Clearance has been granted, the requisite documentation has been redacted, and there are mounds of vellum festooned in stamps and wax seals on our desks – Imperial Agents are preparing to take over in next week’s pre-orders. There’s also a stack of new Black Library novels to look forward to this week, so stick around for this week’s Sunday Preview.
Codex: Imperial Agents
As open war wages across the galaxy, the Imperium must guard its realms from the heretics and mutants that seek to corrupt and subvert from within. The Imperial Agents seek to hold them at bay. A loose coalition of Inquisitors from the Holy Ordos, swashbuckling Rogue Traders, and zealous priests, they command clandestine forces in an attempt to defend the Imperium against the most insidious threats. Codex: Imperial Agents contains background on the many distinct bodies that form their military forces, and provides rules using them as an full army in Warhammer 40,000, or as allies for other Imperial armies.
There are four Detachments: the Ordos Xenos, Hereticus, and Malleus, and an Imperialis Fleet commanded by an all-powerful Rogue Trader. 27 datasheets cover Inquisitors, Imperial Breachers, Adeptus Astartes, Assassins, Deathwatch units, and other Imperial servants. Rules are included for the Inquisitor’s Hand Combat Patrol, and a Crusade section in which you undertake clandestine Shadow Operations.
If you are of sufficient clearance level and wish to lord it over your friends, you may choose the Collector’s Edition, which features all the same content bound in a cover with special art, gold foil blocking, gilt page edges, and a black ribbon bookmark.
Combat Patrol: Imperial Agents
Execute the will of the Imperium with a brand new Combat Patrol comprising an eclectic selection of units which operate as the Inquisitor’s Hand. A Ministorum Priest with Vindictor is accompanied by six Inquisitorial Agents, and a 20-strong Vigilant Squad with a pair of loyal Cyber-mastiffs and two Nuncio-aquilas for the muscle. A terrifying Eversor Assassin pumped full of unstable stimms lurks in the shadows to eviscerate tough foes. You can accessorise your Vigilants with two Adeptus Arbites transfer sheets, which each contain 297 decals.
Imperial Agents Battleforce: Ordo Malleus
The Ordo Malleus are the guardians against the daemons of Chaos, powerful Inquisitors accompanied by a cohort of assassins, agents, and the secretive Grey Knights chapter. This boxed set contains the new Inquisitor Coteaz miniature – the first place you can get him. He is joined by a Munitorum Priest with Vindictor, a sinister Culexus Assassin, five indomitable Grey Knights Terminators, 12 Inquisitorial Agents with accompanying Tome-skulls, and a Chimera to transport Coteaz and his retinue.*
Imperial Agents Battleforce: Ordo Hereticus
The threat of mortal Chaos cultists is the domain of the Ordo Hereticus, whose devout warriors pursue their task with fiery determination. Under the command of Inquisitor Greyfax, this battleforce contains a Munitorum Priest, 6 Inquisitorial Agents with Tome-skull, 10 Adeptus Arbites with a loyal Cyber-mastiff and a Nuncio-aquila, alongside 10 Battle Sisters and a Cherub from the Adepta Sororitas, who are supported by an Immolator tank for when even a heavy flamer isn’t enough purgation.*
Imperial Agents Battleforce: Ordo Xenos
The insidious plots of the alien are covered by the Ordo Xenos, who may dispatch a strike force when the Space Marines or Astra Militarum are too slow, perhaps procuring valuable technology in the process... The Ordo Xenos battleforce is led by Lord Inquisitor Kyria Draxus, a radical who uses Xenos weapons. She battles alongside a Navigator, six Inquisitorial Agents with a Tome-skull, a Rogue Trader and her entourage, five Voidsmen-At-Arms and their loyal hound, and a squad of five Deathwatch Veterans riding a mighty Corvus Blackstar attack aircraft.*
Deathwatch Captain Artemis
Recruited to the Deathwatch from the Mortifactors Chapter, Captain Artemis is a renowned combat expert who wields a deadly power blade and an artificer combi-weapon known as the Hellfire Extremis. This plastic miniature is returning to the range alongside Codex: Imperial Agents.
Navis Nobilite Navigator
The Navigators of the Navis Nobilite are rare human mutants from a small handful of ancient noble houses bred for one purpose. Born with a third eye, they guide ships through the inchoate maelstrom of the warp, thereby enabling Humanity to maintain its galactic empire. They are rarely seen on the battlefield, but they do sometimes accompany Inquisitors and Rogue Traders so as to harness their powerful and unusual psychic abilities. This plastic miniature originally appeared in Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress, and will be available separately for the first time from next week.
Ministorum Priest
The Ecclesiarchy is a very powerful entity within the Imperium, and Ministorum Priests generally accompany Imperial forces into battle, bellowing incendiary dogma to inspire their allies to greater heights of zealous bravery. This plastic miniature is available separately from Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress for the first time.
Imperial Agents Repacks
There is also a series of Imperial Agents repacks on their way, to help you build up an adept fighting force in whichever style you choose.
Legendary Inquisitors such as Kyria Draxus and Katarinya Greyfax are frequently in the thickest fighting, and are soon to be available separately. They have the power to requisition support from the Officio Assassinorum when they need a hard target taken down with surgical precision. With a choice of Eversor, Culexus, Callidus, and Vindicare assassins, no-one is safe.
