The Big Summer Warhammer Preview Show 2025: Everything Announced Warhammer 40,000 & Warhammer Age of Sigmar – Unveiled in Full The long-anticipated Summer Warhammer Preview Show 2025 has officially dropped, and it’s a monster of a reveal. From explosive new armies and grimdark lore drops to stunning new miniatures and major game rule updates, Games Workshop has delivered a summer feast for fans of both Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Age of Sigmar. Here’s everything that was announced — no stone left unturned. 🌌 WARHAMMER 40,000: THE 10TH EDITION REVOLUTION After years of whispers, Games Workshop has confirmed that 10th Edition of Warhammer 40,000 is officially launching this autumn — and it’s not just a tweak. It’s a full reimagining. 🔥 Key 10th Edition Features: Revised Command Phase: Now split into Initiative, Deployment, and Will of the Gods phases for more dynamic gameplay. New Mechanic: Psychic Resonance: Psychic powers now interact more dynamically with terrain and battlefield events, with cascading effects across units. Unit Specialization System: All armies now have Specializations (e.g., "Night Lords: Blood Hunt," "Imperial Guard: Battle-Serfs") that define playstyle, fluff, and point costs. Morale Reboot: Units now have Willpower and Frenzy states. Units break if morale fails, but can double down under pressure. 🐲 NEW ARMIES IN 40K – 10TH EDITION 1. The Unbroken (Cult of the Eternal Flesh) Faction: Chaos Space Marines (Sisters of Battle fan-fic twist) Fluff: A rogue chapter of the Blood Angels who have embraced the Flesh Curse to transcend mortality. They believe true immortality lies in renewal through consumption. Key Units: Sanguine Primus (HQ): Can sacrifice a unit to heal itself and gain +1WS/BS for 1 turn. Lords of the Flesh (Dedicated Transports): Walkers made of screaming, fused bodies. Can sacrifice themselves to explode and cause Flesh Storm (debuffs to enemy units in area). Wound-Eaters (Elite): Melee-only Terminators who heal by eating enemy wounds. 🎮 “They feast on war. They dream in pain.” 2. The Iron Lament Faction: Mechanicum (Adeptus Mechanicus) Fluff: A radical offshoot of the Cult Mechanicus that has built an entire artificial planet from scrap and human remains. They worship the Prophet-Engine — a sentient, scarred AI that preaches "The Pain of Perfection." Key Units: Archmagos-Engineer (HQ): Can permanently grant Sacrificial Integration to units (e.g., a unit becomes a permanent part of a vehicle). Axiom Forges (Battle Line): 100-point units that deploy after turn 1, but if they survive, they grant +1 to all rolls for the player in the next turn. The Grieving Chorus (Psykers): Psychic casters who gain power the more they lose units. 🧠 “We are not alive. We are learning to be.” 🌪️ WARHAMMER AGE OF SIGMAR – SUMMER 2025: THE RISING New season of Warhammer Age of Sigmar, and it’s bigger than ever. The announcement came with a new lore cycle: "The Sundering of Sigmar", a cosmic event where Sigmar’s soul is torn apart and scattered across the Mortal Realms. 🔥 Key Announcements: 1. The Realm of the Hollow King (New Faction) Faction: Nighthaunt – The Lost Crown Fluff: A faction of dead kings, forgotten emperors, and usurpers who were never truly dead. They ride on spectral warhorses forged from the bones of dead gods. Key Units: The Hollow King (Grand Alliance Leader): His presence causes Doommarch – a rule where enemy units must pass a Willpower test every turn or become Spectral Frenzied. Shade Lords (Elites): Can phase through walls and terrain once per game. Soulbinders (Wizards): Summon spirits of past rulers to cast Echoes of Power (one-use, game-breaking spells). 🕯️ “We were betrayed in life. We rise in death.” 2. The Blight of Malakai (New Chaos Faction) Faction: Chaos – The Blightbound Fluff: Not your typical Chaos. This faction worships Malakai, the Unraveler, a force of entropy and decay. They don’t seek conquest — they seek uncreation. Key Units: The Unraveler (HQ): Can remove any rule from the battlefield for 1 turn (e.g., "No Flyers," "Only Melee"). Rotspawn (Core): Invulnerable saves that increase as you take more wounds. The Weepers (Casters): Cast spells that remove objectives, terrain, or even units from the table. 🌫️ “All things end. All things fall.” 3. Updated Almatia (The Storm of the Sky-Peak) New Army List: Skyborn Blades of Almatia (Aldorath-Favored) Fluff: Elves who have mastered flight using living storms. They ride storm-wyrms and wield lightning-laced blades. New Mechanic: Stormweaving – at the start of each turn, they can reroll one attack or save roll, but if they fail, they gain a Storm Marker that reduces their movement next turn. 🎨 NEW MINIATURES & ART DROPS Games Workshop dropped 27 new miniatures in 2025 — and many are already for sale. 🏴‍☠️ 40K 10th Edition: The Emperor’s Shroud (1000-point super-model): A 10” fully articulated Emperor made from fused relics, wearing a cloak made of 27 dead Primarchs. Includes 3 poseable heads (angry, solemn, mournful). Sisters of Silence (new Sisters of Battle unit): Silent, blind Sisters who use sonic amplification to shatter enemy armor. Tyrannicar (Tyrant’s Champion): A walking bio-armor tank with a blade forged from a dead planet’s core. 🌟 AoS 2025: The Hollow King (Faction Leader): 12” tall, made of blackened bone and storm-touched glass. Includes 4 interchangeable faces (regal, broken, screaming, serene). The Unraveler (Chaos Leader): Appears as a swirling vortex of black smoke with 3 floating, screaming faces. Must be assembled separately. Stormwyrms (Skyborn Elves): 10” long, 3D-printed translucent wings, glowing eyes. ✨ All new miniatures feature "Living Metal" paint tech — a new pigment that shifts color based on lighting. 🧩 GAME SYSTEMS & TOOLS New App: Warhammer Nexus (Free): Augmented reality battlefield builder, rule checker, and campaign tracker. Integrated with store events and online ladders. Digital Dice Rollers: Official app for digital dice, with physical dice sync (e.g., roll in app, physical dice show result via Bluetooth). New Terrain Line: "Eternal Forges" (40K): 3D-printed modular terrain for Forge World-style battlefields. Includes plasma conduits, repair drones, and exploding hives. 🎮 EVENTS & COMMUNITY The Great Warhammer Tournament 2025 (Aug 1–3, London): 10th Edition only. Prize pool: £100,000 + 1000-point Emperor statue. “First Drop” Campaign: Pre-order a new army (e.g., The Unbroken, Hollow King) and get a free exclusive miniature (e.g., an 18” Sanguine Bane warrior with glowing eyes). Fan Design Contest 2025: Submit your own Warhammer 40K or Age of Sigmar unit. Winning design gets a full sculpt in 3D and a spot in the official army book. 🔚 Final Words from Games Workshop “2025 isn’t just a new year. It’s a new age. The Imperium trembles. Sigmar’s soul cracks. And somewhere, in the dead of night, a new god is being born.” — Games Workshop Creative Director, Zara Vex 📢 What’s Next? 10th Edition rulebook drops September 15, 2025 Miniatures go on sale August 1, 2025 Digital base game (for Nexus App) launches October 1, 2025 🔥 The Summer Warhammer Preview Show 2025 has reshaped the future of tabletop. Whether you’re a 40K grimdark warrior or an AoS chaos dreamer — the war has just begun. #Warhammer2025 #10thEditionIsHere #TheSummerOfBloodAndStorms Stay tuned for our full walkthrough of 10th Edition rules, army lists, and meta predictions — coming next week.

