The fighting is furious in Warhammer Age of Sigmar, and it’s only getting worse in the wake of the Vermindoom. As armies clash across the Mortal Realms, we turn our attention to Spearhead, where the focus is shifting to the Realm of Death. New rules and new forces are coming, expanding on what’s already on offer in Fire and Jade, and offering yet more ways to play fast and furious games of Warhammer Age of Sigmar.
Beyond that, we prepare to move into the 2025-2026 season of Matched Play with a new General’s Handbook and an event entitled Scourge of Ghyran.
The Spearhead: Sand and Bone Gaming Pack invites you into Shyish, including a double-sided gaming board showing the sepulchral environs of Dolorum and the endless, chilling deserts of Ossia.
A new realm means new Twists, new Battle Tactics, new Objectives (named for the Mortarchs of Nagash), and terrain fit for the Realm of Death – which you may recognise from the Warcry: Crypt of Blood starter set.
The gaming pack contains all of this, a 24-page book of rules for the Sand and Bone Spearhead Battlepack, and rules for four new Spearhead armies. You’ll still need the Core Rules to play, which you can download for free from Warhammer Community or find in the Warhammer Age of Sigmar app.
Cities of Sigmar Fusil-Platoon
The Cities of Sigmar face the horrors of the Mortal Realms with little more than hope in their hearts and an arsenal of blackpowder. The Fusil-Platoon is a mobile gunnery brigade led by a Fusil-Major on Ogor Warhulk, with an Alchemite Warforger for support.
Two units of five Freeguild Fusiliers are the main damage dealers, unleashing devastating volleys as a unit of Wildercorps Hunters harry enemy flanks. Enemies will have to contend with their ability to fortify their position against inbound assaults.
Seraphon Sunblood Prowlers
The Great Plan has so many moving parts that any mortal mind would boggle at the scope of it, but the martial forces of the Seraphon need not worry about its fractal complexity – all they do is bash whomever the Slann tell them to.
The Sunblooded Prowlers combine the brute strength of 10 Saurus Warriors and a Spawn of Chotec with two units of five Hunters of Huanchi and three Terrawings that use their chameleonic abilities and natural speed to run rings around their foes.
Ossiarch Bonereapers Mortisan Elite
The Ossiarch Bonereapers have two raisons d'être: collecting the Bone Tithe and enforcing the will of Nagash. This is usually accomplished with overwhelming force, though there are times when a swift and incisive strike can achieve the same result as a full legion.
The Mortisan Elite are one such vanguard, a compact but deadly arrangement of two Morghast Archai, three Immortis Guard and three Necropolis Stalkers under the command of a Mortisan Ossifector, making up for their low numbers with overwhelming power and their signature relentless discipline.
Ogor Mawtribes Scrapglutt
Aside from eating, Ogor hunters love nothing more than repurposing scrap metal into deadly mantraps and crude weapons, sending gnoblars out to scour battlefields for more good bits. The Scrapglutt operates under the command of a Mantrapper, and features 12 Gnoblars, a Gnoblar Scraplauncher and two units of two Ironguts, with an additional unit of four Ironguts arriving only when the fighting is at its fiercest.
We are also launching a Spearhead competition today. Sign up for our email newsletter before midnight on 13th April, and you’ll be entered into a draw to win a Spearhead box of your choice, plus a Warhammer Age of Sigmar Paints and Tools set to get them ready for battle.
There are 10 prizes on offer, and it’s the perfect opportunity to get involved just in time for Sand and Bone – Terms and Conditions apply.
There will be more Spearheads coming alongside future Battletomes. For those who enjoy competing in Matched Play, a vital update is just around the corner.
While Spearhead is moving to Shyish, the battles of Matched Play are shifting to Ghyran for a season of blossoms and bloodshed in the Realm of Life. The General's Handbook 2025 - 2026 is the next essential update to the Warhammer Age of Sigmar Matched Play experience, and for the first time it comes in a box that contains the General’s Handbook, Battleplan cards, Warscroll cards for Manifestations and associated Spell Lores, and six objective marker mats made from a flexible PET material so you can start playing right away.
A 72-page softback book contains the background for the war in the Jade Realm, alongside the core rules and the Matched Play Battlepack, featuring updated Advanced Rules modules. This Battleplack also contains a new Season Rule – which means new Battle Tactics – and twelve new Battleplan maps.
We’ll have more details soon, but expect significant changes to Battle Tactics as the system shifts to a series of sequential goals that you select as part of army composition.
That’s not all for the Age of Sigmar; Scourge of Ghyran is almost upon us. In the weeks leading up to the new General’s Handbook, every faction will receive free content from new Enhancement choices to entire Battle Formations – which will be legal for Matched Play as soon as the book lands. They’ll all be available to download for free on Warhammer Community and on the Warhammer Age of Sigmar App.
And you can expect a daily short story accompanying each faction drop. Exciting times ahead!
Check out the rest of the reveals from AdeptiCon 2025 below.
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