Last week we had the new Codex for the Space Marines, now we get a few new offerings for the Primaris - and with the new Primaris transport not on here - we're sure to be getting more next week!
​This week we finally get a good look at the ​Primaris Invictor Tactical Warsuit, which comes with alternate weapons and some posing options. It's a very utilitarian rugged new look for the Space Marines, being very functional and new looking - definitely not something from the Grimdark. It will be very interesting to see this up against the undisputed masters of the mech suits, the Tau! This new kit of course comes with the compulsory Ultramarine transfer sheet.
Also next week we have some minis previously in boxed sets, but now available for individual orders - the Primaris Captain in Phobos Armour, Primaris Librarian in Phobos Armour and the 55th Primaris Lieutenant model, this one with a with Power Sword. None of these models come with alternative weapons or heads.
In books next week, the new Warhammer Adventures titles Forest of the Ancients and Secrets of the Tau. Both will be heading my nephew's way, which tells you how likely they are to read this!

The Community has been ablaze with SM Bois wanting a new Codex for the MOST serviced faction in Warhammer 40K, the Space Marines. Well now they have one with the new Codex Space Marines on pre-order this weekend. The Ultramarines of course can't miss out with a Codex Supplement which comes in two flavours - Is There Any Colour Other Than Blue Standard Edition and Girlyman Is My God Collectors Edition (webstore exclusive). Excitingly there is also a Codex Supplement for the White Scars!!!
How nice is it to see Space Marines that aren't blue? The White Scars are back - lets see how Games Workshop handle cultural appropriation - with their very own Codex in But Painting White Is Hard Standard Edition and The Great Khan Is Not Dead Collectors Edition (webstore exclusive). Excitingly there are also a few new minis to go with this release, Primaris-ified Chief Librarian Tigurius and Primaris-ified Kor'sarro Khan with literally the second biggest bird we've seen all day on his arm. But if you're into White Scars, the goodness just keeps on giving with a White Scars Primaris Upgrades & Transfers set (tad pricey, but super cool they FINALLY added transfers to these sets) AND there's also some very cool White Scars Dice. There's also Ultramarine Dice, because why would they just produce generic Space Marine Dice when every Space Marine is obviously just a repainted Ultramarine... grrrr! Oh, and there's Space Marine Data Cards, White Scars Data Cards and Ultramarines Data Cards.
There's also a fair few books out next week too - the The Uriel Ventris Chronicles: Volume 2, Knights of Macragge featuring Cato Sicarius, Age of $igmar adventures abound with Hamilcar: Champion of the Gods in paperback, Kal Jerico: Sinner's Bounty (Limited Edition), and the audio drama Agents of the Imperium.
We don't usually cover Forge World, but they're finally rolling out their Dark Angels with the Dark Angels Legion Contemptor Dreadnought (which comes with alternate chest decoration) and the awesome Dark Angels Legion Praetor in Cataphractii Terminator Armour. The mighty 1st Legion are finally here!
By the by, there is also the Codex: Space Marines Indomitus Edition which retails in Australia for $420 - and believe it or not - after just 35 minutes on pre-order it's sold out!

