INDEPENDENT FAN RESOURCE PRE-RELEASE FIELD GUIDE
40K FIELD GUIDETOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER 40,000Sources
Overview /

SOURCE ARCHIVE / CHECKED 22 SEP 2026

Official sources
& verification.

These are the official pages used in this guide. Publication dates and the dates we checked them are recorded separately.

03

Creative Assembly

Closed Beta — scope and selection ↗

Community page displays 17 September, but discusses a 14 September deadline. Original publication date is not treated as confirmed.

Published: Not reliably establishedChecked: 2026-09-22
09

Creative Assembly

This Week in Total War — 28 August 2026 ↗

The official opening post answers the release-year question with 2027. Forum replies are not evidence; beta timing is a separate question.

Published: 2026-08-28Checked: 2026-09-22

Official promotional artwork

The key visual and four faction portraits come from the official SEGA game website ↗, checked on 22 September 2026. They are promotional illustrations, not gameplay screenshots. Artwork rights remain with their respective owners, including Games Workshop, Creative Assembly and SEGA.

This independent guide is not an official SEGA or Warhammer website. Displaying these images does not imply endorsement.

How to read a confirmation

The release-date briefing compares SEGA’s 2027 window with Steam’s TBA listing and keeps the exact date unknown.

“Confirmed” means an official source supports the statement within its stated scope. It does not mean that we have played the feature, that the beta matches the final release, or that an announcement cannot change.

All current game claims belong to pre-release announcements checked in September 2026. No final build number or extracted gameplay dataset is claimed.

When a source is unclear, this guide leaves the detail unknown. Community observations may help locate official material, but are not used here to establish unit stats or gameplay rules.