GW revealed their latest Warhammer releases featuring Maelstrom Lair of the Tyrant, Eldritch Raiders, and Red Corsairs battleforces, along with Xenos Battalions, hitting pre-order this week!
Games Workshop has just revealed its latest pre-orders this week for Warhammer 40k, featuring the new Maelstrom campaign, Huron Blackheart, and the Masters of the Maelstrom box, battleforces, and a selection of Black Library books!
Here’s the full lineup, along with our thoughts on all the new products that are hitting pre-order this week!
New Warhammer 40k Pre-Order Releases:
- Pre-orders go live Saturday, February 14 (around 1 p.m. EST), with a shelf date of Saturday, February 28, 2026.
- The Maelstrom: Lair of the Tyrant is a slipcased campaign set with lore + rules, including narrative character-building and a Detachments booklet for CSM, Aeldari, Orks, and Leagues of Votann (collector version has fancier covers and red-foil/edges).
- Huron Blackheart returns with a new mini and a Masters of the Maelstrom “crew” kit that splits into Huron plus a command squad only he can join.
- Two limited-stock battleforces: Lords of the Maelstrom (Red Corsairs Raiders, Reave-Captain, Legionaries, Terminators, Traitor Guard, upgrades) and Eldritch Raiders (new Prince Yriel, Corsair characters, Skyreavers, Starfang/Vyper, Voidreavers/Voidscarred).
- Two “quick boost” battalions: Drukhari Wych Cult package (Succubus, two Venoms, Reavers, Hellions, Wyches) and Votann elite bundle (Memnyr Strategist, Pioneers, six Ironkin Steeljacks with build options), both limited stock.
These products will be available for pre-order on Saturday, February 14th, around 1 p.m. EST in the States, with a shelf release date of Saturday, February 28th, 2026.
If you’re still waiting on something else to hit pre-order, though, be sure to check out the latest new release lineup in our updated Warhammer Roadmap for 2026.
The Maelstrom: Lair of the Tyrant
Like The 500 Worlds: Titus, The Maelstrom: Lair of the Tyrant arrives as a fancy slipcased set. Each book handles a different slice of rules or lore, so it reads like a buffet of bad decisions and worse consequences.
One book focuses on Huron’s latest raid and the Aeldari Corsair-shaped speed bumps that get in the way. Another book brings narrative rules for building custom 40k characters. A separate Detachments booklet adds new options for Chaos Space Marines, Aeldari, Orks, and Leagues of Votann.
The campaign book hands players a new system built around raiding and wrecking across the void, perfect for anyone who thinks “piracy” is a lifestyle choice.
Collectors get a shinier version, too, that swaps in alternate covers for the three books, dresses up the slipcase with red foil details, gives the pages red gilt edges, and tosses in red ribbon markers.
Stock is limited, so it is very much a “grab it before it vanishes” situation.
Huron Blackheart and the Masters of the Maelstrom
Huron is done delegating from the throne room. He is hitting the battlefield with a new miniature, backed up by a hand-picked crew of underlings: Garreon the Corpsemaster, Katar Garrix, Garlon Souleater, Captain Sargotta, plus the Enforcer and her Barghesi pup, Plunder.
On the table, the kit splits into two units. Huron stands as his own piece, which can join a range of units. The command squad runs as a specialist block that only Huron can join. The whole set reads like a leader package built for players who want their Red Corsairs to feel like a proper pirate crew, and it wants to get stuck in up close.
Lords of the Maelstrom Battleforce
Huron’s warband is getting its own Battleforce box, and it leans hard into the Red Corsairs vibe. The models included are:
- Ten new Red Corsairs Raiders, elite infantry with a chunky spread of weapons and armor styles
- A new multi-part Reave-Captain
- Ten Chaos Space Marines Legionaries
- Five Chaos Terminators
- Ten Traitor Guardsmen
- A Red Corsairs upgrades set full of shoulder pads and extras for dressing the part.
The box is a limited-edition release, and the new kits inside are slated for release separately later.
Eldritch Raiders Battleforce
Corsairs are a constant problem near the Maelstrom, and the Eldritch Raiders are the kind you notice right before the alarms cut out. The models included are:
- Prince Yriel leads this force with a new miniature
- Kharseth the Void Dreamer
- Ten Corsair Skyreavers sporting winged jump packs
- A Starfang that can swap-build into a Vyper
- Ten Corsair Voidreavers show up too, with the option to build them as Corsair Voidscarred specialists.
