First Look At New Look Rogue Trader Pops Up From Games Workshop
May 11, 2018 by brennon
As far as teasers go, this one is rather fun. Games Workshop has responded to some leaks that popped up this week with a new teaser trailer for Rogue Trader which will be coming to your tabletop later this year.
The teaser trailer above shows off two clashing sides, one Imperial and the other either tied into Mutants or some Dark God like Nurgle (which seems to be the prevailing theory). It looks like another one of their boxed games with tiles, some 3D terrain and plenty of plastic.
It's looking rather awesome indeed and certainly speaks to a lot of the old school models that existed back in the day - now with a very much updated aesthetic. I can already hear people going a little bit crazy for these considering how well people have received Necromunda.
The real interesting aspect of this comes in the choice of name. If you're going with Rogue Trader then you're going to set some expectations of this being a game which should not only be skirmish based (as it seems to be) but even has an element of the role-playing game about it.
The models are certainly looking stunning, as you'd expect from Games Workshop to be honest. The Imperial characters we've seen in the video have a very cool archaic look to their design as if they've been ripped from the art of John Blanche.
The mutants also have a much more terrifying feel to their design. I really like how these hulking brutes are coming across. Faces coming out of strange places and mouths everywhere sounds very much like old-school Warhammer 40,000.
I would imagine that we're going to be seeing an Imperial ship having to deal with some kind of Chaos manifestation aboard their ship.
No doubt Warhammer Fest is going to provide some more answers this weekend and of course, we'll make sure to drop any information we find on this game onto the website for you.
So, what do you think of the new Rogue Trader?
"If you're going with Rogue Trader as a name then you're going to set some expectations..."
I’ve already filed for bankruptcy. I absolutely love this side of the 40k universe, away from the constant war zones. It’s singing to me in the same way Necromunda does. It’s singing at me to loosen the purse strings
I’m quite taken with this. Little disappointed at yet more Nurgle stuff, some sort of Xenos would have been cool, but I absolutely love the Rogue Trader models, those are massively exciting. The terrain pieces look useful too as clutter on a Necromunda board.
I’ve seen it suggested that the nurgle / chaos looking guys are in fact Slaugth from Dark Heresy which from the fluff match the description of the models as well as their lore in coming up against rogue traders
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Slaugth
A slight shame for GW that this leaked as I’m sure they were all ready to show this this weekend but their hand is as forced by the fuzzy pics.
Since their relaunch of everything, GW has gotten worse with the variety of armies supported than they have ever been.
Worse in what way?
They certainly know how to whip us old fanboys in to a frothing frenzy. *wipes mouth*
…but will this be akin to Shadow War Armageddon? With the box set sold out within minutes, never to be seen again?
The Rogue Trader crew looks interesting, the Chaos not so much. Considering RTs operate beyond the borders of the Imperium, would have been nicer to see Xenos as the opposing force, or considering this looks to be inside a RT ship, they could even have had those xenos being Hrudd. And if it had to be Chaos, why not make it Slaanesh? Burgle already has the 40k starter set, Khorne has the AoS one and Tzeentch got Warhammer Quest, so why not give Slaaneshi a look in too? Either that or they could have made them generic non-Chaos mutants representing… Read more »
Yep, lovin’ the RT’s and meh on chaos.
Agree with @onlyonepinman about getting away from the battlefields in the 40k universe. And I like that they attempted to capture the ‘weirdness’ of the original ‘Rogue Trader’-era with the design of the Trader and his/her retinue (I’m assuming). I’m disappointed that it took this long to bring the Traders back.
Hopefully this does well enough to get some expansions where we can explore the margins of the 40k universe and get models for characters we wouldn’t in the game’s bigger brother.
To be fair, that’s only so long in mini form – they did get their own RPG a few years back. ;P
So…….why do all the models have grass on their bases when they are on a ship?
Nah that’s not grass, it’s xeno-fungal bloom that’s gotten out of its containment canister and is slowly taking over the whole ship; shouldn’t be anything to worry about, that sorta thing happened every other week on the Enterprise. 😛
I like it. I’ll have some of those and worry about when I’ll get to paint them later
Goblin Green painted sand is the only correct basing material.
Why is it always Nurgle?
Is it popular or just easy to paint?
– no complaints at all – it will be great painting all the grotesque colours 🙂
Seems interesting but only thing I am not thrilled is that once again they go with Nurgle who has become they go to Chaos God.
Some good looking figure’s.
They have a armored puppy! I hope there are a few different poses for those. These models do have quite a bit of flare. Maybe a little too much but that is something I would NEVER say to their faces. Because mine might not be great but I want to keep it in place.
To be fair, understated is not a word usually associated with Rogue Traders. ;p
Looks like they have giant fleas to go with (and for) the puppy.
I think i need a towel its that exciting
more importantly, does anyone know who that phat beat is by?
Not really digging the background tunes, thought I’d see Starsky and Hutch with Huggy Bear as the RT’s. Or the Earth, Wind and Fire band in the corner blastin’ saxophones. Nice tunes, just not the serious vibes I expected from Rouge Treader (purposefully misspelled).
And where’s Kill Team and, of course, Mordheim?
I’ll be watching for this one.
WANT.
I love the look of this – I think this wins out over the Titanicus stuff for me.
But I am hoping the monsters are mutants rather than yet more Nurgle Chaos…. They’ve been painted flesh tones so there’s hope. Fingers crossed.
Really, REALLY unsure on this one. Now the idea of going back to Rogue Trader appeals (greatly) in whatever format. But the minis? something about them doesn’t hit the mark (for me). Was hoping a bit more Blanche, and less of the modern GW aesthetic. Like the “guardsmen”, don’t like the actual Rogue Trade mini (seems more Karadron looking than an imperial mini). The “opposition” is again hit and miss for me on the mini sculpts, but as other have said it would have been nice to see something (anything) other than yet more chaos. But again they probably picked… Read more »
Not normally huge on GW’s side games but man this one looks pretty well done. I figured they would have gone with another god being featured, but hey I love Nurgle.
Loving those Chaos mutants. I would get this just for them.
They look like Nurgle to me, but I hope Slaanesh can get some loving attention from GW someday soon too.
I agree. While currently Nurgle seems to be most popular of four (before that it seemed to be Khorne) Chaos Gods Slaanesh needs some love as well and I hope that GW gives him that. While Tzeentch has gotten some Slaanesh hasn’t gotten anything.