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Previewed means Games Workshop has revealed the kit, but has not said which Saturday it goes up for preorder. Upcoming is next Saturday’s preorder wave — confirmed, but not on sale yet. Preorder means you can buy it now on the Warhammer webstore and at participating independent stockists. Once a product hits general release it leaves this tracker; we do not list the full back catalogue.

Most weeks follow the same loop. Warhammer Community’s Sunday Preview names what is going up for preorder the following Saturday. Those preorders open Saturday morning and run for two weeks. On the Saturday two weeks later, the products move to general release and usually stay in the range. Seasonal dumps such as the Big Summer Preview, AdeptiCon, and Christmas battleforces reveal many kits at once, which then feed into this weekly cadence over the following months.

Standard weekly preorders open at 10:00 UK time on Saturday on warhammer.com, and at participating independent stockists and Warhammer stores as they open. Local store times vary by country. Popular boxes — new edition launches, battleforces, and campaign sets — can sell out on the webstore in minutes, so a local stockist is often the more reliable way to get one.

A normal weekly preorder lasts two weeks, not one. If a product goes up on Saturday 1 August, it is generally released on Saturday 15 August, after which you can usually buy it without a preorder. Limited runs, made-to-order Forge World pieces, Warhammer+ subscriber miniatures, and some value boxes use shorter or one-off windows instead.

Release dates. For a standard weekly product, the date is the Saturday it leaves preorder and becomes generally available — two weeks after the preorder Saturday. If Upcoming shows Saturday 15 August, that kit preorders on Saturday 1 August. Current preorders are grouped on the tracker under the Saturday they release. Previewed items usually have no date until Sunday Preview confirms the weekend.

Anything that gets regular Warhammer Community coverage: Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar, Horus Heresy, Kill Team, Necromunda, Blood Bowl, The Old World, Middle-earth, and other specialist games when they have an active wave. Use the game chips at the top, or the system links in the menu, to show one range. Status tabs jump between Previewed, Upcoming, and Preorder.

No — this is an independent tracker, not affiliated with Games Workshop. Names, images, and dates are compiled from official Warhammer Community articles and related GW announcements, and each card links back to the source. We update entries as they move from preview, to the next preorder weekend, to the live preorder window.

Often not. Christmas battleforces and other value boxes can have a short preorder window and may never return to general release once they sell out. Made-to-order and Forge World kits have their own order windows. Warhammer+ miniatures are usually a limited subscriber drop rather than a normal retail preorder. If a product is unusual, the linked Warhammer Community article is the source of truth.

Games Workshop often shows models weeks or months before they put them on the schedule. Big seasonal previews dump a lot of kits that then dribble out through Sunday Preview. A product stays Previewed here until an announcement names the preorder weekend. Specialist-game kits in particular can sit in that state for a long time — a missing date means it is not confirmed yet, not that we forgot it.