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Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: Commander Farsight enters the Arks of Omen

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It’s a Warhammer 40K focused pre-order next week from Games Workshop. Arks of Omen continues with a new book and lots of releases to help start your forces or expand your existing ones.

Vashtorr the Arkifane’s quest for the Key-fragments is nearing its end, and the action turns to the dead world of Arthas Moloch in Arks of Omen: Farsight.

The book expands Boarding Actions. Dark Depths missions allow you to mix up your battlefields and introduces multiplayer games for three or four players. There are also expanded Boarding Actions rules for T’au Empire, Asuryani and Ynnari, Drukhari, Harlequins, and Adepta Sororitas Boarding Patrols, which add further Stratagems and Enhancements for your crew.

You can get the book in a regular and a Special Edition which features a silver foil-embossed cover, printed page edges, and a black ribbon page marker.

Arks of Omen: Farsight

The Boarding Patrol: T’au Empire is your first chance to get the new Commander Farsight. It also includes 3 Crisis battlesuits and 10 Fire Warriors, accompanied by a small shoal of Drones.

Boarding Patrol: T’au Empire

Show your commitment to the cause with the Arks of Omen: Farsight Enclaves Dice Set. It features 15 dice in a deep red plastic and the Farisght Enclave symbol for the six.

Arks of Omen: Farsight Enclaves Dice Set

If you get the new T’au Empire releases from Games Workshop, Arks of Omen: Farsight, Boarding Patrol: T’au Empire, and the Farsight Enclaves Dice Set in a bundle you also get an exclusive art print of Farsight himself signed by the artist while supplies last.

Farsight print

Boarding Patrol: Orks is your first chance to get the new Boss Snikrot model. In addition to Snikrot, you get 5 Flash Gitz, 10 Beast Snagga Boyz, and 10 Kommandos – who also drag along a Kommando Grot and Bomb Squig for the ride.

Boarding Patrol: Orks

Boarding Patrol: Aeldari features Jain Zar leading 5 Howling Banshees, as well as 20 Corsair Voidscarred who can be assembled as any one of two different units.

Boarding Patrol: Aeldari

Boarding Patrol: Drukhari has a Succubus leading 20 Wyches and 5 sinister Incubi.

Boarding Patrol: Drukhari

Boarding Patrol: Grey Knights has Castellan Crowe joined by 5 Brotherhood Terminators and 10 Strike Squad Grey Knights.

Boarding Patrol: Grey Knights

Boarding Patrol: Necrons has 10 Lychguard, 10 Necron Warriors, 3 Canoptek Scarab Swarms, and 3 Ophydian Destroyers.

Boarding Patrol: Necrons

Armageddon Steel Legion are Made to Order! The classic figures are available for a limited time. The Steel Legion Platoon is ready for battle. It features a gas-masked Officer leading 3 lascannon-toting Heavy Weapons Teams and 20 Steel Legion Guardsmen.

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Lady Haera, 13th Daughter of Lord Helmawr enters the world of Necromunda. She loves nothing more than getting her hands dirty with a masterwork power spear and a phase sword.

Lady Haera, 13th Daughter of Lord Helmawr

From Black Library comes some new releases.

Shadowsun: The Patient Hunter is by Phil Kelly. With ancient warriors and corpulent daemons confounding her understanding of reality, O’Shaserra will need to test her understanding of Kauyon and stretch her abilities to the limit to prevent an all-out schism between her forces and her allies.

Shadowsun: The Patient Hunter

Gaunt’s Ghosts: The Victory Part Two by Dan Abnett gets a French edition. The forge world Urdesh is under attack, and Colonel-Commissar Gaunt is at the forefront of its defense with his trusty Ghosts. This French-language compilation of two novels – Warmaster and Anarch.

Gaunt’s Ghosts: The Victory Part Two

Games Workshop Pre-Order: Arena of Shades, Nachmund Scenery, and Aeldari Made to Order

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It’s a little bit of everything in this week’s Games Workshop pre-orders.

The big item is Arena of Shades. The latest battlebox for Warhammer: Age of Sigmar pits the Nighthaunt against the Daughters of Khaine. This is also the first chance to get the Scriptor Mortis, High Gladiatrix, and Craventhrone Guard. It includes 44 miniatures, a campaign booklet, and a 56-page core rule book!

Purchase: Games Workshop – $195 | Flipside Games – $165.75

Arena of Shades

Take the battle to Nachmund with new scenery kits as well as a new battlezone!

