Battle Tactics

September Battlescroll update – Warhammer Age of Sigmar 4.0 Battle Tactics – GHB 25-26

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September brings to us a new Battlescroll update and today’s update finds us replacing components of the Scouting force Battle Tactic to make some of it easier (praise Sigmar!) and other parts to try and make it less auto-include. This replaces the previous Warhammer Age of Sigmar 4.0 battle tactics – GHB 25-26 set of PDFs and an update is happening to that page at the same time.

September Battlescroll update – Warhammer Age of Sigmar 4.0 Battle Tactics – GHB 25-26

These changes in summary are for Scouting force which now determines Scouts as not just Non-infantry and non-cavalry units starting wholly within your territory but now reads “…which were not set up in reserve using a Deploy Ability…”

This means those great units that are logically scouts, those who get a pre-game move are the ones I am talking about here, are now counted as scouts even if they are outside of your territory! It also saw changes that part 2, Strike, and part 3, Domination, have their completion conditions altered so that the terrain in question must NOT be faction terrain.

For some armies, like Serephon, Skaven, Solblight etc., who have several or large terrain this could pose a tactical disadvantage for including your terrain piece on the battlefield. So this is a positive shift moving forward.

Coloured File for download.

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General Handbook 2025-2026 battle tactics_ September 2025 Battlescroll update pdfDownload

Desaturated files to be downloaded (without the coloured background)

General Handbook 2025-2026 battle tactics desaturated_ September2025 Battlescroll updateDownload
General Handbook 2025-2026 battle tactics desaturated_ September 2025 Battlescroll update pdfDownload

Thanks for dropping in for a day-after update since the drop of the September Battlescroll. May you roll plenty of sixes and always have excess command points,
The Brazen Wolfe

Warhammer Age of Sigmar 4.0 Battle Tactics – GHB 25-26 – (Outdated)

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This has been replaced by the September 2025 Battlescroll update. The below File downloads have been updated to reflect the correct version.

A new Generals Handbook is on the way and with pilfered knowledge I have managed to scrounge together the battle tactics that are present in this next Age of Sigmars Generals Handbook.

Warhammer Age of Sigmar 4.0 Battle Tactics – GHB 25-26 – (Outdated)

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This has been replaced by the PNG and PDFs found (Here)

Coloured File for download – This has had its PNG and PDFs Replaced.

General Handbook 2025-2026 battle tactics_ September2025 Battlescroll updateDownload
General Handbook 2025-2026 battle tactics_ September 2025 Battlescroll update pdfDownload

Desaturated files to be downloaded (without the coloured background) – This has had its PNG and PDFs Replaced.

General Handbook 2025-2026 battle tactics desaturated_ September2025 Battlescroll updateDownload
General Handbook 2025-2026 battle tactics desaturated_ September 2025 Battlescroll updateDownload

While I look at ramping up for another, dare I say better, season for Warhammer: Age of Sigmar the new changes that come with the Generals handbook, the new battle plans and new battle tactics! It’s looking to be a fantastic season to play.

With changes to give better ways to not be shot off the board turn one, to make your army building more streamlined and changes made to to enable easier balancing in the future this is shaping up to be a great season. While many of the mechanics feel familiar for Warhammer: 40k players these are going to be big changes for the players of Age of Sigmar and myself, like many others, are calling it a revamp of the edition (a AOS 4.5 if you will).

Thanks for dropping in for an early Monday update – compared to my normal nightly posts. Don’t forget to come back this week for normal D&D content and I hope, soon, that I will have more Warhammer content coming back into the blog. So don’t forget to warm up those dice and as always, don’t forget your rerolls,
The Brazen Wolfe

(Outdated) Warhammer Age of Sigmar 4.0 Battle Tactics GHB 24-25

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Sharing some thoughts on the current Age of Sigmar battle tactics. Note this has been replaced by the new Generals Handbook 2025-2026 which can be found here.

Note: Updated this posts title as a new Generals Handbook season has started which has made all of these obsolete!

Warhammer Age of Sigmar 4.0 Battle Tactics

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AoS 4.0 battle tacticsDownload

Or in a more neutral grey-scale option as a pdf.

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A very short one this week as I have a few things in the air at the moment but I wanted to share something that I have heard a few people are struggling with. Tonight I have the Warhammer Age of Sigmar Battle tactics on a single page that are, for most armies, a bit difficult to achieve in the current state of the game in the first turn, let alone later in the game depending on how the first round goes.

For those who don’t know Age of Sigmar recently updated to 4.0 and while I haven’t had many posts about it I have been trying to at least have one match a week since its release, and doing poorly at it. But some observations can be made from my own experience and the battle reports I have watched.

Turn one most people struggle to pick at tactic unless they had designed it into their list. This is something that when I am constructing my list I look for something I can do – either something that has pre-game movement, something fast like cavalry or ranged outputs that can remove a unit from the game. But many tactics require you to partake in the fight ability (the melee variety) which makes some of them simply difficult.

But having cavalry or a way to buff your foot troops to try Seize the Centre, or Take the Flanks is a common first move that I have seen. Take their land is also great as any army that can teleport or deepstrike can take this turn 1 as you don’t have the stipulation of “not set up this turn” that will hamper your ability to achieve that tactic.

The overall grand alliance battle tactics, as seen above, seems to be hit and miss. But there is, generally, a “that’s doable” one and a “that is hard to do”, or at best a very situational tactic to achieve – unless you’re destruction as they both appear to be quite difficult, or at best very situational.

Thanks for dropping in tonight, not really a content-rich one but something that I was creating for my own reference and thought it may be useful to share! Don’t forget that tomorrow night I will be aiming to get this weeks Zine published. So don’t forget to come back for that and, as always, don’t forget to roll with advantage,
The Brazen Wolfe