September’s first pre-order is Noah’s Ark of new stuff from Games Workshop: the new Rogue Trader Kill Team goodies are rolling in two by two!
GW just announced Kill Team: Rogue Trader is coming up for pre-order at the end of the week! This wave includes two new kill teams, two new Killzones, two codexes, and a flurry of missions!
Nurgling in the Punch Bowl
The latest pics we had seen weeks ago had small snapshots of the book that gave the backstory of the game and put the player in the setting. Basically, the ships’ Geller field generator became possessed with a Warp entity and it decided he wanted to crash the party.
The Warp entity infected some of the crew with a techno-virus. Starting with the engine master, he became infected and his body ended up absorbing his two crew members.
Ultimately, the sickness ended up spreading to other parts of the ship until a real fighting force was gathered by Rogue Traders on the ship to try and contain the Warp Virus.
Let’s take a look at what we can expect:
Kill Team has been an incredible opportunity for our designers and game writers to explore iconic corners of the 41st Millennium that have never been brought to the tabletop before.
The Rogue Trader boxed set is an expansion which has something for every kind of Kill Team player, a deep exploration of just what the game can do for you. From a fully fledged campaign to two new factions and Killzones, you can play the set as a self-contained expansion or combine it with any of your existing Kill Team goodies.
Missions
Kill Team: Rogue Trader has no fewer than 11 new missions for you to try, with new options for open, narrative and matched play. Each is designed to take full advantage of the new Killzones (more on those below) and offers new tactical challenges, not to mention some great thematic hooks. How would a team of Scions fare against a clutch of Lictors in the cramped confines of a shuttle? Can the Word Bearers desecrate an Imperial temple while under attack from a rising force of Necrons? With the new set, you’ll be able to find out.
Kill Teams
The Rogue Trader set features two kill teams’ worth of magnificent models. In the Elucidian Starstriders, you’ll find Voidsmen-at-Arms – highly paid elite guard of the Rogue Traders – as well as a rogue’s gallery of unusual characters like medic Sanistasia Minst and Death Cult Executioner Knosso Prond, as well as Elucia Vhane herself.
These models are recognizably citizens of the Imperium, but represent its elite – Imperial Guardsmen they are not. Each is dressed in elegant, baroque armor and equipped with fine weapons – they’ll need both to survive against the horrors awakening on their ship…
The Gellerpox Infected are repugnant enough to please any Nurgle fan. We’ve had new Daemons and Traitor Astartes dedicated to the Lord of Plagues, and now we’ve got a host of repulsive mutants and renegades to join them. Led by the hulking Vulgrar Thrice-Cursed, this kill team looks at the low-level horrors of Nurgle – the skittering beasts, strange breeds of Nurgling and shambling infected who are bursting from starships across the Imperium.
You’ll have loads of flexibility when using these kill teams in your games, with both Commanders featuring customisable abilities and skill trees, and a variety of options as to which members you take on your missions. One battle might see you bring a trio of brutish Hullbreakers, while in another you could claim victory with a horde of stinging Cursemites and Sludge-Grubs – and we haven’t even gotten into each kill team’s Tactics!
Killzones
We meant it when we said this expansion was packed with content – it also features two new Killzones for your games! Both are perfect for players looking for a Kill Team board they can travel with, making incredibly effective use of only a handful of terrain pieces and a new set of rules for fighting in ultra-confined spaces.
Codexes
We know fans have been waiting for years to see Rogue Traders in Warhammer 40,000, so we’re making them available for your mass battles as well as your Kill Team skirmishes. The Rogue Trader boxed set features two mini-codexes for allying your Elucidian Starstriders and Gellerpox Infected with your main army, each with their own unique Stratagems (and more than a few devious tricks up their sleeve).
40k Rogue Trader Kill Team Box First up For SEPT Release
Keep an eye out for all these Kill Team goodies to come available for pre-order on this Saturday, the 8th. GW also teased that dice sets to match will be available in the following week! Keep your eyes on Spikey Bits for the breakdown of new bits as GW rolls them out.
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