Chaos in the Old World

The original base game supports 3–4 players using Khorne, Nurgle, Tzeentch and Slaanesh. Prepare an Old World deck of eight cards for three players or seven for four; use each chosen god’s own figures, Chaos deck, sheet and dial.

Rounds proceed through Old World, Draw, Summoning, Battle, Corruption and End. Interdependent actions use god order: Khorne, Nurgle, Tzeentch, then Slaanesh. Old World cards add events and token changes before deployment.

During Draw, follow your god’s card-drawing instructions and reset power to the indicated amount, including upgrades. Unused power does not carry over; Chaos cards have no hand limit and an exhausted personal deck is reshuffled from its discards.

In Summoning, take turns either summoning one figure or playing one Chaos card, paying its power cost. You may resummon a figure already on the map. Place figures where you have presence or adjacent to it; with no figures on the board, your first placement may be anywhere. Passing sets power to zero and ends further turns in that phase.

Each region has two Chaos-card slots. Play into an empty slot and resolve its text; cards generally affect their own region unless stated otherwise. Card effects and their timing can modify ordinary placement, combat and scoring.

Battle resolves region by region. Roll dice equal to eligible attack values and effects; each4–6 hits, and each6 adds another die that can also explode. Assign enough hits to kill a target rather than storing partial damage; ordinary killed figures remain to contribute their dice until all players finish that region’s battle.

First resolve domination during Corruption. Your normal value is figure count plus printed costs of your Chaos cards there, not figure costs. You must be the sole highest player and strictly exceed Resistance to score the region’s Conquest Value.

Then each Cultist places one corruption token. A total of12 corruption, including Warpstone for this threshold, ruins a region if a ruination card remains. Under FAQ2.0, every god that placed at least one corruption there during the current round receives the immediate ruiner reward; End-phase majority rewards use all accumulated corruption.

In End, remove Chaos cards, resolve Heroes and Old World effects, score newly ruined regions, then advance dials. Anyone with an advancement counter gains one tick; the sole player with most counters gains an extra tick. Ties for most get no extra tick. Resolve revealed instructions and remove the counters.

At End check victory in order: a Victory dial result, at least50 points, five ruined regions, then an empty Old World deck. Multiple dial winners compare points, then share a remaining tie. Point/ruination victories compare points then Threat. If the deck is empty without an earlier victory, all players lose.