Background Image Credit: https://www.discovery.com/space/six-planet-retrograde The new expansion/ narrative event for 40K is 500 Worlds and comes with multiple small books and in two formats! 500 Worlds: Titus – The Battle for Unity Begins includes an 80-page softcover book featuring lore and background including the opposing forces of the Ultramarines and the Necrons. The second book, Dread Incursions, is also an 80-page softcover book which includes rules for boarding actions, two Boarding Actions Detachments, plus 12 new missions and linked campaigns. The third book is War on the Vespator Front, a 56-page narrative campaign softcover book and includes six new missions. The fourth book is Detachments, 16-pages with three new detachments for the Space Marines (Orbital Assault Force, Bastion Task Force, and Reclamation Force) and new Necrons detachments (Pantheon of Woe, Cursed Legion, and Cryptek Conclave). This set also includes a fold-out map of the Vespator Front and a 252-item sticker sheet to plot your victories. If you think that sounds good, there's also the 500 Worlds: Titus – The Battle for Unity Begins (Collector's Edition), which includes all of the above but this time it's in a slipcase with gold foil detailing, the three primary books are in hardback and include gold foil detailing, page edges, and gold ribbon bookmarks.
There's minis to go with this release, of course, with Captain Titus and The Wardens of Ultramar (sounds like a cheesy 80s superhero team) heading the releases. The set includes Captain Titus, Plenipotentiary Lucia Vestha, Astropath Dainal Kornelius, Legatus Aemelia Minervas, Commodore Gaius Silva, Veteran Sergeant Metaurus and Ancient Gadriel. It's the very first time we've had some of these roles in miniature before, and for sure we will be getting Ultramar Auxiliaries, surely! It's cool to see his inner circle and would be great to see more like this for Primarchs and other field commanders. Also in this release is an amazing set of Space Marine Heads (including what seems to be some female ones too), giving added kitbashing options for any Space Marine hobbyist! Want some heavy hitters, well we have them with the new Ancient in Terminator Armour and the new Terminator Assault Squad, which looks just amazing! So tempted by those Terminators!
For the Necrons, and let's be honest they like to so hard, they brought a God along. Yes that's right, they brought along the new C'tan Shard of the Nightbringer, which is a really nice update to the old model, without moving too far away from the original - but please check the price if you want a little giggle. They're backed up by Nekrosor Ammentar and the previously-leaked 500 Worlds Battalion: Necrons set that includes a Hexmark Destroyer, 2 x Lokhust Heavy Destroyers (great model), 3 x Skorpekh Destroyers, 3 x Ophydian Destroyers and 2 x Plasmacyte. The Necrons also provide the battlefield for this first clash, with the brilliant Boarding Actions Terrain Set: Tomb World back for a limited time.
In books this week we have the paperback of Fulgrim – The Perfect Son, Farsight: Blade of Truth in long-awaited paperback, the Vaults of Terra: The Omnibus, which includes novels The Carrion Throne, The Hollow Mountain, The Dark City, and short stories Argent, Sanguine, and Okira. There's also the Siege of Terra: The Shattered and the Soulless in paperback which includes the previously released Sons of the Selenar and Fury of Magnus novels.














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