Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: Orks arrive for Warhammer 40,000 and Skaven and Middle-Earth Elves and Dwarves go Made to Order
Waaaargh! Orks are coming for Warhammer 40,000 with a new codex for the latest edition as well as a green tide’s worth of releases to build your army. For Warhammer: Age of Sigmar comes made to order Skaven and Middle-earth Strategy Game gets made to order Elves and Dwarves. See what’s coming for pre-order this coming week.
The latest edition of Warhammer 40,000 has been out for a few months and new codexes are starting to roll out. The first is Codex: Orks! It’s packed with new rules, lore, and artwork. It features 15 detachments to mix and match, plus an expanded Waaagh! army rule and datasheets for over 50 units.
Codex: Orks also includes a code to unlock access to the new rules in the Warhammer 40,000 app, and this time you get more than just a reference sheet. This code is an ongoing subscription to regular rules updates, additional detachments, new lore, and advanced hobby guides that will be added to the app.
Along with the standard codex, there’s also a Collector’s Edition. It features a full hardback cover and gold foil details, plus green foil page edges and a green ribbon page marker. The content inside is the same as the regular codex, and it’s only available while stocks last.
Nazdreg is finally getting a new proper figure! As a Bad Moons warlord of incredible wealth and one of Ork society’s greatest proponents of tellyporta technology, Nazdreg has amassed immense power and stands as one of the premier Ork warbosses around. He’s got plenty of brute strength and powerful weapons to back up his cunning mind, ranging from his vicious Moonchewa power klaw to the three-in-one firearm he carries known only as Kustom Blasta X.
The Orks are getting a generic Warboss they can customize to lead their forces. The kit comes with loads of customization options – he can be armed with a kustom choppa or power klaw, and kustom shoota, kombi-rokkit or kombi-skorcha. He also has numerous cosmetic options, including an attack squig, different boss pole toppers, and mix-and-match head and jaw options.
With so many cool vehicles, Orks will want a Mek to give them a quick fix in the field. They’re an important aide for hordes of clanking Dreads and roaring Ork vehicles, and the clever git has even brought his own crane to the battlefield for hasty repair jobs.
Ork hordes mean Ork Boyz. Each model carries a shoota, slugga, and choppa, so you can muck it up at whatever range has the best fighting, while three lucky Boyz can take a big shoota, rokkit launcha, and burna for extra firepower. The Nob gets an extra killy power klaw to strap to their arm too, because the biggest should always get the best weapons.
Warbikers rush in and blast away at the enemy. These resilient bikes are covered in haphazard armour plates and pack rapid-fire dakkaguns, with the option for a kombi-rokkit on the squad leader.
You’ll need a Trukk to get your Orks into battle. This update to the classic kit features multiple optional add-on parts like a grabbin’ klaw, buzzsaw, and a big spiked ram, plus loads of cosmetic parts so you can personalize your madcap creation.
You can also show off your workship or Gork or Mork with the Orks Command Pack and Dice. The Command Pack contains 94 reference cards covering all 15 detachments in the Codex – their detachment rules, enhancements, and stratagems – plus a set of 36 double-sided tokens for tracking various rules and statuses.
Finish off your collection with a set of 16 premium dice cast in a properly Orky mottled green plastic, with red pips and the faction logo on the six face.
If you missed them in the recent starter box, the Armageddon Orks get solo releases. You can get the Big Mek Dakkarig, Weirdboy, Wartrakk, and Kommand Krew made up of the Bannernob, Bigboss, and Painboy (with his little grot orderly).
It’s not all Warhammer 40,000 this week. Warhammer: Age of Sigmar gets made to order Skaven!
Add classic Skaven kits to your collection with the latest set of Made to Order. Anyone who’s anyone from the murky mists of Skavendom is heading back for a limited time, including:
- Ikit Claw
- Throt The Unclean
- Lord Skrolk
- Tretch Craventail
- Queek Headtaker
- Skweel Gnawtooth
- Plaguelord Nurglitch
- Warlord Spinetail
- Deathmaster Snikch
- Classic Verminlord
- Warpgnaw Verminlord
That’s not the only made to order releases, Elves and Dwarves for Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game are also back for a limited time. The denizens of Lothlorien and a company of heavily armoured Dwarves are available to join your armies. You can get each of the following kits, cast in metal for the first time in years.
- Galadriel, Protectress of Lothlorien
- Classic Lórien Elf Bowmen
- Classic Guards of the Galadhrim Court
- Classic Khazad-dûm Dwarven Warriors
- Classic Khazad-dûm Dwarven Bowmen
- Classic Khazad-dûm Dwarven Commanders
From Black Library comes a Special Edition of Deathwatch by Steve Parker. First released back in 2013 and winner of the 2025 Reader’s Choice vote, it’s a gripping account of the squad’s descent into the planet of 31-Caro on the orders of a mysterious Inquisitor Lord, who tasks them with eliminating a murderous shadow preying upon the Imperium’s faithful.
This special edition is only available while stocks last.
Ghazghkull Thraka: Prophet of the Waaagh! by Nate Crowley is getting an Illustrated and Annotated Edition. The dubious account of Ghazghkull’s rise as told by his captured banner-grot Makari is the next novel to get the Illustrated and Annotated Edition treatment, following on from The Infinite and the Divine and For the Emperor. This new version of Ghazghkull Thraka: Prophet of the Waaagh! is packed with new insights from the author and illustrations to set the scene, making it well worth a re-read.
Bjorn: The Fell-Handed by Justin D Hill is getting a Hardback release. The oldest ‘living’ Space Marine defends his homeworld from the arrival of the Death Guard. Bjorn is one of the most legendary Dreadnoughts in the history of the Adeptus Astartes, and he brings all of his ageless wisdom and immense combat skill to bear as enemies bear down on Fenris and the Space Wolves rally to throw them off-world.
Demolisher by Andy Clark is getting a Paperback Edition. Hadeya Etsul and the crew of the Leman Russ Demolisher Steel Tread are assigned to a convoy tasked with escorting a commissar through contested territory. Not only is an enemy stalking from afar, but a new crew member is causing problems with the hard-won synergy of the crew. The follow-on from Steel Tread, Demolisher continues the story of the campaign on the Warp-cursed world of Croatoas in a new paperback edition.
Ghazghkull Thraka: Warlord of Warlords by Denny Flowers is getting French and German Editions. Ghazghkull Thraka has chosen the Blood Axe world of Gabal for a titanic showdown with the Black Templars, and not all of his Boyz are happy about it. Slitta da Stabba, a new warboss of the Blood Axes, finds himself caught between treacherous allies, vengeful crusaders, and the unstoppable momentum of the Warlord of Warlords himself. He must choose a side – fast!
