Where this unit stands
A Stompa appears in the announcement trailer of 12 December 2025 — Warhammer Community pointed it out itself, which makes its presence in the game one of the few unit facts backed by the publisher rather than by the press. Press coverage of 7 June 2026 additionally reports Stompas in the Armageddon footage. On the tabletop, a Stompa is an Ork war engine the size of a building. No statistic has been published for any unit in this game.
What the tabletop establishes
The Stompa is what happens when Ork mechanics are given no supervision and a great deal of scrap. It is the Ork equivalent of a super-heavy tank, except that it walks, and its weapons are as likely to be a giant chain weapon as a cannon. In the setting it is a rare thing, built for a specific war, and it is one of the largest models the tabletop game sells.
An Ork war engine the size of a building, welded together out of scrap around a crew and an enormous amount of enthusiasm. It is the Ork answer to a super-heavy tank, and it walks.
Tabletop identity, as established by Games Workshop. It says nothing about the video game.What has actually been shown
Its presence is better established than most: the publisher itself drew attention to it in the announcement, and the press reports it again six months later. What remains unpublished is everything else — whether it is recruitable, what it costs, how many can be fielded, and what an army does about one.
What to watch next
The Baneblade page asks how a super-heavy vehicle is costed in a line unit slot. This page asks the question that follows from having two of them. Both factions in the Armageddon footage field a war engine of that scale, and that symmetry is either deliberate design — each side answers the other, and the match-up is built around it — or an accident of which two factions were being shown. A game where one faction has a Stompa and another has nothing comparable is a very different game from one where every faction has an equivalent. Creative Assembly has said nothing about parity, and this is the sort of decision that is made early and never revisited. Reported by press coverage of 8 June 2026, publisher material of 12 December 2025 for its presence only. Information correct as of 18 August 2026.
What is not known
These questions have no published answer as of 8 June 2026. They are listed because an absence of information is information — and because we would rather name the gap than fill it.