Same deal here: the Battleforce box is limited stock, and the new kits get individual releases later.
Drukhari Maelstrom Battalion
Commorragh’s realspace raiders love any region that encourages screaming, and the Maelstrom qualifies. The Drukhari Battalion box bundles a tidy Wych Cult-flavored strike package:
- Succubus war leader
- Two Venoms
- Three Reaver jetbikes
- Five Hellions
- Ten Wyches
It works as a clean start for a new Wych Cult-style force or as a cruel little add-on for an existing collection. Limited stock, made up of kits already sold separately.
Leagues of Votann Maelstrom Battalion
The Maelstrom sits close enough to the galactic core that Votann Oathbands are rarely far away. Kin fleets keep running the gauntlet of raiders to protect claims, do “honest trade,” and perform very polite asset redistribution that suspicious people keep calling piracy.
This Battalion box is a compact, elite bundle built around Kin and Ironkin working in tight coordination:
- Memnyr Strategist
- Three Hernkyn Pioneers
- Six Ironkin Steeljacks, build options for heavy volkanite disintegrators or plasma swords, and Autoch-pattern bolters
This has limited stock, but it is built from existing kits that remain available separately.
New Warhammer Official Licensed Product Pre-Order Releases
This week’s pre-orders are loaded with officially licensed products that’ll have your gaming table, wardrobe, or hobby shelf looking top-notch. Whether you’re eyeing that sleek new apparel or grabbing some collectible figures to show off your love for the grimdark future, there’s something for everyone.
Map of the Imperium Knitted Blanket
Space is cold. Games Workshop has decided the solution is a knitted blanket with a giant Imperium map on it, complete with Imperium Sanctus and Imperium Nihilus markings and a spread of notable locations like Baal and Macragge, plus that empty spot where Cadia used to be.
It measures 160cm by 102cm, or roughly 60 inches by 44, or the size of a 40k game table.
New Black Library Pre-Order Releases
The latest Black Library pre-order titles are here; they’re hotter than a Salamander’s forge! So if you’re into far-future battles, mysterious quests, or tales of heroism, there’s probably something here for you.
Ghost Legion
Solomon Akurra is back in Ghost Legion, the follow-up to Renegades: Harrowmaster. His Alpha Legion ambitions keep scaling up after uniting feuding warbands and taking entire star systems. The plan is huge: break the Imperium, then rebuild humanity into something “stronger,” which sounds noble right up until the bolts start flying back his way.
Mike Brooks’ novel is getting a Special Edition release next week, featuring a striking cover with aqua blue foil, printed page edges, a ribbon marker, and a signed and numbered run. Limited stock applies here, too. Pre-orders for hardback and eBook formats land on Saturday.
Death Rider
Death Rider follows Commissar Valian Hesh, a man trying to stop the Krieg 472nd Siege Regiment from enthusiastically marching into a suicidal assault against T’au lines. The planet is on a timer, set to die under the fire of an Imperial battleship, and the air is turning into poison. Hesh’s problem is brutal: keep the regiment alive long enough to pull back, or watch them charge into glory and get erased.
Rhuairidh James’ book is heading to pre-order in hardback, eBook, and MP3 audiobook editions.
Huron Blackheart: Master of the Maelstrom
Huron’s backstory remains peak 40k irony. Once the commander of the Astral Claws, Lugft Huron, kicked off a vicious civil war in the Badab Sector with his independence ambitions. It went badly, a meltagun got involved, and he ended up in the Maelstrom he once swore to contain.
From there, he built the Red Corsairs into a real nightmare fleet of renegades, pirates, and traitors. The latest Huron novel, Huron Blackheart: Master of the Maelstrom by Mike Brooks, is lining up for a paperback release, perfect for anyone who enjoys reading about terrible people having a great time making things worse.
Final Thoughts On New 40k Maelstrom Pre-Orders
This week’s pre-order menu has the Maelstrom dragging everyone into a mess and calling it “content.”
You’ve got a full narrative campaign kit for people who like their games with extra lore and extra problems, Huron showing up with a whole “friends who absolutely make things worse” package, and two battleforces that scream “limited stock” louder than a store employee at five minutes to close.
Toss in the Drukhari and Votann battalions for quick army boosts, then cap it all off with a blanket that lets you wrap yourself in the Imperium’s bad decisions like it’s self-care.
If you’re planning to grab anything, set your alarm for Saturday, February 14th, and remember the shelf date is February 28th.
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What do you think of the new Warhammer 40k Maelstrom update and more that are coming to pre-order this week?
