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So ShadowWar, Necromunda, Kill Team, Rogue Trader? Is this the fourth "Skirmish in the 41st Millennium" thing in the last two ish years?

Not being facetious, I genuinely don't know much about about any of them.

I think it would be branded as "Kill Team" if it were a Kill Team product.

Also, Kill Team doesn't need this kind of "starter" set because the function of Kill Team is to play smaller games with the lines supported as armies for 40k.

I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with kill team

Andarus wrote:
I don't think this is a seperate game to Killteam, I think it is Killteam.

Maybe not the sum total of releases but perhaps the first release.

I have to agree with you. While I'd love for it to be a "40k Quest" type game, that "Skirmish Combat in the 41st Millenium" suggests that it's not. It makes more sense if this is something to do with, or a re-branding of, Kill Team.

I really like the humans, though I'm not a fan of Nurgle stuff, but the big guys are generic chaos enough I would enjoy painting them.

I reeeeeeeeeeallly want the Dog for some reason. I want a dozen.

Also tossing my hat into the Board Game ring. It's named, and it looks a lot like what they did with Overkill.

 Carnikang wrote:
I really like the humans, though I'm not a fan of Nurgle stuff, but the big guys are generic chaos enough I would enjoy painting them.

I reeeeeeeeeeallly want the Dog for some reason. I want a dozen.

Also tossing my hat into the Board Game ring. It's named, and it looks a lot like what they did with Overkill.

I think there are a lot of similarities with Overkill. This makes me hope it is an early model release to judge interest for an upcoming Rogue Trader range of models.

There's something off about that assassins hands.

It looks like the hand holding the sword is.. backwards? Thumb on the wrong side maybe?

I don't quite understand the grievances about the models being cartoony.

I mean, the first edition of Warhammer 40k, Rogue Trader, was quite cartoony by today's standard, and in lore Rogue Traders are a bunch of flamboyant merchants and adventurers.

Bitching about how the new models are cartoony is like complaining that water is wet, imo.

Just going to bring it up, anyone want to start guessing on prices? I need to know roughly how much to start saving up.....got to make those hobby $$ worth something.....thanks

The terrain looks like it will work with the STC Ryza-Pattern Ruins set.

Emperors will wrote:
Just going to bring it up, anyone want to start guessing on prices? I need to know roughly how much to start saving up.....got to make those hobby $$ worth something.....thanks

If the pics we have seen are all the minis in the box it will probably be a similar price to Necromunda.
We have 10 crew including the dog, 4 big nurgle guys, 3 Zombies, 4 Nurglings and assorted creatures. The scenery seems to be about the same amount as the Necromunda stuff, and we have only seen one big tile so far.
For me one of the most appealing things about this box is that there don't seem to be any duplicates.
An excessive number of identical sculpts has put me off many similar products.

This feels like a boardgame, to me, which I'm perfectly happy with - Space Hulk/Crusade occupied a great deal of fun hours for me as a youngster. And these minis are...a little better than that.

I second the 'Geller field failure' prediction, from above - with a slim chance of 'Derelict science vessel broadcasting a distress beacon'. Whichever it is, the crew looks fabulous, and I am ready to paint it all.

Hanksingle wrote:

I second the 'Geller field failure' prediction, from above - with a slim chance of 'Derelict science vessel broadcasting a distress beacon'. Whichever it is, the crew looks fabulous, and I am ready to paint it all.

Why do you think it has to be those two things?

Remember that Typhus and the Terminus Est are not the only plague ships that exist. It is one of many. Could very well be the Rogue Trader's vessel is the one being attacked.

I also think this is a board game, if only because it's not branded as Kill Team: Rogue Trader.

Also based on the video we might get some Inquisition rules in the appendices. Hopefully we can get some rules for alternate baddies too.

I really hope these minis get tabletop rules. I'd love to add those Nurgle flies and big beasties to my Death Guard force. Also I just want that dog for how majestic he is. And damn those imperials... looks like I'm buying a box.

This news is awesome. I wish I was 17 again with no commitments outside of school, so I had time to paint this stuff!

First, the models are fekking lit.

