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Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: Skaventide continues to invade Age of Sigmar with the Core Rulebook and more

Posted on June 30, 2024 by Graphic Policy Team

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.

Our latest Warpcrate for Warhammer: Age of Sigmar gives us… Mortek Guard?

Posted on June 29, 2024 by Brett

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 Mortek Guard!

Box 7:
Mortek Guard x 20 – $62.50

Box 6:
Flesh Hounds x 5 – $60

Box 5:
Dire Wolves x 10 – $60

Box 4:
Mighty Lord of Khorne – $20?
Blood Warriors x 5 -$37.50 (normally $65 for 10)
Bloodstoker – $15?
Total: $72.50

Box 3:
Skullgrinder – $35
Bloodreavers x10 – $30 (normally $60 for 20)
Total: $65

Box 2:
Radukar the Wolf – $40
Corpse Cart – $35
Total: $75

Box 1:
Vargheists – $60

Spent: $245
“Value”: $455
Savings: $210

Forces:

Soulblight Gravelords
Radukar the Wolf – 130pts
Corpse Cart – 90pts
Vargheists – 140pts
Dire Wolves – 150pts

Total: 510pts

Blades of Khorne
Mighty Lord of Khorne – 130pts
Blood Warriors – 95pts (for 5)
Bloodstoker – 90pts
Skullgrinder – 80pts
Bloodreavers – 80pts
Flesh Hounds – 100pts

Total: 575pts

Ossiarch Bonereapers
Mortek Guard x 20 – 260pts

Total: 260pts

Warhammer: Age of Sigmar Stormbringer Box 9 is here and we quickly show off each issue!

Posted on June 28, 2024 by Brett

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!

You can subscribe now

Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: Warhammer: Age of Sigmar – Skaventide is coming!

Posted on June 23, 2024 by Brett

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.

Warhammer: Age of Sigmar Stormbringer 30 features Hobgrot Slittaz

Posted on June 23, 2024 by Brett

Warhammer: Age of Sigmar Stormbringer is now available in the US. We subscribed and are diving into the contents, issue by issue.

The issue adds Hobgrot Slittaz to your forces!

The magazine is $13.99 (plus shipping). And there’s the $3 for the fancy upgrade.

Contents:
Hobgrot Slittaz – $30 (normally $60 for 20)

Rough value: ~$30
Magazine price: $13.99 (or $16.99)

Savings: $13.01 or $16.01

Total savings upgraded: $561.23
Total savings not upgraded: $468.23

You can subscribe now!

Warhammer: Age of Sigmar 29 adds more paints to the collection…

Posted on June 22, 2024 by Brett

Warhammer: Age of Sigmar Stormbringer is now available in the US. We subscribed and are diving into the contents, issue by issue.

The issue adds two paints to the collection.

The magazine is $13.99 (plus shipping). And there’s the $3 for the fancy upgrade.

Contents:
Runelord Brass – $6.10
Barak-Nar Burgundy – $4.55

Rough value: ~$10.65
Magazine price: $13.99 (or $16.99)

Savings: -$3.34 or -$6.34

Total savings upgraded: $548.22
Total savings not upgraded: $452.22

You can subscribe now!

Unboxing: Half Moon Bay’s Mystery Warhammer Box

Posted on October 19, 2020 by Brett

Half Moon Bay is offering a “mystery box” filled with their officially licensed Games Workshop items.

There’s content worth “over $65” in each box and is a fun thing to get for fans of Games Workshop and Warhammer.

Retailing for $39.99 plus shipping, you can order yours!

How’s the value? Check out the video of what we got and then below of how it stacks up to the value promised and cost.

Warhammer Age of Sigmar Pint Glass – Not on the site – guessing $15.99
Warhammer 40,000 Bowl – Blood Angels- $15.99
Warhammer 40,000 Heat Changing Latte Mugs – Space Marine – $15.99
Warhammer 40,000 A5 Notebook – Battle – $13.99
Warhammer 40,000 Pin Badge – Space Wolves – $4.99
Warhammer 40,000 Keyring – Purity Seal – $8.99

Retail: $75.94 (ish)

Games Workshop Returns to Comics with Marvel

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Brett

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.

This isn’t the first time GW properties have wound up in Marvel comics, though previously it wasn’t so legal.

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.

New comics come to shelves autumn 2020.

Comics
Games

Table of Ultimate Gaming’s Warhammer Tables are Here

Posted on June 4, 2018 by Brett

In a world defined by endless battle, hardened warriors fight ceaselessly to forge the world into their image.

Now you, too, can immerse yourself into battle with your very own official Warhammer gaming table from Table of Ultimate Gaming.

There’s four designs to choose from:

Age of Sigmar, Stormcast Eternals
Daemons of Chaos
40,000: Imperium Red
40,000: Imperium Black

The tables aren’t cheap starting at $999.99 but for die-hard Games Workshop fans, they are the ultimate gaming tables.

PETA Takes Aim at Games Workshop and Warhammer

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Brett

PETA, the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals, has sent a letter to Games Workshop CEO Kevin Rountree asking for fur garments to be removed from their “Warhammer characters.” Warhammer is two games and settings Warhammer Fantasy/Warhammer: Age of Sigmar are fantasy based and Warhammer 40K is a futuristic grimdark world. Both games are tabletop miniature games where players build physical model kits creating an army to battle their opponents. Both games’ stories are violent featuring over the top violence, demons, fascist rules, xenophobia, and genocide. But, it’s the treatment of make believe animals that has PETA up in arms, not the Slaanesh hoards wearing human skin.

The letter reads:

I’m writing to you on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to ask that you consider removing “fur” garments from your Warhammer characters at the next opportunity.

From the mighty Leman Russ and Horus Lupercal to Chaos Warriors and the Sisters of Silence, Warhammer features an abundance of characters who wear what appear to be animal pelts, which just doesn’t add up. These battle-hardened warriors are known for their martial prowess – but wearing the skins of dead animals doesn’t take any skill.

Indeed, nothing on the bloody battlefields of Warhammer’s war-torn world could match the horrific reality that foxes, minks, rabbits, and other living beings experience at the hands of the fur trade. Those killed for their fur typically first endure a bleak life inside a tiny, filthy wire cage before being electrocuted, drowned, or even skinned alive. Or they may be out minding their business and get caught in horrific bone-crushing steel-jaw traps – often languishing for days before eventually dying of hunger, thirst, or blood loss.

And while we appreciate that these are fictional characters, draping them in what looks to be a replica of a dead animal sends the message that wearing fur is acceptable – when, in fact, it has no more place in 2017 than it would in the year 40,000.

Thank you for your consideration, and I look forward to hearing from you.

While the letter is interesting it shows a lack of knowledge of the worlds Games Workshop has created, either ignoring the fantasy setting or conflating the two games, not to mention some of the claims… they clearly haven’t read any of Chaos’ tomes. Some of that makes what happens to animals fuzzy happy times.

The tabletop miniature game’s world has also been depicted in novels, animated film, and comic books. Currently, Titan Comics is publishing two series set in the world.

This isn’t the first time PETA has stepped into the world of geekdom. The organization has criticized various video games in the past and even used video games to help promote their cause. I look forward to their eventual tabletop miniature wargame rules set.

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