Warhammer 40,000: Darktide - The Miniature Game

[Joe]

 

WarCom Article.

 

It's just re-using existing miniatures, but still. Another potential onboarding route for the hobby.

[Grotsmasha]

Another, quick and easy introduction game? I'm in

[ChapterMasterGodfrey]

In isolation, this looks pretty cool. Looks like it could be a good gateway game. One note though, there's a lot of tokens surly a gateway game wouldn't be too rules intensive.

[Mogger351]

5 minutes ago, Grotsmasha said:

Another, quick and easy introduction game? I'm in

If they could kindly release these in the country they're produced in for once, that'd be nice

[Grotsmasha]

4 minutes ago, Mogger351 said:

If they could kindly release these in the country they're produced in for once, that'd be nice

No, no. That would make too much sense....

[Nephaston]

Is that the miniature of the month kasrkin? would be a nice way to get more use out of the mold.

[sitnam]

14 minutes ago, Nephaston said:

Is that the miniature of the month kasrkin? would be a nice way to get more use out of the mold.

 

I don't think so. That version was based off an old piece of art work.

 

This is super tempting, depending on price point  I already have the psyker and zealot from BSF, but I could convert these into something else. I wonder if the Traitor Guard will come with the Kill Team upgrade sprue

Edited April 22 by sitnam

[Grotsmasha]

16 minutes ago, Nephaston said:

Is that the miniature of the month kasrkin? would be a nice way to get more use out of the mold.

 

I don't believe so, below is the free model from WarCom,

 

it appears to be one of the Killteam: Kasrkin models,

 

Edited April 22 by Grotsmasha

[irlLordy]

So basically the contents will be:

 

10 blooded/traitor guard?

6 ETB poxwakers

4 "heroes" - ogryn, psyker, scion and missionary.

 

Shame they couldn't do unique sculpts for the ogyrn and scion given that they would have to be recut anyway.

 

Also interesting that they're mixing etb and (presumably) full sprues here, as it doesn't look like the BSF traitor guard.

Edited April 22 by irlLordy

[sitnam]

Pretty sure the Kasrkin and Ogryn are also non-etb as well. Interesting mix of kits here

[Morovir]

Might not even have to recut for the Ogryn - each one is on its own sprue in the box (with Nork's pieces spread across the three sprues) which could allow the Ogryn to be customisable.

[Urauloth]

This looks like fun. Let's see if they release it here!

[Cactus]

2 hours ago, Joe said:

It's just re-using existing miniatures, but still. Another potential onboarding route for the hobby.

Where have the traitor guard been seen before? They use some elements of the BSF models but they're not the same.

[Bouargh]

4 minutes ago, Cactus said:

Where have the traitor guard been seen before? They use some elements of the BSF models but they're not the same.

 

Indeed, they look like genuine stuff...

[Marshal Rohr]

That’s the Blooded Kill Team

[Tokugawa]

Yeah, the poxwalkers are the etb box version sculpts. 

 

"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. " So 10 Blooded version traitor guards.

[Fluxeor]

Would have liked new sculpts for the Rejects, but if this is cheap (y'know, GW boxed game cheap) I'll pick it up.

[Marshal Rohr]

If this is 30 Dollars you can essentially make a full blob of cursed cultists and Auxiliaries for the price of 20 Traitor Auxiliaries. 

[Alby the Slayer]

Yay for a quick introductive wh40000 game.

 

Nay for the miniatures in it.

 

Why don't take this opportunity to create miniatures of the characters in the game? Mind you, they are pretty generic Inquisition recruits/rejects but with a very unique style, because of the game style itself.

 

It would be great for new players and great for old ones who wants just the miniatures.

 

But if they didn't do it with Vermintide who was a huge success, who am I kidding here?

[Tokugawa]

1 hour ago, Alby the Slayer said:

Yay for a quick introductive wh40000 game.

 

Nay for the miniatures in it.

 

Why don't take this opportunity to create miniatures of the characters in the game? Mind you, they are pretty generic Inquisition recruits/rejects but with a very unique style, because of the game style itself.

 

It would be great for new players and great for old ones who wants just the miniatures.

 

But if they didn't do it with Vermintide who was a huge success, who am I kidding here?

Because these games are not straightly GW products. GW model departments dislike a customer studio who brought their IP certifications telling them what model is needed to do.

[Petitioner's City]

15 minutes ago, Tokugawa said:

GW model departments dislike a customer studio who brought their IP certifications telling them what model is needed to do.

 

Is there any evidence for this, or a supposition?

Edited April 23 by Petitioner's City

[Tokugawa]

1 hour ago, Petitioner's City said:

 

Is there any evidence for this, or a supposition?

Of course speculation. Who can publicly admit that?

 

When DoW 1 & 2 were at their prime popularity, GW didn't release any Blood Raven models. Angelos model was released after DoW 3(which was an unsuccessful game).

 

iirc TW:WH also don't have any interaction with GW model release. 

Edited April 23 by Tokugawa

[Antarius]

I don’t think we can really know what they like or dislike, but I think the supposition that they don’t want to create new miniatures for this sort of game is borne out by them not creating new miniatures for this game (or the many similar games).

 

My own take is that they have always seemed to have two “modes” when it comes to boxed games: “basic”, where they do not create new miniatures but use what they already have, and “deluxe” which are full games with bespoke miniatures (that may/may not see individual release or be reused down the road). This distinction says nothing about the quality of the rules etc. of course, it’s just about whether they fire up the miniature design team and invest in molds specifically for the game.

[gideon stargreave]

Not bad, but weaker selection of minis that the ambull game 

[Brother Navaer Solaq]

I would be interested to know what the rules will be like for a game like this.

I never played the video game. 

 

Q. What tyoe of game is  dark tide for those who played it?