During its NOVA Open 2023 presentation Games Workshop revealed a new Warcry release. Warcry: Hunter and Hunted is an interesting box in that it’s a smaller box set than has usually been released. It still features two warbands but only one scenery piece.
In it is the Gorger Mawpack taking on Wildercorps Hunters featuring some awesome dog miniatures. The box also comes with a Mawpit and Warband Tome: Hunter and Hunted which gives you information on the two new warbands as well as rules, quests, background tables, shared campaign arc, and a new battleplan generator.
Next week features a rather focused pre-order week for Games Workshop with Warcry and Warhammer: The Horus Heresy being the two main releases.
Warcry: Nightmare Quest is the latest box set for Warcry and the big release for the week. The battle for the Ravening Ruin continues as a band of heroic huntsmen venture into the Gnarlwood on a quest to save the Mortal Realms… or so they think. Alongside these two complete warbands, Nightmare Quest contains a full complement of Gnarlwood scenery – including a massive, half-ruined Realmshaper Engine and a selection of twisted gnarloaks. Combined with the 64-page warband tome, double-sided game board, and reference cards.
The vampire ascetics of the Askurgan Trueblades are precision and discipline incarnate, suppressing their hunger to attain enlightenment in the ways of combat. This standalone warband of features eight miniatures and are now available on their own. The set features fighter cards and ability card making it easy to get them to the table right away.
The Claws of Karanak love blood like all devotees of Khorne. They revel in the carnage of open battle and aim to turn the jungles of Ghur into their own personal charnel house. It features a Houd of Wrath and seven other warriors all too happy to collect skulls for the skull throne.
It’s a tank-heavy week for Warhammer: The Horus Heresy featuring lots of new tanks now in plastic and some featuring resin. Leading the charge is the Mastodon which can feature a platoon of Space Marines within. The Mastodon will also soon be getting an updated datasheet to allow all of the options available on the new sponson sprue, such as volkite culverins and heavy bolters.
If you need more firepower, there’s the Fellblade, Falchion, and Glaive.
If you want to rain death from a distance, there are the Arquitor Bombards. The dedicated artillery tanks can mount either a spicula rocket system, a graviton-charge cannon, or a morbus heavy bombard. Despite their role as artillery, they still pack a pair of sponsons for more diverse work. Each kit includes resin autocannons, plus the full spread of plastic lascannons, heavy flamers, heavy bolters, and volkite culverins.
The Javelin Land Speeder also gets new weapon options and an updated datasheet to give more versatile load-outs to speed-hungry commanders.
The Damocles Command Rhino Upgrade Kit lets you upgrade a regular plastic Deimos-pattern Rhino into a mobile command base with powerful sensor suites.
From Black Libary comes Blightslayer by Richard Strachan which continues Gotrek’s adventures. The duardin Slayer saves a blasphemous warrior-priest from the gallows and earns a life-debt he neither wants nor needs. Nevertheless, Amara Fidellus is determined to return the favor, and the pair soon find themselves caught up in a sorcerous plot that – should it succeed – would plunge the Mortal Realms into the hellscape of Nurgle’s Garden. Blightslayer will be available in hardback, eBook, and MP3 audiobook editions.
Prince Maesa by Guy Haley is a tale of an exiled aelven prince scorned for the crime of loving a human returns to Black Library in paperback. Prince Maesa follows the eponymous nomad’s quest to return his paramour from the grip of death, a journey that will take him to the hostile lands of Shyish and earn the ire of Nagash himself, who jealously guards every last soul that crosses into his realm.
White Dwarf 488 features the final part of the Herald of Misery saga. The magazine features the final battle in the White Dwarf Arks of Omen campaign, as the Tome Keepers and Blood Angels make a final desperate push to reach the center of the accursed space hulk. Warsmith Czagra awaits, and those unlucky enough to be caught on board his Ark must contend with the new Unstable Structure tiles included in this issue. It also features brand-new lore surrounding the return of Lion El’Jonson. The serial Grombrindal adventure continues with another short story about the white-bearded ancestor.
At Warhammer Fest 2023, not only was the latest Warcry box set revealed, Warcry: Nightmare Quest, but so was a roadmap into 2024.
The summer sees the release of a new starter set. The autumn brings 4 new warbands, the winter 2 more warbands, and in the spring 2 more. It looks like Warcry is here to stay for quite a while with a lot for players to look forward to!
The next expansion for Warcry has been revealed, Warcry: Nightmare Quest. The box set contains everything you need to play and features the Questor Soulsworn taking on the Royal Beastflayers. Of course, both factions will wind up in Warhammer: Age of Sigmar with warscrolls of their own.
The Questor Soulsworn are usually solo agents wandering the realm but on occasion gather in warbands to take on perilous tasks.
