Over the past couple of weeks, with Age of $igmar Dominion still on the shelves, we asked the question if this release had failed. Well today, the Age of $igmar Dominion boxed set went into Last Chance to Buy - probably the first time a box of this size and "importance" has done so.

Do you like your exclusive hero minis? Well this week both Warhammer 4oK and Age of $igmar get a pretty nifty release, with the Necron Lord Hasmoteph the Resplendent (he of the squashed head) and the Stormcast Knight-Questor Dacian Anvil on their way.
With Dominion ushering in a new version of Age of $igmar, the starter sets are upon us - Warhammer Age of Sigmar Extremis Starter Set, Warhammer Age of Sigmar Harbinger Starter Set, and the Warhammer Age of Sigmar Warrior Starter Set, all offering different levels to get involved in. If you're new to Age of $igmar, then the Getting Started With Warhammer Age of Sigmar magazine and mini set is fun and a great gift for any kids or a mate you want to get involved in the hobby. There's new paint sets too - the Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Paint + Tools Set, the Stormcast Eternals Vindictors + Paints Set and the Orruk Warclans Gutrippaz + Paints Set.
If terrain is more your thing, then this brand new Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Extremis Edition – Realmscape Expansion Set is a really interesting addition with some cool pieces that take it away from some of the tolder sets. There's also the Penumbral Engine if you'd like a bit of an older fave atop something you've constructed.
There's also two magical sets, the combined Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Malign Sorcery and Nagash-themed Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Forbidden Power.
In books we have the Thunderstrike & Other Stories in paperback and the paperback version of ​Indomitus.

It seems to be the Summer of the Ork - or Winter of the Ork if you're in this neck of the woods - as Warhammer 40K get a flood of new Orks. This week we see the beginning with the new Ork faction, the Beast Snaggas. Like Sisters of Battle before them, the Beast Snagga Orks come in a new boxed set with the Codex and Data Cards as one bundle. If you like your orks fast, but not in cars - then this might be the force for you! We've seen there are also new Snake Bite Orks on the way too, so hold your horses for the flood of green in the next six months.
In books this week the classic Graham McNeill book Storm of Iron gets the Special Edition treatment and the paperback version of ​Warcry Catacombs: Blood of the Everchosen is coming your way.
Feels like next week might be more Orks...

With the past few weeks being absorbed with Warhammer Age of $igmar Dominion, it's seemed it was all quite on the Warhammer 40K front - not so! Indeed War Zone Charadon continues as the forces of the Imperium and allies fight tooth and nail against Be'lakor. This campaign doesn't seem to have gained much traction in the community, but if you are a fan of Be'lakor, then Act III: The Book of Fire comes with a brand new datasheet for him - sounds like someone finally put some of that FAQ into print! War Zone Charadon Act III: Book of Fire comes in two forms; Hangry Chaos Limited Edition and Incursion Front Standard Edition. There is also a new Crusade Mission Pack: Amidst the Ashes which has 24 new missions for Crusade campaign games & more.
Next week is also a White Dwarf week. We picked up last month's to get the decal sheet, had a look through the issue and threw it into the paper recycling. It has zero interesting content, which is a huge shame!
Forgeworld also have a nice mini this week for Blood Bowl, it's Frank 'n' Stein. Really nice miniature!
This weekend holds another Online Preview which looks very 40K-focused, but the most exciting news is in the new Kill Team reveal - including the big teaser news plastic Death Korps of Krieg which are meant to be part of the new "huge" boxed set. By the sounds of it, we're looking at Orks vs Death Korps plus some scenery. Watch this explode!

With Warhammer Age of $igmar Dominion hitting the shelves this weekend, the pre-orders were bound to be a bit smaller, and that they are! With no Games Workshop miniatures revealed this week, we do have some new gaming items for Blood Bowl - the Ogre Team Dice, Ogre Team Card Pack and something to field them on, the Ogre Pitch: Double-sided Pitch and Dugouts.
In terms of books this week it's Book 3 of the Cadian series (which confusingly is also the second book of the Minka Lesk story arc), Traitor Rock in hardback.
The only miniature this week is from Forgeworld, and it's a great one; a loyal Luna Wolf, a proud servant of the Emperor, to be betrayed by his Father to turn against those he had shown so much loyalty to over his long life - Maloghurst the Twisted, the Warmaster's Equerry. Maloghurst is a great character from the epic Horus Heresy novel series, and it's a pity this isn't in plastic, but for a Heresy hobbyist, this has to be a must-have, surely!

