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.
At Warhammer Fest 2023, Games Workshop has revealed a beautiful diorama that’ll soon be for sale recreating an iconic scene from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
It features Frodo and his companions hiding in a hollow-out tree as that nightmarish Ringwraith above attempts to find them.
The pieces also come apart allowing players to use the Ringwraith in games of the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game.
Warhammer Fest 2023 is in full swing and Games Workshop has revealed what’s inside the Warhammer 40,000 10th edition box set dubbed “Leviathan”! It’s all arriving in June 2023!
The box set features Space Marines vs. Tyranids in the next Tyrannic War and has everything you need to play. The equivalent of two combat patrols full of new miniatures, the Leviathan book, Chapter Approved Leviathan Mission Deck, and a construction book.
That breaks down into 25 Space Marines and 47 Tyranids to take to the tabletop and start your games.
Leading the Space Marines is the Captain in Terminator Armour. Featuring terminator armor, he’s perfect to lead your Terminators into battle.
Taking the battle to the psychic planes is the Librarian in Terminator Armour ready to smote the enemy.
The Apothecary Biologis is here to help patch up fallen Space Marines.
The new Lieutenant in Phobos Armour features a combi-weapon and two combat blades.
The Sternguard Veteran Squad are from the 1st Company and is designed to hunt and combat the Tyranid threat.
The Terminator Squad is the elite of the elite and ready to teleport in to do battle.
The Infernus Squad is here to purge the foe with their Pyreblasters.
The Ballistus Dreadnought is an upgrade to a classic featuring a missile launcher and lascannon.
The Tyranids are led by the Winged Tyranid Prime, an alpha-beast that features strength and agility, ready to swoop in with its razor-sharp talons.
The Neurotyrant is a psychic phenomenon that acts as a focusing node ready to liquefy the minds of its prey.
The Screamer-Killer is the latest version of the Carnifex here to unleash its bio-plasma blasts.
Von Ryan’s Leapers embed themselves before the hive fleet lands and ambush the enemy.
Termagants swarm the enemy and are a mainstay of the Tyranid invasion force. Armed with organic weapons, they rush forward using their numbers to overwhelm the enemy.
Neurogaunts are a variant of the gaunt, they protect synapse creatures that help coordinate the invasion and have no problem sacrificing themselves.
Barbgaunts are living ordnance that showers the enemy with projectiles that explode with shards of serrated chitin.
The Psychophage is a biomorph with a hunger for psykers and spews psychocorrosive-ash to melt the enemy.
Warhammer 40,000: Leviathan features a massive rulebook full of lore, rules, artwork, and photos of all of the new models. There’s background information for every faction showing them off.
You get the core rules and specially designed missions for the new Combat Patrol game format. There are also Crusade rules to get narrative campaigns running ahead of Codex releases and a full Crusade expansion that dives into the Fourth Tyrannic War through a series of linked campaign games.
There’s also a 66-card Chapter Approved deck which combines the best Matched Play options from previous editions to provide a flexible mission experience for everyone.
There’s also a booklet to help build you miniatures.
If you want to further explore the Fourth Tyrannic War, Darius Hinks‘ Leviathan tells the story of Ultramarines in a desperate defence against Hive Fleet Leviathan.
The Horus Heresy is going mainstream with a brand-new box set launching in June. On the final day of Warhammer Fest 2022, Games Workshop shined the spotlight on the anticipated game with lots of reveals as to what’s to come.
The Horus Heresy: Age of Darkness box set is packed with enough for two players to start or can be all used by one to build their legion! It’s packed with 40 Space Marine Legionairies in Mark VI Power Armour. This is the core of any army and even more important in this edition.
To lead them are two Praetors who are as decadent as you’d expect for the time.
The Contemptor Dreadnought brings heavy support and comes with loads of weapons and the ability to position it the way you want.
How about a Spartan, which is able to transport 26 Space Marines in power armour. The first time in plastic, it’s armed with lascannons to destroy the enemy.
The Spartan was originally designed to get Terminators into battle. The set also features 10 of them in Cataphractii plate!
The box set also feature templates, measuring sticks, dice, and a new rulebook!
All of that will cost less than £200 or $300 (US) when it launches.
Also revealed are the first two Legion Astartes army books. One will be for Loyalists while the other for the Traitor Legions.
The Liber Astartes book features profiles for shared units, weapons, special weapons, and guides to build your forces.
Liber Hereticus contains rules for all nine Traitor Legions, including Rites of War, Primarchs, Legion-specific units and wargear. If you’re of a more Loyalist bent, the Liber Astartes contains the same for the nine Loyalist Legions.
Each faction will get its own book in the future, so this is just the beginning!
