TTRPG NEWS: Warhammer 40K Wrath and Glory: Adventures in Gilead Available to Pre-Order - Cubicle 7 Games

 

Hail Mighty Readers and Followers of the Luck Gods Math Rocks,

Cubicle 7 Games have let us know that a brand new adventure book for Warhammer 40K Wrath and Glory Roleplay Game is available to preorder today.  Here's what they had to say:

"Life in the war-ravaged Gilead System is a perilous business - and the deeper you delve, the more of its myriad threats you’ll encounter.

Adventures in Gilead is our brand new 144-page compendium of thrilling, ready-to-play adventure scenarios, character frameworks, and tons of handy plot hooks to expand your campaigns in Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Wrath & Glory!

From the foul schemes of the Dark Apostle Maloquence, to walking a knife’s-edge between Aeldari Corsairs and Drukhari hunters, to a new adventure framework that puts your players in control of Ork Kommandos sabotaging an Imperial hive city, Wrath & Glory Game Masters will have all they need to bring Gilead’s fearsome war zones to life at the table."

To Pre-Order for shipping in Q4 of 2026 please go here.

More news as we get it, 

ThunderMouser

WARHAMMER 40K: Finished Orks Everywhere, Bloody Thousands of them... - Completed Army

Hail Mighty Readers and Followers of the Luck Gods Math Rocks,

You might recall a while agon (21st December 2025) we posted our schedule to get our 40K Orks up to scratch and fully painted before 11th Edition.  Well, sadly the scheule fell out however I can now let you know that we've proudly managed to get them all done.  So yay.  (Only a three months behind the schedule, although we did add some extra mini's to the paint line up so its not as bad as it sounds.)

So we wanted to get a post out there to show you that it can be done, it is possible and whilst we're not Angel Giraldez, Juan Sanz (El Miniturista) or Lukas Holmstrom, we did manage it and painted them as we learned, improving as we went.  (As they say to learn you have to do.)  

So our very last mini is completely different to how we started.  (First, Trukk, which we really grubbied up with a hell of a lot of rust rather than leaving it as brightly as it is pictured here, last Wazdakka.)

Painting is rewarding and there are quite a few lessons that we learned along the way.  

1)  Mass painting is not for us.  (We painted our Kommando's as a unit and to be honest, we got pretty demoralised and board painting them as it felt like too much repetition, so what we did for future squads was divide them up into three or fours, painted them and then went for something a little different to refresh our head.)  Yes when you're painting up a unit for Warhammer Old World there is going to be a ton repetition as some units of 20 are going to really get to you.  However what you can do, and what we'd suggest is add some variation, whilst you can keep the colours similar you can vary shades or placement to show that whilst as a whole its cohesive, that its been used to do what you had with whats available.  Likewise if you can afford to get more than one unit at a time you can paint them up as different cities coming together as a unified front or even just split them into smaller groups to fully enjoy going from one aspect to another.

2)  You don't have to paint them as the box shows.  Yes, bit obvious in some respects as you are going to create them either in the force you love or modify the paint scheme to give you some interest and so you can work with the paints you have without having to buy more.

3)  Never get upset that later models are better than the first ones you did.  You learn, you improve and whilst you can respray and redo, its nice to be able to look back and see your progress.  Likewise, just because you start in a certain style, you can change as you go.  For example most of my Orks are pretty dark because I wanted them super grubby from playing in the mud, however Wazdakka is pretty bright and for me, I preferred that so I when I open 11th I'll be sticking with that style.  

4)  Try different artists paint styles out, I started with just my own experience but upon discovering  Angel Giraldez, I loved how his painting came out and with a book that introduced starter concepts, found it a good way to begin again and learn.  

5)  Paint Ranges are a matter of personal choice.  There's so many paints out there that its easy to get lost, if you find a paint range you like, stick with it.  There's no need to buy everything that the range puts out (I don't tend to buy purple as I really don't like it on my mini's) but if you find one that works for you and your individual style go with it.  Likewise its also good if you can find someone who shows you how to paint the mini's in a style you like, use what they do, its easier to follow along and add your own flair when you know how that paint is going to act.  

6)  Find a place you can paint.  This might be a table in the home, painting round a friends house or just a little space you call your own.  Regular painting, improves you skill.  I can't tell you how much I've improved by painting at least once every few nights on a basic schedule.  Yes I have a lot to learn like how to do more subtle lining but I am learning and improving with each mini.

