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Friday, March 21, 2025

How to Get Started with 2nd Edition 40K

Disclaimer: This is an updated version of an old post that Blogger took down because it's stupid filters think it's spam.


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.


 

Saturday, January 7, 2017

The Purpose


Welcome to Project Anvil.  This is a simple blog dedicated to a game modification intended for Games Workshop's 2nd edition Warhammer 40,000 tabletop miniatures game.  This is colloquially referred to as Oldhammer or Middlehammer, having taken place in the early to late 1990's.

Project Anvil is aimed at streamlining a handful of rules or practices which hindered gameplay in 2nd edition, namely condensing and re-doing the Psyker Phase and Close Combat - as well as changing up unit activation.

Needless to say, all of the content on this blog is free-to-use and is a constant work-in-progress.  I don't have the gaming community currently to playtest this nearly as much as I'd like.  When most of this is narrowed down and solidified I will provide a simple PDF file to detail the changes.  If you have any suggestions please feel free to post it in the comments sections of the pertinent post!

Thanks,
Oscar