Official Box Contents Guide: Warhammer & Middle-earth SBG Releases

Games Workshop's latest releases offer a diverse mix of miniatures, rulebooks, campaign supplements, and hobby essentials designed for collectors, gamers, and hobbyists alike. Whether you're building a new army, expanding an existing collection, or covering upcoming products for your audience, understanding exactly what each release includes can help you make informed purchasing and content-planning decisions.

Expected Release Date: July 18, 2026

Warhammer: The Old World Core Set

The core set for Warhammer: The Old World is a large two-army starter box designed to get players into the game quickly. It contains 54 miniatures split between Chaos and Grand Cathay forces, along with essential gaming accessories and printed game materials.

On the Chaos side, the box includes an Aspiring Champion mounted on a Daemonic Mount, an Aspiring Champion carrying a Battle Standard, 16 Chaos Warriors, and 4 Chaos Knights. The Grand Cathay force includes a Gate Keeper on a Cathayan Warhorse, a Gate Keeper carrying a Battle Standard, 20 Jade Warriors, 5 Jade Lancers, and a Cathayan Grand Cannon with an Ogre Loader and 3 crew members.

Beyond the miniatures, the set also includes the updated rulebook, a Battle March booklet, dice, tokens, range rulers, and a paper battle map. That makes it more than just an army box, since it also serves as a complete launch point for play.

Arcane Journal: Battle March Companion

The Battle March Companion is a support book built around smaller, narrative-style games. Instead of focusing only on standard matched play, it expands the experience with campaign tools and scenario-driven content.

The book includes a full narrative campaign, six special scenarios, expanded scenario rules, two optional secondary objectives, and eighteen random happenings. It also adds new magic items created specifically for Battle March games, plus advice for organizing events in that format.

For players who enjoy storytelling, this kind of supplement is especially useful because it gives structure to small games without making them feel repetitive. It also works well for clubs and hobby groups that want quick but meaningful battles.

Burning of the Westfold

Burning of the Westfold is a Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game journal centered on the war that devastates Rohan. Its campaign content follows the conflict through a sequence of 11 scenarios, taking players from the Fords of Isen to Helm's Deep and onward to Pelennor Fields.

The journal does more than present battles. It also includes hobby articles that help transform Rohan house kits into damaged settlements and battlefield wreckage, which is useful for terrain builders and narrative gamers. In addition, it offers painting guidance for horses, making it relevant to anyone building mounted forces or scenic collections.

This makes the journal valuable not only as a game supplement, but also as a hobby resource. Players who like immersive campaigns will probably find the combination of rules and modeling ideas especially useful.

Riders of Rohan

Riders of Rohan is a classic cavalry-themed Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game kit. It is clearly intended for Rohan armies, but the exact box contents were not fully visible in the official material I reviewed.

Because of that, the safest way to describe it is simply as a Rohan cavalry product rather than guessing the precise model count or configuration. If you are writing for a blog or store listing, this cautious wording protects accuracy and avoids repeating unverified claims.

For hobbyists, Riders of Rohan remains one of the most recognizable force-building kits in the range. It is usually associated with fast-moving mounted warfare and the signature style of the Rohirrim.

Warriors of Rohan Commanders

The Warriors of Rohan Commanders set is a metal command kit for Rohan armies. It builds three models: a Captain, a banner bearer, and a warrior carrying a horn.

That makes the box especially useful for players who need command figures to support a unit of infantry or to add visual variety to their army. The models are designed for use in Kingdom of Rohan forces in the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game.

Command sets like this are often small but important purchases, because they let you finish a warband in a way that looks complete on the table. They also help reinforce the identity of an army through banners, horns, and leadership figures.

Hill Tribesmen Commanders

The Hill Tribesmen Commanders set is another three-model command pack, this time for Hill Tribes forces. The box builds a Hill Tribes Chieftain, a Hill Tribesman with a banner, and a Hill Tribesman with a war horn.

The Chieftain has multiple build options, giving you the choice between a hand weapon and shield or a two-handed weapon. The kit can also be used in Wild Men of Dunland armies, and the Chieftain can optionally be assembled as a Wild Man Oathmaker.

That flexibility makes the kit more useful than a simple command set. It gives collectors and gamers an extra bit of versatility, especially if they like mixing narrative flavor with army-building choices.

Flames of Betrayal

Flames of Betrayal was not clearly verifiable as a standard miniature box from the available official product references, so it should be handled carefully. The wording available pointed more toward a paperback or book-style release than a boxed miniature set.

Conclusion

These products cover several different parts of the Warhammer and Middle-earth hobby, from starter sets and campaign books to command packs and narrative supplements. The core set gives you a full entry point, the journals add story-driven play, and the commander kits help round out themed armies.