Goblins certainly have come a long way in recent years, and the evolution into the Gloomspite Gitz have given them a whole new look and feel, plus some of the most characterful models in the Warhammer Age of $igmar range. Well this week the little buggers get an update to their rules with Battletome: Gloomspite Gitz, which comes in 'Shroom Bloom Limited Edition and Hooded Horrors Standard Edition. There's also a fantastic new miniature, the Squigboss with Gnasha-squig, which is so cool and joins a long line of great models in this range. Pity not to have an alternative weapon or head option as there is room on the sprue, but there you go. In the world of more traditional looking Goblins, there is an update to the Goblin cavalry in the form of the new Snarlfang Riders. This is a great looking kit (and a lovely paint job by the GW team) with ranged and close combat weapons options. The bowmen are especially cool, and again oh-so tempting! The new Vanguard: Gloomspite Gitz is pretty good too, with some heavy hitters, little attack dudes and some line infantry. It's interesting there hasn't been an update to the venerable Night Goblin kit, but they are a delight to paint! And of course, don't forget the Warscroll Cards.
A personal favourite in this neck of the woods are Beastmen, and with Battletome: Beasts of Chaos, available in both Happy Hirsute Hero Limited Edition and Nature's Forest Defenders Standard Edition, it's great to see these guys getting some attention again. There's also a new Beastlord model to lead your dudes and dudettes, but again the lack of alternative head or weapons options is a shame for the price. The new Vanguard: Beasts of Chaos box, which replaced the Cygor with a unit of Dragon Ogres and a unit of Bestigors is amazing. This is not only a great way to start, but a great force multiplier, a must-have for Beastmen players. Interestingly the Warscroll Cards for the Beasts of Chaos have not been offered this week, and neither faction get themed dice.
Sadly, there is another round of Made to Order, this time around the Commissars of the Imperial Guard - great to see them back as a playable unit. You can get your hands on Classic Commissar Yarrick, Commissar Yarrick, Commissar With Sword And Power Fist, Commissar With Bolt Pistol, Commissar With Power Fist, Commissar With Plasma Pistol, Lord Commissar or Severina Raine (who is currently in Last Chance to Buy as well). If that interests, then you can also get them all in the Mortgage The House Made to Order Commissar Collection. There's also two of the very old Inquisitor  models in Made to Order this week too, with Inquisitor with Power Sword and Bolt Pistol and Inquisitor with Combi-melta available plus Lord Castellan Creed.

Imperial Guard Part 1 (by the look of the missing Rough Riders and a few other bits) will be landing next weekend at a retailer near you. It's a long overdue refresh for the venerable range, with some very nice models adding the dynamism we all expect in this era, plus some... well, lacklustre ones too. 
Codex: Astra Militarum leads the way, with the Boots And All Collectors' Edition and No Guts No Glory Standard Edition giving you all you need to know to field these new, and some older, units. Be great to see Guard Assault Squads back, but that seems unlikely. Leading your valiant troops to certain victory is Lord Solar Leontus on his trusty mech-steed. Now this model, well it sort of sucks. I mean there's some real missed opportunities here. First one is the head which is flat and featureless. Even the alternative head, which is better, is still pretty poor. Please bring Jes Goodwin back to designing the faces! The second real missed opportunity is how this could have been a miniature with a retinue, like The Silent King or Katakros, Mortarch of the Necropolis or even the much more recent Chaplain Grimaldus & Retinue. All of these are fantastic centrepieces, and surely this guy could to with some banner bearers, a town cryer guy and a priest, even a Sisters of Battle bodyguard! A real missed opportunity for what could have bene an amazing model. The second command model we get is Lord Castellan Ursula Creed, who despite being the first older female character we have seen in lord-knows how long, also suffers from the curse of having a face made of pudding. A nice mini otherwise, both options are pretty naff for someone who is manet to kick arse. Going way back in time, welcome back to the Primaris Psyker! How great to have a mini like this in the range - look at the expression and the dynamic pose. Great mini! Troops are plentiful, and the Cadian Command Squad is a nice step up from the older one, this time introducing an archaic radio and other nicely