Battlezone: Fronteris – Vox-Antenna and Auspex Shrine comes with two detailed terrain pieces.

Purchase: Games Workshop – $70 | Flipside Gaming – $59.50

Battlezone: Fronteris – Vox-Antenna and Auspex Shrine

The Battlezone: Fronteris – STC Hab-Bunker and Stockades features five detailed terrain pieces configurable in multiple ways.

Purchase: Games Workshop – $80 | Flipside Gaming – $68

Battlezone: Fronteris – STC Hab-Bunker and Stockades

Battlezone: Fronteris – Landing Pad will add some character and looks awesome as part of a scenario.

Purchase: Games Workshop – $70 | Flipside Games – $59.50

Battlezone: Fronteris – Landing Pad

If you need a battlefield to play on, the Battlezone: Fronteris – Battlefield has you covered with a double-sided and portable battlefield.

Purchase: Games Workshop – $60

Battlezone: Fronteris – Battlefield

Or, get them all together and more with Battlezone: Fronteris – Nachmund which features 13 terrain pieces – 2x STC Hab-bunker, 6x Stockades, 2x Stockade with Doors, 1x Landing Pad, 1x Vox-Antenna, 1x Auspex Shrine, and double-sided gaming board.

Purchase: Games Workshop – $220 | Flipside Gaming – $187

Battlezone: Fronteris - Nachmund

The Aeldari get quite a few made to order releases to help expand armies.

Black Library has a release this week with Warhawk – The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra Book 6 by Chris Wraight which comes out in paperback.

Purchase: Games Workshop – $18

Warhawk – The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra Book 6

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Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: Aeldari Get Reinforcements

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With a recent codex release, the Aeldari are getting more units to bolster your force! The Avatar of Khaine is the highlight for the upcoming week.

The Avatar of Khaine is a monster of a beast on the tabletop. It not only will destroy on the tabletop it also makes Asuryani core units better allowing for them to re-roll charges and ignore negative modifiers on Combat Attrition tests.

There are also some fantastic choices to make yours unique with multiple heads and weapon options.

Spead into battle with Shining Spears. You get helmeted and unhelmeted options, and the ability to build an Exarch with shuriken cannon and shimmershield and choice of a paragon sabre or star lance.

Shining Spears

The Eldritch Omens Autarch is now available on its own. The character will boost your forces and comes with lots of options like a star glaive, a Scorpion chainsword, a shuriken pistol, a Reaper launcher, a Dragon fusion gun, and a death spinner. There’s also a Banshee mask and helmetless option as well as a male and female torso.

Autarch

If you’re looking for a stealthy option, there’s the Rangers. The troop choice is armed with long rifles that ignore Look Out, Sir. Their cloaks help protect them from fire as well. You get 11 different head options and the option for a gloom field or wireweave net as well as a shrine to their god of Khaine.

Rangers

Shroud Runners mix speed with firepower. Like Rangers, they also ignore Look Out, Sir making them great for hit-and-run attacks. There are lots of options when it comes to building yours.

Shroud Runners

If you want to build your force quickly, there’s the Combat Patrol: Aeldari. It comes with six Windriders, Wraithlord, a Farseer, and s set of Guardians.

Combat Patrol: Aeldari

Tempest of War Cards help you generate missions quickly with thousands of combinations available. There are cards for deployment, primary objectives, second objectives, and special mission rules.

Tempest of War Cards

More miniatures are being rotated out from the Warhammer 40,000 line. They’ll all no longer be available for sale after April 3rd though may return in the future. Many of the miniatures look like they line up with rumored future releases so this should be interesting.

Black Library has a few releases to enjoy as the weather gets nicer.

Urdesh: The Serpent and the Saint comes to paperback. Set during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade, the Iron Snakes Chapter must guard a mighty weapon, the reincarnation of Saint Sabbat herself!

Urdesh: The Serpent and the Saint

Assassinorum: Kingmaker sees a Vindicare Assassin and Callidus Assassin tasked with eliminating an unhinged monarch and steer a pro-Imperial candidate to the throne.

Assassinorum: Kingmaker

The Horus Heresy Collection VII collects three books in French for the first time.

Horus Heresy Collection VII

Traitor Rock also gets a French edition as well.

Traitor Rock

Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: The Aeldari Arrive

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After weeks of teasing, the Aeldari arrive in Games Workshop‘s pre-order next week. Not only is the Codex available but also some of what has already been revealed, which means there’s a lot more to come!