The Royal Beastflayers act as gameskeepers for their vampiric kings stalking terrible beasts or innocent bystanders. They use Offal Hound to track down their quarry.
The box set also features terrain including the Realmshaper Engine. Nightmare Hunt also contains Might and Madness, a packed warband tome that details all the background information and rules for both warbands and includes quests that your single-minded zealots – both golden and grizzly – can undertake.
It’s a big week for skirmish games from Games Workshop with the upcoming pre-orders. Kill Team and Warcry each get a lot of releases to expand their games.
Kill Team: Soulshackle sees the Imperial law in the form of Adeptus Arbites taking on Drukhari Kabalites. There’s new terrain, new rules for breaching walls, and control consoles. Plus, the two new Kill Teams.
The Adeptus Arbites are a brand-new kit updating the classic figures. They’ll take on the Hands of Archon, a Drukhari Kill team that features the Kabalite kit with a new upgrade sprue.
Also coming is the Kill Team: Kasrkin, now on their own. They’re perfect not only for Kill Team but also for use in Warhammer 40,000.
Kill Team: Farstalker Kinband are Kroot mercenaries who are on the hunt for deadly prey. They can also join T’au Empire armies in Warhammer 40,000 where they can be used as Kroot Warriors with Kroot rifles.
Kill Team: Imperial Navy Breachers specialize in ship-to-ship boarding actions. The C.A.T. unit scouts ahead as they prepare for close-quarter combat. There’s also free rules to use them in Warhammer 40,000.
The Kill Team: Hierotek Circle is a band of Necrons that features new miniatures and an upgrade sprue for the existing Deathmarks kit.
Killzone: Gallowdark allows you to build your own board with 54 pieces of terrain.
Killzone Upgrade: Shadowvaults features security panels, weapons lockers, a robot crawler, and heavy bolter sentry turret to add to your Kill Team board.
Kill Team: Into the Dark is a 120-page book that contains lore and rules for Navy Breachers and the Farstalker Kinband. There’s also nine Shadow Operations themed around early expeditions, a campaign that adds extra narrative, and nine Critical OPerations designed for balance play.
Kill Team: Shadowvaults is a 120-page book that has the rules to field Kasrkin and Hierotek Circle kill teams. There’s also nine narrative missions, nine Critical Operations, and new rules for sentry turrets and infiltrations.
There are also four sets of Kill Team Dice Sets. Add some theme to your dice rolling.
For Warhammer 40,000 there’s Boarding Actions: Void War Bases. It features 60 bases sculpted to look like grated metal from voidships and 54 decorative elements to add grilles, gantries, and bits of hardware.
Warcry: Bloodhunt is the latest box set for that game. It features the Askurgan Trueblades vs. the Claws of Karanak. It’s Soulblight vampires vs. Khorne cultists! The box also has new terrain including a fortified platform and fortifications with existing rope bridges and obstacles. It also contains the 64-page Predator and Prey Warband Tome which features rules for both warbands, quests, and two Campaign Arcs.
The Hunters of Huanchi is full of Chameleon Skinks awaiting to harass foes with dartpipes and bolas. They can be used in Warcry and Warhammer: Age of Sigmar.
The Jade Obelisk are cursed as their skin turns to stone. They’re here for your games of Warcry or to join your Slaves to Darkness force in Warhammer: Age of Sigmar.
The Sky-hunter Squadron gets a new release for Warhammer: The Horus Heresy. They’re perfect for deep strikes and hit-and-runs.
Forge World has two upgrade sprues for two legions, Salamanders and Word Bearers! Get your Salamanders MKVI Upgrades or Word Bearers MKVI Upgrades.
White Dwarf 485 is also coming with a spotlight on Boarding Actions, a battle report featuring World Eaters, Gloomspite Gitz content for Warcry, and more.
Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game Made to Order features a lot of classic models for a limited time. They’ll go straight to sale on February 11th.
The Las Vegas Open takes place this coming weekend and with it will be a new reveal from Games Workshop.
Warhammer 40,000, Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, Warhammer: The Horus Heresy, Warcry, Warhammer Underworlds, and Kill Team will all have new stuff previewed.
But, one of the reveals is already being spoiled in a way… the R-VR Cyber-mastiff! We know from updated rules that Adeptus Arbites are coming and a Cyber-mastiff is exactly the type of unit you’d find with them. But, are they for Kill Team? 40K? We’ll soon find out!
If you’re stateside, tune in on Thursday the 26th of January at 10pm PST. In the UK, that’s 6am GMT on Friday the 27th of January.
Games Workshop is gearing up for the holiday season with its first wave of Battleforces along with new Warcry and a surprise Blood Bowl release. See what’s coming to pre-orders next week.
