Games Workshop has an entire universe to play around within the Grimdark. So where are the hotspots getting attention?
We’ve got our hands on two codexes from 10th edition Warhammer 40,000 so far. Within those books we’ve gotten to see the lore sections and where GW is shining the spotlight of war. So which warzones are heating up and could boil over? That’s what we’re here to check out!
But how are we identifying these various spots? It’s pretty simple. If you’ve got Codex: Tyranids you can follow along. Just look for sections like our first example here:
Tyranid Warzone: The Black Nebula
Not all of these sections are in our list, but if you notice the change in header and text these are good signals that there could be a warzone brewing…
That said, here’s the list of the warzone we found in the Tyranid and Space Marine codexes.
Codex: Tyranid Warzones
Warzone ‘Darkening Skies’
Location: Laevenir Archipelago
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Combatants: Tyranids – Hive Fleet Ouroboris vs Space Marines (various chapters), Aeldari
Warzone ‘Pacification’
Location: Perdus Rift
Combatants: Tyranid – Hive Fleet Gorgon vs T’au, Kroot, and Aeldari
Warzone ‘Bloodhand’s Skullreap’
Location: Eastern Fringe
Combatants: Tyranids – Hive Fleet Kraken vs World Eaters Warband (Roghrax Bloodhand) vs Orks vs Drukhari; Imperial Observers present
Warzone ‘Red Scar’
Location: Baal System (Blood Angels home world)
Combatants: Tyranids – Hive Fleet Leviathan vs Blood Angels and Successor Chapters
Warzone ‘Maelstrom’
Location: The Maelstrom
Combants: Tyranids – Hive Fleet Leviathan vs Chaos Space Marines (Huron Blackheart’s Red Corsair Fleet)
Codex: Space Marine Warzones
Warzone ‘Nachmund Gauntlet’
Location: Nachmund Gauntlet
Combatants: Chaos Space Marines (Black Legion – Led by Haarken Worldclaimer) vs Space Marines (various Chapters)
Warzone ‘Blue Skin, Red Scar’
Location: Baal System, Sevensuns System
Combatants: T’au vs Blood Angels vs Hive Fleet Leviathan splinter
Warzone ‘False Prophets’
Location: Macharius Pilgrimage route – Segmentum Pacificus
Combatants: World Bearers, Chaos Cultists vs various Space Marine chapters, possible Astra Militarum assets
Warzone ‘Blackheart War’
Location: Chogoris Sector – White Scar home world
Combatants: Chaos Space Marines (Red Corsairs Led by Huron Blackheart) vs White Scars and other various Space Marine Chapters
Warzone ‘Zero’
Location: Planet Zero – “veiled in the shadows beyond the Astronomican’s Light”
Combatants: Salamanders Space Marines and various Successor Chapters vs ???
Additional Notes: This is a mission by the Salamanders to find more relics left by their Primarch Vulkan. They are heading to a world known only as “Zero” and that’s all that is listed…
There’s quite a few places in the Grimdark to throwdown — and that’s only a handful listed from both the Tyranid and Space Marine codexes…
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