In the future I will take a pic and show my paint space.  Its not a massive area, its not got everything a lot of people have and I have the odd piece that might seem strange but I love it.  Likewise we're also dipping our toes into other miniature hobbies like Warlords Konflict 47, Para Bellum's Conquest and Mantic's Kings of War.  Although these will be down to when we can afford the mini's.

All the best,

ThunderMouser

EDITORS POST: Warhammer 11th Edition Concerns - ThunderMouser

 

s we near the release of 11th Edition, with the rumours and "leaks" that have so far appeared one of my biggest concerns is to do with the newly proposed Secondary objectives.  Not that its brand new but I worry that the shapes of them are going to be a little unfair.

Getting rid of the circles is a great idea but with it now going to be scenery rather than just a marked blotch on the landscape I do worry that if it were to be made any other shape than circular that it could easily be utilised by the player placing it for greater advantage towards themselves giving their area more space to occupy so that their troops don't have to travel so far.  

And whilst the two battlegrounds that have been released in the Warhammer Community post go to show that the board is quite fair with mirror image set ups, I still worry that a big part of the narrative part that they're trying to include is going to be missed.  After all, when you look at them boards, troop transports are going to have a hard time getting through without taking massive detours that could have them being redundant for a huge chunk of the game.  

That said, I do have high hopes with them saying that the game is going to be more narratively driven and each army will have goals that they want to achieve be it the annihilation of their foes or which piece of ground to hold, will be pretty cool with each battle becoming its own story that the players will love to tell.  However whilst this is a great option, one of my biggest bugbears and something that I think they really need to address is that you can't destroy terrain, surely if the building has been splattered, pitted and falling apart, that means that its not indestructible and with people being able to hide troops within it does feel like a missed opportunity especially when within the books characters have been able to call down things like orbital strikes or bombardments that would do the job nicely.  

Its something that really needs to be looked into and with GW releasing various terrain for the objectives they do need to look at options like making them army themed for example an ork ammo dump will be chaos whereas a marine one will be organised.

All round I am hopeful that the new edition will give the players a lot more freedom especially now that they're going to have to think of ways round being unable to stack multiple bonuses upon one unit which used to make them unkillable, but another thing that has me concerned is what happens if you don't buy all the new books for the end campaign of 10th with strategies for specific troops, will these then be provided in the new codices when available or will it be a case you need to have subscribed to the Warhammer App to get everything required?  

It is a big question and one that is all going to depend upon which way GW is thinking of going.  As their approach currently is to talk about new mini's with higher price hikes that plays on peoples FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) reaction (especially with this weeks release of Defilers which has been grossly under stocked) before they have real chance to think purchases through.

Yet at the end of the day, the way that everything is going price wise, whether its to play in a tournament such as Adepticon or keeping up with the miniatures, its making it an "exclusive" hobby that heavily limits opportunities to play other games keeping you either fully in 40K or Age of Sigmar leaving those who have been with them since the beginning having to seriously think about alternate wargames options with more reasonable pricing from other Independent Companies.  

WARHAMMER ADEPTICON REVEAL SHOW 2026: Bad production - Warhammer

aving sat down to watch the Warhammer broadcast from Adepticon last night at 1AM (I'm in the UK), I have to say that I did feel that the show was OK but plagued with so many problems.  

Firstly the technical side was the key thing with broken mic's, inability to show the trailers and a few cuts as either technical issues caused problems or in one case, the stream ended abruptly because connection was lost to their server.

Adam Troke, picked up the MVP last night as he kept it going despite all the issues, engaging the audience and also keeping the talk flowing with his immense knowledge whilst problems were worked out.  Definitely a superstar for GW and man who probably deserves a pay rise after that effort.

However for me, whilst I was really enthusiastic for the show, I did feel let down, the key for the whole 2 hour broadcast (which was shortened down to an hour and half) was going to be the reveal for the 11th Edition of Warhammer 40K: Armageddon.  It had us all on the edges of our seats and whilst we opened with some fab mini's for the prelude with Yarrick and Wazdakka (the fab mini you see below), it felt that it was missing a lot as pretty much all of the real reveals were for the Imperial Guard and we had just the one Ork Mini.  I mean come on, least you could have done would have been to show some new Ork Bikers that Wazdakka is leading.  

