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The 'ruined' Zone Mortalis pieces are awfully repetitive, which spoils the look. Always a problem for pre-made 'ruins'... I would rather just buy intact pieces and ruin them myself, honestly.

The data hub thing is very, very cool, though.

I definitely agree, we need affordable ZM walls more than ZM walls that melted in a hot car.

A bit meh. The trouble in my head is that compatibility with "intact" ZM also kind of depends on how the "intact" pieces are painted. I might feel the need for another set of the original kit to do the new one justice and that's a big ask.

 SgtEeveell wrote:

Oh, and I just noticed the Ash Wastes box now says "Last Chance to Buy".

Ugh, yes, that's now gone on my pile of shame and I'm not happy about it, but it's a lot cheaper than it would be to buy all the components, none of which I own, separately in future.

I have two Ash Wastes on the pile and I don't mind, someday I'll build a waterlined sump town from it.

It was Ash Wastes that drew me back into Necromunda after years of checking out the previous releases - nice, but nothing that really piqued my interest.

But those habs! Those weird nomads! Giant bugs!

Apparently it didn't sell great, as I saw it online for drastically lower than I paid, and my FLGS has a copy gathering dust... I love my set!

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I have two Ash Wastes on the pile and I don't mind, someday I'll build a waterlined sump town from it.

If I could find an Ash Wastes box on clearance, I'd buy it. But I don't want to pay the regular price for another one. That's how I ended up with 2 sets of Necromunda (95) after all.

 SgtEeveell wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I have two Ash Wastes on the pile and I don't mind, someday I'll build a waterlined sump town from it.

If I could find an Ash Wastes box on clearance, I'd buy it. But I don't want to pay the regular price for another one. That's how I ended up with 2 sets of Necromunda (95) after all.

Amazon has them for $185, not sure how much it was when first released.

Something ugly https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/06/17/the-malstrain-coalescence-is-the-most-grotesque-thing-on-necromunda-yet/

I would not be opposed to Malstrain turning into a full army at this rate!

What the chthulu is that! Quite the model!

Holy gak

That's amazing, right up my street

Kind of rude of him not to wear pants. You know what? I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he just can't find a tailor that makes pants of the size he needs.

Starting to get the feeling a Hive Fleet might purposefully avoid Necromunda, as it does Ymgarl Strain!

Gloriously vile and twisted.

Malstrain makes me think of a Centaur from Fallout mixed with a Zoanthrope, looks delightfully grotesque, another great model out of the park from the Necromunda team.

That looks nonsensical

Like warping flash (ala The Thing) rather than what it should, a hybrid that has mixed genes but still had to grow from an embryo to adulthood as a viable creature.

But "Malstrain Gangs and Malstrain Corrupted Gangs" existing is a good sign that this isn't just a dungeon crawler when one player is expected to play the NPC baddies (like Space Hulk) and everybody has meaningful gang development to do.

I'll bet 500 teef that that's a resin model.

That's... bland. The painting skills are quite nice, but the model itself is a pretty forgettable attempt at body horror with tyranid bits on.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
That looks nonsensical

Like warping flash (ala The Thing) rather than what it should, a hybrid that has mixed genes but still had to grow from an embryo to adulthood as a viable creature.

But "Malstrain Gangs and Malstrain Corrupted Gangs" existing is a good sign that this isn't just a dungeon crawler when one player is expected to play the NPC baddies (like Space Hulk) and everybody has meaningful gang development to do.

Seems to me this is the result of someone with hybrid DNA being exposed to the mutating nasties of Hive Secundus, awakening not just dormant bits and bobs in the human DNA, but the Tyranid side, resulting in the proper manky.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
That looks nonsensical

Like warping flash (ala The Thing) rather than what it should, a hybrid that has mixed genes but still had to grow from an embryo to adulthood as a viable creature.

The thing is you look at a lot of regular cult models and they are already heavily mutated with random limbs and undeveloped parts and so forth. So the idea that a corrupted series of mutations would result in a warped flesh creature (esp in a setting with the warp) I think fits rather well.

This isn't a clean mutation, heck chances are this might be number 9* of a series of created monsters and only this one just made it out alive enough.



A4 Reply was number 9 right?

Malstrain Genestealers look like somebody who had genestealer cults described to them third hand just rolled some models in a box of random spikes and tentacles.

