Sunday Preview – A tale of three Captains

Not too long ago, new miniatures of Vulkan He’stan, Aethon Shaan, and Darnath Lysander were released, and now the other two Captains revealed alongside them are coming to a tabletop near you. Caanok Var and Suboden Khan join the Space Marines roster, along with new Combat Patrols and a jump pack-equipped Captain wielding a mighty thunder hammer and relic shield.

Also, the first round of festive gifts are coming to pre-orders, so you can get a bunch of your Christmas shopping out of the way before the rush begins.

Caanok Var

As the Iron Captain of Clan Avernii, Caanok Var is the very model of an Iron Hand – merciless, efficient, and calculated in his every move. He is so heavily augmented that some say his single eye is the last original part of him, and the masterwork augmetics running throughout his body have been keeping the Captain alive for longer than any living Iron Hand can remember.

This miniature comes decked out in Terminator armour and carries his massive power maul Axiom, which can both strike hard at elite foes and sweep aside more numerous chaff. It is supplied with a 50mm base.

Combat Patrol: Iron Hands

Form an indomitable firing line and outlast the enemy with the solid wall of ceramite contained in Combat Patrol: Iron Hands. This box is a great way to add durable long-ranged units to an existing army or start a new Iron Hands force, and includes 10 Heavy Intercessors, two Firestrike servo-turrets, and a Techmarine.

It also comes with a new Iron Hands transfer sheet with 468 individual decals, featuring iconography for Clans Avernii, Garrsak, Raukaan, and Kaargul, as well as the Atropos War Clan of the Sons of Medusa Chapter. This product is available while stocks last.

Combat Patrol: White Scars

Hunt down the enemies of Humanity using a high speed force of bikes and mechanised infantry with Combat Patrol: White Scars, a new boxed set packed with mobile and deadly miniatures. Five Assault Intercessors ride to battle in an Impulsor transport, while three Outriders are led into close combat by the brand new Suboden Khan – available first in this box.

Mounted on his grav bike, Thunder, Suboden Khan charges headfirst into the fray at the head of the White Scars’ First Brotherhood, sweeping foes aside with great swings of his power lance, Stormtooth. This miniature comes with both helmeted and unhelmeted head options, and the boxed set also includes a new White Scars transfer sheet with additional icons for the Spearpoint Brotherhood, Firefist Brotherhood, the Eagle Brotherhood, and the Storm Lords successor Chapter. This product is available while stocks last.

Iron Hands and White Scars Dice

Finish off your collection with a set of matching dice to go with the new Captains. The Iron Hands dice are cast in swirled silver plastic with white pips and the Chapter logo on the six face, while the White Scars get pearlised white dice with red pips and their own icon on the six. Both packs contain 16 six-sided dice. This product is available while stocks last.

Captain with Jump Pack and Relic Shield

Deal death from the skies with a new take on the Captain with Jump Pack, this time armed with a thunder hammer and relic shield to make him extra deadly and durable in close combat. This new multi-part plastic miniature comes with a choice of two head options – helmeted or unhelmeted – and options for either a thunder hammer or Astartes chainsword in his right hand.

Combat Patrol: Harlequins

Dance the masque macabre and enact Cegorach’s will on the material world with Combat Patrol: Harlequins, which packs some of the enigmatic Aeldari’s greatest units into a compact, hard-hitting force. This box contains six Players of a Harlequin Troupe, a nimble Starweaver transport craft, two agile Skyweaver jetbikes, a deadly Voidweaver attack craft, and a spectacularly lethal Solitaire – one of the cursed Players tasked with portraying She Who Thirsts in the Troupe’s performances.

The box also contains two Harlequins transfer sheets, each containing 115 transfers in varying sizes appropriate for both infantry and vehicles, representing several different Harlequins masques. This product is available while stocks last.

Urkhan the Dark Warden

Swathed in a flapping cloak, and cutting a mightily imposing figure, Urkhan the Dark Warden is presiding over Warhammer Day as this year’s Commemorative Series miniature. Armed with a sword almost as tall as he is, and with an option for a gnarly scarred bare head, or a classic Chaos Warrior helm, he would make a perfect Exalted Hero of Chaos for a Slaves to Darkness army.

