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Looks more like a chaos cult group interesting to see if it’s nurgle army cultists or renegade and heretics or lost and damned. I’m leaning to lost and damned with an emphasis on undivided.

I can imagine, that the bad guys where a former rival rogue trader group or pirates, which got corrupted by the warp. Hence the helmets. So they where having a conflict with the "good" rogue traders and then it all went south somehow.

From the models I love the Nurgle critters the most and will for sure get them one day. But the bigger Nurgle ones, like the troll, are not my jam. The rogue crew looks splendid, but I don´t really need them. Can´t wait to have a look at the contents.

And I also got a mild Zombicide vibe from the game, especially from the different "classes" of the bad dudes and that all good ones are plain infantry. Lets see how the rules of this skirmisher are.

The imperial faction looks great and the small critters too. But the big guys are a little bit too much. The mutated horde on the space ship reminded at first of the video game Dead Space but they are equally similar to Zombicide and the mutant rabble from the 40K supplement Storm of Chaos.
I will wait for some playtesters on youtube before purchasing this boardgame. If it is good like Deathwatch Overkill, Doom 2004 & 2017 or Space Hulk, I might pick it up.
I nearly forgot to mention the soundtrack. While not epic like the one from Necromunda it still suits the Rogue Trader setting very well.

Neronoxx wrote:

 Grimtuff wrote:

 Fan67 wrote:

Neronoxx wrote:
Everyone saying its Slaugth are forgetting that there are nurglings, Rotflie swarms and bloat fly pupae(?) I think.
Seems pretty clearly nurgle.

Because of the painscheme and size it actually looks like nurglings model, except they are not actually.
Even the "design" of feets and hands is different. Cybernetic heads also strange for nurglings.

Flies and maggons are the weakest part, yes, they really look very nurglish, I agree.
But overall the army looks more biomechanical.

We'll know it pretty soon, though...

I don't know why anyone would think those are Nurgling models. They're far bigger and (as you said) the limbs are completely different. To me the remind me of Lemures from D&D.

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Deamons and biomechanical components are not and never have been mutually exclusive, as evidenced in many Black Library works.

Here we go again...

I'm not saying this stuff isn't Nurgle (it may very well be, we'll know in a few hours). But those things are clearly NOT Nurglings. They're fething huge compared to them. They look like a Nurgling ate a Nurgling swarm.

Some of the folks over at Yaktribe have a very interesting and plausible theory that the other faction is actually Slaugths.

wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Slaugth (too few post to post a link yet sorry)

Often mistook for demons like Nurgle but half the iconography on them does look more alien than chaos and also dabble in biotechnology.

If they're the Slaught, then great, but right now Occam's Razor rules.

Or they could be generic chaos mutants and are not aligned with any god.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Or they could be generic chaos mutants and are not aligned with any god.

Always a possibility, just because one is aligned with say.. Slaanesh does not mean the mutations may be kind to you.

from reading the fluff on the Slaugh, these models definatley fit. Hopefully they could pave the way for Loxatl!

I really doubt they are new xenos though.
It would be nice, but its more likely that they will have something familiar as an enemy for marketing purposes. Maybe they will release one of the minor alien races as an expansion to something.
I could see Hrud or Slaugh working as a necromunda enemy. Something like a raid boss, maybe.

I still think the "gellar field breach" or "boarding a ship that's been lost in the warp" scenarios are far more likely than a new Xenos race that shares so many design cues with the recent Nurgle models.

It's not impossible, but Occam's Razor and all that - the wee not-Nurgling gribbles could be mutated Cherub servitors, the not-Poxwalkers could be mutated servitors or crew, the biguns could be just yer generic bigun mutants, or mutated Ogryn labourers etc. There's nothing there that really needs the New Faction Hypothesis to be explained.

Hmm.. I'm keen for this, just for the models. I just hope the price isn't ridiculous down here in Oz.

I'm getting a demonic incursion meets mad scientist vibe from this, especially the very medical-looking character in the background of one of the pictures, and the two stitched-together nurlings in the foreground.

 Lockark wrote:

 Crazyterran wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Crazyterran wrote:
So i wonder if the Rogue Trader minis will go into the Imperial Agents list or become their own thing?

I'm going to say they'll end up with the Imperial Agents list. It would be a very sparse book otherwise.

Maybe the Household Guard will be the troops option, since they seem leery on doing it for Acolytes?

I guess the new Death Cult Assassin in there, we can already see one of the thirty dollar clampacks!

Currently Death cult assassins are units of 2-10 models. So if they are becoming a clam pack, then then means the are killing a huge rework. Sort of like how Cairn Wraiths and Banshees evolved from being units and into characters.

Funny, because Wraiths and Banshees are seemingly going back to becoming units again.
Round and round we go.

 dan2026 wrote:

 Lockark wrote:

 Crazyterran wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Crazyterran wrote:
So i wonder if the Rogue Trader minis will go into the Imperial Agents list or become their own thing?

I'm going to say they'll end up with the Imperial Agents list. It would be a very sparse book otherwise.

Maybe the Household Guard will be the troops option, since they seem leery on doing it for Acolytes?

I guess the new Death Cult Assassin in there, we can already see one of the thirty dollar clampacks!

Currently Death cult assassins are units of 2-10 models. So if they are becoming a clam pack, then then means the are killing a huge rework. Sort of like how Cairn Wraiths and Banshees evolved from being units and into characters.

Funny, because Wraiths and Banshees are seemingly going back to becoming units again.
Round and round we go.

Ehhh...there's units of them being added.

