Recruit these new punch fists and hammers into your Leagues of Votann with these upcoming Chthonian Berserks Warhammer models.
The reveals have been speeding up to basically every week for the Leagues of Votann, and we’ve heard rumors about their book for a while now! The new book looks like it will be really fleshed out with how many units they’ve shown so far for them.
Warhammer Community unveiled the new models and some of the lore behind them. Let’s first check out some of the other models revealed, then jump into the new stuff!
Leagues of Votann Chthonian Berserks Revealed!
The courageous warriors of the Cthonian Mining Guilds represent some of the most heavily augmented Kin – unreasonably brave souls who have enhanced the physical capabilities of their cloneskeins with cybernetic upgrades, all the better to extract precious minerals from rad-plagued nebulae, explosive asteroids, and fathomless ocean depths.
Also, if you didn’t know, Cthonia is Horus’ homeworld and was mainly a mining world. However, it was destroyed, so this is an interesting way to bring that lore into 40k, with them mining the leftover asteroids. Especially considering in the lore, it also says they had mine works already set up everywhere.
Boosted by the cyberstimms that flood their systems, the Berserks can keep battling through life-or-death situations. They eschew the high-tech STC weapons wielded by the rest of the Kin, using robust mining equipment such as heavy plasma axes and concussion mauls.
They don’t give much in the way of rules, but with giant weapons, we expect them to hit very hard, and maybe the cyberstimms will give them more toughness or, more likely, an FNP. Either way, this is an interesting way to incorporate a melee-only unit into the army.
In the muscled (or mechanical) hands of Cthonian Berserks, these tools become weapons that can penetrate heavy armour or alien carapaces just as easily as stubborn rock and stone.
We’re not done with the Leagues of Votann – there are even more surprises to extract from the mantle below.
They even say this is not the last unit either, so expect to see even more reveals before the faction drops!
Leagues of Votann Sagitaur ATV Revealed by GW!
Designed for surveying inhospitable alien terrain, the Sagitaur is a rapid-response ATV suited to scouting operations and lightning-fast armoured offensives alongside Hernkyn Pioneers. Its armoured carapace is durable enough to shrug off everything from rockslides to plasma blasts, making it an ideal spearhead for any League-sponsored colonisation effort.
They gave this a rover look for exploring, and it has a distinct look compared to many other Warhammer 40k vehicles.
Sagitaurs usually operate in pairs – they’re remarkably heavily-armed for their size, with a nose-mounted twin bolt cannon complemented by a swivelling turret weapon, such as a HYLas beam cannon, L7 missile launcher, or MATR autocannon.
Mentioning they work in pairs gives us a big look into how you can run them. Probably something like running two will only take up one slot, or you might have to take two when you look at the rules they mention below.
Once they’re right up in enemy lines, they disgorge their ornery cargo – a full squad of infantry, which can be split between the two vehicles. These hardy warriors pop out, engage enemy units with their superior weaponry, and claim vital objectives – while the Sagitaurs speed off to deliver their heavy firepower wherever it’s needed.
So, they will be troop carriers, and it looks like the berserks is probably a unit you want inside as they don’t look to have a ton of armor! Plus, they want to smash people with their giant hammers.
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