There’s been coverage of rules, deck-building, and even a detailed roadmap, as next week, the core set for the new edition of Warhammer Underworlds will be available to pre-order. There is also the long-awaited Melee Weapons Upgrade Set for the Horus Heresy, this year’s Christmas miniature, the latest issue of White Dwarf, and a stack of stuff from Black Library.
Warhammer Underworlds: Embergard
The fast, fun, and tactical miniatures board game is back with a brand new edition. Warhammer Underworlds: Embergard updates the game with slick new rules, warbands, and Rivals decks designed around four playstyles. This box contains two new warbands: the hard-hitting Emberwatch, a Stormcast Eternals warband from the Vanguard Chamber, locked in battle with Zikkit’s Tunnelpack – a gaggle of madcap Skaven from the Clans Skryre.
You also get four Rivals decks, one each for the new playstyles, a rulebook, a quick start guide, a set of Warhammer Underworlds tokens and dice, plus a double-sided game board. 40k
Da Red Gobbo’s A-bomb-inable Snowman
Da Red Gobbo has checked his naughty list, and you’re all on it – and that means he’s got nothing but bombs in his sack, which he’s about to drop down chimneys, stuff in stockings, and hurl from behind hastily constructed snow forts. This time our roguish Grot is indulging his creative side, using a high-yield explosive as a foundation for a snowman. With help from his Snotling assistant, he’s here to make sure we all have a very merry Christmas by an open fire… which he’s set. This miniature will only be available while stocks last. Roasting chestnuts and blasting caps not included.
Legiones Astartes: Melee Weapons Upgrade Set
From charnabal sabres to chainswords, crushing thunder hammers to elegant power lances, the Melee Weapons Upgrade Set is here to supply your Legiones Astartes with all the close combat weapons they could ever need. It comes with two large, identical sprues, each containing an assortment of melee weapons, pistols, arms, hands, and heads, giving you everything you need to outfit your MKVI and MKIII Legiones Astartes for the bloody brawls of the Horus Heresy.*
The Horus Heresy Blast Markers and Templates
Ensure that the largest and most devastating weapons of your arsenal strike true with three separate clear plastic blast templates. The Hellstorm Marker is for large-scale flame weapons, while the Apocalyptic Blast Marker and Apocalyptic Barrage Marker represent the earth-sundering munitions unleashed by super-heavy tanks and Titans.
White Dwarf 506
November’s issue of White Dwarf is nearly here, and as ever, the official Warhammer magazine is packed with chunky articles. There are new multiplayer rules for Warhammer 40,000, Warhammer Legends rules from Grombrindal, as well as Duardin and Petrifex Elite Legends Armies of Renown, plus a huge breakdown from ’Eavy Metal on how they painted the Skaven of Skaventide, and beyond. The Bunker and other perennial features also return, alongside cards for your scenarios of the month, and the new rules for Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Age of Sigmar, and there’s a code for unlocking Isabella Mariken in Warhammer 40,000: Tacticus.
The High Kâhl's Oath
The Leagues of Votann make their Black Library debut with Gav Thorpe’s new novel, The High Kâhl's Oath. Myrtun Dammergot is living the high life as a Hernkyn Prospect Leader for the Kindred of the Eternal Stargorge, exploiting the ceaseless conflict between the Imperium of Man and the perfidious powers of the Warp for her own ends. Such a life is always destined to end, and when Myrtun receives a message from her Kindred’s Hold ship, her whole life is upended along with her companions she is plunged into an adventure beyond imagination.
The High Kâhl's Oath is available for pre-order next week, in a vibrant orange, blue, and white Special Edition with an orange ribbon bookmark, that is only available while stocks last. All copies are numbered and signed by the author. This novel will also be available to pre-order in hardback, audiobook, and eBook formats.
Long Live Da Red Gobbo
Da Red Gobbo has led this relovushonary Grots to victory, and now he controls the Ork Kill Kroozer Big Thumpa, but disaster strikes as the craft crashes into a barren world ruled by Brukka Bludspilla and his unruly Snakebites. Together with his second-in-command Slipbit they must liberate the Grots under this brutal warboss’s command, but armed only with his wit and a pile of pilfered gubbinz, he’s in for a stiff fight. Still, Da Revolushun cannot be abandoned! Long Live Da Red Gobbo by Justin Woolley is available to pre-order in hardback and audiobook formats next week.
Da Red Gobbo Collection
Infamous for freeing his kin from the yoke of Ork oppression, Da Red Gobbo is a name that inspires defiance in the quivering Grots of the galaxy. Whether he is one legendary hero or a succession of crimson-clad insurrectionists is not important – all that matters is that he is a symbol of liberation! Da Red Gobbo Collection brings together five tales of relovushonary daring: the novella Da Gobbo’s Revenge by Mike Brooks, the novella Da Gobbo’s Demise and short story Da Wrong Type of Green by Denny Flowers, and novella Da Gobbo Rides Again and short story The Instigator by Rhuairidh James. You can pre-order it next week in hardback and eBook formats.
Black Library Audiobook Collections
These audiobook collections will wile away your long winter nights, or accompany you while painting miniatures. The Warhammer Adventures collections for Warhammer 40,000 and Age of Sigmar each collect six novels (by Cavan Scott and Tom Huddleston respectively) in two packages. The Vampire Genevieve Collection features all four Kim Newman novels featuring the infamous bloodsucker, and the Gangs of Necromunda Collection brings together three stories by Denny Flowers, Justin D Hill and Josh Reynolds. Finally, the whole Beast Arises saga is divided into four volumes of three stories each. Each of these collections scores you the audiobooks for a lower price than buying them individually, so don’t miss out.
French and German Black Library Books
German readers can look forward to to new releases next week, with Sanguinius the Great Angel by Chris Wraight available for pre-order in hardback and eBook, alongside the Night Lords: The Omnibus, which brings together six tales of the terrifying sons of Curze by Aaron Dembski-Bowden in paperback and eBook formats. French readers can pick up the Siege of Terra: Omnibus I featuring The Solar War by John French and The Lost and the Damned by Guy Haley in paperback and eBook, while Morvenn Vahl: Spear of Faith by Jude Reid will also be available in paperback and eBook.
With Warhammer Underworlds available to pre-order next week, the Battle Report team are taking the chance to host a small league using some of the new decks and warbands, including two we’ve not revealed yet (more on those later). They’re also joined by one of the designers of Warhammer Underworlds for some insights into the game – three games are covered in each part, so be sure to keep an eye out for part two.
On Loremasters, presenter Alex continues documenting the T’au Empire, this time focusing on the Third Sphere Expansion and the results of Commander Shadowsun’s elevation to Supreme Command of the T’au forces.
On Warhammer Community this week we will be revealing the two new Warbands teased in the Warhammer Underworlds roadmap, followed by more rules and lore acoverage for the new edition, plus all a whole heap of other exciting stuff, as always.
* This product is delayed in Australia and New Zealand.
