Surprising precisely no-one, the Mortal Realms have been set alight with conflict once more.* On the burning shores of Aqshy, two disparate forces of Order muster against each other in an epic grudge match, while Nagash’s loyal servants have descended upon the Daughters of Khaine in an attempt to ‘reclaim’ aelven souls within the Arena of Shades.
With so many armies rolling up their sleeves for a scrap, you can look forward to four new battletomes arriving in the near future.
Battletome: Idoneth Deepkin and Battletome: Fyreslayers will be hitting shelves first, bringing you all the shiny new rules and lore you could need for collecting and playing with your favourite Order factions. Both books are filled to the brim with juicy background material chronicling each faction’s history in the Mortal Realms and their role in recent events – as well as warscrolls, Allegiance abilities, and other ways to reflect those stories on the battlefield.
This is also the first opportunity to get your hands on rules for two new Heroes outside of the Fury of the Deep Battlebox – the Akhelian Thrallmaster and Auric Flamekeeper.
Idoneth Deepkin players can use the Akhelian Thrallmaster to fluidly shift between stances for their Namarti Thralls in battle, while Fyreslayer armies will receive a raging return on fallen fighters with the Auric Flamekeeper’s fiery funerary blessings.
There are also new quests to conquer, with personalised Path to Glory rules for each army. Have you ever wanted to embark on a soul-raid to grow your vast undersea kingdom, or to take mercenary contracts to fill your Magmahold’s vaults with riches untold? Well now you can, with mechanics to keep track of both your growing dominion and your spoils of war.
Of course, it wouldn’t be a good battletome release without tons of jaw-dropping new artwork throughout. Whether you favour fins or flame, each book is packed full of technicolour goodies for fans of their respective armies to drool over.
Path to the Future
Even more armies will be seeing updated battletomes this year, as Age of Sigmar’s third edition continues to roll out. Whilst the historical aelf-versus-duardin grudge match will play out first, there are further releases hot on their heels and ready to throw down.
Morathi raises her spiteful head yet again,** this time to answer the challenge of everyone’s favourite Great Necromancer. Graceful gladiators and querulous quill-pushers are getting ready to clash in Arena of Shades, and a new Battletome: Daughters of Khaine and Battletome: Nighthaunt will be sneaking up on you before you know it, both packed with new lore, rules, and warscrolls.
Oh-ho, what’s this? Two more mystery battletomes are slated to arrive this summer. We can’t tell you exactly what they are yet, but it seems some distinctly Chaos-flavoured mischief is on the horizon, much to the dismay of the ever-vigilant forces of Order…
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* Can’t we all just give peace a chance? Well, no, that’d be tremendously boring.
** Or heads? Does it count if they’re on two different bodies that are both technically the same person?