Imperial Bastion pits you against Tyranids; The Great Parch against Skaven.
Warhammer 40,000
Imperial Bastion
An Imperial bastion swarmed by Tyranids in a consumed wasteland.
Tyranid swarms: break Synapse support, watch for leaping attackers, and clear rescue guards.
Waves & bosses
Stage details — Imperial Bastion
Battlefield features
The ruined Imperial Bastion is a Tyranid battlefield. The important distinction is between the surrounding swarm and the creatures supporting it through Synapse.
Tyranid threats & mechanics
Synapse sources such as Hive Tyrants give nearby Termagants and Hormagaunts Berserk, increasing their speed and damage. Von Ryan’s Leapers can rear up and vault over other enemies to pounce; the front line of small enemies is not a safe barrier.
Target priorities
Prioritize a Synapse source when you can reach it: killing one briefly stuns nearby lesser bioforms as well as removing its support. Use that opening to disengage from the swarm or approach a rescue target. React to a Leaper’s wind-up rather than watching only the nearest enemy.
Rescue objectives
Kozlowski and the Legend of Catachan are rescue targets. Defeat the enemies harassing a rescue character to have them join the run. In the 40K preview, IGN found rescues at question-mark objectives and Tyranid Warriors guarding Catachan; if that guarded encounter appears, prioritize the Synapse Warriors over the strengthened swarm.
Normal mode
- Time limit
- 25 minutes
- Player speed multiplier
- ×1.25
- Enemy speed multiplier
- ×1.25
- Currency multiplier
- ×1.3
- Enemy health multiplier
- ×1
- XP multiplier
- ×1
- Luck bonus
- 0
Configuration flags
- Default unlocked flag
- Yes
- Hidden flag
- No
- Placeholder flag
- Yes
Relic and rescue targets
Munitorum Dataslate
Bartosz
Catachan
Boss milestones
Boss schedule for minutes 0–25; event spawns are separate.
Minute Boss entries 1 Termagant 3 Termagant 4 Von Ryan’s Leaper 6 Von Ryan’s Leaper 8 Tyranid Warrior 10 Tyranid Warrior 11 Biovore 13 Biovore 15 Carnifex 16 Zoanthrope 18 Zoanthrope 19 Winged Tyranid Prime 21 Hive Tyrant 23 Winged Tyranid Prime 25 Norn Emissary Sources: Stage reveal · Faction traits · Official enemy skills / Hobby Table · PC Gamer · IGN
Warhammer Age of Sigmar
The Great Parch
A dry, desolate land. Full of blazing heat, sulphurous fumes and teeming with Skaven.
Ashen Skaven plains; watch for horizontal Vermintide crossings, not just pursuing enemies.
Waves & bosses
Stage details — The Great Parch
Battlefield features
Skaven swarm across the Great Parch’s ashen plains. The Age of Sigmar preview describes periodic Vermintide waves whose rats rush horizontally instead of following the usual pursuit pattern.
Crossing-wave priorities
When a horizontal wave approaches, leave its crossing lane rather than circling it as though it were a pursuing pack. Check the lane before committing to a pickup or a fight; return to that target after the crossing passes.
Skaven matchup reference — not a stage roster
If encountered, a Bell of Doom grants nearby Skaven Warded, making even weak rats tougher. Ratling Gunners cross the screen firing into damaging hazard zones; Acolyte Globadiers leave poisonous clouds. Avoid committing your escape route through gunfire or lingering poison.
Normal mode
- Time limit
- 25 minutes
- Player speed multiplier
- ×1.1
- Enemy speed multiplier
- ×1.1
- Currency multiplier
- ×1
- Enemy health multiplier
- ×1
- XP multiplier
- ×1
- Luck bonus
- 0
Configuration flags
- Default unlocked flag
- Yes
- Hidden flag
- No
- Placeholder flag
- No
Relic and rescue targets
Warscroll
Ulgromthier
Lyssa
Boss milestones
Boss schedule for minutes 0–25; event spawns are separate.