This week we also have the new rewards scheme for purchasing Games Workshop and Forgeworld products. It's not s generous as previous years, but something is better than nothing!

With the launch of Age of $igmar Dominion last week, this week is pretty quiet, though it is interesting to see that Dominion is not sold out, and in fact the limited edition coins are also still being promoted as being available. It seems that maybe the new edition of Age of $igmar may have come too close to the release of the new edition of Warhammer 40K, or did Games Workshop not offer enough for the price, maybe the new look Orcs not to the Community's liking or we're sick of Stormcast? There's lots of variables, but this has to be the first big release that hasn't sold out quickly since Soul Wars (which was just in Last Chance To Buy) - also an Age of $igmar product.
So this week we have just two Games Workshop products and one Forgeworld. Games Workshop brings us two classic Blood Bowl teams - the cool-for-their-time High Elf Blood Bowl Team and the Vampire Team. From Forgeworld we have a very cool release - the much-anticipated Water Guild Mercator Nautica Syphoning Delegation. This is a very cool set, and real shame it's not in plastic. That big guy is perfection!!
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Meanwhile, if you're hanging around waiting for your Gaunt's Ghosts, don't hold your breathe, as the Webstore now shows on October release date. Maybe this was always the way, but we didn't spot it so others may not have either! Thanks to Steven for the heads up!

It's the week we get to pre-order the new edition of Age of $igmer - Dominion! It seems like every time GW make their way through the races through all the Battletomes, a new edition is released and the cycle starts all over again! If you're a player, especially a casual player, it must be bloody hard to keep up to date. This new boxed set includes 60 brand new push-fit (urgh!!) Citadel miniatures from the Stormcast and Orruk sides. In terms of the boxed sets for Age of $igmar, including Silver Tower, this one seems not as impressive - the minis are nice, and there's a tonne in the box, but it lacks the *wow* factor. It is interesting to see GW move into the true-scale proportions, so we'll see what happens from here... 

Well here we are, the next edition of Warhammer Age of $igmar all here in the one box - Dominion. With a full rulebook and campaign included it's a pretty good starter set, but as above, there's a certain lack of flair this time. Still, if you want it, you need to get in a queue to get it, so do not be late! The new rules are also available separately, and come in the Core Book Limited Edition (which is outrageously 3 times the price) or the Standard Edition. Either way, be aware this is a two week pre-order window, so you won't be getting it next week. This is for July! To supplement the new edition, there's the Warhammer Age of Sigmar General's Handbook Pitched Battles 2021 and Pitched Battle Profiles (try asking for that at the counter! What a mouthful) which has the new ways to play, 12 battleplans, updated Pitched Battle rules, profiles, points, and 14 double-sided tokens. Now to keep track of your glory, there's also the Warhammer Age of Sigmar Path to Glory Diary, 152 pages of fancy diary to help you see how your forces are doing on the Path to Glory campaign. Of course what would a release be without some terrain - so we get the Realmscape: Ghurish Expanse double-sided boards and Realmscape Objective Set. The Combat Gauge also gets trotted out again, and there's three new Base paints to colour-up the new race of Orcs - Orruk Flesh, Hobgrot Hide, Thondia Brown. Bless the Base paints and their superior coverage!
In other miniature related news, the venerable Cadian Defence Force box has now been updated with the new Upgrade Sprue we talked about last week too.
​To support the new boxed set and set the scene for the changes to the universe, there's the Dominion novel in hardcover, which also comes in Stormcast Eternals and Orruks Special Editions.
If you do order the new Dominion boxed set this week, you may also receive the limited Warhammer Age of Sigmar – Coin Malleus Command Tokens and the Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground Spoils of War DLC 3 exclusive weapons for use in Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground​.

