As you know, each week we post the latest pre-orders from Games Workshop. In a busy working life, posting those updates and painting War Hounds Legion minis is pretty much all we have time for these days. In Australia we're in a pseudo-lockdown, so working from home - which if you're doing it too you'll know has it's own stresses and strains.
What we will be doing here, later today, is announce a new venture here at Beardy Hammer which we really hope you like. We think it's going to be fun to do, and hopefully fun to join in with.
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So what about the Games Workshop pre-orders? Well, there won't be any from GW as they have announced that there will be no there will be no new physical pre-orders until at least the 2nd of May due to the closure of Warhammer HQ and the factory and distribution centres in the UK, USA and Australia.
There are however a number of things they are doing to keep your hobby going.

You can go check out the Warhammer TV Twitch, which has hours of material to inspire you to get through your mountain of minis at home. This content has always been behind a paywall, but now GW have opened it up, and if you can navigate the awful layout of Twitch, then why not stream this to your TV and have it on while you hobby. I can highly recommend the episode on the amazing Mechanicus builds by GW's video editor Laura. Also, go follow her Twitter!! 

Now if audio drama is more your thing, Black Library seem to be running a series of promotions on their Black Library Audio App. There's some mixed reviews on this app, but if you're more into hearing stories from right across the Warhammer universes, then this app is really the best place to get them all.
Currently I Am Slaughter is on special, so we'll see what happens next. It's a free app, so if you like stories of the Horus Heresy, Warhammer 40,000, Warhammer and Age of Sigmar, Necromunda and more, then this app is the gateway. There are in-store purchases, but just see what happens with specials, bundles and previews.  

Also coming this weekend is the first in a series of previews. Whisper is it includes the new Fabius Bile - in if there's a new Fabius Bile, then there's probably Chaos Primaris Marines, new Slaaneshi Chaos Space Marines and... maybe even the Demon Prince himself.

Warhammer Storyforge have also just opened their Instagram account which will keep us all up to date on the new film projects, including previews and other nice visual tidbits. Add it to your Instagram feed and see what comes up! Who knows... while others are working from home we may see these come out sooner than we thought!

This post has concentrated on Games Workshop, because that's what we update you on every week here, but there are many other miniature companies - especially the small ones - who are continuing to print and sculpt from home and ship straight to your door. Don't forget them! Maybe find a new universe to enjoy, or some great conversion bitz! Many small miniature companies work from their home anyway, and with technology easier to get a hold of, there's some amazing things coming out. 
If you have a 3D printer, don't forget the places like CG Trader and Thingyverse where creators post their sculpts up. There's also manufacturers who provide STLs too like Reptilian Overlords, and Imperial Terrain amongst others. For small manufacturers, that may be there livelihood right now so why not support them.
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That's it from us. Bit of a different update I know. Stay tuned later today when hopefully we'll have an update on something very cool from us here at Beardy Hammer.
Stay safe, keep in touch with your friends and community, and don't forget the importance of face to face. Get on a Facebook Messenger/ Google Hangouts/ Zoom video call and chat with your fellow hobbyists!

The Space Wolves – what an awesome mix of martial prowess; Viking crossed with gene-enhanced super warrior in armour. I mean where can this go wrong? Well probably in the era where they were powder blue, but like the time Dark Angels had feathers on their armour, we try to forget it. Well this week, one of the greatest heroes of the Space Wolves lore, Ragnar Blackmane returns, this time all Primaris-ed up in the new Prophecy of the Wolf boxed game. He’s not on his own though – a brand new hulking Ghazghkull model is also here too and what a bloody beast he is. Oh and there’s a Gobbo called Makari too. If you do order this set you also get the Psychic Awakening: Saga of the Beast Datasheet Cards for these three dudes.
 This all happily coincides with the new ​Psychic Awakening book, Saga of the Beast which comes in Faux Pelt Only Please Collector's Edition and How Can You Bathe In That Armour Standard Edition. So, I hear you ask, what other Space Wolves goodness will I be able to buy? Some dice, or a commemorative coin, or even a big burly bearded man to come clean your pool. Well... strap yourself in, Wayfarer because… they’re re-packaging the Fenrisian Wolves. Woof woof!!
The rest of this week is books with the brand new Road to Redemption (the spine colour clashing with the front colour hurts my eyes!), the Space Wolves omnibus Sagas of the Space Wolves which includes Includes 4 novels, 2 novellas, 10 short stories and a partridge in a pear tree. If you’re into audio dramas then the Saga of the Beast gives you 4 hours of Ragnar Blackmane action in a sturdy audio repository.
Do you love Print On Demand? Do you love Horus Heresy in hardcover? What if we could combine the two? Well, faithful friend, they have and this week they are here - Betrayer (with all the juicey War Hounds Legion tid-bits), Fear to Tread (the story of Space Marines and their continuing issue with Lego bricks on the floor in the middle of the night), Shadows of Treachery, ​Angel Exterminatus and Mark of Calth, brother of John of Calth – nice guys! You can of course buy them all together in this collected set too…
Speaking of Horus Heresy, there’s also the Siege of Terra Collection – Books 1-3 in hardback if that is your want and desire!
Have at it you powder-blue pretties…

