GW Reveals New Warcry, Blood Bowl, & Black Library Pre-Order Lineup

By Andrew Schrank | April 1st, 2024 | Categories: 40k News & Articles, Age of Sigmar, Black Library, Blood Bowl, Tabletop Gaming News & Rumors, Tabletop Gaming Products, Warcry, White Dwarf

GW has announced new Warcry releases, along with Blood Bowl and Black Library releases hitting pre-order this Saturday!

There’s good news this week for hobbyists who want to expand their Warhammer collection by adding unique models to their collections or reading up on lore. Here are the new releases coming to pre-order with your favorite retailers on Saturday, April 6th, 2024, around 1 p.m. EST here in the States.

GW Reveals New Warcry, Blood Bowl, & Black Library Pre-Order Lineup

New releases for Warcry, Blood Bowl, Black Library, and White Dwarf were announced for pre-order.

Another Sunday, another preview. This week we’ve got several long-awaited additions to several Warhammer games. Kill Team: Nightmare drops, alongside Warcry: Pyre and Flood, as well as the Blood Bowl Gnome team. Everything you see here today will go up for pre-order next Saturday.

Warcry: Pyre and Flood

The battle for the Gnarlwood is no less nasty than the struggles occurring across Bheta-Decima, as we can see in the latest expansion box for Warcry.

The Nighthaunt are determined to set the Gnarlwood aflame as the Pyregheists are unleashed. These malevolent spirits haunt dark places, bringing Nagash’s enlightenment in the form of, er, burning death. Fortunately, the Lumineth fire brigade is on the case, in the form of the Ydrilan Riverblades, sacred aelementors who defend blessed waterways across the realms.

Will the Riverblades quench the Pyregheists’ thirst for vengeance, or will they go down in flames?

Warcry: Pyre and Flood contains two complete warbands, comprising 18 plastic miniatures, alongside an Idol of the Old Ones to add to your battlefields, a 64-page Warband Tome packed full of background and rules, and 62 cards, split across Fighter cards, Ability cards, and a full deck of Battleplan cards.

As with all Warcry warbands, some amazingly dynamic models are in here that are great for fans of either faction!

Wildercorps Hunters and Gorger Mawpack

Two more warbands are venturing back into the Gnarlwood as the Wildercorps Hunters and Gorger Mawpack, previously available in the Hunter and Hunted box, get solo releases. Each of these sets includes a complete warband – 11 miniatures for the Wildercorps Hunters and five for the Gorger Mawpack – and all the Fighter cards and Ability cards you need to use them in your games of Warcry. You may also deploy both units in larger games of Warhammer Age of Sigmar via their free downloadable Warscrolls.

As an old bundle box, these two warbands will be available finally as separate releases if you were waiting to snag them!

Ravaged Lands

Give your warbands some new scenery to battle over with a pair of Ravaged Lands sets, each themed around the Gnarlwood and the long-lost Seraphon artefacts that lie within that blighted region. The Ruined Realmshaper set includes ten pieces of scenery, including gnarloaks, rope bridges, obstacles and the eponymous ruined Realmshaper Engine itself. The Ruined Spawning Pool comprises a Starfire Pylon and an Idol of Motzlpota, both with platforms built over them to take your games into the third dimension.

Glimdwarrow Groundhogs

And now is the moment you’ve been waiting for, as the game of fantasy football sees the fittest, most athletic, most professional team ever to play in the big leagues take to the field. That’s right, the Gnomes are here.

The Glimdwarrow Groundhogs are a collection of mischievous Gnomes, ready to bring their trickery, guile, and numerous woodland pals to the Blood Bowl pitch. The team includes 14 plastic miniatures – eight Linemen, two Illusionists, two Beastmasters with a choice of badger or goose companions, and two ball-thieving Woodland Foxes. You’ll also get balls and various tokens themed around the Gnomes.

As one of the funniest and most unique teams yet, these Gnomes are finally landing with all of their critters to help win games of Blood Bowl.

Spike! Journal Issue 17

The rules for using your new Gnome team to dominate the leagues are in issue 17 of Spike! Journal. As well as a team list, this volume includes a spotlight on the Glimdwarrow Groundhogs, advice for coaching this… unusual team, new Star Players, Gnome Garden Leagues and a Dungeonbowl update. All the usual features round out the issue, which you’ll be able to get in paperback and eBook formats.

If you want to play the Gnomes or learn about them, pick up this issue of Spike for the low-down on the newest team.

Gnome Team Dice, Cards, and Pitch Set

Coach your Gnomes in style with a range of themed accessories. The Gnome Team Dice Set features seven blue and red pearlised Blood Bowl dice, and the Gnome Team Card Pack features 44 cards covering your players, Star Players, new Special Play cards and blank cards for keeping track of your players in leagues. The Gnome Team Pitch and Dugouts set includes a double-sided pitch depicting a magical forest in the day and at night, complete with rules for playing on it, and a pair of dugouts.

Gnome Treeman

It’s, uh, possible that your Gnomes might need some help on the pitch if they’re to overcome some of the tougher teams out there, and that’s where the Gnome Treeman and Rodney Roachbait come in. The Treeman will add some punch to your scrimmage line, while Star Player Rodney Roachbait uses his trusty fishing rod to hook the ball right out from under the noses of opponents.

Rodney Roachbait

Both of these new character options from Forge World add something special to the Blood Bowl team, so pick wisely… Or get both!

White Dwarf 499

April’s edition of White Dwarf magazine is packed with 144 pages of awesome Warhammer content. The highlights include new lore and fiction featuring the ancient menace of the Necrons, rules for using six Warhammer Underworlds warbands as Bladeborn fighters in Warcry, and new Boarding Actions missions for Warhammer 40,000 that reach into the fourth dimension and twist time as you play. It also includes all your favourite regular features, and more besides.

Get your fix of all things Warhammer, in the official magazine release for April!

Deathworlder

The famed Catachan Jungle Fighters are never happier than when they’re in the midst of deadly battle in an inhospitable environment with little chance of victory. The Catachan 903rd will be ecstatic, then, in Victoria Hayward’s new Warhammer 40,000 novel, as they’re sent to recover a piece of vital archeotech from an alien jungle infested with Tyranids. Discover how they fare in hardback, eBook and MP3 audiobook formats.

Shadow of the Eighth

It’s a double dose of Astra Militarum action, as the Cadians return to battle in Justin D Hill’s latest Minka Lesk novel, now coming to paperback. Now a captain in the Cadian 101st, Lesk is sent to discover the fate of the Cadian 8th, long thought lost in the fall of their home world. Haunted by the past, and beset by the horrors of Chaos, can Lesk and her warriors discover the truth?

Get ready to expand your collection with some exciting new releases hitting the pre-order list this weekend. Whether it’s one of the Warcry releases, some Gnomes in Blood Bowl, or maybe just some new lore to read, this is a great week for you!