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Updated · warhammer-community.com · Jul 1

Warhammer Opens Pre-Orders for 600-Point Old World Core Set as Battle March Gets New Companion

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Updated · warhammer-community.com · Jul 1

Warhammer Opens Pre-Orders for 600-Point Old World Core Set as Battle March Gets New Companion

Q: Is the Battle March format the key to Warhammer's future or just a gateway to the main game?

Battle March looks like both, but right now it is more clearly a gateway that could become central to Warhammer: The Old World’s future. The evidence from Games Workshop’s July 6 release points strongly to accessibility. Battle March is built around 400- to 750-point armies, shorter games, and easier army building. The new Core Set is explicitly tuned to that scale, with two roughly 600-point forces, a revised rulebook, and all-in-one starter tools. That lowers the cost, time, and rules burden for new players in a way the full game does not. At the same time, Battle March is no longer being treated as a mere tutorial mode. The General’s Companion gives it its own campaign in Axe Bite Pass, six bespoke scenarios, expanded objectives and maps, random event tables, and Battle March-only magic items. That is the kind of dedicated support usually reserved for formats Games Workshop expects players to keep using, not quickly outgrow. The wider strategy matters too. Games Workshop has used smaller formats such as Combat Patrol and Spearhead to broaden access across its systems. Battle March appears to be The Old World’s equivalent: a format designed to reduce entry barriers while also creating a sustainable way to play for veterans with limited time. So the best reading is that Battle March is a gateway by design, but potentially a key part of the game’s long-term health if support continues and players embrace it as a regular format rather than a stepping stone.

3 articles · Updated · warhammer-community.com · Jul 1

Saturday pre-orders will pair Battle March: General’s Companion with a new Warhammer: The Old World Core Set built around two armies of about 600 points each.
The companion expands the small-scale 400-to-750-point Battle March format after strong player uptake, adding six Axe Bite Pass campaign scenarios, more primary objectives and twice as many scenario maps.
Eighteen random happenings across Disruptive Weather, Wilderness Terrain and Chaos Of War tables can reshape battles, while new Battle March-only magic items cost 5 to 30 points.
The core set also includes an updated rulebook folding in Battle March rules and the latest errata, positioning the format as an easier entry point and a one-day event option.