Games Workshop presents new content for all Warhammer worlds at the beginning of the year, including miniatures for the popular tabletop game. Recently, several new items were released for Warhammer 40,000, one of which is generating excitement: a war smith of the Iron Warriors, who is significantly younger than his powerful counterparts.
What kind of mini is this?
- During the New Year Preview, Games Workshop showcased several new miniatures for the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop, including the female models for the Custodes.
- After a teaser, the unveiling of Kravek Morne, a war smith of the Iron Warriors, one of the traitor legions of the Space Marines, followed over a week later.
- While Morne may outwardly appear to be just another hero for the beefed-up superhumans, he is sparking discussions in the community – especially regarding his age.
What makes Kravek Morne so special: Even his stance makes Morne extraordinary. The war smiths are the elite of the Iron Warriors. The entire legion forgoes the gifts of the dark gods and instead swears by cybernetic and bionic augmentation.
Specifically, this means: Iron Warriors are – like the Iron Hands of the loyal Space Marines or the Adeptus Mechanicus – convinced that flesh is weak and replace their bodies piece by piece with metal, in the case of the Iron Warriors even partially with demonic machines.
War smiths are the absolute embodiment of this doctrine and are also brilliant tacticians and strategists as well as master craftsmen who can create brutal weapons for their brothers. They combine the powers of chaos with futuristic smithing.
Kravek Morne himself is one of these war smiths, but even more: according to his lore, which originated concurrently with him (on Warhammer Community), he is only 2,000 years old. In comparison: many Space Marines and traitors have been alive since the Horus Heresy in the 31st millennium.
The war smith was forcibly recruited and compelled into the legion. Just 500 years later, he became one of the best leaders of the Iron Warriors and became known for his brutality.
“Not just a new war smith, a NAMED war smith!”
Since Morne’s introduction, there have been countless posts about the new model on Reddit in various subreddits – for example here and here. Fans are absolutely thrilled to not just get a new war smith, but a named hero.
Such occurrences are quite rare in most factions; only Space Marines regularly receive new named models, most recently another Titus figure with a new title and important lore development.
Moreover, Morne’s youth serves as a reminder that not all Space Marines and traitors are veterans of the Horus Heresy, and that many things have evolved over the past 10,000 years. It is easy to forget that most Marines do not belong to this old guard:
I love the narrative of the veterans of the long war and the Heresy-era Marines, but it is so cool to see more modern Marines (like Huron) in the spotlight.
1AmB0r3d on Reddit
However, not only Morne’s lore is causing discussions, but also his model itself. It stands out with many details and a generally fitting aesthetic – so much so that some fans of Fantasy and Age of Sigmar are considering switching systems.
Fans even suspect further reveals for the Iron Warriors or at least something in that direction based on the teasers known so far. Games Workshop often introduces new miniatures – and in general, the worlds of Warhammer are becoming busier: Now is the perfect time to enter the world of Warhammer – 2026 offers really a lot of content
