Battles
The great wars, sieges, and campaigns of The Old World: the conflicts whose fire forged the setting.
- The Founding of the Empire
The Battle of Black Fire Pass
At a narrow mountain gorge, Sigmar's tribes and their dwarf allies shattered a greenskin Waaagh and secured the birth of the Empire.
- 2532 IC
The Battle of Blood Keep
Sworn to the Grail, the knights of Bretonnia stormed a mountain fastness of the undead in a crusade of fire, faith and reckless valour.
- 2502 IC
The Battle of Death Pass
A dwarf throng marching the high road was swallowed by a goblin ambush in a treacherous defile that earned its grim and lasting name.
- -2000 IC
The Battle of Finuval Plain
Upon a mist-wreathed plain, the reborn Everqueen's champion turned back a druchii invasion that had nearly drowned all Ulthuan in darkness.
- 2502 IC
The Battle of Grunburg
A doomed Imperial garrison held a border keep to the last man, buying precious hours as Archaon's horde marched south toward Middenheim.
- 2145 IC
The Battle of Hel-Fenn
In a drowning marsh on the edge of Sylvania, the Empire cornered the last Vampire Count and ended his bloodline in fire and floodwater.
- 2489 IC
The Battle of Kadrin
A greenskin Waaagh! broke against the gates of the Slayer Keep, where dwarfs sworn to die found the enemy all too willing to oblige.
- The War of Vengeance
The Battle of Kazad Drengi
In the deep dark of the mountains, the honest dwarfs met their twisted kin in a siege of black powder, daemon-forged iron and bitter kinship betrayed.
- -1152 IC
The Battle of La Maisontaal Abbey
Knights, ratmen and the undead tore one another apart over a Bretonnian abbey that unknowingly guarded a relic of Nagash himself.
- 2515 IC
The Battle of Osterwald
When a great brayherd boiled out of the deep forest, the Empire met it at Osterwald in a slaughter that saved the province and gutted it at once.
- The Time of Legends
The Battle of the Blighted Isle
Grief-maddened and alone, the first Phoenix King drew the cursed Widowmaker from its black altar, damning his line to save his people.
- The End Times
The End Times
The final cataclysm in which Chaos and undeath united to unmake the Old World, ending the age of gods and men in daemon-fire.
- The Age of Magnus the Pious
The Great War Against Chaos
As Asavar Kul's hordes drowned the north in blood, Magnus the Pious united the Empire and shattered the Chaos horde at the walls of Kislev.
- From the Dawn Ages to the End Times
The Incursion of Nagash
Across the ages the Great Necromancer rose again and again to claim the living, from cursed Nehekhara to his dark triumph in the End Times.
- 2520 IC
The Nemesis Crown Campaign
Word of a lost crown of Sigmar's age drew every power into the Great Forest, where greed and slaughter buried the prize once more.
- 2510 IC
The Siege of Couronne
An undead host laid siege to Bretonnia's holiest city, and only a last thunderous charge of the realm's assembled knights broke the grave's grip.
- The Age of Magnus the Pious
The Siege of Praag
Besieged for a year, the Kislevite city of Praag was warped into living nightmare before Magnus the Pious could march to its relief.
- The Late Imperial Age
The Storm of Chaos
Archaon led a Chaos horde against Middenheim, and only a desperate defense and a champion of Sigmar turned the storm back from the walls.
- The Time of Legends
The Sundering of Ulthuan
Civil war and a cataclysm of magic tore the elven race in two, drowning half of Ulthuan and casting the exiles into eternal darkness.
- The Age of the Vampire Counts
The Vampire Wars
For three generations the von Carstein vampires raised the Empire's dead against it, until the last count fell at the battle of Hel Fenn.
- The Time of Legends
The War of the Beard
A shorn beard and a murdered envoy plunged dwarfs and high elves into a centuries-long war that sundered their golden alliance forever.
- 2420 IC
Waaagh! Grom
The fattest and most cunning goblin warlord in history led a green tide across the Empire and Bretonnia before setting sail to burn Ulthuan itself.