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Saturday Pre-orders – Warhammer Age of Sigmar Essentials

After last week set the stage for the new edition of Warhammer Age of Sigmar, it’s time for the rest of the rules to follow up. The Core Book is here, new Faction Packs provide updated rules for every faction in the game, and there’s a Spearhead box with everything you need to get started.

Warhammer Age of Sigmar Core Book

Get started in the new edition with the ultimate companion to Warhammer Age of Sigmar, containing all the rules, background lore, and miniatures galleries you love in an easy to read format bedecked with gorgeous artwork. The Core Book is your introduction to the Mortal Realms from the perspective of those who live in it, with in-depth information on its many locales and cultures, its fractious history, and the cosmology that entwines it. 

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It’s packed with all of the gameplay content you need to start waging war with your armies, refined with a new approach to game actions that makes it easier to read and understand than ever. If you’re looking for adventures in the world’s greatest fantasy miniatures game – start here.

Warhammer Age of Sigmar Core Book (Limited Edition)

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Or start here if you’re looking to kick things off in luxury. This Limited Edition of the Core Book contains the same awesome content as the regular version, but comes with gold foil lettering, gilt page edges, a black ribbon page marker, and exclusive cover art of a Lord-Terminos. It also comes with a protective transparent slipcase featuring a helmeted version of the same Lord-Terminos art, for some added pizazz. 

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: General’s Handbook 2024-25

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Dive into intense Matched Play games with the General’s Handbook for the 2024-25 season, featuring new Battle Tactics, season rules, and battleplans for both casual and competitive gameplay. It also includes updated warscrolls for endless spells, a Tournament Organiser’s Pack to help you get started running your own events, the Warhammer Age of Sigmar Core and Advanced rules for reference, and loads more.

Spearhead: Fire and Jade Gaming Pack

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The new world of fast-paced, small-scale battles starts here with the Spearhead: Fire and Jade Gaming Pack – your essential entry into the exciting world of Spearhead. This set includes four pieces of terrain, a double-sided game board, two range rulers, and 36 cards split between Battle Tactics and realm-exclusive Twists to spice up your game, which combine with the downloadable Spearhead rules and any two forces of your choice to fight memorable battles in as little as 45 minutes. 

Warhammer Age of Sigmar Faction Packs

Launch your campaign in the new edition of Warhammer Age of Sigmar with updated rules and warscrolls for every faction in the game, bundled into Faction Packs. Each pack contains rules cards with all of your Battle Traits, Battle Formations, Heroic Traits, and Artefacts of Power, plus Prayer Lores, Manifestation Lores and Spell Lores where applicable, along with a full set of warscroll cards, and a set of Spearhead cards.

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You also get a double-sided background lore card for your faction, while each warscroll card has unit lore on the reverse* to help you get fully acquainted with your army. Note that the Orruk Warclans Faction Pack contains full rules for both the Kruleboyz and the Ironjawz factions, though the latter currently lack a Spearhead.

Warhammer Age of Sigmar Dice Packs

Want to represent your Grand Alliance on the battlefield? Decide the fate of all the realms with a set of 16 themed dice for Order, Chaos, Death, or Destruction, each cast in appropriately coloured plastic and with the Grand Alliance logo on the 6 face.

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White Dwarf 502

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The next issue of White Dwarf magazine stars the resurgent Skaven as they launch their bid for total control of the Mortal Realms, while the White Dwarf team begin their Spearhead League and the Bunker delivers yet more new scenarios for Warhammer 40,000, Warhammer Age of Sigmar, and Warcry. Meanwhile, over in the 41st Millennium we return to the Chalnath Expanse as the T’au Empire and Genestealer Cults continue their bids for dominion, and players of the new Pariah Nexus season get some Crusade rules to dig into.

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Morvenn Vahl: Spear of Faith (Mega Limited Edition)

The new novel from Jude Reid stars Morvenn Vahl – the Abbess Sanctorum of the Adepta Sororitas – and it’s available first in an incredible Mega Limited Edition package, packing an entire reliquary’s worth of extras into a presentation case with a magnetic lid, decorated with intricate design work. 

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The book itself is presented in a velvet-effect cloth cover, with an intricate embroidered design on the front cover, and gold foil details on the back cover and spine. The collection contains a 56-page cloth-bound volume called The Book of Saints, written as an in-universe text immortalising the deeds of Imperial Saints for all time, while six beautiful pieces of artwork from this book are also included as art prints.

The Daughters of the Emperor eShort Subscription Week

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Follow the chronicles of the Adepta Sororitas over five short stories in the latest eShort Week, dropping a new story each day from Monday 8th July. These stories from Jude Reid, John Sollitto, Kate Flack, Nicholas Werner, and Ness Brown are a great insight into the Emperor’s most faithful servants, and you can get all five for the price of four by subscribing to the whole bundle.

* This extra lore is exclusive to the physical release of these Faction Packs.