New 'Warhammer' Reveals In Big Summer Preview
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A new major Warhammer preview event was held this Friday, June 26th, and showcased reveals across several verticals of Games Workshop's IPs.
Age of Sigmar, the main fantasy line, saw the reveal of a host of new Ogor models. Big, brutish, humanoid beings obsessed with devouring, the new range of models is a refresh to several older models that existed previously. The Old World, an ongoing revival of the original Warhammer Fantasy brand, saw new reveals or their human Chaos faction, including an impressive two-headed dragon, and a series of Chaos warriors on animal-back and on foot. This force will be doing battle against Grand Cathay, the heavily Chinese-inspired faction, in a new box of models in the coming months.
Blood Bowl, Warhammer’s comically violent tabletop fantasy sports game, showed off three new big models for powerful plays on the pitch, in the form of a legendary player, a minotaur, and a rat ogre. They also revealed a new way to play, Blood Bowl Sevens, for faster games.
In the realm of Horus Heresy and Warhammer 40,000, though, there was also plenty revealed. Further plastic models for the Adeptus Custodes were shown off, helping to round out a range refresh that began earlier this year, while the Necromunda game system saw a new core set revealed with new miniatures alongside other additions to the game, like a new core rule book, new terrain, and more, as part of a new edition of the game. Then, new plastic Titan model weaponry was revealed for the Legions Imperialis game system, where the scale of massive Titan models can match their scale in the gameworld, when compared against tiny representations of Space Marines and other forces standing at barely a few centimeters tall.
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But the biggest reveals focused on the Orks and the Aeldari. The Orks will get the first new codex of 11th Edition Warhammer 40K, and some of their new incoming models were also shown off alongside the stat lines of a few units for the tabletop. They will also form part of new introductory box sets for the gaming and painting hobby, alongside the Space Marines, who are likely to be the game’s next codex (though that was not commented on at the reveal event).
The Aeldari, meanwhile, got a new unit through the Warhammer Killteam game format, and it fulfills a long-held fan request among the community: the Exodites are now getting represented on the tabletop. Aeldari living apart from the advanced technology of their cousins in the Asuryani or Drukhari, Exodites also live closer to nature on pristine paradise worlds, and ride atop great reptilian beasts. Able to be built at three characters, or as a unit of reptile-riding cavalry, the Exodite force faces off in an asymmetrical fight against the tribal Orks of the Snake Bite clan.
There is still more to come, as the ongoing launch of 11th Edition 40K means new models for both Space Marines and Orks will be revealed in the coming weeks, and CultureSlate will keep on top of these and other major announcements as possible.
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