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 Fan67 wrote:

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Or it’s a battle between the surviving human crew of a rogue trader vessel whose servitor complement got possessed/infected with nurgle’s rot as someone else suggested in another thread.

It is highly unlikely, cause both nurgle rot and zombie plague (which are different diseases) do not spawn those blackish creatures, nor provide meanings for cybernetic augmentations and "stitches" kind of abominations.
And possession should give at least some daemonic stuff. If those guys in the front are cybernetic plaguebearers - i am all in, but this is unlikely.

 BrookM wrote:
No need to double post though.

It is really hard to tell which thread will yield more fruitful discussion and I am confused. Probably mods will clear the kill team thread of this rogue trader stuff once we have more solid news.

Nurgle has (partially) demonic flies, though, and at least in AoS magical maggoths. It could be that the corrupring brush of warp power wasn't strong enough for proper possession or letting bigger demons through, but warped part of the organics on board and let the tiniest and weakest of demons through - the insects of Nurgle. Compare to the Eisenstein in the warp and Typhus sucking in demonic flies.

In any case it's such a cool box.

It doesn't look like kill team for me... the good part in kill team IMHO is that you can use your 40k figs already painted...

Killteam is a separate game set to be rereleased before Rogue Trader

Nurgle big mutants maybe? Akin to the old Lost and the Damned list. Bionics could have been added after the corruption right?

 Malika2 wrote:
Nurgle big mutants maybe? Akin to the old Lost and the Damned list. Bionics could have been added after the corruption right?

Still not 100% sure they are truly Nurgle (though clearly from the same design guys).

"Mouth guy" has no "disease stuff" whatsoever, just random mouths everywhere and a big hand.

"Tentacle guy" has some warts painted green, but appears to run a fish/scaly-theme with a hint of Fabius'/Uriens'/Frankstein's monster stiched-together-from-various-parts.



Sure, they could be Nurgle, but GW's recent Nurgle stuff has been very, very, very on the nose with Nurgle, with the Nurgle-symbol appearing everywhere in warts, skulls, etc.., flies, Nurglings, as added decoration, etc..

Of course, the flies themselves in the kit look a lot more nurgly than those two.

Maybe they are just generic mutants, and not associated with any god?

For sure they are
Game Setting: Gellerfield fails and turns crew members into mutants, rest if the crew need to kill them

Time to kick this back to page 1 with news from the Games Expo:

https://youtu.be/GFAjGa4I0yY

2-3 weeks from now.

This set, to me, looks like a great addition to a 40K RPG game system... I see a hell of a lot of great inspirations, to bring into a deathwatch campaign, an Only War campaign, and a Rogue Trader campaign. As to it's release, I'd wait till after the Knight game to come out before you hear more on this one... TO ME- all of the talk so far has it in the planning and finalization phase at this point, getting the word out to gauge peoples interest and start building up some anticipation for these guys, but not ready for release, just yet. They have a boxed game, for Rogue Trader, on par with the other boxed games... Now that it is ready, they are finalizing it, getting it ready for general release....

I hate to be the one to say it, but I like my Crow baked, with a nice chianti... I am fully on board with GW's new direction with the game sets, the game as a whole, and the flavor in which they are taking the 40K gaming. Still a bit expensive, but I'm in it for a penny, in it for a pound after being off the table for a few years, and now getting my Orks back into circulation and back in the gym to get in shape for their new codex.... THEN the GORKAMORKA talk? Yeah, I'm back.


I see myself adding in my Necromunda guys to fight some of this crazy stuff down in the Underhive, and I'm going to pick up at least 2 of these sets for the RPG value alone. From what I've seen, this looks like a good minis set for Lost and The Damned/ Realms of Chaos RPG Play, Now all you need are your D100 tables.

DAMN GOOD JOB, GW!!!

Ben2 wrote:
Time to kick this back to page 1 with news from the Games Expo:

https://youtu.be/GFAjGa4I0yY

2-3 weeks from now.

The only problem I have is with the expected release window. That would put Kill Team's release directly in competition with the new edtion of Age of Sigmar and the Nighthaubt battletome.

Same as Shadespire, Necromunda, and Blood Bowl competing with 40k, AoS, and eachother. GW have no problem with that so far. And lot of 40k player don't really buy any AoS stuff,

Actually having some release for 40k folks while AoS snatching the spotlight would be a great idea.

Chopstick wrote:
Same as Shadespire, Necromunda, and Blood Bowl competing with 40k, AoS, and eachother. GW have no problem with that so far.

I don't mean the actual products, but the release dates. Have GW ever released two 'new' games or two separate lines of miniatures simultaneously? Would it be realistic to see Age of Sigmar 2nd edition and Kill Team go on pre-order on the very same day?

 Ghaz wrote:

Chopstick wrote:
Same as Shadespire, Necromunda, and Blood Bowl competing with 40k, AoS, and eachother. GW have no problem with that so far.

I don't mean the actual products, but the release dates. Have GW ever released two 'new' games or two separate lines of miniatures simultaneously? Would it be realistic to see Age of Sigmar 2nd edition and Kill Team go on pre-order on the very same day?

Rumblings are that AOS2E is getting a two week preorder period. I could see AOS2E and Rogue Trader/Kill Team going up week 1 and then RT/KT releasing week 2 while 2E keeps going for another week of preorders.