Minute Boss entries 1 Clanrat 3 Clanrat 6 Grey Seer 7 Grey Seer 10 Unnamed boss entry 13 Unnamed boss entry 15 Unnamed boss entry 17 Bell of Doom 18 Bell of Doom 20 Rat Ogor 21 Rat Ogor 23 Rat Ogor 25 Vizzik Skour Sources: Stage reveal · IGN · Official enemy skills / Hobby Table
Warhammer 40,000
Death World Invasion
Journey through thick foliage into the heart of a jungle consumed by the Hive Fleet.
Availability unknown
Stage details — Death World Invasion
Unlock conditions and stage values are unknown.
Warhammer 40,000
Desert Wasteland
Barren badlands, virtually devoid of life. The Hive Fleet have swarmed and consumed relentlessly, leaving an empty husk of a world.
Availability unknown
Stage details — Desert Wasteland
Tips: No health drops. Enemies get stronger and faster over time.
Hyper tips: 50% Coin bonus Mode values unknown.
Unlock conditions and stage values are unknown.
Warhammer 40,000
Gallowdark
Navigate the chaotic maze of a derelict space hulk infested by Death Guard.
Announced: tight space-hulk corridors, Death Guard, and a Great Unclean One Extremis boss.
Availability unknown
Stage details — Gallowdark
Announced battlefield
Gallowdark is a derelict space hulk with tight, corrupted corridors occupied by Death Guard. Bulkheads and buckled passages make this a different navigation problem from an open plain.
Announced major threat
A Great Unclean One is the Extremis boss announced for Gallowdark. Its identity is known; its attack sequence and defeat requirements are not yet established.
Route-planning priority
Plan around corridor exits rather than assuming you can circle every crowd. Before entering a narrow passage, identify the way back so the Death Guard cannot force you to rely on a wide sidestep that the corridor does not allow.
Tips: Enemies get stronger and faster over time.
Unlock conditions and stage values are unknown.
Sources: Stage reveal · Official press release
Warhammer 40,000
Hobby Table
The tabletop of a Warhammer 40,000 hobbyist.
Announced: mixed factions among paint pots and hobby tools; plan a route through the desk clutter.
Availability unknown
Stage details — Hobby Table
Announced battlefield
The 40K Hobby Table places combat among paint pots, cutting mats and hobby tools. Navigation involves weaving through the tools rather than treating the whole tabletop as unobstructed ground.
Mixed-faction pressure
Multiple enemy factions can appear, sometimes at the same time. Do not plan the encounter as a Tyranid-only fight: identify the enemies actually approaching before deciding what to focus.
Desk-route priority
Choose the gap between tools before drawing a mixed crowd toward it. Keep another gap in view so a paint pot or tool does not turn your planned retreat into a blocked corner.
Tips: Random enemy waves from normal stages.
Unlock conditions and stage values are unknown.
Sources: Official enemy skills / Hobby Table · Stage reveal
Warhammer 40,000
Imperial Shipyard
Battle Death Guard for control of an Imperial Navy shipyard.
Availability unknown
Stage details — Imperial Shipyard
Tips: Elevators aid navigation.
Unlock conditions and stage values are unknown.
Warhammer 40,000
Ork Stronghold
Fight your way through a Goff fort without getting krumped by da boyz!
Announced: Grots, Bomb Squigs, Boyz and Lootas; a red screen signals a heavier Waaagh! surge.
Availability unknown
Stage details — Ork Stronghold
Announced enemy lineup
The Stronghold reveal shows Grots, Bomb Squigs, Ork Boyz and Lootas firing across the battlefield. Expect to account for shooting as well as the crowd pressing toward you.
Waaagh! warning & Extremis reveal
When fighting Orks, a reddening screen warns of Waaagh!: more enemies spawn and Orks become frenzied. The Ork reveal also introduces Ghazghkull Thraka, who brings mobs of Boyz in a Waaagh!; no fixed arrival minute is given.
