500 Worlds: Titus (Wardens of Ultramar & Nekrosor Ammentar)

[Jscarlos18]

I'm only interested in seeing if Old One Eye will get an update considering he was left stranded there.

[Orange Knight]

2 hours ago, Deus_Ex_Machina said:

500 worlds? So does this mean 500 habitable worlds or are bare rocks and gas giants included? Anyway, here is Gee-Dubbs plan to milk the normies:

 

I think it's 500 habitable/useful planets spread across almost as many stars systems.

[Nephaston]

2 hours ago, TheVoidDragon said:

Interesting that the cover of the Titus book involves art of non-Primaris Marines and the classic dreadnought. The book description says it just covers the lore of the 500 worlds campaign so not sure why they'd go for that if it's a past event not directly relevant. 

 

It's a classic one, though I do remember that it originally was in black and white.

 

2 hours ago, Deus_Ex_Machina said:

500 worlds? So does this mean 500 habitable worlds or are bare rocks and gas giants included? Anyway, here is Gee-Dubbs plan to milk the normies:

 

Each week will see the battle at one world with accompanying merchandise material of heroes, villains and whatnot in the form of collectible stickers and a large tome to stick them all in. In a year this will mean Little Timmy will be able/forced to buy 52 of them. And to collect all stickers for each world event in the campaign he will be spending ca. 9.6 years. Great move, Gee-Dubbs. And be wary of duplicates, folks! 

 

The "Ultimate Guide" they released last year via DK Books confirmed that it's 500 inhabited worlds, though of course it doesn't go into detail of naming them all. They did show off the included map on stream though neither stream nor article have shown the included stickers nor mentioned a number. All in all it's 13 worlds in the so calle "vespartor front".

 

[TheMawr]

On 11/9/2025 at 12:02 AM, Blindhamster said:

 

@Chapter Master Valrak said on his video about it, that as far as he knows they arent the end of edition campaign.

 

He did ? Thats kind of interesting actually. Do you remember the larger context ?

 

It kind of makes sense when you think about it that this 4 books in a box presentation isnt something they want to make 4 or 5 of in a less than 6 months period after all. Its a kind of expensive product/company side for a relatively niche product/consumer side.

This one being a one-off isnt that strange.

 

What is strange though is that it would mean we still havent had the end-of-edition campaign announced yet, despite rumors from 2 sides making it out to be quite big ( in terms of miniature releases.)

At its most conservative I count 16 kits ( excluding the 3 next year coming with 500 worlds, and the 3 named xenos characters wich I do think will be part of it, getting back to that. )

-- 4 Eldar corsairs ( Yriel, corsair psyker, jumppack corsairs, vyper )
-- 2 Red corsairs ( Huron+crew, unit with hunters in name )
-- 3 Iron Warriors ( Perturabo, Upgrade sprue, Obliterators mentioned )
-- 2 Sisters of Battle ( a character and a unit )
-- 2 Skitarii  ( a character and a unit, though its possible maybe this was a mistaken rumor and it was about the HH ones ? Did valrak say anything in this regard on the stream ?)
-- Yarrick, Red terror, Trazyn

 

And again, that IS a very conservative take on that list of rumors. Especially Iron warriors sounds to be more than that, and at least Yarrick is doubtful to come without a nemesis on Armageddon.
 

Coming back to how it relates to the 3 xenos characters announced, they seem very random. But especially if 500 worlds isnt the end of edition campaign, then I think these 3 are definitely the first tease of it. And this works both ways, they would announce them as part of the same series if 500 worlds was... so it gives some fuel to that.

 

While they seem very random, a 3 way first campaign book involving a combination of Tau, Leagues of Votann and Tyranids isnt the strangest thing out there ( though, you'd think they'd switch their Tyranid slayer character recently released with the Ork slayer character if that was the case, but at least the twins backstory involves the hivemind. ) I could see these 3 ( together with the red terror rumor, held back for wow-factor ) accompanying the actual, unrumored, first book.
 

Yeah, while I see it making sense that 500 worlds is not the end-of-edition campaign, it does raise questions.

Ofcourse Psychic awakening and AoS dawnbringers prove such a campaign can have this size of releases, but both where much longer in time. ( Dawnbringers was announced a year before AoS 4th edition )

 

Really getting more fuel for my heavily disagreed with pet theory.. might make a post about that in amicus when I find the time.

