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Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: Kill Team gets the spotlight

It’s a pre-order week packed with Kill Team releases from Games Workshop.

Kill Team: Blood and Zeal is the big release, the latest expansion for the game. The Massif Ballistus is preparing to fire, but as masses gather to perform the proper rituals in the sprawling foundry district of Cascabael, the Goremongers of Khorne slaughter their way through the crowds in an effort to sabotage the shot. Only the Sanctifiers stand in their way.

Kill Team: Blood and Zeal features two new Kill Teams. The Sanctifiers are nine Imperial Zealots who take on The Goremongers, cybernetically enhanced operatives who worship Khorne.

The box also includes a Shrine statue for your forces to genuflect before – or desecrate, as appropriate, as well as a 56-page Blood and Zeal dossier containing background lore for the conflict, rules for the kill teams and new missions. There are also tokens and datacards for both kill teams, and a deck of cards for the new missions.

Kill Team: Ratlings get a release along with their Datacards. The set contains 10 Ratlings who can be built either as regular troopers or specialists like the Big Shot, Hardbit, Raider, Slashmaster and Vox-thief, as well as a Battlemutt and three tokens (two tripwires and an ammo cache). You also get a set of unique tokens for use in games. The deck contains 38 Datacards comprising faction rules and equipment, unique ploys, operative profiles and other helpful information.

Ork fans won’t have to wait much longer for Kill Team: Wrecka Krew and their Datacards. The Wrecka Crew miniatures can be used in Kill Team or Warhammer 40,000 and can be built as various specialists, including a Boss Nob, a Demolisha, a Krusha or a Rokkiteer, alongside two unlucky Bomb Squigs. The box includes a set of unique tokens for use in games of Kill Team and a transfer sheet comprising 438 decals. There’s 33 Datacards in that release that contains faction rules and equipment, unique ploys, operative profiles and other helpful information.

Upgrade your tabletop with Killzone Upgrade: Compound Siege. It contains 14 plastic terrain pieces: two Bunkers, six Fire Steps, and six Stockades which are designed to be used with Killzone Volkus. Rules for using the terrain and its associated mission pack will be available to download from Warhammer Community shortly after release.

Killzone Upgrade: Compound Siege

Warhammer 40,000 Combat Patrol 1 features a Captain in Terminator Armour and Winged Tyranid Prime!

Warhammer 40,000 Combat Patrol has come to the US and it features nine different combat patrols throughout the run. We subscribed and will be breaking down each issue as well as how much you save!

The first issue features a Captain in Terminator Armour, Winged Tyranid Prime, dice, and playmat!

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Winged Tyranid Prime: $42

Total: $62

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Individual Issue Price: $6.99

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Warlord’s Bolt Action Mystery Boxes Return!

They’re back, by popular demand! Warlord Games has revealed two new Mystery Boxes for Bolt Action. Every Mystery Box will contain, at minimum, four or more armoured fighting vehicles, supported by a selection of infantry, artillery, and transports, at a superb value against buying the contents separately. Even better, you can choose from either Allied or Axis Mystery Boxes!

Get yours: Allied Mystery BoxAxis Mystery Box

Bolt Action Mystery Boxes

Mantic reveals its Halo: Flashpoint 2025 Show Specials

Convention specials can be pretty fun, and at times frustrating to get, and Mantic Games has revealed their 2025 Specials for Halo: Flashpoint. The first chance to see them will be at AdeptiCon (US) and SALUTE (UK).

Fireteam Phoenix features the original 4 Spartans, reposed, and produced in MasterCraft Resin. The figures won’t feature new cards as they’re already available. These are for the painters and are perfect to customize your Spartan team.

But Mantic is being awesome about this and the Fireteam Phoenix 2025 Show Special will be available for those who can’t make it to conventions too!

They will go up for pre-order on the Mantic webstore from the time of AdeptiCon, and come down after SALUTE at the end of April. They will then make them and ship them in May. Nobody misses out on their chance to order this fantastic show special which is pretty awesome for completists! Not only that, but FLGS partners will be able to get a copy of these very limited-edition 1-print special miniatures too!