Second, I really feel like this could have been rolled into Necromunda seamlessly, I hope they release rules for these in N17

They call it a skirmish game and it bears the name Rogue Trader. I'm guessing it's based on the new Necromunda rules, but different or entirely absent campaign/advancement rules.

I also wonder how much intersection N17, KT18 and this will have in common, other than the 8E base rules. N17 and KT18 have different force creation and advancement rules. Could RT18 be another shot at Vedros using 8E as a base?

Either way my RPG table will need all those models.

Everyone is saying Nurgle, but I see all the chaos gods; multiple faces from Tzeentch, tentacles from Slanesh, the bloat of Nurgle.

And in the end, I just see Daemon Prince material.

 drazz wrote:
Everyone is saying Nurgle, but I see all the chaos gods; multiple faces from Tzeentch, tentacles from Slanesh, the bloat of Nurgle.

And in the end, I just see Daemon Prince material.

And skull helmets from Khorne. There's definitely a 'Chaos Undivided' theme. Plus, all the models aren't just the same puke green that Nurgle is known for. The big give-away however is that the beasties are bugs. Giant fleas, flies, worms, and most of the models feature guts spilling out and a general sickly feel. Out of any of the 4 Chaos gods, they feel much more Nurgle.

I don't mind the models. I really like the Rogue Trader models and wish they had better pictures of more of them.

But I have one major grievance... WHY THE HECK ARE THE MODELS ON SANDY/GRASSY BASES WHEN THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE ON A SPACE SHIP????

This makes me think that these models will serve a greater purpose outside of this game. I just don't even want to guess at what because... honestly I'm not interested. Nurgle, Imperium... I'm exhausted of both of those factions. ESPECIALLY Nurgle. :/

But yeah, I'm more excited for regular Kill Team than I am for this.

Hey wait a sec. This guy has a rotor Cannon! That's a 30k gun.
https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-CA/Legion-Rotor-Cannon-Set-2015

Liking what I see so far, so this definitely has my interest.

White coat trader with toxin claw is also a female. All 3 of them in 1 shot

So are these going to be the "new" arbites?

No. We don't know when or if there will be new Arbites. It's been made clear that whatever we'll get for Necromunda will not be Arbites, but rather it's a faction that will be called "Palatine Enforcers".

What we're seeing here, in terms of the Imperium side, looks to be 4 'hero' clamshells(the weird techwizard, the assassin lady, the duelist, and the crazed doctor) and a 'squad' (the remaining models and dog).

On the Chaos side, it looks like we have a few different things going on.
-There's a bunch of flies that match the ones that are part of Typhus' Destroyer Hive. One of the parts even looks like a corpse that's been devoured by/'breeding' more of the little blighters.
-There's the 4 "Big Mutants". 3 of them look genuinely mutated while the last looks to be an Ogryn with parts grafted onto it, similar to the "Wrought Ones" from "His Last Command".
-There's the 3 models wearing fatigues/work uniforms with cybernetics and the 'skull mask'(which actually jibes a bit with the way we're hearing Cultists being described these days as being very much into procuring local material for their rebellions).
-Last but definitely shortest are the models that look to be the size of children and that are all seeming to be in various stages of splitting/falling apart.

Put it all together and you have something wonky as all get out. I want to see more one way or the other!

I think we have yet to see the "leader" figs here, the Rogue Trader his own self and whatever the leader of these Warp wretches might be.

There are at least 6 character on the trader team

Admech trader

Assassin lady

White Coat lady

Green feather lady

Dark skin man with gatling gun

Green coat man with laspistol and shotgun

First off this is pretty much an auto-buy for me. Rogue Trader and Armsmen/Arbites? Yes please! Hopefully 40k rules will follow.

 Lockark wrote:
Hey wait a sec. This guy has a rotor Cannon! That's a 30k gun.
https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-CA/Legion-Rotor-Cannon-Set-2015

There were rotary cannons (non assault cannons) in the old Inquisitor game. Anyway, cool. Oh and dark skinned humans! Hooray!

Gatling gun guy and the green coat man got shown a few times mixed in with the 'troopers' so I'm pretty sure that's all part of one box.

Guy in the (surely not) greem coat might be the RT, I guess.