Warhammer 40,000 Combat Patrol Announcement

Last Updated on January 12, 2024 by VoltorRWH

The next big thing for Warhammer 40,000 is only a few weeks away! Read on for our exclusive announcement of the latest partworks collection from Hachette!

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Warhammer 40,000 Combat Patrol Announcement – What Is It?

The successor to the extremely popular and highly successful Warhammer 40,000 Imperium collection, Warhammer 40,000 Combat Patrol is the next weekly partworks magazine being published by Hachette Partworks.

If you’re new here or are otherwise on the fence about Hachette’s partworks collections, Hachette are an international publisher originally founded in France in the nineteenth century. Since then, they’ve expanded to cover a global market, and now encompass both distribution and partworks publication.

Enter Warhammer. For the last few years, Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Age of Sigmar have cyclically been the recipients of their own partworks collections; first we had Warhammer 40,000: Conquest, which proved to be a huge hit and saw the launch of Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Mortal Realms. After that, we then had then the staggeringly popular Warhammer 40,000: Imperium, which has given rise to the most recent collection: Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Stormbringer.

With each turn, these partworks collections have gone from strength to strength – Imperium proving to be the golden child in this respect. Warhammer 40,000’s last entrant into the pages of partworks magazines proved to be so successful that not only was it gradually launched on an international scale, the collection was also extended from Hachette’s usual 80 issues to 90 due to the demand for the magazine. It sold out just about everywhere. UPDATE 12-01-2024: we’ve just had it confirmed that Combat Patrol will be running to 90 issues. AS such, you’ll find we’ve updated the pricing values in a lot of our articles about the new collection.

But why are these magazines so popular, you may be wondering? Well, that’s easy enough to answer.

You can get Warhammer cheap.

Hachette’s magazines also have a lot going for them: from interesting bits of lore designed to allow you to immerse yourself in the Warhammer settings, to thorough and beginner-friendly painting guides and rules tutorials, they really are a superb place to take your first steps into the Warhammer hobby. However, the fact that you are able to get a significant amount of brand-new-on-sprue Warhammer for a serious mark-down is what keeps collectors coming back time and time again.

And Combat Patrol looks to take this tried and tested formula and make it even better.

Warhammer 40,000 Combat Patrol Announcement – What We Know So Far

Warhammer 40,000: Combat Patrol brings the Warhammer partworks into 10th Edition. Yes, dear readers: this means that this new collection will contain some of the latest and most up-to-date miniatures and models from the Warhammer 40,000 range – including figures from the Leviathan launch box. If you missed out, or are hoping to swipe some brand-new Tyranids and Space Marines at a knock-down price, this is the place to do so.

But there’s a great deal more than Tyranids and Space Marines available across the Warhammer 40,000: Combat Patrol collection. Read on below for all the details we currently having, including a first look at some of the contents…

Is This a Full Collection?

Right, so there is something we need to get out of the way before we all get too excited. In its current form, Warhammer 40,000: Combat Patrol is not a full collection. What we are announcing today is a trial run, which Hachette will use to gauge interest in a magazine collection like this and see if it’s worth their time doing a full run.

Given the staggering success of Imperium, it’s very unlikely that this won’t be launched into a full collection later in the year.

How Does a Trial Work?

So, Hachette will release the first four or five issues for purchase. Once this run is over, they will sit down, look at how many trial copies of they sold, do some maths, and make a conclusion as to whether or not it’s worth their time doing a full collection. Depending on how popular the trial was, they may make some alterations to the proposed contents to ensure the magazine remains viable. If they decide it is worth doing (which we imagine they almost certainly will), Hachette will then spend a few weeks or months finalising everything for a full collection before hitting the big red “To Production” button and beginning the collection properly.

Of course, this is all dependent on you. If you want to see a full Warhammer 40,000: Combat Patrol collection, you need to go out and buy yourself a couple of copies. Each trial copy sold brings the dream of a full collection closer to reality, so your contribution very much counts!

