Upcoming BL Stuff 2026

[darkhorse0607]

If anything I will be interested to see how much tie-in with the models there actually is. It isn't like the last few boxes where there was something actually new in them. With the exception of the ork dreadnought, everything is a refresh or just a different spin on something that already exists (Ancient, Intercessors, etc)

 

I imagine it goes something like this

 

"Random sister of battle 23, gazes up at the herd of orks charging her way. Then she saw the reinforcements she never imagined... NEVER BEFORE SEEN INTERCESSOR SPACE MARINES^tm" 

 

 

edit* on the topic of yesterday @LemartesTheLost

They talked about the Blood Angels response (briefly) in a WHC article today

 

"Brother-Captain Sendini* of the Blood Angels honoured his Chapter’s oaths to the planet and brought what Space Marines he could"

 

That's it. So no mention of how they got there, why the 5th Company marking went from a black blood drop to gold, etc. 

 

*double edit, going back through the pictures, some of them have black company markings, but I swore that there were gold ones during the stream

Edited May 5 by darkhorse0607

[grailkeeper]

I interacted a bit with Jude Redi when her first bl book came out. She seemed very nice. She has since deleted her twitter tho.

[cheywood]

23 hours ago, Tolmeus said:

"Dark Imperium" by Guy Haley = 8th edition
"Indomitus" by Gav Thorpe = 9th edition

 

Two prominent authors of Black Library, even at the point of time when they were comissioned to write the tie-in-novels

To me Dark Imperium is what made Haley as popular as he is now. People liked him before, but that tie-in started him off as one of the primary writers of fiction in the new edition. However it’s also been 9 years so maybe my memory’s off. 
 

I don’t really think of Thorpe as that popular/prominent. He’s prolific and well known for sure, but it feels like his books always have a lukewarm reception.

[wecanhaveallthree]

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However it’s also been 9 years 

 

no it hasn't

 

There are plenty of very nice people writing books. It is, of course, important to remember that they are not - yet - soulless automatons without thought or feeling. But I'm getting real big 'it's secretly an anthology book to paper over the author's weaknesses' just like Triumph of Saint Katherine was. Some people just can't make the jump to long-form fiction. Scale is generally the biggest issue (as mentioned). They just can't write widely enough. Close-in character pieces have their time and certainly their place - some of my favourite stories are close-in character pieces - but when you're writing the book for the Big War, and you're not telling a Big War story, there's a problem. 

 

tl;dr every book should be Necropolis or Requiem Infernal, no exceptions. 

Edited May 6 by wecanhaveallthree
WE PLUNDER AND FEAST ON ANY MAN ANY BEAST, DOESN'T MATTER, WE'LL EDIT THEM ALL

[Nagashsnee]

While i adore Necropolis....it and the word scale just dont go together.  Like scale is its biggest failure, in numbers, in size, in geography.  

 

Necropolis is basically a close in character piece set in a 'massive siege'. Theres like so many enemies and like so MANY defenders. Now excuse me as i lead 24 soldiers, a small but vicious dog, and my imaginary gerbil in repelling this next 'massive'assault. 

 

 

[DukeLeto69]

18 hours ago, Nagashsnee said:

While i adore Necropolis....it and the word scale just dont go together.  Like scale is its biggest failure, in numbers, in size, in geography.  

 

Necropolis is basically a close in character piece set in a 'massive siege'. Theres like so many enemies and like so MANY defenders. Now excuse me as i lead 24 soldiers, a small but vicious dog, and my imaginary gerbil in repelling this next 'massive'assault. 

 

 

“It’s no ordinary Gerbil!”

[Nagashsnee]

3 hours ago, DukeLeto69 said:

“It’s no ordinary Gerbil!”

The star child used enuchia to bind the soul of the king in yellow deamonic familiar into a gerbil, wiped its memory and had it grow up a simple lower Vervunhive pipe cleaning gerbil.

 

Trust me i have a advance copy of pandemonium, let me tell you once Gaunt shows up and links up with Basilo Flo it really puts things into perspective.

[grailkeeper]

On 5/6/2026 at 12:50 PM, wecanhaveallthree said:

 

 

tl;dr every book should be Necropolis or Requiem Infernal, no exceptions. 

If Infinite and the Divine has taught us anything, its that every book should be about time travelling robots that arent friends. 

[DukeLeto69]

2 hours ago, Nagashsnee said:

The star child used enuchia to bind the soul of the king in yellow deamonic familiar into a gerbil, wiped its memory and had it grow up a simple lower Vervunhive pipe cleaning gerbil.