Gaunt's Ghosts are an all time fan favourite, and in line with GW's recent update of some classics, this week we get the new plastic Gaunt's Ghosts miniatures, plus two very plush Sabbat World's Crusade source books, one in Nine Day Pack Limited Edition and the other in MRE Goodness Standard Edition, which is also pretty flash. these books are full of info on the campaign and forces involved. Be aware that the purple version is only available to order for two weeks. There's also a new prequel set as well in the form of The Vincula Insurgency: Ghost Dossier 1 which is not only Limited Edition, but full of cool extras beautifully presented. Surely this is one of the best limited editions GW has produced. If you're really into it, there's also the Ibram Gaunt Bookmark. Some minis that are in desperate need of an update are the old Cadian Guard, and although not a full update, this new heads and weapons sprue is very welcome, but only currently available with the new Cadian Shock Troops set. Maybe we'll get it separately later, but for now it's only in here plus a hefty price increase for the set (at least in Australia and NZ).
As we mentioned at the top of the show, the next line of McFarlane action figures is out, with the Blood Angels Primaris Lieutenant, Blood Angels Hellblaster (also available in Artist's Proof) and Adepta Sororitas Order of Our Martyred Lady Battle Sister (also available in Artist's Proof) on their way.    
Nice little update to Blood Bowl this week with the delayed Lizardmen Double-sided Blood Bowl Pitch and Dugouts, Dice Set and Team Card Pack getting a release. Sort of expected more for Lizardmen dice, but there you go!
In books this week we have a hardback anthology of the Sabbat War, an Iron Snakes novel Urdesh: The Serpent and the Saint in hardback, plus it's a White Dwarf week which includes a transfer sheet for White Dwarf's Space Marine Chapter, the Tome Keepers which is quite cool.
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We've also thrown a close up of the new Cadian Shock Troops upgrade sprue down the bottom here if you want to check it out.

It really hasn't been that long since we had the last Codex: Adepta Sororitas, but here we are with a new edition yet again. The Codex: Adepta Sororitas comes in both Super Nun Collector's Edition and Praise Be Standard Edition with more units and updated rules. The High Lord of Terra mentioned earlier is none other than Morvenn Vahl, Abbess Sanctorum of the Adepta Sororitas who comes resplendent in this new look for battle armour. Part dreadnought, part weapons platform, we should probably be thankful it doesn't have boob armour too. There are other new characters too, with two new support HQs, the Palatine and Sister Dogmata, plus the elite Paragon Warsuits who look better and better with each glance. There's a new infantry unit too, the Celestian Sacresants who are a really nice mix between 40K and Ao$, so we can imagine these will be very popular for conversion fodder into the future. I for one, not a fan of the Adepta Sororitas am sorely tempted by this kit. The new Codex is of course supplemented with the Datacards and Dice Set.
The game that keeps on giving - Necromunda - gets a new expansion next week with House of Faith, which sees the Cawdor gang take on the aspect of the Redemptionists, seen both in the original version of Necromunda and the original original Necromunda, Confrontation. The Cawdor Redemptionist miniatures are very close to the original drawings from Confrontation, but also taking on some of the elements of the newer Cawdor look. Again, we get a set of Cawdor Gang Tactics Cards and the House of Faith Dice Set.
In the Age of $igmar world, Warhammer Underworlds have released another band of cool minis, Elathain's Soulraid, built around the Idoneth Deepkin. The Deepkin are an amazing range, very Dark Eldar in many ways, and this set adds some cool minis to that line, especially if you want squad leaders, but the inclusion of the crab and the fish just seems weird. Fun, but weird.
Do you like Death Guard? Well you've had YEARS of good releases, but we get the Lord Felthius and the Tainted Cohort re-released this week. If that's your thing, go forth and enjoy!
In books we have Blackstone Fortress: Ascension in paperback and the supposedly dark comedy that is ​Brutal Kunnin based around those fun and hilarious Orks.

Overnight the new Age of $igmar set, Dominion was previewed - ushering in a "new era" with updated rules and background for all factions (in the 350 page book included in the set), plus a new expanded narrative campaign system and different ways to play. For most, Dominion will mostly be about the miniatures, which GW say we will be able to buy at a 'significant saving' from when they are released individually later on - no time frame announced on this though unfortunately.
So with miniatures in mind, lets take a look and then discuss... 

As is often the way, there was also a sneak peak of the new minis coming for this Dominion line, and they're all pretty impressive; the Knight-Judicator with Gryph-hounds is a new elite archer unit, and the Stormstrike Chariot drawn by Gryph-chargers is a really impressive light chariot with some new design features, including a very Classical Greece looking helmet on the archer.
The Beast-skewer Killbow is a heavy weapon for the Kruleboyz designed to take out line infantry and monsters - which the Kruleboyz also employ in the form of the ​Breaka-boss on Mirebrute Troggoth, a truly impressive model and probably one of the real standouts in this range.

