On the far fringes of the galaxy, the T’au Empire continues its relentless expansion, and we’re pretty sure joining them is a lot easier than beating them. If you do want to give them a rough time, some classic Made to Order Orks should do the trick.
Codex: T’au Empire
A new dawn for the T’au Empire is upon us and it’s time to bring the Greater Good to the galaxy – Codex: T’au Empire is going up for pre-order this Saturday. The new book is packed with detachments and datasheets for your Fire Caste troops and auxiliaries, with the full breadth of the new Kroot range adding flexible light skirmishers to the infamous T’au gunlines.
The book also contains up-to-date lore on the T’au Empire and their state of affairs, along with beautiful miniature galleries, new Combat Patrol rules, and updated Crusade campaign rules that task you with bringing new planets into the fold. If you’re a die-hard T’au Empire fan, you can also pick up the Collector’s Edition version of the codex with a full-art, soft-touch cover, gold foil lettering, and other luxurious details.*
Kroot Shapers
Three new Kroot leaders emerge to take command of their auxiliaries. The War Shaper is an experienced fighter who leads their Carnivores from the front, while the Trail Shaper seeks out advantageous terrain so its warband can better ambush their prey. The Flesh Shaper fills the dual roles of tribal shaman and nutritionist, and they’re a dab hand in a scrum with their razor-sharp knives and expert butchery skills.*
Kroot Lone-spear
Not all Kroot are communal souls, and those that range ahead often prefer the company of nimble Kalamandra beasts to other warriors. Known as Lone-spears, these deadly hunters are expert mobile marksmen, whether sniping targets from afar or hurling explosive-tipped javelins into enemy vehicles.*
Krootox Rider
Older and less impulsive Krootox are used as mobile weapons platforms in battle, where the bond they share with their Krootox Rider is so strong that the gunner can move them into position with barely a gesture. The weapons they mount are the largest carried by Kroot kinbands, and can be fired accurately on the move.*
Krootox Rampagers
The brute strength of a Krootox isn’t only used to lug heavy equipment around, and particularly vicious specimens are prime mounts for the daring shock assault units known as Krootox Rampagers. This unit of three Rampagers is a pure wrecking ball in close combat, pairing the melee skills of their rider with the savage fury of a juvenile Krootox.*
Kroot Carnivores
Kroot Carnivores are the backbone of a kinband, and are lightly equipped so they can skirmish easily through dense terrain. The classic Carnivores return in a brand new box of 10 miniatures with never-seen-before weapon options, plus all the claws, meat, and fetishes you need to outfit your Kroot.*
Kroot Hounds
Traditional Kroot hunting techniques made frequent use of Kroot Hounds to chase down and tie up their prey, and it works just as well on the battlefields of the 41st Millennium. They’re lightning fast, are able to charge after Advancing, and can even hold objectives when near a KROOT Character – that’s a lot of utility packed into five good boys.*
Combat Patrol: T’au Empire
A new Tau Empire Combat Patrol enters the arena of small-scale Warhammer 40,000 action with a balanced mechanised force, mounting troops in a mobile Devilfish transport while their comrades offer supporting fire. The Commander – piloting a sturdy Enforcer battlesuit – leads from the front with a powerful array of ranged weapons, while a Breacher Team closes in for a short-ranged firefight and 10 Pathfinders support their comrades from afar with pinpoint Markerlight targeting.*
T’au Empire Dice Set and Datasheet Cards
Complete your T’au Empire collection with a pack of 16 frosted white dice with pale blue pips and the T’au sept logo on the six, while keeping your datasheets close at hand thanks to the Datasheet Card pack. Each pack contains 44 quick reference cards with fancy blue foil edges, usable in both Combat Patrol and regular Matched Play games of Warhammer 40,000.*
Made to Order Orks
It’s impossible to keep Orks away from a good fight, and these Made to Order kits are so keen for a scrap they’ve travelled across time to get stuck in. The clanking Ork Dreadnought tears into troops with a pair of claws that cut through power armour like butter, while the stealthy Blood Axe Kommandos strike from the shadows and a quad of five Nobz show the runtier Boyz how it’s done – wearing some vintage Ork fashion, if the horned helmets are anything to go by.
