We’re building three Warhammer: Age of Sigmar armies with the Warpfire Warpcrate. We’re kicking off our second year of Age of Sigmar with three new armies!
Prices are influx across the board, especially in the United States, for a range of factors. Games Workshop has announced that it’s increasing prices on “some” products starting October 6, 2025. The company hasn’t announced price increases due to recent tariffs by President Donald Trump, but it’s hard to not think the two are connected.
The average price will increase about 4% but the exact amount will vary by product. Some will increase more and some less. Products like paints, sprays, and paint sets aren’t changing at all.
Recently, Warlord Games announced it was passing along the increase cost of tariffs to consumers but crediting accounts for that amount.
We’re building three Warhammer: Age of Sigmar armies with the Warpfire Warpcrate. We’re kicking off our second year of Age of Sigmar with three new armies!
See what’s kicking off the new year for Games Workshop. Pre-orders have revealed for next Saturday including the launch of the Empire for Warhammer: The Old World. Joining them for order are the Ironhead Squats for Necromunda and the powerful warmachine Luminark of Hysh for Warhammer: Age of Sigmar.
Arcane Journal: Empire of Man is a 48-page supplement containing new rules, background lore, and scenarios. Included are profiles for named characters Harald Gemunsen, Grand Master Of The Knights Panther, and General Hans von Löwenhacke, plus numerous additional units, two Armies of Infamy comprising the Knightly Orders and the City-state of Nuln, and new magical items. You can get it as a softback book and an epub.
Kick off or expand your army with the Empire Of Man Battalion. It contains 30 State Troops and 30 State Missile Troops that provide the manpower while a mighty Steam Tank lays waste. This box also contains 2 new Empire of Man infantry transfer sheets, comprising 290 decals each.
Empire of Man Reference Card Pack, Dice Set, and Transfer Sheet will help keep things organized and show off your loyalty. The pack of 36 cards lets you quickly reference rules for magic items as well the tricks your Steam Tank can perform, while each set of 20 dice is cast in pearlescent swirl red plastic with gold pips and a Warhammer icon on the six face.
The new Empire of Man Transfer Sheet is covered with detailed emblems of the provinces of the Empire, plus regimental insignia, heraldry and iconography of the Knightly Orders, Marienburg, the City-state of Nuln, and other details – including tiny prayers to various gods which you can actually read…
Some classic kits will be returning too!
The General of the Empire on Imperial Griffon soars above the battlefield with an impressive sight to lead your army. This plastic kit also builds a Wizard Lord on Imperial Griffon – only this one has two heads.
The War Altar of Sigmar raises the spirits and incite the soldiers of the Empire with their zealous sermons, and the most senior are pulled into battle upon War Altars by heavily barded war horses.
Commanders of the Empire builds two heroes for your army. You get a mounted and one on foot, with an assortment of options to personalize them – building Champions, Generals and Standard-bearers.
Build up your forces with the Free Company Militia, Empire Pistoliers, Empire Knights, and Empire Demigryph Knights.
Sit back and rain death with Cannons & Mortars. This kit builds two great cannons or mortars, and comes with six crew.
Certain classic metal miniatures are also returning.
The Teutogen Guard Warriors and Command are the personal bodyguards of Ar-Ulric, the high priest of the Cult of Ulric. They are personally selected from the Knights of the White Wolf, a prestigious accolade worthy of their fearsome reputation. A set of five Teutogen Guard Warriors can be paired with three members of the Command Group.
Imperial Ogres make a return. They’re a mercenary unit that towers above the puny humans. There are two sets of three: one armed with hand weapons, the other with great weapons, and a dangerous individual casually brandishing a whole cannon.
Finally, there’s one resin kit to round out the first wave of releases.
The Empire of Man Command Set was initially released under the Warhammer Forge banner. It comprises of a General of the Empire, a Captain of the Empire with an impressive Battle Standard, and a Harbinger of Doom – who now has his own rules in the new Arcane Journal.
For Necromunda enter the Halls of the Ancients. The Ironhead Squat Prospectors came to Necromunda some 10,000 years ago as the Confederation of Urlish, and you can find out why they stayed in Halls of the Ancients. Inside the latest supplement for Necromunda, you’ll find a complete history of the Ironhead Squat Prospectors, updated rules for the gangs, including the new Exo-kyn and Svenotar Scout Trikes, plus rules for hired guns, hangers-on, Dramatis Personae and more. Stake your claim on this bounty of fresh new rules and lore in either hardback and ePub editions.
