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Orks Take On Tau & Deathwatch On The Horizon In 40k
February 20, 2016 by brennon
Games Workshop have been showing off some more additions to the world of Warhammer 40,000 this week. First off we have a new Start Collecting set for the Orks. This is then supported by some additional books...
Waaaagh!
This will help you get going in Warhammer 40,000 with Orks. Inside you get a Painboy, five Nobz with an Ammo Runt, eleven Boyz and also a massive stomping Deff Dread.
Of course as with all of the Start Collecting sets this also comes with a data sheet which allows you to play with this combination of troops on the tabletop.
Forces Collected
On top of that we also have two books which lead the way for all manner of upgrade sets. First off we have Waaagh! Ghazghkull...
"This 80 page softback book holds the details of the savage splendour of the most famous Ork invasion force to ever take over a planet. From the strange tale of how Ghazghkull took his first fateful steps towards his unlikely destiny as ultimate overlord of the largest Waaagh! in the galaxy, to the rules that allow you to arrange your collection of Citadel Miniatures into Formations and Detachments from Ghazghkull’s army."
...and in addition the Farsight Enclave book too.
"This revised and updated supplement to Codex: Tau Empire allows you to tailor your collection of Tau miniatures into a force from the Farsight Enclaves, armed to the teeth and ready for battle."
There are also a whole bunch of other sets you can look at picking up from Games Workshop including huge armies and character sets which allow you to tailor your force in a particular way.
Deathwatch Coming
On top of that there was also the teaser video you saw at the top of the page. It looks like the Deathwatch are coming to Warhammer 40,000 with a new set. It's seemingly time to purge the xenos!
See more of the leaked images HERE.
Will you be picking up that new Ork set?
"Inside you get a Painboy, five Nobz with an Ammo Runt, eleven Boyz and also a massive stomping Deff Dread..."
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Overkill is just enough kill!
I like the thought of a standalone game based on the Deathwatch, maybe Space Hulk style. I hope this is it.
There is no such thing as “overkill.”
I’m loving the new Genestealer Cult models.
I confess that I clicked on the link with some trepidation. The Genestealer Cult was my first and favourite Rogue Trader/40K force and I feared I’d be faced with some new plastic monstrosities, but they’re not, they’re really good. Shame that the Primarch has become the Primus, the seated Primarch might be my all time favourite 40K mini, but it’s still a nice mini.
The Primus isn’t the replacement for the Genestealer Patriarch @redben, but rather its own character that functions a second in command field leader. The Patriarch get’s its own new model (no throne I’m afraid) that pretty much looks like a Broodlord on steroids and rocking an epic chitin Mohawk. He has clearly been on a serious diet and exercise regimen since the old days. Here’s a link to the image over on War of Sigmar;-
https://war-of-sigmar.herokuapp.com/bloggings/492
Cheers for the link. It’s okay, though it doesn’t really work for me as a Coven leader. More of a big Genestealer beastie. Still a very nice range overall, though.
I thought that, in the original lore for the faction, that was exactly what the Genestealer Patriarch was – the first Purestrain Genestealer to arrive on a given world, who became the well spring for the cult and grew in size and power as it did so, which sounds a lot like a big Genestealer beastie to me, albeit an intelligent and cunning one capable of leadership.
I suppose it is just a matter of aesthetic preference. The enthroned and generously proportioned Patriarch from back in the day is undeniably a classic model and always will be, but I like his leaner, stabbier modern incarnation as well.
It grew in size the way I grew in size as I got older lol. It was on a throne because they would get so bloated they could barely move. They were leaders and psykers rather than big nasty beasties. Not to say that the fluff can never change, only that angry beastie doesn’t work for me.
Is this a reprint of the Ghazghkull book or a new one!?
I imagine it’s an ‘update’ book like the last Tau Empire codex, so probably the old book with some fixes and a few extra bits to tidy up the rules. Might even have a few more formations for a detachment in it, plus the new ‘uniform pages’ as I call them which are my favourite thing. 😛 It’s nice that they are keeping them up to date, though.
Is the Ork-Starter really a good way to start an army? Would it make sense two buy two sets? Ifinished collecting my necrons (well, “finished” that is…) and now I´d like to start building a an Ork army. Nice and slow, buy two or three sets, build and paint them. First goal will be 750, then 1000, 1250 and in a last bigger step 1850.
@mkus: Not a bad way to start… Two sets would get you 2 mobs of boyz and 2 painboyz (2 HQs + 2 troops)… If you buy two trukks to put them into, it will start to get interesting. And thoses dreads are really cool kits!
Not to forget that you can use loads of parts for kit bashing from this.
If you can get your hands on a couple of the old Ork army boxes with boyz, bikes, and a trukk, you could really get a good start on an army with green tide, trukk boyz, and bikes to supplement the dread in this set.