We don't usually start these updates with a book, but Saturnine, Book 4 in the Siege of Terra Limited Edition series is on pre-order this weekend - and as this seems to be the hottest ticket in town - HAVE AT IT!!
The other hot ticket is the delayed second wave of Adepta Sororitas/ Sisters of Battle, which this week gives us some melee Troops in the form of the combi-kit Seraphim Squad/ Zephyrim Squad and the Repentia Squad, which is an amazing source oh Heavy Chainswords for the Horus Heresy player out there! We also get some characters in the form of the Imagifier, the Dialogus and the multi-optioned Canoness. There's also the long awaited transports - the Adepta Sororitas Rhino and the Immolator. Both amazing looking kits, but at a premium price, especially the Rhino which is the basic kit plus an upgrade sprue (thanks for the heads-up BeefWeaver). The preview images of the Adepta Sororitas Rhino did originally show a Deimos Pattern Rhino, but this image has since disappeared and replaced with the more familiar Rhino we know today. The Immolator does look amazing though and we are sorely tempted! The Adepta Sororitas also get some scenery with the Battle Sanctum, which is very nice indeed! In related news, we also get a Bases Pack for the new 28.5mm base, which I suppose gets the 3rd part suppliers out of the market but just really annoys the hobbyists! The Adepta Sororitas range is pretty niche, but having a look at the details on them, they really are very well done, if somewhat limited in their poseability.
Next week is also a ​White Dwarf week with issue 452 incoming.

Lizardmen are awesome - a staple of Fantasy since at least the Dragonlance era of the 1980s, they take the idea of combat and dinosaurs to the next level by mixing the two. Lizardmen have been a part of Games Workshop's pantheon for a long time too, and the now-titled Seraphon have been the same pretty much since then. This week sees the brand new Seraphon Battletome, in both Beam Me Down Scotty Limited Edition and Jungle Fever Standard Edition. It's an incredible shame GW didn't decide to bring out new miniatures with this release because the old ones are desperately in need of an update, in fact the closest we've had in recent time is the frankly embarrassing Gwaka'moli Crater Gators Blood Bowl Team. There is a new miniature of sorts - a new piece of terrain - the Realmshaper Engine, which can either be build as covered in vines, or as sparkly and new.  Both are a tad ordinary, sadly. The Seraphon also get new Warscroll Cards, but no dice - I'd have loved some dice - and a new Skink Start Collecting box. There's two other Start Collecting boxes this week too - Gloomspite Gitz and Daughters of Khaine.
Books this week has a few interesting ones; two Warhammer Horror books - Anathemas and Sepulturum, the fourth Last Chancers book Armageddon Saint, the paperback version of Rites of Passage which is all about the Navigator Houses and the paperback of Belisarius Cawl: The Great Work.
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Now if like us you have a hankering for Lizardmen check these out: Reaper have some nice ones, so do Lost Kingdoms and finally, the very very cool Mierce Miniatures.

Who doesn't like a Space Elf? Well the Necrons, but they don't count - and joy abounds this weekend as the pre-orders go up for the previously boxed-set exclusives of the very weird looking Drazhar and the awesome finally-in-plastic Incubi. So tempting, so pretty, so spiky. Also from the same boxed set, we have Jain Zar and the 2020 incarnation of the Howling Banshees, also in plastic for the very fist time. These models look a little chunky (not body shaming) compared to their past metal incarnations, but they're still pretty cool.
It's Black Library Celebration 2020 this weekend, so they've rolled out a few interesting releases. For power players and fans of gold alike, there's two new miniatures in the Talons of the Emperor faction, the Valerian and Aleya set, some Black Library Celebration Custodes Dice and the Watchers of the Throne: The Regent's Shadow featuring the previously mentioned Valerian and Aleya.
Black Library Celebrations are generally full of trinkets and bibs'n'bobs, so they haven't let us down with the Legion Pin Badge Set, the Sabbat Worlds Crusade Map and some books; 13th Legion (20th Anniversary Edition), The Loathsome Ratmen and All Their Vile Kin, Helsreach, Iron Company, and last but absolutely not least, the stunning Lion El'Jonson: Lord of the First (Limited Edition). Was he always blonde?
There's more books this week too - the non-limited edition The First Wall, Oaths and Conquests, and a new Kal Jerico: Sinner's Bounty (in a poorly executed Cyberpunk 2077 inspired cover).
Any purchase of a physical product this weekend will also get a free ​Black Library Celebration Anthology 2020 book with stories from Warhammer 40,000, Warhammer Age of Sigmar, The Horus Heresy, Necromunda and Warhammer Horror.