The Ironhead Squat Prospectors Exo-kyn are based on the void suits used long ago by their ancestors, and now employed to hunt treasure in the Necromundan ash wastes. They mine in the depths, far below the sump sea, and they’re quite happy to turn this equipment against anyone who attempts to steal their finds. This set of four Exo-kyn comes with two Techmite Exovator 078b automata, which help them survey for materials and fend off aggressors.
A classic gets updated with the Ironhead Squat Svenotar Scout Trikes. Rugged, dependable, and alarmingly fast, the Svenotar Scout Trike is light reconnaissance vehicle used by the Ironhead Squat Prospectors to roam ahead of the mining clans. Twin-linked weapons help them fend off rival gangs and their vehicles, while Techmite Oculi buzz alongside them, helping their riders zero in on targets with even greater accuracy.
Customize your gang with the Ironhead Squat Prospectors Weapons & Upgrades. The plastic Weapons and Upgrades kit will outfit your crew with new weapons, equipment, heads and arms. This set contains two sprues, including two-handed power axes and picks, flamers, melta guns, mining lasers, gem extractors, circular stone saws and more.
Keep organized and show off your loyalty with the Halls of the Ancients Gang Tactics Cards and Gang Dice. The card pack features 26 Gang Tactics cards, which comprises 18 tactics cards and eight blank vehicle cards. Make sure you’re rolling in style with this set of eight gang dice featuring three six-sided dice, two injury dice, two firepower dice, and a scatter dice, all in a dark white and green swirl with gold ink.
For Warhammer: Age of Sigmar comes Luminark of Hysh. A powerful war machine that devastates enemies by focusing light through a series of finely crafted arcane optics, the Luminark of Hysh is fielded by the Cities of Sigmar in their efforts to purge Chaos from the Mortal Realms.
This kit has been slightly updated to fit better in Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, and can also be built as a Celestial Hurricanum, which will unleash magical storms rather than beams of light. It includes a Battlemage, who can be mounted on either machine, adding spellcasting prowess to proceedings.
From Black Library comes The Emperor’s Gift (Special Edition) by Aaron Dembski-Bowden. Through an intensive regime of psychic training, new recruits are brought to the clandestine fortress of Titan to join the hallowed ranks of the 666th Chapter. These legendary battle-brothers must be vigilant and ever ready to defend the Imperium, for the forces of Chaos are never truly defeated.
The Special Edition features a faux leather cover, silver screen printing, and a silver bookmark. Each copy is numbered and signed by the author. It will be available while stocks last.
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!
The box features a unite of Wrathmongers for our Blades of Khorne force!
Warhammer: Age of Sigmar Stormbringeris 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 fifteenth box featuring issues 55 to 58!
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!
This is a column that focuses on something or some things from the comic book sphere of influence that may not get the credit and recognition it deserves. Whether that’s a list of comic book movies, ongoing comics, or a set of stories featuring a certain character. The columns may take the form of a bullet pointed list, or a slightly longer thinkpiece – there’s really no formula for this other than whether the things being covered are Underrated in some way. This week: Warhammer: Crown Of Destruction.
It’s often easy to discount Games Workshop based comics as little more than a generic cash in with little appeal beyond those who already play Games Workshop games such as Warhammer. As you may have guessed by this collection featuring in Underrated, that’s not always the case.
Although I found this in a thrift shop for $2, I was utterly captivated by it from start to finish. I tell you the price I paid more to give an indication of what I was willing to pay based on the cover and blurb on the back, not because I want to brag about my find. Any higher a price and I probably would have left it on the shelf – though seeing as how it was with the kids books I may have at least moved it to the adult section.
As I may have indicated, I went into this book with pretty low expectations on the story (though oddly I would have been surprised if the art wasn’t at the very least “pretty damn good”). But given that this four issue collection was written by Kieron Gillen, I probably should have had higher expectations than I did. Yes, it’s the third book in the series, no that didn’t bother me any.
Gillen’s story about disgrace, honour and cowardice is pure escapist fantasy, but it is solid and more than enjoyable. I loved the artistic direction of the book. Dwayne Harris, while not to everybody’s taste, encapsulates the visual feel I expected from a gritty comic that had some very loud 2000AD echoes.
A lot of the folks I talk to at my LCS generally discount these comics as not being worth reading; and while they may not always be the best things you’ll ever read, they’re far better than most (including myself) give them credit for. That’s why I think these stories are Underrated. Next time a Warhammer comic looks interesting to you, check it out. You may find yourself enjoying it more than expected.
Join us next week when we look at something else that is, for whatever reason, Underrated.
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.
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.
