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Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: Warhammer Underworld, The Old World, Legions Imperialist, and more!

It’s a mixed week of releases for Games Workshop with new items for three different games, Warhammer Underworlds, Warhammer: The Old World, and Warhammer: The Horus Heresy – Legions Imperialis.

Warhammer Underworlds: Spitewood is a new expansion for the latest edition of Warhammer Underworlds. The action takes players to Spitewood as Helsmiths take on Kurnoth’s most loyal followers. The set features two new warbands, Kurnoth’s Heralds and the Blood of the Bull. It also comes with their warscroll and fighter cards, as well as a double-sided game board representing the deep forests of Ghyran. You also get a sheet of tokens, a 16-page rulebook introducing new mechanics for the Spitewood board, and two Rivals decks – Hunting Grounds and Deadly Synergy. To use this expansion you’ll need a copy of Warhammer Underworlds: Embergard.

  • Warhammer Underworlds: Spitewood
  • Warhammer Underworlds: Spitewood
  • Warhammer Underworlds: Spitewood

Seekers in the Shadow collects four warbands Xandire’s Truthseekers, the Shadeborn, the Starblood Stalkers, and Elathain’s Soulraid along with warscoll cards and fighters cards for each warband.

Reavers of Ruin features the Gnarlspirit Pack, Skittershank’s Clawpack, the Thricefold Discord, and the Wurmspat along with warscoll cards and fighters cards for each warband.

Morbid Minions features the Exiled Dead, the Sons of Velmorn, the Skinnerkin, and Thorns of the Briar Queen along with warscoll cards and fighters cards for each warband.

Gitz and Goliaths includes Hrothgorn’s Mantrappers, Rippa’s Snarlfangs, Mollog’s Mob, and Zarbag’s Gitz along with warscoll cards and fighters cards for each warband.

Warbands of Spitewood features updated fighter and warscroll cards for all 16 in the Warbands of Spitewood set. The cards visually differ slightly to those contained within the four boxes above, with photography of the warbands on the reverse of each warscroll card.

Warbands of Spitewood

Arcane Journal: The War of Settra’s Fury for Warhammer: The Old World as a 48-page supplement that contains background lore on the war in the Border Princes, as well as rules for Battle March – a new high speed game mode for 500-750 point games, with force limitations, three deployment maps, and changes to scoring. There are new Tomb Kings of Khemri rules for the monstrous mounts and incantations of the Mortuary Cult, as well as two Armies of Infamy – Renegade Crowns for the Empire of Man, and the Slayer Host for the Dwarfen Mountain Holds.

Arcane Journal: The War of Settra's Fury

Liche Priests are the root of the Tomb King’s power, conducting powerful rituals to recall spirits from the Realm of Souls and wielding ancient Nehekharan lore to smite their foes in battle. This box contains two plastic Liche Priests, one on foot and one mounted on a barded skeletal steed. Each has a number of interchangeable options, including four heads, a pair of scales that can be swapped across both models, and a choice of staff toppers. The priest on foot also has options for a magical effect base topper and an eerie floating scroll.

Liche Priests

Royal Heralds builds a plastic Tomb Prince and Royal Herald – with your choice of which one walks and which is mounted on a skeletal steed. Both have a number of cosmetic options, including a cape and collar, chest decorations, right hand choices, including two hand weapons and an empty hand, left hand options, including battle standard, shield, or great weapon, and two head options for both Tomb Prince and Royal Herald.

Royal Heralds

Legiones Astartes Combat Force allows you to start or expand your force. It contains 131 individual miniatures and contains 2 Legion Command Squads, 8 Tactical Legionary bases, 2 Legion Terminator bases, 2 Assault Marine bases, 2 Support Legionary bases, 2 Heavy Support Legionary bases, 4 Contemptor Dreadnoughts, 4 Leviathan Dreadnoughts, 4 Deredeo Dreadnoughts, 4 Rapiers, 4 Tarantulas, 5 Rhino transports, 4 Kratos tanks, and 4 Sicaran tanks. It also comes with 3 Legiones Astartes Vehicle transfer sheets, each with 1130 decals.