Codex: Aeldari comes in the expected two editions. The 200 page book features rules for Asuryani, Ynnari, and Harlequins. You’ll also find lore, photos o miniatures, campaign section, psychic disciplines, datasheets, and more.

Get the regular edition or the limited collector’s edition with a soft-touch cover, silver foil blocking, and black ribbon marker.

Codex: Aeldari

Maugan Ra arrives with a brand new miniature. The Phoenix Lord is armed with his iconic scythed shuriken cannon, the Maugetar.

Maugan Ra

What’s Maugan Ra without Dark Reapers? The new plastic kit will have you unleashing long-ranged attacks. It features a lot of options for heads, an Exarch with a choice of tempest launcher, Aeldari missile launcher, shuriken cannon, or reaper launcher!

Dark Reapers

New Warlocks are here as well. The psykers are ready to take on those who oppose them with their psychic energy.

Warlocks

Every Aeldari are trained for battle, hence the Guardians. Guardian Defenders wield shuriken catapults with a heavy weapons platform. Storm Guardians are close-combat focused protected by a Serpent Shield.

Guardians

There are also Dice and Datacards for your Aeldari forces.

Aeldari Dice and Datacards

The Triumvirate of Ynnead returns as well!

Yvraine is the emissary of Ynnead, the god of death. SHe’s a powerful psyker and wields the power Croneswords. There’s also a cute Gyrinx.

Yvraine

Visarch is the loyal bodyguard of Yvraine. Armed with a Cronesword, Visarch is clad in a suit of Bel-Anshoc armor from which he can draw upon various personalities of past wearers.

Visarch

Yncarne is the herald of the God of the Dead. Deadly on the battlefield, Yncarne is a heavy-hitter for Ynnari forces.

Yncarne

The Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game gets a release with Rutabi and Brórgîr. Lead the Rhûnnish Dragon Cults into battle with two Easterling Heroes. Rutabi is a powerful Hero and one of the foremost Easterling generals. Brórgîr is the head Easterling War Priest, who has delved into the ancient texts to enhance his dark powers to earth-shattering levels.

Rutabi and Brórgîr

Black Library is getting some classic books back as a made to order print run. Get five hardcover books to complete your Siege of Terra collection as it builds to its climax. You’ll be able to get your hands on The Master of Mankind, Garro: Weapon of Fate, Shattered Legions, The Crimson King, and Tallarn – books 41 to 45 in the series.

There are quite a few licensed releases coming as well.

The Raven Guard Assault Intercessor Veteran Sergeant was previously only available through GameStop in North America. The rest of the world (except China and North America) will be able to get this figure from McFarlane Toys through Games Workshop.

Raven Guard Assault Intercessor Veteran Sergeant

Also from McFarlane Toys will be four artist proof figures. You can choose from the Ymgarl Genestealer, the Space Marine Reiver with Grapnel Launcher, the Ork Meganob with Shoota, and the Ork Big Mek.

For those that want their Games Workshop games in other tabletop form, you can get Cubicle 7’s Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Elector Counts – An Old World Card Game. Collect resources, assassinate rivals, and prepare for leadership-toppling sieges. The game is for 2 to 4 players.

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Elector Counts – An Old World Card Game

The Risk: Warhammer 40,000 has been out for a bit but here’s another chance to get this game. his board game for three to five players pits Marneus Calgar’s Ultramarines, Abaddon the Despoiler’s Black Legion, and the xenos hoards of the craftworld Aeldari, Orks, and Genestealer Cults against each other.

Risk: Warhammer 40,000

Aeldari Corsairs, the Voidscarred, revealed!

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Games Workshop has teased Aeldari Corsairs for Kill Team, and also able to be used in Warhammer 40,000. Now, we have a first look at the entire Voidscarred!

These pirates launch raids from their Aeldari ships seeking wealth, prestige, and the fun of battle!

The new plastic kit has a lot of options allowing for an array of fighters.

This new unit will first be available in the upcoming Kill Team: Nachmund boxed set.

Games Workshop This Week: Eldritch Omens Arrives with Aeldari vs. Chaos

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It’s a pretty light week for Games Workshop pre-orders after a pretty busy start to 2022. Warhammer 40,000 gets the big release with “Eldritch Omens“. “Eldritch Omens” is the latest campaign box that pits Aeldari against Chaos with lots of new miniatures.

The Aeldari half is commanded by the new multi-part Autarch, five new Rangers, and three brand-new Shroud Runners.

Chaos delivers a Warpsmith, five new Chosen, and a Forgefiend.

The box set also has a 32-page booklet with datasheet, narrative missions, and a new Theatre of WAr to play out the battle in. There are also 700 transfers split between the two forces.

