It’s been a good start to the year, what with all the awesome stuff revealed earlier this month. Next week, the darkness draws in and Chaos is on a rampage with new battleforces and Old World warriors waiting to slip their bonds.
Battleforce: Khorne Daemonkin*
The first of our four Chaos-themed battleforce boxes comes from the realm of Khorne*. If your style is to just bowl headfirst into the thrill of bloody close combat, the Khorne Daemonkin are where you belong. This battleforce box is a terrifying force of elite melee specialists, and it contains:
A Lord on Juggernaut who can also be built as the Epic Hero character Lord Invocatus
A Master of Executions
Six mounted Bloodcrushers
10 Khorne Berzerkers
20 Bloodletters
A World Eaters transfer sheet containing 200 decals
Battleforce: Sekhmet Coven*
Embrace the elite warriors of Tzeentch with the Sekhmet Coven, a collection of the Thousand Sons’ heaviest hitters that are the perfect formidable force to build an army around*. This set combines heavy armour, powerful weapons, and mystical powers all in one package, and contains:
An Infernal Master
Three Exalted Sorcerers
A Mutalith Vortex Beast
10 Scarab Occult Terminators
Two Chaos Space Marines transfer sheets each holding 364 decals
Battleforce: Vile Vectorium*
The forces of Nurgle focus on sheer power and resilience to overwhelm the servants of rival gods, or anyone else for that matter*. The Vile Vectorium packs a diverse force of light infantry, heavy Terminators, and vehicles into one versatile package, and contains:
Lord Felthius – a Lord of Contagion – and his Tainted Cohort of three Blightlord Terminators
Three Deathshroud Terminators
Three Foetid Bloat-drones
20 Poxwalkers
Battleforce: Lords of Excess*
Serving Slaanesh is great – it lets dastardly renegade Space Marines brush off their dust and adorn their armour in skins, studs, and all kinds of decorative doodads*. This stimulating set is the perfect way to start a new Emperor’s Children army or expand your existing one, and comes with:
A monstrous Daemon Prince
20 Infractors, which can alternately be built as Tormentors
12 Noise Marines
Four Emperor’s Children transfer sheets, each containing 150 decals
Chaos Marauder Horsemen*
The bloodthirsty Northmen who slaughter in the name of the Dark Gods make for excellent shock cavalry. Their wild tendencies and warrior spirit cause havoc when driven into the enemy atop ornery steeds. This set contains 10 plastic Marauder Horsemen that can be built as a single large unit or two groups of five, each with their own Champion, musician, and standard bearer. Each lot of five has 13 different heads to choose from, and every Horseman can be equipped with either a hand weapon and shield or a flail.*
Chaos Marauders*
The baying hordes of the north make up a large portion of the Chaos forces who reave and ravage the borders of the Old World, where tribes of Marauders pillage and slaughter while dedicating their kills to totemic aspects of the Chaos Gods. This box contains 20 plastic Marauders that, like their horse-borne cousins, can form a single large unit or two smaller groups. Each Marauder can be equipped with either a hand weapon and shield, a great weapon, or a flail, and the set comes with a Warriors of Chaos transfer sheet containing 246 decals.*
Cataphractii Terminators*
Elite warriors of the Legiones Astartes earn the right to wear immense suits of battle plate known as Tactical Dreadnought Armour, which combines the very best in defensive technology with powerful weapons to create some of the finest assault troops around. Earlier suits of Cataphractii-pattern armour traded mobility for even greater resilience, with powerful built-in shield generators and slab-like pauldrons ensuring that only the most powerful of weapons could break through to harm the veteran inside.
These new Cataphractii Terminators come in two configurations. The first is a unit of six plastic Terminators equipped with power mauls and volkite chargers, which gives them serious punch against both large mobs of enemy warriors in lighter armour and regular power armour-wearing Space Marines. This set also includes the option to equip one Terminator with a reaper autocannon.
The second set includes the same six bodies, this time armed with a combi-bolter and mighty power fist. This slow but powerful melee weapon is wreathed in a disruptive power field and can crush right through their fellow Terminators with ease, making it notorious as one of the finest Space Marine-killing tools around. One Terminator in this unit can replace their combi-bolter with a heavy flamer.
Each unit of six Terminators comes with two shoulder pad options for each Space Marine – with more or less decorative trim as desired – and every model can be built with or without a tilting plate accessory. Both variants can equip their Sergeant with a power sword, power axe, or thunder hammer, and a choice of three crests.*
Breacher Squad*
Even the prodigious durability of the Legiones Astartes isn’t proof against all attacks, and when you need to force your way down the narrow corridors and cramped confines of a void craft, you call for the Breacher Squad. Each of these 10 Space Marines comes with a heavy boarding shield to defend against attacks, as well as a one-handed bolter and loads of accessory parts to customise them. You also get a single graviton gun and a lascutter to upgrade your squad, and all the parts you need to make a stoic Sergeant.*
Breacher Squad Upgrade Set*
If you already have plenty of bodies lying around, or want to equip your MkII and MkVI bodies with boarding shields, you can also pick up the upgrade sprue separately. This handy little set comes with all of the Breacher Squad parts you get in the full box, with enough shields, arms, and weapons to make a 10-man squad.*
Apostle
Legitur is a world devoted to the sacred writings of the Imperial Creed. Endlessly producing mountains of scripture, it considers itself an exemplar of piety. But there are deep secrets here – undreamt of by the ruling Ecclesiarchy, hidden amongst the shadows of the towering paper hives – and a being who was born of these secrets.
Cerastes, Dark Apostle of the Word Bearers, has returned to the world he once called home. Though his host has been crushed by the fearsome Palatine Aesura and her Sororitas of the Order of the Thorn, Cerastes’ dark ambition is undaunted. He will have his revenge. He will resurrect the Eightfold Bane. And he will convert the world he despises to the worship of Chaos. Legitur is about to receive the Word, and it will burn with the fires of revolution.
Apostle is a new novel by David Annandale, and will be up for pre-order in hardback*, eBook, and MP3 audiobook editions.
Death of Integrity
Having tracked a Genestealer brood across the sector, Chapter Master Caedis of the Blood Drinkers calls upon his old allies in the Novamarines to assist with the destruction of the space hulk designated Death of Integrity. But before they can unleash their plasma torpedoes, the Adeptus Mechanicus intervene and task both Chapters with a secretive mission into the heart of the hulk. With deadly xenos creatures seemingly lurking around every corner, Caedis treads a fine line between glorious victory and the damnation of eternal bloodlust carried by all sons of Sanguinius.
The classic Space Marine Battles novel Death of Integrity by Guy Haley will now be available to pre-order in a new MP3 audiobook edition.
This week on Warhammer+ we get dirty with our foetid friends from the Garden of Nurgle, as How We Roll sits down with Jimbo from the Warhammer Studio to chat about Battletome: Maggotkin of Nurgle, while Loremasters delves into the Plaguefather’s history in the Mortal Realms. Meanwhile, Citadel Colour Masterclass soars far above that cloud of corruption with a new guide to painting the pristine pinions of the Swooping Hawks – and who can blame the Aeldari for staying as far away from the Nurglites as they can?
Here at Warhammer Community, we’re closing out the month of January with a juicy mix of rules, reveals, and painting challenges – including something on Monday that you won’t want to miss. Seriously, it’d be terrible if you did. We’ve got our eye on you.
* This product is delayed in Australia and New Zealand