 

On 11/9/2025 at 1:34 AM, Nephaston said:

 

I'm fairly certain it's gonna be multiple different warzones all following the same structure as 500 worlds. With a whole campaign system for the specific sector, a model for the titular character and an antagonist, with the antagonist also having a battalion.

So for Huron/Yriel it's gonna be something like Maelstrom: Blackheart, Huron with maybe a retinue, Yriel with Battalion: Eldar Corsairs.

 

Despite the above rumor + speculation, wether or not the others are similar to 500 worlds or not, I could see it be like :

 

???? : the announced 3 xenos characters + red terror 
Maelstrom : Huron vs Yriel and their accompanying releases
Agripinaa** : Perturabo vs Skitari character and their accompanying releases .. maybe Valraks older Kaldor Draigo for EoE campaign rumor returns here too.
Armageddon : Yarrick vs Ghazkul ( but since ghazkul has a miniature already, maybe Mad doc Grosnik.. would be funny if he was captured by him, not by trazyn as some people theorise his return... awakening in captivity by Grotsnik.. with memory loss, can give the basis of some nice is he or isnt he vagueries )

 

Missing a place for Trazyn and the Sisters of Battle rumors there though, but I guess the former could show his face literally anywhere and how empty Armageddon looks in that list, maybe the SoB are there sainting yarrick.. or we are missing a warzone.

 

** I chose Agripinaa to make sense of the Admech for the end of edition campaign rumors. But beyond that, I do think the Iron warriors come from the Eye of terror, but the actual warzone will be one of the surrounding worlds.

 

Also in that list there is a lack of obvious spacemarine joining in, pretty sure they will be there, but potentially without new releases ( Lysander's story for example says he is currently active around the area specifically because of Iron warriors sightings, but he is already released, near the bottom here  https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/ysq9tys7/darnath-lysander-captain-of-the-first-company/  the world he is on is Hazzepeth, maybe that will be the warzone, Im going to thoroughly reread the others to see with more info they might have shown hints that werent recognisable as such earlier.)

1 hour ago, Indy Techwisp said:

 

They'd be a wonderful TSons Mortal Character addition but we kinda lack anything for them to lead until GW gives us some kind of unique Cultist (Tzaangors don't count).

 

This one would be more of a psychic assassin lone-operative type than a leader type though ( when mentally translating what happens in the animation to the tabletop ) 

But, and I say this while liking tzaangor, tzaangor indeed do not count and regular cultists ( thrall wizards! ) are direly missing from the roster.

 

During Psychic awakening they had these online stories every week, and one focused on a gathering of cultists for Prospero, with the final initiation being to cut out one eye I believe. It really seemed to build up to something to me that never really materialised ( wich.. was kind of the tone of PA, but Im sort of fine with it )

[ThaneOfTas]

Well I'm probably going to get this kit, and I'm def getting the books, despite not playing Ultramarines, Titus is my boy and I love those human models along with them. Obviously I'll be giving Metaurus a power axe though, what a weird decision to leave that off.

[DarkAddick]

Interested to hear more about this 500 Worlds thing. Odd of this isn’t the end of edition campaign considering where we are in the cycle of the edition. Part of me is thinking this and the other Ultramarines releases is whether GW are trying to make the most of Space Marine 2 (I.e. an upper management edict) and churning out things that may not necessarily have been planned or at least planned with everything else?

[Magos Takatus]

18 hours ago, Nephaston said:

 

I can fix her...

I don't know how to tell you this... but she's probably more likely to fix you.... by turning you into a nine-legged feathered squirrel with beaks for feet. 

[Orange Knight]

This all came a bit late, imo, after the release of SM2 however the promotion Titus has received has people talking AND speclating about SM3.

 

GW are obviously aware of the success of the game and how it can drive their sales. I'm hopeful they have something in the works for the Blood Ravens and the DoW4 launch.

 

It doesn't have to be a lot - Two heroes, and upgrade sprue, a unique detachment and a combat patrol.

[Magos Takatus]

6 minutes ago, Orange Knight said:

This all came a bit late, imo, after the release of SM2 however the promotion Titus has received has people talking AND speclating about SM3.

 

GW are obviously aware of the success of the game and how it can drive their sales. I'm hopeful they have something in the works for the Blood Ravens and the DoW4 launch.

 

It doesn't have to be a lot - Two heroes, and upgrade sprue, a unique detachment and a combat patrol.

That would be really cool... following that I'd like Mechanicus 2 to give the Admech some really cool named character models based on the fieldable characters in the game...

 

[Nephaston]

2 hours ago, DarkAddick said:

Interested to hear more about this 500 Worlds thing. Odd of this isn’t the end of edition campaign considering where we are in the cycle of the edition.