Fireteam Phoenix 2025 Show Special

Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: The Gloomspite Gitz are coming!

It’s a Warhammer: Age of Sigmar pre-order weekend coming soon from Games Workshop. The Gloomspite Gitz get the focus with their Battletome and more!

The new Battletome: Gloomspite Gitz collects rules and warscrolls for the Gloomspite Gitz with background, Battle Traits, Battle Formations, Heroic Traits, Artefacts of Power, plus Spell and Manifestation Lores. It also contains rules for a Gitmob-focused Spearhead, two Armies of Renown – one headed up by Droggz da Sunchompa and the other by Skragrott the Loonking, as well was Regiments of Renown, Path to Glory rules and an Anvil of Apotheosis for forging your own deeply cunnin’ git.

You can also get the Battletome: Gloomspite Gitz (Gamer’s Edition). The more portable package of the Gamer’s Edition of Battletome: Gloomspite Gitz, it features all of the same material in a smaller format. It comes with a full set of reference cards.

Droggz da Sunchompa is the dominant leader in the Gitmobs. This corpulent grot rides into battle atop Jaggedsnarl, a wizened Snarlfang who has outlived many masters over his long life. They are framed by the radiant sunmetal banner known as Da Frazzlefangz which blinds his enemies with flashes of light, leaving him able to cave heads in with the Da Metal Toof, a war-pick made from a chunk of meteor.

Droggz da Sunchompa

Snarlboss and Wolfgit Retinue are there to harry flanks with keenly aimed arrows.

Snarlboss and Wolfgit Retinue

Snarlboss on War-Wheela is the most ostentatious of chariots. This plastic kit can also be built as a Frazzlegit Shaman on War-wheela, a gibbering shaman who summons scorching magic from atop a totem.

Sunsteala Wheelas are built from lightweight wicker frames and features gruesome curved slicers. They’re rapid methods to get Gitmob grots around. The kit builds two that can be customised with all manner of grots and gubbins.

Sunsteala Wheelas

Snarlpack Cavalry are ready to ride into battle to tear through enemy ranks with reckless abandon. This plastic kit makes three Snarlfang Cavalry with interchangeable heads.

Snarlpack Cavalry

The Doom Diver Catapult flings grots through the air with explosive helmets to rain down death from the sky.

Doom Diver Catapult

Gloomspite Gitz Dice Set is here to show off your allegiance. The 16 dice are colored yellow with black ink, and featuring the visage of the Bad Moon on the six face.

Gloomspite Gitz Dice Set

White Dwarf 510 is on its way, and the focus of this issue is firmly on the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game – which has just entered a brand new edition. There’s a battle report, an analysis of the new edition, and an in-depth look at the new miniatures that come with The War of the Rohirrim – Battle of Edoras boxed set.

For Warhammer 40,000 there’s the first part of a deep dive into the design of the Aeldari, accompanied by a Combat Patrol for the Harlequins, and an exciting new way to play Aspects of War, which is supported by a set of 10 new stratagem cards.

The Orruk Warclans are the focus of this month’s Age of Sigmar content with a new Flashpoint article and Army of Renown. On top of that there’s pages of great Warhammer hobby articles, and the final part of the Tatters of Hope serial by William Crowe, and a brief look at how one Black LIbrary editor made the characters from existing minis.

White Dwarf 510

From Black Library is Callis & Toll by David Annandale. Life in the Cinderfall district of Hammerhal Aqsha is rough – crime is rife and death comes quickly, but even here the ritualistic murder of a powerful ganglord is enough to raise more than a few eyebrows, and soon Hanniver Toll and Armand Callis are dispatched by the Order of Azyr to investigate this strange death. Reaching the heart of this mystery will be a stiff challenge for this daring pair, and you can find out how they get on in Callis & Toll.

Callis & Toll

Games Workshop reveals Kill Team: Blood and Zeal

Games Workshop has revealed a new expansion for Kill Team, Blood and Zeal. The expansion adds to new kill teams, a mission-packed dossier full of lore and rules, and expands upon Killzone Volkus, and adds cards and tokens for both teams.

The first team are the Sanctifiers, a band of 11 Ecclesiarchal militiamen dedicated to protecting the Imperium. With a lack of armor, they make up for it with raw grit fighting through injuries. Many are equipped with searing flame weapons, delivering a punch at close range. They feature a Drill Abbot and Death Cult Assassin.

The Goremongers are eight mortal servants of Khorne. They’ve witnessed a Bloodletter in combat and survived the encounter making them obsessed with the Blood God’s wrath.

Along with the two teams you get the Imperial Shrine Statue as a centerpiece for the terrain table.

Imperial Shrine Statue

The Dossier contains new mechanics including a new deck of Blood and Zeal cards. Drawing a card in-game could give you a sudden stroke of good fortune as the divine cast their gaze over your battlefield and bequeath the faithful with powerful abilities. Also included ins a token sheet with everything you need to play both kill teams from the get-go.

GAMA 2025: Conquest gets a 2-player Starter featuring Yoroni vs. W’Adrhun

Grab a friend and… have an argument, as you can’t decide which choice is your favorite. That is the situation in which Para Bellum Games, publisher of fantasy Mass Combat Miniature Wargame Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings and Skirmish ruleset Conquest: First Blood, is putting the wargaming community, with its new 2-Player Starter Set. In one corner, the Set features the brand-new Yoroni, the ninth, and first Brute-only, faction of Conquest, featuring Yokai-inspired demon samurai that break a new frontier in fantasy wargaming with their aesthetic and style. In the other corner, a classic beloved: the mighty W’adrhŭn, Conquest’s dino-riding warriors and their powerful beasts, starring their latest behemoth of an entry: the flying Quatl, along with its Windlord Predator. With 10 Brute-sized Yoroni models and six W’adrhŭn entries, featuring 2 different dinosaur Brute entries led by the monstrous Quatl, the contents of this box are practically begging to be painted and fielded against each other!

The box features 16 Brute-sized entries and a Monster, offering incredible value, while also including everything else needed to start assembling your new Conquest armies. With two Welcome Guides, two sets of Quick Start guides for both games, two Wooden Conquest Measuring Tools, two Sets of 12 Dice, all the bases, stands, Command and Ideal Cards needed for each army to start playing, assembly manuals, two Folded Paper Maps, this is an absolute must for beginners and fans of Conquest. But while the practical approach makes a case for itself, in this primal clash of the mighty, it is indeed hard to see beyond the cool factor: Demon samurais versus dinosaur-riding warriors. Who would win? How will you choose which faction to play? Maybe it’s really a one player starter that gets you starting two new armies?

The answer awaits on your tables!

The “Two Player Starter Set – Yoroni vs W’adrhŭn” is available for pre-order at participating FLGS, or on our eshop and will be released on March 28th, at a SRP of USD/EU 199.99.

Conquest  2-Player Starter Set

GAMA 2025: The Yoroni are coming for Para Bellum’s Conquest with the Cohort Box

Opportunities like this are not to be missed. Coming out swinging, the Yoroni, the ninth faction of Conquest, make life easier and cooler than ever for players, as Para Bellum Games, publisher of fantasy Mass Combat Miniature Wargame Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings and Skirmish ruleset Conquest: First Blood, is putting a bit over 1000 points worth of brute army in a double-digit priced Cohort Box. Inside the Yoroni Cohort box, eleven Brute sized miniature await, with Tengu, Kappa, Oni and Kami answering the call of a Kitsune Onmyoji Character. And thanks to the flexible special rules of the Yoroni, the… magnificent eleven Brute-sized models of the Cohort are suitable for both Mass Combat and Skirmish systems as is. With a range of different models and an entirely new aesthetic and playstyle, the Yoroni Cohort Box is here to scratch every itch of a Yokai-themed wargaming army, be it playing endless battles, trying new painting ideas or both!

The Cohort contains 10 Ideal Cards, a Quick Start Guide for First Blood with Welcome Guide and a ‘ready to play’ Army List for First Blood. But unlike any other army of Conquest, the Yoroni use Ideal Cards and can mix and match when building their regiments. Thus, the box was recently updated so that all 11 entries are fully compatible to form a Tournament Ready 1000-point army for First Blood and an 885-point Army for Last Argument of Kings, the foundation to play and then build a larger force overtime to be tournament ready for our rank and flank game. The Cohort One Player Starter for Yoroni is one of the best starting points for a new army in wargaming – and it’s ready for two games.

If there was ever a time to try something new in wargaming, this is it. The “First Blood Cohort – Yoroni” box is available for pre-order now and will be released on April 25th, at an SRP of USD/EU 99.99.

Look To The Skies, Aircraft Inbound for Warcradle’s March releases

A new dimension to combat has opened up in Armoured Clash as aircraft for the released factions are coming this March. Get ready to add aerial units for the CrownEmpireUnion, and Enlightened with the Defiance FighterDoksuri FighterCorsair Fighter, and Scythe Drone, respectively.

Following the launch of the Enlightened last month, you can also bolster your army with the Wells Battlegroup Set, Enlightened Armoured Regiment, and Enlightened Infantry Regiment. These sets offer elements of the Enlightened Faction Battlegroup and are ideal for acquiring additional units for your army.

Finally, Union and Alliance players can add a legendary relic of the Ore War to their Dystopian Wars fleets as the Gotham Battlefleet Set is released this March. This Battlefleet Set offers a great mix of manoeuvrability and firepower, and it’s a great addition to any Union or Alliance.

These new products are due to be released at the end of March 2025.

Defiance Fighter

Boasting a tailgun as protection, an innovation that the other Great Powers deemed superfluous, dozens of Defiance class fighters are now based at RFC Lakenheath Warren, each ready to set flight at a moment’s notice to defend the Crown against her enemies

Defiance Fighter

Doksuri Fighter

Boasting a resin-lacquer shell, combined with the hanji paper of Korea, the fuselage of the Doksuri Fighter is flexible, light and durable, making it significantly more manoeuvrable than many of the fighters employed by the other Great Powers

Doksuri Fighter

Corsair Fighter

Pilots are known for both their bravery in the face of fire and their hotheadedness, and it is this impetuousness that seems intrinsically linked to those who dare strap themselves into a Corsair cockpit. Liberty Gatling Cannons rake the ground once a Corsair begins its strafing run, tearing apart infantry and light targets alike.

Corsair Fighter

Scythe Drone

Scythe Drones bring aerial support to the forces of the Covenant. Lightweight, fast, and eminently replaceable, these machines streak across the combat zone, unleashing their particle beam weapon upon anyone unfortunate enough to attract their ire.

Scythe Drone

Wells Battlegroup Set

The Wells Super-Heavy Surveyor is a behemoth worthy of such nomenclature. Looming over even the Monarch Landship of the Crown, it is a walking testament to the rightful superiority of the Covenant. Its aetheric destabilizer is rightly feared by the other Great Powers, for it does not simply destroy its targets but annihilates them completely.

Wells Battlegroup Set

Enlightened Armoured Regiment

In the Enlightened Armoured Regiment Box you’ll find heavy support for your Enlightened force.

Mars Battle Tripods stride towards the enemy, eager to unleash beams of blazing energy capable of disintegrating anything in their path.

Enlightened Armoured Regiment

Enlightened Infantry Regiment

In the Enlightened Infantry Regiment Box you’ll find support for your Enlightened force.

Citizen-Soldiers drawn from across the globe march together, their training and augmentations helping them operate as a cohesive unit, despite their disparate origins.

Enlightened Infantry Regiment

Gotham Battlefleet Set

The Gotham Battlefleet Set for Dystopian Wars is an excellent way for a Union or Alliance player to include a relic of the Ore War in their fleet.

The Gotham Littoral Fleet Carrier was rightly feared during the bloody conflicts of the Ore War. Despite its size, the shallow draught allowed it to access coastlines, estuaries and the larger rivers of the Americas.

Gotham Battlefleet Set
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