Rot Sets In As Games Workshop Put the Blightkings Up for Pre-Order
October 11, 2014 by dracs
The next stage of the End Times is preparing to descend upon the world of Warhammer. Rot and disease spread as the mighty Blightkings prepare to march out of Games Workshop as they appear for pre-order.
With their release upon the Games Workshop webstore we get a bit more information about them. The Blightkings themselves serve as champions of Nurgle, going wherever his influence is needed. Once chaos knights, they have earned the grandfather's blessings again and again, gaining ever more horrific mutations and diseases.
The Putrid Blightkings can be bought as a set of five, with each model having the possibility of two variant builds, as well as plenty of other components and options to help you make your Blightkings look how you want them to.
Alongside the Blightkings we find their fearless and festering leader, the Chaos Lord Gutrot Spume.
Gutrot Spume is no mere Chaos Lord, but is in fact the commander of the greatest plague fleet in the north. For this his tentacled mutation serves him well, making him at home on both land and sea, and no doubt a terror on both.
Games Workshop offer these new models as a bundle called The Scions of the Last Plague.
This set brings you Gutrot Spume, along with ten of his Blightkings, providing you with enough models to assemble all of the different variants available for these new heroes of Nurgle.
According to Games Workshop, the rules for playing these miniatures can be found in the accompanying construction booklet, as well as in White Dwarf No. 37. No word yet whether or not they will eventually be accompanied by a dedicated resource book, possibly for all of the Chaos forces in The End Times, but I hope so as it will allow us to see how events have moved on beyond the rise of Nagash.
Will you be pre-ordering these minis? Now you see them properly, what do think of their sculpts?
I think they’re great personally and I can’t even gripe with the price. Surely the End Times are here? 😉 They’re proper conversion fodder and I can see many Obliterators and Mutilators being made from them or as alternative Chaos Ogres, Lost and the Damned mutations, Renegade Ogryns etc. Including their rules with the instructions is something I’ve argued for for quite some time and I hope GW does it for every kit in the future, though they probably won’t because stupidity is a strong policy for them these days. Anyway, I love these minis and would relish painting them… Read more »
What @warspawned said 🙂
Agree with Warspawned and Dags 🙂
I am wondering based on the description in the write up here and on the GW page … are these guys plastic (my assumption is they are) or failcast? If they are resin that would be a little off putting for me personally … even if they are I would pick them up. For one thing if resin is pitted or breaks, etc. for nurgle stuff … who cares … all the more character right >:)
Not a fan. But then again, never liked any of the Nurgle stuff. Is all the Chaos stuff being redone? Why don’t they invest time in replacing things like that awful box of single-pose Chaos warriors instead? Other companies have jumped on that shortfall and produced much better figures.
Fine, fine … don’t like Nurgle. But in the end he will win >:) Seriously though I do agree with the point that I hope they spread the love and give ALL powers of Chaos some love. It looks like they are going to over the course of the campaign it looks like particularly Chaos and the Undead will be getting many new models. Who knows if those will be tourney legal after all is said and done (*cough … Storm of Chaos … Eye of Terror) but I could care less about that as I am not a tourney… Read more »
For the record I’ve been pretty rabidly critical of GW for years now but I have to say that this end times stuff is really bringing me back into the fold. It is everything I’ve been complaining about for years now (save the price of their minis) in terms of story advancement, updating the range instead of just re-doing the same units over and over again for the same armies. f I hope this sticks and I hope they do this with 40K. I’d love to see GW go with maintaining a core product line and then using splash releases… Read more »
Interestingly I’m a rabid fan of gw (amongst many tabletop companies) and I have to agree with you. I would love to see both ip’s advanced by campaigns and releases such as this. I haven’t played wfb since 2nd mainly because i’ve not had many people to play against so never built an army, but this end times has really got me wanting to play it – enough to find players outside my local club and group. I equally share the hope that once the codexes are complete (ba and necrons to go) that they kick off a campaign for… Read more »
Got to agree, almost feels like they are doing stuff for the fun/fluff again. Not quite but getting there
Always liked nurgle and think these look cool, might actually pick one up just to paint depending on price. Not having high hopes in that department though
If GW wants any serious amount of my money its modernising the rulesets and lower prices (if they are keeping the mass battle mentality). Slowly re introduce the specialist games again and do some space crusadish type boardgames is what i think will benefit them in the long run and inject some lost soul.