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oh i love whatever this thing is

Cleaning out an enslaver infested hive would be quite cool

I'm a bit less convinced that's an Enslaver, it's got enough design in common with Tyranids it could be some form of Genestealer Cult wackiness, and that would fit more with what we know.

It reminds me of when everyone thought that Rogue Trader had Slaught minis, and it turned out they were just less exciting Nurgle mutants and they'd just done a slightly wider design range with them.

Too many legs for a Tyranid release. I dont mind them but GW sticks to 6, most of the times.

It looks so much like the established design of Enslavers that it would be a bit cruel to be anything else.

But could be a Nurglesque daemon-tick or something.

Ooooh. Given Necromunda is known for delving into 40K of yesteryear?

Tyranid Mind Slaver.

Looks pretty small, though. If it's an Enslaver, it's probably a baby Enslaver. You know, so gangers can actually handle it.

It doesn't contain the visual cues for Tyranids (the head plates, even if they are vestigial).

However based on the flying base stem, that model looks very small, like human head sized. I always imagined enslavers to be roughly human-sized in bulk - do they manifest in realspace using the distorted body of their original host, or am I mixing up my Rogue Trader aliens?

Patriarch wrote:
It doesn't contain the visual cues for Tyranids (the head plates, even if they are vestigial).

However based on the flying base stem, that model looks very small, like human head sized. I always imagined enslavers to be roughly human-sized in bulk - do they manifest in realspace using the distorted body of their original host, or am I mixing up my Rogue Trader aliens?

They are supposed to be fairly large- 1-2m kind of size, which is roughly 12-25mm in 40k terms.

I do recall in the Deathwatch RPG suppliment 'The Nemesis Incident', written by Andy Hoare who is the head of the specialist games team, he mentioned Enslaver Behemoths, indicating they may come in different sizes (pure speculation on my behalf).

Hmm... It could be a reimagined Enslaver, but its not that close

morgaur wrote:
That's an slaver.

At least, that's the first thing that crossed my mind. Looks a bit small to be an slaver, but still...

IIRC Enslavers were floating brain things and...

Wait a sec, why am I trying to remember when I wrote a whole Rogue Trader Retro Review!



'ere we are.

But it would be trivial change to give them some Starro/Xenomorph style face huggers.

Enslavers take control of psykers and transform them into biological warp-gates. The enslavers than pass through the gates into real-space.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Ooooh. Given Necromunda is known for delving into 40K of yesteryear?

Tyranid Mind Slaver.

Another good possibility.

I'm pretty sure there's a newer sketch of an Enslaver which the 3D model from Gladius is based on.

It's really a bit like some of the nasty critters from the Advanced Space Crusade rulebook ... (ugh, these were truly disturbing to teenage me)

 Geifer wrote:
I'm pretty sure there's a newer sketch of an Enslaver which the 3D model from Gladius is based on.

It is a Jes Goodwin sketch, and much closer to the previewed model.

Not sure about the paint job, it looked at first to me like a head with a face hugger, not single entity if that makes sense. Like they were going to release a bunch of heads you can pop on any model for a psychicly possessed gang.

This (the oldest unsolved RE) probably isn't a Tyranid but it maybe could be whatever that is.

it actually looks like a genestealer skull with something that looks like a baby ambull attached to it (at least the face of the ambull)

twoseventwo wrote:
This (the oldest unsolved RE) probably isn't a Tyranid but it maybe could be whatever that is.

It's a cancelled release, per Whitefang over on TGA.

not convinced that this is anything to do with the tyranids or genestealers. i feel pretty convinced that it's an enslaver, but maybe i'll be pleasantly surprised

 Kanluwen wrote:

twoseventwo wrote:
This (the oldest unsolved RE) probably isn't a Tyranid but it maybe could be whatever that is.

It's a cancelled release, per Whitefang over on TGA.

Where did they say that? Couldn't find anything in there posts there

 Mentlegen324 wrote:

Where did they say that? Couldn't find anything in there posts there

Not going to dig for it, but the gist was that it was another "Incarnate" intended for the Gallet season along with the "intact" Cities of Sigmar buildings we keep seeing in the Cities of Sigmar stuff. Big ol' magma spider.

This is the most recent depiction of an Enslaver, taken from the Liber Xenologis book. They look pretty close.

I could see the new expansion focussing on an Enslaved gang, with baby Enslavers roaming along.

twoseventwo wrote:
Presumably at least a couple of unsolved rumour engines are from this, though it's hard to know exactly what. I can see this being splash terrain, though.

Pretty sure that’s from the underside of the big tree thing in the next Warcry box https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/03/21/adepticon-preview-twisted-followers-of-alarielle-and-nagash-battle-in-briar-and-bone/

I get the impression it might be a creature ontop of another thing, rather than the back section being an actual part of it. The 2 upper parts look like the other segmented limbs and seem to be wrapped around and digging in, rather than it being integrated.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Mentlegen324 wrote:

Where did they say that? Couldn't find anything in there posts there

Not going to dig for it, but the gist was that it was another "Incarnate" intended for the Gallet season along with the "intact" Cities of Sigmar buildings we keep seeing in the Cities of Sigmar stuff. Big ol' magma spider.

Reading that thread, it seems you might be misremembering things? Found posts talking about it from December asking if Whitefang had gone any predictions wrong before, that spider gets mentioned as still not having shown up so some then speculate it might have been cancelled, but doesn't seem to have been Whitefang actually saying that.

Maybe it had something to do with something dealing with the reactions that Whitefang does?

Honestly, I've long suspected that WF asks for things to be deleted if they felt they were "talking out of turn".

 Kanluwen wrote:
Maybe it had something to do with something dealing with the reactions that Whitefang does?

Honestly, I've long suspected that WF asks for things to be deleted if they felt they were "talking out of turn".

Someone else did then say that it seems sometimes he mentions/reacts to things he just thinks are cool, then they just get taken as being a specific rumour.

Either way though he doesn't seem to have said that that rumour engine is cancelled, so it could still happen and i suppose could potentailly be relevant to this. They don't seem overly similar to me though being being insectoid.

I'm sure whatever they are isn't really important and not worth paying attention to. In fact I'm sure there is something more interesting the other direction.