In the lands of Grand Cathay, peasants leave farms to head to the battlefield, while in the Age of Darkness, carefully upgraded reinforcements arrive for the forces of the Mechanicum. Take a closer look at what you’ll be able to pre-order next week.
Defenders of the Great Bastion Army Reinforcement Set
It’s only been a few months since the armies of Grand Cathay made their presence known, and the World of Legend is still coming to terms with floating weapons platforms and living statues. Now, more reinforcements arrive to bolster their forces.
This absolutely packed box includes two Astromancers – one on foot to partner with your Jade Warriors, and one on horseback, who is ideal for accompanying Jade Lancers. These magical masters control the Elements of Yang and the Elements of Yin to give your army an advantage in battle. And to give them something to really crow about, they’re accompanied by a bird-headed familiar.
These controllers of the Elemental Winds are followed into battle by 30 peasant soldiers. Conscripted straight from the villages and fields, they favour simple weapons – each can be armed with a warbow or a long spear. While they might not be as effective as professional soldiers, they more than make up for it with sheer numbers and a desire to defend their home.
Providing ranged support are eight Crane Gun Teams and 12 Iron Hail Gunners. The former excel at picking off targets at extreme range while their tower shields protect them from return fire. Iron Hail Gunners, on the other hand, prefer getting a little closer, where their vicious blunderbusses can cut through ranks of enemy warriors.
This product is available while stocks last.
Arcane Journal: The Breaching of the Great Bastion
The rules for fielding Astromancers, Crane Gun Teams, Iron Hail Gunners, and Peasant Levy in your games of Warhammer: The Old World can be found in Arcane Journal: The Breaching of the Great Bastion. This book also contains in-depth lore and background on the Land of Dragons, including how the inhabitants of Grand Cathay band together to defend their home from invaders. Speaking of which, there are rules to fight the legendary Battle of Nan-Li on the tabletop – can you hold the line against the Warriors of Chaos?
Myrmidon Destructor Host
Need to add a little extra punch to your Mechanicum army? The logical choice is the Myrmidon Destructor Host. Each of these single-minded walking weapons platforms can be armed with either an infantry-melting irradiation engine or an armour-bursting darkfire cannon, alongside their shock charger, which they use to crush enemies in close combat.
Each Myrmidon Destructor has a choice of two heads – bare or hooded – and the servo-skulls are interchangeable across the six miniatures, making it easy to customise your elite infantry. Rules for using them in the Age of Darkness can be found in Journal Tactica: Skitarii – The Steel Hand of Mars.
Skitarii Battle-Pilgrym Marshal
When the Fabricator General has lost something really important, they send out a Skitarii Battle-Pilgrym Marshal and their horde of Skitarii Battle-Pilgryms to secure it. We can’t guarantee they can find that part you clipped off and dropped on the floor, though.
They can be armed with a range of esoteric weapons – a voltlock handgun or archaeotech pistol, and an auctorit sceptre, phase claw, or corposant stave. They also have a choice of three heads, meaning your Marshals will look different should you choose to lead your Skitarii Conclave with more than one.
Skitarii Battle-Pilgrym Corpus
The Skitarii Battle-Pilgrym Corpus accompany the Marshal into battle. Each is armed with a voltlock arquebus – a devastating anti-infantry weapon – and they open up new tactical options for a Mechanicum army. The 16 miniatures in this kit can be fielded in one large unit, or two smaller ones of eight Battle-Pilgryms, each with their own Ordinator squad leader. They’ll all comfortably fit inside a Triaros Armoured Conveyor, which will ensure they get to those juicy bits of lost technology before your enemy does.
Vultarax Stratos-Automata
If your Battle-Pilgryms need some air cover, the Vultarax Stratos-Automata is a floating weapons platform. Suppress enemies with an arc blaster, fire horde-slaying airburst, and tank-wrecking shaped charge missiles, and cut up anyone who gets too close with vicious talons. Its speed and ability to fly over intervening units and terrain mean you can get that deadly weaponry exactly where you need it on the battlefield.*
The new Mechanicum miniatures have no allegiance-specific markings, meaning you can induct them into your army whether you believe the Emperor to be the Omnissiah or just a false prophet. Get some inspiration for painting your Marshal, Battle-Pilgryms, and Vultarax from our team.
Kaptin Badrukk
If you can imagine the combined sounds of ‘Waaagh!’ and ‘yarrrr’, that’s the noise that Kaptin Badrukk makes. This classic Ork miniature is ready to take down anyone who gets between him and shiny gubbins with his speshul gun Da Rippa. He has Legends rules and can be used as a Warboss in the Freebooter Detachment from The Maelstrom: Lair of the Tyrant, or just as a characterful addition to any Orks collection.
Ammo Runts
Wotz a Kaptin without any grotz to boss about? These classic Ammo Runts will ensure that your krew always has a stash of bullets – use them to add some piratical character to a Gretchin squad, or to support Nobz or Flash Gitz.
Both Kaptin Badrukk and the Ammo Runts will be available on a made-to-order basis until 08:00am GMT on 9 March 2026.
On Warhammer+ this week, our brand new animation begins! Penitence follows a squad of Adepta Sororitas Battle Sisters as they seek to deliver a holy relic – sounds pretty straightforward? Well, the Orks have different ideas! The ultimate Warhammer quiz returns as Brainboyz tests the knowledge of even veteran hobbyists – can you beat the two teams? The Black Library Book Club has been reading Bad Loon Rising – hear their thoughts on the fan-favourite undergrot story. Finally, on Open Play, the Titan Owners Club play the biggest ever game seen on Warhammer TV, literally! Adeptus Titanicus rules meet Warhammer 40,000 scale, with more than a dozen Titans on each side.
Here on the Warhammer Community website, we’ll be taking a closer look at new Warhammer 40,000 characters for the T’au Empire, Leagues of Votann, and Tyranids, as well as giving you the chance to win two Combat Patrols and diving into this year’s Relics licensing festival – make sure you join us throughout the week.
* We’d probably keep them away from Mortarion, though – he might have plans.
