If you can find them, the old cardstock Necromunda tiles are a great introduction to Zone Mortalis, as with a bit of mental abstraction their walls work perfectly and are very easy to move models around on. The popularity of ZM has led to a wide variety of terrain being produced for it beyond just GW’s offerings (which were released as part of Necromunda and are fantastic). In contrast with the ruined cities, manufacturing centers, desert plains, and other larger battlefields used in 30k, Zone Mortalis is played in a dense warren of tunnels, hallways, and rooms, representing a fight in the underhive, an underground bunker, or a boarding action on a spaceship.
While these rules do include recommended table sized for games of up to 3,000 points, ZM is usually played at between 1,000 and 1,500 points – and functions well even in smaller games. It was a hugely popular part way to play 1st edition 30k, and a strange omission from the new Age of Darkness rulebook, but it hasn’t taken long for it to be reborn – White Dwarf 477, releasing alongside the Age of Darkness box set, features rules for ZM in the new edition. Zone Mortalis, commonly referred to as ZM, is the most common way to play smaller games of 30k.
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