Surge priority
Treat the red-screen warning as the moment to secure room for the incoming crowd, not a cue to chase a distant target. Check the firing lanes from Lootas before choosing that space so the surge does not push you directly into gunfire.
Unlock conditions and stage values are unknown.
Sources: Ork reveal · Faction traits
Warhammer 40,000
Perils of the Warp
The Immaterium, a realm of psychic energy where matter, time and space have no meaning.
Availability unknown
Stage details — Perils of the Warp
Unlock conditions and stage values are unknown.
Warhammer Age of Sigmar
Bloodwind Spoil
A mining camp in the Eightpoints whose rivers of molten realmstone have been claimed by the Blades of Khorne.
Availability unknown
Stage details — Bloodwind Spoil
Unlock conditions and stage values are unknown.
Warhammer Age of Sigmar
Necropolis
The final citadel. Time runs out and death draws near.
Availability unknown
Stage details — Necropolis
Unlock conditions and stage values are unknown.
Warhammer Age of Sigmar
Gnarlwood
Fight the Gloomspite Gitz while surviving the predatory flora and fauna in the treacherous Realm of Beasts.
Availability unknown
Stage details — Gnarlwood
Tips: No health drops. Enemies get stronger and faster over time.
Unlock conditions and stage values are unknown.
Warhammer Age of Sigmar
The Twin-Tailed City
The legendary Hammerhal, two free cities joined by a Realmgate and relentlessly attacked by Chaos forces.
Announced: the Stormrift Realmgate changes both biome and enemy faction between the city’s two realms.
Availability unknown
Stage details — The Twin-Tailed City
Announced battlefield
Hammerhal, the Twin-Tailed City, spans Aqshy and Ghyran. The Stormrift Realmgate connects its two sides and allows travel between their different biomes.
Realmgate mechanic
Crossing the gate changes not only the scenery but the enemy faction: Skaven besiege one side and the Blades of Khorne the other. A gate crossing therefore changes the matchup you are preparing to fight.
Crossing priority
Use the gate as a deliberate change of battlefield, not as an assumed safe escape. Before crossing, decide whether you want the other faction’s matchup; once across, reassess the enemies instead of continuing the same target plan automatically.
Tips: Travel by realmgate between Aqshan and Ghyran
Unlock conditions and stage values are unknown.
Sources: Stage reveal
Warhammer Age of Sigmar
Hobby Table
The tabletop of a Warhammer Age of Sigmar hobbyist.
Announced: the Age of Sigmar tabletop mixes enemy factions around oversized hobby supplies.
Availability unknown
Stage details — Hobby Table
Announced battlefield
Age of Sigmar has its own Hobby Table stage. Paint pots, cutting mats and tools form the battlefield’s desk-scale scenery, with routes weaving between hobby equipment.
Overlapping factions
The Hobby Table can send multiple factions at once. Do not rely on a Skaven-focused plan carried over from the Great Parch: the mixed encounter is the defining difference here.
Mixed-encounter priority
Identify each approaching group before committing to a tool-lined route. If different groups converge, favor a route with another exit over a narrow gap that requires pushing through both groups at once.
Tips: Random enemy waves from normal stages.
Unlock conditions and stage values are unknown.
Sources: Official enemy skills / Hobby Table · Stage reveal
Warhammer Age of Sigmar
Skrappa Spill
A dark, dank lurklair where Gloomspite Gitz hoard looted scrap under the gaze of the Bad Moon.
Availability unknown
Stage details — Skrappa Spill
Unlock conditions and stage values are unknown.
Warhammer Age of Sigmar
Under-Empire
Descend into the Skaven-infested warrens of the Under-Empire that lies beneath the Mortal Realms.
Availability unknown
Stage details — Under-Empire
Unlock conditions and stage values are unknown.