How cool are Valhallans? They're probably one of the most loved Imperial Guard armies from a time when GW were providing alternative looks for the Guard. Beautifully themed with their long coats and WWII feel, they were gritty and very cold! This weekend sees the return of the classic moulds via the Made To Order system. Get them while they're hot... or cold!
Get the whole re-release collection in the Valhallan Platoon, or pick and choose from the Valhallan Mortar Team (3 sets), Valhallan Heavy Bolter Team (3 sets), Valhallan Missile Launcher Team (3 sets), Valhallan Autocannon Team, the bloody awful Classic Commissar Yarrick, Commander Chenkov, Valhallan Commander, the super classic and not badly priced Valhallan Ice Warrior Squad, Valhallan Special Weapons, Valhallan Missile Team, Valhallan Heavy Bolter Team or the Valhallan Mortar Team.
The troops are very nice models. The officers are not great at all, pretty boring and pretty shoddy. If you look closely you can see the Mortar Team and the Special Weapons Team are done by the same person who did the troops, but some of the other heavy weapons teams don't have the same quality faces.
Commander Yarrick is a divisive model - many people like him because this was a time when lots of hobbyists got into the hobby, but if you look at him with fresh eyes, he's the worst elements of over the top GW madness and flat model sculpting.

Warcry continues to produce some of the nicest miniatures GW have released in some years - interesting, macabre, fun - and the latest two are no different. The Fomoroid Crusher is a big boy, and he is very cool, especially since he comes with alternate faceplates, which gives him (and his kin) a bit more versatility. The Mindstealer Sphiranx is frankly a thing of nightmares; echoing both cat and... God knows what this thing is freaky and cool, and again with alternate heads, this can be all the more versatile for hobbyists and gamers alike. With these two new monsters, we also get some characters - some available outside previous boxed games. The excellent
Ogor Mawtribes Tyrant leads the list, a mist have for all hobbysists, surely, there's also the Loonboss on Giant Cave Squig, the highly thematic Abhorrant Archregent, the air-guitar playing Warlock Bombardier, Vokmortian Master of the Bone-tithe, and the super odd Druanti the Arch-Revenant. There's also Warcry cards for Sylvaneth, Stormcast Eternals Sacrosanct Chamber, Blades Of Khorne Bloodbound, Blades of Khorne Daemons, Maggotkin of Nurgle Rotbringers, Maggotkin of Nurgle Daemons, Hedonites of Slaanesh and the mighty Seraphon (hurry up with new minis, dammit!!!).  
Previous darling of the Community, Necromunda, is busily expanding existing gangs, with new Stimmers and Forge-born for the Goliaths. Now I have to say this - these minis (especially the Stimmers) look so different from the previous Goliaths, these may not fit in that well. Have a look at the faces and the body types - these are far less cartoony. The Forge-born are awesome, even if they do look like they're falling over! These minis re out to coincide with the new Necromunda book House of Chains, which is apparently all the background and expanded fluff, special rules (including the Slave Ogryn Gang) every Goliath player needs to read in between reps and bench presses. The book also sees the re-release of the Goliath Gang Tactics Cards, now called Second Edition. 
Forgotten, lost in the wastes of space - somewhat like it's namesake Blackstone Fortress - the latest expansion, No Respite is pretty disappointing. Three Plague Marines they couldnt give away and were on Last Chance To Buy for ages, and some zombie cannon fodder. Not up to the standard of previous boxes.
Adeptus Titanicus has had a weird relationship with the very important Titan Command Terminals, often going into Last Chance To Buy or Sold Out within week of release. Well there they are back again, but with all the Titans now catered for in one pack - the Adeptus Titanicus Titan Command Terminals.
Middle Earth keeps up the pace with some more minis, Gorbag and Shagrat, the excellent Mordor Uruk-hai, Orc Shaman on Warg, Boromir Captain of the White Tower, Bard Hero of Laketown and the core cast of The Hobbit in The Champions of Erebor.
Next week is also White Dwarf 451 (notice back to numbers and not the monthly naming convention) - still miss the weekly version of this magazine! More targeted content and less filler.

