The Khazalite Holds are about to give duardin collectors a very enjoyable dilemma: which miniature gets the first turn under the painting lamp? Their new Army Set brings armoured Clanshields, ancestral stone guardians and an Oathkeeper Cannon together under Hjulda Drakkblud. If weathered stone, rich metals and a stubborn mountain-fortress theme sound like your sort of project, there is plenty here to linger over.
Bomran’s Warhammer pre-orders for this wave are scheduled to open at 10am UK time on Saturday 17 October 2026. Joining the Khazalite Holds Army Set are the commemorative Oath Fulfilled Warqueen, ready-painted Battlefields: Armageddon terrain and Gary Kloster’s Blacktalon novel, Shadow of the Silver Wolf. Between them, they offer a new force to build, a character to lavish attention on, a battlefield to assemble and a mystery to disappear into when the brushes go down.
Warhammer artwork used for illustration; the pictured character is not part of the Khazalite Holds Army Set.
Khazalite Holds Army Set
A hold worth making your own
There is a lovely sense of purpose behind the Khazalite Holds. These duardin build mountain settlements with formidable upper defences and deep halls devoted to forges, armouries and the remembrance of their ancestors. Craftsmanship matters. So does keeping the family history alive, preferably behind a very well-defended gate.
Hjulda Drakkblud gives that setting a personal thread. She is searching for lost karaks, including her clan’s vanished home. It is an inviting starting point for a collection: you could give your force the colours of a hold it hopes to reclaim, then carry fragments of the same stonework across its bases. A little thought about where these duardin belong can make even the first rank of warriors feel part of something larger.
The Army Set contains:
- Hjulda Drakkblud
- 10 Clanshields
- 3 Gholems of Gazul
- An Oathkeeper Cannon
- Battletome: Khazalite Holds with an exclusive cover
- 53 warscroll cards
Those miniatures form the Drakkblud’s Clanguard Spearhead, which gives the project a welcome finish line. You can work towards a named force, with the battletome and cards on hand to explore the faction beyond it. The Army Set is a limited-stock release; the battletome will also receive a separate release later.
Before the glue comes out, check the build options. The cannon can instead become a Stonebreaker Mortar, while the Gholems have a Valaya alternative. If your first aim is to field Drakkblud’s Clanguard, check the Spearhead’s required configuration before choosing those alternatives. It is a small pause that could save a great deal of grumbling later.
Then comes the fun of finding a palette. The Clanshields offer armour and weapons, the artillery brings in duardin engineering, and Gazul’s Gholems introduce the stone of guardians associated with tombs and remembrance. That is a satisfying spread of textures within one force. A shared metal colour could link the warriors and cannon; matching stone tones on the Gholems and bases could suggest that everything belongs to the same reclaimed hold.
Try your scheme on a single Clanshield before committing the whole unit. Get the balance of armour, shield and base working there, and you have a useful guide for the rest. The stone guardians then give you somewhere to change pace without abandoning the army’s overall look.
A grudge worth keeping
The first battle-trait preview is wonderfully appropriate: these duardin keep grudges, and their rules put that resentment to work.
Specified battlefield events let you assign grudge marks to friendly Khazalite Holds units. Their warscrolls explain what benefits those marks provide. Losing a friendly unit or seeing an opponent take an objective in your territory can help stir a grudge; retreating removes one of a unit’s marks. There is also a way for Heroes to temporarily grant a nearby non-Hero unit an extra mark.
For this box, the Oathkeeper Cannon offers a particularly relevant example: while marked, it gains Crit (2 Hits). The Stonebreaker Mortar benefits in the same way. A cannon with a grievance is an entertaining prospect, but these are still preview details. Check the complete rules and their conditions in the battletome when planning how the force will work on the table.
Fyreslayer collectors should take a careful look, too. The new faction allows fiery duardin and their armoured kin to fight together, while an all-Fyreslayer approach remains possible. Before planning a combined army, check your existing roster against the new book: some older units, including Vulkite Berzerkers, are absent. Affected units retain competitive support for one year after the battletome releases before moving to Legends.
