As expected, a new edition of Warhammer 40K was revealed at Adepticon 2023. The new edition takes place during the fourth Tyrannic invasion with Hive Fleet Leviathan ready to strike again, this time from the galactic west!
The new edition simplifies the game but doesn’t make it simple. Complexity, like too many stratagems, has been cut down. Everything has been worked on including turn structure, army selection, morale, terrain, missions, how characters work, and more.
Datasheets have the biggest change with every unit receiving new stats.
The biggest news is that every datasheet and rules will be free to download on the first day. You’ll also be able to buy them as card decks as well. Codexes will return over time though but its promised complexity won’t increase.
Army selection as been simplified. You pick a faction, a warlord, and the units you like (just no more than three of any type with some exceptions). There’s no more force organization chart.
A new way to play was also revealed, Combat Patrol! This will feature small present and balanced forces to allow for a quick way to get armies to the tabletop.
With a new edition comes new models and what’s more appropriate than new Space Marine Terminators! These new models are larger than Primaris Marines but aren’t Primaris Marines as rumored. Veterans of all types don this armor for battle.
Also revealed are new Termagants for Tyranids!
Warhammer 40K 10th Edition will be released Summer 2023.
After a leak yesterday, Games Workshop has officially revealed the new Commander Dante figure for Warhammer 40K. He now sports Mark X armor in his classic gold complete with a new sleek jump pack.
Dante features his classic equipment including the Death Mask of Sanguinius, laurel wreath, and Iron Halo. There’s also the Perdition Pistol and Axe Mortalis, both upscaled to fit the larger figure.
Dante is just the start of what’s to come as Warhammer 40K heads into the rumored 10th edition which will focus on the Blood Angels initially.
Rumors for the 10th edition of Warhammer 40K have been swirling for months now and it looks like Games Workshop might have begun the tease for it. With a video and an image, we get a hint at something coming for the miniature tabletop game. As can be seen in the image below, a Terminator is reflected in the eye of what appears to be a Tyranid. Space Marines, with new Terminator models, and Tyranids are the two forces that are expected to be in the box set.
With Arks of Omen currently playing out, there’s not much left as far as new codex releases for the current edition of the game. Arks of Omen is halfway over and there are no new codexes teased after. Previous editions have ended with a storyline event.
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It’s a big week for Games Workshop‘s world of Warhammer 40K in next week’s pre-orders. Arks of Omen continues as Vashtorr arrives!
Arks of Omen: Vashtorr is the third book in the Arks of Omen story. The story focuses on the siege of the Rock, as Vastorr searches for a powerful component in his diabolical goal. The Dark Angels aren’t taking this invasion lightly, and rally their forces as a mysterious third party enters the slaughter.
This is a big part of the narrative, not only featuring a book but a boxed set to go with it.
The book features The Rock Besieged, a Boarding Actions campaign with eight new narrative missions telling the story of the raid. There are also additional Boarding Action rules for Chaos Daemons, Necrons, Tyranids, Genestealer Cults, the Death Guard, and the Adeptus Mechanicus.
Arks of Omen: Vashtorr is also available in regular and Collector’s Edition which features a cover embossed with silver foil, printed page edges, and a black ribbon page marker.
You can play out Vashtorr’s invasion with the Wrath of the Soul Forge King box set. This is the first place you can get Vashtorr the Arkifane and Supreme Grand Master Azrael.
This set also contains a Venomcrawler, two Obliterators, and 10 Chaos Cultists, facing down 10 Intercessors and five Deathwing Terminators who make up Azrael’s honor guard. You also get two Dark Angels Primaris Upgrade frames and a set of 155 Dark Angels transfers.
You can show off your loyalty with the Vashtorr Dice Set. Go with a new Chaos God! The dice pack features 15 dice with Vashtorr’s own special symbol on the 6 face.
Those who buy Arks of Omen: Vashtorr, Wrath of The Soul Forge King, and the Vashtorr Dice Set together from Games Workshop directly, can get all of them in a bundle with an exclusive art print – while stocks last.
There are a number of new Board Patrol boxes being released to help expand or start your forces!
Boarding Patrol: Adeptus Mechanicus comprises a Tech-Priest Dominus and 10 Skitarii Vanguard, who can also be built as Rangers. You’ll also find a cadre of five Sicarian Infiltrators – who can also be built as Ruststalkers – and a trio of heavily armed Kataphron Destroyers – which can also be built as Breachers.
Boarding Patrol: Chaos Daemons is a Khorne-flavoured Boarding Patrol with 10 Flesh Hounds and 10 Bloodletters led by Karanak, the Hound of Vengeance.
Boarding Patrol: Death Guard is led by a putrid Lord of Virulence, with three Deathshroud Terminators, and 10 Plague Marines.
Boarding Patrol: Genestealer Cults is made up of a Kelemorph, an Abominant, five Aberrants, and 10 Acolyte Hybrids – who can also be built as Hybrid Metamorphs.