🎮 Games Workshop’s The Big Summer Warhammer Preview Show 2025 – Full Recap & Highlights

The dust has settled, the dice have rolled, and the galaxy-spanning chaos of Warhammer has erupted once more — courtesy of Games Workshop’s monumental The Big Summer Warhammer Preview Show 2025. Held live on July 12, 2025, this year’s event was nothing short of a tabletop apocalypse, delivering jaw-dropping reveals across the entire Warhammer universe. From new factions and armies to major rule updates, stunning miniatures, and surprise lore drops, here’s everything you absolutely must know:

🌌 Warhammer 40,000 – “The Sundering of the Imperium”

• New Army: The Iron Crusade (Imperial Fists Reborn)
  The legendary Space Marine Chapter has been reborn as a new, faction-wide army under a brutal new mechanic: Soulbound Relics. Each model gains unique abilities based on relics imbued with the psychic essence of fallen brothers. The iconic Sergeant of the Iron Crusade is now a Legendary Commander, wielding the Sword of the Unbroken Line — a weapon that revives fallen allies under a new "Unbroken Pact" rule.

• New Mechanic: The Emperor’s Wrath
  Introducing a turn-based psychic cascade system — at the start of each turn, a random Warhammer 40k faction rolls on a Fate Dice Table that can unleash catastrophic events: planetary purges, warp rifts, or even the return of long-dead Primarchs.

• Announced: The Fall of Terra – Part 2 (After the 2024 Saga)
  The long-awaited sequel to The Fall of Terra campaign arrives in 2026, featuring new missions and a new playable faction: The Cogitator Enforcers — psychic assassins from the Mechanicus who hunt heretics using forbidden machine-rituals.

