Warhammer 40,000 launches longer uncut battle reports with Death Guard clash

Warhammer Community has pushed Battle Report into a new gear, starting a longer uncut format that shows every decision, conversation, unit move, and dice roll. The first episode in that style pits Eldrad Ulthran’s Aeldari against Mortarion and his Death Guard on a doomed planet, and the result is less a highlight reel than a real look at how Warhammer 40,000 actually plays.

The shift matters because this new version is more than twice as long as previous Battle Report episodes. That extra runtime gives the game room to breathe, which is exactly what 10th edition asks for when movement, target priority, and timing matter as much as raw damage output. Warhammer Community has already described 10th edition as a complete revision of the game, and this format looks built to show the edition in motion instead of trimming it down to the big moments.

Josh takes command of Mortarion and his sons, while Pearce leads the Aeldari side. That alone gives the battle report a nice studio-versus-studio feel, but Pearce adds another layer: he is one of the Warhammer 40,000 games developers and has played more games of the new edition than almost anyone else in the world. He is also using his own army, built and painted with his dad, which makes the whole thing feel rooted in the hobby rather than staged behind glass.

On the table, the matchup is exactly the kind of clash Warhammer players know how to read at a glance. Eldrad and the Aeldari bring speed, angles, and pressure; Mortarion and the Death Guard bring relentlessness, stubborn board control, and the kind of attrition game that punishes mistakes over several turns. That tension is the point of the report. With the camera staying on the full decision tree, viewers get to see how carefully Pearce and Josh handle movement, spacing, and the small rule interactions that decide whether a fast army slips through or gets bogged down.

It also fits into a familiar pattern for Warhammer Community. The site launched its first Battle Report from the new edition in May 2023, and it has used the format to show Eldrad in a 1,000-point fight against Salamanders and Mortarion in a Primarch grudge match against Roboute Guilliman. This latest uncut episode lands amid the broader New40k rollout, alongside faction-pack downloads, but the bigger story is the format itself. Warhammer has stopped treating the Battle Report like a clipped promo and started using it as a proper lesson in how the game unfolds when the dice are left on the table.