Saturday, July 26, 2025

Midhammer Rules Release Timeline

Some dark corners of the webway refer to the glory days of the "Third Edition Paradigm" (3rd - 7th editions) as "midhammer" 40,000 to differentiate from "oldhammer" (Rouge Trader and Second Edition) and the current editions.

With our Third Xhorik War campaign using 4th Edition rules and our upcoming Rynn's World campaign also planning to use that ruleset, I wanted to document when the various rules and supplements were released in order to help determine which rules are most appropriate. 

The books we have are in normal text; those we do not are in grey. The books we are using will be in bold red. 

Third Edition Rules: October 1998

Codex Space Marines (3rd): 1998

Codex Blood Angels (3rd): 1999 

Codex Imperial Guard (3rd): 1999

Codex Eldar (3rd): 1999 

Codex Assassins (3rd): 1999 

Codex Orks (3rd): 1999

Codex Armageddon: 1999 

Codex Tyranids (3rd): 2001

Codex Chaos Space Marines (3.5th): 2002 

Codex Imperial Guard (3.5th): 2003

Codex Witch Hunters (3rd): April 2004 

Fourth Edition Rules: August 2004

Codex Space Marines (4th): 2004

Codex Tyranids (4th): 2005

IA3 Taros Campaign: October 2005

Cities of Death: June 2006

IA4 The Anphelion Project: December 2006

Apocalypse: October 2007 

Codex Orks (4th): January 2008

Fifth Edition Rules: July 2008

Codex Space Marines (5th): October 2008

Codex Imperial Guard (5th): May 2009

Codex Planetstrike: 2009

IA8 Raid on Kastorel-Novem: May 2010

Battle Missions Scenarios Book: 2010 

Sixth Edition Rules: June 2012 

Codex Space Marines (6th): September 2013 

IA3 Taros Campaign (2nd Edition): October 2013

Seventh Edition Rules: May 2014

Codex Orks (7th): June 2014 

Codex Space Marines (7th): June 2015 



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