The box set ties into the current Nachmund season of Warhammer 40,000 so works as a nice hook for those focused on that narrative campaign.

The box set has a pre-order promise, so if it’s ordered at any point during the weekend, you’re guaranteed to receive a copy.

Purchase: Games Workshop – $199 — Flipside Gaming – $169.15

Black Library has a release with Pariah. Written by Dan Abnett, Pariah finds Alizebeth Bequin caught between two former allies – Gregor Eisenhorn and Gideon Ravenor.

It’s the first entry in the Bequin series.

Purchase: Games Workshop – $16 — Flipside Gaming – $16

Pariah

Marvel’s Sisters of Battle comic series wraps up with issue #5 and an exclusive cover only available through Games Workshop.

Purchase: Games Workshop – $4.99

Marvel's Sisters of Battle

Games Workshop Next Week: Eldritch Omens Arrives with Aeldari vs. Chaos

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It’s a pretty light week for Games Workshop pre-orders after a pretty busy start to 2022. Warhammer 40,000 gets the big release with “Eldritch Omens“. “Eldritch Omens” is the latest campaign box that pits Aeldari against Chaos with lots of new miniatures.

The Aeldari half is commanded by the new multi-part Autarch, five new Rangers, and three brand-new Shroud Runners.

Chaos delivers a Warpsmith, five new Chosen, and a Forgefiend.

The box set also has a 32-page booklet with datasheet, narrative missions, and a new Theatre of WAr to play out the battle in. There are also 700 transfers split between the two forces.

The box set ties into the current Nachmund season of Warhammer 40,000 so works as a nice hook for those focused on that narrative campaign.

The box set has a pre-order promise, so if it’s ordered at any point during the weekend, you’re guaranteed to receive a copy.

Black Library has a release with Pariah. Written by Dan Abnett, Pariah finds Alizebeth Bequin caught between two former allies – Gregor Eisenhorn and Gideon Ravenor.

It’s the first entry in the Bequin series.

Pariah

Marvel’s Sisters of Battle comic series wraps up with issue #5 and an exclusive cover only available through Games Workshop.

Marvel's Sisters of Battle

LVO 2022: Aeldari Corsairs Plunder Nachmund in Kill Team

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As has become tradition at the Las Vegas Open, Games Workshop held a preview event showing off some of what’s coming soon for their games. Kill Team got some hints as to what’s coming in the next “season”.

As shouldn’t be a surprise, the game will turn its focus on the conflict in Nachmund. At least one “new faction” will coming to the battlefield with the Aeldari Corsairs!

The Voidscarred kill team takes inspiration from the noble Asuryani, the sadistic Drukhari, and other things they picked up along the way. Being interstellar pirates, expect a pretty diverse look for the models.

But, this force won’t be limited to Kill Team, you’ll be able to use them with your Aeldari and Drukhari armies.

Aeldari Corsairs

LVO 2022: Games Workshop Reveals New Aeldari including the Avatar of Khaine and Maugan Ra

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As has become tradition at the Las Vegas Open, Games Workshop held a preview event showing off some of what’s coming soon for their games. The Warhammer 40,000 portion focused on the Aeldari and the new line of miniatures being released.

The army get a centerpiece with the Avatar of Khaine, an update that has been long overdue. This new massive model comes with multiple weapon options including a spear and axe, and multiple choices for heads too.

The Avatar won’t be alone as the Phoenix Lord Maugan Ra is back with a new look. The new miniature plays off of the classic miniature with a focus on skeletal details, appropriate since it rains death.

Shining Spears are back as well with lots of options. You can assemble them with or without helmets for an army of Ynnari. You can also build an Exarch with a star lance or paragon sabre.

This is on top of the new Autarch, Warlock, and Guardian kits already reveled! It’s looking like 2022 is going to be a big year for Aeldari players!

Aeldari Dark Reapers Are Back in Plastic

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Games Workshop has been teasing the upcoming new Aeldari for Warhammer 40,000 and today they’ve revealed brand-new plastic Dark Reapers!

Dark Reapers feature thick armor and Reaper launchers, delivering some heavy weapon support to the Aeldari.

The new kit features four warriors and an Exarch as well as a Dark Reaper Shrine. The Exarch features multiple head choices and four weapons like the classic Reaper launcher, a three-tipped tempest missile launcher, an Aeldari missile launcher, and a shuriken cannon. The kit also features unhelmeted options for each warrior for use in Ynnari armies.

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