You can represent your force a bit easier with the Imperial Knights Dice Set and Chaos Knights Dice Sets. Both feature 15 dice with a helmed icon on the 6 face, and Imperial Knights get a two-tone blue dice with silvery pips, while the Chaos Knights get a two-tone red dice with golden pips.
The Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game is getting a few releases.
Faramir, Madril and Damrod, Rangers of Ithilien were first found in The Lord of the Rings Battle of Osgiliath boxed set. These versatile and mighty heroes are now available together in their own box, each with a choice of ruins or wooded scenery for their base.
Gothmog, Lieutenant of Sauron is a two-pack featuring the twisted and scarred Orc general both on foot and atop a slobbering, bloodthirsty Warg mount. Both versions come with a choice of sword or mace, plus an optional shield – you can even dismount Gothmog to field his Warg on its own.
Warhammer: The Horus Heresy also sees new releases to field or upgrade your army.
The Typhon Heavy Siege Tank was designed to suit the battleplans of Perturabo himself, this modified Land Raider sports a massive dreadhammer siege cannon that can reduce buildings to rubble and flatten whole squads.
Exodus – The One Who Is Many is the premier assassin of the Alpha Legion. Is this master sniper one man, or many sharing the same appearance?
Traitor Esoterist Consuls are Librarians who dabbled in forbidden lore. They use empyrean as a weapon, tearing holes in reality to fling arcane bolts at their foes and summon hordes of howling daemons.
Raven Guard MKVI Upgrades let you equip your units with retro-style prototype helmets, and shoulder pads embellished with their corvine emblem.
Alpha Legion MKVI Upgrades features helmets and shoulders that feature the intricate patterns and writhing hydra motif of the XX Legion.
The Character Heads Upgrade Sets is two packs of 15 unique resin heads – compatible with a huge range of plastic and resin Space Marine kits, such as the MKVI Tactical Squad.
White Dwarf 486 is packed with rules for the new Warhammer: Age of Sigmar Regiments of Renown, multiplayer rules for Kill Team, conveyor belt cards and rules for Boarding Actions, and cards for using Gryselle’s Arenai in games of Warcry.
Cypher: Lord of The Fallen (Limited Edition) by John French pits the most mysterious figure in the 41st Millennium against hunting packs of Dark Angels, Adeptus Custodes, and Imperial Assassins.
This tale of truth and lies – told from Cypher’s unreliable point of view – will be available first as a luxurious limited edition hardback that’s limited to just 2,000 signed and numbered copies.
Ahriman: Eternal is the fourth installment of John French’s Ahriman series. It’ll be released as a paperback book The powerful sorcerer searches for Necron time-altering technology to undo past wrongs, while Aeldari Harlequins nip at his heels and discord blossoms in his ranks. You can also get it in French.
Knight of Talassar: The Cato Sicarius Omnibus by Nick Kyme collects two novels, two novellas, and two short stories. Immerse yourself in the tales of the High Suzerain of Ultramar in your choice of paperback or eBook.
The Rise of The Horned Rat by Guy Haley is being released as an audiobook. Verminlords stalk the World-that-Was, and two rival kings prepare to face the full force of Queek Headtaker’s verminous horde in the fourth book of the End Times series.
Wrath of The Lost by Chris Forrester is being released in German as either paperback or eBook. Chaplain Duman and Apothecary Barachiel set sail to secure the Flesh Tearers’ homeworld of Cretacia, which has been left without a standing garrison during the Indomitus Crusade.
The Horus Heresy: Omnibus X features Scars by Chris Wraight, Vengeful Spirit by Graham McNeill, and The Damnation of Pythos by David Annandale. It’ll be available in paperback and as an eBook format in German.
It’s a Warhammer 40K focused pre-order next week for Games Workshop‘s pre-orders with three big releases to expand or start your armies!
Strike Force Agastus drops with new units to expand the Space Marine forces. The boxed set features 17 miniatures to bring punishing firepower. The set features 12 totally new miniatures. Along with 5 Heavy Intercessors, there’s a new Primaris Lieutenant, the close-combat focused Brutalis Dreadnought, and 10 Desolation Marines.
Also featured is a 16-page rules booklet with new datasheets as well as two sets of Ultramarines Infantry Transfer Sheets with 279 decals each.
The Brutalis Dreadnought is a melee version of the Redemptor that can rip apart the enemy with its talons or features a pair of fists with twin bolt rifles. The Desolation Squad features either superfrag missiles to take out infantry or superkrak missiles to destroy tanks. The Lieutenant is a versatile kit with lots of parts to mix your wargear. It features a plasma pistol, heavy bolt pistol, or bolt rifle plus there’s a power fist or power sword, or just point in a dynamic pose.
The Boarding Patrol: Chaos Space Marines set is a great place to start your Chaos Space Marines force or expand your current one. It features 10 Legionaries which includes a Kill Team upgrade sprue, 20 Chaos Cultists, and Abbadon himself! The sets would be $220 if bought on their own.
