Warmachine Wednesday – Reveals await at the Lock & Load Keynote
The wait’s nearly over. This week, we’re at Lock & Load 2025, hosted at Warfaire Weekend in St Louis, Missouri, where we’ll be kicking off a full weekend of Warmachine, Guild Ball, miniature painting with P3 Paints and much more.
Plus we’ll be seeing the sparks fly as warjacks clash on the battlefield with the Iron Gauntlet US finals taking place this weekend.
Today’s TL;DR
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Lock & Load 2025 starts this week — Tune in for the live Steamforged Keynote, this Friday at 7PM CST on the Warmachine YouTube channel.
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Frozen & Forgotten releases Friday — Two new Command Cadres clash this week, the Dusk Final Hunt and the Orgoth Graveborn.
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New lore interstitial “Summons” — is live now on the Warmachine App, featuring Thorga Boomhowler and hints of the battles to come.
Tune into the keynote at Lock & Load 2025
The Steamforged Games keynote takes place at Lock & Load 2025 this weekend, ready to lift the lid on what’s next for Warmachine. We’re lining up fresh reveals, big announcements, and a few surprises you’ll be hearing about for the very first time.
Can’t make it to Lock & Load in person? No problem.
Tune in to the livestream Friday at 7PM CST on the Warmachine YouTube channel and join thousands of fans as the next chapter of Warmachine unfolds.
Grab a comfy seat, stock up on snacks, and get ready for a showcase that’s bound to set cortexes on fire across the Iron Kingdoms.
Frozen & Forgotten: releasing this Friday
Also arriving on November 14, the new Two-Player set Frozen & Forgotten unleashes the Final Hunt & Graveborn onto your table. Get ready to slay as you enact the enigmatic vengeance of the Nyss or the eternal destruction of the Graveborn.
Inside are two fully playable 30-point Command Cadres: the Dusk Final Hunt and the Orgoth Graveborn.
The Final Hunt brings a remnant of the Nyss back into battle, led by Lanyssa Ryssyl, Aransor of Sorrows and Cylena Raefyll with their snow-lion warbeasts.
The Graveborn awaken from their tombs beneath Orgoth ruins. Ancient undead warlords rise to fight again under Anathia, the Imperishable Desolation.
This set is the perfect way to start your Warmachine journey, or expand your forces with two entirely new Cadres.
Secure your box today, and unleash vengeance when it releases Nov 14. Don't forget Frozen & Forgotten is a limited run two-player box set, once they’re gone, they’re gone.
Pre-order Frozen & Forgotten now and secure yours ahead of release day.
Summon the strength for Thorga
Far from the Iron Kingdoms, the Baying Wolf sails into darkness. What begins as a routine hunt for raiders soon becomes a waking nightmare, as Thorga Boomhowler and her crew cross paths with a Cryxian blackship rising from the mist.
"Water trickled down from somewhere above, a staccato drum that broke through the haze. Unable to move and weightless, Boomhowler sensed she was suspended from somewhere above, her arms and legs bound behind her, leaving her helpless. Pitch black surrounded her on all sides, a prison within an all-consuming void.
Boomhowler couldn’t tell if her eyes were open. Pain chased through her body, the soft and swollen skin around her eyes no exception. A dull ache had taken root in her temples, throbbing in time with every heartbeat, and stealing any hint of sensation from her eyelids themselves.
It was difficult to know how long she had been trapped here in this foul pit, deep in the craw of the earth and far from the sun. Consciousness came and went, fleeting moments of lucidity that blurred into memories and nightmares. In the absence of light, the shadows had somehow rushed up and enveloped her. She floated in inky blackness, deeper than darkness itself, and within that bleak nothingness lurked malevolent horrors and fiends, waiting to gleefully tear her to pieces once her torment had become trite.
Boomhowler tried to speak—to call out. All too late she remembered that she’d tried and failed before. The skin around her throat and jaw pinched painfully, as the metal cable binding her bit deeper, and a fresh wave of agony seared through her flesh. The only reward for her efforts was the taste of copper and a line of drool that slipped from between dry and broken lips and trailed to the ground.
Boomhowler might have passed out there again. Whether she did or not was impossible to know while her mind was so muddled and she was deprived of so many senses. The darkness was overwhelming, the silence deafening, and her limbs were bound so tight that they’d turned numb. With her throat restricted, even breathing presented a challenge, one that consumed her every thought for long moments, bordering on panicked hysteria.
Her body was on the cusp of giving in. Robbed of air from its lungs, adrenaline spent, and overwhelmed by pain, Boomhowler felt her life ebbing away."
Now, deep beneath the earth and far from the sea, Thorga faces horrors no blade can cut and no roar can silence. Shackled in darkness, she’ll be forced to confront her failures, her fears, and a power that may yet claim her soul.
Thorga's life hangs in the balance. Now you can help (or not) to decide it. The choices players make during the Lock & Load 2025 narrative event may shape her fate. Moulding the story that follows.
Read “Summons” now in the Warmachine App, and prepare to take part in the battle that will decide what happens next.
Tune in this weekend for more
If you’re joining us at Lock & Load 2025, we can’t wait to see you there for a weekend of Warmachine and more.
If you’re watching from home, get ready for the Keynote on Friday 7PM CST on our YouTube channel — Warmachine is about to get heavy.
Until next Wednesday, keep your warbeasts fed, and your paint pots open.