Update: 03/01/24 – So, Hachette have actually clarified this for us. This practise is not so much about confirming that the collection is viable – this is Warhammer, they are all but certain this will go on to be a full production run based on previous popularity of these collections, the reason they are released in a couple of undisclosed locations in the UK. is because they want to determine what the retails sales are like and how this translates into signups – then they use the clever maths and their history of doing these things to determine how many of each issue they’ll need to create when it does go live.

TLDR – don’t go buying multiple issues and subscribing 3 times yourself unless you plan to subscribe 3 times in the full collection – also, this is made to onboard new hobbyists, so lets at least give some people a chance during this early stage to join our beloved hobby…

Still on the fence? Well, have a look at the next section. We’re pretty sure you’ll want in as soon as you see what’s on offer.

Current Advertised Contents

Just feast your eyes on this.

So, Hachette’s current plans for this collection, should everything go well with the trial, is for the magazines to contain 9 complete Combat Patrols (plus an extra unit). We’re going to be publishing a few articles later this week looking at this collection and its contents in much greater detail, but for now, to whet your appetites, here’s a round up of all the factions you can collect:

• Space Marines
• Tyranids
• Leagues of Votann
• Aeldari
• Astra Militarum
• Genestealer Cults
• Orks
• Chaos Space Marines
• World Eaters

As stated above, too, you’ll also find yourself flush with plenty of paints, brushes and other tools to get you started on your hobby journey.

In our opinion, this is by far the best collection Hachette have advertised to date. Up until Stormbringer, Hachette’s Warhammer partworks have tended to focus very heavily – if not exclusively – on two factions (Space Marines and Chaos in Conquest, Stormcast Eternals and Nighthaunt in Mortal Realms, and Space Marines and Necrons in Imperium – though other Imperium factions were included), with the only option to get hold of anything outside of those factions coming in the form of a Premium Subscription. However, with Stormbringer, whilst there’s still a focus on Stormcast Eternals and Kruleboyz, there’s a great deal more focus attributed to other Age of Sigmar factions as well, such as Grotz, Sylvaneth, and others.

Allowing for players to collect such a large range of different miniatures – all of which are self-contained armies, which we’ll be looking at more closely in another article – not only gives you tons of stuff to be painting, but also will help you get a really nice, varied collection started that you can actually play games of Warhammer 40,000 with. No longer will you be beholden to your flaky friends turning up with their half-built and half-painted armies, you can just lend them one of the nine you’ll own by the end of the collection!

Price and Availability

Warhammer 40,000 Combat Patrol will be available on a week-by-week basis for purchase from your local newsagents or other stockist and as a monthly subscription directly from Hachette themselves.

As per some tiny text on one of the pieces of covermount we’ve seen, we know that the regular price for an issue will be £9.99.

However…

Introductory Offers

As with all partworks magazines that Hachette release, the first few issues are subject to a slew of introductory offers. Here’s what we know so far:

• Issue 1 will have a cost of £2.99. We’re not 100% sure what’s in this issue just yet, but we have a sneaking suspicion it’ll be the Captain in Terminator Armour and Tyranid Prime. We might be wrong, though. It does happen occasionally.
• Issue 2, which contains 3 Von Ryan’s Leapers, will cost £6.99. However…
• …If you subscribe via Hachette, Issue 2 (the one with Von Ryan’s Leapers), and Issue 3 (which contains 5 Infernus Marines) will also come with a free modelling kit, which is made up of a mold-line remover, a tube of Citadel plastic glue, and some plastic cutters.
• Issue 4, which will cost £9.99, comes with three paints – Wraithbone, Macragge Blue and Barak-Nar Burgundy – as well as a Citadel Starter Brush.

