Many of the myriad worlds of the 41st Millennium feature vast districts crammed with countless hab-blocks, cathedra, PDF barracks and manufactorums. To fight amongst such dense urban jungles requires a different strategy altogether.

The objectives a commander will be ordered to achieve in the dense terrain of one of the galaxy’s countless cities will be different to those they prioritise on a more open battlefield. Every building is a potential strongpoint or bastion, and because of this they will become the focus for much of the fighting. The following rules allow you to use a new set of Cities of Death Objectives that replace the Tactical Objectives found in Warhammer 40,000: The Rules, and which reflect the different nature of fighting in an urban environment.

In this section you will find the rules for using 36 Cities of Death Objectives in your games of Warhammer 40,000, and six new Cities of Death missions. The missions all use Cities of Death Objectives, but each one emphasises a different aspect of fighting in an urban environment. Additionally, you will find rules for linking these missions together in an epic campaign of urban warfare. Also included in this section are rules for using Cities of Death Objectives in other games of Warhammer 40,000 that use Tactical Objectives, such as Maelstrom of War.

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If a mission has the Cities of Death Objectives mission special rule, it is a Cities of Death mission. To play a Cities of Death mission only requires a handful of modifications to the Preparing for Battle section of Warhammer 40,000: The Rules, which are described below.If you and your opponent wish to play a Cities of Death mission, then at the start of The Mission step of Preparing for Battle (as described in Warhammer 40,000: The Rules), you can roll on the table below, or choose the mission you wish to fight, to determine which mission is used for the battle.
Instructions for creating Cities of Death battlefields and deploying your forces are included in the Cities of Death missions themselves; you must use these rules instead of those found in Warhammer 40,000: The Rules.You will need 6 Objective Markers that are individually numbered 1 through 6. Unless instructed otherwise, the players should place all 6 Objective Markers on the battlefield, using the rules for Placing Objective Markers. These Objective Markers are controlled using the rules for Controlling Objective Markers. Each Objective Marker may also be a Mysterious Objective as described in Warhammer 40,000: The Rules if this mission special rule is also in use.

In addition to the restrictions on Placing Objective Markers found in Warhammer 40,000: The Rules, each Objective Marker must be placed on a building or in ruin terrain. If it is impossible to place all of the Objective Markers because of this restriction, place as many as possible, and discard any that are remaining. Because of this, we recommend that you set up at least six buildings and/or ruins for any mission that has the Cities of Death Objectives special rule.If you are playing a Warhammer 40,000 mission that has the Tactical Objectives special rule, and you have set up ruins and/or buildings as part of the terrain for the battle, then you and your opponent can agree to use the Cities of Death Objectives special rules if you wish. If you do this, then use the Cities of Death Objectives instead of the Tactical Objectives. Note that if you do this, any Tactical Objectives specific to your Faction cannot be used; you must use the Cities of Death Objectives alone. Missions with the Cities of Death Objectives mission special rules always use Cities of Death Objectives instead of Tactical Objectives.

Note that any rules which affect how Tactical Objectives are generated, achieved and discarded apply to Cities of Death Objectives exactly as if they were Tactical Objectives.At the beginning of each of your turns, you will need to generate a number of Cities of Death Objectives. If you are playing a mission with the Cities of Death Objectives special rule, it will state how many you should generate, otherwise you will need to agree how many to generate at the start of each turn.

To generate a Cities of Death Objective, roll a D66, consult the table below and write the result down. Note that unless the mission itself states otherwise, these rolls are not secret; both players should be able to see what Cities of Death Objectives each other has.

When generating Cities of Death Objectives, keep a note of the numbers you rolled during the game – if you roll the same numbered Cities of Death Objective during the same game, roll again until one you can use is generated. Only roll again if you have already generated that Cities of Death Objective yourself during the game – if your opponent has generated a particular Cities of Death Objective that you have not yet generated, you can still generate that Cities of Death Objective.

Cities of Death Objectives that have been generated are said to be Active until they are either achieved or discarded.You score Victory Points (see Warhammer 40,000: The Rules) for achieving Cities of Death Objectives at the end of your turn. Any Victory Points awarded from Cities of Death Objectives are added to any Victory Points awarded from any other source (from Secondary Objectives, for example).

At the end of your turn, you must check to see if you have achieved any of your Active Cities of Death Objectives – the descriptions will tell you how they are achieved and how many Victory Points are scored for completing them. If you can achieve a Cities of Death Objective at the end of your turn you must immediately score Victory Points for it – you cannot choose not to achieve a Cities of Death Objective at the end of your turn. Note that a player can achieve any number of their Active Cities of Death Objectives in the same turn (including multiples of the same named Cities of Death Objective that do not have the same number).

For example, Simon has the Streets of Death and Cripple the Vanguard Cities of Death Objectives. In his first turn, Simon destroys an enemy Fast Attack unit that is on open ground, scoring in this instance 2 Victory Points. If the mission also used the First Blood secondary objective, Simon would score 1 additional Victory Point if this was the first unit destroyed in the game (making the unit’s destruction worth a grand total of 3 Victory Points).Once a Cities of Death Objective has been achieved, it is discarded. After all Cities of Death Objectives that have been achieved are discarded, the player whose turn it is can select one of his remaining Active Cities of Death Objectives (if any) and choose to discard it – this scores no Victory Points. You may additionally discard any Active Cities of Death Objectives for Objective Markers that are not being used because there are fewer than six buildings on the battlefield – these also score no Victory Points. Discarded Cities of Death Objectives cease being Active and you cannot generate or achieve these objectives for the remainder of the game.

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This section describes the Cities of Death Objectives that you can use in your games of Warhammer 40,000. Each Cities of Death Objective details a specific task that your forces must accomplish, the conditions that must be met in order to achieve it, and how many Victory Points you will score for doing so. The number next to the Cities of Death Objective’s title corresponds to the D66 result rolled to generate it. See the previous section for more details on generating and using Cities of Death Objectives.

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The Cities of Death missions presented here can be played sequentially to fight a thrilling campaign, where one player is the Attacker for every mission, and their opponent is the Defender. If you do so, the victor of each mission will receive a bonus in the next mission of the campaign, as detailed on this page. If a game is a draw, neither player receives a bonus in the next mission. Whoever wins the final mission, Isolated Resistance, is then the victor of the Cities of Death campaign (if this game ends in a draw, we suggest that whoever won the most victories during the previous missions is crowned the overall victor of the campaign).

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