Don’t miss all the new releases that GW just confirmed next for Warhammer including Slaves to Darkness, Warcry, Bloodbowl, Aeronautica, and more.
Warhammer Community just let us in on the release lineup that goes up on preorder December 7th. If you enjoy playing Chaos in AoS or Warcry this is a great week for you! There will also be a new team for Blood Bowl, a new release for Aeronautica, and if your interested check out the article on Warhammer Community to see some new LotR releases as well.
Slaves to Darkness Releases
Warcry Unit Boxes
First up, while technically Warcry figures, GW is releasing all the Warcry chaos factions in double boxes so you can play them easier in AoS if you want to.
Slaves to Darkness Start Collecting
Slaves to Darkness box full of completely new models that can only be found in this box. You’ll get nine updated Chaos Warriors, plus a Champion, five mounted Chaos Knights, a stunning Chaos Lord mounted on a Karkadrak and a Chaos beast we’ve never seen before.
Just like any GW box, if you can wait a little bit all of these units will most likely be available separately from this box set.
Slaves to Darkness Battletome
This book is so much more than just rules though, as it is filled with stunning art and it expands on Archaon’s plans to dominate the Mortal Realms – any fan of Chaos will want to read this for the background alone.
New rules and new lore, pretty standard stuff, but still exciting!
Slaves to Darkness Warscroll Cards
Be sure to get the Warscroll cards too. They will help speed up those first games while you are still learning all the new rules of the units.
Slaves to Darkness Endless Spells
The Darkfire Daemonrift spews chaotic flame through a tear in reality, growing stronger in the presence of magic, while the Realm Scourge Rupture reveals jagged shards of twisted metal thrusting up through a rent in the ground. The floating Eightfold Doom-Sigil harnesses the souls of the fallen to empower your Slaves to Darkness units, making them even more deadly so they can harvest ever more souls for their dark masters
Terrain Kits
The Azyrite Shattered Plaza and Azyrite Ruined Chapel – both compatible with the modular scenery kits that are already available. They combine sprues of the scenery that was first seen in the Warcry Starter Box, allowing you to build your scenery as a corrupted nightmare landscape.
To be fair, ruins like this even look good in 40k! Depending on the setup and other terrains you have you could get away using these sets for almost anything.
Warcry Tome of Champions
They didn’t give us too much info on this new rule book, but essentially it will add campaigns, side-quests, and other new ways to play. Be sure to keep an eye out when they release more information.
Aeronautica Eavy Bommers and Grot Bomms
We saw the Eavy Bommers a little while ago and now we get to see the new Grot Bomms. We don’t know a lot about but them but GW did describe them for us: These are like nothing else currently in the game, and though they’re fun and wacky, your opponents will swiftly come to fear them.
Blackstone Fortress 2019
Blackstone Fortress Annual is packed not only with 2019’s White Dwarf articles for the game, but additional rules to boost the challenge level, some epic side quests and rules for all the available Retinue Characters!
Bloodbowl Ogres
They’re finally descending from the mountains to smash some skulls, accompanied by a tide of Gnoblars that occasionally remember to get the ball moving across the pitch.
You’ll also be able to pre-order a resin Ogre Booster kit from Forge World, with two additional Ogre players and an extra Gnoblar!
Spike Issue 8
Issue 8 of Spike will include all the rules you need to play the new Ogre Army and more extras like a featurette on Bob Bifford.
Ogre Team Extras
There’s also a good amount of extra themed goodies you can pick up for yourself like dice, mats, tokens and a team card pack.
Blood Bowl Almanac 2019
The 2019 almanac will include all rules for the teams who were updated in issue 4-7 of Spike. Those are Halflings, Undead, Wood Elves, and Lizardmen.
Are you excited about the Slaves to Darkness? Or are you more excited to try the new supplements for Blackstone and Warcry? Maybe you just want to try out Ogres in Bloodbowl?
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