‘Area Marine’ Hero Titus Leads New ‘Warhammer 40K’ Growth

Video games Workshop is constant the story of Warhammer 40,000 and Titus, the primary character of 2024’s Area Marine II, in an upcoming set of books for its sci-fi wargame.

Revealed throughout this weekend’s Warhammer World Championship Preview, the four-book sequence, dubbed 500 Worlds: Titus, function the subsequent main narrative enlargement for Warhammer 40K. Set in the course of the Ultramarian Reclamation, Titus—now promoted to the rank of Captain—leads the Ultramarines Second Firm in opposition to a a Necron pressure “rife with the Destroyer curse.”

The place the primary e book options lore and photographs of miniatures, the second e book, Warfare on the Vespator Entrance, accommodates a brand-new marketing campaign system. In it, three factions battle in opposition to one another to manage vital areas on a big marketing campaign map. The third e book, Dread Incursions, options new maps and missions that may be performed with Vespator or independently, and the final e book has new Warhammer 40K detachments for the Area Marines and Necrons.

Alongside the 500 Worlds books, Video games Workshop additionally unveiled new miniatures for Titus and his advisors and confidants that make up the Wardens of Ultramar. Some are outdated buddies of Titus, corresponding to Area Marine II alums Gadriel and Metaurus, others like Amelia Minervas and Lucia Vestha are model new. On the opposing aspect of this battle are the Necrons, that are lead by Nekrosor Ammentar, the supposed creator of the Destroyer curse. Greater than its varied Destroyers, the Nekrosor’s strongest weapon on the battlefield is C’tan Shard of Nightbringer, which Video games Workshop’s referred to as “an actual worst-case state of affairs for the Ultramarines.”

Games Workshop didn’t present a launch date or value level for these new Warhammer 40K additions, however it did promise extra information was coming and that “Titus will probably be again.”

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