Combat Patrol arrives in the Warhammer 40,000 app with mission support

Combat Patrol is now live in the Warhammer 40,000 app, and the payoff is immediate for anyone trying to get a game started without juggling paper. War Journal now supports Combat Patrol games, each army gets bespoke missions, and the score can be tracked in the app as you play.

That turns the format into a much cleaner pickup-game package. Instead of sorting through printed mission cards and separate score sheets, the official digital tools now handle the flow inside Games Workshop’s own app ecosystem. For store nights, club tables, and demo games, that is the sort of change that saves time before the first dice are rolled and keeps a first Combat Patrol game from stalling over paperwork.

The update also matters because Combat Patrol already sits in a sweet spot for Warhammer 40,000. It is one of the easiest ways into the game for new players, while still giving experienced commanders a fast, low-model-count format with a clear force structure. Folding it into War Journal makes the mode feel like part of the core app experience rather than a side option, and the bespoke missions help keep each faction feeling distinct even at smaller scale.

Games Workshop has been building toward this kind of support across several Warhammer Community app updates, including The Warhammer 40,000 App Gets Even Better With Two Key Changes for All Users, Warhammer 40,000 App - Battle Forge Access Update, Warhammer 40000 July Update - what you need to know!, and #New40k - New app for a new edition. Taken together, those releases show a steady cadence of app changes aimed at making list building, points access, and game management less clunky for players using the official digital tools.

If you are putting together a Combat Patrol force, teaching someone the game, or heading to a casual match at a store or club, this is the update to check first. The app now does more of the work during the game itself, which is exactly where a smaller-format mode should feel quickest.