Every good Inquisitor needs a gang of flunkeys, and the eclectic mix of individuals in the Inquisitorial Agents box are the perfect attachés. Rogue Traders may also call upon eclectic agents, including the Elucidian Starstriders, an entourage of hand-picked specialists and Voidsmen-at-arms on bodyguard duty.
Datasheet Cards: Imperial Agents
Whether you are running a full army of Imperial Agents or using them to supplement an existing force, this pack of Datasheet Cards covers every unit in games of Warhammer 40,000 and Combat Patrol. It includes a card covering army rules, but you’ll need the Codex for your detachments.
Warhammer 40,000 Boarding Actions
Boarding Actions are back in the current edition of Warhammer 40,000 with a 296-page softback book acting as the complete companion. It contains all the rules you’ll need to take your fights into the claustrophobic confines of void ships. There are Tactical Manoeuvres, Stratagems, and Enhancements for almost every faction in the game (except Imperial and Chaos Knights), explanations on how to muster a Boarding Patrol, 55 new Boarding Actions Detachments, and loads of missions: symmetric, asymmetric, narrative, and multiplayer.
Celestian Sacresant Aveline and Daemonbreaker
The Imperium burns in the face of Abaddon’s Thirteenth Black Crusade, and as the Despoiler’s attentions turn to Cadia, Celestian Sacresant Aveline prepares to perform one final duty. She must secure the shrine world of Orison VIII and hunt down the Chaos sorcerer who hopes to corrupt it, but an ancient evil that knows Aveline’s name threatens to compromise her mission, at a risk to Holy Terra itself if she cannot defeat it. Jude Reid’s new book Daemonbreaker will be available to pre-order in hardback, eBook, and audiobook editions. It is even accompanied by a stunning new miniature for Celestant Sacresant Aveline.*
Wielding the holy flame-wreathed blade of Saint Arabella, Aveline is ready to strike down the enemies of the Imperium, and will have Legends rules so you can field her in casual games of Warhammer 40,000.
Daemonbreaker (Special Edition)
For the truly devout, Daemonbreaker is receiving a luxurious Special Edition, which features a faux-leather cover with an intricate design including silver foil blocking, coloured page edges, and a silver ribbon bookmark. Inside you’ll also find full-colour artwork and an authorial afterword. All copies are signed and numbered.*
Daemonhammer
Torquemada Coteaz, the High Protector of the Formosa Sector, returns in a new novel by Darius Hinks. Inquisitor Coteaz must choose between two fates: ceding his throne to those who covet it, or cling to power by forgoing his own mortality… but forces conspire in the darkness to complicate this matter even further. Pre-order Daemonhammer in hardback, eBook, or audiobook editions next week.
Ravenor (Anniversary Edition)
Dan Abnett’s classic Ravenor returns to print in a luxury Anniversary Edition with silver foil blocking, and a new introduction from the author. Gideon Ravenor is a powerful psyker and student of the infamous Eisenhorn. Working alongside a crew of lethal operatives and using his potent psychic abilities, he explores a drug-smuggling ring that turns out to be involved in a far deeper conspiracy than previously imagined.
Oaths of Damnation
The Exorcists chapter have a secret – in order to truly grapple with Chaos they invite daemons to possess them, before driving them out and using the resulting increased resilience to their advantage. When such a banishment fails, you get the Broken Ones: living prisons for the terrors expelled from their brethren. When one of these tormented souls is freed, Daggan Zaidu and his elite Hexbreakers must hunt them down before the Imperium at large learns of their unorthodox methods – but the relationship between hunter and prey is set to complicate matters. Pre-order Robbie NacNiven’s Oaths of Damnation in harback, eBook, and audiobook editions next week.
Saints and Martyrs
Saints and Martyrs collects four tales about the holiest Adepta Sororitas warriors in a new omnibus featuring three novels: Celestine: The Living Saint by Andy Clark, Ephrael Stern: The Heretic Saint by David Annandale, and The Triumph of Saint Katherine by Danie Ware. It also contains the short story Celestine: Revelation by Andy Clark, and will be available to pre-order in paperback and eBook editions.
French and German Releases
French and German readers will be able to enjoy the trials of Celestian Sacresant Aveline in hardback and eBook editions of Daemonbreaker coming to both languages. The all-powerful Thousand Sons sorcerer Ahriman also returns and pits himself against the Necrons in John French’s Ahriman Undying, which will arrive for pre-order in paperback and eBook editions next week.
On Warhammer+ this week, the Spearhead league finishes on Battle Report, as four eager players vie to prove they are the best at this swift and strategic Warhammer Age of Sigmar game mode.
You’ll also be able to add a bit of animal flair to your miniatures with a Citadel Colour Masterclass video on detailed leopard-print patterns. Loremasters is meanwhile taking a closer look at some of the most terrifying and powerful warriors of the Mortal Realms, the Extremis Chambers of Stormcast Eternals, who battle atop terrifying, lightning-spewing Dracothian mounts.
Next week on Warhammer Community we’ll have the conclusion to the Slaughter at Hel Crown global campaign, with a full reveal for the winning side’s upcoming miniatures on Saturday the 10th of August.
* These products are all only available while stocks last