Right, so what can we glean from this new preview? Well if we take this week's pre-orders, then look at the recent Behemoth release plus Bel'akor, plus this preview's Annihilators, the multiple Gryph-hounds, the Beast-skewer Killbow and Breaka-boss on Mirebrute Troggoth, it's pretty obvious we are going to have a new meta of "bigger is better" with giants and beasties of all descriptions coming out of the woodwork. In fact maybe that's what the little cute insectoid is on the new Warsong Revenant - it's the Sylvaneth's new beastie still to be released.
As for the box, it's pretty cool. For us the Orcs don't really work as any kind of real selling point - the look is a bit too different, but also seems cobbled together from LoTR. The old shield is cool though! The Stormcast are again a further evolution which improve the look of these pretty bland miniatures greatly. Both heroes in the sets are interesting, and the comparison between Yndrsata and Sanguinus from WH30K is pretty fun. It should be pointed out the number of female models in the Stormcast range. This is huge and a great addition for inclusion for all hobbyists in the game. It will be interesting to see if this carries across to any Empire faction infantry forces that may come along in the future. Shieldmaidens in Vikings have opened up the idea in many people's minds of how women in ancient times did fight and die in battle, and this happened across multiple civilisations across the world at various points.
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So, is this box on the shopping list? We'll probably give it a miss, unless some splits turn up on FB.
Let us know what you think.

Kragnos, like the recent big bois before him, is back to bring destruction and wrath to all before him, and in Broken Realms: Kragnos you'll find out exactly how and why! The tome is available in Four Hooves of Fury Limited Edition and My What Big Horns You Have Standard Edition. Kragnos himself is here too, in a massive new miniature. There's a reason they call him "The End of Empires". He's hardly the only power character though, with the most ancient of all Slaan, Lord Kroak getting an amazing updated miniature with an updated looking Skink next to him. One can only hope this ushers in a new era of Seraphon models. Speaking of power, Slaanesh is rumbling in the depths and ushering their return are the twins Dexcessa, the Talon of Slaanesh and Synessa, the Voice of Slaanesh in a combi-kit that adds arms and wings to the pantheon of looks for She Who Thirsts. These are both amazing looking miniatures and temptation is running rampant over here... Now if you don't like beasties, then these two will be more your cup of tea - Galen and Doralia ven Denst, the father and daughter team of kick-arsery, who not only give a new look somewhat in line with the Cursed City motif, but also come with some alternative bits to make them even cooler. It should be stated here that all of these large kits come with alternative pieces to customise, which is a nice return to form for GW. In the uber-cool department is the Warsong Revenant, not only a nice update to the armour style of the Sylvaneth, but the little hatching bug on the top of the mini also hints to possible insectoid allies for them in the future. It's a rerelease, but Melusai Ironscale also pops up this week - a really nice mini packed with character which would fit in with many different armies across all the universes.
With Broken Realms here, there are some new boxed sets, all of which it has to be said are great;  Ghorraghan Khai – The Butcher-herd, Luxion and Vresca – The Exquisite Pursuit, Rattachak's Doom-coven and Drycha Hamadreth - Drycha's Spitegrove are all nice army boosters.
In the world of Warhammer 40k, sneaking in this week is the Chapter Approved: Grand Tournament 2021 Mission Pack and Munitorum Field Manual 2021 MkII set adding more to the most recent edition of 40K.
In books the beautiful Ghazghkull Thraka: Prophet of the Waaagh! Limited Edition is on the way, as is the paperback version of Realm-lords, the paperback version of Gotrek & Felix: The Sixth Omnibus and issue 5 of Marvel: Warhammer 40,000 Marneus Calgar.
An expensive week for some it looks like...

