Games Workshop’s Sunday Preview revealed that the new Age of Sigmar Sons of Behemat range hits pre-order this Saturday.
Two of this week’s four Gargant boxes are while stocks last, and that’s probably the detail that decides whether you’re setting an alarm Saturday morning or leaving this one until payday. GW revealed the whole Sons of Behemat wave together, but the boxed sets are the ones most likely to walk first. The Battletome and dice aren’t going anywhere immediately. The Stomper Tribe and Brawlers of Behemat might.
Sure, GW has slapped “while stocks last” on plenty of things that hung around longer than anyone expected lately. Sons of Behemat are a little different, though. This faction has spent five years without much new stuff to buy, and now an entire wave is landing on one pre-order page. The Boss-stompers kit also doubles as the new Spearhead, so people starting the army are chasing the same plastic as existing players looking to expand it. We track the rest of these weekly releases in our GW preview coverage.
Here’s everything hitting pre-order this Saturday and what stands out from the lineup.
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: New Pre-Order Releases
The latest Warhammer Age of Sigmar pre-orders have arrived, and they go up for pre-order on Saturday, September 12, around 1 p.m. EST in the States, with a street date of Saturday, September 26, for store shelves.
If you’re still waiting for something else to show up, we have the latest in our updated Warhammer Roadmap for 2026.
Ma Maegran, Chooser of the Mighty
Gargants have never had a buff caster of their own, so Ma Maegran handing out the blessing of almighty bigness changes what this army can actually do. She’s a mystical witch who picks which Gargant gets to become even more enormous than usual, which may be the most Sons of Behemat rule concept possible.
She isn’t wandering around alone, either. Her pair of Ancient Ghyrochs gore anything that gets too close, so this isn’t the usual fragile support model you hide behind a hill and hope nobody notices.
Plus, a new support piece is probably more useful to this army than another giant body anyway. Sons of Behemat lists have traditionally been a handful of enormous profiles expected to solve their own problems. Ma Maegran is built around making the Gargants you already brought better instead of simply adding another set of legs to the table.
Boss-stompers
Boss-stompers are Gargants who decided being huge wasn’t enough and actually learned how to fight. GW describes them as disciplined by Gargant standards, with enough interest in proper fighting technique to make them nastier than raw size alone would suggest.
You get three Boss-stompers, and the same kit can build all three as Rock-hurlers instead if you’d rather stand back and chuck rocks at people. Those three Rock-hurlers also make up the new Sons of Behemat Spearhead.
So this one box covers the melee unit, the shooting unit, and the faction’s Spearhead. That’s a lot of jobs for one kit, and it’s probably why this is the plastic we’d expect people to chase hardest. New players need it to get started, while anyone already sitting on a pile of Mega-Gargants finally has something different to add.
Boss-stompers Hobby Tips
Pick Boss-stompers or Rock-hurlers before you start gluing arms, because the shoulders determine most of the pose and changing your mind later means cutting through a finished joint. If you want access to both builds, the shoulder is large enough for a 5mm magnet without needing extra sculpting. Build all three together and spread the different heads and belt options across the unit so they don’t look like copies of the same Gargant.
Stomper Tribe
The Stomper Tribe box gives you a Warstomper Mega-Gargant and three Mancrusher Gargants built around the new Stomper Tribe Army of Renown rules. The smaller Gargants follow the big one around and pick up boons for staying close, turning a bunch of huge models clumped together on the table into an actual army mechanic.
The Warstomper can also be built as a Gatebreaker or Kraken-eater, while the Mancrushers include enough cosmetic options to keep the three smaller Gargants from looking identical. There’s a decent amount of flexibility packed into one box.
It’s also one of the two while-stocks-last Gargant boxes, and this is the one we’d keep an eye on. An Army of Renown box containing basically the whole Army of Renown is exactly the sort of release that can disappear and then turn up on eBay a few weeks later with an extra chunk added to the price.
Stomper Tribe Hobby Tips
Pin the Warstomper to the base before doing much else. There’s a lot of model sitting above those joints, and superglue alone isn’t something we’d want to trust the first time the box gets knocked over. Paint the three Mancrushers together with the same flesh recipe, then separate them visually with different loincloth and trophy colors.
Also, basing the whole tribe together will make the Warstomper feel like part of the same force instead of a model bought six months earlier.
Brawlers of Behemat
Brawlers of Behemat is a standalone boxed game about two Mega-Gargants beating the stuffing out of each other, using quicker rules instead of asking you to set up a full Age of Sigmar game. Inside are two complete Mega-Gargants, each buildable as a Warstomper, Gatebreaker, or Kraken-eater, rules for all three options, and a new batch of ruined Embergard terrain.