Fairly confident they are gonna o multiple little campaigns instead of one big one, judging by the rumours.

 

57 minutes ago, Orange Knight said:

This all came a bit late, imo, after the release of SM2 however the promotion Titus has received has people talking AND speclating about SM3.

It's gonna be interesting if SM3 is gonna be about how he became captain again, in which case GW kinda spoiled it but whatever, or if it is gonna be about the 500 worlds campaign itself. With some of the recent additions to Necrons like Macrocytes and Tomb Crawlers to supplement warriors they do fit the Minoris/Majoris/Extremis/Terminus divide a bit better and I would love for them to be the antagonists. Being situated in Ultramar would also make it easy to have Death Guard, but now I'm basically just heading into wishlisting territory.

[Lord Marshal]

22 hours ago, Magos Takatus said:

Man, I really need a good pirate-off now. Throw in some Freebootas and an Adeptus Mechanicus Explorator with a heckin' big Ark Mechanicus, a mechanical leg and a fancy hat and I'm absolutely there. Hell, Drukhari are pretty much the pirate faction, give them some fun too. add a new Rogue Trader... All good.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if we saw Kaptin Bluudflagg get a new sculpt. The fluff for the new Votann character states that, "his crusades have earned him the enmity of a powerful Freeboota Kaptin, and it was during a duel against this hated rival that Berehk’s original arms were burned away" 

 

Would certainly make sense to throw him in with Huron and Yriel.

 

Edited Monday at 11:51 AM by Lord Marshal

[TheVoidDragon]

 

I'm sure the part of this about it being a box of multiple books was talked about in one of the rumours somewhere, anyone know if that was Valrak or someone else? Wondering what was said along with it 

 

3 hours ago, Orange Knight said:

This all came a bit late, imo, after the release of SM2 however the promotion Titus has received has people talking AND speclating about SM3.

 

GW are obviously aware of the success of the game and how it can drive their sales. I'm hopeful they have something in the works for the Blood Ravens and the DoW4 launch.

 

It doesn't have to be a lot - Two heroes, and upgrade sprue, a unique detachment and a combat patrol.

 

It's only been a year since the game released, though. I'm not sure how that is "late", especially when you take into account that these would have been designed well before the game even released and the popularity of space marine 2. 

[Orange Knight]

1 hour ago, TheVoidDragon said:

 

 

It's only been a year since the game released, though. I'm not sure how that is "late", especially when you take into account that these would have been designed well before the game even released and the popularity of space marine 2. 

 

Are we 100% sure about this?

I'm not. The typical GW production cycle for models is a few years but they probably could move something forward if they really had to - such as to capitalise on the success of a peripheral product like the video game.

[roryokane]

These are excellent models. I especially like the baseline humans. They look a little like they've got nods to the Solar Auxilia which feels appropriate for the Ultramar Defence Auxilia given that they're equipped and drilled to an excellent level by Guard standards and they are, if you were a particularly suspicious inquisitor, rather similar in idea to the auxilia the Space Marine legions used to have attached. The 500 Worlds being a thing that Guilliman wants to re-establish is nice.

One thing really vexes me though - I got used to having a chart in my Codices detailing who was captain of which company of the Ultramarines, and they sortof did away with that over the last few editions. I would very much like that brought back (even if Titus does break historical canon or is simply over 400 years old so predates Agemann as 2nd Company captain back before the 1st Tyrannic War). Need to monitor continuity, damn it!

[Karhedron]

5 hours ago, Nephaston said:

It's gonna be interesting if SM3 is gonna be about how he became captain again, in which case GW kinda spoiled it but whatever

 

Maybe the opening mission will cover it in the same way that opening mission of SM2 covers his crossing of the Rubicon Primaris. Then the rest of the game will proceed to tell a new story.

[TheVoidDragon]

1 hour ago, Orange Knight said:

 

Are we 100% sure about this?

I'm not. The typical GW production cycle for models is a few years but they probably could move something forward if they really had to - such as to capitalise on the success of a peripheral product like the video game.

 

I doubt they could rush out these miniatures and an entire set of narrative campaign books in a year. Things are going to be planned out and fit into the production schedule far in advance. 

[roryokane]

6 minutes ago, TheVoidDragon said:

 

I doubt they could rush out these miniatures and an entire set of narrative campaign books in a year. Things are going to be planned out and fit into the production schedule far in advance. 

The necrons were teased in SM 2...

