Games Workshop is releasing a Warhammer 40k Darktide tabletop game, in which you can play as the video game characters and paint the miniatures!
If you love the game (or at least have played it), it can be fun to add the miniatures to your collection and play the game on the tabletop. The new box will come with 20 miniatures, all the rules, and plenty of scenarios to run through. While there aren’t any new miniatures in the box, they are all some amazing classics.
40k Darktide is Coming to the Tabletop With a New Game!
Darktide: The Miniatures Game $110 CAD$130 €85 £65
Here is the latest on the tabletop game from Warhammer Community.
Darktide: The Miniatures Game lets players take the battle for Hive Tertium to the tabletop. The game comes with everything needed to play and can be linked together in a campaign, complete with upgrades.
It will be available directly from GW and through selected retailers (which could also mean big box stores again, like the Space Marine Heroes Series 4.)
The frantic firefights of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide are making their way to the tabletop in a fast-paced new miniatures game. Darktide: The Miniatures Game tasks a team of up to four players with bringing Imperial justice to traitorous Guardsmen and shambling Poxwalkers through intense linked missions using rules based on Kill Team.
If you’ve been trying to get your friends to play 40k, this might be an easy way to do it, especially if they like the video game! However, the rules are based on Kill Team, so they will have to learn some extra rules, but that’s something they’ll have to get used to.
You’ll take up the mantle of one of these unlucky souls as they fight back against the Chaos hordes infesting Tertium, each depicted by a classic Warhammer 40,000 miniature reflecting one of the four classes from the video game – the Veteran, the Zealot, the Ogryn, and the Psyker.
These are all older models, but they are all really awesome! If you don’t have these in your collection, you might get the game to pick up the minis (obviously, depending on the price). Either way, seeing the classes on the tabletop is cool.
Against you stand the Traitor Guardsmen of the Moebian 6th regiment, who bring lasguns and bayonets to the fight alongside specialist weapons and equipment – from grenade launchers and flamers to comms arrays and long-las rifles. Every one of these hardened soldiers is a dangerous opponent for your ragtag band, and you’ll need to fight tooth and nail to come out on top of the game’s blistering close-ranged firefights.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, roving bands of mindless Poxwalkers infest the city, and you’ll find plenty getting in your way as you attempt to stave off Nurgle’s corruption and purify Tertium. Between the heroes and villains, you get a full 20 miniatures in the box – plenty for an afternoon or three of gritty spec ops missions.
We assume the majority of the miniatures will be on the traitor guard side of things, but what fun would it be if you didn’t have a ton of enemies to chew through?
The Darktide: The Miniatures Game is an exciting addition to the Warhammer 40k tabletop collection. It offers an opportunity to bring the video game characters to life on the tabletop, and the classic miniatures included in the box are a great bonus.
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