Games Workshop allocations are hitting 40k again, limiting stock and frustrating players. Here is what it means for new releases and your army plans.
Allocations are back for the new Warhammer 40k Eye of Terror releases, and while these aren’t the worst allocations we’ve seen (Games Workshop calls them “caps”), they will make finding some of these kits super hard.
If you want to grab the following new releases, we’ll just say good luck for now.
Here’s the latest on this week’s pre-orders.
Latest Games Workshop Allocations For New Releases
Updated on April 2, 2026, by Rob Baer with new information and links to relevant content.
To be fair, these Eye of Terror releases are in line with some of the rougher caps we’ve seen lately. But when major 40k products are getting chopped down to around half a dozen copies each, either Games Workshop is experiencing exponential growth, or their forecasting team is inept.
Either way, millions upon millions of dollars in profit are getting left on the table each month since October of 2023, letting down their customers and shareholders (well, if they even notice) alike.
All the stores and groups we polled in our network of retailers reported that their orders were once again slashed for many of the new releases this week, lending further weight to the idea that there really doesn’t seem to be any traditional “new releases” available from Games Workshop anymore.
Here are the caps that were told to stores for April 18th:
- around 6 New Defiler kits
- around 6 Iron Warriors Combat Patrols
- around 6 Eye of Terror Sons of Dorn Battalions
GW’s Allocations, and What it All Means
Well, that’s just the state of things lately for popular products like the Defiler. But seeing such small numbers of these Eye of Terror releases is just wild and sad. If GW wants people to actually buy the new kits instead of waiting for restocks or paying scalper prices, we’d think they would make plenty of them available…
For Games Workshop, it’s just business as usual, depending on who you ask.
We’re not saying it’s a full-on Heresy-level crisis, but let’s say the allocations make it look like GW’s Board of Directors is worshipping at the altar of scarcity this week, instead of doing their homework on product forecasting.
Between the tiny numbers and the vanishing availability of new releases for popular products, it’s getting harder each week to tell whether it’s Warhammer launch day or just cleverly disguised FOMO.
Where To Get Your 40k Eye of Terror Pre-Orders
What are your thoughts on the allocations?
It’s not good when a player can’t get there gw merch by IE card packs or battle force box’s but by limiting the numbers people and shops can pre-order might make to harder for the Scalpers from buying in a load of gw model set’s or box seats and mission deck’s and selling them online at a crazy way over the odds on price’s
It’s cause of the scalpers that they are capping it
The scalpers? So they cap order volume to game stores, because of the scalpers? Walk me though how that works?
Scalpers buy a load of something then sell it on eBay for double or even triple it’s value I’ve been looking for Lucius and lord cacofanist for emperor’s children and cheapest on eBay is about £60 plus depending on how hard it is to find is reflective of the price thay charge
That is why some of us have stopped buying GW and are printing our own figures for our games.