Upcoming BL Stuff 2025

[Felix Antipodes]

The drought is over!  A new release!  Oh, it’s by Kelly… I miss the drought…

[darkhorse0607]

3 hours ago, DarkChaplain said:

Good news:

There is a new release going up for preorder next Saturday, and it's a surprisingly quick turnaround from announcement to release

 

Bad news:

It's Phil Kelly's latest Farsight novel....

 

Boo this man for starting the announcement with the good news

[wecanhaveallthree]

Well I'M looking forward to it. I like Farsight and I like Kelly and, James Workshop willing, we'll find out a bit more about that TOTALLY NOT A DAEMON the T'au have been feeding in that hole.

[Krelious]

On 3/23/2025 at 1:29 AM, System Sound said:

As far as I'm aware GW/BL never confirmed it. All we have is speculation and one or two rumours at most.

 

As for HH 3.0, I think that's gonna release with the Age of Ruin Anthology.

is HH Horus Heresy 3.0 and what does that even mean?

[darkhorse0607]

5 hours ago, Krelious said:

is HH Horus Heresy 3.0 and what does that even mean?

 

Yes,

 

The third edition of the game. Currently there's a lot of debate going around if that is this summers big release (part in thanks to valrak saying it is). On one hand, it matches the edition churn that GW is using of every three years now. On the other, people don't want it to be basically

[DarkChaplain]

For my part, HH is entirely uninteresting so long as it is so utterly reliant on Forgeworld resin. That's what ruined Blood Bowl for me when they rebooted it. But I guess they might drop another tie-in anthology or novel like with 2nd edition? Still haven't read that one.

 

Other than a proper new edition of Warcry, which they've repeatedly left out of reveal shows over the past year, indicating it is likely dead (despite supposedly being a fantastic game), I can't think of anything besides HH slotting into summer this year, either.

 

...then again, I really just want to see them unveil more AoS at Adepticon, particularly a new Spearhead board, cards & book with some new thematic Spearheads of armies they don't have slated for quick Battletome rollouts. Which the rumors would indicate right now, at least. What do you mean "you already own 8 Spearheads"? Don't judge me. That number is going up to 12 this year, anyway.

[darkhorse0607]

1 minute ago, DarkChaplain said:

For my part, HH is entirely uninteresting so long as it is so utterly reliant on Forgeworld resin. That's what ruined Blood Bowl for me when they rebooted it. But I guess they might drop another tie-in anthology or novel like with 2nd edition? Still haven't read that one.

 

Other than a proper new edition of Warcry, which they've repeatedly left out of reveal shows over the past year, indicating it is likely dead (despite supposedly being a fantastic game), I can't think of anything besides HH slotting into summer this year, either.

 

...then again, I really just want to see them unveil more AoS at Adepticon, particularly a new Spearhead board, cards & book with some new thematic Spearheads of armies they don't have slated for quick Battletome rollouts. Which the rumors would indicate right now, at least. What do you mean "you already own 8 Spearheads"? Don't judge me. That number is going up to 12 this year, anyway.

 

I get the resin issue, I don't mind as much, but I get it. The big issue for me is the lack of options compared to a few years ago. Prior to the Last Chance to Buy purges of 208-19-20, you had all the units (Destroyers, Breachers, Despoilers, etc), all the MKs of armor available, as well as torsos/helmets/dreadnoughts/shoulder pads for each legion.

 

Now it feels more half in/half out. They've barely put out the melee weapons upgrades a few months back which is arguably worse than the old one because all of the pistols are for the same hand and the same with the melee weapons. Dreadnoughts are this weird half resin/half plastic so you only get half the detail. Only have two MKs of armor. Terminators and all the special units are old scale, no torsos, etc. And then the Black Books, which for me at least, was half the appeal are a shadow of their former selves.

 

I dunno if you had seen, but Warcry is now online only and it's been pulled from GW stores so I wouldn't get your hopes up for a new edition.

