Games Workshop Pre-Orders: Warhammer Age of Sigmar Faction Pack Weekend
Games Workshop is releasing faction packs for pre-order this week. Get them while they’re hot for the new edition of Warhammer: Age of Sigmar.
This weekend is your first chance to snag your faction packs from pre-order. But that’s not the only things going up on their webstore. Now, if you’re on the fence about picking up any of these pre-orders you might want to check out the article I wrote about what you actually need to play the new edition. Just to reiterate I’d recommend your GHB 2024-25 and your respective faction pack. But you do you. I’m definitely snagging a GHB from my FLGS on pre-order this weekend.
WARHAMMER AGE OF SIGMAR GENERAL’S HANDBOOK 2024-25 $42
The Mortal Realms have been wounded. Warpflame irrevocably scours the land, and those places not stripped to nothingness are overrun with starving rodents. Many claim this is the beginning of a new era – the Second Age of Chaos. Only leaders with unshakeable hearts can hope to reunite these people fractured by fear. Are you one such commander?
The Warhammer Age of Sigmar General’s Handbook 2024-25 contains a wealth of content for Matched Play games in the war-torn setting of the Mortal Realms, where you can achieve glory on the battlefield in contests of skill and generalship against fellow players.
This 112-page spiral-bound hardback book contains:
– A brief background section bringing you up to speed with the latest narrative events in Warhammer Age of Sigmar.
– Matched Play Season Rules 2024-25. Includes 3x Honour Guard rules and 6x universal battle tactics usable by any faction throughout the season, alongside Grand Alliance-specific battle tactics.
– A blank tournament scoring sheet to keep track of important information throughout the game, such as victory points and battle tactics.
– 12x Battleplans for the 2024-25 season, including maps marking where objectives are placed, as well as listing the terrain that should be used, and what rules they benefit from. Each battleplan is presented over a double page spread, so that the book can be folded flat to save space, while still providing an overview of the essential information to easily reference once the game has begun.
– Tournament Organisers Pack – a handy guide for budding event organisers to start setting up Warhammer Age of Sigmar events. This section includes an example event pack you can use as a reference.
– Updated endless spells warscrolls and rules, including the manifestation lores for universal endless spells, which can be summoned by Wizards from any faction.
– The Warhammer Age of Sigmar Core Rules, reprinted here for your reference during your games. A rules glossary is also included at the back of this book.
– Advanced Rules for applying to matched play Battlepacks, including Commands, Terrain, Magic, Army Composition, Command Models, and battle tactics.
– A Citadel terrain list explaining the terrain types that apply to Citadel terrain, and the number of scenery pieces that make up each terrain feature.
The Warhammer Age of Sigmar General’s Handbook 2024-25 measures 161mmx210mm, and comes with a handy elastic enclosure, making it easy to keep your place in the heat of battle.
For customers that have already purchased the Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Skaventide boxed set, this puts the cards into a handy book format, and includes extra content including Endless Spells rules.
WARHAMMER AGE OF SIGMAR CORE BOOK $65
Since the breaking of Sigmar’s Tempest, the peoples of the Mortal Realms have fought tooth and nail for those islands of civilisation they have established. Every city is blackened by the fires of war, every populace harrowed by the ordeal of simple survival. But now, the Hour of Ruin has come, the fabric of reality splitting as numberless hordes of rat-like Skaven capsize decades of progress.
Yet, the hosts of Sigmar are still marching. They know full well that the cycle of endless war is inescapable, taking its toll on even the mighty Stormcast Eternals. But though the candle of hope gutters, it burns bright enough to inspire a thousand selfless acts.
The Book
This 288-page hardback book is the ultimate companion for all players of Warhammer Age of Sigmar, whether veterans or novices. It contains everything you need to know to collect, build, paint, and play with Citadel miniatures in the Mortal Realms.
The Warhammer Age of Sigmar Hobby
The book opens with an introduction to the Warhammer hobby. Alongside the concept of the game, this section discusses the various aspects of the hobby, including collecting an army, building and painting miniatures, playing Warhammer Age of Sigmar, and choosing your way to play.
The Mortal Realms
This section provides a comprehensive overview of each realm and its current state, with the narrative presented from the perspective of the realm’s inhabitants, such as soldiers, witch hunters, and more.
History of the Realms
Get a primer of the key narrative events from the history of Warhammer Age of Sigmar, including summaries of key events such as the awakening of Kragnos and the Twin-Tailed Crusade.
Factions at War
A background overview of the various factions from each Grand Alliance – Order, Chaos, Death, and Destruction. You’ll find incredible artwork, a miniatures showcase, and additional information about key characters or important pieces of lore.
The Rules
The book’s Rules section is divided into three major sections: Core Rules, Advanced Rules, and a Glossary. You’ll also find an overview of Battlepacks, making it easy to understand which ones best suit how you like to play. Finally, there are rules for terrain, and the various game formats, such as Spearhead, Path to Glory, and Matched Play.
The Core Book closes with a handy, alphabetised rules index and a Path to Glory roster, Order of Battle, and Army roster. It also features a red ribbon bookmark.
WARHAMMER AGE OF SIGMAR CORE BOOK (LIMITED EDITION) $170
This Limited Edition version also features luxurious touches like a black ribbon page marker, gloss art, matt lamination, gold foil blocking on the covers, and gilt page edges, making it a must-have for any Warhammer Age of Sigmar fan.
GRAND ALLIANCE DESTRUCTION DICE $33.50
Destroy all before you (figuratively, of course) with this dice set for Warhammer Age of Sigmar. It contains the dice you need to play the game and channel the bestial power of Destruction.
The set contains 16x 16mm, round-edged dice with traditional pips denoting the numbers, but with a toothed jaw icon in place of the 6. The dice are all green – a colour synonymous with the vicious orruks – with yellow-coloured pips and come presented in a box covered in thematic artwork.
GRAND ALLIANCE CHAOS DICE $33.50
Beseech the favour of the Dark Gods with this dice set for Warhammer Age of Sigmar. It contains the dice that you need to play the game and channel the power of Chaos.
The set contains 16x 16mm, round-edged dice with traditional pips denoting the numbers, but with a Chaos star icon in place of the ‘6’. The dice are all red – a colour synonymous with the Blood God, Khorne – with metallic orange pips, and come presented in a box covered in thematic artwork.
GRAND ALLIANCE DEATH DICE $33.50
Dice with (the forces of) Death with this dice set for Warhammer Age of Sigmar! It contains the dice you need to play the game and channel the deathly energies of Shyish.
The set contains 16x 16mm, round-edged dice with traditional pips denoting the numbers, but with a skull icon in place of the ‘6’. The dice are all purple – a colour synonymous with the Realm of Death – with bone-coloured pips, and come presented in a box covered in thematic artwork.
GRAND ALLIANCE ORDER DICE $33.50
Serve the God-King Sigmar with this dice set for Warhammer Age of Sigmar. It contains the dice that you need to play the game and channel the celestial power of Azyr.
The set contains 16x 16mm, round-edged dice with traditional pips denoting the numbers, but with a Sigmarite halo icon in place of the ‘6’. The dice are all blue – a colour synonymous with the Realm of Heavens – with gold-coloured pips, and come presented in a box covered in thematic artwork.
Faction Packs
Every faction has a new Faction Pack coming out this weekend. I’m going to spare us all the extra text. Instead, below you’ll find a link to all the respective packs.
Hedonites of Slaanesh $19 (Check out our how-to-play!)
What are you looking to pick-up from Games Workshop this weekend?
