Tag Archives: gary kloster

Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: Get ready for the holidays with Battleforces and more!

Get ready for the holidays, expand your forces, or start a new one with next weekend’s Games Workshop pre-orders featuring this year’s Battleforces and more. Check out below and see what you’ll be able to get!

This year’s seasonal Commemorative Series miniature is “Provisionally Prepared.” It depicts a Ratling sniper team torn between dealing with an incoming attack and a tasty sausage.

Provisionally Prepared

The Adepta Sororitas Battleforce: Penitent Crusade Host features a Ministorum Priest who leads 2 Penitent Engines (which can be built as Mortifiers), 9 Sisters Repentia and their Repentia Superior, and 10 Arco-Flagellants, along with 2 Adepeta Sororitas Rhinos. The box also comes with an Adepta Sororitas Transfer sheet which comprises 290 decals.

Adepta Sororitas Battleforce: Penitent Crusade Host

The Imperial Knights Battleforce: Valourstrike Lance features a Knight Paladin (which can also be built as a Knight Errant) and four Armiger Helverins armed with a pair of devastating Armiger autocannons, which can alternatively be constructed as Armiger Warglaives wielding thermal spears and reaper chain-cleavers. This box also comes with an Imperial Knights Transfer sheet which features 647 decals.

Imperial Knights Battleforce: Valourstrike Lance

The Necrons Battleforce: Hypercrypt Legion features the C’tan Shard of the Void Dragon, an Overlord with Translocation Shroud, 10 Triarch Praetorians (which can be built as Lychguard), and 10 Necron Warriors accompanied by 3 Canoptek Scarab Swarms.

Necrons Battleforce: Hypercrypt Legion

The T’au Empire Battleforce: Retaliation Cadre features a Commander and drone, a Riptide Battlesuit and two drones, a Ghostkeel Battlesuit and two drones, and a Broadside Battlesuit and two drones, and each battlesuit comes with a choice of supremely destructive ordnance. The box also comes with a T’au Empire Transfer sheet which features 225 decals.

T'au Empire Battleforce: Retaliation Cadre

The Dark Angels Battleforce: Inner Circle Task Force features Lion El’Jonson himself, and an Inner Circle Task Force composed of a Chaplain in Terminator armour, 6 Inner Circle Companions, and 10 Deathwing Knights (accompanied by two loyal Watchers in the Dark ). This box also comes with a Dark Angels transfer sheet containing 217 transfers.

Dark Angels Battleforce: Inner Circle Task Force

The Ironjawz Battleforce: Wrekkamob features 6 Weirdbrute Wrekkaz (which can also be built as Brute Ragerz) are joined 20 Ardboyz, and a Tuskboss on Maw-grunta (which can also be built as a Maw-grunta with Hakkin’ Krew or a Maw-Grunta Gouger).

Ironjawz Battleforce: Wrekkamob

The Flesh-eater Courts Battleforce: Charnelgrand Jury features a Grand Justice Gormayne, 6 Morbheg Knights, 10 Cryptguard, and 6 Crypt Horrors (which can also be built as winged Crypt Flayers).

Flesh-eater Courts Battleforce: Charnelgrand Jury

The Cities of Sigmar Battleforce: Founding Foray is led by a stern Freeguild Marshal and their Relic Envoy, who are accompanied by a Freeguild Command Corps. They direct 10 Freeguild Fusiliers, an Ironweld Great Cannon, and a Fusil-Major on Ogor Warhulk, and 5 Freeguild Cavaliers.

Cities of Sigmar Battleforce: Founding Foray

The Maggotkin of Nurgle: Shudderblight Cyst features a Harbinger of Decay, 5 Putrid Blightkings, 10 Rotmire Creed, and 4 Pusgoyle Blightlords (one of each pair can be built as a Lord of Affliction).

Maggotkin of Nurgle: Shudderblight Cyst

From Black Library comes Eisenhorn: Malleus – Illustrated and Annotated Edition. Gregor Eisenhorn is one of the most infamous Inquisitors, and he cannot escape his past when he is implicated in a great tragedy that brings ruin to Thracian Primaris. The daemon Cherubael has once again returned, and is dedicated to destroying the Inquisitor, be it through death or turning him to the Dark Gods. Written by Dan Abnett, it features five new pieces of art by Tazio Bettin, author commentary throughout the book, and a completely new afterword.

In Skaventide by Gary Kloster, the Vermindoom has torn a huge portion of the Great Parch asunder, and now only the Stormcast Eternals of the Ruination Chamber stand between the perfidious Skaven hordes and their total domination of Aqshy. Both sides are racing to secure a lost Stormcast Eternal who holds forbidden knowledge that will guarantee their victory, and secure the fate of the realm.

Skaventide

In The Ghosts of Barak-Minoz by Guy Haley, Drekki Flynt has found himself in trouble once again, drawn into a new adventure after the previously presumed dead crewmate Evtorr has returned, pursued by assassins from Ulgu and raving about the fabled Dead Air. A mysterious area rumoured to be the last known location of the famed treasure-filled city Barak-Minoz, the mention of Dead Air gets Drekki’s attention… but first, he has to navigate the Eye of Testudinous and live.

The Ghosts of Barak-Minoz

Da Red Gobbo Collection featuring stories by Mike Brooks, Denny Flowers, and Rhuairidh James is out in audiobook. It contains five stories: Da Gobbo’s Revenge by Mike Brooks, the novella Da Gobbo’s Demise and short story Da Wrong Type of Green by Denny Flowers, and the novella Da Gobbo Rides Again and the short story The Instigator by Rhuairidh James.

Da Red Gobbo Collection

Wolf’s Honour by Lee Lightner is out in audiobook. The Thousand Sons’ long standing enmity with the Space Wolves comes to a head as they launch a devastating assault, with only Ragnar Blackmane and his brothers to stand in their way. They must seek out the Spear of Russ, but his nemesis Madox stands between him and his prize.

Wolf’s Honour

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

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.

Warhammer: Age of Sigmar Skaventide

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.