Legiones Astartes Combat Force

The Mechanicum Combat Force contains 2 Archmagos Prime on Abeyant, 2 Myrmidon Secutor Host bases, 2 Tech-Priests bases, 4 Ursarax bases, 4 Myrmidon Destructor bases, 8 Thallax bases, 8 Tech-thrall bases, 4 Castellax bases, 2 Vorax bases, 2 Vultarax, 2 Arlatax, 2 Domitar, 4 Thanatar equipped with plasma mortars, 4 Thanatar equipped with sollex heavy-las cannons, 6 Krios battle tanks, and 2 Triaros Armoured Conveyors. It also comes with 2 Mechanicum transfer sheets, with 500 decals each.

Mechanicum Combat Force

The Solar Auxilia Combat Force contains 2 Solar Auxilia Command bases, 8 Auxilia bases, 4 Auxilia with flamers bases, 4 Veletarii bases, 4 Charonite Ogryn bases, 4 Aethon Heavy Sentinels, 12 Auxilia Tarantulas, 12 Auxilia Rapiers, 4 Cyclops demolition vehicles, 3 Dracosan transports, 8 Leman Russ Vanquishers, and 2 Auxilia Baneblades. The box also contains 3 Solar Auxilia transfer sheets, each containing 288 decals.

Solar Auxilia Combat Force

White Dwarf 517 is packed with lots of Warhammer hobby content to tuck into. Battlefield scenery is the central theme of this issue, with showcases of terrain collections and guides on how to make your own. There is also a brand new Tale of Four Warlords starting up for Warhammer Age of Sigmar, rules for cavalry battles in Warhammer 40,000 and aerial battles in the Mortal Realms, plus new Kill Team rules for fighting on Necron tomb worlds of various flavours – and a new mission for the Space Marine Operations game mode. That’s not all either, as there are plenty of articles on background lore, plus a new short story, and showcases of miniatures painted by staff and readers to provide you with tons of inspiration.

White Dwarf 517

The Space Marine Plush is a cuddly way to show off your fandom of the Emperor’s finest.

Space Marine Plush

The Gloomspite Git Plush allows you to squeeze the dampest and dankest denizens of the Bad Moon.

Gloomspite Git Plush

The Blood Bowl Ball Plush will get you ready for a new edition of Blood Bowl.

Blood Bowl Ball Plush

From Black Library comes the Yarrick: The Box Set pays homage to Yarrick, collecting together the novels Imperial Creed and The Pyres of Armageddon alongside the anthology Chains of Golgotha and Other Stories, all by David Annandale, in a slipcase featuring screen-printed art. Each case is numbered, and Imperial Creed is signed by the author. This product is available only while stocks last.

The Horus Heresy: Collection XVII

The Horus Heresy: Collection XVII features books 49, 50, and 51 – Wolfsbane by Guy Haley, Born of Flame by Nick Kyme, and Slaves to Darkness by John French. This collection can be pre-ordered in eBook format next week.

The Horus Heresy: Collection XVII

Eidolon: The Auric Hammer by Marc Collins features Lord Commander Primus Eidolon who has claimed many titles through the annals of his infamy. He is the Exemplar and the Risen, the Soul-Severed, and the Auric Hammer. During his journey to Terra to take part in the final siege, he is whisked away to the world of Tatricala, where he is haunted by ghosts of his past and faces a terrible choice. French readers can now discover his trials, which is available to pre-order in eBook format next week.

Eidolon: The Auric Hammer

Fulgrim: The Perfect Son by Jude Reid gets a German edition in eBook format.

Fulgrim: The Perfect Son

Siege of Terra – Omnibus III by Chris Wraight also gets a German eBook release.

Siege of Terra – Omnibus III

Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: Black Library Celebration and Warhammer: The Horus Heresy dominate the week

It’s that time of the year for the Black Library Celebration! Along with books, there’s some limited miniatures and beyond that, a lot of releases for Warhammer: The Horus Heresy. Check out below for what you’ll be able to pre-order from Games Workshop starting next week.

