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Saturday Pre-orders: Battleforces, Ciaphas Cain, and the Age of Darkness

What do you get when you cross the Hero of the Imperium with big boxes of miniatures and ancient suits of power armour? Today’s pre-orders!

Warhammer 40,000 – Ciaphas Cain*

The second most legendary Commissar in the Imperium – second to Yarrick, no shame there – makes his mark on the tabletop with a stunning miniature. You get both Cain and Jurgen, posed on your choice of one base or two, and you can even include them in your own games of Warhammer 40,000 with free rules released this week.

This is your first chance to buy these miniatures, which are currently only available while stocks last. This kit may return at a future date.

Warhammer 40,000 – Hippogriff AFV

Mix speed and firepower with the potent Hippogriff Armoured Fighting Vehicle, pairing a blistering movement range with powerful turret-mounted weapons. You can pick from a vigilator cannon, chiron gatling cannon, melta cannon, or heavy lascannon to take on the targets of your choice.

Warhammer 40,000 – Centaur RSV

If you need a whole squad of Guardsmen or some heavy weapons ferried up to the front, look no further than the armoured bulk of a Centaur RSV. It carries loads of models in the back, at a cut-price points value that’s easy to fit into your army list.

Warhammer 40,000 – Battleforce: Astra Militarum Platoon*

The Hammer of the Emperor is here with a packed box of units perfect for a new Astra Militarum collection. You get a Commissar, a Cadian Command Squad, a unit of Cadian Shock Troops, a Field Ordnance battery, a Basilisk artillery vehicle, and a supreme Rogal Dorn battle tank.

Warhammer 40,000 – Battleforce: Necron Host*

The Tomb World rises with this Necron Host! Bolster your undying legion with a Catacomb Command Barge, 20 Necron Warriors, five Flayed Ones, three Ophydian Destroyers with their accompanying Plasmacyte, a Canoptek Doomstalker, and six Scarab Swarms. 

Warhammer 40,000 – Battleforce: Chaos Space Marines Warband*

Embrace the Dark Gods with a powerful coalition of warp-fueled killers. The Chaos Space Marines Warband consists of a Lord Discordant mounted on a Helstalker, 10 Legionaries, 20 Chaos Cultists, a Venomcrawler, and two Obliterators.

Warhammer 40,000 – Battleforce: Tyranid Swarm*

Perhaps you just want to consume everything in your path and not worry about the consequences. This new battleforce includes a bit of everything that makes the Tyranids great – a fearsome Hive Tyrant, a Lictor, three Tyranid Warriors, three Von Ryan’s Leapers, 10 Hormagaunts, 10 Termagants, and two Ripper Swarms.

The four Warhammer 40,000 battleforces are only available while stocks last.

Warhammer: The Horus Heresy – Maximus Battle Group

The MkIV ‘Maximus’ pattern makes its way to the field in a new Battle Group box. This is the first place you’ll be able to get the new MkIV Space Marines: 10 Assault Marines with the option for power spears and 20 Tactical Marines, flanked by a powerful Contemptor Dreadnought and a Sicaran battle tank.

The Maximus Battle Group boxed set is available while stocks last.

Warhammer: The Horus Heresy – Whirlwind Missile Tank

Attack your foes when they least expect it with a long-range barrage from a Whirlwind Missile Tank. Armed with a variety of munitions, it excels at blasting enemy infantry from objectives before your own troops advance to claim them.

Warhammer: The Horus Heresy – Journal Tactica: Zone Mortalis

Fight through the claustrophobic corridors and dingy tunnels of bunker complexes, manufactorums, and other confined spaces in Journal Tactica: Zone Mortalis. You’ll find rules for tense battles set in ultra-close confines, with new missions and some new units to try out that especially love close-quarters combat.

Black Library – For the Emperor: Illustrated and Annotated Edition

Relive Commissar Cain’s first Black Library novel with new author annotations – to go alongside the ones from Inquisitor Vail – and gorgeous new artwork in the Illustrated and Annotated edition of For the Emperor by Sandy Mitchell. Can Ciaphas Cain bring a world pulled between the Imperium and T’au Empire invaders back from the brink?

This is your first chance to buy this hardback edition, which is currently only available while stocks last. This edition may return to print at a future date.

Black Library – The Valhallan Regiment Banner

Unfurl the banner of the legendary Valhallan Ice Warriors and show your allegiance to the Imperium! This cotton banner is held up with a gold-coloured hanger rope and will look excellent above or behind your mighty collection.

This is your first chance to buy the Valhallan Regimental Banner, which is currently only available while stocks last. It may return to sale at a future date.

Black Library – The Sabbat Worlds Crusade

The seminal lore and art book covering the sprawling Sabbat Worlds Crusade, filled with information on one of the deadliest crusades in the Imperium’s history, returns in a new hardback edition. 

This is your first chance to buy this edition, which is currently only available while stocks last. This edition may return to print at a future date.

Black Library – Rynn’s World (Special Edition)

A colossal Ork Waaagh! lays waste to the home world of the Crimson Fists, and Pedro Kantor must fight back or die in the ravaged ruins of his Chapter’s homeworld.

This beautiful Special Edition of Rynn’s World by Steve Parker is wrapped in a blue cloth-effect cover with red and gold foil details, printed page edges, and a red ribbon book marker, and includes a new introduction by Black Library. 

This is your first chance to buy this edition, which is currently only available while stocks last. This edition may return to print at a future date.

Black Library Paperbacks

Dive into the worlds of Warhammer with three novels, now in paperback for the first time. Krakenblood by Marc Collins follows a Wolf Priest on a special quest, the Imperium takes to the skies in Vagabond Squadron by Robbie MacNiven, and a Skink Starpriest seeks a Seraphon temple-ship in Starseer’s Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Black Library – Hive: Part One (French and German Editions)

Experience the first part of Dan Abnett’s new two-part novel Hive, now in French- and German-language versions.

Black Library – Ciaphas Cain: Vainglorious (French Edition)

When the flow of desperately needed weapons for the Astra Militarum slows to nothing from a newly founded forge world, there’s only one man able and (un)willing to investigate… Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium.

Vainglorious, by Sandy Mitchell, is the latest full-length novel in the Ciaphas Cain series and is now available in French for the first time.

Black Library – Defender of the Imperium (German Edition)

The legendary Commissar Ciaphas Cain, lauded as one of the great heroes of the Imperium, finds himself thrust onto the battlefield again. Cain wants nothing more than to keep out of trouble and get to the other side of his commission in one piece, but the war-torn 41st Millennium has other ideas.

Defender of the Imperium, by Sandy Mitchell, is the second Omnibus in the Ciaphas Cain series and is now available in German, collecting Death or Glory, Duty Calls, Cain’s Last Stand, and two short stories together for your reading pleasure.

* These products are delayed in Korea.