
- BGG rank
- BGG #2,203
- BGG rating
- 7.4
Mordheim: City of the Damned
- 2–6 players
- 60 min
- Complexity 3.1/5
- 1999

Expansion for Warhammer Age Of Sigmar (Fourth Edition): Core Rules
2025
Rules assistance for Warhammer Age of Sigmar (Fourth Edition): Death Battletome – Nighthaunt
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Warhammer Age of Sigmar (Fourth Edition): Death Battletome – Nighthaunt is an expansion for Warhammer Age Of Sigmar (Fourth Edition): Core Rules released in 2025 for 2 players. Its main mechanics are Variable Player Powers, Dice Rolling, and Measurement Movement.
The Nighthaunt gather across graveyards and battlefields. Ethereal horrors, they seek to visit their agonies upon the living and turn all the lands into a lifeless Necrotopia. Coalescing in dread processions, they descend upon their foes in a frenzied and incorporeal horde. Embittered and consumed by misery, they hate the living and vent their fury with ghastly talons and grave-iron blades. Surging from the lightless underworlds in their spectral masses, they will drown the realms in fear. Death Battletome: Nighthaunt is a chilling book for collectors and gamers who wish to punish the living throughout the Mortal Realms. This hardcover tome is packed with macabre artwork, hair-raising background material about the tortured souls, epic photography, and the rules you'll need to enact the will of Nagash. You’ll find warscrolls, Regiments and Armies of Renown, Path to Glory and Anvil of Apotheosis rules, plus a self-contained Spearhead section to help you play tight, tactical games with your collection. This book will guide you through your campaigns of terror, no matter how you like to collect, paint, and play with your Nighthaunt. This 106-page hardcover book contains: Background, art, and fiction giving you an overview of the calamitous fate of the Nighthaunt A description of their many units, along with detailed photography and artwork Faction rules including battle traits, battle formations, heroic traits, artefacts of power, Spells, and Manifestations 29 warscrolls, covering units, terrain, and Manifestations A Spearhead guide, including gameplay and hobby advice, along with a set of warscrolls and army abilities for the Cursed Shacklehorde Narrative Path to Glory rules, including the Anvil of Apotheosis, allowing you to create your own hero Rules for two thematic Armies of Renown and two Regiments of Renown that can be added to other Death armies A handy reference section with army abilities, magic, and battle traits —description from the publisher
Warhammer Age of Sigmar (Fourth Edition): Death Battletome – Nighthaunt supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.
Warhammer Age of Sigmar (Fourth Edition): Death Battletome – Nighthaunt belongs to these categories: Fantasy, Fighting, and Wargame. Its main mechanics are Variable Player Powers, Dice Rolling, and Measurement Movement. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The catalogue lists Warhammer Age of Sigmar (Fourth Edition): Death Battletome – Nighthaunt as an expansion for Warhammer Age Of Sigmar (Fourth Edition): Core Rules. Expansions add new content, rules or scenarios to the base game and usually cannot be played on their own, so you need Warhammer Age Of Sigmar (Fourth Edition): Core Rules to use it. Check that your edition of Warhammer Age Of Sigmar (Fourth Edition): Core Rules is compatible, as some expansions were revised between editions.