“The Empire at War” is designed to replace the old GW publication “The Empire in Flames” as the finale of “The Enemy Within” campaign. Why bother rewriting the finale given that second edition WFRP will be set nearly ten years after most of the events in the original WFRP campaign? The answer is two-fold. First, a significant amount of the Warhammer background has changed since the early 1990s when EiF was released, rendering much of the events in that publication obsolete. Second, there is a need among old folk to have a more plausible transition from the “old” background to the “new.”

Some may wonder why we didn’t just take the outline of the proposed “Empire in Chaos” manuscript that James Wallis so graciously made available to many rabid fans and use it as a basis for a more finished adventure. Simply put, that outline belongs to Herr Wallis and is not ours to do what we can with it. Moreover, there are certain aspects of the plotline of that draft which we do not believe is consistent with all that has gone before. That said, it is our intent to use some of the subplots he added to “The Power Behind the Throne” supplement.