Tabletop Gaming News — August 2024

With less than 24 hours to go until pre-orders open for Warhammer 40,000: Boarding Actions, Games Workshop want to whet your appetite with a slew of free scenarios.

Now available on the Games Workshop website, this collection is just a small sample of the 54 missions contained in Boarding Actions. This quartet showcases some of the various types of scenarios players can look forward to, with Symmetric, Campaign, Breaching Operation and Multiplayer games to enjoy.

See the Games Workshop website for more details.

Are you sitting comfortably? I hope so, because this could be a long post...

Games Workshop have announced what they describe as "the return of the warriors of Chaos to the Old World", and boy, they ain't kidding; this new post on their community pages heralds the release of "a Battalion box; an Arcane Journal [...] 25 separate kits returning in plastic, metal and resin; two weapon upgrade sets and a Made to Order release."

The nucleus of this new onslaught is formed by a Warriors of Chaos battalion box. It includes 32 Chaos Warriors, 10 Chaos Knights and two deadly Chaos Chariots (which can also be built as Gorebeast Chariots). A new transfer sheet which boasts a whopping 621 decals is also included.

This battalion box can be expanded by a slew of re-releases. These include the return of the venerable Chaos Lord on Manticore, the Champion of Chaos, the Chaos Sorcerer, the Chaos Chimera, the Dragon Ogres, and the Chaos Warriors. All of these will be released in plastic, as will Halberds and Great Weapons weapon upgrade sets for the plastic Chaos Warriors. Because, y'know, they aren't dangerous enough already...

Do you want more? Okay, then GW have more re-released metals with your name on 'em, including the Chaos Lord on Daemonic Mount, the Chaos Sorcerer on Chaos Steed, a Champion of Chaos, the Chaos Ogres and Chaos Ogres Command, the Chaos Trolls, and the Chosen and Chosen Command.

If resin kits are more your thing, then you have remastered versions of all your favourites to look forward to, including the Hellcannon, the Dragon Ogre Shaggoth, the Skin Wolves, the Warpfire Dragon, and the Gigantic Spawn of Chaos.

Want a cherry on top of the Chaos shake? Then how about Made to Order metal returnees the Chaos Sorcerer Lord on Chaos Steed, the Daemon Prince with Sword, the Daemon Prince with Axe, and the classic Chaos Spawn? You can also look forward to and a new set of dice, a Warriors of Chaos Arcane Journal and a reference card pack.

This is all great news for you Chaos players, right? But what about the rest of you? Are you worried yet? Are you having flashbacks of your arse being kicked by a seething host of mutated murder magnates? Then I have even worse news: this lot is only the first wave! A terrifying tranche of Chaos marauders, knights, chariots and warhounds is promised for later in the year...

Games workshop have unleashed this superb new trailer for the forthcoming Kill Team release, Operation Hivestorm.

Free League are celebrating the release of ALIEN: Romulus with a 50% off sale!

For a limited time, a host of ALIEN titles are now available for half price via Free League's partners at DriveThruRPG, Roll20, and Demiplane. This includes must-have items such as the core rulebook, the starter set, the Colonial Marines Operations Manual and many more,

See the Free League website for more details.

With the new Kill Team: Hivestorm on the horizon, Games Workshop have given us this detailed look at one of factions included in the box set: