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Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: Knights hit the Horus Heresy battlefield, the return of 40K Terrain, and Vampires for Blood Bowl!

There’s a lot on tap next week for pre-orders from Games Workshop. Horus Heresy, terrain for Warhammer 40K, Blood Bowl, and more are coming!

For Warhammer: The Horus Heresy, two new Knights will stride the battlefield in plastic. Bonus, you can use them in Warhammer 40,000 too!

The Cerastus Knight Acheron is a variant of the Knight Cerastus. Armed with a flamestorm cannon and reaper chainfist, it can clear infantry in great gouts of superheated promethium or wide sweeps of its chainblade.

Cerastus Knight Acheron

The Cerastus Knight Castigator fights mid-range with its boltcannon and features a warblade when it needs to get in close for melee.

Cerastus Knight Castigator

If you need to pack your battlefield, there’s a lot of terrain returning for Made to Order. They’ll be available from September 23rd to October 2nd.

There are six returning terrain kits: the classic Aegis Defence Line, the Imperial Bastion, the Skyshield Landing Pad, the Imperial Bunker, the Imperial Defence Emplacement, and the Imperial Defence Line. They are joined by the Warhammer 40,000 Hero Bases and the Sector Imperialis Large Base Detail Kit.

Blood Bowl does not suck… but now it does with The Drakfang Thirsters! Vampires are back with a new plastic kit featuring 14 players including two Vampire Blitzers, two Vampire Runners, two Vampire Throwers, and eight Thralls. You also get all the usual balls, coins, and tokens – and a transfer sheet.

The Drakfang Thirsters! Vampires

But, what’s a team without star players?

Vargheist is a Brute, rampaging across the pitch. Strong, fast, frenzied, and wanting to drink blood. It comes from Forge World in resin.

Vargheist is a Brute

Count Luthor von Drakenborg gets an updated miniature and it’s pretty impressive. He grants an extra reroll and doesn’t need to drink blood, get him from Forge World in resin. He can play for all Sylvanian Spotlight teams.

Count Luthor von Drakenborg

‘Captain’ Karina von Riesz is new on the pitch and features strength and dexterity. Also from Forge World in resin, she’s perfect for the Sylvanian Spotlight team.

‘Captain’ Karina von Riesz

Ivan ‘the Animal’ Deathshroud is reanimated once more for Sylvanian Spotlight teams. Tough and ready to smash your opponent, you can get him from Forge World in resin.

Ivan ‘the Animal’ Deathshroud

You’ll need rules and Spike! Journal Issue 16 has you covered with that and more. It features rules, tactics, lore, and more.

Spike! Journal Issue 16

And finally, you can get Vampire Team Pitch, Cards, and Dice as well to round out your vampire collection.

 Vampire Team Pitch, Cards, and Dice

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Battle in Balin’s Tomb is for two players and pits them in a battle to hold the One Ring. It features the Fellowship featuring nin models taking on 12 Goblins of Moria as well as a Cave Troll. It features all the dice and tokens you need to play.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Battle in Balin’s Tomb

From Black Library is Ciaphas Cain: For the Emperor by Sandy Mitchell. This limited edition version features 2,000 copies signed by the author, fancy binding and ribbons, and an additional short story, Rotten to the Core.

Ciaphas Cain: For the Emperor

The Chapter’s Due gets an MP3 release. After defeating T’au forces, Captain Uriel Ventris of the Ultramarines returns to the Chapter’s homeworld of Macragge to defend the Ultramar system from an Iron Warriors Warband led by Warsmith Honsou. Get this classic tale from Graham McNeill.

The Chapter’s Due

Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: Black Library and Warhammer Heroes Series 4

It’s an intriguing light week for next week’s Games Workshop pre-orders with multiple releases from Black Library being the highlight.

Creed: Ashes of Cadia picks up decades since the Fall of Cadia. Ursula Creed heads to the shattered remains of the Cadian homeworld, a broken hellscape of deadly secrets. The book by Jude Reid will be available as a regular hardback, eBook, and audiobook formats as well as a fantastic Special Edition.

The Special Edition is embossed with a cloth cover with shining gold foil and includes the extra short story Creed: Chains of Command. Each of the 1,750 limited copies is individually numbered and signed by the author.

  • Creed: Ashes of Cadia
  • Creed: Ashes of Cadia

Valdor: Birth of the Imperium by Chris Wraight takes us to the beginning of the Unification Wars, where the warlords of Old Terra have fallen and questions on the fate of the Thunder Warriors must be answered. Change rarely comes bloodlessly in the 31st Millennium, and Valdor has a web of intrigue to navigate if the nascent Imperium is to claim its destiny among the stars.

Valdor: Birth of the Imperium

Blood of the Emperor is an anthology of short stories from Graham McNeill, Nick Kyme, David Guymer, Andy Clark, Mike Brooks, and Chris Wraight each taking on one of the Primarchs. It’s getting an audiobook release.

Blood of the Emperor

The Horus Heresy Collection expands in French and German for the first time. Collection X includes the novels Scars by Chris Wraight, Vengeful Spirit by Graham McNeill, and The Damnation of Pythos by David Annandale, while Sammelband XI collects Legacies of Betrayal and War Without End – each a compilation of many separate short stories – and Deathfire by Nick Kyme into one convenient place. Both are getting a hardbook and eBook edition.

Warhammer Heroes Series 4 is getting a release in the United States, Germany, Japan, China, and Australia but you won’t be able to get it from the Games Workshop webstore. Series 4 comprises seven new miniatures from a variety of Space Marine squads, featuring Intercessors, an Assault Intercessor, a Heavy Intercessor, an Eliminator, and a Captain.

Unlike the previous series, this one is focused on Kill Team as a unique faction. Each figure comes with a Kill Team datacard with full rules and a ploy for the team to use. All you need is six of the seven operatives to start playing the game!

Dubbed Strike Force Justian, it’s fully Matched Play legal and designed for new players to easily start playing.

White Dwarf 492 shows off the new Terminators, battleplans for four-player games of Warhammer: Age of Sigmar and more.

White Dwarf 492

NOVA Open 2023: Games Workshop reveals incoming Space Marines

As expected, to kick off the NOVA Open 2023, Games Workshop pulled some of the curtain back to show off the new Space Marine line and codex. The reveal featured new and rumored units as well as the new codex.

Terminators, new Assault Intercessors with Jump Packs, a Chaplain in Terminator Armor, Captain in Terminator Armor, Sternguard Veter Squad, Space Marine Scouts, and a new box of Space Marine Heroes were all revealed.

Rumored for a while, Primaris Assault Intercessors are getting Jump Packs, making them even deadlier in close combat. The set includes a Sergeant that can carry a power weapon or power fist and also the option of a plasma pistol or hand flamer.

  • Primaris Assault Intercessors

The new Captain with Jump Pack features multiple weapon options to choose from – either a bolt pistol, plasma pistol, or hand flamer in his right hand, and a power fist, relic blade, or chainsword in his left. He lends some extra pep to the charge, increasing the Strength of his fellow Jump Packers’ melee weapons by 1 whenever they slam home.

  • Captain with Jump Pack
  • Captain with Jump Pack
  • Captain with Jump Pack

A new Terminator Squad was released in Leviathan but an even newer kit will released featuring five multi-pose, multi-part figures. They come with storm bolters, power fists, chainfists, a heavy flamer, assault cannon, and cyclone missile launcher. All of the classics. An Assault Terminator set will be released later.

  • Terminator Squad
  • Terminator Squad

The Chaplain in Terminator Armour is here! There’s of course a crozius, litanies, storm bolter, or relic shield, all to add 1 to your squad’s Wound rolls in melee and granting a Feel No Pain 4+ against mortal wounds.

  • Chaplain in Terminator Armour
  • Chaplain in Terminator Armour

The Captain in Terminator Armour is packed with options as well. This is a multi-option kit featuring a combi-weapon, storm bolter, relic sword, or relic fist. There are also multiple head options and optional tabard.

  • Captain in Terminator Armour
  • Captain in Terminator Armour
  • Captain in Terminator Armour

Space Marine Scouts are back with a new kit. These figures are taller and leaner but feature the classic look of the unit. You can outfit them with boltguns, Astartes shotguns, or pistols and combat knives. There’s also a missile launcher, heavy bolter, and cloaked sniper to help pick off enemy characters.

  • Space Marine Scouts
  • Space Marine Scouts

The Company Heroes gets an update featuring four formidable soldiers, a Company Ancient, Company Champion, two Company Veterans, and a Captain. There are a lot of bits to customize your characters with multiple head options, master-crafter bolt rifle, neo-vulkite pistol, plasma pistol, power weapon, or power fist, as well as optional tabard and scabbard.