 

[Halandaar]

On 11/8/2025 at 11:26 PM, DeadFingers said:

Curiously, I think Valrak mentioned in his latest video that he thinks this 500 Worlds thing isn't the narrative series. No idea about details, kinda been told about it second hand, so take that grain of salt with a grain of salt. Though with Boole's latest rumourmongering nonsense placing Yriel at the Maelstrom, which is very much not in Ultramar turf, maybe there's a point in there. Although Valrak also said (no idea if legit rumour or personal speculation) that every book would take place in a different place. So who knows, really.

 

*Shrug* - regardless of whether every book shares the "500 Worlds" tagline, there are going to be more books and they're going to be in a similar format to this. 

 

That said, if it's not part of a wider series you'd have to ask why the book isn't just called "Titus" rather than "500 Worlds - Titus" if the 500 Worlds bit isn't going to continue to be relevant. Why does 500 Worlds have its own logo in a new typeface, why is that logo printed on the front of a Necron Battalion box of not to tie multiple similar products together, etc. 

 

I mean, this is the format end-of-edition campaigns take: campaign book focusing on a few factions in part of a wider conflict, with new supporting miniatures and bundle boxes. They've even already shown us the models that will need future publications to deliver their rules (Tyranid, Votann, Tau) so the idea that this is a standalone is weird to me. 

[TheVoidDragon]

4 hours ago, roryokane said:

The necrons were teased in SM 2...

 

 

That's something unrelated to this, though

[Dark Shepherd]

6 hours ago, Orange Knight said:

 

Are we 100% sure about this?

I'm not. The typical GW production cycle for models is a few years but they probably could move something forward if they really had to - such as to capitalise on the success of a peripheral product like the video game.

Insiders have said before the production schedule is done about a year in advance so that would line up with SM2 selling even better than expected?

[NTaW]

4 hours ago, roryokane said:

The necrons were teased in SM 2...

 

 

There has been so much extra content for that game since its release it isn't hard to imagine there's already work done on the announced third installment. Plenty of Tomb World assets to use too, it really wouldn't be a stretch for them to make Necrons the next main antagonist. I don't think it's beyond GW to try and capitalize on the popularity of their videogames by playing the long game like this at all.

[HeadlessCross]

9 hours ago, roryokane said:

The necrons were teased in SM 2...

 

Mind explaining? Didn't complete the game yet and I don't care about spoilers LOL 

[jaxom]

40 minutes ago, HeadlessCross said:

Mind explaining? Didn't complete the game yet and I don't care about spoilers LOL 

Spoiler

One of the three worlds (maybe a moon?) has a Necron complex buried under the surface. Something happened to it, the only Necrons you see are inactive large canoptek constructs (tomb stalkers or sentinels I think) buried to various degrees under rubble or merged with walls and floor. The planet/moon also has Necron pylons for suppressing or enhancing the warp, depending on polarity. Upon seeing Necron murals, Titus gives his companions a few tidbits about the Necrons that he learned during his time with the Deathwatch.

 

[Mogger351]

8 hours ago, NTaW said:

 

There has been so much extra content for that game since its release it isn't hard to imagine there's already work done on the announced third installment. Plenty of Tomb World assets to use too, it really wouldn't be a stretch for them to make Necrons the next main antagonist. I don't think it's beyond GW to try and capitalize on the popularity of their videogames by playing the long game like this at all.

Oddly all they miss is a basic melee unit. They could use flayed ones but I don't feel that'd be right. So maybe we'll get a melee warriors kit?

[NTaW]

4 hours ago, Mogger351 said:

Oddly all they miss is a basic melee unit. They could use flayed ones but I don't feel that'd be right. So maybe we'll get a melee warriors kit?

 

More likely I'd guess some stabby Canoptek option. We've seen a rise of them since plasmacytes, and they're what we got in the recent Kill Team box as ancillary units.

 

I have no idea the turnaround for game production, but I imagine both GW and Saber would be very interested in making more money. Add in all the licenced merch, Warhammer + content, and the deal with Amazon, and you may just be left with a big ol' company with a variety of income avenues tying it all together around their most (?) popular (see also: well known to the masses) character for better brand awareness.

 

I'm currently listening to Godblight and Guilliman remarks something along the lines of "I never rely on a single outcome". I don't find it hard to believe that GW would plan for a variety of possibilities so that they have a model or two sculpted and ready to go, to be released to capitalize on popularity or to be shoehorned in for one of those random character releases we get with Codex or Campaign books.