Imperial Armour Starting in 2015, Forgeworld stopped using the `Volume X' notation, using just Imperial Armour and the title of the book. The rules contained in the following books are no longer valid, having been superseded by later editions of the "Warhammer 40,000" game and other Imperial Armour books. <br> Forge World has also published two Model Masterclass books, which focus on painting the often very large and extensive models they produce: 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
Imperial Guard (Warhammer 40,000) had a name change to the Astra Militarum in line with Games Workshop's shift away from generic naming of their intellectual property. The Imperial Guard (previously the Imperial Army, now the Astra Militarum) is a fictional colossal military organisation, consisting of many hundreds of thousands of armies throughout the Imperium, and forming the vast bulk of the Imperium's military machine. Unlike the Space Marines, who are an elite unit that rely upon precision strikes against the enemy's critical assets to carry the day, the Imperial Guard has the reputation of relying on massed assaults made up of endless waves of