rendered specialists to lead the men and women of the rank and file - the Cadian Shock Troops. Great new poses (though the heads are a bit naff, so just use the old ones on the new bodies, they look great!) with better scaled weapons and a nice look and feel to them. Putting them together isn't as modular as the older set, but you can easily fix that, plus these poses really are excellent! Back up the waves of infantry is an other excellent update - the Heavy Weapons Squad. The poses and detail on these minis is such a huge step up they are almost mini dioramas in themselves. Very much worth a look and a nice little project to sit on their own even if you don't do Guard. Speaking of big guns, here's some bigger ones; the Field Ordnance Battery with which you can build two Ordnance Teams, with the choice of a heavy lascannon, bombast field gun, or malleus rocket launcher. Another nice little set to turn into an action scene. The brand new Guard tank makes it's debut this week, with the Rogal Dorn Battle Tank rolling out and having a very different look to the previous tracked support elements for the Guard. Sporting a rounded turret, but the flat sloped sides we're so used to, there's an almost Vietnam-era look to this one. It's big too! Kind of tempted, kind of not - be very interested to see what the community come up with when they get this kit. The other new armoured kit is the new Sentinel. Available as a combi-kit, the Armoured Sentinel/ Scout Sentinel looks less like a rubbish bin on legs and more like something you could imagine prowling around. A very welcome update for sure. Now here's a classic kit that should never go away, the Baneblade / Stormlord / Banesword / Shadowsword / Doomhammer / Stormsword / Banehammer / Hellhammer combi-kit. Now sporting the new decals and added sponsons, she's a beast and must be loved!! The other classic tank is the Leman Russ Battle Tank, which gets a rebox and new decals but misses out on the opportunity for the upgrade sprue that offers track covers and more. 
Away from minis, helping you take to the field are the Astra Militarum Datacards and Dice Set.
Now if If you've been patiently waiting like the good supplicant that you are, then you could go all in and get the Collection, Art Print, Astra Militarum MKVII or the Collection, Art print, Astra Militarum, Launch Box Add-on MKIII and have it all at once. Maybe not the most imaginative names for these bundles, but there you go. 
In books this week we have the Armageddon Special Edition novel too. All pretty and ready to be devoured.

Big week for Age of $igmar this week, with the Slaves to Darkness sets getting a big push. Starting off with the Battletome: Slaves to Darkness which comes in On Leathered Wings Limited Edition and So Many Spikes! Standard Edition. The big piece this week is the new Daemon Prince - a glorious model with options for each of the Chaos Powers, plus two for Chaos Undivided. It's a real shame they keep showing this version of the model which has to be the weakest of all the versions. The other command mini is the Eternus, Blade of The First Prince / Chaos Lord on Daemonic Mount combi-kit, both dynamic thematic minis that would work in any Chaos force. Very tempting! Chaos loves a hero, and the new Exalted Hero of Chaos has a few options to customise your own version. Sadly this is the most lacklustre of the releases this week and looks more like it belongs in a boxed set rather than stand alone, so it's a bit of a wasted opportunity. However there's some great releases to balance him out, including the elite Chaos Chosen with their heavy weapons, the newly retooled Chaos Warriors with both long and skirmish weapons, and the Chaos Knights with their new upgrade sprue. The Chaos Knights are a great kit, and the upgrade sprue adds new banners and commander options. Now if you like these releases, the new Vanguard: Slaves to Darkness box is great value with a set of amazing models (the new Chaos Warriors and Chaos Knights, the old Chaos Chariot/ Gorebeast Chariot combi-kit and the excellent Chaos Lord) making it a perfect starter or even force multiplier. An interesting addition is the Slaves to Darkness are the Ogroid Theridons set. Based on the Ogroid Myrmidon Champion and Ogroid Thaumaturge models, this set unfortunately lacks the dynamic poses and interesting character of their progenitors. Still maybe they will evolve and become cooler in time! A model released separately from the previous Start Collecting set is Chaos Lord on Karkadrak, which is a very cool model, and even better with a head swap from the newer range. Away from miniatures, the Slaves to Darkness get a nice Dice Set - nothing fancy - just plain grunty black!