Let's be honest - the Tau are cool and anyone who doesn't like them is really just jealous of their ranged firepower. Get in close and they're toast, but far away, you are plasma-fodder!
The Greater Good is the the latest chapter of Psychic Awakening is out next week, which gives you updated rules for Genestealer Cults and Imperial Guard, and it also gives some love to the much-maligned Tau - the good guys of the WH40K universe. The book comes in We're Here To Help Collectors Edition (with a pretty awesome variant cover) and One Of Us Standard Edition. Rather surprisingly, the new mini for this release is Commander Shadowsun which would normally be awesome except for two things; [1] she who has somehow been Primaris-ified and [2] she head looks like it's been made out of play-doh, or maybe a crushed pea. That's a huge shame because the later Tau heads have been very detailed and expressive. Thankfully there are three head options in the kit, so go for the helmet! Genestealer Cults also get some new rules in this book, so we finally get the awesome Kelermorph model available separately, and a new Start Collecting! Genestealer Cults box which is about 30% off RRP and comes with the awesome Achilles Ridgerunner.  
Meanwhile in the world of giant mechs, there is a new Adeptus Titanicus expansion book - Shadow and Iron - which brings new rules for Knight Houses, new weapons options and rules for the new Warbringer Nemesis Titan who comes with a head so big you'd think it was a Kardashian. There's also the new Adeptus Titanicus Titan Command Terminals for all Titan classes, a set of cool new Manufactorum Imperialis scenery and a new starter set, Adeptus Titanicus: The Horus Heresy. If you love your Titans there's also new decals on the way with decal sheets for Legio Ignatum, Legio Metallica and Legio Astorum. 
Far away from a land of giant robots there lives the world of Middle Earth, who next week get some new additions, with new Magical Powers Cards, Defenders of Pelennor Profile Cards, Mordor Profile Cards and Fallen Realms Profile Cards. For the life of me, we can't work out why these are so expensive!
Now if you like your 40K cute and cuddly, the new Bandai-made Warhammer 40,000 Chibi Figures Series 1 are on their way. If you haven't been exposed to this sort of mass produced rubbish before, for the most part they're very cheap quality with poor paint jobs. Maybe these can be stripped and repainted, but don't expect much when you open them.
In books, there's just one this week - Farsight: Empire of Lies which sounds like it's about to retcon everything we know about Farsight and possibly the Tau. Not ideal!
As with all of the Psychic Awakening releases, if you order through the webstore you will get the Greater Good Datasheet Cards which have the stats for Commander Shadowsun and The Eight on them.

If you've been wondering where Nagash is, or maybe Archaon (he's been hunting for Slaanesh) then Wrath of the Everchosen is for you - it's Chaos vs the Undead, it's new rules for siege warfare (something people have been asking for for a long time), some much-needed background on the Eightpoints, how to use the many roaming monsters, harness Wandering Endless Spells, plus Allegiance rules for the Hosts of Chaos. This is only a 104 page book, but still standard Battletome pricing.
Warhammer Underground Beastgrave gets some new parties too, with Hrothgorn's Mantrappers for the Ogors (with added dice and card sleeves) and The Wurmspat for Nurgle (also with added dice and card sleeves). Dammit, I've actually found a Nurgle model I like - that warrior with the spear is awesome!  
In books we have the next Warhammer Horror - The Oubliette, a massive Warhammer Chronicles omnibus - Heroes of the Empire, and a Warhammer 40,000 novel - Knights of Macragge. Interesting shot of the Ultramarines on the front of the novel, I mean who knew Ultras could look so damn cool?