 

Trust me i have a advance copy of pandemonium, let me tell you once Gaunt shows up and links up with Basilo Flo it really puts things into perspective.

Yes I can see how that flows and remember “That's no ordinary gerbil! That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!”

[darkhorse0607]

6 hours ago, Nagashsnee said:

The star child used enuchia to bind the soul of the king in yellow deamonic familiar into a gerbil, wiped its memory and had it grow up a simple lower Vervunhive pipe cleaning gerbil.

 

Trust me i have a advance copy of pandemonium, let me tell you once Gaunt shows up and links up with Basilo Flo it really puts things into perspective.

 

Somewhere out there, there is a BL editor putting the stamp of approval on this 

[Nagashsnee]

15 hours ago, darkhorse0607 said:

 

Somewhere out there, there is a BL editor putting the stamp of approval on this 

 

I have little doubt that they would. After the end and the death parts 1-2-3 my faith in BL editorial as actual book editors  is at a all time low. 

[theSpirea]

My excellent customer experience with BL continues. I finally got the last Gaunt's PODs but they sent only 4 books out of 3.

 

I'm considering more and more to ditch this whole hobby and sell my full collection. I can't remember the last order from GW/BL that would be without issues.

 

edit: I saw some Reddit posts where people mentioned GW splitting the order and receiving the 4th book separately. If that's the case, would be great if GW communicated it/sent two tracking numbers.

Edited May 14 by theSpirea

[Ubiquitous1984]

39 minutes ago, theSpirea said:

My excellent customer experience with BL continues. I finally got the last Gaunt's PODs but they sent only 4 books out of 3.

 

I'm considering more and more to ditch this whole hobby and sell my full collection. I can't remember the last order from GW/BL that would be without issues.

I sold my collection last year and it was a liberating experience.  Saturday mornings are no stress.   And I realised I wasn’t even having fun!

 

I now pick and choose audiobooks to listen to.  
 

Selling the collection also helped pay for a lot of things for my house!

[darkhorse0607]

Hive is on audible. Run time is 24 hours so I'm assuming you get both books for the one credit

 

Narrated by Toby Longworth 

[The Praetorian of Inwit]

Has there been any rumours of any further books for Emperor's Children?

[DarkChaplain]

5 hours ago, darkhorse0607 said:

Hive is on audible. Run time is 24 hours so I'm assuming you get both books for the one credit

 

Narrated by Toby Longworth 

 

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A double-barrelled set of novels from Dan Abnett, exploring the Adeptus Arbites attempts to enforce Imperial law on a sprawling hive planet amid scandals, cults, and much worse.

 

Looks like it

[grailkeeper]

Just bought Hive. I get a message on my kindle saying download is taking longer than expected. I've never gotten that before. Maybe it's a sign of the length of the book.

[System Sound]

34 minutes ago, grailkeeper said:

Just bought Hive. I get a message on my kindle saying download is taking longer than expected. I've never gotten that before. Maybe it's a sign of the length of the book.

It's downloading a thesaurus additionally...

[Ubiquitous1984]

I’ve just downloaded the Hive audiobook.  It’s over 24 hours of Dan Abnett/Toby Longworth.  And it cost one audible credit.  
 

That’s just phenomenal value for money.  
 

Also huge credit to GW we give them a lot of grief and rightly so at times, but not splitting the audiobook into two was very generous of them!

[DarkChaplain]

We're getting an illustrated edition of Ciaphas Cain: For the Emperor

 

More importantly, though, after over two decades, Cain & Jurgen are FINALLY getting their own miniatures!

 

First 40k models I'll be buying in years, those.

[Felix Antipodes]

After GW announced they will be releasing pre-painted terrain, there was speculation that pre-painted models would be next.  The HM paint jobs on the Cain/Jurgen models shows why this is not a good idea.

Having said that, I have already put in an advanced order with my local for when they are released.

As for the A&I edition of For The Emperor, will we see it up for pre-order next week so we can get a second release for the month?

[DarkChaplain]

TWO releases in a single month? How greedy can you get :')

[The Scorpion]

In what seemed to me like the blink of an eye, a flurry of books came out.

Not just Abnett's Hive, but like 4 guard stories: the one with the Chem Dogs, the one with the Tempestus Scions, the one by Lyons where Kriegsmen go into catacombs, and the one with the Death Riders.

Two have comissar protagonists, two have Death Korps. I admit they blurred together and I am discovering them just now.
They'll have to wait, cuz I'm reading Path of the Eldar first. I've heard that Thorpe did a good job depicting them as emotionally charged and sensitive, and so far I agree. It is a good change of pace from the hardass protagonists of Imperial novels.