With two exciting universes having new releases this week, it was a bit of a tough choice to see who went first - but with Warcry getting a lot of Community buzz (despite the ridiculous two week pre-order window), they won out.
The last three Warcry warbands are on offer this weekend, and what a delight they are - packed with detail and dynamically posed, they offer a lot in themselves and certainly a lot in terms of bitz for the bitz box! From the horrendous The Unmade, to the cunning Splintered Fang (those helmets!) to the swift strike of the Corvus Cabal, each of these warbands offers something new ion terms of the aspects of Chaos. Like last week, this week we also get another Ravaged Lands terrain piece, this time the Shattered Stormvault.
The other biggie this week are the Palanite Enforcers for Necromunda. Not to be confused with the Adeptus Arbites, these guys now slot somewhere under that piece of venerable fluff to take on the street level crims and hive scum. This set is basically two identical sprues with two main weapon options - a very cool human-sized bolter or a shotgun. Disappointingly there are only two shock batons, but in great news, this is an entirely multi-pose kit, so the torsos are free from the legs and you can go wild with posing options. A with other Necromunda releases we get the Enforcer Patrol Dice Set plus a new Necromunda expansion, the Book of Judgement giving you an overview of the seedy underbelly of the Necromunda hive. There's Enforcer Tactics Cards (which also include some gang tactics cards too), plus the Intrigues & Rackets Card Pack to bring the world of crime to your gang, the Underdog Card Pack for when your Juves have to face a load of Goliaths, and the Dramatis Personae Cards 1 to represent a bevvy of Hired Guns.
In books, we get Book 12 of the Primarch series with Konrad Curze: The Night Haunter. Written by Guy Haley, here's hoping he does this awesome Primarch justice. If he isn't vampire Batman that's a real shame!

With the two week pre-order window still open for Warcry, Games Workshop have given us a bit of a filler week this week - but there are some interesting products. It is interesting that GW didn't take this week to offer at least one more warband f0r Warcry, so here's hoping we don't get the slow trickle of gangs that we got with Necromunda. 
Made To Order kicks it off with three classic Chaos Sorcerers - the Space Marines Sorcerer with Force Sword, Chaos Space Marines Sorcerer with Force Staff and Plasma Pistol and the Chaos Space Marines Sorcerer with Force Axe. The later was produced in Finecast at some point (and the version we have is a beautiful cast BTW) but these are the old-school metal versions.
The rest of the pre-orders this week are books with the next Warhammer Chronicles: The Orion Trilogy, centring around Orion the forest king. Can we get a decent miniature of that cover illustration please? As we touched on last week, Warcry doesn't have a novel yet... well, here it is, the Warcry: The Anthology. The Horus Heresy continues with Book 48: The Burden of Loyalty now in paperback and Celestine gets her own novel. Curious timing on this one, you'd think that maybe they would bring this out closer to the Sisters of Battle release. Finally, in audio dramas, part 3 of the Blackshields is out, this one is The Broken Chain. We follow this one as the main character is a World Eater they call The Hound in reference to his War Hounds lineage - always a selling point for Beardy Hammer considering the ongoing War Hounds project.

As Games Workshop is a little low on stuff this week, lets shoot over to Forge World who have two great looking mini-Knights in the form of the Mechanicum Knight Moirax with Lightning Locks
and Mechanicum Knight Moirax with Volkite Veuglaire and Gyges Siege Claw. AT $85 AUD these are only $20 or so more than a normal Armiger Helverin plus you get new carapace and armoured sections, multiple heads, new weapons and other details. Seems like oddly great value from Forge World. 

Warcry really set a lot of tongues wagging when we first saw the warbands start to appear at various Games Workshop events. This is Chaos in it's minor forms - those wish to pay tribute, wanting to be at the echelon of Chaos Warrior and Chaos Champion, and the fighting in Warcry is how they will do it!
This weekend the two week pre-order window opened for not only the Warcry Starter Set boxed game (and the bevy of miniatures in it), but also the first of the warbands - the awesome Cypher Lords. These guys are so close to the Slaaneshi troops we've been imaging this was an instant buy! If you saw the box and didn't want to buy the whole Warcry Starter Set, the Warcry Core Book is also available separately and with a multitude of warbands still to come, why tie yourself down to these forces? There is also a terrain set as the Sigmartie Mausoleum gets reborn as the Ravaged Lands: Corpsewrack Mausoleum with a two-sided battlemat and tokens to add more battlegrounds to fight on. As is the case these days, the cards keep coming with the Warcry Battleplan Cards, and then cards to add Stormcast Eternals, Legions of Nagash, Idoneth Deepkin, Gloomspite Gitz, Nighthaunt, Ironjawz, Flesh-eater Courts, Bonesplitterz and Daughters of Khaine to the game. Accessories abound too with a Warcry Ruler and Warcry Carry Case, which is soft so good luck not having bitz break off in that thing. Thankfully there's no Warcry novel this week, but as this is a two week pre-order window, we're suspecting that will be next week with at least one or two more warbands.
If you do order the Starter Set this week you'll also get Warcry Faction Art Cards - 8 double-sided A5 cards, featuring artwork, and descriptions of the game’s main warbands.
​You could do that, or you could save $80 and buy it from a local hobby store.