Boarding Patrol: Tyranids will get you stalking space hulks with six Tyranid Warriors, eight Genestealers, and a Broodlord. Featuring $197 of kits if bought separately.
After a week focused on Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, things have swung back to Warhammer 40,000 with a focus on Angron and the World Eaters.
The second book in the Arks of Omen storyline arrives, Arks of Omen: Angron. The Grey Knights attempt to rally to banish Angron once again in the second chapter.
The book features new lore advancing the story and contains further rules for Boarding Actions including unique upgrades for Space Marines, Chaos Space Marines, World Eaters, Grey Knights, Astra Militarum, and Orks Boarding Patrols.
It’ll be available in a regular edition as well as Collector’s Edition with an embossed cover with silver foil, printed page edges, and a black ribbon.
And that means Angron, Daemon Primarch of Khorne is here too! This massive figure is arriving to spill buckets of blood on the battlefield.
If you get the book and the model, you can also get an exclusive art print bundle featuring the art from the cover of Arks of Omen: Angron.
With Angron’s arrival is also Codex: World Eaters! It’s the first time the World Eaters have been their own standalone faction and they feature Blood Tithe rules, new datasheets, and lots of lore. There’ll be a regular and a Collector’s Edition which features gold foil lettering, gilt page edges, and a red ribbon page marker.
Lead your World Eaters into battle with Lord Invocatus! Mounted on his personal Juggernaut mount Khal’guruth, Invocatus wields a chain-axe to take plenty of skulls. You can also use the kit to create a regular Khorne Lord on Juggernaut.
New to the army is the Exalted Eightbound. The box set features three miniatures and can build either a regular Eightbound unit equipped with eviscerators or a band of supercharged Exalted Eightbound with chainfists.
What is the World Eaters without Khorne Berzerkers? The box set features 10 miniatures, a perfect core for your army.
Jakhals are human cultists pumped with combat stims that allow them to charge into melee without regard for their own lives.
Show off your loyalty and keep track of your forces with World Eaters Datacards and Dice Set.
Learn about the World Eaters and Angron with Angron: The Red Angel Special Edition by David Guymer. The Special Edition features different cover art, a cloth spine and backing with gold foil blocking, a golden yellow ribbon page marker, and the short story It Bleeds – also by David Guymer. It’s limited to 1,500 copies each numbered and signed by the author.
Angron: The Red Angel will also be available as a hardback, MP3 audiobook, and digital eBook in both English and French.
But the World Eaters aren’t the only force of Chaos to get a release. You can get the Balefleet Battleforce which features 10 Possessed, five Chaos Terminators, a Heldrake, and the new Daemon Prince.
And finally, you can get the Boarding Patrol: Space Marines box which features a Captain in Gravis Armour, 10 Assault Intercessors, and five Heavy Intercessors.
For Blood Bowl comes Bryce ‘The Slice’ Cambuel! A flaming, chainsaw-wielding skeleton? Yes please!
For Warhammer: The Horus Heresy, there is the Alpha Legion Upgrades which are made to order. Upgrade your Cataphractii Terminators with detailed shoulder pads, then add some flair to your line troops with MkIII Shoulder Pads and MkIV Torsos.
Also made to order are Raven Guard Upgrades. There are resin shoulder pads for MkII, MkIII, and MkIV armor types.
From Black Library comes Renegades of the Long War featuring stories by Anthony Reynolds, Ian St. Martin, and Rob Sanders. It’ll be available in paperback and digital eBook editions.
Unholy: Tales of Horror and Woe from the Imperium collects The Oubliette by J C Stearns, Sepulturum by Nick Kyme, The Deacon of Wounds by David Annandale, and The Bookkeeper’s Skull by Justin D Hill.
Blackhearts: The Omnibus features three novels and two short stories by Nathan Long.
Games Workshop is revealing what’s coming at the Las Vegas Open 2023 and it has debuted Strike Force Agastus, a brand-new Space Marines box set. Strike Force Agastus features two new heavily armed Space Marine kits that can be used by any Chapter, rounded out with a new customizable Lieutenant and five Heavy Intercessors.
Within is a spiritual successor to the Furioso Dreadnought but available to everyone, the Brutalis Dreadnought! Based on the Dedemptor, it’s a little taller and bulkier featuring a heavy stubber on top and options include multi meltas or heavy bolters and talons or fists which feature bolt rifles.
Also debuting is the Desolation Squad which fills in the Devastator gap for Primaris Space Marines. The long range heavy support unit features some interesting weapons including missile launchers that have frag and krak missiles.
Also included is a new Primaris Lieutenant! A new flexible kit with lots of new and current options.
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From Warhammer 40,000 comes another Ultramarine to expand your Joy Toy collection!
From Warhammer 40,000 comes a member of the most elite Space Marines Chapter in the Imperium of Man. Recreate decisive battles with this intricately designed Joy Toy Warhammer 40,000 Space Marines Ultramarines Bladeguard Veterans Brother Sergeant Proximo.
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