Book 1 - Compendium - Core Skirmish Rulebook
Forge Your Fellowship - Face the Arcane Storms
Kinslayers - Fall of the Arcane Storms (Compendium Core Rulebook) is a universal miniature skirmish wargame where players forge their own warbands and fight for honor, glory, and survival. Designed for ultimate player creativity, it offers near-limitless customization, allowing commanders to choose their leader, build their warband, and name each champion, all while using their own miniatures.
This fast-paced tactical system blends deep strategy with flexible mechanics, ensuring that no two warbands—or battles—are ever the same. Players will engage in small-scale skirmishes where strategic deployment, resource management, and battlefield tactics are key to victory. With dynamic terrain, elemental magic, and ever-changing threats, Kinslayers challenges players to adapt, outthink, and overcome their rivals in a world shaped by war and the relentless Arcane Storms.
Will You Survive the Coming Storms?
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Unleash Your Leader
Kinslayers is built around the power and presence of your leader, the champion of your warband and a figure of myth in the world of Anduin. More than just a powerful warrior or spellcaster, your leader is the driving force behind your warband’s journey, shaping both the battlefield and the unfolding narrative.
With unparalleled customization, players craft a leader entirely their own—choosing their name, background, alignment, fighting style, and magical affinity. Whether a dwarven forge-master wielding earth magic, a high elven mage bathed in divine light, or a goblin necromancer casting curses, every leader is unique. Each warband follows a Hero or Villain, a being with the blood of the First Elves, whose magic and decisions shape their warriors' fate. Masters of the arcane, these leaders wield immense influence on the battlefield. Whether as fierce barbarians, cunning rogues, noble paladins, or hardened warriors; as spellcasting wizards, sorcerers, warlocks, druids, or clerics; or as resourceful rangers, charismatic bards, elusive sellswords, enlightened mystics, devoted healers, or knowledgeable scholars—or something else entirely, Kinslayers has you covered, your path is yours, and yours alone.
Kinslayers enhances customization through a Leader Template, allowing players to craft a unique commander from the ground up. Using Favors, Flaws, and Form, leaders gain distinct abilities and weaknesses, shaping their role in combat. Each leader can also Fuse with one of the six elemental schools of magic, wielding powerful spells, managing Channeled Mana, and even manipulating terrain to their advantage. Every leader is bound to renown, forging a legacy through battle and collecting Shards of the Past—remnants of fallen foes that shape their legend. With limitless possibilities, who will you become? Will your leader rise as a savior, a conqueror, or something in between.
Forge your legend. Lead your warband. Leave your mark on Anduin.
Forge Your Fellowship
Kinslayers is built on the foundation of ultimate player creativity and customization. Unlike traditional wargames with rigid factions, Kinslayers gives players total control over their warbands—choosing not only their units but also their leader, backstory, and style of play. Whether leading a disciplined force of knights, a mercenary band of outcasts, or an undead legion bound by old oaths and dark sorcery, the world of Anduin is yours to shape.
Kinslayers offers five core unit types—Infantry, Rangers, Lancers, Cavalry, and Mages—each with its own strengths and playstyle. However, these roles are not locked to a single race or archetype. A Ranger may be a human longbowman, a goblin blow-darter, or an elven spell-archer. Cavalry may ride horses, dire wolves, or massive war beetles. The choice is entirely yours. Warbands are assembled with a point-based system, balancing unit tiers and abilities to create a force tailored to each player's vision. To add depth, players can also designate a Bard, a unique unit capable of Spellsinging, weaving magic into battle through song and melody.
Beyond combat, the Warrior Template allows players to develop individual units beyond their stats—giving them names, hometowns, alignments, and personal goals, reinforcing the rich storytelling that sets Kinslayers apart. With deep tactical gameplay and the freedom to forge a warband from the ground up, Kinslayers is not just a battle—it’s your story. Will you build a band of noble defenders, ruthless marauders, or something entirely your own? The choice is yours.
Chart Your Course
In Kinslayers, no two battles are the same. The Core Rulebook provides the tools to chart your course across Anduin, allowing players to shape the world, battlefield, and objectives to fit their own vision. Whether fighting for conquest, survival, or legend, players will find a variety of game types, terrain options, and warband formations for you to create advetures & encounters as unique as your warbands.