 

I dunno. I'm just hoping for something exciting, which I know is subjective but Warhammer for the last few months hasn't really been getting me excited the way it used to

[cheywood]

13 minutes ago, darkhorse0607 said:

 

I dunno. I'm just hoping for something exciting, which I know is subjective but Warhammer for the last few months hasn't really been getting me excited the way it used to

I feel the same, but Hell’s Last is providing some degree of comfort. It’s Hill’s best work yet in my mind and an excellent guard novel. The Minka Lesk series is clearly an homage to Gaunt’s Ghosts in many ways (the focus on a single regiment, the large number of characters and varied settings, the bleak and relatively grounded tone) and this time I think it comes close to Abnett’s work in quality, even more so than Traitor Rock. I’ve been putting on jungle sounds in the background and it’s a joy to read. Hopefully the back half is as good as the front. 

Edited March 25 by cheywood

[Bestkeptsecret]

https://amzn.eu/d/hMQltzz

 

Italian edition of Graham Mcneill's Horus Heresy Fulgrim, to be published by Panini Comics. To be released on 22nd May 2025 on the German Amazon. Is this a comic book version, or the first time that this book is being translated into Italian? Can someone take a guess?

 

https://amzn.eu/d/aX1T9oJ

 

False Gods to be published in Italian on 8 May.

Edited March 25 by Bestkeptsecret

[Krelious]

2 hours ago, Bestkeptsecret said:

https://amzn.eu/d/hMQltzz

 

Italian edition of Graham Mcneill's Horus Heresy Fulgrim, to be published by Panini Comics. To be released on 22nd May 2025 on the German Amazon. Is this a comic book version, or the first time that this book is being translated into Italian? Can someone take a guess?

 

https://amzn.eu/d/aX1T9oJ

 

False Gods to be published in Italian on 8 May.

Time to brush up on my Italian

[grailkeeper]

Foreign language fraters. Are the translations any good?

Edited March 25 by grailkeeper

[DukeLeto69]

On 3/25/2025 at 6:45 PM, cheywood said:

I feel the same, but Hell’s Last is providing some degree of comfort. It’s Hill’s best work yet in my mind and an excellent guard novel. The Minka Lesk series is clearly an homage to Gaunt’s Ghosts in many ways (the focus on a single regiment, the large number of characters and varied settings, the bleak and relatively grounded tone) and this time I think it comes close to Abnett’s work in quality, even more so than Traitor Rock. I’ve been putting on jungle sounds in the background and it’s a joy to read. Hopefully the back half is as good as the front. 

That is good to hear. I read the first few Lesk novels and agree they are good and get progressively better. I really enjoy Justin Hill’s books and he is also a thoroughly decent chap which makes it all the better!

[The Scorpion]

On 3/25/2025 at 4:08 AM, darkhorse0607 said:

 

Yes,

 

The third edition of the game. Currently there's a lot of debate going around if that is this summers big release (part in thanks to valrak saying it is). On one hand, it matches the edition churn that GW is using of every three years now. On the other, people don't want it to be basically

On the one hand, Valrak has proven to have access to trusted sources

 

On the other, the man has zero immunity to hype

 

I wish the 3rd ed would overhaul the horrifically unthematic rules of the Dark Angels (where for example Ravenwing is good for Terminators and bad for bikes, and vice-versa) that they have been burdened with since the last black book, but my hopes are slim.

[Tolmeus]

There has been a serious lack of anything interesting regarding the current 40k universe for months. I know that the last Indomitus Crusade novel is going to be released in April, but come on, what is going on there? It has worked fine till 2023. And what about the Lion? Since his release there hasn't been anything forthcoming. 
Hopefully, they take there time to prepare some awesome new campaign...

[darkhorse0607]

I wonder if we're getting another Armaggedon book. ADB is writing the codex/campaign books lore side, and the next one is focused on the 65th Armageddon War (which, given that it's ADB is not surprising) so I wonder if there will be a novel eventually. Knowing BL probably in a year or two, but still. Seems like an easy sell

[theSpirea]

Next week pre-orders

 

Short stories info: Not to be upstaged in the villainry stakes, the Heretic Astartes are displaying their arrogance in a eShort subscription that starts on 7th April. There are five tales, which you can buy individually or as part of a subscription. The stories are Perfection and Pain by Jude Reid, We Were Brothers by Richard Fox, Blades of Atrocity by Mike Vincent, Seven Ships by Russell Zimmerman and The Only Way is Through by Avalon Irons.

