New Nurgle Blightkings For Warhammer Fantasy! [Update!]
October 8, 2014 by brennon
Heralding in both The End Times and the coming of a book focusing in on Chaos the first few scans of what's coming next have hit the internet from El Descano Del Escribe. The first big thing are the Nurgle Blightkings led by Gutrot Spume.
Update: Check out the additional images that have popped out concerning the Blightkings!
Above you can see said Blightkings and sadly most of the other images that come with this leak are so fuzzy and bad that there's very little point in showing you the images. However we can talk about their stats that did pop up online with them.
The Blightkings are infantry with a good toughness of 5 as you might imagine when it comes to Nurgle themed lists. They have access to great weapons, hand weapon and shield or two hand weapons to mix things up a bit and make them equally good at fighting anything they come up against.
With 3 attacks each, a weapon skill of 6, and an initiative of 5 they sound like they're going to be dealing with most things pretty easily. Having three wounds each certainly helps too.
Gutrot Spume comes in with initiative 7, 5 attacks, weapon skill 8 and a healthy strength 5 making him quite the infantry killer. His special rule allows him to walk through impassable and dangerous water and his flailing tentacles add D3 attacks to his profile which makes that unit killing all the easier.
Miniature wise I think each of them is pretty cool and I like the fact none of them look the same. I have some favourites however like the one in the top left and some not so favourites like the one in the bottom right.
Hopefully we'll see some clearer images worth showing you soon!
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Cool looking stat line – As a nurgle player latterly I like them
nice looking minis but i was hoping for something more inpresive for the first week of the chaos part of the end of times on the lines of Nagash maybe archon on a chaos dragon etc?
I think these are just the first of many things warming up a full on Chaos explosion
BoW Ben
True but then again it’s hard to top Nagash. Nagash is as big as it gets so compared to him everyone else are step down.
These are not bad for being overly cartoony WHF models.
If I spilled my glue into my bits box I imagine the result would be pretty much the same.
Keep us posted with the results! ;P
So.. 40 by 40 mm bases (with the classic A3, W3 profile) but only classified as Infantry, not Monstrous Infantry? That’s.. Weird. I’m not sure if I like the idea of them playing around with the differences or if I’m just irritated over their lack of consistency. Unless that’s just an error on their part?
Going to reserve judgement for better pictures. @cpauls1 could probably spill glue in his bits box and come out with a better camera than the one used to take these 😛
The important thing is next wave of End Times Stuff and book 2 probably 🙂 Lets hope the goodness continues
Ok just watched the videos I actually believe that crayons probably where involved in its creation, they need to get someone skilled on that.
The standard bearer and the musician look pretty awesome actually, not sold on the other ones quite so much though.
Nurgle is my least favourite of all of the Chaos Gods, the whole puss, slime and rotten flesh fixation does nothing for me. Hoping for some other chaos related stuff though, for the blood God! 😀
As long as they do new Nurgle stuff that I can chop and glue to enhance and convert my CSM Death Guard army then i’m a happy Nurgling!
I like these. That’s all I have to say about them. Now, where are my new Skavens!?
On the way, if rumours are to be believed.
So I guess book 2 must be only a few weeks away at most. As much as I like the books, I can’t help but feel rushed. I haven’t had the chance to play any Nagash scenarios yet, let alone all 18.
I agree on being rushed. It is that reason that I have let a lot of my armies go by the wayside and not updated them. It use to be I would spend more money on models to upgrade my army of the quarter or make a new army. Now I have stopped and just tweek the few that I am using. Old armies I have sold, given away to my son or kept for just “old time sake”. For example I have my 4/5th edition Wood Elves and I am just playing with what I had since there were… Read more »
Can be used in a beastman army. That’s interesting.
If what you’re saying is true, we be turning back a page of when the Chaos forces were in one book. Oh how I miss the good old days when all 3 forces could mix it up. Good to see it come back.
I remember how back in 6th ed when I had chaos army Beastmen had they own army book while Demons and Warriors were in same one but all three could be mixed with general pretty much saying what were troops and what were specials. If general was demon then demons were troops and other two were specials while if general was warrior then warriors were troops and other two were specials while if general was beastman then beastmen were troops and other two were specials.
I can remember a time where you had to have a GM or other neutral observer just to make your daemonic army list. No mixing of Khorne and Slaanesh daemons, units in 8s and 6s, and all sorts of different troop types to choose from.
I don’t have anything more to add about these new plastic lumps from GW than I did for their other recent plastic lumps.
Looking at these makes me want to dig out old screenshots of my Chaos Marauder from Warhammer Online and see if I can recreate him for the tabletop!
Monstrous Infantry for Nurgle. I was not very impressed with the flies they came out with a while ago. I will wait and see how this all adds up in their new codex book, Blight Kings. I wonder if it will be another 90 dollar two book set like Nagash. From what little I heard was it is a great book for combining all of the undead armies together but tournaments are mixed on adopting it. I enjoy what other Gamers think of it over the globe.