Warhammer 40,000 11th Edition Announced With a Blood Angels vs Orks Cinematic Trailer, a Release Window, and Some Good News for Fans

Games Workshop has yet pulled backmost the curtain connected the 11th Edition of Warhammer 40,000, which is owed retired June 2026.

The caller edition, unveiled astatine Adepticon Preview 2026 overnight, revolves astir the Imperium’s combat against the Orks connected the war-torn satellite of Armageddon. With Commissar Yarrick backmost connected the field, the Space Marines person arrived to lend the Astra Militarum (who were erstwhile called the Imperial Guard) a hand. And you tin spot the Blood Angels (and, inevitably, an Ultramarine) doing conscionable that successful the teaser trailer below.

Here’s the caller lore, caller from Warhammer Community:

After the events of Armageddon: The Return of Yarrick, the Imperial forces connected the warfare satellite are successful dire straits – the Ork vanguard led by Wazdakka Gutsmek has landed, and Ghazghkull’s main unit isn’t acold behind. A hopeless gambit by Commissar Yarrick gets a plea for assistance retired into the stars, and Operation Imperator, a conjugation of Space Marines from galore Chapters, surges towards the beleaguered planet.

In presumption of caller models, Games Workshop kept galore of its cards adjacent to its chest, but did denote the Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon motorboat set, which includes caller miniatures for the Space Marines and Orks. The teaser trailer gives america an thought of what to expect, GW said.

The Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon motorboat acceptable is packed with caller miniatures for the Space Marines and Orks. Image credit: Games Workshop.

There’s a archetypal look astatine a caller Intercessor Squad, whose units diagnostic a premix of older armor marks with caller ones. Here's GW again with the authoritative blurb:

First up is simply a subordinate of a caller Intercessor Squad, combining the modern look of a Space Marine with immoderate classical details – the premix of older armour marks with caller ones is indicative of what you tin expect from the remainder of the unit. When they archetypal rolled disconnected Belisarius Cawl’s accumulation lines, the Primaris Space Marines were each equipped with azygous suits of Mk X powerfulness armour. Over time, the attrition of unrelenting warfare has led to Tacticus armour needing to beryllium supplemented with older parts. Different helmets, enarthrosis pads, and greaves are commonplace, and this caller kit has each sorts of nostalgic callbacks to erstwhile Space Marine designs.

This caller kit has nostalgic callbacks to erstwhile Space Marine designs. Image credit: Games Workshop.

But the cardinal happening to item is that Games Workshop has confirmed that each existing 10th Edition Codex and Supplement books stay valid going into 11th Edition. This means fans volition not request to regenerate their books astatine the commencement of the edition, which is simply a crowd-pleasing determination from GW for what is already a horribly costly hobby.

Here’s the authoritative blurb from GW:

“What does this ‘new edition’ speech mean for your existing service and their codex? Good quality – your existent codexes and faction rules volition inactive beryllium valid! This is besides existent of the rules successful the caller run supplements, including the upcoming Armageddon: Return of Yarrick.

“However, Detachments are changing to springiness you much flexibility connected however you physique your army. You tin present sometimes prime aggregate detachments for a bespoke acceptable of service abilities, truthful you’ll beryllium capable to bring to beingness your imaginativeness of however your service should fight. And, astatine the motorboat of the caller edition, determination volition beryllium implicit 70 caller and updated Detachments. If you are precise attached to your existent army, don’t panic, the Detachments successful your existent codex inactive enactment excessively — you conscionable person adjacent much options now.”

Elsewhere, Games Workshop confirmed the fan-favorite Steel Legion are coming back, though it volition beryllium a fewer years until their release. The Armageddon-focused Astra Militarum regiment, celebrated wrong the assemblage for their state masks, were revealed alongside immoderate artwork, which shows however acold retired they are. Still, their instrumentality was yet different assemblage pleaser for the community.

The Steel Legion are returning to Warhammer 40,000. Image credit: Games Workshop.

Before 11th Edition comes out, GW volition adjacent retired the existent variation of Warhammer 40,000 with Armageddon: The Return of Yarrick, the adjacent large enlargement for Warhammer 40,000. This tells the communicative of Yarrick’s instrumentality to Armageddon and the combat against Wazdakka Gutsmek’s Speedwaaagh!, and is divided into 3 books.

There is nary large representation lore improvement with either announcement. In January, Games Workshop acceptable up the long-awaited gathering of loyalist primarchs Roboute Guilliman and Lion El'Jonson via the 500 Worlds: Titus run book, but neither look arsenic portion of Yarrick's instrumentality nor the Warhammer 40,000 11th Edition reveal. Perhaps erstwhile Armageddon is done and dusted, the brothers volition yet reunite.

Image credit: Games Workshop.

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