The Rumour Engine - 23rd September, 2025

[Joe]

 

WarCom Article.

 

Votann gubbin fist?

[Orange Knight]

Votann?

[Tastyfish]

I was wondering T'au aux?

[The Lost Son]

Looks like it's got fur or hair, what were the orangutan looking things that inquisitors used to have

[Lord Marshal]

It doesn't appear consistent with either the Votann nor Ironhead Squat power fists, so probably not Space Dwarf-adjacent.

 

 

If I had to guess, probably Necromunda still - along with whatever those screens were from last week.

 

The arrow symbol is unfamiliar. 

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 12:17 PM by Lord Marshal

[TheMawr]

Beastsnaggaz

[DeadFingers]

Looks Kroot to me. Bright colours, triangular markings, slightly weathered, which I'll admit is also a Beast Snaggas aesthetic, but the hand looks like four clawy fingers of which two appear to be thumbs.

Edited Tuesday at 12:26 PM by DeadFingers

[firestorm40k]

I think this is related to this Rumour Engine, which looks like Xenos tech, and Last week's RE - in the bottom left of the image there appears to be fur. 

 

So, based on that, I think it's:

 

- possibly a new Xenos race 

- probably Tau Auxilia 

- most likely getting introduced in Kill Team 

 

Always exciting when new races, and/or factions, get miniatures brought into 40k! 

[Lord Marshal]

8 minutes ago, TheMawr said:

Beastsnaggaz

 

Good shout. 

 

Having a gander at the models, the 'Eavy Metal scheme has them in that bright boney-white colour, plus similar-ISH arrow symbols appear in quite a few places. The top right certainly looks like random bits of scrap they bolt onto stuff, and bits of fur are quite prominent.

 

Edited Tuesday at 12:27 PM by Lord Marshal

[CL_Mission]

Kroot aren't averse to some triangular symbols here and there and I'd like it to be them over Beastsnaggaz but the Orks do seem like a good fit with the light colour scheme.

 

[Orange Knight]

I dunno. It looks too neat to be Orkish, and the Chevron looks more sci-fi than tribal, so I'm not convinced it's Kroot.

 

Maybe it's something out of left field...?

 

 

 

Men of Iron? lol

[AvePicante]

1 hour ago, The Lost Son said:

Looks like it's got fur or hair, what were the orangutan looking things that inquisitors used to have

 

Jokaero Kill Team inbound

 

[firestorm40k]

5 minutes ago, Orange Knight said:

It looks too neat to be Orkish, and the Chevron looks more sci-fi than tribal, so I'm not convinced it's Kroot.

The more I look at it, the more I'm of the opinion it's not either - absolutely agree it doesn't look ramshackle enough for Orks/Beastsnaggas; what makes me think it's not Kroot is what appears to be either fur or scales in the top left:

 

Kroot have quills, but I can't remember them having scales 

Edited Tuesday at 01:51 PM by firestorm40k
Pressed post too soon

[Warmaster Irraz]

My first thought was Thousand Sons just because it reminded me of the claw rumour engine that turned out to be the Sekhetar Robots.

[Bryan Blaire]

Wondering if this might not be associated with a new Warhammer Quest sci-fi offering ala Blackstone Fortress. Or it very likely is Kill Team, potentially something new or even a more hobgoblin-esque Ork type similar to the Sigmar Kruleboyz?

 

Or it reminds me of Kroot at first glance, but looks like a heavier scaled shoulder than they have, while Kroot  are smooth - and there doesn’t appear to be any fabric/hide that would suggest a cloak, cape, or wrap.

Edited Tuesday at 01:56 PM by Bryan Blaire

[Amocat]

zoat?

 

[Dezron]

1 hour ago, firestorm40k said:

what appears to be either fur or scales in the top left

 

Scales or some sort of armor.

 

Wait... maybe its Kroot after all.

 

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/wSlCp25Y/birds-of-a-feather-feast-together-the-kroot-are-the-galaxys-premier-hunters/

 

A Kroot variant we never had a model for before.

[Tastyfish]

2 hours ago, firestorm40k said:

The more I look at it, the more I'm of the opinion it's not either - absolutely agree it doesn't look ramshackle enough for Orks/Beastsnaggas; what makes me think it's not Kroot is what appears to be either fur or scales in the top left:

 

Kroot have quills, but I can't remember them having scales 

 

With the zoom, I actually think that's a pair of cables - almost looks like there's a cable tie that the right most one goes through that's connected to the V shaped elbow pad.