The leaked Deathwatch models are outstanding, almost astonishing.
The price, of course, is a worry. But they are beautiful, that’s for sure.
Why can’t age of sigmar get these sorts of models, instead of cartoons?
Rumoured to be 100 squids.
The Genestealers look really good and I do like Deathwatch. I will certainly have a closer look at them once they have been released.
I really like those Genestealer cult models, in fact they might even tempt me to buy depending on price
No complaints from me for any of them – those genestealer cultists look fantastic and the Deathwatch look like they’re going to be nice and characterful. I really don’t know what has me more pleasantly surprised this week – the fab news about the KD expansions shippings or now this new cult range.
Limo next please GW! 🙂
Oh yes we need the limo to return!
Deathwatch looks amazing! Assuming it’s more than a one-mission-wonder (like Execution Force), it’s going on the shopping list.
This is awesome….iv been after a the Genestealers cult for like forever seen as the prospects of converting it all up when i started wasn’t really a option but now….now im happy and the Deathwatch are just a bonus in my book
am loving the focus on “new factions”, first harlequins and mechanicum, now deathwatch and genestealer cults. Only got Exodites and Arbites left out of the “most wanted” internet lists I think, then maybe they can add some proper aliens to the game like Enslavers and Slaugth.
The Start Collecting are great for their purpose. Often great value for money, insanely so.
However, they have no multiple-purchase value. You can’t really use many of the 40K Start Collecting sets to “bulk” your army up whilst saving money.
GW, viciously, seem to be phasing out the Battleforces – and the army sets are often limited runs. Not great for 40K players. Age of Sigmar / Warhammer are much luckier, a lot of those Start your Collection sets are amazing and are not bogged down by an unwanted character model.
Huh?
There are “start collecting” 40k boxes too. Each with great savings and a formation for the box contents.
They are START collecting…
For gods sakes.
Now you are just making up excuses to hate GW.
Actually what he said makes perfect sense, perhaps you should re-read it?
100% nonsense
The exception to what you talk about is the Ork box as I see it. You can kitbash almost everything if it’s Orky just for the sake of being more Orky crazy!!! 😛
Don’t think that’s true – the Pain Medic (painboy!?) is a fixed pose model, and has a price tag …let me do the maths actually ok you save about £30 off retail, so you get the Dredd for free basically. The painboy is £15.50.
I nabbed a few images and put them in a thread if anyone wants to see them
We’ve waited a long, long time but those genestealer cult models are amazing. I can’t tell if the genestealers themselves are new sculpts – they don’t look as ‘wow’ as the cultists – but I’m still looking forward to this.
Like em all.
http://m.imgur.com/a/F4g8P
Hi res pics of the minis if you’ve not seen them all already.
Looks bloody lovely to me. Going to be a pain trying to “tru scale” the deathwatch with all that bling tho
The Genestealer Cult was my first army a life time ago. I think they have done a lovely job of capturing the feel of them while staying true to the originals. Definitely a purchase for me in the future.
Stealer cult, my first ever 40k army back in the day of 2nd edition. These look bloody sweet i must say, probably will have to pick up this box when it pops up.
The Genestealer cults were a classic army back in the day (love those limos), and it is great to see them and the equally awesome and iconic Deathwatch getting an update that seems to be, from a models point of view at least, pretty much right on the mark.
This is something that fans have been asking for seemingly forever, and whether GW was actually listening or simply throwing darts at a board with ideas pinned up on it, it is a good day for the fans. Whoever was behind the model design for this set is definitely a name to watch for the future.
Perhaps unsurprisingly. the Patriarch is probably my favourite of the Cult models (he will be one of my army’s Broodlords in the near future), but those Genestealer Aberrants are also awesome, especially the hammer wielding ones, and represent a new departure for Genestealer hybrids.
As for the Deathwatch Marines – they are all epic looking, but the Devastator with the belt fed Heavy Bolter might just edge out ahead of the others by a hair for me.
I have seen a better, clsoe up image of the Devestator, and apparently that isn’t a belt fed Heavy Bolter, but a Frag Cannon that can fire solid shot or explosive shells. I know that dreadnoughts can have a similar type of weapon in Codex Blood Angels, but the Deathwatch Marine wielding this big gun is an Imperial Fist. It must be Deathwatch special issue wargear. Either way it looks awesome.
looks good from the pictures the game looks a mix of advanced space crusade & space hulk.