The toaster-worshipping scions of the Omnissiah are back with the brand new Codex: Adeptus Mechanicus, available in both Beep-Boop Collector's Edition and USB Hub Standard Edition, the Adeptus Mechanicus also get a new mini - the Skitarii Marshal, which initially looks underwhelming, but on closer inspection is quite cool. With zero modelling options on the sprue, it's what you see is what you get for this guy. There's also a new Combat Patrol, bringing not only the Dunecrawler back into a set, but also the Kataphrons for some added hitting power. There are of course the usual Datacards and a rather spiffy, if plain, Dice Set.
Cursed City characters are now available separately, at a premium price, so we have Belladamma Volga, First of the Vyrkos, the very spooky Lady Annika, The Thirsting Blade, Kritza, The Rat Prince and the various forms of Radukar; the Beast
and the Wolf plus his posse Radukar's Court. Honestly, the price on the Court is ridiculous... there's also those fluffy love bunnies, the Dire Wolves - which would be so much cooler if not rotting. There's extra troops too, with the older Undead models being repackaged into the Start Collecting! Soulblight Gravelords, but with the amazing new Deathrattle Skeletons models, I'm not sure why you would want these old ones apart from the exclusive Wight King on Skeletal Steed model. In related Undead news, Warhammer Underworlds: Direchasm have an awesome new set, Kainan's Reapers, adding some very dynamic poses to that line.
Now here's a thing, the new Combat Patrol: Space Marines is on pre-order, and unlike the Start Collecting Space Marines, this is all Primaris, potentially ushering in the death knell for the older Alpha-style Space Marines of old. Be interesting to see what the community think of this... There's also the chunkatron Captain with Master-crafted Heavy Bolt Rifle and the Heavy Intercessors (the way Primaris should have always been). Meanwhile the Big Bad in this current edition of 40K have some releases too - Combat Patrol: Necrons is an unusual set, but has some great models in it, the excellent Chronomancer mini is also back and the grizzly Flayed Ones take to the field too. If you prefer skin and spikes, then the Drukhari Lelith Hesperax (bit lackluster compared to the rest of the range) is also available separately. 
In books we have Godblight (in whizz-bang Special Edition) and normal hardback, plus the first two in this series Dark Imperium in hardback and Plague War also in hardback.

The release of new vampires is really exciting. An iconic fantasy horror character, the vampire adds some old school cool to the world of Age of $igmar. All the new fluff and rules are of course in the Soulblight Gravelords Battletome, which comes in Let Me Suck Your Blood Limited Edition or Gothic Horror Standard Edition. The Soulblight Gravelords have a particular look of taking that traditional vampire look and adding a monstrous element to it - nothing typifies that more than the Vengorian Lord/ Lauka Vai, Mother of Nightmares combi-kit. An amazing looking kit, even though it's a little hard to work out the actual size. There's also the deceptively simple Vampire Lord who will be a kitbasher's wet dream for everything from Imperial Inquisitors, Dark Elf to Drukhari armies. A must-have! Needing a definite update were the venerable Blood Knights, and though the red palette is questionable, these are faithful updates to a classic kit. The Soulblight Gravelords also sees two more much needed updates - a new multi-part multi-pose skeleton kit, the Deathrattle Skeletons and FINALLY a new zombie kit - the Deadwalker Zombies. If you like flappy-flappy vampires, then the Fell Bats are right up your alley! Of course there's the Soulblight Gravelords Warscroll Cards and a Soulblight Gravelords Dice Set, which frankly could have been a little more orifginal than black. What about clear red? That would have been cool...
Games Workshop have also done a large update to their brush range. In the past they have gone with a combination of some acrylic and some animal fur. Now if you don't support the fur industry (where the GW and other manufacturer brushes come from) then that's an ethical conundrum. But now GW have brought out a line of acrylic brushes, which then bring those hobbyists back into the fold. The range is quite wide; Layer Brushes in STC S and STC M, Shade Brushes in STC M and STC L, Base Brushes in STC S, STC M, STC L and STC XL, Dry Brushes in STC S, STC M and STC L and a Glaze Brush.
There's also some books coming - A Dynasty of Monsters in Hardback, the Undeath Ascendant: A Vampire Counts Omnibus with 3 novellas and 3 short stories in it, the Hardback of Gitslayer and White Dwarf 464.