Then they revealed some new box sets for the Armageddon Battalions, which felt that if you weren't buying Imperial Guard would mainly be mini's you already own.  When they had the opportunity to really bring the speed to the table for the future edition by allowing players to try it out prior to the full 11th Edition release in June.

Now to finish off the 40K thread, the reveal at the end was pretty much a damp squib in my opinion.  We got to see one new mini for the Blood Angels and one new mini for the Orks.  Both were the basic troopers and lets be honest whilst I can understand that, its not anything to get excited about with them also announcing some rules changes that weren't explained very well and finally doing away with the objective circles whilst announcing that they will be replaced with scenic objectives (although personally I think rather than buy the GW ones, you'd be best to make your own as they can be themed to your board and army.)

All in, 40K was a real let down and as a guy who was super excited for the Orks and the rumours of new mini's.  This was an opportunity sadly missed.  I do suspect that with it releasing in June, that there will be another show about the end of April, beginning of May where they will reveal more.

Whilst I really didn't care for Horus Heresy there were some new miniatures announced including weapons as well as transports and Warhammer Underworlds was also represented with a set that really didn't do anything for me either, but at least Age of Sigmar delivered with so many goodies that I was pretty much goggle=eyed for this presentation.  Tons of stuff for the Cities of Sigmar with new units announced, including mages, Gate Gargants, a monument for the lost soldiers that is transported to a new city as well as Free Guild Gallants and the Free Guild Grenadiers.  All rounded up with a Regiment of RenownL Ven Densts Hounds and a new box set coming called Spearhead: Cities of Ash which bring the new minis alongside the long await Clan Eshin assassins to the battlefield.

Yet whilst we were all trying to catch our breaths from this monumental reveal, they hit us hard with what I think will be that cream of the crop from this years announcements, the Cogforts which come with Cities of Sigmar troops but can be utilised by any other army for their own forces.  They delightful thing here will be to see how these get modded by players for painting competitions as well as for their own battles.  (My personal favourite is going to be a Skaven themed one which I already have idea's for myself.)  

To say that it wasn't worth staying up so late last night is something that I think a fair few people would have agreed with, and I do know that a lot switched off due to the broadcast quality deciding to wait until today to watch the releases through their official trailers and to be fair, I can't say I blame them.  But when GW does another live show, I really hope that either they pay their dues to the Machine God or that they at least invest some more money into it to avoid a lot of these problems.  They are not a small streamer with only a few bits, this is a multi-billion pound company.  To fail this badly when last years show also had huge problems again, really feels that lessons are not being learned and that whilst a lot of things are getting heavy price increases it feels more profit driven than improving certain qualities that they need to do to keep relevant when so many other game companies are snapping at their heels with products that are not only cheaper but are grabbing peoples attention with simpler rules and more story driven aspects which they're finally looking to bring to the table.

If you wish to watch the stream yourself, you can do here at Twitch

All the best,

ThunderMouser

FEATURE: Prepare for 2026 the Waaarrrggghhhhh is coming - Totally Pawsome and Warhammer 40K

 

Hail Mighty Readers and Followers of the Painted Mini's,

We've been hard at work and have put together how we plan to start the first few months of 2026 with our own mini schedule.  As such we've uploaded it so if you want to join us on our journey to Orkdom in 11th Edition of Warhammer 40K you can get a lot ready to roll along with us.

Totally Pawsomes 40K Ork Journey

So rouse yourself from the Christmas stupor, get those mini's prepped and primed and join us on week one of the start of 26 to get on with your own army.  Remember, the Waaarrrgggghhhh is coming, prepare to join....

All the best,

Thundermouser

WARHAMMER 40K: We're starting our first Army - Totally Pawsome

 

Hail Mighty Readers and Blog Followers, 

We're stepping out and finally getting ourselves our own 40K Army but with so many to pick from where did we go?  Watch this video to find out and to see the start of our Army List, and please, if you have any idea's on where we can improve and what to add please let us know by leaving a comment either here or on the Video.

Thank You,

Thundermouser

VIDEO BOOK REVIEW: Warhammer 40K: The Ultimate Guide - Guy Haley and Gav Thorpe - Dorling Kindersley

Here at Totally Pawsome we love the dark 41st Millernium of Warhammer 40k so when we got a chance to finally put our words to paper on the fabulous Warhammer 40,000:  The Ultimate Guide by Guy Haley and Gav Thorpe, we jumped at the chance.   Here is our video review of this book: