Games Workshop has released a teaser trailer for upcoming Warhammer animations, revealing what subscribers to its streaming platform Warhammer Plus can expect in 2026.
There are a number of new animations teased in the video, below, but the one featured most prominently stars the Adepta Sororitas. We see a Battle Sister with a heavy bolter letting rip, with Devora Wilde confirmed to play one of the Battle Sisters. Wilde played Lae’zel in Baldur’s Gate 3, and for me is the perfect fit for the Sisters of Battle.
Elsewhere, there’s an animation that sees the Aeldari (in a post on Warhammer Community, Games Workshop confirmed these are from Saim-Hann, the fastest and among the most warlike of the Craftworlds) going up against the Imperial Navy in aerial battles.
And then perhaps the most exciting tease in the entire video: a Khorne Berzerker from the World Eaters Traitor Legion who is, Games Workshop said, “on the hunt.”
Some fans think this is actually a look at Astartes 2, the most hotly anticipated animation among the fandom. That’s because the Khorne Berzerker’s running style is similar to that we’ve already seen Space Marines perform in the original, much-loved Astartes. The original Astartes was created by superfan Syama Pedersen, who was subsequently brought into the fold to make the official sequel. Is this Khorne Berzerker from an entirely different animation, or Astartes 2?
That’s one big question coming out of this animation, but we do get a clear look at Astartes 2 work-in-progress. At one point we see animation work on a monitor screen, and it shows a squad of Terminators appear to protect an unnamed human soldier. This is the Inquisition-led Deathwatch Terminator squad from the debut Astartes 2 teaser in incomplete form, but we know from their pauldron chapter symbols that they’re the same as before (Retributors, Mortifactors, Scythes of The Emperor, Sons of Medusa, and Angels Vermilion).
Astartes is widely accepted as the greatest Warhammer 40,000 animation ever made, official or unofficial, with only Amazon’s excellent Space Marine 2 animation for the Secret Level anthology series competing with it in quality terms. Indeed, Astartes was so good that it inspired Saber Interactive’s hugely successful Space Marine 2 in terms of the look and feel of the Space Marines themselves.
Fans hadn’t heard a peep out of Games Workshop on Astartes 2 for years, leading some to wonder whether the company had quietly cancelled it. But in January this year Games Workshop released a teaser trailer alongside a 2026 release window, and now we have a reinforcement that it’s still in the works.
And finally, there’s a brief look at the finale of the current season of Blacktalon. Here’s the setup from Games Workshop: “Be’lakor is back, and odds are good that he’s up to something diabolical. With Hammerhal still far from safe, and their team fractured, can Neave and the gang foil the Dark Master’s plans?”
In other Warhammer 40,000 news, Titus from Space Marine 2 just got a promotion and the starring role in the next Warhammer 40,000 narrative expansion.
Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at [email protected].