 

The armour to the top right also looks very similar to the gun from week before last as well. Somewhat angular with rounded corners and screw holes/rivets.

[Marshal Reinhard]

I for the life of me cannot get the weird "growths" to look like cables hence the disagree. Not differentiated enough from the material they're next to.

[grailkeeper]

I'd guess Necromunda.

[Tastyfish]

1 hour ago, Marshal Reinhard said:

I for the life of me cannot get the weird "growths" to look like cables hence the disagree. Not differentiated enough from the material they're next to.

It's the dark around them, and then the way the shine is on the edges. Doesn't quite seem to match how they'd be highlighting muscle or fabric, where the top of the crease/hair/vein would be lighter. Looks more metallic.

 

Did the lines a bit thin as I was zoomed in quite heavily but -

Purple - Armour, similar style to the gun casing from the previous rumour engine.

Yellow - Metal pipes/cables

Light Blue - Cable strap, or possibly a third pipe

Red - darker coloured plugs that the cables feed into to power the first

Dark Blue - could be a crease in the fabric or a strap around the arm

Green - darker side or underlayer to the fist that the plugs connect into.

Edited Tuesday at 08:25 PM by Tastyfish

[TheMawr]

While I feel obliged to stick with Beastsnaggaz ( just as I did with the Thousand sons robots rumor engine.)

 

I do see the Tau links 

 

When seeing it on my phone I didnt notice the claw indeed seems to be the same layout as tau and kroot ( and most drafted species part of the empire )

in the top right there seems to be a piece of engraved metal like the kroot have a lot.

I still insists its fur in the top ( the most topleft element that makes it look like scales is armored material I think.)

 

Still I dont think this is kroot, beyond the weapon RE earlier representing a weapon thats explicitely not kroot in deisng, I also feel the general vibe is off and while Tau do have the paintscheme I confused with beastsnaggaz (its totally beastsnaggaz) kroot do not, but vespids do.

An interesting element is the electronics in the armguard. it has a brighter led ( wich im going to gess is painted bright green or lightblue based on the tones, wich is basically just guesswork.) and a tuner dial ( I dont know the english word.. the button you can move across a straight line in a gap.) .. the controls fit the vibe of the screens rumor engine, wich also had fur. There where more furbased concepts for tau auxileries concepts.

 

Spoiler

 

If anybody has better renderings of these Id be happy with that.

 

 

So my bottomline guess, based on all that, is very obvious and can be nothing else but :

 

 

 

A Tzaangor master of the arcane oracular devices called TzeeVee's

[Tastyfish]

I'd forgotten all about those other Tau aux concepts, think I've them saved on another computer somewhere.

Can't help noticing that the lion's weapon does bare a passing resemblance to a Londaxi Tribalest..

[Silvereyes]

Kroot or another T'au auxillary would be very exciting if true. It would hopefully mean GW is confident in the T'au auxillary as a core part of the army, rather than just revert back to stuff like battlesuits. 

 

I'm sorry to ask, but are we do a livestream soon? Any big events coming? Doesn't seem like there is much left to come out that has already been announced, aside from all the new Space Marine stuff.

[Tastyfish]

30 minutes ago, Silvereyes said:

Kroot or another T'au auxillary would be very exciting if true. It would hopefully mean GW is confident in the T'au auxillary as a core part of the army, rather than just revert back to stuff like battlesuits. 

 

I'm sorry to ask, but are we do a livestream soon? Any big events coming? Doesn't seem like there is much left to come out that has already been announced, aside from all the new Space Marine stuff.

 

It seems GW are testing out a different strategy for this year perhaps, or have been burned with the various leaks from the US events. We thought there might be for the LVO but that's not going to happen based on the ticket info.

 

There might be something coinciding with the Grand Narrative Event this weekend (or next Monday for official pics), but there's definitely not been anything teased like a reveal show.

There might also be something for Warhammer Day at the end of October.

 

But then Nov-Dec are generally fairly quiet model months (as far as new models go, it's more bundle boxes), so there might just be a bit of a tease of things to come with the bigger reveals saved for the New Year.

 

If 11th Ed is currently being printed and assembled, that might also mean there's a bit of a lull as far as other stuff goes whilst they ramp up production for that. Currently we've got DE coming out start of October, the Ultramarines and perhaps the Terminator box set, then the individual releases of the Terminators, Marine special characters and the Christmas box sets.

 

Only big thing I think we've not seen for this year's release is Box 2 of the Tombworld series (and perhaps Trazyn).

Edited Wednesday at 12:50 AM by Tastyfish