Subscriber Extras

Current and/or former subscribers to any of the Warhammer partworks collections that have come from Hachette will know that Hachette like to reward their loyal subscribers with a smattering of gifts across the course of their subscription. Those who are slowly building a collection of Hachette Warhammer Partworks Exclusive Mugs will be pleased to know that they – along with some other goodies – are returning (and if you’ve got a spare Stormbringer one, hit me up; mine went through the dishwasher and fell apart!).

One thing that caught our eyes from the above contents is the free Primaris Company Champion. In the past, Hachette’s Warhammer partworks have come with their own exclusive miniatures. It seems odd that they might buck this trend now. We’ve been pouring over the full collection image and can’t spot anything that looks new and exclusive in there, so we do wonder if, perhaps, the Primaris Company Champion might be a placeholder for the sake of the trail. Come full release, this might be swapped out with an exclusive model. However, don’t quote us on this: it’s purely speculative.

Furthermore, the Primaris Company Champion is a rare and desirable model anyway – it was only available at events a couple years ago, and then again earlier in the year via Made to Order, and so even if not a new miniature, it’s a still a valuable one to have in your collection.

Exclusives

Ooops, i guess ignore the above bit! So, As a matter of fact, yes! Props to our writer Jordan for noticing a photo of this guy tucked in amongst all the other stuff we were sent.

This Infernus Marine Sergeant is a completely new, unreleased miniature that will be exclusive for the Combat Patrol collection. We don’t yet know at which point he’ll crop up, but as soon as we do, we’ll let you all know.

Premium Content

Yes, we can confirm that there will be a Premium Subscription option available for Warhammer 40,000: Combat Patrol. It’s a pretty good one, too. Have a look at this:

For an extra £2 per issue, Premium subscribers will find themselves the recipients of some pretty beefy models in four exclusive kits across the collection.

• Premium Kit 1 contains a Space Marine Brutalis Dreadnought and a Tyranid Hive Tyrant.
• Premium Kit 2 contains a Chaos Daemon Prince and some Aeldari Howling Banshees.
• Premium Kit 3 contains three Brôkhyr Thunderkyn and three Ork Killa Kanz.
• Premium Kit 4 contains the Genestealer Cults Broodcoven as well as the Astra Militarum Rogal Dorn tank.

These premium sets might also offer a window into how the collection will be broken up. It looks like the first 20 or so magazines will see the Space Marines and Tyranids duking it out, rounding off their stint with the Brutalis Dreadnought and Hive Tyrant. The next leg of the collection will focus on Chaos falling out with Aeldari, before finishing off with the Daemon Prince and Howling Banshees, and so on for the other factions.

There are, however, 9 factions listed as being included in this collection – so how this ultimately all fits together is still a bit of a mystery to us.

Opt-Outs

Over the last two collections in particular, we’ve seen a rise in opt-outs. Books, additional character packs containing single miniatures, and so on. As yet, there’s no word on whether or not we’ll be seeing any more of these, but should this trial make it to a full collection, we can be pretty certain that we’ll see a few extra opt-outs snuck in along the way.

Warhammer 40,000 Combat Patrol Announcement – Final Thoughts

Wow.

We make no secret of it. Here at FauxHammer.com, we’re big fans of Hachette’s partworks collections. Over the last few years, these have come to form an integral part of the Warhammer hobby and have served as a really important vector for getting newcomers into painting, playing and collecting miniatures. They’ve also gone from strength to strength each time, the collections offered by each of Hachette’s partworks runs becoming more and more impressive with each round of releases.

But Combat Patrol is certainly squaring up to be Hachette’s best collection yet.

Over the next week or so, we’re going to be releasing a few more articles taking a closer look at all the different elements of this collection, and will of course be providing some current speculative price and savings breakdowns so you can see where your money is going. Keep checking back for more news too – as soon as we hear anything, we’ll get it straight to you!

Bitten by the partworks bug, or just after some Warhammer on the cheap? Make sure you check out the Issues of Warhammer 40,000: Imperium and Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Stormbringer available over at Forbidden Planet for a chance to snag yourself some miniatures on the cheap!

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