One last point for anyone with a growing wish list: this Army Set begins the launch. The wider Khazalite range shown in earlier previews includes models coming later, so the full faction reveal should not be treated as this Saturday’s pre-order list.
Oath Fulfilled Warqueen
Give one miniature your full attention
Sometimes the most appealing project fits on a single base. Oath Fulfilled is this year’s commemorative Warhammer Day miniature, a battle-scarred Darkoath Warqueen who can serve in a Slaves to Darkness army.
Her decorated shield, trophies and belt details offer plenty of reasons to slow down and enjoy the painting. You could work a history of hard fighting into worn metal and weathered leather, then give the smaller ornaments a little extra care. Choosing one focal point, perhaps the shield, can help you decide where to spend that extra effort without making every surface compete for attention.
There is a particularly satisfying rhythm to a character project like this: establish the main colours, get the model looking coherent, then settle in for an evening on the details you most want to bring to life. A distinctive Warqueen can give an existing warband a fresh centre of attention; a display painter can enjoy the same miniature as a self-contained project.
If you are tackling your first character, our guide to starting miniature painting will help with the foundations. Oath Fulfilled is a limited-stock miniature, so check the live listing for availability when deciding whether to order.
Battlefields: Armageddon ready-painted terrain
Let the battlefield catch up with the armies
You have arranged the game, cleared the table and brought out the armies. The scenery is still waiting for its turn in the painting queue. If that sounds familiar, Battlefields: Armageddon has an immediately practical appeal.
This set supplies ready-painted gaming scenery for Warhammer 40,000, with industrial ruins and battlefield features to give your games a coherent setting. There is still building to do: the terrain is push-fit, with customisable parts. The painting stage, however, is already taken care of.
The announced contents are:
- 8 Large Manufactorum Ruins
- 8 Small Manufactorum Ruins
- 2 Shock Arrays
- 2 Capacitor Stacks
- 4 Rockcrete Barricades
- 2 Generator Shrines
- 4 Galvanic Pylons
- Gaming boards and terrain footprints
The boards are folding and double-sided. The set is intended for Strike Force-sized games and supports the Chapter Approved 2026–27 terrain layouts, giving you a practical basis for setting up the battlefield as well as scenery to put on it.
For a regular home host or gaming group, that could make a real difference to preparation. A ready-painted collection of ruins, barricades and industrial machinery can spare someone a substantial scenery project and get the table looking like a place worth fighting over. It is easy to imagine how much more inviting game night becomes when the battlefield is ready for its close-up alongside the armies.
Do the unglamorous checks before ordering: measure your playing space, decide where the scenery will live between games, and see how much of your existing collection already does the same job. Storage deserves a little planning of its own, however tempting the battlefield looks. Games Workshop says quantities are limited at this time.
Shadow of the Silver Wolf
A mystery for the Mortal Realms
The week’s Black Library release follows Neave Blacktalon into unsettling territory. Shadow of the Silver Wolf, by Gary Kloster, is coming in hardback. Neave and the Blacktalons travel to Greybank, where a curse forces them to confront their past.
That premise has teeth. Memory, trust, faith and the cost of repeated sacrifice give the mystery its weight, inviting readers to consider what long service leaves behind beneath a Stormcast Eternal’s formidable armour. For followers of the Blacktalons, a threat bound up with their past is an intriguing reason to return to these characters.
It also offers a clear hook for Age of Sigmar readers drawn to darker mysteries, even if their usual reading follows another army. When the painting desk is already occupied, a hardback and a comfortable chair make a very appealing route back into the Mortal Realms.
What will your next hobby session look like?
That is the useful question behind this week’s choice. The Khazalite Holds Army Set offers a force to develop across several kinds of miniature. Oath Fulfilled gives one character room to shine. Armageddon scenery tackles the table that your games depend on, while Shadow of the Silver Wolf offers a mystery for quieter evenings.
Choose the project you are keen to spend time with, and check its practical details before ordering. Bomran’s pre-orders for this wave are scheduled for 10am UK time on Saturday 17 October 2026. Individual live listings will be the place to check prices, availability and release details. For future weekly round-ups, keep our Warhammer pre-orders hub handy.