There was a time, not too long ago, that Games Workshop were calling their Elves "Aelves". Well fast froward to today and that little piece of history has well and truly gone, because not only do we have Sylvaneth Wood Elves this week, we also have Blood Bowl Elves and not a single random old English 'A' in sight.
The Sylvaneth are an interesting group, the more spirit-base element to the Wood Elves, both in touch with and fully part of nature herself. Next week sees the release of a brand new Battletome for them which, as normal these days, comes in Trim Your Hedges Standard Edition and the Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak Tree Limited Edition. Interestingly the character on the front cover has not been released from it's boxed game for this release, but you do get the new Endless Spells: Sylvaneth new Sylvaneth terrain with the Awakened Wyldwood, some Sylvaneth Dice and the requisite Warscroll Cards.
These aren't the only Elves out next week because Blood Bowl gets it's Wood Elf team, the Athelorn Avengers - stunning miniatures in dynamic poses. With all new teams there are also Wood Elf Dice, and a rather ordinary looking Wood Elf Pitch to play on. Bit of a shame that! Next week is also a Spike! week, with Issue 6 showing off the Athelorn Avengers, plus the Wood Elf Team Card Pack and a set of Blood Bowl Match Inducements cards.
Meanwhile, in The Shire, the Prime Minister is disgracing himself outside McDonalds - that's a joke for Australians - but really we're talking about Middle-Earth where The Shire is under attack in the new Scouring of The Shire expansion book. We also see the return of some classic minis, with Bilbo Baggins, Bandobras Took (on Foot & Mounted), Golfimbul (on Foot & Mounted), three different Gandalf the Grey (on Foot, Mounted and on Cart) and the Ruffians set. Not a release that's going to set the world on fire, that's for sure!
Do you like your Adpetus Titanicus? Well there's a new Titan hovering around - Acastus Knight Porphyrion be thy name and the Acastus Knight Command Terminal Pack... which you'll need to use it. There's also a tonne of other neat Adeptus Titanicus releases too; you can command legendary Titans with either the Traitor Titans of Legend or Loyalist Titans of Legend Command Terminals and two sets of dice - Loyalist and Traitor. There's also Loyalist Legio Stratagem Cards and Traitor Legio Stratagem Cards.
Warhammer 40K has some re-releases with the Eldar Spiritseer now available separately and two new Star Collecting sets; Start Collecting! Primaris Space Wolves and Start Collecting! Thousand Sons.
Books! There's usually a book or three - well next week there's a few more with Vaults of Terra Book 2: The Hollow Mountain, the Ravenor: The Omnibus, an anthology of 18 short Age of $igmar stories Gods & Mortals, The Horusian Wars Book 2: Incarnation ​​and finally July's White Dwarf - oddly half way through the month, which is okay because if you get it through Australian subscription you'll get it in October anyway!

