The raging berserkers of Khorne butt heads with the sky-faring merchants of the Kharadron this week as new battletomes, miniatures, and accessories arrive for the Blades of Khorne and Kharadron Overlords. There’s also a bounty of Black Library releases to get you ready for Warhammer: The Horus Heresy, and Made to Order terrain sets for your Mortal Realms battlefields. Let’s see what’s coming up this week.
Battletome: Blades of Khorne
Some see the ravaging hordes of Chaos as nothing more than baying packs of bloodthirsty brutes, and with the Blades of Khorne, they’re right on the money. The new Battletome: Blades of Khorne is your essential companion to these crimson marauders, containing 106 pages of background lore, rules and warscrolls, battle traits, battle formations, and everything else you need to command them on the battlefield, alongside new Spearhead rules, Regiments and Armies of Renown, and Path to Glory content.
If you fancy your rules in a more portable format, you can also pre-order the Gamer’s Edition of Battletome: Blades of Khorne, which contains all of the same content in a smaller package alongside a full set of 54 reference cards. This version will be available only while stocks last.
Spearhead: Fangs of the Blood God
Hunt down those who have earned the ire of the Blood God and tear them to shreds with a new Spearhead force led by the legendary Hound of Vengeance, Karanak. This hero-hunting monstrosity is joined in the Fangs of the Blood God by 10 ferocious Flesh Hounds who can keep up with their leader’s relentless pursuit, while the Claws of Karanak – a band of eight experienced slayers wholly devoted to Karanak’s mission – mop up whatever morsels the rest leave behind.
Deathbringer
Deathbringers are powerful champions and lieutenants who harbour more than a little ambition and possess the deadly skills needed to see it through. Their ascension requires Khorne be gifted the mightiest of trophies – the skulls of kings and warlords – and they have no trouble amassing a collection with a fearsome Damage 3 axe and the ability to strike their foes stone dead by rolling above their Health characteristic on a 2D6!
This multi-part plastic miniature has the choice between a ragged cloak on their back or a rack of trophy skulls.
Claws of Karanak
Those warriors who revere Khorne’s daemonic hunter Karanak and their packs of slavering Flesh Hounds above all else form into ad-hoc groups of warriors who take on the aspect of the hunt, offering praise to Khorne through acts of horrific butchery. These Claws of Karanak are an elite unit for your Blades of Khorne army that can also be used in games of Warcry, comprising a Packlord, a Hound of Wrath, two Brutalisers, and four Blood Whelps – with all but the hound having a choice between two different heads to keep your Claws looking unique.
Goreblade Warband
Begin your bloody conquest of the Mortal Realms with the expansive Goreblade Warband, a collection of strong and capable units that provide the perfect pillar around which you can expand your Blades of Khorne army. The box includes a Mighty Lord of Khorne, a Bloodsecrator, a Bloodstoker, a Khorgorath, five Blood Warriors, and 10 Bloodreavers – all unique miniatures that can only be found in this box.
Regiments of Renown: The Red Revelation
Khorne’s champions are so keen to kill that they’re frequently seen fighting alongside other armies just for the chance to feel axe bite through flesh once more. The Regiment of Renown known as the Red Revelation is one of the more notorious of their mercenary kin, led by the half-crazed Slaughterpriest Zarxor Hell-Eye with his entourage of five Skullreapers and 10 Bloodreavers, who together will throw themselves into any amount of carnage at the behest of the canny Slaughterpriest.
Blades of Khorne Dice Set and Warscroll Cards
Don’t take your eyes off the action for a moment with the help of a new dice set and warscroll card pack for the Blades of Khorne. The pack of 16 dice are cast in deep crimson plastic with the brass symbol of Khorne himself plastered on the six face, while the set of 41 reference cards is an invaluable aid for keeping all of your stats, abilities, and warscrolls swimming in the mind.
Battletome: Kharadron Overlords
Sign the manifest and set sail for adventure with the latest Admiralty-approved amendment of Battletome: Kharadron Overlords – the only hobby and gaming companion certified for use by the Kharadron Code. Inside its curated pages you’ll find loads of background lore and miniatures photography, alongside all of the rules and warscrolls you need to get your skyfarers onto the battlefield, including new Regiments of Renown, Armies of Renown, and Path to Glory content.
It may come as a shock, but duardin pantaloons don’t have the largest pockets, so it’s a good thing the compact Gamer’s Edition of Battletome: Kharadron Overlords is also coming out at the same time. It has everything the big version does in a smaller package, plus 46 reference cards covering your army rules, warscrolls, and Spearhead rules. This is available while stocks last.