Necromunda has been a big success for Games Workshop, and even if people aren't playing the game (when was the last time you saw a Necromunda table as a GW store?) the individual elements - the miniatures and the scenery have been very popular across many of their games properties.
The new boxed game for Necromunda is Hive War, which brings together two of the existing gangs, plus some of the existing terrain for players to get a good start on how it works. This week also sees the launch of the first of the Necromunda Weapons & Upgrades sprues, one for Escher and one for Goliath. These are based on some of the existing parts with a few news ones thrown in for good measure. There's also a very cool new transfer sheet - Necromunda Underhive Propaganda, which has posters and signage to help spruce up your terrain. These seem very cool and would work across 40K and Horus Heresy as well. 
Meanwhile, over in Warhammer Underworlds: Direchasm, we have the new Orc warband, Hedkrakka's Madmob and a new Universal Deck, Silent Menace adding more cards to the various factions.
Bit of an odd one, out of the blue the Blood Bowl Chaos Chosen team get their Dice Set and their Double-sided Pitch and Dugouts Set. With no other Blood Bowl products this week, it's just popped up from the ether possibly to get lost on Blood Bowl players not paying attention!
In books we have the Limited Edition Sisters of Battle Collection, the new The Book of Martyrs in hardback, a Necromunda book Fire Made Flesh that seems set around the Redemptionists (still awaiting models), 
a mighty tome of Blood Angels stories in the form of the Sons of Sanguinius in paperback and another anthology - Warriors and Warlords also in paperback. The next issue of Marvel: Warhammer 40,000 Marneus Calgar is out next week too, with the GW-exclusive cover only available in their stores.

The Blood Bowl minis have some pretty great sculpts - just look at the hands! - and if you look closely some of them hark back to older sculpts from the dim distant past. One of these is the The Naggaroth Nightmares - Dark Elf Blood Bowl Team ​(who for some reason appear in pre-orders this week). They're probably the hardest to convert away from Blood Bowl to Age of $igmar, but well worth a try.
The other releases this week are the Print On Demand Horus Heresy novels from Black Library - the Legacies of Betrayal (Hardback) Horus Heresy Anthology, Deathfire (Hardback), War Without End (Hardback), and Pharos (Hardback), Eye of Terra (Hardback). If you're super keen, then you can get the whole The Horus Heresy Print on Demand Collection 7.

It's always cool to see how Games Workshop update their characters, and the update to Be'lakor, the Dark Master is pretty bloody amazing - though painting those wings may be mind-numbing... The return of Be'lakor to the main stable of "villains" is told in Broken Realms: Be'lakor - available in both Flappy Flappy Limited Edition and My, What A Big Sword You Have Standard Edition - as he vies to be top Chaos dog! But he has some company - the Stormcast Gardus Steel Soul (who has obviously dropped something) and the Nighthaunt Krulghast Cruciator (who has something caught on the back of his robes).As forces gather for war, so do the army sets - Tzeentch's Atra’zan’s Blazing Cavalcade, Nighthaunt's Sorrowmourn Choir, Seraphon's The Celestial Stampede (obvious winner in terms of cool factor) and Karadron's Drongon’s Aether-runners.
In books, there's Inferno! Volume 6, Issue 3 of Marvel's Warhammer 40,000 Marneus Calgar, and the Titan porn of Mortis - The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra Book 5 in hardcover.

While Age of $igmar toddles along being a bit hit and miss, Warhammer Underworlds (in it's current Direchasm mode) continues to kick goals – this time with The Crimson Court - four vampires, who frankly rock! Kindly, there's the new Warhammer Underworlds: Direchasm – Grand Alliance Death Dice Pack, plus we also get (yet again) another Warhammer Underworlds Starter Set this week. The more we get, the smaller they become, plus some Warhammer Underworlds Cards to extend the selection from the new Starter Set.
For the fans of the Big Robots game, Adeptus Titanicus, you've got a good week coming, with the new updated Adeptus Titanicus Rulebook, and the biggest boy of biggest boy, the Warmaster Titan with Plasma Destructors. If you're playing catch up, then there's also the Adeptus Titanicus: Loyalist Legios book profiling the main forces already released. This also brings the possibility of a Traitor one too, PLUS the consistent rumour that this will be the format of the books coming out of Forge World for the 28mm Horus Heresy game too. Need more big robots in your army, well here's everything so far (minus the Knights) in the Precept Maniple Battleforce - almost the same price as the new Warmaster! Now to help yourself stay vageuly sane trying to paint these little big robots, try these long-out-of-production transfer sheets for Legio Ignatum, Legio Metalica, Legio Solaria & Legio Astorum. They're small but packed with goodness. 
As mentioned above, the Blood Bowl boxed set has finally been split up - rejoice, fellow converters - and here's all the goodness...  there's the Imperial Nobility Blood Bowl Team: The Bögenhafen Barons, their leader Griff Oberwald, a Team Dice Set and a Team Card Pack. Their adversary, Black Orc Blood Bowl Team: The Thunder Valley Greenskins and their leader Varag Ghoul-Chewer also get a Team Dice Set and Team Card Pack. Thankfully the Elf and Dwarf Biased Referees are also available separately, as is the Blood Bowl: Death Zone Rulebook and the Sevens Pitch: Double-sided Pitch and Dugouts for Blood Bowl Sevens. As with most Blood Bowl releases there's also a Blood Bowl Spike! Journal, this time it's Issue 12.
Back in stock is the Siege of Terra: The Lost and the Damned Map (which we hear very mixed reports about the quality of), plus in books we have the normal hardback of Alpharius: Head of the Hydra, the Lost and the Damned Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra Book 2 in paperback. They really are very slow with the Siege of Terra paperbacks! Plus it's a White Dwarf week with Issue 463.

