Warhammer: Age of Sigmar‘s new edition releases continues to be the focus for Games Workshop with next week’s pre-orders. The main box for Skaventide, the newest edition, continues its pre-order for the second weekend but there’s numerous more releases coming as well.
The Warhammer Age of Sigmar Core Book is a 288-page hardback book and the ultimate companion to the new edition. It contains an awe-inspiring gatefold cosmology of the eight realms, many pages of gorgeous art and miniatures photography and summaries of every faction. The Core Book also includes the Core Rules, the Advanced Rules, Battlepack: First Blood for Matched Play, complete with three battleplans, and the narrative Battlepack: Ascension for Path to Glory. This includes four upgrade paths for your heroes, two for your units, and six battleplans.
The book is available in the regular edition as well as a numbered limited edition which comes with a slipcase.
The Warhammer Age of Sigmar: General’s Handbook 2024-25 takes you into the world of Matched Play. The 112-page spiral-bound book contains what you need to play balanced, competitive games using the rules from the first season, which lasts a year. The book includes Core and Advanced Rules, as well as the Season Rules. They’re themed on powerful boons for your general’s honor guard. It includes 12 battleplans, representing “greatest hits” from previous editions, a rules update for all of the universal Endless Spells, and a Tournament Organizer’s pack that provides advice in how to run events.
Spearhead: Fire and Jade Gaming Pack will help you dive into Spearhead, the new game mode for Warhammer: Age of Sigmar. It allows for lightning-fast games. The box contains what you need to start playing with your own collections. There’s four pieces of terrain and snap-together 3″ and 6″ range rules, a double-sided game board with printed objectives. One side is Aqshy and the other is Ghyran. There’s also a Twist Deck for each side and two identical Battle Tactic decks for each player.
The Battlepack for Spearhead will be available for free, and every faction’s Spearhead rules will be available in their Faction Packs, both in physical and digital editions.
Warhammer Age of Sigmar Faction Packs feature all the rules needed for factions in one place. Each pack will be available to download for free before the launch of the new edition and will be available to purchase as a deck of cards. Each includes a background summary, cards with the army’s Battle Traits, Battle Formations, Heroic Traits, Artefacts of Power, Spell Lores, Prayer Lores, and Manifestation Lores. There’s also cards for games of Spearhead, with Battle Traits, Regiment Traits, Enhancements, and warscroll cards.
The Orruk Warclans Faction Pack set contains rules for both the Ironjawz and Kruleboyz in one pack, and that there is currently no Spearhead for the Ironjawz.
The Free digital editions of these Faction Packs will be available to download soon after release.
Need some dice? Get Warhammer Age of Sigmar Grand Alliance Dice. Each set features 16 themed dice for Order, Death, Destruction, and Chaos.
Warhammer: Age of Sigmar – Skaventide invades White Dwarf Issue 502. The edition features information on the new edition of the game with behind the scenes interviews, painting and modeling advice, and a battle report from the new edition. There’s also Warhammer 40,000 with a summary of the Xenowar in Warzone Chalnath, a commentary on Pariah Nexus Chapter Approved Mission Pack, and a set of Crusade rules for the new setting.
Coming from Black Library is Morvenn Vahl: Spear of Faith Mega Limited Edition. Under the command of the warlord Kol Rakhul, Death of Saints, the Night Lords have attacked Ophelia VII and ransacked its Great Libraries. Only Morvenn Vahl, Abbess Sanctorum and High Lord of Terra, and her fearless Adepta Sororitas sisters stand in their way. By Jude Ried the volume features a velvet effect cloth cover with embroidered pattern, gold foil details, and a red ribbon marker. Each copy is individually numbered and features an exclusive afterword from the author. It also includes six art prints. There’s also The Book of Saints itself. Copies are limited.
The Daughters of the Emperor is a week-long eShort subscription featuring five short stories featuring the Adepta Sororitas. Stories are by Jude Reid, John Sollitto, Kate Flack, Nicholas Werner, and Ness Brown.
We’re building three Warhammer: Age of Sigmar armies with the Warpfire Warpcrate. How much will we save? How big will the armies be? Find out in this experiment!
Warhammer: Age of Sigmar Stormbringer is now available in the US. We subscribed and quickly got our two issues which we showed off and broke down. Then the second box arrived not long after! Now, we have our eight box featuring issues 31 to 34 and the second premium box!
Next steps: 1) We’ll open up and show off each issue 2) Put everything together and paint!
Yes, unlike what we did with 40K Imperium, we’ll dive into Age of Sigmar, step by step, and learn to play the game through the magazine!
Games Workshop previously announced the release date so it should be no surprise that Warhammer: Age of Sigmar – Skaventide is next week’s release… and pretty much the only release. The game is the fourth edition of Age of Sigmar and pre-orders will be open for two weeks.
Skaventide features 74 new miniatures, Stormcast Eternals and Skaven.
The Stormcast Eternals comprise 24 miniatures, with a command staff made up of an imperious Lord-Vigilant on Gryph-Staker, a solemn Lord-Terminos with attendant Memorian, a Lord-Veritant with Gryph-crow, and a Knight-Questor. The rank and file are made up of 10 indomitable Liberators , alongside 3 battle-hardened Reclusians with their Memorians, and 3 soaring Prosecutors.
The Skaven are led by a scheming Claw-lord on Gnaw-Beast and a Grey Seer from the Masterclan, while a Warlock Engineer watches over the complement of Skryre weapons. The crowning jewel of this collection of chaotic contraptions is the Ratling Warpblaster, which is supported by 3 Warplock Jezzails. 40 Clanrats make up the bulk of this horde, and 3 hulking Rat Ogres provide the muscle.
Not just packed with two armies it has everything you need to play including the 144-page Spearhad: Fire and Jade book, a double-sided game board, four pieces of terrain, 3″ and 6″ range rules, cards you need to play, and some dice. There’s also Core and Advanced rules, the First Blood battlepack, and the Path to Glory battlepack. There’s also a deck of 17 cards which contain the season rules and battle plans for the 2024-25 Matched Play Season General’s Handbook.
And… pre-order bonuses!
If you order from the Warhammer webstore you’ll get a set of six metal objective tokens. If you get it at the local Warhammer store on release, you’ll get a set of command point tokens. Pre-ordering from independent stores, you’ll get a hardback notebook themed after Skaventide.
As has become tradition, Black Library will be releasing a tie-in book, Skaventide by Gary Kloster.
Deep in the heart of the Skaven apocalypse, the Stormcast Eternals of the Ruination Chamber fight for their survival, but within this blighted wasteland lies a prize – a lost Stormcast Eternal who carries within him ancient and forbidden knowledge.
There’s a regular edition, and a royal blue Special Edition with screen printed artwork in silver foil on the front and spine with blue page edges and a blue ribbon bookmark. There’s also full-color art inside and it’s signed by the author.
Games Workshop has had a spotty history with comics with runs that come and go and rotate publishers. Comics based on GW properties are returning as the company is teaming up with Marvel for a whole new era. Details as far as properties and what creative teams have not been announced.
GW, with popular games like Warhammer 40k, Age of Sigmar, and more, has deep and rich game fluff ripe for use in greater media. The game publisher is considered to have untapped potential which is finally getting the spotlight. On top of the comic announcement, a television show has been announced based on one of the characters from Warhammer 40k.
Comics began being published through Black Library, some of which were award-winning. BOOM! Studios picked up the license in 2006 and lost it about mid-2009. Titan Comics began publishing comics in 2016 which ended in 2018.
