Games Workshop confirms Astartes 2 for December 2026 release
Astartes 2 now has a December 2026 target, and the sequel has to live up to a fan film that set the bar for how Space Marines should look and move.
Astartes 2 is back on the calendar, and the December 2026 target gives Warhammer 40,000 fans something unusually specific to pin their hopes on. The original Astartes fan film made Syama Pedersen’s name inside the hobby for a reason: it gave the setting a brutal, clean visual language that still shapes how players picture Space Marines, bolters, and boarding actions.
| Games Workshop first put the sequel back in front of fans with the January 2025 Astartes II teaser posts on Warhammer Community, including Astartes II Teaser Trailer - Watch it right now and Astartes II - Official Teaser Trailer | Warhammer+. That trailer confirmed the project was alive again and tied it to Warhammer+, with Pedersen working alongside Warhammer Studio. For viewers who have spent years replaying the first film’s choke-point corridor fights and vacuum-packed violence, the new pressure is obvious: Astartes 2 has to feel like a real continuation, not just a nostalgia callback. |
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| The sequel also arrives in a very different Warhammer media push. Warhammer Community later folded Astartes II into The first three new Warhammer animations confirmed for 2026 and New Warhammer 40,000 Animations Trailer - January 2026 | Warhammer+, which put the project inside a broader wave of serialized digital content. That matters because the audience around Astartes is wider now than the original fan-film crowd. Painters want new armor cues and heraldry to steal for their own Deathwatch schemes. Lore fans want to see how Pedersen and Warhammer Studio handle the Chapter’s tone and the scale of 40k violence. Animation watchers are measuring it against the first film’s pacing and camera work. Space Marine collectors are looking for design details they can translate straight to the desk and the table. |
Games Workshop has also been pairing the Astartes push with Deathwatch material, including The new Deathwatch kill team is packed with specialists and shoulder pads and Watch an all-new animated vignette: The Enemy Without - A Deathwatch Vignette. That combination tells you where the company sees the overlap: elite Astartes imagery, tightly focused kill-team action, and the kind of cinematic presentation that can move more than one corner of the hobby at once.
Astartes earned its reputation by making 40k feel sharper, heavier, and more dangerous than most official media had managed. With December 2026 now set for the sequel, the real test is whether Pedersen can do that again when the whole community is watching.
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