Stage unlocks and Eavy Metal routes

The main stage routes use character-level objectives on the preceding stage. Reach the stated level during a run; the unlock condition is not a requirement to defeat that stage’s Extremis boss.

Main stage routes

Objective	Opens in 40K	Opens in Age of Sigmar
Starting stage	Imperial Bastion	The Great Parch
Reach level 20 on the starting stage	Gallowdark	Skrappa Spill
Reach level 40 on the second stage	Ork Stronghold	Bloodwind Spoil
Reach level 50 on the third stage	Imperial Shipyard	Under-Empire
Reach level 60 on the fourth stage	Death World Invasion	The Twin-Tailed City

For the last Age of Sigmar step, the level-60 objective is on Under-Empire. Imperial Shipyard is the corresponding 40K step; it is not an Age of Sigmar prerequisite.

Unlock Eavy Metal and the scanner stages

‘Eavy Metal unlocks are tied to particular stage bosses. Defeat Typhus on Gallowdark to unlock that stage’s mode. Defeat the Plague Furnace on The Great Parch for its mode.

Unlocking ‘Eavy Metal for any stage opens Desert Wasteland in the 40K universe or Gnarlwood in Age of Sigmar. These stages contain the Auspex and Arcanoscope respectively. Those scanners reveal hidden items when you revisit earlier stages.

You do not need every stage’s ‘Eavy Metal mode before taking the corresponding scanner route. The objective asks for a mode unlock on any stage in that universe.

Hobby Table and the final stages

Objective	Warhammer 40,000	Age of Sigmar
Encounter the universe’s three Extremis bosses	Hobby Table	Hobby Table
Defeat the universe’s three Extremis bosses	Perils of the Warp	Necropolis

Encountering and defeating are separate objectives. The 40K set is Norn Emissary, Great Unclean One and Ghazghkull Thraka. The Age of Sigmar set is Vizzik Skour, Trugg and Skarbrand. Repeated encounters with one of them do not cover the other two.

Before pursuing defeats, prepare the Extremis counter weapons. The Great Unclean One’s counter, for example, requires Saint Celestine’s Ardent Blade evolution rather than a generic high-damage build.

Pick the next run by its unlock

Gallowdark opens the Armoury and Bestiarium relic route in 40K and contains the K9 rescue. Skrappa Spill provides the equivalent reference relics in Age of Sigmar and the Gotrek rescue. Bloodwind Spoil and Ork Stronghold provide detailed map relics.

Use map relics when you need better exploration tools, or character rescues when you need a particular starting weapon.

The Imperial Bastion and Great Parch pages combine their first unlocks with rescues and chest windows. Mission modifiers explains the separate relic-gated options.