Sisters of Battle have been called for from loud voices in the Community for some time, but the past two weeks have been mysteriously quiet in the FB and Instagram fronts in terms of people showing off their minis. Could the desire for them be less than GW had hoped? Well this week we see the Sisters of Battle releases interrupted for a series of things from across the GW range to possibly get the sales figures for where they need to be for January... Cynical? Probably!
If you've played Necromunda then you know there's no real good guys, so this week sees the pre-order for the bad guys with badges, the Palanite Subjugator Patrol. These guys are a beefier version of their predecessors, and for us, a sizeable improvement, including ranged and melee weapons and so very cool shields! Now when you think of bad with a capital "B", the Corpse Grinder Cult Gang pretty much fit the bill, with their heinous weapons and obvious affinity with inflicting pain. Excellent looking minis available seperately for the first time, there are also Corpse Grinder Gang Dice and Corpse Grinder Cult Gang Tactics Cards for when it's time for them to take the field. Speaking of the field of battle, hello to finally being able to get the new Zone Mortalis sections! Next week sees the Zone Mortalis Columns and Walls and the Zone Mortalis Platforms and Stairs on the market. These are very cool and will take the underhive, or 40K or 30K to the next... level! Pun!
In the world of Warcry the very cool, and very tempting Ogroid Myrmidon is on it's way, as are the mini-Slaves To Darkness, the Spire Tyrants. So excellent to see the Light of Chaos touch many different factions. There's also a new terrain set, the Ravaged Lands: Souldrain Forest, so if you like trees, go forth! Warcry has also introduced small fores for the Gloomspite Gitz, the Stormcast Eternals and Nighthaunt as well as Card Packs for Slaves to Darkness, Ossiarch Bonereapers, Ogor Mawtribes, Kharadron Overlords, Tzeentch Arcanites, Disciples of Tzeentch, Skaven, Stormcast Eternals Warrior Chamber, and Beasts of Chaos.
Even the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game gets a run next week with the new Matched Play Guide
out and about, plus some minis - The Three Hunters Mounted, two of our faves the Serpent Riders and Khandish Horsemen and the woeful Woses of Drúadan Forest. 
In books we have another Limited Edition, this time Incarnation, we also get two of the Horus Heresy books in paperback - Wolfsbane and Slaves to Darkness, 40K fans can get into the paperback of Fist of the Imperium and we also get the Warcry Anthology in paperback.
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So, there goes the paycheck then...!

Christmas Day 2019 saw probably some of the ugliest Dark Angels models made available for Made To Order - well this week we get one of the prettiest in the form of the new Primaris-flavoured Dark Angels Master Lazarus, Captain of the Dark Angels 5th Company, lover of kittens, and probably wishing he was wearing black! This is another amazing Primaris character model, with alternate weaponry and head options to make this your own. Probably easily convertible to a Black Templars character too, this is a must-have, even though at $70 he is at the higher end of the Primaris character models. Keen-eyed observers will notice the small feather amongst his decorations - a throwback to a time when the Dark Angels were identified with Native American cultures and before their psuedo-Gothic reformation. The model is being released to coincide with the next Psychic Awakening book, Ritual of The Damned, which comes in both Iron & Feathers Collectors Edition and The Bells, The Bells Standard Edition. If you do order either of these through the webstore you also get the Psychic Awakening: Ritual of The Damned Datasheet Cards for free. Free cardboard - amazing!!
If you're not a Dark Angels fan, then this week is probably about the Sisters of Battle/ Adepta Sororitas, and this week brings out all the whacky for them. In the blue corner we have Junith Eruita in her flying eagle zap-zap-mobile and in the red corner we have the much-loved and finally-in-plastic Exorcist organ-as-missile-launcher battle tank! Have to tell you - big fan of the Exorcist - but $140 AUD for two sprues seems harsh when this could have been a combi-kit with next week's tank. Great for bitz though!! Now - that's not all the whacky BTW - we also get the combi-kit of the ​Penitent Engines/ Mortifiers AND we get the super-grim Arco-flagellants (who really just want a hug), plus nothing gives you confidence in a character model than having it stand over a mortally wounded colleague - bring on the Hospitaller... who seems to have a pesky dove stealing her scroll! Seems like the flying rats are still around in 40,000 years.
In books - we have the paperback version of book 15 in the Gaunt's Ghosts series Anarch and the paperback that seems really interesting - Vaults of Terra: The Hollow Mountain.

They're here! After much Community excitement (we'll see if this is actual or not), the Sisters of Battle - the Adepta Sororitas - are here! Flowing robes, snazzy power armour and bad haircuts, these miniatures are pretty bad-arse.
The battle line unit box is actually a combi-kit, with the Battle Sisters Squad and the Dominions & Celestians (the specialists/ special forces version) coming out of the same set. With a range of weapon and head options, this kit seems pretty flexible, even if the minis are only multi-part and not truly multi-pose. The Sisters of Battle also have some heavy hitters, with the Retributor Squad toting heavy weapons and some obligatory creepy cherubs. As befits the Adepta Sororitas, there is a massive centrepiece, the Triumph of Saint Katherine, which (like the Mortarch of the Necropolis of the Ossiarch Bonereapers) is a huge multi-mini piece that will be the focal-point of your force. It's a beautiful piece and be really interesting to see what the Community turn this into. As befits the release we will of course have a new Codex, which comes in Rosary and Eagle Collectors Edition and The Nineties Want Their Hair Back Standard Edition, plus their are some rather nice Dice and of course the Datacards. Now if you do pre-order either of the Codex, you will get the Adepta Sororitas Art Print - The Beseechment of Saint Dominica.
Now this made a few hearts skip a beat... next week in books we have a Siege of Terra novella which looks suspiciously like one of the main books. Sons of Selenar (Limited Edition) is by Graham McNeil, so sure to be a big hit. Next week is also White Dwarf week...

