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I'm guessing they're on a 50 or 60mm base.

From the photos the Zoat doesn't look that much larger than the human models.

nah, just 50% taller

This guy is going to be my Blackstone Jokaero. The whole range can be found at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/106225196/space-apes-ii-rise-of-the-monkey-gangs?ref=user_menu

The “final” BSF expansion has been announced in today’s Preview livestream; called Ascension, it covers the Fortress itself starting to wake up and send out its own internal defence forces aka giant spindle drones.

That's more like it

First time, at least that I can recall, we've seen a tag saying "Warhammer 40,000 Universe" as well.

It's at 0:32 in the trailer.

If you pause the trailer When the box art appears you can see these are the only miniatures included.

I wonder if we'll be able to use them in 40k?

I'm just glad I picked up extra baby drones while they were cheap

Need to do these babies up as wasp queens to match my drones

 BaronIveagh wrote:
I wonder if we'll be able to use them in 40k?

Was asked and answered in the affirmative on the stream.

Gonna be a disappointing box if there's just two copies of a clampack sized spindle drone sprue.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Gonna be a disappointing box if there's just two copies of a clampack sized spindle drone sprue.

If I read this right these will be giant sized, the little drone one is holding is the 28mm drone

For reference, they’re on dreadnought (i.e. 60mm) bases.
I quite think I’d like some to use in Adeptus Titanicus for that monster mash scenario in Doom of Molech.

Ugh, great.

So, this expansion will be more then $60 for two miniatures and game components?

I was hoping for a few more explorers too...

Just because it's the final set of challenges doesnt mean that more explorers or explorer packs cant be released for it, either at retail or through WD.

I would definitely have liked to see more nonhuman explorers, if it is still possible.

Maybe there will be some more one off content in White Dwarf before the 'end'. I wonder now, though, whether we will see a Blackstone Annual 2020, or not?

I feel like since the game was released people have done nothing but clamor for more explorers, especially from some of the more forgotten lore and corners of the universe.

This would have been a perfect opportunity!

Found a post of mine from 27th of November, 2018:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I think it'd be fun if each expansion brings with it slightly more dangerous (and potentially larger) versions of the Spindle Drone, the idea being that the deeper one gets within the Fortress, the more varied and lethal it's "protectors" get.

Nice to see them (almost) doing exactly what I'd hoped they'd do.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
This would have been a perfect opportunity!

And as we all know, GW never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Am I the only one hoping that the end of BSF narrative and the Psychic Awakening story will bring those Blackstone aliens into the wider 40k universe as a new faction?

I very much doubt you’re alone

As for what comes next? I’d like an AoS version given this treatment

 Malika2 wrote:
Am I the only one hoping that the end of BSF narrative and the Psychic Awakening story will bring those Blackstone aliens into the wider 40k universe as a new faction?

Another faction made up of faceless alien drones from the dawn of time who ride around in flying pyramids?

 Lord Damocles wrote:

 Malika2 wrote:
Am I the only one hoping that the end of BSF narrative and the Psychic Awakening story will bring those Blackstone aliens into the wider 40k universe as a new faction?

Another faction made up of faceless alien drones from the dawn of time who ride around in flying pyramids?

Rather that than more space marines, besides it's the execution that matters.

It wouldn't even have to be limited to robots, an army of Old Ones machines could easily be written to include eldar, orks and other of Old Ones creations. Brought back in to the fold to fulfill their function.

I don't really think they need a faction; they feel like a force of nature that got shoehorned into some 40k rules to sell more (not that I have a problem with that).

I really just wish BSF had not had those exorbitant prices. ~$60 for a few guys (the worst by far being the nurgle set) or maybe a monster, or the one major expansion costing nearly the price of the core with a really small selection past some heroes were just awful prices.

The game has an enjoyable core and I really like the aesthetic of almost everything released, but the prices GW seems to think their rules are worth is just mind-boggling. It isn't even that I'm mad; when you can buy a whole game for that, or a large piece for a wargame, or when a game like Kingdom Death (not saying it's perfect, just a smallish operation with high production values) can put out an expansion with a pile of cards and a number of full sprues for that price, the competition is just too stiff.

It would be kinda cool to have a 40k version of Endless Spells, where its just random xenos roaming the battlefield that both players could potentially control.

GaroRobe wrote:
It would be kinda cool to have a 40k version of Endless Spells, where its just random xenos roaming the battlefield that both players could potentially control.

It would be nice to have a book for Mercenaries and agents, with all these unaligned models in there, and they could fit Rogue Traders, Inquisitors, and Assassins. Maybe stick things like Kroot Mercs, Blood Axe warbands, Eldar Corsairs, and give rules for taking them as a allied/mercenary detachment to an army

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I feel like since the game was released people have done nothing but clamor for more explorers, especially from some of the more forgotten lore and corners of the universe.

This would have been a perfect opportunity!

Well, I think BSF had a decent support. Sure, 'No Respite' was lame and they should have made rules for some Explorers and the Gellerpox rabble from KT: Rogue Trader via WD. But if someone would have told me two years ago that we get a board game with Rogue traders, an Imperial Robot, an Ambull, a Zoat and Traitor Guard...

 Dryaktylus wrote:

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I feel like since the game was released people have done nothing but clamor for more explorers, especially from some of the more forgotten lore and corners of the universe.

This would have been a perfect opportunity!

Well, I think BSF had a decent support. Sure, 'No Respite' was lame and they should have made rules for some Explorers and the Gellerpox rabble from KT: Rogue Trader via WD. But if someone would have told me two years ago that we get a board game with Rogue traders, an Imperial Robot, an Ambull, a Zoat and Traitor Guard...

I Agree. Any love for minor xenos is greatly appreciated. Zoats, Ambulls, Jokaero, robots, and kroot check all the right boxes for me. Rogue traders and Spindle drones are a bonus

Wonder what the next Warhammer Quest game might be...he said hopefully.

Sad that this is the last expansion here. BSF is pretty much the only 40k thing I do.

Thankfully dungeon crawlers are hot right now...I did the Infinity Defiance KS and there's another running now for Wolfenstein w/ some pretty nice looking HIPS figures.

It would have been nice for them to keep this open and throw us a fun new bad guy/explorer once or twice a year, but it had a good run.