Looks like a tyranid horror asked a bad AI bot how to disguise itself as a human, not really having a clue how humans percive themself.

these rules so much. absolutely in love with the malstrains. if they don't get rules for 40k, i might have to make some homebrew rules of my own

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:
these rules so much. absolutely in love with the malstrains. if they don't get rules for 40k, i might have to make some homebrew rules of my own

You can still just... use them as their obvious vanilla analogue

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:
these rules so much. absolutely in love with the malstrains. if they don't get rules for 40k, i might have to make some homebrew rules of my own

You may start already as they will definitely not get 40k rules.

Voss wrote:
That's... bland. The painting skills are quite nice, but the model itself is a pretty forgettable attempt at body horror with tyranid bits on.

I can totally understand that this is a mini that won't appeal to everybody, but I don't understand why anybody would describe it as bland

Voss' criticisms of models is always "bland," "boring" or "uninspired." I think they're just a very apathetic person.

In this particular case I kind of agree, because the model just looks like one of many preexisting Chaos models. GW have done "monster wearing human host's old body as rags" several times before. I would've found a different design strategy more interesting for depicting mutant tyranid-human hybrids (like maybe tyranid faces with more human features or human hands/appendages on tyranid limbs/bodies, etc.)

Like, the big anime eyes on the malstrain genestealers felt kind of intriguing and new as a design detail. Unfortunately they also came with the dumb backbone twigs, but one can't have everything...

 lord_blackfang wrote:
That looks nonsensical

Like warping flash (ala The Thing) rather than what it should, a hybrid that has mixed genes but still had to grow from an embryo to adulthood as a viable creature.

But "Malstrain Gangs and Malstrain Corrupted Gangs" existing is a good sign that this isn't just a dungeon crawler when one player is expected to play the NPC baddies (like Space Hulk) and everybody has meaningful gang development to do.

I wonder if the existing Genestealer rules are going. Canonically there would need to be a reason to have "pure" Genestealers outside of Secundus; they could definitely dream that up if they need to, but also they might decide not to.

Necromorph ass model. Disgusting. I like it.

 Altruizine wrote:
Voss' criticisms of models is always "bland," "boring" or "uninspired." I think they're just a very apathetic person.

In this particular case I kind of agree, because the model just looks like one of many preexisting Chaos models. GW have done "monster wearing human host's old body as rags" several times before. I would've found a different design strategy more interesting for depicting mutant tyranid-human hybrids (like maybe tyranid faces with more human features or human hands/appendages on tyranid limbs/bodies, etc.)

Like, the big anime eyes on the malstrain genestealers felt kind of intriguing and new as a design detail. Unfortunately they also came with the dumb backbone twigs, but one can't have everything...

I guess it comes down to the individual's perception, but I'm just not seeing how it looks like pre-existing Chaos models? And if anything in 40K could be described as "bland" it would be blue space marines, not this twisted thing.

I don't think that it's a "monster wearing human host's old body as rags" either, isn't it more like a hideous fusion of mutated Tyranid & mutated human?

I really like the eyes on the Malstrain Stealers too, but to me they look oddly sunken, rather than anime eyes

 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:

 Altruizine wrote:
Voss' criticisms of models is always "bland," "boring" or "uninspired." I think they're just a very apathetic person.

In this particular case I kind of agree, because the model just looks like one of many preexisting Chaos models. GW have done "monster wearing human host's old body as rags" several times before. I would've found a different design strategy more interesting for depicting mutant tyranid-human hybrids (like maybe tyranid faces with more human features or human hands/appendages on tyranid limbs/bodies, etc.)

Like, the big anime eyes on the malstrain genestealers felt kind of intriguing and new as a design detail. Unfortunately they also came with the dumb backbone twigs, but one can't have everything...

I guess it comes down to the individual's perception, but I'm just not seeing how it looks like pre-existing Chaos models? And if anything in 40K could be described as "bland" it would be blue space marines, not this twisted thing.

I don't think that it's a "monster wearing human host's old body as rags" either, isn't it more like a hideous fusion of mutated Tyranid & mutated human?

I really like the eyes on the Malstrain Stealers too, but to me they look oddly sunken, rather than anime eyes

It has a dangling leftover human head and limbs. Reminds me greatly of this model (and the other parts of the Accursed Cultist kit).
https://www.warhammer.com/app/resources/catalog/product/threeSixty/99120102147_CSMAccursedCultistsOTT1360/01-01.jpg?fm=webp&w=920