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Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: Khorne and Slaanesh are unleashed in Age of Sigmar plus Contemptor Dreadnought Torso Upgrades

It’s an Age of Sigmar focused week coming up with Games Workshop‘s pre-orders. Khorne and Slaanesh will clash and compete for your dollars along with a release for Horus Heresy and some from Black Library.

Battletome: Blades of Khorne is coming for you to spill blood and collect skulls for the Blood God. It features new warscrolls, pitched battle profiles, and Path to Glory rules.

It’s available in a Limited Edition version that features gilt page edges, gold foil blocking, a red ribbon page marker, and a soft-touch cover. It’s limited to just 500 numbered copies.

Battletome: Blades of Khorne

The Realmgore Ritualist carves burning runes into the land causing it to convulse in murderous delirium.

Realmgore Ritualist

The Vanguard: Blades of Khorne is an easy way to build your force and features 3 Mighty Skullcrushers, 10 Blood Warriors, and 10 Bloodreavers, all led by a Slaughterpriest.

Vanguard: Blades of Khorne

The Warscroll Cards: Blades of Khorne will help you keep track of your force featuring 41 reference cards.

Warscroll Cards: Blades of Khorne

And of course you can show your devotion with the Blades of Khorne Dice Set.

Blades of Khorne Dice Set

You can praise Slaanesh with the Battletome: Hedonites of Slaanesh. It features updated warscrolls, pitched battle profiles and new Path to Glory rules.

It features a limited edition copy limited to 500 copies that has gilt page edges, gold foil blocking, a red ribbon page marker, and a soft-touch cover.

Battletome: Hedonites of Slaanesh

Lord of Hubris are obsessed with perfection and embrace Slaanesh. They rain down down insluts and fast sword swipes.

Lord of Hubris

Vanguard: Hedonites of Slaanesh is an easy way to build your army and packs 3 Slaangor Fiendbloods, 5 Slickblade Seekers that can alternatively be built as unerringly accurate Blissbarb Seekers, 10 Blissbarb Archers and their Homonculus lackey, and a Slaanesh Shardspeaker.

Vanguard: Hedonites of Slaanesh

Keep track of your army with the Warscroll Cards: Hedonites of Slaanesh. It packs 36 reference cards and handy gaming tokens that cover everything you need to lead your Hedonites to victory.

Warscroll Cards: Hedonites of Slaanesh

You can show off your worshipping excess with the Hedonites of Slaanesh Dice Set.

Hedonites of Slaanesh Dice Set

You can build out your force for Warhammer: The Horus Heresy with the Contemptor Dreadnought Torso Upgrades. The resin torsos are designed to work with the new plastic Contemptor Dreadnought, using iconography of the White Scars, the Imperial Fists, the Iron Warriors, the Dark Angels, the Sons of Horus, and the Emperor’s Children.

 Contemptor Dreadnought Torso Upgrades

Coming from Black Library is Warboss from Mike Brooks. Warboss Gazrot Goresnappa is dead, and now the unconquerable fortress world of Aranua is in turmoil as six ork clans seek to fill the void. It’s available in hardback, eBook, and MP3.

Warboss

Crusaders of Dorn by Guy Haley will be available in audiobook. The Black Templars have continued the Great Crusade for 10 millennia, purging the galaxy of the alien, the traitor, and the mutant. Find out what sets the sons of Sigismund apart from their battle brothers.

Crusaders of Dorn

Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: Warhammer 40K Battleforces, the final Cursed City expansion, Necromunda, and more arrive!

If you’re looking to start or expand your Warhammer 40K forces, next week is a great opportunity with the release of this year’s Battleforce boxes.

Adepta Sororitas – Sanctorum Guard

The Sisters of Battle are bringing their praises of the Emperor with this boxed set. It features Morvenn Vahl, six Paragon Warsuits, five Celestian Sacresants, and Battle Sisters Squad (which can be built as Celestians or Dominions).

Retail value: $320

Adepta Sororitas – Sanctorum Guard

Adeptus Custodes – Watchers of The Gate

The Emperor’s warriors, the Adeptus Custodes are represented with the Watchers of The Gate. Captain-General Trajann Valoris leads three Vertus Praetors on Dawneagle jetbikes (which can also build a Shield Captain), three Allarus Custodians (which can build a Shield-Captain and a Vexilus Praetor), and it mostly features 15 Custodian Guard which can be built as Shield Captains and Vexilus Praetors.

Retail value: $282

Adeptus Custodes – Watchers of The Gate

Adeptus Mechanicus – Elimination Maniple

Belisarius Cawl commands the Adeptus Mechanicus in this set which contains a pair of Kastelan Robots with Cybernetic Datasmith handler, six Kataphron Destroys (or Breachers), and a unit of Skitarii Vanguard which can be built as Rangers.

Retail value: $310

Adeptus Mechanicus – Elimination Maniple

Imperial Knights – Chainbreaker Lance

The Imperial Knights feature an intriguing box. Knight Preceptor Canis Rex leads two ranged Helverins and two close-range Warglaives.