The last release of the Siege of Terra Deluxe Edition was very popular, and with Book 2 on pre-order this week the scalpers will be out in force, so if you are interested, spend the money now and get The Lost and the Damned (Limited Edition) ASAP! You have been warned. In new models we have a really awesome release - the Knight Desecrator/ Knight Rampager Chaos Knight combi-kit. Covered in spikes, with amazing new legs - how long until we see those on a Lord of Skulls? - this kit looks so cool! There's also the Chaos Knights Transfer Sheet out (which is the same one you get in the kit) and two Chaos Knight Codexes; there's the Webstore Exclusive Codex: Chaos Knights Stompy Stomp Collector's Edition and the My, What Big Feet You Have Codex: Chaos Knights Standard Edition, plus the Datacards: Chaos Knights. Next week also sees the new minis for Blackstone Fortress hit with the new expansion, Blackstone Fortress: Traitor Command. Both these minis are very cool, very fluffy and so needing to come to Beardy Hammer HQ. Blackstone Fortress also gets two other expansions - Blackstone Fortress: Advanced Arsenal which includes 24 brand-new resource cards plus more and Blackstone Fortress Endless Peril which adds Includes 30 brand-new exploration cards, 15 challenge cards and 15 combat cards to add variety to your expeditions into the Blackstone Fortress. So quite the week ahead.

Happy Warhammer Day!!
Have you got the balloons and streamers up? Baked a cake? Done all the wrapping? Or has Warhammer Day - despite the 
​razzmatazz - passed you by?
Well, valued reader, here's the rub; today is a day to celebrate Warhammer in all it's forms - by buying stuff. No there's nothing free, there's no give-back (especially to consumers outside the US and UK who pay MASSIVE mark-ups on products) it's about a few nifty items. First cab off the rank is Sister Superior Amalia Novena, the very first of a new line of plastic Sisters of Battle - old Mop Head! A fairly unimpressive start, but if it floats your boat, she will be in-store today! But that's not all, have you been inspired by the kitbashed Primaris Intercessor Funko POP! online? Well now you can buy one that's white to do yourself. Cute idea!
But that's not all, for a limited time only, there is an exclusive Objective Marker set made of brushed-brass and featuring the new logo on one side and are numbered 1 through 6 on the other side. No pricing, so get set to mortgage the cat! Now if you do buy any of these things today, you will also receive the Warhammer Day 2019 Celebration Pin (left).

 Alrighty - Apocalypse is here and we can see what's coming. Probably best to start this by saying there is some Vanguard Pricing going on here. Vanguard Pricing is a term we coined here at Beardy Hammer HQ when it came to boxed games since the time of the Primaris release & the difference between US and international pricing. So lets have a look what's on offer...
The Apocalypse rule set itself comes as a boxed set with a 120 page Apocalypse manual and game rules plus punchboard sheets of double-sided Apocalypse gameplay tokens, Command Asset cards and 24 dice. The big new mini releases for Apocalypse is the Skorpius Disintegrator/ Skorpius Dunerider combi-kit for the Adeptus Mechanicus and the Primaris Repulsor Executioner for the Imperium. The Skorpius is a freaky looking kit and I need it in my life, while the Repulsor is now more expensive than a Baneblade!
The big buzz for a few weeks has been on the Detachment boxed sets - they're big, and if you're not in the US or UK, they'll hit the bank pretty hard. The UK 100 Pound/ US 170 dollars translates to $280 AUD or $330 NZD - that's the Vanguard Pricing we were talking about, but then again you may never need to buy another set! The initial releases are Space Marines Battalion Detachment, Chaos Space Marines Battalion Detachment, Imperial Knights Super-heavy Detachment, Adeptus Mechanicus Vanguard Detachment, T'au Empire Vanguard Detachment, Orks Spearhead Detachment, Tyranids Spearhead Detachment, Craftworlds Vanguard Detachment, Necrons Outrider Detachment, Astra Militarum Spearhead Detachment. Now if you have a look at the webstore you'll see there are many other Detachments, but these are bundles, not dedicated sets for this release - so this is where you get your Air Wings, Spearheads,  and other Super-Heavy detachments. You will also notice that we did not get a dedicated Drukhari or Harlequin Detachment. The oddness of this is about to become even more apparent... There is also the massive Ruins of the Apocalypse Gaming Board Collection which surely can't be posted!
The Command Asset Cards are 100 Command Assets which offer a huge variety of new tactical options, plus a big Apocalypse Dice with 50 dice (25 six-sided dice and 25 twelve-sided dice). There are also Apocalypse Datasheet Cards for Space Marines, Chaos Daemons, combined Tyranids and Genestealer Cults, Necrons, Tau, Orks, Chaos Space Marines, Astra Militarum and... Aeldari - that is Craftworld, Drukhari, Harlequins and Ynnari. To us this smells weird! The Ynnari faction introduction got no traction at all, so is this another try to unite the Space Elves? These are also available on the website (for free) so do as you will, or buy all of them at once in the Apocalypse Datasheet Cards Collection.
Apocalypse will see the reintroduction of something GW scoffed about for years - Movement Trays - which come in 25mm, 32mm and the multi-part 40mm sizes. Check out the prices too BTW. OUCH! At least buy me a drink first... Now of course the Apocalypse must be told in the form of prose, so there is the Apocalypse novel and, interestingly, a Limited Edition version!
There are other books next week, the Necromunda Underhive Omnibus, the next Vampire Genevieve novel Beasts in Velvet and a Vampire Genevieve Anthology Silver Nails. In audio dramas, Venators gives you three short Necromunda stories on one compact disc!  
Apocalypse also sees the release of a brand new transport case - the Crusade Case XL which purports to be the largest and sturdiest case, able to transport four huge models at once, plus metal-reinforced construction. It's pretty beasty and a serious investment, but again, you may only ever need one!
Any purchases of the Apocalypse rule set (and at least $280 of additional Apocalypse products) will also mean you get the Apocalypse Pin (above). Thanks to BeefWeaver for the heads up on the pin and Command Asset Cards! There was a bit to cover in this write-up.

