New Blood Bowl, Shadespire, Necromunda & More Revealed By GW At GAMA
March 15, 2018 by brennon
Games Workshop revealed a LOT of new stuff at GAMA this year. We are going to kick off with what's coming for both Warhammer 40,000 and Age Of Sigmar with the first bit of news being a new version of Kill Team.
The new Kill Team looks like it will come with rules for pretty much all of the factions available to you in Warhammer 40,000. The focus also seems to be towards narrative play as well as the traditional pickup and play style of game. The linked missions sound like a great idea.
Creatures From The Deep
When it comes to Age Of Sigmar it looks like something is stirring in the depths. We got this fascinating piece of artwork to gawp at...
The Idoneth Deepkin look likely to be a very neat new force for Order. Anything with tentacles is no doubt going to excite a lot of people. Age Of Sigmar really does allow Games Workshop to go wild with their creations, so why not throw another race into the mix?
New Shadespire Warbands
With Age Of Sigmar in mind, we also have two new warbands for Shadespire. Both Chaos and Order are getting new warriors who will be searching the City Of Mirrors for the sought after Shadeglass. First up we have The Blood Warriors.
Matched against them we have some new Stormcast Eternals too as they send the Far Striders in search of enemies to bring low. It's neat that both of them come with their own pet, although it would have been nice for the Far Striders to have a Gryph-hound I think.
Shadespire is getting played a lot at my local store and people are really enjoying the flexibility of the system and the deckbuilding options presented to you. The game is also very fast paced which is always a plus for someone trying to squeeze in some games over a lunch break.
House Van Saar Comes To Necromunda
The far future and the Hive Cities of Necromunda are also getting themselves some new blood in the form of the technologically advanced and efficient killers of Van Saar.
These are some of the nicest looking new miniatures for the range I think we've seen yet. I like the more ultra-modern feel to them which seems to go beyond the grimdark of Warhammer 40,000. The posing and modelling options here seem to be quite extensive too.
The Doom Lords Take To The Field
Blood Bowl isn't getting left out either as they have a new Chaos Team coming soon as well. Here we have the Doom Lords with fantastic plastic miniatures of both Beastmen and Chaos Warriors.
I used to play Chaos in one of our online leagues using FUMBBL and it was a lot of fun. Beastmen tended to be very useless to begin with and then eventually turned into raging monsters once they got lots of upgrades.
And that is that. A whole host of new releases for their boxed Specialist Games and then a peek ahead at something new for Warhammer 40,000 fans and Age of Sigmar lovers.
What are you most excited about?
"When it comes to Age Of Sigmar it looks like something is stirring in the depths..."
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I have been waiting for the release of the chaos team for Blood Bowl, now they are finally here.
Looking forward to picking up the Doom Lords.
A few more warriors for the Khorne Bloodbound horde are always welcome too.
As much as I always get excited by the GW smaller skirmish style games, it is very confusing to have Necromunda, Shadow Wars, and another Kill Team box/rules dropping and not knowing what I actually should be focusing on!!! Lol… The Van Saar look really, really good… but I’m such a sucker for starting new factions that any excuse to play Kill Team and try out an army I’ve not yet played is so tempting (cough, Shadow Wars led from a single Skitarii Ranger box to a whole Ad Mech army)… Also interesting that they are doing a fully different… Read more »
All the stuff is great. But the pick for me is the Van Saar 😀 . They were my gang back in the day and i have been waiting for the new mini’s to drop since Necromunda’s re-birth, i am now one happy ganger 😀 .
Kill team could be good depending on the rules. Rest some decent sculpts but nothing that appeals to me.
I exclude the bloodbowl team from that, some of the ugliest minis I have seen this year
oooooohh, Shadespire Shinys! Looking forward to the sea aelves reveal as well.
I love that they are bringing Kill Team back as it’s own game. We also get some new terrain so that’s good. I really like those Van Saar models making them currently my 2nd favorite Necromunda gang after Escher. Doom Lords also look really nice and are good addition for Blood Bowl.
Van Saar, finally!
no new shadespire boards booooooooo
the van saar guys look fabulous.
Seeing Kill Team getting its own line of stuff makes me wish for Mordheim but I get it doesn’t fit into the new Age of Sigmar which is unfortunate
Looking forward to the new kill-team and Van Saar. I might pick up a few packs of them to convert into generic sci-fi mercs for other games.
I made my own Cawdor out of a Frostgrave cultists box and am eager for the real thing and some Delaque & scavies.
I like the Van Saar models.
In other news, it would be nice to get a set of rules that wasn’t superseded in a year. I’m not fond of any of GW’s games, but it might set the hook for others if they knew they wouldn’t have to fork out more money every six months to stay current.
No news on the return of Chainsaw Warrior 🙁
I am strangely attracted to the Blood Bowl barbarian (against, it appears, conventional wisdom) .
I saw him and thought Thrud ………. but I am probably showing my age
Nice stuff pver all…but I found the Doom Lord REALLY wanting.
The Van Saar look great, I might have found my Necromunda faction.
For Deepkin, I’m imagining a dwarf with a tentacle beard.
Much as I said I’d never Blood Bowl after playing Dreadball, i like the chaos team.
Idoneth Deepkin are sea elves