40k New Black Templar, Space Wolf & Tyranid Combat Patrols

[Lord Marshal]

More Patrols to Combat... or summat.

 

 

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The Space Wolves kick things off with a spread of their brand new kits – five Wolf Guard Terminators, 10 Blood Claws, and a Wolf Guard Battle Leader – joined by five Wulfen to dial their savagery up to 11. The mix of speed, durability, and numbers makes it the perfect core for a new Space Wolves army, and one of the most potent close combat forces in the arena of Combat Patrol. 

 

 

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If you need any proof that the Black Templars are taking their claim to melee supremacy seriously, look closer – they’ve only gone and brought the Emperor’s Champion along in their new Combat Patrol. The 10-man Crusader squad puts out respectable firepower and can hold their own in close combat, while the meat of the team comes in the form of three Bladeguard Veterans and five Sword Brethren. Very stabby indeed.

 

 

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They’ll need someone to fight, of course, and who better than the Tyranids? The Tyranid Assault Brood mixes a swift squad of 10 Genestealers with three heavily armoured Tyrant Guard and a Biovore, giving you solid punch at short and long range, before capping it all off with the terrifying Parasite of Mortrex – a unique bioform that swoops from the skies and injects larval eggs into its prey.

 

Edited July 14 by Lord Marshal

[Indy Techwisp]

Apparently out "Later this year".

[SalamandersBro]

Interesting.  They scaled back the minis in the tyranid box.

[DemonGSides]

1 minute ago, Indy Techwisp said:

Apparently out "Later this year".

 

That's just WHC for "Eventually, and they wouldn't let us say exactly when".  It literally narrows nothing down for us unfortunately.

I gotta say, these three Combat Patrols look like STELLAR introductions to their respective forces as well as being great boxes for anyone bulking up a force that may have been started previously.  All three have useful units that see play both competitively and casually, and all three have a good variety of units too.  These are all so thematic and wonderful I have to wonder if the IG combat patrol was so negatively received that they've decided "Hey we have to do better in the future" and have taken it to heart.
 

I'm considering the BT one just to kitbash with some older BA stuff to get some cooler looking models since we got shafted so hard. 

[irlLordy]

Was the Space Wolf one not already announced? 

 

Also, its a bit odd that they didn't give the name of the Black Templar or Nid boxes :) 

[Lord Marshal]

17 minutes ago, irlLordy said:

Was the Space Wolf one not already announced? 

 

I don't think they officially announced it, but it was in the codex iirc.

[sitnam]

I find the Nid box a bit odd, being a combination of Vanguard organisms and heavier bioforms. Kind of wish it leaned more into the heavier side of things, but it does seem like a nice compliment to the starter sets

[Marshal Reinhard]

Interesting. Think this is the first we've seen of an officially painted Black Templars Bladeguard squad. Rocking the sword brethren colours as they should.

 

There was of course of this single one-off miniature that someone painted way back when 9th released and blade guard were the hot thang and which rocked the ordinary initiates black cross on white background:

 

My point is I bet all those who took this one-off as gospel on how to paint them feel reeeeeally silly now

 

Edited July 14 by Marshal Reinhard

[redmapa]

The Black Templar combat patrol is really cool, it has everything Ive been wanting to buy so definitely a buy for me in the future. I hope this means that they'll release soon after the upcoming preview.

[zarkkarn]

6 minutes ago, redmapa said:

The Black Templar combat patrol is really cool, it has everything Ive been wanting to buy so definitely a buy for me in the future. I hope this means that they'll release soon after the upcoming preview.

 

Rumours are next month for black templars, guess we might know more after the reveal show this week.

[Marshal Rohr]

Lmao wulfen in a combat patrol 

[Northern Walker]

1 hour ago, irlLordy said:

Was the Space Wolf one not already announced? 

 

Also, its a bit odd that they didn't give the name of the Black Templar or Nid boxes :) 

Not officially, in classic GW stupidity. No sign of any kind of upgrade sprue for the mainline units either, interestingly.

[Cleon]

I'm so lucky wallet wise the black templars only come in black. If I wasn't burned out on black power armour from Death Company and Deathwatch it'd be very hard to resist that box as an intro to the cool sculpts

[01RTB01]

It's great to see some more diversity within the CP boxes. A lot this edition haven't been very interesting, the ork one for example was very boring compared to its previous iteration. Hopefully these new boxes are trends of what's happening going forward.

 

I just wish that they'd do something to support the game format. Having played a bunch of AoS spearhead games at the weekend, there's so much they could do to make combat patrol its own viable thing but there's been no effort put into it.

[DemonGSides]

Yeah if they could approach spearhead levels of "Actually fun to play, even while losing badly." then Combat Patrol might actually be a good avenue to introduce people to the game.

[ZeroWolf]

Damm that Nid one us actually pretty tempting. I'll only be doubling up on the Parasite. Well played GW.

[CL_Mission]

The other Combat Patrols were expected as SW, BT and GK have got or will get their 10th edition codex soon but I wonder what made GW feel like updating the Tyranid box. Maybe with the large swath of Space Marine Combat Patrols rumoured to be on their way GW just wanted to take the opportunity to mix things up for the other factions and generate a little interest for them in Combat Patrol as well. I wouldn't mind if they wanted to do a new box for Necrons as the current one have little to interest me at the moment.

For these ones the BT box does look really nice.

[Frogian]

 

5 hours ago, CL_Mission said:

 but I wonder what made GW feel like updating the Tyranid box.

Might just be they thought people with Levithan boxes were more likely to buy a new one. i feel like it goes quite well with what was in there

[Castellan Wulfrik]

That tyranid set is really nice, I can’t remember any of the units being in discounts before besides the genestealers if you count the old kit. 

[beefeb]

Wolves box is ruined by the wulfen...god they are awful models, which ruin the magnificent new sculpts.  Templar box and Nid box look great....from a models perspective...i dont game, i just collect and paint so i cant comment on their effectiveness in the game.

[Antarius]

I do wonder a little bit at the Tyranid one, to be honest. I mean, it's a nice bunch of models, but it seems a bit thrown together to me. Specifically, the Tyrant Guard seem like an odd choice to put in with a flying warlord.

 

Oh well, still a nice way of getting a bunch of cool models at a discount.

[Cactus]

I suspect the target market for the new Tyranid patrol is people who already have the old one from Hachette's Combat Patrol partwork. The Tyranid portion is currently close to (or recently) complete in the USA release and premium subscribers will have a big bug too that I assume the tyrant guard can assist.

[jaxom]

21 hours ago, DemonGSides said:

Yeah if they could approach spearhead levels of "Actually fun to play, even while losing badly." then Combat Patrol might actually be a good avenue to introduce people to the game.

The newer Combat Patrols have given me serious AoS Spearhead themed composition vibes. I wonder if this is leading to next year’s 40k 11th edition having a proper Spearheas counterpart as it’s big improvement from 10th Ed.

[DemonGSides]

I'm really hoping.  I don't LOVE Kill Team, as it doesn't quite scratch the same type of itch as squad based warfare, so I would like a product that's a little less terrain onerous than Board Actions (I've got half a table ready... slowly working to a full table).

[Wispy]

On 7/14/2025 at 8:37 AM, Marshal Reinhard said:

:My point is I bet all those who took this one-off as gospel on how to paint them feel reeeeeally silly now

 

 

ok