HOW TO LOOK UP WARHAMMER 40,000 RULES AND DATASHEETS
Learn is the reference half of the app: every datasheet, every faction's rules and detachments, the glossary, and the paint catalogue. This guide covers finding things in it.
The section has three boards — Rules, Factions and Units.
How do I look up a unit's rules and points?
Go to Learn › Units. It is every datasheet as a sortable table: points, statline, model count and box price. Search by name, sort by any column, or narrow to one army with the faction selector in the top bar.
Open a unit and you get its full profile — weapon options with their keywords, abilities, enhancements, the stratagems that apply, and its lore. Rules terms in the text are chipped, so tapping one gives you the definition without leaving the page.
Leaders and the squads they can join cross-reference each other, so you can walk from a character to its bodyguard options and back.
Every unit also has its own page you can link to directly.
How do I search the rules?
Learn › Rules is a single search box across everything at once: the glossary, core stratagems, army rules, detachments and their abilities, stratagems, enhancements and datasheet names.
Type what you half-remember. Setting a faction narrows it to that army, though universal rules always show regardless.
This board is an early-access feature — the corpus and the ranking are both still moving, so it is not open to every account yet. The glossary is public and covers the terminology.
How do I find a faction's detachments and stratagems?
Learn › Factions lists every army as a tile, grouped by grand alliance. Open one and you get four views: Lore, Rules, Detachments and Units.
Detachments show their stratagems and enhancements inline, so you can read a detachment as one thing rather than cross-referencing three lists.
If you have set a faction in the top bar, you land on that army's page directly.
What does this rules term mean?
The glossary defines every rules term in plain English. Terms in the app's own prose link into it, and each term has its own anchor so you can send someone straight to the definition.
How do I compare weapon options?
Open the unit and look at its weapon profiles — each shows its statline and keywords. For a squad, the Loadout view lays out the weapon clusters with their take limits, so you can see what you are actually allowed to bring.
If you want the maths rather than the profile, the combat calculator resolves a full attack sequence against a specific target.
How do I find a paint that matches another brand's?
Open the paint index, find the paint, and its page lists cross-brand equivalents ranked by actual colour distance — not by name, which is why it works across manufacturers who name nothing the same.
Each paint page carries its hex and RGB values, its colour family, availability, and the other paints in its range. The index also lets you browse by brand or by colour family, or search the whole catalogue of nearly six thousand paints across sixteen manufacturers.
How do I see what changed in 11th edition?
Each faction has a what changed page listing its points and detachment differences, computed from the game data rather than written by hand. They are collected under 11th Edition Changes.
How do I switch between 10th and 11th edition?
In Settings, under Preferences. Which edition's data the app serves follows that setting.
Newer accounts default to 11th. Staying on 10th is offered as a supporter feature.
Frequently asked questions
Where does the game data come from?
Community-maintained datasets, refreshed automatically — points changes usually land within the hour. Rules text is reproduced as published. If something looks wrong, every unit page has a Report a data issue link.
Are the full rules in the app?
Datasheets, abilities, stratagems, detachments and enhancements are, along with a glossary of the terminology. It is a reference for looking things up mid-game, not a replacement for the rulebook.
Do I need an account to read any of this?
No. Units, factions, the glossary and the paint catalogue are all public. The cross-rules search is early access.
How do I find a unit when I don't know its exact name?
The search box at the top searches across units, rules, paints, guides, mission cards, people and pages at once. Partial names work.
Can I see only the units I own?
Yes — the faction selector has an Owned scope that narrows the tables to your own collection.