The resurrections of the interest in Mordheim and what came to be known as Blanchitsu after Games Workshop wanted to appropriate the #INQ28 hashtag, has almost singlehandedly powered the interest in fantasy in the fan community since the instigation of Age of $igmar. The Old World may be dead, but the community still keeps it alive. Well this weekend we see the pre-orders go up for the first real foray buy GW into that world with Warhammer Quest: Cursed City, the new boxed game which boasts a tonne of minis, plus main characters straight out of the Mordheim playbook. Interestingly there's no plastic scenery this time, so it will be of interest if GW go down that path, considering the amount of terrain-builder Kickstarters there have been in the last 18 months. The release also sees the novel, Cursed City, which comes in Special Edition and Hardback also released. If you pre-order you'll also be in the running for the free Key to Ulfenkarn collectable. You'd want to be fast though as this box is likely to sell out on the day of release. Though some of the minis appeal to us here at Beardy Hammer HQ, the overall set doesn't entice, so we'll wait for the minis to come out separately. The new skeletons are especially interesting...
​In books this week, we have the sweeping romantic epic telling the story of a woman in love with the man of her dreams living a life shared together in their quiet secluded house where they raise animals and care for sick birds* - Lady of Sorrows in it's Paperback form, out next week!

The Lumineth Realm-lords kind of appeared out of the blue, bringing their cow iconography with them, back in 2020, and now we have the rest of the releases - making up what has become a very large model range. Interestingly the release is on the back of the second installment of the current Broken Realms story arc in Age of $igmar,  kicking off with the Broken Realms: Teclis book which comes in Shiny Shiny Limited Edition and Almost As Shiny Standard Edition with the Lumineth up against the armies of Death. This updates your forces with the new releases plus the fluff to back up the narrative of the campaign. If you're new to Lumineth or just want a new book, then the Battletome: Lumineth Realm-lords which again comes in Blinding Glory Limited Edition and How Do They Keep Their Robes So Clean Standard Edition. To back up the new words, we have a veritable bevvy of miniatures - bloody spectacular ones at that...
starting with the combi-kit of Hurakan Spirit of the Wind/ Sevireth, Lord of the Seventh Wind, an awesome tabletop piece that frankly I'd be scared to paint. The dynamic duo of Ellania and Ellathor, Eclipsian Warsages and Monkey Magic-vibes of the Hurakan Windmage are equally impressive, in fact the Windmage is really quite amazing. - a total departure from anything GW has done before. There's the mounted hero combi-kit of Lyrior Uthralle, Warden of Ymetrica/ Vanari Lord Regent and the evocative Scinari Calligrave - also so bloody tempting. In an exciting development, the return of the bannerman is here with the Vanari Bannerblade and more buffs to your army with the Scinari Loreseeker.
++ It should be said at this point that if you read the GW site, you'll get an idea how this army plays - it seems each hero gives specific units buffs, so this could be quite a powerful character driven army ++
In terms of troops we have the Vanari Bladelords, the mega-flauna kangaroo-riders, the Hurakan Windchargers and a shout out to the other Elves ranges with the obligatory Vanari Starshard Ballista. The Lumineth also get a terrain piece, again a game changer (and wouldn't some of the other ranges love a hovering terrain piece) the Shrine Luminor.
We've already seen Lumineth dice, so none of those today, but we do get the Lumineth Warscroll Cards.
Allies and foes abound with four new boxed sets - the Gortle Pulpskull – Invidian Plaguehost (Nurgle), the Arcobalde Lazerne – Xintil War-Magi (lets say 'Empire' for old times sake), the Horrek Venzai – Horrek's Dreadlance (Ossiarch Bonereapers - a range that's gone nowhere, sadly) and the Gorstane Mortevell – Mortevell's Helcourt (Flesheater Courts). Quite the week, and be interesting to see what hobbyists do with the Lumineth. It's not really until they get out into the community that we often see the best way to do these models - a real tribute to platforms like Instagram and Facebook.
Away from Age of $igmar, how much would you pay for a Space Marine? Well BANDAI have a really lovely one and it's quite a bit... BUT the White Scars Primaris Intercessor Action Figure has got to be the best looking one so far!
Now, for books we of course have a Lumineth Realm-lords novel, The End of Enlightenment in hardback, the hardback (non-Limited Edition version) of Luther: First of the Fallen, and a new Warhammer Horror, The Vampire Genevieve in paperback. There's also the Marvel: Warhammer 40,000 Marneus Calgar – Issue 2 which GW shops have an exclusive cover for if that tickles your Smurfy bits.
In other releases, the folks at Forgeworld have finally released the new Word Bearers Legion Praetor
and Word Bearers Legion Terminator Praetor - both amazing Horus Heresy-themed models.

