Space Marine Heroes was a range of push-fit miniatures of Warhammer 40000 Space Marines, available in blind-buy boxes for £5 per box. Each such box contains one miniature at random, along with its matching character card which acts as a painting reference and details the relative strengths of the character itself. [1]
History
First released exclusively for the Japanese market, it was then made available to the rest of the world.[3]
It was rebranded as Warhammer Heroes in 2025.[8]
Five ranges of characters have been released so far:
- Ultramarines (2017)
- Blood Angels (2018)
- Death Guard (2020)[2]
- Strike Force Justian (2023)
- Strike Force Variel (2025)
Some of those miniatures were made available outside of Japan through the Space Marine Adventures boxed games:
- Ultramarines in Space Marine Adventures: Labyrinth of the Necrons
- Blood Angels in Space Marine Adventures: Rise of the Orks
Black Library released two novellas under the Space Marine Heroes title alongside the first two ranges of characters:
- Death Knell (Novella) - Ultramarines[9]
- Blood Rite (Novella) - Blood Angels[10]
Galleries
Ultramarines
The following character was allegedly released in Japan as an Ultramarine character named "Brother Toriad" in 2017[7]; it was made available through Space Marine Adventures: Labyrinth of the Necrons in the rest of the world in 2019 under a different name:[6]
Blood Angels
Death Guard
Strike Force Justian
Strike Force Variel
Sources
- 1: Warhammer Community: A New Breed of Heroes (saved archive page, dated 04/11/2018, last accessed 20 February 2022)
- 2: Warhammer Community: Space Marine Heroes 3 – Rise of the Nurglings (saved archive page, dated 06/11/2020, last accessed 20 February 2022)
- 3: Warhammer Community: Space Marine Heroes in Japan (saved archive page, dated 31 May 2017, last accessed 20 February 2022)
- 4: https://spacemarineheroes.com/ (saved archive page, dated 22/02/22, last accessed 22/02/22)
- 5: Warhammer Community: Sunday Preview – Ursula Creed Confronts the Ghosts of Cadia (posted 03/09/2023) (last accessed 04/09/2023)
- 6: Warhammer Community (posted 10/01/2020) (saved archive page, last accessed 10/09/2023)
- 7: Spacemarineheroes.com (Japanese Version) (saved archive, last accessed 10/09/2023)
- 8: Warhammer Community: Warhammer Heroes brings another elite team of Space Marines to the battlefield (archived from the original 01 July 2025, last accessed 01 July 2025)
- 9: Goodreads: Death Knell (archived from the original 04 November 2025, last accessed 04 November 2025)
- 10: Black Library: Blood Rite (archived from the original 09 August 2020, last accessed 04 November 2025)