Spearhead: Grundstok Trailblazers
Valuable claims require stout defenders, and the mercenary fusiliers of the Grundstok Company are the best there is. The Grundstok Trailblazers are led by an Endrinmaster in a Dirigible Suit to help keep their ship in top condition, with five Grundstok Thunderers, three Endrinriggers, and a swift Grundstok Gunhauler filling out this elite Spearhead, who much prefer the safety of ranged combat to the brutality of the melee.
Null-Khemist
Kharadron scientists are always testing new innovations to give their sky-fleets an edge, and the Null-Khemists carry a particularly potent weapon against the resurgent forces of Chaos – a totally enclosed, aether-powered anti-magic suit. With this new technology and the wizard-killing smog of the null-gas extinguisher, they are the Admiralty’s newest and strongest weapon against magic of all kinds, be it from errant sorcerers or the winds themselves whipping up a terrifying arcane monster.
Vongrim Harpoon Crew
Where the Grundstok Company are disciplined and highly respected mercenaries, the unruly salvagers of the Vongrim Guild are often maligned for the almost piratical nature of their work – recovering wrecked ships and selling their parts. Their crafty troops raise aloft on endrin packs and attack the enemy from above, either as a unit of five Vongrim Harpoon Crew armed with deadly javelins or five Vongrim Salvagers packing aethershot pistols and razor-sharp cutlasses.
This new multi-part plastic kit can build one of the two units available, with plenty of optional icons, detail pieces, and heads to make your skyfaring duardin look unique.
Zontari Endrin Dock
Even the Kharadron Overlords’ outposts are held aloft by their wondrous artifice, giving vessels a safe harbour to repair and regroup when airborne foes come a-knocking. The Zontari Endrin Dock is a recent advancement in endrin technology, giving beleaguered captains somewhere to defend their goods no matter the terrain, while advanced auto-endrins repair friendly ships and defend their post by damaging and disrupting oncoming armies.
This new faction terrain kit for the Kharadron Overlords builds one Zontari Endrin Dock platform and three auto-endrins, each armed with a different weapon.
Regiments of Renown: Drekki’s Privateers
The infamous name of Drekki Flynt is known and groaned across the Mortal Realms, as the rogue skyfarer’s tales grow taller with every telling. He’s not all flash and no powder, though, as his experienced team of privateers have escaped from too many dicey situations to count, and they’re always ready to throw their lot in behind their captain.
Drekki’s Privateers are a new Regiment of Renown usable in all Order armies, comprising a unit of 10 Arkanaut Company, Drekki Flynt himself, and an Arkanaut Frigate representing the legendary sky-vessel Aelsling – Flynt’s beloved flagship.
Kharadron Overlords Dice and Warscroll Cards
The Kharadron Code is quite clear on one thing – a distracted Admiral is an impecunious Admiral – and the last thing you want is to have your attention torn away from the table at a crucial moment. The new set of Kharadron Overlords Warscroll Cards are just the thing to keep all of your rules close at hand, featuring 22 regular warscroll cards and 12 Spearhead cards, and they go perfectly with a set of 16 Kharadron dice cast in glittery yellow plastic with the faction logo on the six face.
Made to Order: Warhammer Age of Sigmar Terrain
Accessorise your battlefield with seven classic terrain sets now returning on a Made to Order basis, bringing beloved kits from yesteryear back for a limited period – beginning with the Citadel Wood. This arboreal terrain feature can be assembled with or without the leaves on the branches, and the trees can be easily slotted into the base without the need for glue so you can remove parts for easier model movement and transportation.
The Enduring Stormvault, Hallowed Stormthrone, and Sigmarite Dais all go together to create a spectacular tiered battlefield themed after the Dominion of Sigmar, with plenty of optional torches that can be assembled lit or unlit as the mood takes you. These awe-inspiring locales are perfect for Stormcast Eternals armies and other heroes of Order, but are equally majestic painted as ruins for your less scrupulous forces to fight over.
Further expand your temple complex with the Penumbral Stormvault – a more sparse version of the Enduring Stormvault – and the Shattered Temple, then accessorise it with the curious Penumbral Engine. This arcane machine fits perfectly onto the Sigmarite Dais, and is an ideal way to represent a Place of Power for your units to access.
All of these Made to Order kits will be ready to order straight away on the 19th of July and will continue to be available until 8am BST on Monday 28th July. As with all Made to Order miniatures, they may take up to 180 days to arrive.
Kamandora’s Blades
Kamandora’s Blades dwell in the wastes left by Khorne’s armies and fall on the vulnerable left behind once an army sweeps through, hacking off their heads and offering their skulls to the profane pyramid where Korghos Khul attained daemonhood. This aggressive new Strike warband is made up of Kamandora, Mother of Hate, Throkk, Ghalista, Antro Krast and their hound Kannat, and aims to reap a worthy skull each round to further their devotion to Khorne.
This new warband for Warhammer Underworlds is cast in deep red plastic, and comes with five Fighter Cards and seven Warscroll cards in a variety of languages.