As the build up to Apocalypse continues, GW are letting us save our pennies (as we'll spend WAY too much when that comes out) by having a second week of little stuff - not necessarily a bad thing, just not too exciting.
Some will however be excited by Plague War Limited Edition (left) that has been released! Telling the story of the clash between the newly resurrected Rowboat Girly-man and Death Guard Primarch, Mortarion, this is the next part of the Dark Imperium series. Very nice presentation of this book in keeping with the Solar War Limited Edition - but this one taking part in the 41st millennium, not the Heresy. Age of $igmar, about to be eclipsed by Apocalypse in the next few weeks, have thrown the Power Unbound cards out there, an expansion for Warhammer Underworlds which expand your chosen warband with 3 cards for each. 
In books we have the Gloomspite novel and and audio drama Death's Mercy which is the next part of Gav Thorpe's exploration of the Harlequin aspects.

The last Age of $igmar's General's Handbook added a number of cool elements to Ao$, so it will be interesting to see what else can be introduced or tweaked in the new ​General's Handbook 2019 on pre-order this week. They promise expanded rules for urban combat, a new Raids and Ambushe mechanic, and soemthing that really tickles our fancy - Mercenary Companies, as I've been building one for some time! What is curious and sad is the section on a code of conduct for players designed to encourage sportsmanship and good play for all gamers - what's going on out there? There is also a Warlord Edition - webstore exclusive - with some extra bibs and bobs if that is your want and desire. Unfortunately nothing in terms of miniatures which is a bit of a shame - some Made To Order old school Generals could have worked nicely!
Speaking of niche, Middle-Earth fills the "we don't have much this week" void with Ranger Captains: Faramir, Madril & Damrod, Warriors of the Fiefdoms, The Lords of Umbar, hapless Balin, King of Moria and Flói Stonehand, Army of the Dead Banner Bearer (in the shiniest chainmail a dead person has ever worn), the beautiful Cave Drake and Radagast the Brown (played in the movies by my favourite Doctor Who, Sylvester McCoy!). These are all webstore exclusives, so the shelves are going to be pretty bare next Saturday!
In books there's a new Astra Militarum Omnibus - Shield of the Emperor and for Ao$, Soul Wars makes it's paperback debut.
Next week will see White Dwarf too, with June 2019 going on sale. No one will care, but there it is!
​Watch this get a relaunch/ refit/ digital only change in the next 4-6 months