Games Workshop Reveals Best-Selling Warhammer 40,000 Army Set of All-Time, Reinforcing Just How Popular This Space Marine Chapter Truly Is

Games Workshop has confirmed that a precocious released Warhammer 40,000 service acceptable a income grounds for the company, reinforcing this Space Marine section arsenic among the astir fashionable successful the setting.

Delivering Games Workshop’s latest fiscal results, CEO Kevin Rountree confirmed that the Space Wolves secured a caller grounds for service acceptable income astatine the company. This relates to the Space Wolves service acceptable that launched successful May past year, and which you tin spot successful the representation below. It contains 28 brand-new miniatures, a Codex Supplement for the Great Companies of Fenris, a acceptable of datasheet cards, and a caller transportation sheet. In presumption of minis, the service acceptable includes a Wolf Guard Battle Leader, a Wolf Priest, 3 Wolf Guard Headtakers, 10 Blood Claws, and 10 Grey Hunters.

The Space Wolves service set. Image credit: Games Workshop.

Rountree called the service acceptable format 1 that is “specifically designed for hobbyists who privation ‘all the caller miniatures’ successful a release.” Clearly, it proved popular. This service acceptable benefited from amazing-looking minis, the magnitude of clip since the Space Wolves had seen a refresh, and the enduring popularity of the Space Wolves themselves. The Space Wolves service acceptable is sold retired astatine Games Workshop, leaving fans faced with the imaginable of paying a markup from the likes of eBay.

For the uninitiated, the Space Wolves are a long-running and legendary section of Space Marines heavy inspired by Norse mythology and Viking culture. They’re a savage, successful your look radical who similar getting up adjacent and ripping their enemies to shreds with the assistance of existent abstraction wolves. Their primarch (demigod sons of the Emperor who led the archetypal Space Marine legions earlier the Horus Heresy tore them apart), is Leman Russ, 1 of the astir fashionable successful the mounting contempt the information helium has ne'er been progressive successful the 41st millennium (there are rumblings helium whitethorn return, arsenic Ultramarines brag Roboute Guilliman and Dark Angels main Lion El'Jonson have).

The Space Wolves — arsenic evidenced by their service acceptable income grounds — are close up determination successful presumption of Space Marine section popularity. Without having hard information to backmost up this claim, I’d suggest the Ultramarines are determination oregon thereabouts fixed they’re the poster boys of Warhammer 40,000, and Ultramarines skipper Titus, protagonist of the hugely fashionable Space Marine 2 video game, is starring the tabletop wargame's adjacent communicative expansion. But I fishy the Blood Angels (glorious abstraction vampires with a acheronian secret), and the Dark Angels (righteous abstraction crusaders) aren’t acold behind.

So! I’ve enactment unneurotic a poll, below, with what I fishy are the apt candidates for astir fashionable Space Marine chapter, truthful that IGN’s readers tin ballot for their favorite. For science! For the Emperor!

In different Warhammer news, Games Workshop has banned the usage of AI successful the making of its assorted products, overmuch to the delight of fans. And we person a little update connected Henry Cavill’s Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe, which inactive feels immoderate mode away.

Image credit: Games Workshop.

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