Daughters of Khaine: Khainite Slaughter-Coven
Spill blood with this box! It features a Slaughter Queen on Cauldron of Blood (which can be built as a Bloodwrack Shrine or a Hag Queen on Cauldron of Blood), five Melusai Blood Sisters (who can be built as Blood Stalkers), five Khinerai Heartrenders (who can be built as Lifetakers), five Doomfire Warlocks, and 10 Witch Aelves (who can be built as Sisters of Slaughter).
Retail value: $302
Orruk Warclans: Kruleboyz Swamp-Lurkers
Step out the swamp with Swampboss Skumdrekk and Gobsprakk, the Mouth of Mork (who can also be built as a Snatchaboss on Sludgeraker Beast and Killaboss on Corpse-rippa Vulcha, respectively). They lead three Man-Skewer Boltboyz and 10 Gutrippaz.
Retail value: $165
Gloomspite Gitz: Stampeding Squigalanche
The Squiqalanche consists of a Loonboss on Giant Cave Squig, two Mangler Squigs (who can be ridden by Loonbosses), 10 Squig Hoppers (who can be assembled as Boingrot Bounders), and a 12-strong Squig Herd.
Retail value: $228
Skaven: The Verminous Host
It features Grey Seer on Screaming Bell (which can also be built as a Plague Priest on Plague Furnace), a Warlock Bombardier, three Stormfiends, a whopping 40 Clanrats, and 40 Plague Monks.
Retail value: $338
Nighthaunt: Legion Of Grief
You’ll haunt the table with Lady Olynder, Mortarch of Grief, a Black Coach, 10 Bladeghast Revenants, 10 Dreadscythe Harridans, and 10 Grimghast Reapers.
Retail value: $330
Sylvaneth: Revenant Wargrove
Featuring Drycha Hamadreth leads two Treelords (which can alternatively be built as a Spirit of Durthu or a Treelord Ancient), 10 Spite-Revenants (which can be built as Tree-Revenants), and 16 Sylvaneth Dryads.
Retail value: $210
Stormcast Eternals: Thunderstrike Spearhead
You’ll get a Knight-Relictor, three heavily armed Annihilators, 10 Vanquishers, and 10 Vigilors armed with stormcaller bows. Finally, there’s a pair of swift and deadly Stormdrake Guards (one of which can alternately be built as a Knight-Draconis).
Retail value: $325
Originally available in the Arcane Cataclysm boxed set, you can how get the Curseling, Eye of Tzeentch.
Scinari Enlightener joins the ranks of the Lumineth Realm-lords. Bring some immense magical power to the tabletop.
Warcry gets some big releases starting with Warcry: Sundered Fate. The Jade Obelisk or on a mission and the Hunters of Huanchi aren’t happy with the desecration. The boxed set features 23 miniatures, terrain, a gaming board, warband tome, fighter and ability cards, battleplan cards, and rules to play!
If you want some scenery, there’s also the Ravaged Lands: Gnarlwood Watchcamp. It collects a grisly glade of Ghurish terrain first released in Warcry: Heart of Ghur.
The Horns of Hashut are coming! The 10 miniatures, including Ruinators, Demolishers – one of whom is armed with the deadly Flamehurler – and Shatterers. They’re also usable in Slaves to Darkness armies for Warhammer Age of Sigmar.
Maybe the Rotmire Creed are more your thing? This warband contains a Witherlord, a Bloated One, two Carrion Catchers, and six Mirefolk Outcasts. The Rotmire Creed can also serve as a sneaky vanguard unit for the Maggotkin of Nurgle in Warhammer Age of Sigmar.
Warband Tome: Rot and Ruin is a 64-page book containing the background information for the Horns of Hashut and the Rotmire Creed. There are also quests for both warbands and two campaign arcs.
The original Warcry warbands are returning. You can pick up all of the original eight warbands from the eight Mortal Realms, plus the spidery Tarantulos Brood, the brutish Darkoath Savagers, and Khainite Shadowstalkers. These updated boxes don’t include fighter or ability cards, all those rules are free to download. And you can use them in Warhammer: Age of Sigmar!
There’s also returning Warcry Monsters! Use them in games of Warcry or as part of your Slaves to Darkness armies.
There’s also four dice packs coming. One for each of the Horns of Hashut, the Rotmire Creed, the Hunters of Huanchi, and the Jade Obelisk warbands.
In a bit of a surprise, Dungeon Bowl: Death Match is coming! This first expansion for Dungeon Bowl pits the College of Death against the College of Life in an almighty clash between two teams of mixed players, new Dungeon Tiles, tokens, and more.
Blood Bowl Spike! Presents: 2022 Almanac! will be available as a hardback or ePub collecting the Norse and Amazon issues of Spike!. There’s also rules for eight new star players.
Warhammer: The Horus Heresy gets upgrade packs.
The Night Lords MKVI Legion Upgrades features helmets, heads, and shoulder pads.
