Sunday, March 19, 2017

Get Started!

This post is a resource dump for players looking to get into 2nd Edition Warhammer 40K or those searching for a specific resource.  These are available in various other posts as they are produced/released.

*Note: Project Anvil produces a number of resources but we're also gathering the best online resources available.  If you created a resource located on this blog, please let us know so we can add our thanks!

Warhammer 40K 2nd Edition Components
 Warhammer 40K came with a load of cards, decks, tokens, templates, etc.  We've located the best PDF versions of these contents for you.   While old copies are occasionally available on eBay they're often in disrepair or incomplete.  We hope to provide as many of these items to you as possible.






 


Warhammer 40K 2nd Edition Vehicle Datafaxes
 Vehicles in Warhammer 40K 2nd Edition were provided with a datafax or a double-sided card which detailed their abilities, stats, and provided a special armour/damage table.  We're in the process of digitizing these into PDFs - collecting vehicles from various White Dwarf magazines, later releases etc.  In addition we're adjusting weapon listings to better match current plastic kits, etc.  In a few places we're adding some vehicles which did not exist in 2nd edition (the plastic Eldar Wave Serpent, and Ork Deffkoptas for example).  These will be updated as we release them.




Warhammer 40K 2nd Edition Necron Materials
 Necrons showed up in small numbers in 2nd Edition by way of several small White Dwarf articles.  We've combine them into a simple PDF including the Necron Destroyer datafax.


Warhammer 40K 2nd Edition Cheat Sheets
 We're producing a number of simple cheat sheets for various portions of the 2nd edition rulebook.  These cheat sheets serve to make finding and applying rules easier/faster (while the rules in the rulebook were quite good they often buried rules in large paragraphs which can take time to find during game play!)





Project Anvil Modifications
The modifications PDFs include rules modifications we've made to modernize or streamline elements of Warhammer 40K 2nd edition.  Due to the nature of these changes, players will be required to adapate wargear, unit rules etc. to the new system (i.e. you'll have to make some decisions on how certain things play out!).  These are obviously completely optional and not part of the original rule-set for Warhammer 40K 2nd edition.
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16 comments:

  1. BaconfatApril 22, 2017 at 6:32 PM

    Thanks for doing all of this work. 2cd Ed was the best!

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  2. (Kym) + Warburton + (Classic40K) April 24, 2017 at 5:30 AM

    Awesome - just stumbled across this, great stuff.

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  3. Josh PageDecember 5, 2017 at 7:09 AM

    Amazing! Thank you for all your work.

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  4. UnknownDecember 8, 2017 at 4:43 AM

    Any plan on updating the Datafaxes for the remaining races, namely Space Marines?

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    1. OscarDecember 8, 2017 at 6:51 AM

      Yep, we're actually still working on a bunch. Got rather side-tracked, but the hope is to re-do all of the classic ones with some new stuff added. It will probably be impossible to do datafaxes for the insane amount of current vehicles - but we'll try to add some!

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  5. ChrisApril 26, 2020 at 8:16 AM

    Hi,
    first of all I want to say I'm loving your work!
    Right now I'm in the process of making my own set of house rules to smoothen the edges of the second edition (taking inspiration from the 5th).

    As I lack a good master to neatly format my house rules, could you by any chance share the word master of your Project Anvil Activations 1.0 document?

    Cheers and keep up the good work!

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    1. OscarNovember 30, 2020 at 12:51 PM

      Hey Chris, sorry I never saw this comment! Google stopped informing us that people were commenting on posts...I don't have a format, but here is the word file - it just has an added "picture" element: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rgsjnkytzrau9bu/PAActivationVersion1.docx?dl=0

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  6. twrchtrwythJuly 19, 2020 at 6:36 AM

    Thank you so much for all this.

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  7. J.V.ZNovember 13, 2020 at 12:48 AM

    This is great thank you 🙏

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  8. Rodrigo Garcia CarmonaDecember 4, 2020 at 1:17 AM

    I just discovered this blog. This is an amazing work, and I'll closely follow anything you come up with. Thanks a lot!

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  9. NJFebruary 2, 2021 at 9:47 PM

    https://idoc.pub/download/warhammer-40k-2nd-ed-warp-cards-143013jwk24j

    Something to add to the resources.

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  10. DanBringaJune 19, 2021 at 6:56 PM

    Fantastic stuff here, love the fact that you have added lots of extra vehicles that weren't around in second edition. Would love to see what you'd come up with for the newer tyranid creatures...

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  11. Goose on the looseJune 27, 2021 at 5:47 AM

    A great rescource.. thanks.. been really nice to have a read through. Wish I had found this earlier.

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  12. JacJuly 13, 2021 at 7:41 AM

    Enjoying this blog a lot. It has been such a valuable resource.

    I feel 2nd ed needs both a community edition to edit some of the broken bits and a decent campaign system. (Think modern day crusdade but better and adapted for 2nd).

    Im enjoying the content here a lot and bits been so useful. Keep it up!

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  13. BenjaminKSeptember 19, 2021 at 3:19 PM

    Hello there !

    I just wanted to follow up on the previous comments' thanks. You've done a very useful work for those looking for 2nd edition ressources ! I've often came here, looking for tiny pieces of info regarding a particular vehicule for example... As a suggestion, could you one day add some kind of compendium (like this one : http://patatovitch.free.fr/trucs/v2_warhammer_40k_Battle_Bible_1_51.pdf ) regarding the whole core game rules & codexes ? Or the official documents of course... That's probably the only think still left out of Project Anvil.
    Thanks again anyway, and take care !

    Cheers,
    Benjamin

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  14. ColinABrettOctober 30, 2021 at 5:52 PM

    Some great resources here. Excellent work.

    However, do you have the 2nd Edition Mission Cards for download? These seem to be the only cards I can't find here.

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