No matter how seasoned and battle-hardened the members of a veteran unit become, no one is safe upon the battlefields of the Old World. Casualties do happen and units suffer losses and, whilst fallen warriors can often be replaced through the careful selection of new recruits, a regiment that suffers significant losses might never recover.
To represent this, if a unit with one or more veteran upgrades is reduced below 25% of its starting Unit Strength, is destroyed, or if it flees the battlefield, roll a D6 at the end of the game:
Battlefield Losses Table
D6 | Result |
1-3 | Insurmountable losses: The unit is too badly mauled to recover and loses all of its Veteran Abilities, along with any unspent XP. |
4 | Terrible losses: The unit will survive, but many of its veteran members are replaced by untested new recruits. The unit loses one Veteran Ability (chosen by the controlling player). |
5 | Mauled: Despite having received a mauling from the foe, the unit's casualties recover quickly after the battle. |
6 | Lesson Learned: In the aftermath of a brutal battle the recovering unit members reflect upon their experiences. The unit gains 1XP. |
Fresh Blood
Units can increase in size during the course of a Warhammer: the Old World Path to Glory campaign. Should the Unit Strength of a unit with one or more Veteran upgrades increase by five or more between two campaign phases, it will retain its upgrades, but will lose D3 unspent XP it has.