  • Command Squad
  • Command Squad
  • Command Squad

The Sternguard get a new kit as well, delivering a multi-pose set as opposed to the push-fit figures from Leviathan. They can all feature Sternguard bolt rifles or combi-weapons, and one can have a heavy bolter or pyrecannon. The Sergeant features the option of chainsword, power fist or power sword. There are also sculpted pauldrons, greave options, eight helmets, seven bare heads, and lots of accessories.

  • Sternguard
  • Sternguard

Finally, there’s Codex Space Marines. It features 93 datasheets and seven complete Detachments which feature seven unique sets of Enhancements, Stratagems, and Detachment rules.

Those new rules resemble classic chapters, Ultramarines, Imperial Fists, Iron Hands, Salamanders, Raven Guard, and White Scars, but being unnamed, you don’t need to worry about painting your chapter dogmatically.

There’s more in the book including Crusade rules for winning honours, promoting your heroes through Oathsworn Campaigns, and of course lots of background and photos of painted miniatures. There’ll be a limited edition version as well as a deck of new-look Datacards.

Codex Space Marines

Unboxing: Warhammer 40,000 Imperium #71

Warhammer 40,000 Imperium is available in the United States and Canada! We’re opening up and showing off what you get issue by issue!

Issue 71 is the first of two parts featuring Lychguard for the Necrons!

Below is what you get as well as a rough estimate of value and savings.

Contents:
Lychguard – $30 ($60 for a full set)

Total value estimated – about $30
Magazine Price $13.95 (+$3 for the upgrade)
Savings: $13.05 to $16.05

Premium Box 1 – ~$126 value
Premium Box 2 – $112 value
Premium Box 3 – $122 value
Premium Box 4 – $120 value

Total savings (just magazines): $1,039.60 to $1,393.60
Total savings (including premium box): $1,511.60 to $1,701.60

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Unboxing: Warhammer 40,000 Imperium #70

Warhammer 40,000 Imperium is available in the United States and Canada! We’re opening up and showing off what you get issue by issue!

Issue 70 features the second half of Marneus Calgar and his Honor Guard.

Below is what you get as well as a rough estimate of value and savings.

Contents:
Marneus Calgar with Victrix Honour Guard – $30 ($60 full price)

Total value estimated – about $30
Magazine Price $13.95 (+$3 for the upgrade)
Savings: $13.05 to $16.05

Premium Box 1 – ~$126 value
Premium Box 2 – $112 value
Premium Box 3 – $122 value
Premium Box 4 – $120 value

Total savings (just magazines): $1,026.55 to $1,377.55
Total savings (including premium box): $1,498.55 to $1,685.55

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Unboxing: Warhammer 40,000 Imperium #69

Warhammer 40,000 Imperium is available in the United States and Canada! We’re opening up and showing off what you get issue by issue!

Issue 69 features the first half of Marneus Calgar and his Honor Guard.

Below is what you get as well as a rough estimate of value and savings.

Contents:
Marneus Calgar with Victrix Honour Guard – $30 ($60 full price)

Total value estimated – about $30
Magazine Price $13.95 (+$3 for the upgrade)
Savings: $13.05 to $16.05

Premium Box 1 – ~$126 value
Premium Box 2 – $112 value
Premium Box 3 – $122 value
Premium Box 4 – $120 value

Total savings (just magazines): $1,013.50 to $1,361.50
Total savings (including premium box): $1,485.50 to $1,669.50

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Unboxing: Warhammer 40,000 Imperium Premium Box 4

Warhammer 40,000 Imperium is available in the United States and Canada! We’re opening up and showing off what you get issue by issue!

Premium Box 4 features Orks, a nice small force to start with or just check out a different army.

Below is what you get as well as a rough estimate of value and savings.

Contents:
Boyz – $55
Ork Gretchin – $25
Big Mek with Shokk Attack Gun – $40
Skarsnik Green – $4.55
Warboss Green – $4.55
Shade Biel-Tan Green – $7.80

Total value estimated – about $136.90
Magazine Price $13.95 (+$3 for the upgrade)
Savings: N/A to N/A

Premium Box 1 – ~$126 value
Premium Box 2 – $112 value
Premium Box 3 – $122 value
Premium Box 4 – $120 value

Total savings (just magazines): $997.45 to $1,345.45
Total savings (including premium box): $1,472.50 to $1,653.35

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Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: Minka Lesk and Black Library books plus a new ultimate Necromunda rulebook

It’s a focus on Warhammer 40,000‘s Astra Militarum and Necromunda in next week’s Games Workshop pre-orders. Check out what you’ll be able to order below!

