Although ancient war games predate Warhammer by Games Workshop by many years it seems that most people today get interested in historical wargamming from fantasy wargamming.
For most of these players Warhammer Ancient Battles is obvious gateway to historical gamming. The biggest difference between these games is that in WAB everyone is a human.
Thus the statistics for the individual models do not vary greatly so in order to create different armies the game changes weapon type, organization and special rules. Although different in many ways this game seems similiar enough to fantasy battles
that it allows for an easy transition to historical gamming. Although a nice system it is a bit too close to Warhammer Fantasy as so many player get confused when playing WAB.
What follows is a brief summary of the differences in WAB.