It doesn't mean that the Cairn Wraith or Tomb Banshee models are going to cease to be Heroes. If anything, I'd say that it suggests they'll remain that way and make the other two "Battleline If".

KILLTEAM and games like this are going to get me back into GW gaming, big time.

(Well, that and Adeptus Titanicus of course!)

I've little taste for 40K 8th and big battles anyway.

Skirmish and detailed - yes please!

So no new news for this today it would seem? Pity.

 Haighus wrote:
So no new news for this today it would seem? Pity.

Well they might’ve been gonna show the video but showed it early cos the photos leaked. That might’ve been the news we would have got.

 Fan67 wrote:

Neronoxx wrote:
Everyone saying its Slaugth are forgetting that there are nurglings, Rotflie swarms and bloat fly pupae(?) I think.
Seems pretty clearly nurgle.

Because of the painscheme and size it actually looks like nurglings model, except they are not actually.
Even the "design" of feets and hands is different. Cybernetic heads also strange for nurglings.

Flies and maggons are the weakest part, yes, they really look very nurglish, I agree.
But overall the army looks more biomechanical.

We'll know it pretty soon, though...

A person covered with screaming faces or fly heads and tentacles looks bio Mechanical?

I'm with the guy who said these would be even more disappointing if they aren't Nurgle because of how Nurgle they look. The Slaughth deserve better.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Fan67 wrote:

Neronoxx wrote:
Everyone saying its Slaugth are forgetting that there are nurglings, Rotflie swarms and bloat fly pupae(?) I think.
Seems pretty clearly nurgle.

Because of the painscheme and size it actually looks like nurglings model, except they are not actually.
Even the "design" of feets and hands is different. Cybernetic heads also strange for nurglings.

Flies and maggons are the weakest part, yes, they really look very nurglish, I agree.
But overall the army looks more biomechanical.

We'll know it pretty soon, though...

A person covered with screaming faces or fly heads and tentacles looks bio Mechanical?

I'm with the guy who said these would be even more disappointing if they aren't Nurgle because of how Nurgle they look. The Slaughth deserve better.

I agree. The Slaught would be a nice mini-faction to add, but they really shouldn't be comparable to Nurgle, but more akin to DE Haemonculus stuff I think.


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 ImAGeek wrote:

 Haighus wrote:
So no new news for this today it would seem? Pity.

Well they might’ve been gonna show the video but showed it early cos the photos leaked. That might’ve been the news we would have got.

True, I just maybe expected something after the Community post yesterday said "stay tuned". That could be referring only to FB posts though.

Ah excellent, the long awaited release of Sedition Wars 2!



Sarcasm aside I am loving the look of the infantry, I guess I have space for a little Rogue Trader force...

I hate, hate, hate all the chaosy things though, particularly the big ones. It is partially due to the clean paintjob I think, what works well on fabric and armour fails terribly on flesh, particularly the rotting disfigured kind.

Plastic is also a bad medium for them as all the joins are really obvious, the Nurgle releases had the same problem in that regard. I'm not a fan of Nurgly stuff to begin with but if I were to collect it I would limit myself to resin models as undercuts allow for a much more realistic appearance. I joke about the Sedition Wars models but they looked vastly superior (in resin not that plastic garbage they sent everyone) and appear much less cartoony and more terrifying than anything in this set.

While I am not normally one to really complain about how my little plastic soldiers look, after GW has been putting out so many incredible releases the last few years (plastic titans incoming!) half this set seems offensively bad and should be kept at the back of the store with the SM centurions and Razorgors....

I'm still confused as to why tentacle dude has a fish.

I really want to know what the deal with that fish is.

I can't get it out of my head, dude is just creeping around on a space ship. With a fish on his belt.

Well, it gets lonely in space. Insane chaos mutants got needs, you know....








I'm talking about using the fish as a conversation partner. Did you think I was talking about something else?

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

I'm talking about using the fish as a conversation partner. Did you think I was talking about something else?

When you're Chaos, the fish talks back.

And is usually a pretty decent guy with some sound life advice and financial strategies.

 Adeptus Doritos wrote:
I'm still confused as to why tentacle dude has a fish.

I really want to know what the deal with that fish is.

I can't get it out of my head, dude is just creeping around on a space ship. With a fish on his belt.

Well, if this is the 40K version of Warhammer Quest then it has to have a fish in it...

How can anyone say these aren't Nurgle models?

They are covered in boils, sores, maggots, open wounds and daemonic mouths.
Not to mention being surrounded by flies, maggots and fleas.

 dan2026 wrote:
How can anyone say these aren't Nurgle models?

They are covered in boils, sores, maggots, open wounds and daemonic mouths.
Not to mention being surrounded by flies, maggots and fleas.

What mutant of chaos isn't afflicted with sores, boils, open wounds and more mouths and appendages than it could possibly need?

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 dan2026 wrote:
How can anyone say these aren't Nurgle models?

They are covered in boils, sores, maggots, open wounds and daemonic mouths.
Not to mention being surrounded by flies, maggots and fleas.

What mutant of chaos isn't afflicted with sores, boils, open wounds and more mouths and appendages than it could possibly need?

True. But maggots, flies, bloated limbs, boils and burst bloated stomachs have always been Nurgle's bread and butter.

Yeah, that's true.
It could be that the mutants are generic, but they are accompanied by nurgle animals.
Or maybe the animals are just common vermin that's been mutated to become huge.
There are some flea looking things there. Are fleas a nurgle thing? That's a new one for me.

I dunno, but something looks off to me about them. Maybe its the paint scheme, but they don't really look Nurgle to me.

Also the flies, maggots, and poxwalker like looking guys too