Slaves to Darkness also launches the next season of Age of $igmar, with the General's Handbook: Pitched Battles 2022-23 Season 2 offering 12 battleplans, new realm rules for the competitive side of the hobby.
In books this week, the latest Horus Heresy Siege of Terra novel, Garro: Knight of Grey is on pre-order in faux-leather Limited Edition (it's probably already sold out) and standard Hardback. Also in books this week, Godeater's Son in Hardback and the Gotrek Gurnisson novel Soulslayer in Paperback.
It's also a White Dwarf week with Issue 484 out and about from Friday.

And here it is - the "groundbreaking narrative campaign that will change everything in the 40K universe" - the Arks of Omen. Everyone's favourite killing machine, and one of the truly multi-layered characters from the Siege of Terra novel series and beyond, Abaddon the Despoiler is back having not learnt his lesson from the previous Black Crusades he has launched over the decades. This new campaign introduces to Warhammer 40K the ability to have boarding actions and Zone Mortalis-style fighting (very familiar to Horus Heresy players) to the wider ruleset. Of course the Arks of Omen is spread across the year, and Book One: Abaddon - available in It'll Work This Time Collectors' Edition and It Would Have Worked If It Wasn't For You Meddling Kids Standard Edition. To bring this new game mode to life, there's a huge new box, the Warhammer 40,000 Boarding Actions Terrain Set with a tonne of wall sections and a reversible hardboard gaming mat. First appearing in Kill Team, this terrain moves away from the previous Zone Mortalis sets for Necromunda, which is curious, and seems to have little cross compatibility. It's also curious as we've had over two years of the Zone Mortalis set being used widely, especially in Horus Heresy where Forge World once produced these sets in resin. Ours is not to wonder why, ours is to just buy the stuff that fits the thing... Now if all of this thrills you to pieces - then get the lot in the Warhammer 40,000 Boarding Actions Rules and Terrain Collection. Taking the action wider, the Chapter Approved – Arks of Omen: Grand Tournament Mission Pack gives you missions and scenarios outside of the first book to continue running these mission types if that is your whim and desire. 
Once upon a time, in a world pre-Primaris, there were the Space Marines. Now referred to as the Space Marines Alphas, amongst other names, we don't see new minis for them any more, but this rerelease of the Space Marine Heroes Collection Two, sees it in the colours of the Blood Angels (despite the heads really not being very Blood Angels). Collection One came out in October last year, so it's nice to see the second half. Arguably Collection Two are more dynamic than Collection One, so grab them while you can!
As discussed the other week, the thoroughly disappointing Abhorrant Ghoul King with Crown of Delusion was available last week in GW stores, but if you want the Made to Order version, go forth! It's here...
Fans of the Horus Heresy have their new map on pre-order this week, with the Mercury-Exultant Kill-Zone Map about. From memory Jes Goodwin's daughter does these maps, so if that makes it cooler, then jump on it. These do seem to sell out.
In books we have the Flesh Tearers novel Wrath of The Lost in hardback, the assassins' story Assassinorum: Kingmaker finally in paperback and Mortis - The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra Book 5 also in paperback. You'd think Mortis would just be about engine war, but there is a tonne of great fluff in this book.

Also this week for the rest of the world except Australia and New Zealand, there are four new Adeptus Astartes Battleforces - Salamanders, Iron Hands, White Scars and of course Ultramarines. These all come with Chapter Upgrade sprues and decals. It's good to note the change to the box art on these Battleforces as they're really quite stunning. You'd have to think these are meant to be the standard boxes for these Chapters ongoing. Also this week, the Warhammer 40,000 Black Legion Dice Set!