New Munitorum Field Manual upends Warhammer 40,000 army points again

The new Munitorum Field Manual hit like a hard reset for list writers because it did not just tweak army theory, it changed what can legally go on the table right now. Warhammer Community says the document contains the most up-to-date points values for Warhammer 40,000 and replaces every earlier points chart, with changes marked in red or green and the size of each increase or decrease shown in parentheses. For anyone heading to a game night or a tournament this weekend, that matters immediately.

The biggest practical effect is the arrival of fresh points for the Armageddon and Eye of Terror ranges, including Commissar Graves, Commissar Yarrick, the Hippogriff AFV, the Centaur RSV, Wazdakka Gutsmek, Intranzia Fraye and Inquisitor Kroyle. That turns preview material into real list math. Astra Militarum players can now cost out Armageddon-themed armor and command pieces with actual matched-play legality, while Ork players looking at Wazdakka Gutsmek finally have a live number to work with instead of speculation. The same goes for Inquisition and other campaign-era builds that were sitting in limbo.

Games Workshop has been using points as a live balancing tool for months, and the March 4, 2026 quarterly balance update made that plain. That pass focused on points and datasheet adjustments, tied the changes to new content from expansions including The Maelstrom and Eye of Terror, and said the points updates should already be live in the Warhammer 40,000 app. It also said the next update later in 2026 would bring a Balance Dataslate alongside another updated Munitorum Field Manual, which is a clear sign that the studio is steering the meta in small, frequent corrections instead of waiting for a big edition-wide shakeup.

Crusade players got a useful rules valve too. If a points update pushes an Order of Battle above its Supply Limit, the manual lets that limit be raised to match the army’s total points without spending Requisitions. That is a practical fix, not a narrative tax, and it will save plenty of campaign rosters from awkward bookkeeping. This is the same design philosophy Games Workshop laid out when the first free Munitorum Field Manual for the current edition landed on June 16, 2023, with simplified unit increments and wargear folded into unit costs to speed list building. A balance update on October 16, 2024 reinforced the same approach, naming Adepta Sororitas, Thousand Sons, Drukhari, Space Wolves, Orks and Genestealer Cults as factions being tuned for both external and internal balance. The message has not changed: the points document is the game now, and the latest one already rewrote the baseline.