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Battle for Armageddon is a strategic boardgame produced by Games Workshop. Unlike the many Games Workshop games that use miniatures, this is a more traditional counter and board game. A board game is any game played with a premarked surface, with counters or pieces that are moved across the board. ...
Games Workshop Group PLC (often abbreviated to GW) is a British game production and retailing company. ...
The game represents the Second War for Armageddon, a war in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. The conflict is between the invading Orks under the leadership of the Ork Warlord Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka and the Imperial world of Armageddon's defence forces under the joint command of Herman von Strab, Overlord of Armageddon; Commander Dante of the Blood Angels; and Imperial Commissar Yarrick. Concentrating on the Armageddon Secundus region of the planet, the game is a mixture of strategy and resource management. Armageddon is a fictional planet in the universe of the Warhammer 40,000 setting and has been featured heavily in Games Workshops table top wargames and related games. ...
Warhammer 40,000 (informally known as Warhammer 40K, WH40K, W40K or just 40K) is a science fantasy game produced by Games Workshop. ...
The cover of the current Codex: Orks sourcebook The Orks are a race from the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe. ...
Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka is a fictional character from the table top miniature game Warhammer 40,000. ...
Lord Commander Dante is the Chapter Master and leader of the Blood Angels chapter of the Space Marines in the tabletop game Warhammer 40,000. ...
In the fictional universe of Warhammer 40,000, the Blood Angels are one of the twenty First Founding Legions of the Space Marines. ...
Commissar Sebastian Yarrick is a fictional character from the tabletop miniature wargame Warhammer 40,000. ...
The game was originally released as a boxed game, while the expansion, Chaos Attacks focused on the first war for Armageddon that takes place 300 years before Ghazghkull made his first foray into the Armageddon system.
Both games were later released for free in pdf format by Games Workshop to promote their 3rd War for Armageddon Warhammer 40,000 campaign.
The characters of Ghazghkull and Yarrick were later given rules for use in Warhammer 40,000 and Space Marine.
The game was one of 4 released using the same or similar principles - the others including Horus Heresy and Doom of the Eldar
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