Magic comes in all sorts ​of ways; a smile from a cute person on the train, that last minute goal, the smell of rain before it pours down. All of th0se are magic, and all of them because of Tzeentch - even the one on the train which you';d think was Slaanesh but they were really just laughing at your lunch split on your shirt. Tzeentch is magic and mystery, and next week Tzeentch will be getting a brand new Battletome for Age of $igmar. which rather neatly coincides with the new boxed game Aether War. Aether War sees Tzeentch and the steampunk dwarves, the Kharadron face off. The box is pretty unremarkable except for two new miniatures; the new Magister on Disc of Tzeentch and the Endrinmaster with Dirigible Suit. The game is pretty pricey, so be aware, but it does give us the opportunity to get two new Battletomes for both factions. Disciples of Tzeentch comes in both Rabbit Out of a Hat Limited Edition and Pick A Card Standard Edition and we also get the Cogs & Steel Limited Edition and Like a Lead Balloon Standard Edition for the Kharadron Overlords. Tzeentch also gets the new miniatures with Endless Spells: Disciples of Tzeentch, the Disciples of Tzeentch Dice, plus we get the Warscroll Cards: Disciples of Tzeentch and Warscroll Cards: Kharadron Overlords.
In books we have one of the very few Kharadron-themed novels with Profit's Ruin, a massive Dan Abnett shorty story anthology with Lord of the Dark Millennium, and the new Warhammer Horror audio drama Darkly Dreaming.

Invisible - like these very cute little The Ringbearers from Forge World. In days of long ago, there was a Frodo that came in clear resin, well now you can get some more! Little tip, if they're not very transparent, give them a coat of 'Ardcoat and they will be nice and sparkly clear!
The rest of the releases this week are books - Gloomspite in paperback, Hammer of the Emperor, a new Warhammer 40k Omnibus and The Oubliette, a Warhammer Horror eBook available through Black Library.

The Dark Angels are here, but WAY crappier than I bet you remembered.
With rumours about the Dark Angels being one of the biog reveals this weekend, Games Workshop have rolled out some old Dark Angels models to spice it up. Unfortunately, for the most part, it seems like a lump of coal in our stocking, but lets start with the good news; the very popular plastic models from the old Dark Vengeance boxed set have been made available as the Armies of Vengeance in Made To Order. In fact if you do order this set you also get this rather handsome Dark Angels Pin Badge (right). Also in Made To Order this week are some really pretty rank models - not helped by the work experience kid doing the paint jobs. The bad first - Dark Angels Veteran Sergeant, Veteran Sergeant Naaman and the old Cypher model are all here. Thankfully so is the rather smart Asmodai, so not all is lost. As a nice bonus, this weekend (and redeemable until March), if you order anything from the Games Workshop webstore, you also get a Total War: Warhammer Promotional Code for a full game download. Not bad at all!

Just a small week for pre-orders as we go into Christmas. with some reinforcements for Blood Bowl. When Blood Bowl first launched there was some excitement that we might get a new Chaos Dwarf team (and maybe we will) but this week sees the return of the old/"classic" Chaos Dwarf Team & the Bull Centaur as Made To Order. Chaos Dwarves have a real cult following (with a number of third-party companies making great versions of them), so it will be interesting to see how this goes and if it leads to a plastic boxed set down the line.  With only those in the miniature releases, we have a new hardcover - ​The Court of the Blind King - with not only an excellent cover but also an insight into the Idoneth Deepkin. Maybe we'll see exactly how much like the Dark Eldar they are in personality since their mini range is so similar. It's also time for the "gift-filled" White Dwarf December 2019​. It's a real pity it's not a free miniature, but seems like GW doesn't do that anymore.