Raging Slayers Rivals Deck
Charge headlong into the fray and unleash a furious barrage of attacks with the Raging Slayers Rivals Deck, a new preconstructed deck for Warhammer Underworlds that enhances the fighting prowess of your warband as they devolve further into blind rage. This Strike deck can be used by any warband in the game, and is a great way to adopt a more direct playstyle that rewards players for making Charges as often as possible.
This deck contains one Cover Card, one Plot Card, 12 Objective Cards, 10 Ploy Cards, and 10 Upgrade Cards.
Queen of the Rose Throne
The tale of the Soulblight vampire Nyssa Volari continues in the latest novel by Gary Kloster, Queen of the Rose Throne. The once-doomed Volari has dragged herself back out of the sands to forge a kingdom that now calls her queen, but all is not well – for an army of beasts rampages across the Broken Plains, and their very presence corrupts the land she worked so hard to build.
Confronting the horde will be the act that solidifies her as queen of a prosperous realm, but long-lost ghouls from her past haunt her every step, and every alliance she has built threatens to unravel.
Queen of the Rose Throne will be available to pre-order in hardback, eBook, and MP3 audiobook editions.
Hammers of Ulric
The classic tale of Middenheim’s rough and rowdy defenders returns in a new audiobook format, as the Templar Knights of Ulric marshal their forces to defend the city from an historic invasion. Hammers of Ulric by Dan Abnett, Nik Vincent, and James Wallis is a classic tale of the Empire from the World-that-Was, and is a must-listen for fans of Warhammer fantasy fiction.
Horus Heresy Novella Collections
Grab up to 24 novellas from the annals of the Horus Heresy across eight audiobook collections, from the dark obsessions of the Emperor’s Children to the drive and dedication of the Iron Hands. Each novella spans around three to four hours – ideal for listening over the course of a single day – and are arranged as follows:
Collection 1: Promethean Sun by Nick Kyme, Aurelian by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, and The Reflection Crack'd by Graham McNeill.
Collection 2: Feat of Iron by Nick Kyme, The Lion by Gav Thorpe, and The Serpent Beneath by Rob Sanders.
Collection 3: The Crimson Fist by John French, Brotherhood of the Storm by Chris Wraight, and Prince of Crows by Aaron Dembski-Bowden.
Collection 4: Corax: Soulforge by Gav Thorpe, Scorched Earth by Nick Kyme, and Tallarn: Executioner by John French.
Collection 5: Ravenlord by Gav Thorpe, The Purge by Anthony Reynolds, and The Seventh Serpent by Graham McNeill.
Collection 6: Tallarn: Ironclad by John French, Cybernetica by Rob Sanders, and Wolf King by Chris Wraight.
Collection 7: The Honoured by Rob Sanders, The Unburdened by David Annandale, and Garro: Vow of Faith by James Swallow.
Collection 8: Sons of the Forge by Nick Kyme, Dreadwing by David Guymer, Spear of Ultramar by David Annandale.
The Fall of Cadia (French Edition)
The death of the fortress world Cadia was an inflection point in the narrative of Warhammer 40,000, and a colossal victory for Abaddon the Despoiler. Robert Rath’s The Fall of Cadia tells this story like never before, touching on the perspective of everyone from rank-and-file foot soldiers to those orchestrating the defence in high command.
This novel will be available to pre-order in new French-language paperback and eBook editions.
Carcharodons: Void Exile (French and German Editions)
The tale of the Carcharodons continues with Void Exile by Robbie MacNiven. An unusual Chapter, the Carcharodons usually lurk on the dark edges of the galaxy to prey on void-borne threats, but when a Chaos-infested space hulk threatens a forge world, Bail Sharr and the Third Company are sent to provide aid.
Void Exile will be available to pre-order in new French- and German-language paperback and eBook editions.
Horus Heresy Omnibus XVIII (German Edition)
German readers can look out for another exciting Horus Heresy omnibus, bringing together the Heralds of the Siege anthology, Titandeath by Guy Haley, and The Buried Dagger by James Swallow. This Omnibus XVIII will be available to pre-order in hardback and eBook editions.
This week on Warhammer+, four Scrap Demon competitors must use an Assassin miniature and 10 random sprues to craft an epic duel between two characters in the 41st Millennium. Deep Strike invites Sarah and Andy from the Warhammer Studio to discuss the epic cinematic trailer for the new edition of Warhammer: The Horus Heresy, while How We Roll digs into the creation of Grand Cathay in Warhammer: The Old World.
Here at Warhammer Community, we’re rounding off the last few tidbits of our Horus Heresy coverage with some of our own attempts at painting, as well as the trifling matter of the Big Warhammer Summer Preview. Probably don’t want to miss that one.