After some very slow weeks, Games Workshop is back with some big releases this week which cover some of the range usually untouched.
First off we get the new boxed set of Piety and Pain, which pits the Drukhari (Dark Eldar) against the Adepta Sororitas (Sisters of Battle). Great starter set for both armies, but do check the pricing, because despite the Drukhari being some of the cheapest 40K armies to buy, the Adepta Sororitas are some of the most expensive.
Speaking of Drukhari, they finally get their new Codex this week, which comes in Terror From Above Collector's Edition and Spikey Stabby-Stab Standard Edition. There are of course Drukhari Datacards and a Dice Set (notice new packaging), plus an excellent new Drukhari Combat Patrol - possibly the best Combat Patrol released yet! If you like the look of this release then you can get them all in one order with the Lords of Commorragh Collection, but you don't save any money despite getting a signed print with this set.
Warhammer 40K moves into a new warzone with Charadon – Act I: The Book of Rust which comes in Collector's Edition or Standard Edition, plus there's the Crusade Mission Pack: Plague Purge adding 24 brand new missions for Crusade campaign games.
Warhammer Underworlds continues to impress with a new set of minis, this time the Seraphon have the The Starblood Stalkers, which interestingly centre around Skinks and not Saurons, which is a bit of a shame, but a neat set none the less.
Middle-Earth get some love this week with an amazing new Treebeard, Mighty Ent model. Beautifully sculpted, this is an amazing, but pricey, addition to any Middle-Earth army. There's also a nice new Fangorn Dice Set out too...
Blood Bowl is back, this time with a Halfling Pitch, Halflings Team Card Pack and some very out-there Halfling Team Dice Set.
In books this week we have ​Silent Hunters in hardback, a new Horus Heresy anthology Blood of the Emperor in hardback, the Fabius Bile novel Manflayer in paperback and a Limited Edition version of Ravenor Returned which is pretty nice!

Warhammer Kill Team was the skirmish game released about a year before 9th edition and is really only famous for having super cool names for the teams they released - like the Tau team called Advance Team Starpulse, an obvious riff on the Science Ninja Team Gatchaman and Secret Combat Team Go-Rangers from Japanese pop culture. Well Kill Team is back, and not just in White Dwarf articles, we have a new expansion with Pariah Nexus, a self-contained starter set with Space Marines (inc. the much-anticipated Captain with master-crafted heavy bolt rifle and five Heavy Intercessors) vs the Necrons (with the equally-anticipated Chronomancer and Flayed Ones). You also get a double-sided game board, Necron-themed terrain, and the softback book, containing extensive background etc etc.
Kill Team also gets a new book, Killzones, filled with rules for fighting in different environments over 24 missions. Now to represent these environments, GW have very kindly released three new Environment Expansions; Sector Fronteris, Sector Munitorum and Sector Mechanicus, all with a double-sided gaming board. Also next week we see the Indomitus boxed set start to be split into smaller sets with the very pricey Space Marines: Honoured of the Chapter and Necrons Royal Court sets. These aren't multi-pose kits, so not sure why they are top-dollar.
No new books this week, but the Black Library Celebration stuff from last week is mostly still around...