Retail value: $340

Imperial Knights – Chainbreaker Lance

Death Guard – Council of The Death Lord

Mortarion, Daemon Primarch of Nurgle is front and center for this box. It also features five Brightlord Terminators and 14 Plague Marines.

Retail value: $330

Death Guard – Council of The Death Lord

Thousand Sons – Court of The Crimson King

Magnus the Red leads this Battleforce with three Exalted Sorcerors and 20 Rubric Marines. Not a Tazangor in sight!

Retail value: $340

Thousand Sons – Court of The Crimson King

Imperial Fists – Bastion Strike Force

Tor Garadon commands this force that features three Primaris Aggressors, 15 Heavy Intercessors, as well as Imperial Fists Primaris Upgrades and transfers.

Retail value: $319

Imperial Fists – Bastion Strike Force

Raven Guard – Ravenstrike Battleforce

The Raven Guard strike in this box led by Chapter Master Kayvaan Shrike. Also features is a Librarian in Phobos Armor, 10 Primaris Reivers, two Invictor Tactical Warsuits, and three Eliminators. There are also Raven Guard transfer sheets.

Retail value: $349

Raven Guard – Ravenstrike Battleforce

In a surprise, the Adeptus Mechanicus – Technoarcheologist is finally getting a release on its own. Originally released in the Escalation expansion for Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress, this is your chance to get this HQ choice that’s been hard to find up to this point!

 Adeptus Mechanicus – Technoarcheologist

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City – Nemesis is the final expansion to Warhammer Quest: Cursed City and is a web exclusive. Nemesis features new quests, new enemies, and more! You’ll need the previous expansion and required miniatures to play.

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City – Nemesis

Necromunda gets a load of releases to help you dominate the Underhive and Ash Wastes.

Escher Cutters will have you speeding across the ash wastes in skimmers. The kit includes four machines that Leaders, Champions, and Prospects can ride. Options include heads, hair, and a choice of twin-linked heavy stubbers, grenade launchers, or plasma guns.

Escher Cutters

Go all in with Escher and also get Escher Tactics Cards and Ash Wastes Dice. There’s one for vehicles and another for battles in the underhive. Each contain 18 Escher specific cards and eight blank cards. The Tactics Cards contain new cards to use in the ash wastes, while the Escher Gang Tactics set is a reprint of a previous set, and the eight Escher-themed dice are coloured in stylish purple with luxurious golden ink. You get three regular D6s, three Necromunda injury dice, an ammo die, and a scatter die.

Escher Tactics Cards and Ash Wastes Dice

Forge World will release Athera, Blade of the Matriarch. Escher gangs can petition her for help with her master-crafted chainaxe. Athera is accompanied into battle by her grumpy Caryatid, Stix, who has the prescience to help them both avoid harm.

Athera, Blade of the Matriarch

There’s also the Escher Shivver and Apprentice Clan Chymist. They’re a pair of specific Hangers-on. One can see into the future and the other reduces the choice of Chem-Alchemy Elixirs. Or maybe even turn deceased Matriarchs and Gang Queens into Death Maidens!

Escher Shivver and Apprentice Clan Chymist

You can make your gang unique with the Escher Ash Wastes Upgrades. It features 10 new heads, 10 backpacks, and 10 flasks.

Escher Ash Wastes Upgrades

It’s not all Escher. Gorshiv Hammerfist is a massive slab of meat armed with power hammers named Wrack and Ruin. Add some muscle to your Goliath Gang!

Gorshiv Hammerfist

If you’ve got the credits, the Underhive Traders are here to do business. They’re versed in the art of the deal and you get three figures in the pack.

Underhive Traders

Head out to the Ash Wastes with the Chronos Pattern Ironcrawler. This tracked beast features some hefty armor and blends plastic and resin.

Chronos Pattern Ironcrawler

From Black Library

The Gotrek Gurnisson Collection rounds up all of Darius Hinks’ stories of Gotrek in the Mortal Realms in one lavish release, presented in a very fancy slipcase. There’s even a bonus, the never-before-seen story included – The Crown of Karak-Khazar – making it a must for every Gotrek superfan.

The Gotrek Gurnisson Collection

12 Tales of Christmas eShorts Subscription features stories by Danie Ware, Mike Brooks, Richard Strachan, David Annandale, and more will be released every other day from the 2nd of December until the 24th. You can get these 12 eShorts for the price of 10 if you sign up for the full subscription too.

12 Tales of Christmas eShorts Subscription

Hammers of Sigmar: First Forged by Richard Strachan has Lord-Celestant Vandus Hammerhand leading a group of warriors across the Great Parch to tackle an old foe that will test even the First Forged to their limits.

Hammers of Sigmar: First Forged

Heirs of The Emperor is an anthology that collects 27 short stories from 17 authors, including five that have never been in print.

Heirs of The Emperor

You’ll be able to get audiobooks for Gods of Mars, Orcslayer, and Rynn’s World.

Gods of Mars, Orcslayer, and Rynn’s World

And finally, Mortarion: Der Fahle König is a new German Black Library release.

Mortarion: Der Fahle König