The day has come - the brand new Chaos Warriors and expanded Slaves To Darkness are here. In an unusual move, Games Workshop have put the new Chaos Warriors, Chaos Knights and a new General in a new Start Collecting! Slaves to Darkness set. These are mono-pose miniatures, so it makes a bit more sense, but also begs the question; were these meant to be an adversary in a different collection? To Go with the new minis, there's the brand new Slaves To Darkness Battletome which comes in Dark & Spiky Limited Edition and of course Bow Before Me! Standard Edition. As with all new Age of $igmar army releases, we also get the new Endless Spells set and the Warscroll Cards - no dice though #sadface! Part of the new Battletome is to expand the forces of the Slaves To Darkness. which now include the forces from the Warcry game, so we get sets of Cypher Lords,  Corvus Cabal, The Unmade, Iron Golem, The Splintered Fang, and Untamed Beasts, but with double the miniatures, but not double the price! Speaking of Warcry, two of the scenery sets from that, the Azyrite Ruined Chapel and the Azyrite Shattered Plaza, are now available separately. In yet more related Warcry news, the Warcry: Tome of Champions is on it's way with with rules for all the other factions in Age of $igmar - even the Seraphon get a mention!
The big boyz of the Ork fleet arrive with the new Aeronautica Imperialis Grot Bommers. These minis don't seem to be getting much love, but there's something Miyazaki about them, so we could be tempted...
Blood Bowl steams along, this time with the new Fire Mountain Gut Busters, the Ogre Team Card Pack, Ogre Team Dice, the Blood Bowl Ogre Team Pitch & Dugouts mat set, Spike! Journal Issue 8, and The 2019 Blood Bowl Almanac which compiles Spike! Journal, issues 4-7  plus an updated FAQ and more.
The Blackstone Fortress Annual 2019 is out next week with new content and also the articles from White Dwarf from December 2018 to December 2019. Interestingly it's softcover!
Middle-Earth has such a cult following, and the recent book releases continue with War in Rohan for Lord of the Rings. Adding new terrain to the system, we get the Rohan House and Rohan Watchtower and Palisades which can be combined to build a walled town, plus there's new Isengard Dice Set. The usual round of re-release miniatures get a run too, with a particularly nice set of Saruman the White & Gríma. The rest have been released a few times before, so I won't bore you with their relisting.
There is a cool book release next week though - the Sabbat Worlds Crusade by Dan Abnett. This is a background book that tells the story of this campaign, but there's also some extra stuff to go along with it, including a Sabbat Worlds Crusade Map in the form of a rolled faux-leather scroll, The Sabbat Worlds Crusade Pin Badges and The Sabbat Worlds Crusade Coaster Set. All Sabbat, all the time!
In other books, Spear of The Emperor, originally a limited edition hard cover with decals and extra stuff is finally out in paperback!

It's been some time since the Blood Angels got some love, but with the next part of Psychic Awakening (and bravo to GW for getting these out so quickly BTW) we see not only the Blood Angels in action, but a pretty damn spectacular new model in the Primaris-ified Mephiston, Lord of Death. With an alternate arm, he goes form Mark Gibbons drawing to plasma toting bad-arse!
The Psychic Awakening: Blood of Baal book itself comes in Nosferatu Is My Homeboy Collector's Edition or Look Mum, We're Bright Red Again Standard Edition. Either way, Blood Angels players are notoriously picky with their fluff, so it will be interesting to see what the fan base thinks. For thos very dedicated fans out there there is the Darkness in the Blood (Limited Edition) by Guy Haley which tells the story of the new Primaris Space Marines and Commander Dante, who has been made warden of Imperium Nihilus, doing what Blood Angels do best - be all angsty with inner demons. Of course anyone who orders Psychic Awakening: Blood of Baal from the webstore will also get the Datasheet Cards.
Still on Warhammer 40K, the Chapter Approved 2019 Edition is on it's way, which not only combines the White Dwarf articles from throughout the year, but also gives you rules for the tank and vehicle expansion Spearhead, plus rules on how to link your games of Kill Team, Warhammer 40,000 and Apocalypse. There's also a supplement with it that gives you all the updates points costs for your units. There's also a Warlord Edition, with a pad of 50 tear out army roster sheets, 2 game trackers, and 3 packs of cards featuring content taken directly from the Chapter Approved book, available as handy references.
Speaking of Kill Team, the Kill Team Annual 2019 is next week too, with compiling all of the rules from White Dwarf over the year, plus points updates, rules for using Sisters of Battle, Kroot Mercenaries and Chaos Daemons kill teams, as well as units from Blackstone Fortress. You can also create your own specialisms (is that a real word?).
The Battleforces are a bit early this year, but we have them again, some tweaked, some new - there's the Blood Angels Crimson Spear Strike Force, T'au Empire Starclaimer Hunter Cadre (another great core Tau set), Chaos Space Marines Vengeance Warband, Drukhari Poisonblade Raiding Party, Space Wolves Talons of Morkai, the massive Tyranids Bioswarm, Nighthaunt Court of the Craven King, Gloomspite Gitz Caveshroom Loonz, Skaven Corrupting War-swarm, probably the nicest Stormcast box ever - Stormcast Eternals Exorcism Soulstrike and for the Titanicus players, Knight Household Battleforce.
Blood Angels also get a book - the Mephiston-focused City of Light, there's a new Warhammer Horror anthology Invocations, the horror novel Dark Harvest. Horus Heresy gets Born of Flame re-released and the Black Library Advent Subscription 2019 begins giving you the 12 audio dramas, 12 digital shorts and 2 digital novel premieres for 26 stories for the price of 17.