Minka Lesk was created by Justin D. Hill and now gets her own figure. She earned her stripes in the fall of Cadia and now the Captain of the Cadian 101st Regiment. You can get your own very own Minka Lesk miniature by pre-ordering her next week. She will be available for a short period of time – Saturday July 22 until 8am BST on Monday the 7th of August.

Minka Lesk

The Shadow of The Eighth is by Justin D. Hill and gets a special edition. Lt. Lesk returns as she and the Cadian 101st have discovered a relic of the missing Cadian 8th and follow the trail to a world at the core of the Chaos warlord Drakul-zar’s collapsing regime.

The special edition is limited to 1,500 copies and features a cloth cover with unique art, an introduction by the author, bronze gilt page edges, bronze ribbon page marker, and a brand new short story, Ghosts of Kasr Myrak and signed by the author and individually numbered.

  • Shadow of The Eighth
  • Shadow of The Eighth

You can also get the book in hardback, eBook, audiobook and also being released are French and German editions in paperback or eBook formats.

Minka Lesk: The Last Whiteshield by Justin D. Hill is out in paperback and eBook and collects the novels Cadia Stands, Cadian Honour and Traitor Rock with The Place of Pain and Healing and The Battle for Markgraaf Hive, each featuring Minka fighting for the honor of Cadia.

Minka Lesk: The Last Whiteshield

The Necromunda: Core Rulebook is 336 pages and compiles every major aspect of the rules in one gigantic tome making it a one-stop shop for games of Necromunda. You’ll find the core rules for fighters and vehicles, plus skills, weapons, and traits, a combined trading post, the Dominion Campaign, and 11 scenarios in total. It also folds in all the FAQs and Errata from previous books.

Get it as a hardback release or ePub.

  • Necromunda: Core Rulebook
  • Necromunda: Core Rulebook

Necromunda: Core Gang Tactics Cards features 26 cards that feature key core gang tactics that can be used by any gang in the game.

Necromunda: Core Gang Tactics Cards

Necromunda: Open Hive War Card Pack features 50 cards that generate deployments and objectives alongside loot and perils which creates unique missions for gangs to fight over.

Necromunda: Open Hive War Card Pack

Necromunda Card Sleeves help keep your cards safe and each pack features 50 sleeves.

Necromunda Card Sleeves

Celebrate Colonel Ibram Gaunt and the Tanith First and Only with the Tanith Regimental Banner. It’s digitally printed and has a jute rope and plastic rod making it ready for mounting on your wall.

Tanith Regimental Banner

Renegades: Harrowmaster by Mike Brooks focuses on Solomon Akurra, one of the many feuding heads of the Alpha Legion, as he battles against the Imperium to prove himself anew.

Renegades: Harrowmaster

Manslayer by Nathan Long is an adventure of Gotrek and Felix and comes to audiobook.

Manslayer

A new month and a new Warpfire Minis box adds more T’au with one box to go!

Warpfire MinisWarpCrate is a mystery box for Warhammer 40K or Age of Sigmar! For $25 a box, you get random figures delivered to your doorstep. It’s promised the value to be at least $40.

We’re going to see how much of three armies we can build with a year of boxes! Our three armies this year are Adeptus Mechanicus, Tau, and Harlequins.

And, the latest unit is… more T’au

How’d we do this month?

XV25 Stealth Battlesuits – $30 ($35 for 3 with drone)

Fire Warriors x1 – $6 ($60 for 10)

Total – $36 (about)

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Army points (10th Edition)

Adeptus Mechanicus – $100 spent – $206 retail – saved $106
Serbeys Raiders x 2 – 75pts
Skitari x 5 – 100pts (for 10)
Sicarian Infiltrators x6 – 160pts (for 10)
Skitari Rangers x4 – 125pts (for 10)
Kastelan Robots x1 – 215pts (for 2)
Skitarri Vanguard x4 – 100 pts (for 10)

Total: 775 pts.

Eldar – $25 spent – $42 retail – saved $17
Harlequin Troop x 5 – 90pts

Total: 90 pts.

Tau –
Fire Warriors x33 x1 drone – 400pts (100 pts for 10)
Stealth Battlesuits x6 – 150pts
Cadre Fireblade – 50pts

Total: 600pts

Paint – $7.80

Total
Spent: $275
Retail: $517.30
Saved: $242.30

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