Pick out some festive gifts for the special Warhammer fan in your life, or spruce up your own holiday collection with our first crop of new licensed goodies hitting the shelves with plenty of time before Christmas.

First up is a fabulous foursome of Orky presents, with a Red Gobbo fridge magnet-slash-bottle opener, an excellent Red Gobbo plush from TOMY, squig-shaped slippers, and delightful squiggy pudding baubles. If it’s red and bitey, it’s definitely fit for Christmas festivities.

If you fancy plastering a great cavalcade of squigs right across your workspace, the wonderfully chaotic Squigalanche Desk Mat will keep your desk nice and clean while you glue together your hundredth Gloomspite Gitz miniature.

The ‘hanging things off trees’ theme continues with a set of metal ornaments depicting the Chaos star and an Imperial servo skull, both topped with red ribbons. You can pick up new sets of keychains and a purity seal badge from our longtime pals at Starforged – an Adeptus Astartes seal with pin badge backing, and metal keychains of Mephiston’s pistol, an Eradicator’s melta rifle, and a servo skull. There will also be a selection of Christmas Magnets to stick on your fridge, featuring a very Warhammer-y skull and wreath, a badge of the Inquisition, and a gleaming Stormcast Eternal.

Lastly, two new Christmas jumpers join the range. The Space Wolves represent Warhammer 40,000 with a pale blue jumper decked out in Chapter iconography, while the Mortal Realms rep the Realm of Death with a crimson Soulblight Gravelords pattern. Both factions hail from indisputably cold places, so you know the jumpers are going to be extra warm.

Dropsite Massacre

Relive the event that broke three whole Legions and set the stage for Horus’ march on Terra in Dropsite Massacre by John French, a fresh new perspective on the most notorious betrayal of the Horus Heresy. Rogal Dorn’s punitive fleet arrives in the Isstvan System to drag Warmaster Horus before the Emperor for judgement, but not all of the Legions assembled to break the Traitor army are assured in their loyalties, and before the day is done, a Primarch will lie dead on the black sands of the Urgall Depression.

This novel will be available to pre-order in hardback, eBook, and MP3 audiobook editions.

Spear of Ultramar

Roboute Guilliman’s path through the Ruinstorm crosses through the Charchera system, and here Warsmith Khrossus and a lone company of Iron Warriors have been given a fateful mission. At all costs, they must hold back the Ultramarines, in the classic Horus Heresy novella Spear of Ultramar by David Annandale.

This audiobook edition will be available to pre-order on the 10th of October, and will release on the 17th of October.

Dreadwing

Following on from Spear of Ultramar, the Dark Angels lead a bloody campaign of annihilation against the worlds of the Traitor Legions as the Ultramarines and Blood Angels push further through the Ruinstorm. But as the Legion fragments and the tally of shattered worlds between them and Terra grows, it falls to the Wing lieutenants to question whether the Lion still wages a war he intends to win – or one he has already lost.

This audiobook edition of Dreadwing by David Guymer will be available to pre-order on the 10th of October, and will release on the 17th of October.

Deathworlder (German Edition)

On a planet trapped in the closing jaws of the Great Devourer, Major Wulf Khan of the Catachan 903rd receives a final, desperate mission – one which will take her soldiers into the maw of the Tyranid threat. Victoria Hayward’s novel now appears in German, in paperback and eBook editions.

This week on Warhammer+, the Warhammer Age of Sigmar animation Sigmar’s Toll continues with its third exciting episode, while Arena of Death pits dream teams of heroes from each of the four Grand Alliances against each other in a no-holds-barred deathmatch.

Meanwhile, our Heresy-themed Tale of Four Painters series continues, as the guests discuss what they learned from their first games and how that has informed their next expansions up to 2,000 points. Finally, Loremasters pays homage to the King of Kings, Terror of the Living, Lord of the Earth, Monarch of the Sky, and a hundred other titles* – Settra the Imperishable – and finds out why he’s taking his ire out on the Border Princes in the upcoming Arcane Journal: The War of Settra’s Fury.