Mortian Share Work On Cyberrats Coming To Kickstarter Soon
June 11, 2020 by brennon
Mortian are planning to come to Kickstarter soon to raise funds to make a Cyberrats Army that you could use in your Sci-Fi wargames on the tabletop. A few concept pieces have been flying around as well as renders.
Cyberrat Rat Ogre Work-In-Progress Render
This shows off one of the original concepts for their Rat Ogre-style miniature. The idea is to have a few different Rat Ogres which come armed with both close combat weapons and ranged weapons as you can see above here. As well as this creature without a mask, there was another render shown off on social media recently.
Cyberrat Rat Ogre With Helmet
This shows off a more refined version of the model with a few more details worked into the design. You can see that the armour has been tweaked here and there as well as a few more options added to the backpack which is just festooned with explosives!
Mortian - From Render To Miniature
This then turned into this sample miniature which is going to be sent off to be painted for the Kickstarter campaign.
Cyberrat Rat Ogre Miniature
I think this looks bloomin' awesome and would be a great way to represent heavy weapons as part of a wider Cyberrat force. The grimdark world is crying out for more creatures to come and undermine the Imperium and these would be a really nice shout. You could also, of course, use these as part of a Veer-Myn force in something like Warpath or Deadzone too.
Cyberrat Concept Art
More concept art for this upcoming Kickstarter can be found HERE. If this idea has got your attention then stay tuned as I'm looking forward to seeing what else comes together for this campaign. I am very interested in seeing how the vehicles and regular Cyberrats turn out.
What do you think of this early work?
"I am very interested in seeing how the vehicles and regular Cyberrats turn out..."
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Rat’s in space, brilliant.
Let’s see the return of the Hrud! (Anyone else remember that? Before they nixed the “rats in 40K” idea?)
Wasn’t there a drawing in 3rd ed 40K, in the background section of the rulebook?
There was technically a sketch of one alongside a Necron and Kroot, with a few other obscure aliens (including a Genestealer), but that was all we really got. However the background we were given was strongly implying they were supposed to be Skaven in space: https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Hrud
The only problem is that in later editions as they started moving away from “fantasy in space” they nixed the idea of space-Skaven and turned them into a generic-looking race of buggy things.
Hell yes. And Squats also.
Well, we’re slowly getting them back – we got two in Necromunda so far, and it’s not too hard to use Kharadrons in 40K (they just need a couple stat tweaks). Heck, we even got a ZOAT of all things and an Ambull recently, so if GW keeps digging into their catalog, we may see them soon.
Have people forgotten about Deadzone and Warpath already?
Those look really nice.
Oh man. I love the looks of these.