For those into Warhammer 40,000, there’s Hell’s Last miniatures and novel! Minka Lesk of the Cadian 101st has fought tooth and nail to survive in the wake of the tragedy of Cadia, but war is eternal in the 41st Millennium and new challenges are on the horizon. She stars in upcoming novel Hell’s Last by Justin D Hill, which is also accompanied by a set of miniatures featuring Captain Lesk herself, Commissar Shand, Confessor Talbeas, Veteran Sergeant Grawnya and Veteran Trooper Jaromir.

The regular hardback, eBook and audiobook formats are joined by a special edition in a cloth case with foil details – each copy is signed and numbered, features a gilt page edges, a purple ribbon bookmark, and the short story Arcady Pride.

  • Hell's Last
  • Hell's Last
  • Hell's Last

Into Age of Sigmar? You can get Maleneth Witchblade and Shade of Khaine! Gotrek’s infamous associate Maleneth Witchblade has accompanied our truculent hero across the Mortal Realms in several stories. Now she’s breaking out on her own and joining him on the tabletop with a new plastic miniature, and starring in new novel Shade of Khaine by Evan Dicken.

Shade of Khaine will be released in the usual formats, as well as a signed and numbered special edition with a presentation case, gilt page edges, a purple ribbon bookmark, and the extra short story On Shadowed Tides.

  • Maleneth Witchblade and Shade of Khaine
  • Maleneth Witchblade and Shade of Khaine

Anyone who purchases a book during the celebration will receive the Black Library Celebration 2025 Anthology. This year’s collection features Visage by Rich McCormick, The One Road by David Guymer, Web of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky, and The Long Promise by Mike Brooks. Those who make a purchase in store will receive a paperback copy while stocks last, while if you buy from Blacklibrary.com, you will receive an eBook edition.

Black Library Celebration 2025 Anthology

The Black Library: The Art of Warhammer 40,000 contains over 100 beautiful illustrations including cover art and interior art from Black Library books published over the years, and comes in an A4 hardback.

Black Library: The Art of Warhammer 40,000

Blood of the Imperium features stories written by Mike Brooks, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Jude Reid, Marc Collins, and others, featured alongside Jon Flindall’s four-part story Tome Keepers: Legacy of Defiance, first published in White Dwarf issues 496 to 499.

Blood of the Imperium

Fifteen Hours by Michael Scanlon returns for a 20th anniversary edition hardback. A lone guardsman finds out some warzones are worse than others when they’re thrust into combat against the Orks, where his life expectancy is estimated at just 15 short hours.

Fifteen Hours

Gotrek and Maleneth: The Omnibus contains Bone Desert by Robbie MacNiven, The Neverspike, Ghoulslayer, Gitslayer, Death on the Road to Svardheim, Soulslayer, and the Crown of Karak-Khazhar by Daris Hinks, plus The Dead Hours by David Guymer. It will be available in paperback and eBook formats.

Gotrek and Maleneth: The Omnibus

Grey Seer by C L Werner returns in paperback as one of the Black Library Reader’s Choice winners for 2024. The legendary Grey Seer Thanquol is plotting to poison the city of Altdorf with the noxious Wormstone and cement his legacy as the most cutthroat of all Skaven – he just has to contend with all the subordinates, superiors, smugglers, and mysterious sorcerers who stand before him.

Grey Seer

Titanicus by Dan Abnett is the second Black Library Reader’s Choice winner for 2024. Having just secured victory in one military campaign, the Legio Invicta heads to the forge world of Orestes for refit and repair, but a twisted force of Chaos Titans ambushes them just as a religious schism begins to tear the Adeptus Mechanicum in two. As tensions rise and casualties mount, Legio Invicta are pushed to their limits.

Titanicus

There are also a lot of French and German Language Releases! French and German readers can each look forward to four different books from as part of the Black Library Celebration, with the paperback and eBook releases of Gotrek and Malaneth: The Omnibus, Hell’s Last by Justin D Hill, Interceptor City by Dan Abnett all on their way. You will receive a physical copy of the Black Library Celebration 2025 Anthology when you make a purchase at a Warhammer retail store, while stocks last, or an ebook edition with orders from Blacklibrary.com.