Warhammer Heroes Series 4 Comes to Selected Target Stores
The Warhammer Heroes blind box miniatures are heading to selected Target stores and Target’s website in the United States. Series 4 features Strike Force Justian — seven miniatures from a variety of Space Marine squads, featuring Intercessors, an Assault Intercessor, a Heavy Intercessor, an Eliminator, and a Captain, with a random figure in each box. Each miniature comes with its own Kill Team datacard containing their full rules and a ploy for the team to use, and all you need is any six of the seven operatives to start playing Kill Team. They are available now, but note that you won’t be able to buy them directly from the Warhammer.com webstore.
Solar Auxilia Basilisk & Medusa
Do your Loyalist/Traitor (delete as appropriate) opponents think they’re safe huddling behind walls and ruins? Rain down a storm of artillery upon them with the workhorse ordnance vehicles of the Solar Auxilia – the Basilisk and the Medusa. Each kit builds one tank armed with either the Basilisk’s infamous long-range Earthshaker cannon or the Medusa’s deadly armour-rending Medusa mortar.
Hermes Light Sentinel Squadron
The Hermes Light Sentinel is the Solar Auxilia’s premier fast skirmishing walker, built for raw speed and equipped with a surprisingly powerful arsenal for a machine of its size. This kit builds two Hermes Light Sentinels with a wide range of options, including additional armour plates and weapons to turn them into elite Hermes Veletaris Sentinels for headlong frontal assaults.
War for the Mortal Realms
Chart the continuing history of Warhammer Age of Sigmar in War for the Mortal Realms – a new omnibus collecting companion novels from each edition of the game with new interstitial sections bridging the gaps between major events in the Age of Sigmar. It’s a perfect way to get caught up with the affairs of the Mortal Realms before the new edition of Warhammer Age of Sigmar lands later this year, with exciting stories by Chris Wraight, Josh Reynolds, and Darius Hinks.
Yndrasta: The Celestial Spear
In the nomadic sled-city of Riika-Min, Yndrasta meets Njda, trying to guide her people to safety. Njda is at once fearful and in awe of the golden-clad warrior from the sky, and soon learns how dangerous it can be to get between a hunter and her quarry. Because Yndrasta, for all her fearsome beauty, is just as deadly as the beast they seek. As they close in on their target, Njda must teach Yndrasta the ways of the Realm of Beasts, and she soon finds herself wondering who the real monster is: the leviathan lurking in the deep, or the Celestial Spear sent down from the heavens?
Yndrasta: The Celestial Spear by Noah Van Nguyen arrives in paperback.
The End and The Death: Volume II
The end of the Horus Heresy has arrived, and you can relive the penultimate chapter in the Imperium’s early history with a new paperback edition of The End and The Death: Volume II by Dan Abnett. The walls of the Imperial Palace have almost been breached, and the Emperor readies himself for the final showdown with Horus aboard the Vengeful Spirit – but there is still much to be done before their fateful duel, and characters from across the Horus Heresy series will find their final roles to play as the apocalyptic Siege of Terra draws to a close.
The Horus Heresy Collection XII – French Edition
Continue the story of the Horus Heresy in a new French-language hardback edition of Collection XII. This omnibus includes the novels Pharos by Guy Haley and The Path of Heaven by Chris Wraight, as well as the anthology book Eye of Terra which features 11 short stories from a range of Black Library authors.
The Salamanders fight back against the sinister time-tampering Necrons in the second chapter of Battle Report’s Temporal Abnormalities series, using new Boarding Actions rules fresh from the pages of White Dwarf as Orikan the Diviner attempts to bring down the battle barge Divine Mandate in both the past and the present. Meanwhile, Loremasters continues its borderline heretical exposée on the Orks’ strangely effective specialists – this time strapping on the surgical gloves for a spin with the medically deranged Painboyz.
Citadel Colour Masterclass looks to the future rather than the past and present, with an incredibly helpful guide to painting Kroot skin – perfect for all of those miniatures you’ll be ordering on Saturday. Here at Warhammer Community, we’ve got more from the new edition of Warhammer Age of Sigmar and a deep dive between the pages of Codex: T’au Empire to gather intel on their new Combat Patrol.
* These products have been delayed in Australia and New Zealand.