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Absolutely — here's a comprehensive and up-to-date recap of Games Workshop’s Summer Warhammer Preview 2025, compiled for fans who couldn’t attend the live event. The preview was a major celebration of new releases across the Warhammer universe, with fresh miniatures, lore drops, rule updates, and ambitious expansions across multiple tabletop wargames. Below is everything you need to know:

🔥 Warhammer 40,000 – The Emperor’s Wrath Continues

The 40k side of the preview was dominated by new factions, lore expansions, and a dramatic new army: The Crimson Reclusiarchs.

✅ New Army: The Crimson Reclusiarchs

A new Space Marine Legion inspired by the reclusive and fanatically loyal Sons of the Emperor.
Based on a lost chapter from the Great Crusade, they wield psychic-enhanced bolt rifles and tactical psychic wards.
Their heraldic color is crimson over black, with a phoenix motif.
Released in Q4 2025, this marks the first new chapter since the Sons of Peril in 2023.

✅ Imperial Fists – New Codex: "The Iron Prayers"

Updated rules focusing on heavy armor, relic close combat, and iconic psykers like Brazen, a new Primaris Captain with a psychic hammer.
New stratagems include "The Crucible Protocol" – a devastating defensive tactic that allows the unit to absorb wounds and retaliate at full strength.

✅ T'au Empire – New Warlord: Commander Vey’ra, the Radiant Mind

A Tau Supreme Commander with a quantum-based pulse rifle and a psyonic command array.
Her faction gains new Fire Warriors with adaptive targeting drones, allowing them to reroll to-hit rolls when moving.
Integration into the T'au Network Doctrine.

✅ Necrons – The Resurrection of the C'tan’s Shadow

New Tomb World: Z’rath’lun, home to the Necron Pharaoh-Emperor K’zorrath, a being who once served a C’tan but now seeks to reclaim it.
New Necron Lords with “Chrono-Phasing” – a mechanic allowing them to teleport between time layers during activation.
New stratagem: “Eternal Reversal” – allows a unit to rewind one turn’s actions.

🌌 Warhammer Age of Sigmar – The Eternity Wars Expand

The Age of Sigmar preview introduced three new Grand Alliances, one of which is a fan-requested faction.

✅ New Grand Alliance: The Pallid Court (Order)

A mournful, soulbound alliance built around The Mourning Queen, a being of pure sorrow and memory.
Includes:
- The Weepers of the Hollow Vale (reanimation horror infantry)
- The Mournful Chorus (psyker-lich units)
- The Shattered Elegy, a giant automaton that sings dirges to shatter enemy morale.
Unique mechanic: “Soul Echo” – units regain wounds when they kill a model with a similar profile.

✅ Soulblight – New Warband: The Unforgiven

A chaotic, soul-harvesting force under Malignus the Hollow, a former champion of the Harrow of the Lost.
New undead lords with “Soul Steal” – when they kill an enemy, they absorb a point of command and can spend it to resurrect a fallen model.

✅ New Grand Alliance: The Drowned Choir (Chaos)

A warp-tainted aquatic faction from the Wastes of Kharadron.
Features sea-wyverns, tide-wraiths, and flesh-eating priestesses.
Their “Tide Surge” mechanic allows them to re-roll movement and charge rolls when they start their turn in a wasteland terrain.

🎯 Kill Team – Operation: Black Anvil

The long-awaited Kill Team 3.0 was revealed with new missions, rules, and 100% new miniatures.

✅ New Kill Team: "The Obsidian Claw"

A techno-psyker unit from the Ordo Xenos, specializing in mind-warping and data-hacking.
New “Signal-Break” ability: Can disrupt enemy psychic powers for one turn.

✅ New Game Mode: "Infiltration Protocol"

A co-op mode where players take on roles as scouts, saboteurs, and tech-ops.
Introduces stealth-based objectives and temporary suppression.

⚔️ Warhammer: The Horus Heresy – "The Betrayal of Terra"

The most anticipated lore expansion yet.

✅ New Campaign: "The Fall of the Emperor’s Throne"

A six-volume campaign spanning 2026–2027, with new Primarchs, Traitor Legions, and heretical heresies.
Focuses on Fulgrim’s descent into corruption, the betrayal of the 13th Company, and the first use of the Eye of Terror.

✅ New Miniatures

Fulgrim, in full Sanguine armor, wielding the Blade of the Betrayed.
Sanguinius in a new “Last Stand” pose, dying mid-sentence to Horus, with chaos runes crawling across his face.

🛡️ Legions Imperialis – The Great Crusade Returns

Revealed in a surprise cinematic trailer, Legions Imperialis is getting a full reboot with new historical campaigns, faction-specific battleboards, and a new campaign mode: "The War of the Stars".

✅ New Mechanic: "Imperial Mandate"

Players must complete three major historical missions to unlock a grand campaign victory.
Victory conditions include territory control, relic acquisition, and moral standing.

🕷️ Warhammer Underworlds – "The City of Screams"

A new urban horror-themed expansion set in a foul Necrohm city.

✅ New Factions

The Drowned Choir (Chaos) – now playable as a faction-specific team.
The Cursed Choir of Valtar – a renegade Eldar unit that sells souls to Chaos deities.

✅ New Mechanic: "Soul Debt"

After losing a fight, teams gain a “Soul Debt” that increases damage and movement penalties over time.
Can be repaid by sacrificing a model or capturing a relic.

🏛️ Other Announcements

Warhammer 40k: Dawn of the Imperium – New Age of Sigmar Warhammer 40,000 crossover comic series, launching in October 2025, with 40k models fighting in Sigmar’s realms.
Legends of the Empire (Lorebooks) – a new hardcover series with art and lore from the Warhammer 40,000: The End Times, Age of Sigmar: The Last Days of the Old World, and The Horus Heresy: The Trail of the Emperor’s Tears.
Warhammer Realms – First Video Game Announcement
GW is partnering with Foggy Soft to release Warhammer Realms: Legacy of the Gods, a multiplayer strategy game set across the Warhammer multiverse, releasing in 2026.

📣 Final Thoughts

The Summer Warhammer Preview 2025 was nothing short of a landmark event, blending epic lore, gameplay innovation, and visually stunning miniatures across all major Warhammer lines. With new armies, mechanics, and story arcs, it’s clear Games Workshop is pushing the boundaries of what tabletop wargaming can be.

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