You know the drill by now – a cracking new expansion book for Warhammer 40,000 is coming out, so that means a new Combat Patrol and more Battalion boxes are dropping into view packed with thematic units. They’re all prepped for the new Apocalypse rules we revealed last week, and so lean towards heavy vehicles rather than massed infantry. Tasty.
Let’s start with Kravek Morne’s Iron Warriors – they’re the stars of the show, after all, and the reason why the Cadian Gate has burst into flames once again.
Combat Patrol: Iron Warriors
Unlike their ostentatious, Warp-meddling cousins, the Iron Warriors take a practical approach to combat that relies on their natural resilience and discipline, grinding down opponents in relentless, head-on assaults. This new Combat Patrol is perfect for enacting their merciless tactics, packing five Chaos Terminators and five Havocs together with 10 Legionaries and a Warpsmith to give you options at range and up close.
It also comes with the new Iron Warriors upgrade frame, so you can give your implacable warriors a selection of unique heads and shoulder pads emblazoned with their insignia, which you’ll also find on the included pair of transfer sheets.
Eye of Terror Battalion: Sons of Dorn
The Space Marines also get a new Detachment in the Eye of Terror set. As its name might suggest, the Ceramite Sentinels Detachment is all about playing the defensive game – something that’s much easier to do with a few big hunks of armour in the middle of the battlefield. This Battalion box adds the mother of all anvils to your army, comprising two Repulsor Executioners, a Ballistus Dreadnought, and a Redemptor Dreadnought, plus a Black Templars upgrade frame so you can accessorise your armour with some extra Templar-themed trinkets.
You also get both an Imperial Fists transfer sheet and a Black Templars transfer sheet, so you can split the force down the middle or roll them all into one Chapter. Or, you know, paint them however you like – Warhammer’s great like that.
Eye of Terror Battalion: Adeptus Mechanicus
The forces of the Adeptus Mechanicus have their work cut out for them, with the Iron Warriors advancing on Agripinaa and the fate of the Cadian Gate likely resting on their cybernetically enhanced shoulders. Their deepest armouries have been opened, and this Battalion box sends out three of their most reliable (and unremittingly devastating) vehicles – an Onager Dunecrawler, an Ironstrider Ballistarius (which can be built as a Sydonian Dragoon), and a Skorpius Dunerider (that can be built as a Skorpius Disintegrator).
This Battalion also includes three full vehicle transfer sheets, so you’ll have plenty of decals to adorn your new motor pool with.
Eye of Terror Battalion: Imperial Knights
There’s an Imperial Knight for every job, and when that job is punching hilariously big holes in daemon engines with the world’s most enormous harpoon, you reach for the Knight Valiant. This versatile Battalion box can build one such monstrosity – seriously, the thundercoil harpoon is Strength 24 – and pairs it up with two Armiger Warglaives. The best part is, you’ve also got the option to go long-range by building the central kit as a Knight Castellan and its squires as Armiger Helverins.
Whatever you run with, make sure you pretty them up with the included Knight Dominus and Armiger transfer sheets – you get one of each.
These new boxed sets will be going up alongside the Eye of Terror book set and all its associated kits – Mutilators, Defilers, et al. – so keep an eye on Warhammer Community to find out when you can get yours.
