Adepticon 2025 - Games Workshop Preview Night Reveals
Games Workshop presented their Warhammer Preview Show at Adepticon 2025, revealing a slew of new releases for some of their key lines, including Warhammer The Old World and Warhammer 40,000. We gave our predictions and hopes for the preview the other night, so lets see if we got close.
The Old World - Wood Elves, Beastmen, and the Grand Cathay
Preview night kicked off with releases for Warhammer The Old World.
Starting off with the return of classic factions to the game, Wood Elves and Beastmen. There are two new Arcane Journals for the factions, which include dice sets and a reference card pack for their respective armies. Both of the factions will see a combination of returning plastic miniatures and metal miniatures.
The big news, however, was the introduction of the long-awaited army of the Grand Cathay. The Grand Cathay will get a brand new battalion box containing 50 plastic miniatures, including 30 Jade Warriors, 10 Jade Lancers, and two artillery pieces that can be built as Cathayan Grand Cannon or Fire Rain Rocket Battery.
Additionally, the range will release with several additional units, including a few massive models. Shugen Lord on Great Spirit Longma and the Gate Masters of the Celestial Cities are beautiful mounted models. The Sky Lantern and Cathayan Sentinel are highly detailed models that simply tower over the field. The most impressive, however, has got to be Miao Ying, the Storm Dragon. The eldest living daughter of the Dragon Emperor is represented by both a human-form model and a massive noble dragon model.
Kill Team: Typhon
Next up was the announcement of the next big box release for Kill Team featuring Tyranids against the Adepts Mechanicus called Kill Team: Typhoon.
The Tyranid side of the box features five Ravenger models that are each a unique build. To balance the fact that the force is such a small group compared to most kill teams, the Ravengers have an ability to tunnel under the kill zone and pop up in unexpected places. Additionally, the terrain in the box is designed and themed around the Tyranids, and offers rules and missions based around them.
For the Adeptus Mechanicus, the Tech-priests have brought a bevy of servitors to take on the Tyranid infestation. Led into battle by the Technoarcheologist and Servitor Underseer, the Gun and Combat Servitors do all of the heavy combat. Meanwhile they are supported by the likes of Breacher, Techomedic, and Auto-Proxy Servitors.
Of our predictions, this is the first one we got on right on the money. We said there would be something Tyranid related for Kill Team, we just weren’t expecting a massive bit box like this one. So far, 1-0!
Age of Sigmar - New Spearhead Content and General’s Handbook
Next up was a trip to the Mortal Realms. They kicked things off with Spearhead, the best way to get into Warhammer: Age of Sigmar. They announced Spearhead: Sand & Bone Gaming Pack. The pack includes a brand new double-sided gaming board featuring Dolorum and Ossla. Additionally, players will find new Twists, new Battle Tactics, new Objectives, and a reissue of terrain from the Warcry: Crypt of Blood starter set. It also includes a 24-page rule book for the battle pack and four new Spearhead armies.
The new Spearhead armies are the Cities of Sigmar Fusil-Platoon, Seraphon Sunblood Prowlers, Ossiarch Bonereapers Mortisan Elite, and Ogor Mawtribes Scrapglutt.
Our wish for this segment was to see more information on the upcoming Soulblight Graveyard releases. The only mention we got was the thumbnail in the somewhat weak roadmap they showed at the end of the segment. We are 1-1.
Warhammer 40,000
The final stretch of the preview show was the Warhammer 40,000.
First up was the Chapter Approved 2025-26: Mission Deck. Players will be able to choose between three ways to play - 1,000 point Incursion; 2,000 point Strike Force; and the new Asymmetric War games. Each will have their own set of cards to set up games. Secret Missions have been replaced with Challenger cards, giving players the ability to come back for the brink of loss with interesting tools to close the gap.
The Mission Deck will come with punch-out objectives. However, for players wanting to upgrade their board, Games Workshop will release full-size objective markers made from flexible PET material release separately.
The “Year of Chaos” marches on with three new Codexes announced for the World Eaters, Death Guard, and the Thousand Sons. Additionally, each of the factions will receive a new model - the Slaughterhound for World Eaters, the Lord of Poxes for Death Guard (originally previewed at LVO 2025), the towering Sekhetar Robots for the Thousand Suns.
Next up, they announced the next Crusade supplement Warhammer 40,000 - Crusade: Armageddon. The new narrative campaign follows the Red Angel’s invasion. Players can take part in dooming or defending Armageddon with unique paths for three separate alliances with thematic boons for those that win or lose the previous campaign phase. The book will include several new rules, including the Hellscape rules that fill the battlefield with Warp energy.
Additionally, the Grey Knights are called using to try and banish Angron and his forces. The faction will receive an all-new Codex, as well an updated Nemesis Dreadknight model.
Lastly, we were treated to the long-awaited Space Wolves refresh.
The Space Wolves Army Set will launch the new refresh, delivering a ton of new, dynamic sculpts. The set will include Blood Claws, Grey Hunters, and Wolf Guard Headtakers as the right and left arms of the force. The new Wolf Guard Battle Leader shares the same duties as Lieutenants in Codex-complaint Chapters, while the Wolf Priest fills in for both the Chaplain and Apothecaries of the Space Wolves. The set will also include a special edition Codex and data cards.
Additional models and units were said to still be coming for the refresh before all is said and done.
The only thing we thought about in our predictions were more Chaos-specific news, especially for the Thousand Sons. We think we got that, so we end 2-1.
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With that, the preview comes to a close. We did fairly we, in our honest opinion, on our predictions and wishes for the event. We won’t lie, we were a bit disappointed to not have some solid Soulblight Gravelord news, but a refresh of our first ever Warhammer 40,000 army and a faction to get us into Warhammer The Old World surely makes up for it. Overall, we’d get the preview event a solid B+ and a nice way to kick off Adepticon 2025.