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 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