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It’s a sad day when a God falls from grace – their once perfect visage marred, their brilliant sheen tainted, but alas it has happened. Slaanesh has fallen!
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This week Slaanesh, The Dark Prince, She Who Thirsts, gets their new Battletome for Age of $igmar. With updated unit profiles, the odd new character and probably less lore than last time, the Chaos Battletome: Hedonites of Slaanesh is available in Glitter and Blades Gamer's Edition or Buff Me Up, it’s Party Time Standard Editon. The Gamer’s Edition includes a bonus of 28 Warscroll cards, 12 x Spearhead cards, 4 x Army of Renown cards, 2 x Regiment of Renown cards and 5 x Faction Rules cards. Unfortunately it’s at this point where we hit a bump in the road, and the afore-mentioned glory of Slaanesh meets the Lord of Hysteria. Is it called the Lord of Hysteria because it’s so dumb looking? Because this miniature is anything but perfect – confused, lost, ungainly, impossible – yes!! There’s some nice elements here but they just don’t meld. Now when it comes to the rest of the release they are pretty sad rehashes, with the Battleforce: Hedonites of Slaanesh – The Decadent Host featuring Sigvald, the perky-butted Prince of Slaanesh, 5 x Slickblade Seekers/ Blissbarb Seekers, 5 x Myrmidesh Painbringers/ Symbaresh Twinsouls (great lore but not at all explored), 11 x Blissbarb Archers (with accompanying Blissbrew Homonculus) and 3 x Slaangor Fiendbloods. The new Spearhead: Hedonites of Slaanesh – Epicurean Revellers is the Thricefold Discord, 3 x Fiends, 20 x Daemonettes and 5 x Seekers. Regiment of Renown: The Accursed Reflection is a series of magical constructs, including the Contorted Epitome, Wheels of Excruciation, Mesmerising Mirror and Dreadful Visage. Meanwhile the Thricefold Discord is once again around, maybe because no one wants them, featuring three demonic entities ( I do wonder if these guys were split and sold as generals if they would do better. I like two of them!). As per a new release for a new edition, there are the Warscroll Cards: Hedonites of Slaanesh and the Hedonites of Slaanesh Dice.
We’ve also got a couple of nice Skaven units this weekend – both excellent example of the Skaven diaspora, with Deathmaster Crixxit and the Gutter Runners up for pre-order. These are both quintessential Skaven units, dynamically rendered.
Apart from Slaanesh, the big release this week would be the General's Handbook 2026-27 which comes in two editions - Warlord and Standard – and is the official way to play competitive games of Age of $igmar, using the current meta in the current narrative. The core of the set is the 72 page book, bringing you the latest narrative events in Warhammer Age of Sigmar, the Matched Play Battlepack 2026-27 including a campaign system, Rules for Battle Tactics, blank army rosters and tournament scoring sheets, and 12 x brand-new Matched Play battleplans. There’s also the Age of $igmar Core Rules, plus Advanced Rules for applying to Matched Play battlepacks, including Commands, Terrain, Magic, Army Composition, and Command Models. There’s also 1 x deck of battlepack cards and 6 x “objective mats”. The Warlord Edition includes all the above, plus a cardboard game tracker board, 25 tokens for the game tracker, and a wee bag.
The last miniature related item today is the Spearhead: City of Ash Gaming Pack (honestly, these names are getting out of control), which includes – the Spearhead: City of Ash booklet (it’s only 24-pages) for the rules to Spearhead, a Double-sided game board, 2 x Multipart plastic pieces of terrain (the main drawcard as this is really nicely detailed) and 5 x Relic objectives. There’s also 36 x Spearhead cards.
For some reason, we are republishing the Horus Heresy series of books, starting with Horus Rising in paperback and the second book, False Gods in hardback and the once fought-for
Premium Edition. Will they do all 50+ books? Who knows…
The hardback version of Gloomspite is also on pre-order this week, and probably sold out!


















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