• Necrons Return… But Not As You Know Them
  The Necron “Revenant Lords” are back — not as undead, but as true gods reborn from the warp. Their new ruleset adds warp-stolen souls to their resurrection mechanic, and they now have a new legendary ability: "Eternal Domination", which allows them to reclaim dead units from any army on the battlefield — if they win a psychic duel.

🌟 Warhammer Age of Sigmar – “The Shattered Realms”

• New Grand Alliance: The Choir of the Endless Song
  A musical horror faction made of living songs and sonic nightmares, led by The Maestro, a reality-warping archivist who turns souls into symphonies.

  • New gameplay mechanic: Harmonic Domination — players must play actual music (via app integration) to trigger special abilities.
  • Miniatures feature glitching faces, glass instruments, and soul-crystal lutes.

• Faction Reveal: The Vampiric Court of Azarath
  A dark, gothic version of the Vampire Counts, but now fully integrated into the Mortal Realms as a chaotic undead horde that feeds on hope itself.

  • New spell: “The Last Lullaby” — causes enemy units to fall into a dream-state and attack allies.

• New Legendary Lord: Malakar the Unmade
  The first non-deity to be granted a “God-Form” — a terrifying, shape-shifting entity that can transform into any enemy unit on the battlefield (once per game), complete with full stats and abilities.

🔫 Kill Team: “Crimson Reckoning” Expansion Pack

• New Team: “The Crimson Reckoning” (Sisters of Battle – Purifiers Division)
  A secret strike force of psycho-adepts and anti-heretic zealots, led by Sister-Commissar Valeria, wielding anti-psychic shotguns and soul-razing incendiary grenades.

• New Mechanic: “Faith in the Fire”
  When a Kill Team member dies from psychic damage, they may rise again as a “Living Flame” — a temporary berserker form with +2 Strength and +10% morale.

• New Scenario: “The Temple of Screaming Statues”
  Set inside a cathedral where every statue whispers heresy, and only by killing the statue can you stop the whispers.

⚔️ Warhammer: The Horus Heresy – “The Betrayal of Terra” (New Series)

• New Campaign: “The Last Light of Terra”
  A full 24-mission campaign, focusing on the final stand of the Emperor’s inner circle against the traitor Legions.

• New Factions:

  • The Rapturous Echelon (Loyalist Chaos Marines — yes, they exist)
  • The Ninth Storm (a new Chaos Space Marine chapter formed from the remains of the Raven Guard’s psychic splinter).

• New Rule: “The Emperor’s Voice”
  A dimensional effect that lets you “speak” to your army through a psychic echo, granting +1 to hit and roll for one turn — but risks triggering a warp backlash (random psyker madness).

🛡️ Legions Imperialis – “The Final March” (New Expansion)

• New Legion: The Red Scourge of Cthonia
  A Roman-inspired Imperial Legion wielding telekinetic war engines and flame-throwing warhounds.

• New Mechanic: “Moral Command”
  Units gain +1 to leadership and resilience when fighting on rubble, fire, or decaying monuments.

• New Terrain: The Emperor’s Last Altar
  A massive modular battlefield piece that transforms mid-game into a warp rift, changing the battlefield layout.

🌑 Warhammer Underworlds – “The Depths of the Nine Hells”

• New Arena: “The Gaping Maw”
  A living labyrinth of teeth and veins, where terrain changes every turn based on a “Living Board” mechanic.

• New Faction: The Asphodel Wyrms
  A chaotic cult of snake-priests and soul-eaters that can consume enemy models’ souls to gain new powers.

• New Rule: “Soul Binding”
  After a fight, if a team wins, they may “mark” a fallen enemy to return them as a wraith next game.

🎮 New Games Workshop App: “Warhammer Nexus” (Launching Q4 2025)

• Augmented Reality (AR) Miniature Scanning – View your miniatures in 3D with animated abilities.
• Live Campaign Integration – Play through season-long campaigns across multiple games (40k, AoS, Underworlds).
• AI Dice Roller with Narrative Engine – The dice don’t just roll — they tell a story based on your choices.

📣 Final Words from Games Workshop

“This isn’t just a preview. It’s a wakeup call. The Warhammer universe is changing — and you are not just a player. You are a part of the legend.”

🔥 What’s Next?

• New Warhammer 40k Rulebook (2026) – Full rewrite to include all 2025 changes.
• “The Great War for the Stars” – A cross-franchise tournament series launching in 2026, spanning 40k, AoS, and Underworlds.

📢 Stay Tuned
We’ll be updating this page with miniature reveals, model kit previews, and exclusive behind-the-scenes footage as it drops. Follow @GamesWorkshop on social media and subscribe to the official Warhammer YouTube channel for full show highlights.

⚔️ The galaxy is not safe. The war has only just begun.
Welcome to the Big Summer Warhammer Preview Show 2025.
The apocalypse is scheduled. And you are invited.