After many weeks of new releases, we have a Made To Order week this week. Sadly though we have been offered these miniatures already reasonably recently, so it's nothing super-special, but it does tie into the rules for the Inquisition in a recent White Dwarf.
The excellent Confessor Kyrinov, Witch Hunter Inquisitor with Power Sword, Witch Hunter Inquisitor with Inferno Pistol, Witch Hunter Inquisitor with Plasma Pistol (a personal favourite) and the Daemonhunter Inquisitor with Grimoire round out the Inquisitors, while we also get two Daemonhosts; Daemonhost 1 and Daemonhost 2 whose names will be sadly lost in the Imperial canon somewhere - their sacrifice in vain.
There's also a collection of Imperial Assassins - and even though they say these are "classic models" there are not the original incarnations of these characters - Eversor Assassin, Culexus Assassin, Vindicare with Exitus Rifle and the Callidus Assassin.
In books this week, we have the Trollslayer: 20th Anniversary Edition telling the story of Gotrek Gurnisson in William King's classic novel, there's also two hardback collections of short stories set in the Horus Heresy - Age of Darknessand The Primarchs, plus three classic Horus Heresy stories in hardback - Know No Fear, Deliverance Lost and The Outcast Dead.
A respite from the recent avalanche of new releases - maybe next week well finally see those awesome new Chaos Warriors! 

We were talking about this the other day, but there's been this constant "where are the Sisters of Battle?/ We need Sisters of Battle in plastic" emanating from the Community for year - it's been a constant bugbear, seemingly. But come the week leading up to their long awaited release, the Community went very quiet... until the boxed set sold out!
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2019 sees the reemergence of the Sisters of Battle - the Adepta Sororitas, and instead of the amazing multi-part kits we have seen previewed, we get what is effectively a gift box, a one stop shop for all things Battle Nuns (such a better name, you have to admit!). The Sisters of Battle Army Set has 25 new plastic miniatures, the Adepta Sororitas Codex, the Adepta Sororitas Datacards, Miracle Dice (literally normal GW dice), a Transfer Sheet and the 40KCore Rules. This is effectively EVERYTHING you will need to field them and for that you do pay a price for this set! The multi=part minis look a lot more interesting, frankly, but this is a great start and might be an insight into more all-in-one boxes for armies including full Codex.
Psychic Awakening rumbles on, with the new chapter - Faith and Fury - out next week, This promises rules for the Chaos Legions, Chaplains, Techmarines, Librarians, Apothecaries etc etc. As usual there are two versions of the book, Kneel Before Zod Standard Edition and the Purge The Unclean Collectors Edition. Now of interest here is that the Collectors Edition, for the very first time that we know of, actually has bonus content for spending twice the price; an expanded background section which features brand-new narrative (so not copy and paste?) and three short stories based around Psychic Awakening. All in all it's only 18 extra pages, but really interesting and about time! Excitingly there is also a brand new Chaos Space Marines Sorcerer in plastic - and it's awesome. Single pose, with the option to include the magic on his hand or not. This seems like a must have for any Chaos army.
Some new releases for Warhammer Underworlds: Beastgrave with Rippa’s Snarlfangs available with the requisite Dice Pack and Premium Card Sleeves. The Champions of Dreadfane set also introduces Lady Harrow’s Mournflight and Ironsouls Condemnors to the game, if that is your want and desire. There are of course the Ironsoul's Condemnors Card Sleeves and Lady Harrow's Mournflight Card Sleeves. Now here's a release I just do not understand - the Warhammer Underworlds: Beastgrave Gift Pack is some cards and some cardboard. Go look at the price - go on... right! How??
There's two Start Collecting sets out too - Start Collecting! Vanguard Space Marines and Start Collecting! Chaos Space Marines. A lot of people have been waiting for the Chaos Space Marine one for the Obliterators especially. This does mean that the old one has now been deleted form the range, so if you want it, go get it now!
Now, book time - there's a fair bit actually including the Scalper's Product of the Month, the Horus Heresy Seige of Terra Limited Editions. We're up to Book 3: The First Wall which centres on Rogal Dorn and the robust defence of the walls of Terra. Also in pretty books, the Mark of Faith (Special Edition) is out next week as is the Mark of Faith hardcover. Also next week is the The Great Devourer: The Leviathan Omnibus centred on the Tyranids.
As a bonus, any Faith and Fury orders through the GW webstore get the Psychic Awakening: Faith & Fury Datasheet Cards.