I have never played WarMachine (any edition) but have always drooled over the figures and player's painting, so it's really great that this is being made available for free. This manual looks great on the screen. The art is dramatic, atmospheric and of a high standard. The text is selectable which means that in most PDF browsers a word or phrase search can be used to find rules. Diagrams are clear. I can't comment on rules in play because I'm way too much of a novice with WM, but it all looks well written at first glance. Thank you for making this available whilst I'm on a tight budget. :) -Billiam B.

Lazily done.

No bookmarks, no appendices, no index. And yet, it keeps the opening story.

So it's neither as small as it could be, nor is it solely the rules, nor is it the best presentation of the rules.

I get that it's free, but still... I could literally splice together a slimmer and more useful document from the same source in about 10 minutes.