Armageddon Returns, Yarrick Leads Warhammer 40,000 April 25 Pre-orders

Commissar Sebastian Yarrick is back, and that alone would have been enough to stir the 40k crowd. Games Workshop used the April 25 pre-order wave to make his return feel bigger than a single character release, turning Armageddon into the week’s main event with new heroes, vehicles, and faction support spread across the Astra Militarum, Orks, Adepta Sororitas, Imperial Agents, and Deathwatch.

The real hook is Armageddon: The Return of Yarrick, which frames the war world as the site of the largest Ork invasion Games Workshop has ever put on the page. The story sits after the Season of Fire, with Ghazghkull Thraka looming in the background, while Wazdakka Gutsmek’s Speedwaaagh! is already tearing across the planet. A desperate call for help also triggers Operation Imperator, sending Space Marines from many Chapters toward Armageddon and raising the stakes beyond a simple Guard-versus-Ork grudge match.

For collectors, Yarrick is the centerpiece. He returns after being fixed up by the Space Wolves, armed with his signature Ork-snipping power klaw and updated rules built to lead from the front. That matters because this is more than nostalgia bait. Yarrick is once again being positioned as a hard-edged Astra Militarum warlord with a direct path back into armies, narrative play, and display shelves alike.

The biggest “buy now” choice for active players is the Armageddon Battalion: Astra Militarum box. It is the first place the new Hippogriff AFV and Centaur RSV are available, and it also includes a Rogal Dorn tank and Cadian Shock Troops. That mix makes the Guard box the clearest practical pickup of the wave, especially for anyone who wants the new vehicles immediately rather than waiting for separate releases. The Ork and Deathwatch battalions expand the same campaign logic on the other side of the table, keeping Armageddon broad enough to pull in multiple armies at once.

The character range does the rest of the heavy lifting. Commissar Graves arrives with options to fight from a modified Centaur RSV, from Vigilance, or on foot. Intranzia Fraye brings the Adepta Sororitas into the conflict as a Dogmata Superior, while Inquisitor Kroyle adds a radical Ordo Xenos presence mounted on a Garralisk. Wazdakka Gutsmek is the other major collector grab, because Games Workshop has finally given the legendary Bikeboss his first official miniature and kept him exactly where he belongs, on Big Revva.

Black Library is pushing the same campaign angle with World Ablaze, an anthology of 11 brand-new short stories centered on Armageddon. Put together, the model range, the battalion boxes, and the fiction line all point in the same direction: Armageddon is back at the center of Warhammer 40,000, and this pre-order wave is the moment Games Workshop made that impossible to miss.