New Black Library releases focusing on Imperial Guard, Necromunda, and Horus Heresy are headlining the lore side of things this week!
Keep tabs on your favorite factions and characters from the worlds of Warhammer with this week’s new release titles.
The Imperial Infantryman’s Handbook
Welcome to the Astra Militarum, Guardsman! You don’t know it yet, but this book is your new best friend. In its pages, you’ll find everything you need to know in order to defeat mankind’s enemies and prove yourself worthy of being a trooper in the Imperial Guard. It’ll teach you how to march, how to shoot, how to maintain your weapons (and how to request replacements if you misplace yours), and much more. Learn the prayers and benedictions that will protect you from your foes, and how to best kill each of the Imperium’s enemies with minimum effort. It’s the essential guide for every Guardsman.
CONTENTS
Imperial Munitorum Manual
Imperial Infantryman’s Uplifting Primer
The Benedictions of the Emperor
The Last Chancers: Armageddon Saint (PB)
Lieutenant Kage of the 13th Penal Legion is dead, his charred remains lost to the depths of a fiery chasm. But as his battalion – the Last Chancers – mourns, a new hero rises from the ashes. The Burned Man. Kage’s miraculous survival attracts a cult of desperate followers, who believe him sent to the ork-infested world of Armageddon by the God-Emperor Himself. However, the rampaging greenskins are not the only threat to his new life. The ruthless Colonel Schaeffer, his former commander, has seen through his ploy and will stop at nothing to bring his errant charge to justice… Yet unbeknownst to both men, darker powers yearn to see Armageddon bathed and bound in blood. Kage and Schaeffer must put the ghosts of their past aside and unite, or see the Emperor’s Light extinguished upon this tortured world forevermore.
Written by Gav Thorpe
Necromunda: Uprising
At the heart of Necromunda, a sickness festers.
Where the word of Helmawr is law, many go hungry… but murder is cheap, and meat is everywhere, for those willing to take it. While the nobles of the spire sit and watch, bloody-handed gangers fight in an endless battle for survival.
The venator Yar Umbra cuts a swathe through Hive Primus, chasing the promise of escape from Necromunda. A Cawdor juve, desperate to prove himself, finds a statue of the Emperor that will change his life forever. A Corpse Guild drudge learns what his superiors are desperate to keep forbidden. And Caleb Cursebound, ninth most dangerous man in the underhive, thief of the Hand of Harrow, flees to the remote mining settlement of Hope’s End, pursued by those who would see his reputation forever tarnished…
CONTENTS
The Birth of Hunger by David Annandale
His Terrible Visage by Gary Kloster
Sludge Harbour Payback by Justin D Hill
Low Lives by Denny Flowers
Paradise by Jonathan Green
Dead Drop by Mike Brooks
Banner-Jarl by Will McDermott
Long Way Home by Filip Wiltgren
The Last Voyage of Elissa Harrow by Denny Flowers
Cut and Gut by Robert Rath
Horus Heresy: Vulkan Lives (HB)
Vulkan lives still… languishing in a hidden cell for the entertainment of a cruel gaoler, his brother Konrad Curze. Enduring a series of hellish tortures designed to break his body and spirit, Vulkan witnesses the depths of the Night Haunter’s depravity, but also discovers something else – a revelation that could change the course of the entire war.
Written by Nick Kyme
Horus Heresy: Unremembered Empire (HB)
Far out on the Eastern Fringe, the realm of Ultramar stands alone. Having survived the Word Bearers’ attack on Calth and the subsequent Shadow Crusade against the Five Hundred Worlds, Roboute Guilliman now draws all loyalist forces to Macragge as he contemplates a new future for mankind. With the arrival of more and more fugitives from the war that has engulfed the rest of the galaxy, all distinction between friend and foe is lost. Isolated from Terra by fearsome warp storms, is Guilliman making a bid for power to rival even the renegade Warmaster Horus?
Written by Dan Abnett
Horus Hersey: Scars (HB)
Of all the Legiones Astartes, the White Scars of Jaghatai Khan remain the most enigmatic and elusive. Born of a civilisation that prizes honour, speed, and fearsome loyalty, their allegiance has yet remained unclear even as the galaxy is torn apart by Horus’s treachery, and both sides have apparently counted them among their potential allies in the war to come. But when the Alpha Legion launch an unexplained and simultaneous attack against the White Scars and Space Wolves, the Khan must decide once and for all whether he will stand with the Emperor or the Warmaster… or neither.
Written by Chris Wraight
Horus Heresy: Vengeful Spirit
Once the brightest star in the Imperium and always first among his primarch brothers, Horus has dragged the Space Marine Legions into the bloodiest conflict that the galaxy has ever seen. While their allies wage war on a thousand different fronts, the XVIth Legion descend upon the Knight world of Molech – home to the ruling House Devine, and a principal stronghold of the Imperial Army. The forces loyal to the Emperor stand ready to defy the Warmaster, but just what could have drawn Horus to attack such a well defended planet, and what might he be willing to sacrifice to fulfill his own dark destiny?
Written by Graham McNeill
Horus Heresy: The Damnation of Pythos (HB)
In the aftermath of the Dropsite Massacre at Isstvan V, a battered and bloodied force of Iron Hands, Raven Guard, and Salamanders regroups on a seemingly insignificant death world. Fending off attacks from all manner of monstrous creatures, the fractious allies find hope in the form of human refugees fleeing from the growing war, and cast adrift upon the tides of the warp. But even as the Space Marines carve out a sanctuary for them in the jungles of Pythos, a darkness gathers that threatens to consume them all.
Written by David Annandale
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