Warhammer 40,000 Animations Trailer Shows a Running Khorne Berseker, Lae'zel Actor Devora Wilde as a Battle Sister, and a Blink and You’ll Miss It Look at Astartes 2

Games Workshop has released a teaser trailer for upcoming Warhammer animations, revealing what subscribers to its streaming level Warhammer Plus tin expect successful 2026.

There are a fig of caller animations teased successful the video, below, but the 1 featured astir prominently stars the Adepta Sororitas. We spot a Battle Sister with a dense bolter letting rip, with Devora Wilde confirmed to play 1 of the Battle Sisters. Wilde played Lae'zel successful Baldur’s Gate 3, and for maine is the cleanable acceptable for the Sisters of Battle.

Elsewhere, there’s an animation that sees the Aeldari (in a station connected Warhammer Community, Games Workshop confirmed these are from Saim-Hann, the fastest and among the astir warlike of the Craftworlds) going up against the Imperial Navy successful aerial battles.

And past possibly the astir breathtaking tease successful the full video: a Khorne Berzerker from the World Eaters Traitor Legion who is, Games Workshop said, “on the hunt.”

Some fans deliberation this is really a look astatine Astartes 2, the astir hotly anticipated animation among the fandom. That’s due to the fact that the Khorne Berzerker’s moving benignant is akin to that we’ve already seen Space Marines execute successful the original, much-loved Astartes. The archetypal Astartes was created by superfan Syama Pedersen, who was subsequently brought into the fold to marque the authoritative sequel. Is this Khorne Berzerker from an wholly antithetic animation, oregon Astartes 2?

Is this a changeable from Astartes 2? Image credit: Games Workshop.

That’s 1 large question coming retired of this animation, but we bash get a wide look astatine Astartes 2 work-in-progress. At 1 constituent we spot animation enactment connected a show screen, and it shows a squad of Terminators look to support an unnamed quality soldier. This is the Inquisition-led Deathwatch Terminator squad from the debut Astartes 2 teaser successful incomplete form, but we cognize from their pauldron section symbols that they’re the aforesaid arsenic earlier (Retributors, Mortifactors, Scythes of The Emperor, Sons of Medusa, and Angels Vermilion).

Astartes is wide accepted arsenic the top Warhammer 40,000 animation ever made, authoritative oregon unofficial, with lone Amazon’s fantabulous Space Marine 2 animation for the Secret Level anthology bid competing with it successful prime terms. Indeed, Astartes was truthful bully that it inspired Saber Interactive’s hugely palmy Space Marine 2 successful presumption of the look and consciousness of the Space Marines themselves.

Fans hadn’t heard a peep retired of Games Workshop connected Astartes 2 for years, starring immoderate to wonderment whether the institution had softly cancelled it. But successful January this twelvemonth Games Workshop released a teaser trailer alongside a 2026 merchandise window, and present we person a reinforcement that it’s inactive successful the works.

The Sisters of Battle are coming. Image credit: Games Workshop.

And finally, there’s a little look astatine the finale of the existent play of Blacktalon. Here’s the setup from Games Workshop: “Be’lakor is back, and likelihood are bully that he’s up to thing diabolical. With Hammerhal inactive acold from safe, and their squad fractured, tin Neave and the pack foil the Dark Master’s plans?”

In different Warhammer 40,000 news, Titus from Space Marine 2 conscionable got a promotion and the starring relation successful the adjacent Warhammer 40,000 communicative expansion.

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