Edited March 30 by theSpirea

[The Scorpion]

Love these 40k e-short weeks. Both the successors and the sisters of battle ones were good

[grailkeeper]

Avalon Irons? With a name like that this might be the first 40k story written by a 40k character.

[DarkChaplain]

There's a new Reader's Choice poll going on, and the picks are mindboggling again.

 

Vote Josh Reynolds' Neferata for WHFB. Even if it's just to signal them that Josh is beloved, and that they :cuss:ed up magnificently by axing the Blood of Nagash trilogy that Neferata opened.... Finale didn't happen because the End Times had to instead.

[theSpirea]

And as always, offer entries that are part of series and never bother reprinting the rest. Why the heck would anyone even vote for the first book in a series to be reprinted, knowing the rest won't be available.

How about do voting for series PoDs like they are doing with Gaunt's and Ciaphas. 

[darkhorse0607]

2 hours ago, DarkChaplain said:

Vote Josh Reynolds' Neferata for WHFB. Even if it's just to signal them that Josh is beloved

 

Did the same thing

 

and then for the World Engine. Never got around to reading it before. Deathwatch was my second pick but I think I still have a copy of that somewhere

[LemartesTheLost]

4 hours ago, theSpirea said:

And as always, offer entries that are part of series and never bother reprinting the rest. Why the heck would anyone even vote for the first book in a series to be reprinted, knowing the rest won't be available.

How about do voting for series PoDs like they are doing with Gaunt's and Ciaphas. 

 

To be fair to the Mephiston novel, I'm pretty sure that Blood of Sanguinius had a substantially lower number of copies printed than either Revenant Crusade or City of Light later on. While it won't win (my bet is on Deathwatch), I for one was quite excited about the prospect of grabbing a physical copy for less than $100 USD. Oh well!

[The Scorpion]

I would be okay with Deathwatch winning, if only to see if it can convince GeeDubs to bring Steve Parker back to write the 3rd book

[Fenriwolf]

On 3/25/2025 at 8:20 PM, Bestkeptsecret said:

https://amzn.eu/d/hMQltzz

 

Italian edition of Graham Mcneill's Horus Heresy Fulgrim, to be published by Panini Comics. To be released on 22nd May 2025 on the German Amazon. Is this a comic book version, or the first time that this book is being translated into Italian? Can someone take a guess?

 

https://amzn.eu/d/aX1T9oJ

 

False Gods to be published in Italian on 8 May.

 

I'm late to this but:

 

 BL had sold translation rights to a very small local publisher a few years back and that was -slowly- marching on 

 

Contract was rescinded this year and Panini is actually doing translations of BL books in italian for the forseeable future (first set of books should come out this month if i remember correctly)

 

 

So yeah, it's the books

 

And yeah, probably it's the first time we get far enough with a localized version of HH to reach Fulgrim.

The previous publisher i wrote about above had reached up to Galaxy in Flames. 

Yet another previous attempt had reached as far as Horus Rising if i remember correctly, but it's been a long while so i might be wrong (so yeah, that would also mean Flight of the Eisenstein is a new translation too)

 

Hilariously enough the only publisher that managed to release more than an handful of translated books before folding the attempt (or folding in general) here was a small game-centric one back in the late 90s/early 2000s, that's the reason we got Gaunt's Ghosts up to Traitor General, Gotrek and Felix up to Giantslayers and odd single books/small series from the very old times (Inquisition War / Claws of Chaos style), but that meant HH was still too "young"

No one lasted that long since, but i guess Panini might be making a play in case the multimedia stuff (see Amazon) ever gains traction so who knows how this round will go

 

 

Edit: went for a quick check, what's coming out is 

 

This month: Horus Rising / Flight of the Eisentstein / Leviathan / Son of the Forest

May: False Gods/ Galaxy In flames/ Fulgrim 

June: Eisenhorn 1 / The Infinite and the Divine

July: Krieg /  Dark Imperium  

 

Excluding Xeno and the above mentioned 3 opening HH books, everything else is "new"

 

There are more (Russ primarch novel, a few more HH books and others) but i can't really verify them atm. Seems that the first AoS books should come somewhere around october for example

Edited April 6 by Fenriwolf

[theSpirea]

I kinda like the style but after Daemonbreaker and Ashes of Cadia I'm not sure I trust Reid enough to go for SE. We'll see