Flesh is weak, so upgrade your force with the Iron Hands MKVI Legion Upgrades.
Sanguinius: The Great Angel (Special Edition) is written by Chris Wraight and features gold page edges, leather-effect covers, and more. You can also get it in the standard hardback, eBook, or audio editions.
The Soul Drinkers Omnibus II by Ben Counter continues the saga collecting books four, five, and six, along with a novella.
Hallowed Ground by Richard Strachan is a family affair for the ven Densts, as Gloria sets off on her father’s trail in the aftermath of the great siege led by Kragnos, in order to discover a dark secret that spells doom for the city of Excelsis.
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Mortarion: Le Roi Blême is the French edition of Mortarion: The Pale King.
It’s a little bit of everything this coming week for Games Workshop‘s pre-orders. Black Library and Age of Sigmar get the highlights with the biggest releases of the week.
Drekki Flynt stars in his first full-length novel from Guy Haley – The Arkanaut’s Oath! It’ll be available in hardback, ebook, and audiobook and there’s also a new miniature of Drekki Flynt too!
Cado Ezechiar and The Hollow King by John French is the other release. That too is accompanied by a miniature of the character. It’ll be available as a hardbook, ebook, and audiobook.
Arcane Cataclysm will be released for Warhammer: Age of Sigmar. It features the Lumineth Realm-lords taking on the Disciples of Tzeentch. The box set features two brand new miniatures – the Scinari Enlightener can share her pain with her enemies while the updated Curseling is a potent fusion (literally) of warrior and mage. Arcane Cataclysm includes five Vanari Bladelords, five Vanari Dawnriders, 10 Vanari Auralan Sentinels, three Tzaangor Enlightened on Discs of Tzeentch, 10 Tzaangors, and 20 Kairic Acolytes. There’s also a campaign booklet, 56-page core rulebook, token sheet, and warscroll cards.
The Skaven Deathmaster is an expert assassin and can now be purchased to attack with its weeping blade!
The Sylvaneth gets The Lady of Vines which can cut down foes with its spear.
Get scenery like the Krondspine Incarnate of Ghur, Cleansing Aqualith, and Megadroth Remains.
For Warcry, the Centaurion Marshal is an ally that any Chaos Warband can field. Or how about adding it to your Age of Sigmar Slaves to Darkness army?
Speaking of Chaos, there are also Chaos Legionnaires for Warcry. Age of Agimsar rules will be coming for them.
Then there’s the Warcry Compendium pulls together the fighter profiles and faction abilities for warbands from Grand Alliance Order, Grand Alliance Destruction, Grand Alliance Death, and Grand Alliance Chaos in a single grand tome. It features over 800 profiles.
Warhammer: The Horus Heresy – Aeronautica Imperialis Rulebook is being released taking your battles to the Age of Darkness. This book provides the complete Aeronautica Imperialis rules and eight classic scenarios to play through, along with complete rules for the Legiones Astartes air fleets, the human pilots of the Divisio Aeronautica, and the Legio Custodes’ deadly Ares Gunship – allowing you to bring dogfights to life in the skies of the Horus Heresy.
You can recreate battles above Vanaheim with the Vanaheim Area of Engagement game board.
How about taking to the skies with the Ares Gunship and a Legio Custodes fleet?
Finally, there are Legiones Astartes Aircraft Cards and Divisio Aeronautica Aircraft Cards to help you keep track of things.
For Necromunda, get the Delaque Spyker which is part spy, part psyker, and all brain! It comes with a fighter card and is just an amazing model.
You can upgrade your Corpse Grinder Cult gang with the Corpse Grinder Weapons Set. There’s a selection of ranged weapons for your Initiates, including a savage harpoon launcher, and vicious close combat weapons for the rest of your gang, such as the rotary flensing saw and chain glaives. There’s also a grisly Cult icon to inspire your gang in battle.
From Black Library there’s Rogal Dorn: The Emperor’s Crusader which gets a limited edition release of 2,500 copies signed by author Gav Thorpe and more!
Blackstone Fortress: Ascension will be released in audiobook for the first time.
More books are being released in French and German including Ghazghkull: Prophet of the Waaagh!, Throne of Light, Luther: First of the Fallen, and Soulslayer.
Games Workshop has revealed a new chapter and edition of Warcry. Warcry: Heart of Ghur is a new boxed set that acts as an introduction and new edition of Warcry. Taking place in Gnarlwood, it brings exciting changes.
Within is the Rotmire Creed. They bring plagues and putrefaction stalking the swamps and forests of Ghur.
The Horns of Hashut want to make way for their masters razing the greenery of Ghur.
Within the box is a forest that the two warbands, and more, can do battle in.
The box also contains dice, tokens, cards, measuring sticks, game board, a new rulebook, and a Rot and Ruin campaign book.
