Warhammer 40,000 Imperium factions get final new-edition faction packs

The last Imperial faction packs landed on June 11 and closed the first full wave of new-edition downloads, after xenos packs on June 9 and Space Marine packs the day before. For Imperial collectors, that turns the new edition from a tease into a working roadmap: Astra Militarum, Adeptus Mechanicus, Imperial Knights, Adepta Sororitas, Adeptus Custodes, Imperial Agents and the rest of the human side of Warhammer 40,000 finally have their own clean rules package.

Warhammer Community had set that direction back on October 8, 2025, when it said downloadable faction rules would be folded into one faction pack per army. The Imperial release shows the plan at full strength, with detachments, datasheets, FAQs and errata gathered in one place. The examples are broad enough to cover the entire Imperial bench, from Abhuman Auxiliaries and Bridgehead Strike to Armoured Infantry, Mechanised Assault, Dominus Foebreakers and Questor Forgepact. Each detachment comes with a Force Disposition such as Take and Hold, Purge the Foe, Reconnaissance, Priority Assets or Disruption, plus a cost of 1DP, 2DP or 3DP.

That point structure matters because it tells you what to finish first. Warhammer Community had already said players get 2 Detachment Points in 1,000-point games and 3 Detachment Points in 2,000-point games, with the costs collected in the Munitorum Field Manual. Once those numbers are fixed, the safest projects are the units that anchor a list cleanly, the squads you can paint, base and slot into a detachment without second-guessing them later. It also makes the backlog more ruthless. If a Guard infantry block, a Sister squad or a Knight chassis already fits one of the new detachments, it moves up the queue. If a side project has no immediate role, it can wait.

The release also arrived alongside the new Warhammer 40,000 app update on June 17, which added War Journal tracking, opponent-list viewing and Battle Forge integration. The updated app also supports French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and once it updated it no longer supported older editions. That hard break matches the tone of the Imperial packs themselves. This is not a soft refresh; it is the point where the new edition starts to feel like the only edition that matters.

Games Workshop had already shown where this was heading at Adepticon on March 26, when it revealed the new edition’s launch box set on Armageddon, with Space Marines and Orks in a new conflict tied to Commissar Yarrick, Wazdakka Gutsmek and Operation Imperator. The Imperial faction packs are the finish line for the launch wave, and they leave a simple painting takeaway behind them: the armies you already own, and the Imperial projects closest to a finished list, are now the ones worth bringing to the front of the desk.