Imperial Commander and scenery. Two or more players are required. An updated version of this game, called "Imperial Commander 2" was in development, but because of copyright issues was never published. The rules can (as of Sep 2007) still be purchased from a company called 15mm.co.uk. The background of "Imperial Commander" and the rule system of "Laserburn" are an influence on Games Workshop's "Warhammer 40,000" tabletop game which was developed when Ansell and Halliwell were at Games Workshop and Citadel Miniatures. In addition it has been a major influence on the development of the "Beamstrike" rule set. Imperial Commander Imperial Commander is
Imperial Count By being seated and allowed to cast a shared vote on a Count's bench an imperial count obtained, the "seat and vote" within the Imperial Diet which, combined with Imperial immediacy, made of his chief land holding an Imperial estate ("Reichsstand") and conferred upon him and his family the status of "Landeshoheit", i.e. the semi-sovereignty which distinguished Germany and Austria's high nobility (the "Hochadel") from the lower nobility ("Niederadel"), who had no representation in the Diet and usually answered to an over-lord. Thus the "reichsständische" imperial counts pegged their interests and status to those of the imperial princes. In 1521