Imperial Armour


Imperial Armour is a series of rules supplements to the Warhammer 40,000 table-top game, along with an associated range of vehicle-size resin model kits. Both are produced by Forge World, a subsidiary company of Games Workshop.
The Imperial Armour range and rules supplements are designed to incorporate vehicles referred to in the fiction and background material produced for the Warhammer 40,000 fictional universe, but not included in the Codexes due to a variety of reasons. These include super-heavy vehicles, specialised variants of standard vehicles, aircraft, immobile defenses, and non-combatant vehicles. Vehicles that are featured in the Imperial Armour books are available from Forge World as multi-part resin model kits, or as a series of resin components that can be used to convert existing plastic and metal models. The Imperial Armour range is not limited to conventional vehicles, as the Orks are known to use massive creatures called Squiggoths, and the Tyranids do not possess any vehicles, instead using extremely large bioformed creatures.

List of Imperial Armour books

Early Imperial Armour rules supplements are written by Warwick Kinrade, later ones by Warwick Kinrade and/or Alan Bligh.
Starting in 2015, Forgeworld stopped using the `Volume X' notation, using just Imperial Armour and the title of the book.

Currently valid books

  • Imperial Armour Compendium

    Outdated books

The rules contained in the following books are no longer valid, having been superseded by later editions of the Warhammer 40,000 game and other Imperial Armour books.
  • Imperial Armour
  • Imperial Armour II
  • Imperial Armour Update.
  • Imperial Armour Volume One - Imperial Guard & Imperial Navy
  • Imperial Armour Update 2004
  • Imperial Armour Volume Two - Space Marines & Forces of the Inquisition
  • Imperial Armour Update 2005
  • Imperial Armour Volume Three - The Taros Campaign
  • Imperial Armour Update 2006
  • Imperial Armour Volume Four - The Anphelion Project
  • Imperial Armour Apocalypse
  • Imperial Armour Volume Five - The Siege of Vraks Part One
  • Imperial Armour Volume Six - The Siege of Vraks Part Two
  • Imperial Armour Volume Seven - The Siege of Vraks Part Three
  • Imperial Armour Volume Eight - Raid on Kastorel-Novem
  • Imperial Armour Volume Nine - The Badab War Part One
  • Imperial Armour Volume Ten - The Badab War Part Two
  • Imperial Armour Apocalypse II
  • Imperial Armour Apocalypse Second Edition
  • Imperial Armour Volume Eleven - The Doom of Mymeara
  • Imperial Armour Volume One - Imperial Guard
  • Imperial Armour Volume Two - War Machines of the Adeptus Astartes
  • Imperial Armour Volume Three - The Taros Campaign
  • Imperial Armour Volume Four - The Anphelion Project
  • Imperial Armour - The Siege of Vraks
  • Imperial Armour - The Doom of Mymeara
  • Imperial Armour Volume Twelve - The Fall of Orpheus
  • Imperial Armour Volume Thirteen - War Machines of the Lost and the Damned
  • Imperial Armour Aeronautica
  • Imperial Armour Apocalypse
  • Imperial Armour - Index: Forces of Chaos
  • Imperial Armour - Index: Forces of the Adeptus Astartes
  • Imperial Armour - Index: Forces of the Astra Militarum
  • Imperial Armour - Index: Xenos

    Model Masterclass

Forge World has also published two Model Masterclass books, which focus on painting the often very large and extensive models they produce:
  • Imperial Armour Model Masterclass - Volume One
  • Imperial Armour Model Masterclass - Volume Two