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Best guess, it's going to be the Kill Team Cassius sprue and 1 sprue each of old Warriors / Immortals / Lychguard.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Best guess, it's going to be the Kill Team Cassius sprue and 1 sprue each of old Warriors / Immortals / Lychguard.

Why would the Marine on the box have green armour, and the Blood Angel card show red armour then?

Would be odd if they'd go for regular Marines instead of Primaris, but hey...I'm not the one in charge there.

 Malika2 wrote:
Would be odd if they'd go for regular Marines instead of Primaris, but hey...I'm not the one in charge there.

Why? Contrary to internet-fearmongering, GW said time and again they'd continue to support non-Primaris Marines (if perhaps no longer as the No. 1 product in their catalog).

Moreover, a lot of 40K board games (even non-Heresy) tend to be "historical".

Space Hulk had Brother Calistarius, i.e. Mephiston long before he became Mephiston even in the pre-8th "current" timeline of 3rd to 7th Edition. Overkill had Cassius in the DW before he returned to the Ultramarines in the pre-8th "current" timeline of 3rd to 7th Edition, etc..

Looks interesting, does this confirm a rumour that was floating around on here from a while back?

I think the rumour had Necron vs [something?] Silver Tower style game. I'm not the sure [something] was supposed to be Marines though, or whether it was ever detailed.

Sunny Side Up wrote:

 Malika2 wrote:
Would be odd if they'd go for regular Marines instead of Primaris, but hey...I'm not the one in charge there.

Why? Contrary to internet-fearmongering, GW said time and again they'd continue to support non-Primaris Marines (if perhaps no longer as the No. 1 product in their catalog).

Moreover, a lot of 40K board games (even non-Heresy) tend to be "historical".

Space Hulk had Brother Calistarius, i.e. Mephiston long before he became Mephiston even in the pre-8th "current" timeline of 3rd to 7th Edition. Overkill had Cassius in the DW before he returned to the Ultramarines in the pre-8th "current" timeline of 3rd to 7th Edition, etc..

Hmm, maybe you're right in that regard. Perhaps such games are also a means of still pushing older miniatures. But at the same time I don't fully feel yet that GW is pushing the Primaris enough, especially since they're the next generation post boys.

To me either way is fine, already happy to see some Salamander green instead of the usual Ultramarines or Blood Angels.

An Ultramarine and Blood Angel are also present though.

Judging by the colour of the dice, there ar an Ultramarine, Blood Angel, Salamander, and an Imperial Fist.

 BrookM wrote:
Judging by the cards shown and the dice in the lid, players take control of a Marine from one of the big chapters. So a Salamander, Blood Angel, Ultramarine and Imperial Fist at the very least.

Game lid says 2-5 players, so at least one other chapter or maybe that the last player takes control of the necrons. Purely speculation on my part on what's been shown so far though.

I don't know, force of 2-5 marines seems way too small to take on Necrons shown so far, unless these are movie marines. Plus, bringing a flamer against Necrons seems daft. Though, I wonder this is the game where we will get the Cryptek model shown recently?

Also, look at marine's knee. Straight trim, that can be only Mk IV armour. I wonder where the 'squat marines are getting so squatted we're going to receive jack squat releases' scaremongering crowd is now?

It's a mini-game, they usually take liberties.

A fun spin on things and justification for four snowflakes working together would be that they've escaped or been set free (as a joke, cause that's how he rolls) from Trazyn's collection.

Hmmm, interesting. Looking like a re-worked and updated version of space crusade. I like.

 Galas wrote:
But to be honest the name is a little ... lame, isn't it? I don't know. Too simple. Something like "Doom in the Tomb-World" would have been cooler?

"Raiders of the lost tesseract arc"

"Raiders of the lost tesseract arc"

Necrons.. Why's it always gotta be Necrons?

I'm really interested in seeing what happens with this box. Even the fact that it might be a different chapter than the Smurfs.

Things like SW:A are really interesting to me. I like smaller, niche games so this looks right up my alley. Especially if it comes with a campaign.

Potentially a breach and clear of a tomb by a team of marines?

I can think of few things I'd be less interested in than Space Marines vs. Necrons...but interesting to see GW continuing to put out new games.

I also second the fact this should be called: Gloom of the Doom Tomb.

Dig the name, very 80s feel.
I'd love to see some unique Necron models, so I'm sad to see the same old models in the pictures.

GW should know by now that people buy many of these games because of the models. So unless the game is really fun I'll pass, even though Necrons are my main faction.

