Super heavies, savage hungers, and a champion crowned — Warmachine Wednesday

We’re back from Lock & Load and still buzzing. What a weekend. Super heavy warjacks took the spotlight, Old Umbrey stirred something colossal beneath the snow, Crucible Guard showed off their latest creations, and a certain flame-bearing faith made its presence felt again.

A special congratulations to our Iron Gauntlet champion Dan Riker, who took home the title at Lock & Load US 2025 this weekend, outmanoeuvring every challenging battle in a finale worthy of the gauntlet’s name.

Let’s dive into everything happening this week.

Today’s TLDR

• ICYMI: Keynote round-up — Catch every reveal from Lock & Load in one handy place.

• Frozen and Forgotten Command Cadres — Dusk Final Hunt and Orgoth Graveborn get standalone pre-orders this Thursday.

• Lord of the Hunt arrives — Khador Old Umbrey’s master trophy hunter charges into release Thursday.

• Dark Operations reinforcements — Cephalyx favourites become available physically on the Steamforged Store.

• New physical defenses — Khador Old Umbrey and Cygnar Gravediggers Defenses sets arrive in physical form this Thursday.

• New rules — See the rules for Khador Old Umbrey’s upcoming Gorger gargantuan and a huge wave of Crucible Guard updates.

   

• New lore: Gorger compendium — The Gorger Compendium uncovers the secrets of the monstrous gargantuan.

A weekend to remember

Lock & Load delivered the goods. From towering super heavy warjacks to glimpses at the future of Warmachine, there was a lot to take in. If you missed any part of the keynote, you can catch the full round-up of every reveal and announcement on our blog post.

Catch up on the latest from the Lock & Load Keynote here

We streamed the full keynote on the warmachine YouTube channel, check out the entire keynote from home.

Seek the vengeance or enact wrath - Graveborn & Final Hunt Command Cadres

This Thursday, the Dusk Final Hunt and Orgoth Graveborn get their own individual HIPS plastic sprue breakout boxes. Perfect if you want to start one force, expand your collection, or grab an extra cadre for a friend.

The new two-player set Frozen and Forgotten bundles both forces together for fast and cinematic 30-point battles, this set contains both cadres at a bundle discount, perfect for splitting with a mate and getting stuck into your first Warmachine game on the kitchen table or throwing down in your local warstore.

Don’t forget, the Frozen & Forgotten two-player box set is a limited run, once they’re gone, the individual cadres will be your way of bringing the enigmatic Dusk Final Hunt or eternal Orgoth Graveborn to the fields of battle.

Clash in battle — claim Frozen & Forgotten now

New lore in the Warmachine app: The Gorger Compendium

The Gorger Compendium digs deep into the ancient beast that Zevanna Agha has kept hidden for centuries. These are not mere monsters. They are living calamities forged during the Wurm’s most chaotic ages.

Here is a sneak preview straight from the compendium:

“The cracking of timber and felling of trees portend one’s arrival. A rasping babel of discordant words in forgotten tongues chattering from its numerous mouths accompanies the splintering crashes. It claws its way through the branches as its hooves churn the earth beneath it like a bizarre mammalian arachnid whose body is at war with itself. Its aura of primality incites nearby creatures with its inflections of the Devourer. The gorger is an abomination from lost ages, weaponized as a living nightmare to prey upon those who would stand against the Old Witch and her prophecies.

Buried by the sands of time, an anomaly of eras long past dwells in the deeper places of the world. Its nature and appearance are uncomfortably alien: four legs and four arms, a chaotic blend of flesh and bone, and an asymmetrical nest of chattering vestigial skulls ringing its head that would confound any anatomist. It bears an insatiable voracity that could lead to its dismissal as a mindless beast, yet it carries crude weapons and adornments betraying greater than animal intelligence. 

Such immortal monstrosities from prehistory once ruled the primitive peoples as forest gods, demanding endless tributes of flesh until they were finally defeated, trapped, or subdued by magic. Now they’ve been awakened again into the modern age, and they are even more ravenous after centuries of hibernation, eager to coat their desiccated bony maws with an endless flow of blood. If not for Zevanna’s mastery over these creatures, they would run rampant until culled or their limitless hunger was sated by fawning masses offering endless feasts. Bound by her magics, however, gorgers can be manipulated by the warlocks of Old Umbrey to direct their appetite toward those who would threaten Khador’s future.”

Get engorged on the full lore — read now on the Warmachine app.

Gorge yourself on new rules

Update your app. There’s a lot waiting for you today.

The Gorger gargantuan warbeast is coming. And it's ravenous.

Khador Old Umbrey’s new gargantuan is coming soon. First shown during the Warmachine keynote, the Gorger brings all the destructive force you would expect from a relic of the Devourer Wurm’s savage ages.

Crucible Guard prep their potions

A huge wave of new and revised rules is now live.

This includes profiles for every model in the newly revealed Crucible Guard Command Starter, Battlegroup Box, the upcoming Core Expansion, and Auxiliary Expansion, as well as updated entries across the faction.

Grab your bunsen burners and your wide-brimmed hats. See all of the rules updates live now on the Warmachine app

Khador Old Umbrey’s Lord of the Hunt releases this Thursday

Become the feared trophy hunter of the Khadoran borderlands with the Lord of the Hunt, coming to release Thursday 20th Nov. If you’ve not secured your pre-order yet, now’s the time to start cracking skulls with Khador Old Umbrey and making a lovely bone necklace that would make a Sea Raider jealous.

Here’s a fun fact from the Wurm’s pact: did you know, the Lord of the Hunt is field allowance: 2? We’ll let you decide what to do with that information.

Begin your bounty. Claim your Lord (or lords) of the Hunt

Get more Dark Operations reinforcements in store

More cephalyx horrors of the Dark Operations ascend onto the Steamforged store as pre-orders tomorrow Nov 20 as beautifully sinister physical sculpts.

Available Thursday:
• Drudge Iconoclasts
• Exulon Thexus
• Overlords
• Stygius
• Mind Benders

If you prefer printing at home, every one of these subterranean psychics and their mind-slaved monstrosities is also available as an STL on the Warmachine 3D store over on MyMiniFactory. 

Don’t forget, tribe subscribers get 50% off all STLs in the Warmachine 3D store plus a collection of fresh new STLs every month and loyalty rewards every three months.

Fancy a new army? warm your printer up this November! Subscribe to Warmachine 3D on MyMiniFactory

New physical defenses for Khador Old Umbrey and Cygnar Gravediggers

Two defenses sets arrive on Thursday for players who want to kit out their tables with spike traps, fire pits, powder kegs and three barricades each to block & ensnare your foes.

Make your trencher’s trenches trench-erous with the Cygnar Gravediggers Defenses set. Pre-order is dropping in hot Nov 20.

These sets are also available as print at home STLs on the Warmachine 3D store

Bring the cold, quiet borderlands of Khador Old Umbrey to the table with their uniquely Umbrean defenses. Set your foes up for ambush when they come to pre-order Nov 20, tomorrow!

Something special this November

We’re planning something special this November. Many of you have been asking about plans for Black Friday.

All we’ll say for now is sign up to the newsletter and follow us on our new TikTok for updates on what’s to come.

That’s everything for this week

We’re still recovering from the excitement of Lock & Load and there’s plenty more Warmachine on the horizon. Make sure you recap on the Warmachine Keynote! where we cover much of what's to come for Warmachine into 2026. 

Get your app updated, check out this Thursday’s pre-orders, and let us know what you’re excited to build next over on the Warmachine Community facebook group, follow on Facebook, share your latest WIPs with #warmachine #paintmachine on Instagram