For Warhammer: The Horus Heresy, you can get the Mechanicum Heavy Support Force. It includes a Thanatar Calix Siege-automata equipped with sollex heavy-las and graviton ram, a Krios Strike Tank which can be built with a lightning cannon, an irradiation blaster, or as a Krios Venator with a pulsar fusil, and the Karacnos Assault Tank sporting a radiological mortar battery. This set also includes two Mechanicum Macro Constructs Transfer Sheets, which each comprise 394 transfers.

Mechanicum Heavy Support Force

The Arcuitor Magisterium is a Forge World resin kit. The technologies used to create those machines have been thoroughly vetted by an Arcuitor Magisterium, an all-in-one judge, jury, and executioner for those found practicing tech-heresy.

Arcuitor Magisterium

The Secutarii Axiarch protects the Titan Legions from small forces at close range. They lead forces in defence of these treasured god-engines with arc lance and mag-inverter shield in hand. The Secutarii Axiarch is a Forge World resin kit.

Secutarii Axiarch

The Iron Hands Legion Praetor is a cold and calculating commander kitted out with some serious enhancements and a cyber-familiar, made from Forge World Resin and supplied with a choice of two heads.

Iron Hands Legion Praetor

The Iron Warriors Warsmith is armed with a colossal graviton crusher and wearing immense cataphractii terminator armour, the Warsmith is an expert kit made of Forge World resin and comes with a choice of two heads.

Iron Warriors Warsmith

Space Wolves Caster of Runes obscure allies and tear at foes in equal measure. This expert kit is made of Forge World resin and comes with a choice of two heads.

Space Wolves Caster of Runes

You can get Loyalist and Traitor Herald Consuls feature banners and standards blessed by the Primarchs, and toppling or claiming one was often considered as high a priority as slaying an enemy general. The Loyalist and Traitor Herald Consuls are separate expert kits made of Forge World resin, and each comes with a choice of two heads.

The Loyalist and Traitor Overseer Consuls ensured supplemental forces followed Legion doctrines and maintained good order – or suffered the consequences. The Loyalist and Traitor Overseer Consuls are separate expert kits made of Forge World resin, and each comes with a choice of two heads.

Warhammer 40,000 Water Canteen is themed after those carried by the Astra Militarum – it’s made of aluminum, comes with a synthetic leather jacket which features an Astra Militarum pin badge, and can carry a litre of the life-giving liquid of your choice.

Warhammer 40,000 Water Canteen

Games Workshop reveals its 2025 Store Anniversary Figures

Every year, Warhammer stores celebrate their anniversary with exclusive miniatures (though they may be made available again in the future) and special swag. Games Workshop has revealed what’s coming for 2025.

Biosigns Terminated is for 40K fans and features a Genestealer having just ripped apart a Terminator. It’s a callback to the classic Space Hulk and the battles within the classic game.

Biosigns Terminated

Estenna of Brighthall is a Knight-Zephyros , ready to mete out Sigmar’s wrath. Clad in sleek Thunderstrike armor the figure is armed to the teeth and ready to strike.

Estenna of Brighthall

The Light of the Emperor and Other Stories is a hardback book anthology featuring five short stories, The Eyeless Mask by Liane Merciel, Starstruck by Denny Flowers, False Dawn by Chistopher Allen, The Light of the Emperor by Darius Hinks and Primacy by Marc Collins.

The Light of the Emperor and Other Stories

There’s also extras the more you spend. You can get an official Warhammer Dice Cup, four metal Warhammer dice, and a double-sided neoprene gaming mat with a Ghyran-themed Spearhead setup on one side, and the war-torn rubble of Warhammer 40,000 on the other – two of these mats is enough for a Combat Patrol game. There’s also a pin badge featuring either an Ultramarines Chaplain or a Hallowed Knights Liberator.