Players can build their own battlefields using personal terrain and miniatures, mixing and matching diverse terrains, scenarios, and objectives for ever-changing challenges. Quick-start roll tables allow for fast scenario generation, while pre-designed scenarios with distinct victory conditions provide structure for those who prefer ready-made battles. Warband formations range from balanced forces to thematic builds, ensuring both strategic depth and narrative immersion.
For those seeking an even greater challenge, optional rules allow for deeper customization, with unique modifiers, unpredictable battle conditions, and the potential to shape long-term campaigns. With detailed maps, warband configurations, and scenario variations, Kinslayers invites players to forge their own path, battle by battle.
Where will your journey lead?
Build Your Bastion
In Kinslayers – Fall of the Arcane Storm, a leaders true strength isn’t just measured by the battles they win, but by the bastion they command. Whether you carve out a hidden refuge, erect a towering stronghold, or establish a noble estate, your choice of dwelling is as vast and as defining as your Warband itself. From humble hideouts to towering bastions, your choice of home tells your story. Will you remain a wanderer, or will you carve your name into stone and steel?
For wanderers and outcasts, these dwellings offer secrecy and mobility. A cave provides natural protection, a hovel is a crude shelter, and a tent allows freedom to roam. A tower, however, grants height and power, a foothold for greater ambitions. For those seeking stability, a cottage offers quiet retreat, a house marks the rise of a landowner, and a mansion is a statement of wealth. A keep, though, is a true stronghold—fortified, unyielding, and built to last.
Warp Your Warband
Kinslayers is designed to offer the ultimate experience in player customization and creativity. With a deep focus on character creation and warband design, players are given the freedom to shape their leaders and units in ways never before seen. The game encourages players to move beyond the traditional confines of race and class, allowing them to mix abilities, modify traits, and create a warband that reflects their personal vision and tactical preferences. This level of customization ensures that every warband is unique, empowering players to tell their own stories on the battlefield.
The game’s commitment to universal gameplay means that players can use any miniatures they choose, whether they’re 3D-printed, custom creations, or from existing collections. Kinslayers transcends the typical limitations of race by allowing players to break free from the standard 10 races of Anduin. Instead, they are invited to take unit abilities and adapt them to create something entirely new. This approach fosters creativity, ensuring that every warband feels like a reflection of the player's imagination and tactical style.
Who Will You Become?
Book 2 - Chronicle - Roleplay Campaign
Embark Upon Your Odyssey Across Anduin
Kinslayers - Odyssey Across Anduin (Campaign Chronicle) is a sandbox narrative-driven expansion that brings campaign play to Kinslayers – Fall of the Arcane Storm. Fellowships must fight to survive the Arcane Storms, forging alliances and enduring the perils of a world in chaos. This book expands the setting with detailed lore on Anduin’s regions, unique locations, and the freedom to travel across the land—or build your bastion and carve out a place of refuge.
This expansion also introduces Figures, Facets, Flair, and Fate, a system designed to enrich character progression. Figures define physical and mental strengths, Facets add depth through backgrounds and professions, and Flair represents mastery of key skills. Fate brings an element of chance, guiding moments of fortune or misfortune. Alongside these mechanics, we are adding crafts, familiars, and expanded customization allow you to shape your leader and warbands in greater detail.
Will Your Legacy Yet Become Legend?
Book 3 - Beastarium - Terrors & Titans
Expand Your Warband with Creatures, Titans & Terrors
Kinslayers - Across the Endless Sands (Beastarium Monster Manual) is a definitive guide to the creatures, titans, and terrors that roam the lands of Anduin. From the spectral Stormstalkers that haunt the arcane storms to the ancient Dragons to the Driders of the Everdark this tome expands the world of Kinslayers with over 50 new units. Each creature brings new threats, strategies, and battlefield dynamics, ensuring no two encounters are the same.
Beyond the bestiary, this book also introduces two new gameplay modes. Sands of the Arena throws warriors into brutal, small close-quarters combat, testing their skill in gladiatorial skirmishes. Epic Clashes takes warfare to a grander scale, featuring expanded warbands and the inclusion of titans and terrors, allowing for massive battles. Whether you seek glory in the arena or domination on the battlefield, the Beastarium unlocks new ways to experience Kinslayers – Fall of the Arcane Storm.
Will You Stand Against The Titans?