Zoats Return In Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress This Weekend
March 23, 2020 by brennon
Games Workshop continues to explore the depths of the Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress with a new expansion called The Deadly Alliance. It also features a classic grimdark creature, the mighty Zoat!
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Inside this set, you'll find a standalone quest which will have your explorers diving into a high-risk but high-reward endeavour. You are seeking to put an end to a strange phenomenon called the Seethe. As well as all of the tokens, tiles and such that you need to play the quest you'll also find the Zoat who will also come with full rules for being used in Warhammer 40,000 too.
This sounds like a lot of fun and it's great to see some more classic creatures getting updated and added back into the world of Warhammer 40,000. Blackstone Fortress and Necromunda seem to be good places for Games Workshop to do this, dropping them in to give a glimpse into the wider grimdark world!
This Zoat, known as The Archivist, has given free rein for your team of explorers to go plundering in its depths however he requests that you help him recover the remnants of an ancient Zoat spacecraft. So, are you going to take up the task?
Could you see yourself snapping up this set and painting up a big ol' Zoat!
"Could you see yourself snapping up this set and painting up a big ol' Zoat!"
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Skull on base…. so a proper GW release…
I was thinking about this over the weekend (as you do). With the amount of death in the 40K universe, it kinda makes sense that there would be skulls everywhere.
So you’re saying in the 41st millennium is only war… no clean up?
I think you’re looking at the results of the clean-up – picked clean bones by rampant predators haha
What do you think the likes of the Corpse Grinders and House Cawdor do? Also, even with the medieval asthetic of 40K, cleaning battlefields was pretty much abandoned in the Middle Ages and was left up to peasants or squires. In this setting, when warfare is everybody’s focus and warding off the next Chaos invasion takes precedence over dragging your buddies’ corpses off the battlefield for proper burial, it makes sense that things would get left behind.
What part of “There is only WAR” made you consider that they might have clean up?
Anything other than WAR is something they do not have. They lack many things- chocolate, hair dye, death by natural causes and undergarments.
(Also, I’m pretty sure that all bones other than skulls evaporate pretty quickly).
Somewhere in the 41st millennium there is a poor femur and tibia salesman that is struggling to feed his family.
Lol
Nice I wonder if they will be making a range of Zoats to have a dino Centaur army.?
I don’t think so… they where very specific when they announced this one as “singular”. “One Zoat”
You never know. With all the other stuff they’ve dumped on us out of the blue (plastic sisters, new Ghaz, new Bile) without any warning, anything is possible.
None of that was out of the blue. Especially the plastic sisters had a very long announcement.
Shame.
We haven’t seen more than one squat … so don’t get your hopes up.
Another winner. I love that they are systematically working their way through the first SF release design concepts. Keep them rolling please GW.
I love this model so much. Look GW, you know people want Zoats and Squats. Update the models like this, bring some of that ‘ol Rogue Trader magic for us old dogs that want a nice bone to chew on. Come on, man.
^^^^^^^ What this man said (Well said)
“Reset The Clock!!” 😉
He looks a lot less Tyranid than he used to.
But maybe it is that the Tyranids have changed so much.
I’ve actually got an interesting theory on that. All of the ‘nid bits on the original Zoat included things like the gas mask, weapons, and stomach-armor…thing. On this guy, they’re all cybernetic. Maybe they’re trying to actually rebel against the Tyranids and get rid of things that would enable the Hive Mind to better control them? It’s also possible that the Zoats as a whole might be planning to break away from the rest of the swarms. In their fluff, while they’re engineered by the Tyranids, they’re free-thinking creatures that need to be pheromonically suppressed in order for the Hive… Read more »
That’s a fun fan theory.
I generally figure it isn’t worth figuring out how the older fluff fits in with newer fluff.
The old fluff was that Zoats are what happens when Tyranids process their own DNA the way they process other creatures (like how Orks turn into Squigs when ‘nids process them).