Hero keyword.
• A fighter can be equipped with up to two melee weapons and one ranged weapon.
• Unless equipped with a second melee weapon, a fighter may equip a buckler or a shield in their off-hand.
• A fighter can wear one suit of armour
• A fighter can wear up to three pieces of equipment.

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