How to use this publication

Notice boxes

Various notice boxes appear in the rules, where appropriate. These highlight information that merits special attention or that is useful as an aside to the main content.

You will occasionally find these boxes where it is important to understand a special rule that relates to the main text.

You will find these boxes where an explanation of the concepts and philosophy of particular rules is likely to be helpful.

You and your opponent are much less likely to dispute or misinterpret rules if you understand why they are written the way they are.

These boxes contain examples that put rules in context for you, or that show you how to follow the flow of several different rules that work together.

These boxes contain advice to help you learn the rules more effectively or get the best out of the game — or in a few cases, notes about changes I made.

These boxes contain reminders about things that are important to get right but easy to miss or forget in the heat of battle.

Editing notes

Inline comments like this highlight some of my notes on problems with the text that I haven't fixed yet, or that I may not be able to fix directly unless I create a new rule.

Footnotes

Footnotes, for additional information.1I sometimes use footnotes like this to present additional information outside of the main flow of the text.

Rules status

You'll notice that I've got to some effort to state the source of rules content in each topic. The core of this compendium is comprised of the original rules from the three books of the Epic 40,000 boxed set and are therefore inherently 'official' — but there are many additions from other publications. Where appropriate, I indicate the status of additional rules in line with statements made in Epic 40,000 magazines, as follows:

Official 'new rules' that are to be 'used where applicable' are usually integrated into the main body of the rules and no status is indicated.
[Experimental rules] indicates 'optional and can only be used with the opponent's consent'.
[Unofficial house rules] status (as in the rules for Squats) appears in a fan-made summary I'm using to guide me, but I haven't found a definition yet — probably much the same as [Experimental rules].

Related information

You’ll sometimes see a short list of hyperlinks at the bottom of a topic. These links are convenient shortcuts to related information that is especially relevant to the topic. They look like this: