This week’s preview is built around Armageddon, and it feels suitably loud. The setting itself already carries a lot of weight for longtime 40K fans.
However, this release wave does more than trade on nostalgia. Instead, it pushes new characters, new battalions, and a fresh campaign book all at once. So, this looks less like a single model drop and more like a full Armageddon event on hobby shelves.
Alongside Yarrick Armageddon’s New Character Wave Pushes Speed, Steel, and Big Personalities
The character line-up is doing most of the heavy lifting here, and honestly it is a strong mix. Yarrick is the obvious headliner, because his return finally gives the campaign a proper Imperial icon again.
Meanwhile, Wazdakka brings the exact opposite energy, with raw speed, a custom warbike, and rules that make Ork Warbikers Battleline. Then the wider cast fills in the flanks nicely.
Commissar Graves arrives both mounted in her customised Centaur RSV, Vigilance, and on foot, which gives the release some real flexibility.
Intranzia Fraye adds Adepta Sororitas fire support from the wonderfully theatrical Throne of Blame.
Then Inquisitor Kroyle rounds things out as a mounted alien-hunter carrying a monster-killing tox-cycler on his Garralisk steed.
Alongside them come four Armageddon Battalion boxes. Astra Militarum gets the new Hippogriff AFV and Centaur RSV first, plus a Rogal Dorn and Cadian Shock Troops for the new Armoured Infantry Detachment.
Orks get a proper Speedwaaagh! starter with Deffkoptas, a Rukkatrukk Squigbuggy, and a Deffkilla Wartrike.
Deathwatch shows up in a very thematic anti-xenos box with 10 Veterans and a Corvus Blackstar.
Meanwhile, Adepta Sororitas gets a mixed force of a Palatine, three Paragon Warsuits, 10 Novitiates, nine Repentia, and a Repentia Superior.
Then the whole thing is tied together by Armageddon: The Return of Yarrick, which bundles lore, vehicle-heavy Armoured Gauntlet rules, and six new Detachments for Astra Militarum, Orks, and Space Marines.
Even the themed Yarrick and Ghazghkull dice make sense here, because this wave is clearly selling the war itself as much as the kits.
Black Library Is Going All In on Armageddon, Orks, and Guard Survival
The reading side of the preview is just as focused, although it spreads the spotlight wider across the setting. Da Freebooterz Code looks like the most characterful new release, because it follows ork kaptin Skeeg Horntoof as he chases loot, glory, and trouble with Lord Captain Antoinette von Hume.
However, the Guard side gets plenty too. Death World returns in a 20th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by Steve Lyons, bringing Catachan survival horror back into circulation.
Then World Ablaze leans hard into Armageddon’s endless war with 11 brand new stories from multiple Black Library authors. Legends of the Waaagh! keeps the green tide rolling with I Am Slaughter, Caves of Ice, and Helsreach in one omnibus, which is a very nasty trio.
Meanwhile, Yarrick: The Omnibus collects David Annandale’s full run on the old man himself, including two novels, a novella, and six short stories. On top of that, Veterans of the Fall brings the Kasrkin Tattershields back into focus with a novella, a full serial, and a short story.
Then there are fresh French and German editions of Demolisher and Yarrick: Imperial Creed, which keeps this wave feeling broader than a simple English-only push. So, whether you want heroic last stands, ork nonsense, or Armageddon attrition, this line-up is trying to hit all three.
