This Sunday preview is packed with goodies for narrative and matched play fans alike. You get a new Warhammer Quest box, a chunky Age of Sigmar narrative expansion, and two lore heavy Black Library releases.
Additionally, Warhammer TV is dropping end of season specials that lean hard into story and events play. Finally, there is even a huge giveaway that can score you Darkwater itself, which is very on theme.
Win Big: The Darkwater Giveaway
Before any releases hit, there is a titan sized prize bundle up for grabs. You can enter by logging into your My Warhammer account before eleven fifty nine at night GMT on twenty five November twenty twenty five. Additionally, entry is free and tied to having or making an account, which is very low effort. The prize pile includes Warhammer Quest: Darkwater, so this is basically a chance to get the new dungeon crawler for nothing. As usual, there are geographic restrictions and it is for players eighteen and older, with full terms available separately.
Warhammer Quest: Darkwater – Defend The Jade Abbey
The main event is Warhammer Quest: Darkwater going up for pre order next week. The story centers on the Jade Abbey, which protects the life giving Everspring in Ghyran. Gelgus Pust and his Nurgle warped followers are trying to corrupt it, so a band of heroes and sellswords steps in. You can play solo or with up to three friends, and the system supports quick one offs or full campaigns. Additionally, the design leans into replayable encounters, so the box aims to stay fresh for a long time.
The set includes forty nine detailed push fit miniatures, which is a serious pile of plastic. You get seven heroes plus the spirit Wisper, which gives you a classic mixed adventuring party vibe. On the villain side, you face Gelgus Pust, Belga the Cystwitch, Mulgoth the Cleaver, and Shaman Foulhoof. Additionally, there is a full Nurgle horde with Cankerborn, Blight Templars, Pestigors, Pox Wretches, Mire Kelpies, and some token pieces. It feels like a proper Warhammer Quest bestiary, not just a couple of repeated grunts.
Instead of loose tiles, Darkwater uses a lay flat map book that provides the dungeon layouts. Encounters are driven by encounter cards and boss encounter cards split across three acts, with event cards spicing things up. Additionally, you get hero and enemy cards, reward cards, two token boards, dice, and storage boxes for your campaign materials. That storage touch matters, because campaigns often die when components end up scattered in random bags.
A quick start sheet helps you hit the table in minutes, which is perfect for demoing to family or friends. A thirty six page rulebook then teaches the full system and introduces both skirmish and campaign modes. Additionally, Darkwater is marked as a range item, so if pre orders sell out it should return to shelves later. For anyone who loved previous Warhammer Quest boxes, this feels like the next big narrative crawl through Nurgle infested corridors.
Path To Glory: Blighted Wilds – Nurgle’s Rot Spreads Through Ghyran
If you want to take that Ghyran conflict into full scale Age of Sigmar, Path to Glory: Blighted Wilds is your narrative gateway. The book focuses on Nurgle’s long running attempt to drag the Realm of Life into his disgusting garden and clash with Alarielle. The action centers on Thyria, which can be either rescued or ruined depending on your campaign choices. Additionally, this is pitched as a tug of war, where both sides fight over the same blighted landscape.
Blighted Wilds is a ninety page narrative expansion, and it comes with a new battlepack carrying the same name. Inside, you find campaign rules with unique abilities, rewards, battle scars, and battleplans tailored to this infection ridden theater. Additionally, there are two Paths for heroes and two Paths for units, plus universal enhancements and dedicated spell and prayer lores. That means heroes and units can grow, suffer, and mutate across a linked series of games.
You also get tools to build your own Landmark of Ghyran, which is a custom faction terrain piece with chosen abilities. Additionally, you can create a Regiment of Ghyran, a personalized Regiment of Renown with upgrades and quirks that suit your army’s story. There are twelve narrative battleplans plus a campaign map that links them into a full arc to purify or befoul Thyria. For players who enjoy leaning hard into story driven Age of Sigmar, this looks like a very rich playground.
Tanks, Necromancers, And End Of Season Warhammer TV
The preview does not stop at games content, because Black Library and Warhammer TV are both getting love. Andy Clark returns to the Steel Tread storyline with Demolisher, which follows Hadeya Etsul back onto the cursed world of Croatoas. The Leman Russ Demolisher Steel Tread and its crew are assigned to escort a lord commissar through contested ground. Additionally, a new crew member disrupts the unit’s hard won balance, while a lurking nemesis adds extra pressure. The core question becomes how far Etsul will push duty when everything stacks against the tank and its crew.
Demolisher is getting a special edition next Saturday with some serious shelf presence. You get the short story “Worry What Is,” an author introduction, a cloth cover with screen printed art, a ribbon marker, and foil edges. Additionally, the design matches the special edition of Steel Tread, which is great for collectors. This version is limited to available stock, while a standard hardback lands the same day. If you prefer digital or audio formats, the eBook and audiobook go up on Friday instead.
Undead fans also get a treat with The Rise of Nagash omnibus. The collection bundles three novels and a short story by Mike Lee into one volume. You follow Nagash stealing dark magic from the elves, smashing the priest kings of Nehekhara, and raising the largest undead army ever. Additionally, the story tracks his ascent to immortal godhood, which is peak dramatic necromancer energy. The paperback is up for pre order next Saturday, with the eBook arriving Friday.
To round things off, Warhammer TV is closing another season with three specials. Open Play returns with Alex, Josh, and Si attending the Warhammer 40,000 Shifting Fronts event at Warhammer World. Additionally, that event uses the Asymmetric War mission cards from the latest Chapter Approved, which should be fun to watch in action. The Black Library Book Club tackles Dan Abnett’s Horus Rising, talking about the Great Crusade, key scenes, and favorite characters. Finally, Brainboyz returns as a quiz show, where two teams face six rounds of questions that range from simple true or false to deep faction lore.
Next week there will be more coverage of Darkwater, fresh information on the Grotmas Calendar, and a reveal for the Middle earth Strategy Battle Game. Additionally, that means narrative fans, skirmish players, and lore junkies all have reasons to keep checking in. Overall, this preview feels like a full buffet of narrative gaming, plastic heroes, and story heavy content, all orbiting around the creeping rot of Nurgle and the heroes trying to hold the line.
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