If you want to build out your force, you’ll be able to get the Mark VI Tactical Squad on its own. The box features 20 Space Marines so you can make two 10-man squads or one giant 20-man squad!
If you like the look of other armor, you’ll be able to get Mark III and Mark IV Tactical Squads, each also featuring units of 20!
Geigor Fell-hand and Azhek Ahriman were originally released in the Burning of Prospero box set and they’ll now be available on their own for the first time with rules in their respective Liber Astartes books!
In one of the more intriguing announcements, Games Workshop has revealed new weapon upgrade kits. You’ll be able to turn your Tactical Squads into Tactical Support or Legion Heavy Support Squads.
The Special Weapons upgrade set contains 10 meltaguns, 10 plasma guns, 10 volkite calivers, 10 volkite chargers, 10 flamers, and 10 rotor cannons.
There’s an upgrade kit containing 10 heavy bolters and 10 missile launchers.
There’s also a kit featuring 10 plasma cannons, 10 heavy flamers, and 10 multi-meltas.
Finally, there’s a kit featuring 10 volkite culverins, 10 lascannons, and 10 autocannons.
Those looking for bits even for their 40K forces will be picking these up!
Speaking of use in 40K… the Deimos-pattern Rhino is an update to the classic Rhino kit back from Rogue Trader days. The kit features lots of options like pintle-mounted weapons and wargear. They can be taken by any legion and is similar to the Rhino from Forge World. Expect this to be a hot kit for both games.
Speaking of tanks, the Kratos is getting a plastic kit as well. It has loads of options to blast away the enemy including a battlecannon, volkite cardanelle, or melta blast-gun.
You’ll also be able to explore the world of the Horus Heresy with new books from Black Library.
Lupercal’s War contains 21 stories from some of the most prominent authors including Dan Abnett, Graham McNeil, and John French.
Cthonia’s Reckoning is an anthology of brand-new lore. As Horus is off trying to capture Terra, you’ll discover what is happening on his homeworld of Cthonia.
Rogal Dorn: The Emperor’s Crusader by Gav Thorpe expands the Primarch’s story as Dorn is tasked with expanding the Great Crusade by his immortal father.
While specifics weren’t given Warcry is heading into the wilds for its next setting as revealed at Warhammer Fest 2022. That means new terrain, new warbands, and what else? We’ll have to stay tuned!
Revealed were the Horns of Hashut. These mortals follow the god Hashut and venture out to seek lands to dominate.
Also revealed was the Centaurion Marshal. It can be taken by a host of warbands as a Chaos Ally!
Defence of the North is coming soon for the Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game with with it new miniatures!
The chieftain of the Beornings Grimbeorn has been revealed. Not only is he handy with an axe but can also change into a bear!
Joining him are the Beornings who can handle defending their homelands from invaders. You’ll be able to make yours unique with alternate heads and they can be armed with great bows or hand-and-a-half axes!
During Warhammer Fest 2022, a new Kill Team box set was revealed, Kill Team: Moroch. The next quarterly boxed set is packed with miniatures and terrain new and old! It’s another release for the game that’ll be sought after by fans of Kill Team as well as Warhammer 40,000 and hints at what’s to come!
The box contains the brand new Blooded Kill Team, aka Militarum Traitoris, aka Traitor Guard!
This new Kill Team features miniatures old and new with the Traitor Enforcer and Traitor Ogryn coming from an expansion for Blackstone Fortress. The rest are new and will fit perfectly with the already released miniatures from that game.
They’ll go up against the Adeptus Astartes and the Phobos Strike Team. This squad is based on the Incursor/Infiltrator set with an additional sprue.
Also in the box is terrain including a battlefield mat, landing pad, STC hab-bunker and stockades, and a vox-atenna and auspex shrine. If you missed the Battlezone Fronteris release or want more, this is a great chance to get it.
This box and a Core Book and you’re ready to dive into Kill Team!
Two new characters have been revealed for Warhammer: Age of Sigmar. Cado Ezechiar and Drekki Flynt are a bit different as the two are spinning out of Black Library books to the tabletop as opposed to starting their life on the tabletop and then getting books.
Cado Ezechiar has been featured in two short stories, star of the short stories Tower of Empty Mirrors and Beasts: The Road of the Hollow King. The vampire anti-hero is out searching for revenge.
He’ll star in his first novel soon. Be on the lookout for The Hollow King by John French.
Drekki Flynt is a Kharadron Overlord who’s picking up an axe for adventure. Drekki Flynt was featured in two short stories as well, The Lost Karak and Krenkha Gorogna. This pirate robs from the rich traveling to locales all across the Mortal Realms.
You’ll be able to find out more in Guy Haley‘s novel in The Arkanaut’s Oath which is coming soon.