How are they competing? Just offers more choice, some people only play AoS or 40k. I dont play AoS, so it doesnt matter to me, ill get KT. For people who do both they may well end up getting both...

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:

Chopstick wrote:
Same as Shadespire, Necromunda, and Blood Bowl competing with 40k, AoS, and eachother. GW have no problem with that so far.

I don't mean the actual products, but the release dates. Have GW ever released two 'new' games or two separate lines of miniatures simultaneously? Would it be realistic to see Age of Sigmar 2nd edition and Kill Team go on pre-order on the very same day?

Rumblings are that AOS2E is getting a two week preorder period. I could see AOS2E and Rogue Trader/Kill Team going up week 1 and then RT/KT releasing week 2 while 2E keeps going for another week of preorders.

From the 'Rogue Trader' thread:

 endtransmission wrote:

 MonkeyBallistic wrote:

Aeneades wrote:
Apparently at the Games Expo today it was confirmed that Rogue Trader is an expansion for the new Kill Team game with the first Kill Team releases within the next 2-3 weeks.

Expansion or starter set?

They didn’t say. Just that it was as part of Kill Team, making it sound like a series of releases. They also didn’ say released in 2-3 weeks, they said they would start talking about it on warhammer community in 2-3 weeks, so it could be a bit later than that given we have AOS2 this month

Ben2 wrote:
Time to kick this back to page 1 with news from the Games Expo:

https://youtu.be/GFAjGa4I0yY

2-3 weeks from now.

As mentioned in the other threads, that isn’t quite what they said. They said they would start talking about it in 2-3 weeks on the community site, so I would put this in on the first Saturday rest of July, otherwise it would be mentioned in this month’s WD

[edit] thanks for porting that over Ghaz!

 Ghaz wrote:

Ben2 wrote:
Time to kick this back to page 1 with news from the Games Expo:

https://youtu.be/GFAjGa4I0yY

2-3 weeks from now.

The only problem I have is with the expected release window. That would put Kill Team's release directly in competition with the new edtion of Age of Sigmar and the Nighthaubt battletome.

Given AoS1 was a couple of months of horrific sales for GW (so bad that 40k background sales of non-new stuff dropped) then releasing a product for the 40k crowd during 6-7 weeks of AoS releases is probably insurance. I don't think they'll need it at this point, but it's an intelligent choice and I'm not going to complain about a company minimising risks.

I'd love to see this in 2-3 weeks, but I have a feeling we'll be getting something in July. I'm really looking forward to 40k skirmish having it's own rules.

Actually Kill Team would line up with the comment that the cult Abberants would be released before the codex and their willingness to show it off now

Bear in mind that GW operate a roughly 3 month window for previews. Gama was mid March, and showed Kill Team, Shadespires Magore's Fiends and named the Idoneth Deepkin.

Only Kill Team hasn't come out and the end of that window is mid june, in 2 weeks time.

First week of July would still be roughly in that period

 endtransmission wrote:
First week of July would still be roughly in that period

This would be my guess as well, though they may be getting away from the three month preview window. With what happened with Titanicus (though that was FW), and their (February I believe) preview of Blitz Bowl and the Space Marine Board Game, which we haven't seen either of yet. I'm crossing my fingers for the first week in July though.

 Sabotage! wrote:

 endtransmission wrote:
First week of July would still be roughly in that period

This would be my guess as well, though they may be getting away from the three month preview window. With what happened with Titanicus (though that was FW), and their (February I believe) preview of Blitz Bowl and the Space Marine Board Game, which we haven't seen either of yet. I'm crossing my fingers for the first week in July though.

Well they said they didn’t show the Warhounds for Titanicus at Warhammerfest because they’re out later than 3 months after the event, so they’re sticking to it for the most part.

I reckon the window will be last week of June, first week of July.
Preorder for the 9th will be Warglaives, preorder for 16th will be AoS 2.0, preorder on 30th will be Kill Team and new terrain.

I’d say that Killteam might be a way for GW to release mini-factions, boxes of 10 or so minis, to try out subfactions an brand new stuff without having to release a full army. Remember, GW is a miniature-driven company, and this would be a low risk way of testing the waters with new stuff without having to commit to s full faction release. I think it’s a great idea.

Ben2 wrote:
I reckon the window will be last week of June, first week of July.
Preorder for the 9th will be Warglaives, preorder for 16th will be AoS 2.0, preorder on 30th will be Kill Team and new terrain.

Except we have the Nighthaunt battletome which GW has already stated as coming out this month...

I'm still holding out for Kill-Team to support the Necromunda gangs. It would be fun to use them against other 40k Units.

 Oguhmek wrote:
I’d say that Killteam might be a way for GW to release mini-factions, boxes of 10 or so minis, to try out subfactions an brand new stuff without having to release a full army. Remember, GW is a miniature-driven company, and this would be a low risk way of testing the waters with new stuff without having to commit to s full faction release. I think it’s a great idea.

As long as the core system is as polished as Underworlds.
We really need a solid skirmish system for 40K.

 Adeptus Doritos wrote:
I'm still holding out for Kill-Team to support the Necromunda gangs. It would be fun to use them against other 40k Units.

You could use the AM rules for most of the Necromunda range.

I somehow doubt that a ganger is at the level of anything more than a raw IG recruit and there's almost no way that they should be able to stand up to a Space Marine.