It’s been a little while since we’ve visited the gang wars that ripple through the hive cities and ash wastes of Necromunda, but matters have only worsened with time – the succession crisis that left Lord Helmawr mortally injured and trapped in stasis has become a planet-wracking civil war, and the gangs are all still going at it hammer and tongs.
Necromunda: The Aranthian Succession – Ruins of Jardlan
Things are not going well for the Imperial House. Haera Helmawr has claimed the throne, but her planet is in flames, and Lady Credo’s revolution is gathering momentum. Ozostium Aranthus has awoken… but to what end?
The concluding volume of the Aranthian Succession is unmissable for every Necromunda fan; it has 45 pages of incredible background lore developing the setting-changing storyline, and introducing new characters such as Asun’ghar – also known as the Lady of Ash – Orrin Grimjarl, the Last Charter Lord of Jardlan, and his brother Urson Grimjarl, the Jardlan Nomad Hunter, as well as Silberlant Sevos, the Infotek.
Then there’s part three of the Succession campaign, entitled “the Fall of Helmawr”, which follows the forces of Ozostium and the Prophet of Redemption as they hound Lady Haera and her loyal Enforcers. Gangs battle for the control of key waypoints throughout the ash wastes to ambush the fleeing Helmawr, or aid her escape. On top of that there are additional rules for Van Saar, Enforcers, and Ironhead Squat Prospectors, including new vehicles for each.
This volume will be available in hardback and as an ePub.
Van Saar Ash Wastes Arachni-rig
A wasteland variant of the Van Saar Arachni-rig, the Ash Wastes Arachni-rig combines high-speed brutality with an array of deadly weapons. It is fitted with jump boosters to effortlessly traverse Necromunda’s rad-soaked plains, and packs a myriad of weapons ranging from destructive plasma guns that melt through infantry or harpoon launchers to better snag loot in the ash wastes, meaning it’s prepared for any foe.
Van Saar Gang Tactics Card Pack and Van Saar Vehicle Gang Tactics Pack
This pair of card packs allows you to command your House Van Saar gangers in the heat of battle. The Gang Tactics pack is a reprint of the second Van Saar Tactics Card Pack, and includes 26 cards with additional tactics and abilities, as well as blank cards you can use to record important statistics. The Vehicle Tactics pack features 26 new cards (including blank vehicle cards) and allows your gangs to utilise various vehicles for use in the underhive and ash wastes.
Underhive Graffiti Transfer Sheet
Add some gritty realism to your Necromunda terrain collection with this sheet of 292 waterslide transfers, including hazard stripes, graffiti icons for each of the House gangs, Enforcer tags, as well as industrial signage, sector codes, 'motivational' slogans, arrows, hazard warnings, voltage symbols, and a host of other decals to personalise your collection.
Mind-Locked Wyrd and Cephalopod Spektors
Cast in Forge World resin, Mind-locked Wyrds are unsanctioned psykers who have been broken to the will of the Psi-Syndica and its shadowy allies. House Delaque are particularly favoured partners of this psychic cartel, and employ Mind-locked Wyrds alongside their engineered creations – such as the Cephalopod Spektors, cybernetic watchdogs built around fragment-brains cloned from their bonded master.
Van Saar Ash Wastes Upgrades
Kit your high-tech House Van Saar members with all the gear needed to slightly improve their chances in the ash wastes of Necromunda. This Forge World Resin upgrade kit contains 30 components such as backpacks, heads, and flasks to make your gangers more in-theme and appropriately dressed when fighting in the ash wastes.
Elsewhere in the 41st Millennium, we’ve got another tranche of Made to Order models – this time prominently featuring the Space Wolves and the forces of the Inquisition. As always, these are available for a limited period – between 10am local time on Saturday the 21st of October until 8am GMT on Monday the 30th of October. They can take up to 180 days to arrive. Here’s who’s coming:
In order, that’s a Grey Hunter with Wolf Standard, Lukas the Trickster, and Rune Priest in Terminator Armour, all in resin. Then there’s the Grey Knights Brother-Captain Stern in resin, Deathwatch Captain Artemis in plastic, an Inquisitorial Warrior Acolyte in metal, and two pairs of resin Servitors – Servitors with Plasma Cannon, and Servitors with Multi-melta.
Traitor Champion Consul
Even the traitorous dogs of the 31st Millennium still have their pride, and the Traitor Champion Consuls are chosen from the best blades in their ranks. This ferocious duellist is made of Forge World resin, and wears augmented MKIII artificer armour. He wields a paragon blade and a volkite serpenta, and has a choice of two heads – helmed or bare. He can be used by any of the Traitor Legions as a close-combat character-killer.
The End and the Death Vol II
The latest chapter of arguably the most epic story in Warhammer history is finally (nearly) here. The End and the Death Vol II by Dan Abnett is a tour de force – answering almost as many questions as it poses, and culminating in the definitive version of a duel that’s lingered in the background for real-time decades.
This volume is being released as a numbered special edition strictly limited to 2,500 copies, and as a regular hardback, an eBook, and an MP3. The special edition has full-colour art pages, a leather-effect cover, a ribbon bookmark, and an author’s signature. So what’s it all about?
With Terra besieged and humanity’s salvation on a knife edge, Sanguinius, primarch of the loyalist Blood Angels, braves the horrors of the Warmaster’s flagship, The Vengeful Spirit, with a single purpose in mind: to slay his brother Horus, decapitate the Heresy once and for all, and stop the forces of Chaos from taking Terra.
Word Bearers: The Omnibus
The Word Bearers have struck fear into the hearts of their enemies for many a dark millennium. Long since having succumbed to the power of Chaos, their rampages across the stars and terrible deeds in the service of the Dark Gods have raged for ten thousand blood-soaked years.
Collected for the first time in one volume, this trilogy of explosive tales by Anthony Reynolds follows the traitorous sons of Lorgar as they plunge into war zones and blistering space battles, facing destruction from all fronts as they enslave the Imperial planet Tanakreg, decipher an ancient necron artefact, and take on all manner of alien forces in their quest to tear down the Imperium of Man.
Dead Men Walking (MP3)
When the necrons rise, a mining planet descends into a cauldron of war. The remorseless foes decimate the human defenders, but salvation comes in an unlikely form – the Death Korps of Krieg, a force as unfeeling as the necrons themselves. As two callous armies go to war, casualties are high and the magnitude of the destruction is unimaginable. This classic by Steve Lyons comes to MP3 audiobook.
Forges of Mars and Catachan Devil (French)
Two more titles come to French-language in paperback. Forges of Mars by Graham McNeill contains a full trilogy following an Adeptus Mechanicus explorator fleet on a crusade for lost knowledge, plus an additional short story, while Catachan Devil by Justin Woolley covers the exploits of a hard-bitten Catachan regiment tasked with purging a planet of orks – while saddled with the barely-trained last survivor of another regiment.
Kasrkin (German)
When the treacherous T'au Empire bring down a Valkyrie transporting an Astra Militarum General, Captain Bharath Obeysekera and his squad are tasked with recovering their superior. What the general knows could break the war effort, and cause the planet to fall under vile xenos control. Edoardo Albert’s novel comes to German paperback for the first time.
On Warhammer+ this week, the Battle Report team play out a clash between the Stormcast Eternals and the Disciples of Tzeentch, while Loremasters looks at the Aeldari Aspect Warriors and their origins. On top of that, there’s lore added to the Warhammer Vault on Haemonculus Covens.