Warhammer Armies was a supplement published by Games Workshop

Games Workshop

Games Workshop Group plc is a British game production and retailing company. Games Workshop has published the tabletop wargames Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40,000...

 in 1988 for the 3rd Edition of their Warhammer Fantasy Battle

Warhammer Fantasy Battle

Warhammer: The Game of Fantasy Battles is a tabletop wargame created by Games Workshop. It is the origin of the Warhammer Fantasy setting....

 table top game.

It gave a proscribed limit for the composition of armies in the game for balanced play, a "bestiary" for monstrous creatures as well as new units and warmachines for the various armies covered.

In later editions Warhammer Armies was replaced by individual "Warhammer army" books for each army eg Warhammer Army: High Elves.

The authors were Nigel Stillman "and friends", apparently Rick Priestley

Rick Priestley

Rick Priestley is a miniature wargaming designer and author who lives near Nottingham, England.Priestley worked extensively for Games Workshop...

, Richard Halliwell, Matt Connell and Bryan Ansell

Bryan Ansell

Bryan Ansell is a British role-playing and war game designer. He founded Asgard Miniatures before creating Citadel Miniatures in the late 1970s...

.

8th Edition

Armies	ISBN	Release Date
Ogre Kingdoms		September 2011
Tomb Kings Tomb Kings In Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy fictional universe, Tomb Kings is the name given to a series of kingdoms, and an army in the Warhammer Fantasy Battle game. Up until and including the fifth edition of Warhammer, there was an all-inclusive Undead army, with the skeletons and mummies being the...		May 2011
Orcs & Goblins		March 2011

7th Edition

Armies	ISBN	Release Date
Beastmen Beastmen (Warhammer) Beastmen in the fictional Warhammer Fantasy setting from Games Workshop are humanoid creatures with a variety of animal features, usually including cloven feet, horns, excessive body hair, and bestial faces. They are mutants formed from humans by the corrupting influences of Chaos such as warpstone...		February 2010
Skaven Skaven Skaven are a race of man-sized anthropomorphic rat-creatures in Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy setting. They were officially introduced as a new Chaos race in 1986 by Jes Goodwin....	ISBN 978-1-84154-945-3	November 2009
Lizardmen Lizardmen (Warhammer) The Lizardmen are an army in Warhammer Fantasy Battle-Development history:In earlier versions of the setting there was a separate Slann army based in Lustria...	ISBN 978-1-84154-918-7	February 2009
Warriors of Chaos Hordes of Chaos Warriors of Chaos is a Warhammer "Army Book," a supplement to the Warhammer Fantasy Battle tabletop miniature wargame. The book gives rules for playing an army of the human Chaos-worshippers from the Chaos wastes of the north, as well as in-game background information on such individuals...	ISBN 978-1-84154-898-2	November 2008
Dark Elves Dark Elves (Warhammer) In Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy fictional universe, the Dark Elves are a race of harsh, warlike and vicious Elves. They are also known as the Druchii in most Warhammer fiction books. They cruel, sadistic raiders with much disdain for all other races, especially their lighter kindred the High...	ISBN 978-1-84154-858-6	August 2008
Daemons of Chaos Daemon (Warhammer) In the Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 fictional universes, the Daemons are malevolent spirits born out of the destructive power called Chaos...	ISBN 978-1-84154-886-9	May 2008
Vampire Counts Vampire Counts Vampire Counts are one of the two factions of the Undead playable in the tabletop wargame Warhammer Fantasy Battle, the other being the Tomb Kings, from the sixth edition onward when Games Workshop divided the old Undead forces...	ISBN 978-1-84154-863-0	March 2008
High Elves	ISBN 978-1-84154-846-3	November 2007
The Empire The Empire (Warhammer) In Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy fictional universe, The Empire is one of the human political factions and armies, and is featured in many games and novels. In terms of location, language, culture, and society, it bears a strong resemblance to the Holy Roman Empire...	ISBN 978-1-84154-799-2	January 2007
Orcs & Goblins Orcs and Goblins Orcs & Goblins is a supplemental book for the Warhammer Fantasy Battle tabletop game. The phrase "orcs & goblins" also refers collectively to all of the races that are described in this book, which includes other "greenskins" as well. The book includes background information, illustrations, and...	ISBN 978-1-84154-785-5	October 2006

6th Edition

Armies	ISBN	Release Date
Dwarfs		March 2006
Wood Elves		August 2005
Ogre Kingdoms		January 2005
Bretonnia Bretonnia In Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy fictional universe, Bretonnia is a country located west of the Empire, between the Grey Mountains and the Great Ocean in the lands that were once part of the domain of the Elves...		February 2004
Beasts of Chaos	ISBN 1 841554 387	August 2003
Kislev Kislev (Warhammer) In the Warhammer Fantasy setting, Kislev is the name of a Slavic/Kievan Rus'-themed fictional country that sits northeast of The Empire, between it and the Realm of Chaos. Between Kislev and Norsca lies Troll Country, while beyond that lie the magic-tainted Chaos Wastes...		June 2003
Lizardmen		May 2003
Tomb Kings Tomb Kings In Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy fictional universe, Tomb Kings is the name given to a series of kingdoms, and an army in the Warhammer Fantasy Battle game. Up until and including the fifth edition of Warhammer, there was an all-inclusive Undead army, with the skeletons and mummies being the...		January 2003
Hordes of Chaos		June 2002
Skaven		March 2002
High Elves		January 2002
Dark Elves		June 2001
Vampire Counts		April 2001
Dwarfs		January 2001
Orcs & Goblins		November 2000
The Empire		October 2000

• Dark Elves
• Wood Elves
• High Elves
• The Empire
• Bretonnia
• Chaos
• Skaven
  Skaven
  Skaven are a race of man-sized anthropomorphic rat-creatures in Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy setting. They were officially introduced as a new Chaos race in 1986 by Jes Goodwin....
  
  
• Orcs
• Dwarfs
• Slann
• Undead

Plus mercenary and ally units, including:

Allies

• Chaos (inc. Minotaurs & Chaos dwarfs)
• Dwarfs
• Dark Elves
• High Elves
• Wood Elves
• Fimir
  Fimir
  Fimir are a fantasy race created by Graeme Davis and Jes Goodwin at the end of the 1980s for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and the 3rd edition of Warhammer Fantasy Battle .-Fictional ecology:...
  
  
• Old World (inc. Kislevites)
• Orcs & Goblins
• Pygmies
• Skaven
• Undead
• Halfling
• Zoat
  Zoat
  The Zoats are a race of centaur-like lizard creatures that appear in Games Workshops Warhammer Fantasy. Zoats were also present in the earliest editions of Warhammer's companion Warhammer 40,000 science-fiction setting, but have since been written out of the background.Zoats are large, strange,...
  
  

Mercenaries

• Giants
• Ogres
• Half Orcs
• Hobgoblins
• Nippon
• Orcs
• Norse (inc. Norse Dwarfs)
• Old World (inc. Tileans, Estalians, Bretonnians & Kislevites)