GoatboyBeta wrote:

 JohnnyHell wrote:
Wonder if they'll be standard push-fit Primaris? I'd imagine so based on the blurry Blood Angel image?

That was my first thought as well. But the Salamander(?) on the box cover is carrying a flamer and his armour doesn't match the Primaris style. With the Crons being there existing kits the Marines could be regular kits as well. So possibly non Primaris or a mix of the two types. I do wonder why GW didn't go for DW Marines though.

Because thats been done already (Overkill)

Im genuinely looking forward to this. I got to play DW:OK friday and I think its great. Loving the standalone games based in the 40k universe. I plan n using some of them in larger 40k campaigns with some alterations where needed

 Cmdr_Sune wrote:
Dig the name, very 80s feel.
I'd love to see some unique Necron models, so I'm sad to see the same old models in the pictures.

GW should know by now that people buy many of these games because of the models. So unless the game is really fun I'll pass, even though Necrons are my main faction.

I wouldn't have ever expected "unique" Necron models for something like this. Lost Patrol didn't have any, Gorechosen didn't have any--that's what this is meant to be from the looks of it.

What likely is happening in how there are single Lychguard and Immortal models is that it uses the digital sculpting concepts situated as a single frame.

Labyrinth of the Necrons...

Dark Crystal of the Dark Eldar

Neverending Story of the Harlequins

Howling Moving Castle of the Knights

All Cogs go to Heaven

Land of the Lost Imperial Guard

The Point of the Chaos Space Marines

I’m willing to bet the ‘Labyrinth’ bit is a subtitle. Which suggests this might be the first in a series?

And given the additional info on the box cover, maybe this is something for general release, rather than GW stores?

Totally random observation but the unit card for the immortal is carrying a tesla carbine rather than a gauss blaster. Rules for different loadouts possibly?

Dudeface wrote:
Totally random observation but the unit card for the immortal is carrying a tesla carbine rather than a gauss blaster. Rules for different loadouts possibly?

Wouldn't be surprising. The assassinorium game had cultists with either Autoguns or Autopistols and CCW.

 Irbis wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Judging by the cards shown and the dice in the lid, players take control of a Marine from one of the big chapters. So a Salamander, Blood Angel, Ultramarine and Imperial Fist at the very least.

Game lid says 2-5 players, so at least one other chapter or maybe that the last player takes control of the necrons. Purely speculation on my part on what's been shown so far though.

I don't know, force of 2-5 marines seems way too small to take on Necrons shown so far, unless these are movie marines. Plus, bringing a flamer against Necrons seems daft. Though, I wonder this is the game where we will get the Cryptek model shown recently?

Also, look at marine's knee. Straight trim, that can be only Mk IV armour. I wonder where the 'squat marines are getting so squatted we're going to receive jack squat releases' scaremongering crowd is now?

Deathwatch Overkill did movie marines pretty nicely. You really had to concentrate on one to get them to take them down since they could recover the next turn in most cases.

Also: The Last Space Marine Crusade

Since it is 2-5 players it could mean that one person plays the Necrons in the same way the game master plays the villain side in Conan, The Others, and additional games that have been trending over the past few years. It would mean in a five player game either one person wins or four people win. Much more interesting than a SM dungeon crawl game. Another Space Hulk: Death Angel game with miniatures is boring...

Ya'll doin' it wrong.

It's Inquistor Jones and the Labryrinth of Doom.

Rootin' tootin' robot shootin' ,take control of your colorful mutn'

Move 'em down the scary hall, move just one or move them all.

Check the corners, roll dem dice - hope dem numbers will be nice.

But if they ain't, my colorful mutn' -- dem robots will be doing the shootin'

Bottom right marine sort of looking thing. What's the symbol?

That's the Blood Angel symbol.

A bunch of space marines trying to fight there way out of Trazyns labyrinth seems interesting. It also opens up the possibility of creature of the week style expansions, because for all we know Trazyn could have old ones in there, we know he has at least one primarch (A clone of fulgrim), and all sorts of samples from every known faction.

Where are these pics from and why there are no pics of the Marines?

When there were first rumours about this, I thought it would have been about Inquisitors and Necrons, but disappointingly it just seems to be Necrons and Marines, and based on the cover art, not even Primaris Marines... It seems unlikely that I'll be getting this box.

Blood angels and necrons are allies in the background, so it makes sense they are in the game

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
Blood angels and necrons are allies in the background, so it makes sense they are in the game