This game and then proper expansions to show everyone they take this boardgame bussiness seriously again
I particularly like the pose of the Patriarch – crouched on a promethium pipe like a gargoyle, clawed hand touched to bloated cranium in concentration, elongated talons on another arm extended (one assumes ) toward some poor unfortunate victim. It suggests a diorama just waiting to be created, with some hapless, slack jawed sap (or saps, given how powerful these things seem to be) stumbling ever closer to the monster, glazed eyes not seeing the abomination before them but instead their heart’s desire, and all the while they draw closer to that nasty lashing ovipositor tongue…
It is pleasingly gruesome imagery, and perfect for the Genestealers. Which helps, because whenever I see or hear the word ‘genestealer’ part of my mind involuntarily goes to ‘jeans-stealers’, and I am left imagining a brutal raid on a denim factory. Anything that counters that is to be welcomed.
You mean this Jean-stealer?
So it seems I am not alone in this particular quirk of mind after all. 😉
Apparently it’ll be priced at £100, which for 52 Models and the boards really isn’t too bad.
I bet they could hook alot of boardgamers on the 40k universe if they priced to match the competition better … this looks like it could be a nice product but they really need to sort that shit out imo
GW seem to be doing a lot of things right lately and this might just be the best of the bunch so far. Hooray for cultists.
Yes, hooray for rabidly loyal GW worshipping cultists. Oh wait you mean the Genestealer cultists…
Come closer Jazzfrezi, I want to talk to you about something… over here… away from any prying eyes, where we can have a little peace… I want to show you how new GW fans come to be. You seem bothered by my unusual tongue, but there is no need to worry about it’s elongated stinger look, that is just a harmless little genetic quirk I picked up in Nottingham a few years ago… 😉
Deathwatch is definitely a straight buy…. X2 🙂
Ooooh genestealer cult! Man I remember painting the up the original magus model….very badly (and then giving it to a mate so he could ‘correct’ a few issues). Really loved the genestealer cult and the new models are pretty awesome!
Genestealers are pretty cool. But…all those tongues…it looks silly. The proper tyranids have the same problem, awesome minis but severe tongue-overload.
Don’t you like a little tongue, panzerkanzler?
(That is my last immature joke of the thread, I promise).
New Genestealer Cultists are surprisingly nice. Bravo.
Interestingly, according to rumours heard by Lady Atia over of War of Sigmar, 40K rules for first the Deathwatch, and a week later the Broodkin, are going to be released in White Dwarf magazine.
https://war-of-sigmar.herokuapp.com/bloggings/494
Deathwatch and Genestealer Cults back on the tabletop. To borrow a tagline from a certain Blizzard game that may or may not have drawn some influence from 40K back in the day;
Hell, its about time..
I liked her until I saw the ULTRAMARINES mug
A few leaked rules (this time in English) are floating about for the Deathwatch from the next White Dwarf. Each unit member gets their own little bit of fluff and usually a special rule or two like Precision Shot or Heroic Intervention (and of course Sternguard special issue ammo for everyone with a bolt weapon). They can be taken as a squad altogether, but that would seem to undermine the effectiveness of the ones with jump packs and the biker, though it does let them reroll ones to wound and for armour penetration. While this approach does seem like a strange way to go about things, it does let you have a proper Deathwatch Kill Team on the tabletop, which is rather fun.
https://war-of-sigmar.herokuapp.com/bloggings/502
We also have a little partial glimpse of the Broodkin rules coming the week after the Deathwatch, and the Patriarch looks like it will be pretty vicious in a fight (especially if the Patriarch’s Claws are Rending Claws with improved AP and possibly a chance to inflict Instant Death as seems likely) having Weapon Skill and Initiative 7, 4 attacks and Strength and Toughness 5, and interestingly is a Mastery Level 2 Psyker with access to the Telepathy Discipline (Tyranid players have wanted access to that one for ages – invisible Genestealers would be… fun), but in a moment of rules weirdness has no Ballisitc Skill, which would seem to indicate that it can’t use the Primaris Telepathy power, Psychic Scream, which is a Witchfire power and counts as a shooting attack. On the upside, it causes Fear, is Fearless itself, and also has Stealth and Hit & Run – all that conferred to a Purestrain or Hybrid brood it leads would certainly offer some options.
The other unit we get a look at is the first and second generation Genestealer Hybrids called the Favoured Disciples, and they are actually quite nice on the tabletop, being pretty cost effective in terms of points and able to generate 4 rending strength 4 attacks apiece on the charge. They even get assault grenades. Given that these Hybrid are so comparatively effective, this makes me wonder if we might see some kind of change in the rules for the Purestrain Genestealers to make it clear why they are the most feared critters in the Cult. As they stand in the current rules, they would seem destined to lose out to the Hybrid every time.
https://war-of-sigmar.herokuapp.com/bloggings/503
I love the genestealers but $165 is even more insane than usual for GW. I’ll grab em on ebay in a few weeks when people are unloading their excess stock.