Most people eyeing this box probably aren’t doing it because they desperately needed another standalone game, though. It’s two Mega-Gargant kits in one box with terrain included, and Sons of Behemat armies run on Mega-Gargants. GW isn’t exactly hiding that angle either, with the preview pitching it as a way to pick up a pair for your army.
This is the other while-stocks-last Gargant box, which puts a big chunk of the wave’s actual model count inside limited releases. The standalone-game format also gives GW room to bundle the terrain in with the Gargants, so this is one where it’s worth doing the box math yourself before Saturday.
Brawlers of Behemat Hobby Tips
Build the two Gargants as different variants even if you’re mainly buying the box for its own game. It doesn’t cost you anything and leaves you with two distinct models if they move into an Age of Sigmar army later. Prime the Embergard ruins grey and give them a heavy drybrush before starting the Gargants. Terrain paints quickly, and finishing it first is a lot better than finding those ruins still bare a year from now. Keep the bases neutral enough that they’ll work with whatever table you’re already using.
Sons of Behemat Battletome
The new Battletome covers the Gargant tribes of the Mortal Realms and what they’ve been doing in Ghur, along with the usual lore, artwork, and miniature galleries. On the rules side, you’re getting new battle traits, the new Spearhead force, and Path to Glory content for growing a Gargant into something even nastier.
There are two versions. The standard hardback is joined by a smaller Gamer’s Edition that includes 33 warscroll cards. That Gamer’s Edition is while stocks last too, which follows the usual pattern and remains irritating when the cards are exactly the sort of thing plenty of regular players want at the table.
Our Sons of Behemat army guide and rules breakdown covers where the faction sat before this release, and we’ll have more once we’ve read the new book.
Sons of Behemat Warscroll Cards and Dice
Alongside the Battletome is a separate set of Warscroll Cards for keeping the rules handy, plus a Sons of Behemat dice pack. You get 16 bone-coloured dice with a bloodstained look, dark red pips, and a foot crushing somebody on the six.
The dice are exactly what they look like. The separate Warscroll Cards are more useful to if you’re buying the regular hardback, since that’s the version that doesn’t already include them.
Middle-earth Battle Strategy Game: New Pre-Order Releases
The latest Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game releases are here, with new miniatures and heroes for Tolkien’s legendary realm.
Middle-earth Battlehosts
Three Battlehost boxes land alongside the Gargants, and each is meant to get an army onto the table rather than add one more unit to an existing collection. There’s King Theoden leading Rohan, Legolas heading up Mirkwood, and Bolg commanding the Dol Guldur force.
The rules are the interesting part because GW is putting free, downloadable Battlehost rules on Warhammer Community, letting any two of these forces play each other without either player buying a rulebook. Two people can grab a box each and have what they need to play, which cuts out one of the usual purchases sitting between “this looks cool” and actually putting models on the table.
That’s a very different look from the Sons of Behemat side of the week. These Battlehosts make the most sense for somebody who’s been eyeing Middle-earth for a while but didn’t want their first purchase to turn into a stack of books before they’d played a game.
FAQ About Sons of Behemat and the Gargant Wave Sunday Preview
What is a mega gargant?
Mega-Gargants are the largest Sons of Behemat models, and each kit builds as a Warstomper, Gatebreaker, or Kraken-eater. Both the Stomper Tribe and Brawlers of Behemat boxes contain them.
What is the lore of the Sons of Behemat in Age of Sigmar?
The new Battletome covers the Gargant tribes of the Mortal Realms and their activities in Ghur, alongside artwork and miniatures galleries.
What time do Warhammer pre-orders go up?
Pre-orders go live around 1 p.m. EST in the States, which for this wave means Saturday, September 12.
What are the upcoming Warhammer pre-orders?
This week covers Ma Maegran, Boss-stompers, the Stomper Tribe box, Brawlers of Behemat, the Sons of Behemat Battletome, Warscroll Cards and dice, and three Middle-earth Battlehosts.
Final Thoughts on the Sons of Behemat Pre-Orders
Saturday should give us the first useful clue about which side of this Sons of Behemat release people were actually waiting for. Boss-stompers finally give players another core kit to build around, while the limited boxes are asking existing Gargant collectors to make a decision before stock levels make it for them.
After that, attention shifts over to the Battletome. If the new rules give all this fresh plastic a reason to stay on the table beyond release weekend, Sons of Behemat finally have somewhere to go that isn’t simply buying another Mega-Gargant.
Related Reads:
- Age of Sigmar Sons of Behemat Review: Army Guide & Rules
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- Sons of Behemat Named Gargant Rules, Sprues, & Points
- How to Play Sons of Behemat As Mercenary Allies
- Updated 2026 Age of Sigmar Roadmap & New Releases Schedule
- Age of Sigmar 4th Edition Rules: Guide To Changes & Dates
- GW Previews All-New Sons of Behemat Models
What do you think of the Sons of Behemat wave?
