Gaunt’s Ghosts Sneak Onto The Tabletop For Warhammer 40K!
May 6, 2021 by brennon
Games Workshop put together their previews for Black Library yesterday evening. Alas, there wasn't an update on any Age Of Sigmar books but there was a lot for those who like their Warhammer 40,000 stories. They started, however, with the reveal of a new plastic kit for Gaunt's Ghosts.
Gaunt's Ghosts // Warhammer 40K
This is going to be a new set of plastic miniatures allowing you to take to the tabletop as Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt and the finest soldiers on Tanith. Imperial Guard soldiers don't often have the longest lifespan once they've signed up (or got conscripted) into the armies of the Imperium. So, when you've got a band of soldiers as good as the Ghosts, I reckon you've managed to find a winner!
Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt // Warhammer 40K
Colonel Colm Corbec // Warhammer 40K
Sergeant Scout Oan Mkoll // Warhammer 40K
Major Elim Rawne // Warhammer 40K
Master Sniper Hlaine Larkin // Warhammer 40K
"Try Again" Bragg // Warhammer 40K
All of these miniatures will have rules for use in Warhammer 40,000 allowing you to kick ass with this team of miscreants. Whilst I'm sure they will find their way into bigger armies, I think it would be cooler to see people using them in smaller games like Kill Team. I reckon a campaign of Kill Team based around Gaunt's Ghosts would be awesome.
Send In Gaunt's Ghosts // Black Library
Dan Abnett took some time during the reveal from Warhammer Fest to talk more about the Gaunt's Ghost series and the Sabbat Worlds. As you might imagine, there are some new books for you to check out!
Gaunt's Ghosts And The Sabbat Worlds // Black Library
Talking of books, here is the full-on list of books that were revealed this year at Warhammer Fest. Again, it would be nice to see what's coming for The Mortal Realms but here is your slice of the grim darkness of the far future.
Sabbat War // Black Library
The Vincula Insurgency // Black Library
The Sabbat Worlds Crusade // Black Library
Traitor Rock // Black Library
Urdesh The Serpent And The Saint // Black Library
Volpone Glory // Black Library
Warhawk // Black Library
The Twice-Dead King: Ruin // Black Library
...and, if you're interested in diving in to try out a bit of Crime, you've also got books that will suit you too.
Grim Repast // Black Library
Sanction & Sin // Black Library
Broken City // Black Library
As you can see, a lot of books for you to try out! I am told that a lot of the Warhammer Crime novels are really good and that I should be checking some of them out. I might start out with some of the shorter audio dramas and then possibly give a bigger book a go.
Are you tempted to dive in and check out more from Black Library? What about those Gaunt's Ghosts?!
"What about those Gaunt's Ghosts?!"
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Amazing set of miniatures. The Gaunts Ghosts books are about the best in Warhammer fiction.
I do think it’s a shame that so much fiction is centred on 40k though. Most of the Warhammer Horror novels are 40k, and so far all the Warhammer Crime novels are 40k.
The Vampire Genevieve novels showed how good crime fiction in a Warhammer Fantasy setting can be.
Yer – I think there could be plenty of awesome Crime/Horror novels done in The Mortal Realms. There are few but it did feel a little left out as a setting in yesterday’s show.
That kim newman he love dat Genevieve!
I cannot recall if she turned up in the Anno Dracula books first then warhammer or the other way around?
I do recall herself being in Dracenfels, I had the expansion supplement for Warhammer fantasy Role Play back in the day. The art was magic, I seem to recall the lead duke looking like Peter Cushing!
New Guard models? *checks date*
I’ve not read the series but expect I’ll pick these up, they’re dashed nice. Hope they’re not Primaris Guard though.
To be honest, if they are slightly up-scaled I’d say that’s good news for the Guard. GW seems to want to go to the slightly larger scaled minis in general as all newer kits seem to be a little larger. If they’re finally going to upscale some new Guard rather than maintain scale of the older kits it could mean new kits are on their way. Could being a very optimistic word…
This one has me fairly excited as the Guard have been lacking so much in character of late. I do feel that it is a bit of a limited idea for the table top game as 6 troops do not an army make (and I very much doubt this would be followed by a series Tanith-esque light infantry sculpts given the current condition of the AM range). What I want to know is if they are going to support this with Kill Team rules because currently: – No Commissar can take a chainsword – No Guard leader (Company Commander, Platoon… Read more »
They could ‘fix’ that by making the entire team ‘characters’ and giving unique stats (and special skills ’cause even grunts are special ) …
It is very weird to see them updating such a tiny part of a faction, but they kind of did the same when the Eldar got their plastic Banshees. Everything is still the same old finecast crap.
And yet you’d think that an Imperial Guard vs Orks box with new models for both armies (and not just new ‘characters’) would be really cool thing to have.
Yeah, as much as the Guard is often listed as a faction that needs refresh I doubt this is the start of that per say. Too fringe to herald a range I would think. It will be interesting to see how they go about integrating these if they do. They’ve made rules for Black Library models before (like Severina Raine and Eisenhorn) but they just get rules to be Commanders which kind of work as an add on to tram rather than a part of it. They did write rules for a lot of the core enemies from Blackstone Fortress… Read more »
The are only ‘fringe’ because GW spends all of their time focusing on space marines (and primaris LT’s). I’d argue that if GW focused their efforts on making sure all factions where playable (and fun) according to their respective background we would have a much better game.
I loved how they managed to simplify the core system when they got to 40k 8th edition (and AoS when it launched).
And yet they still managed to make it a complete mess by making everything need at least one ‘special’ rule to fix the problems that a pure D6 based mechanic has.
Ooh they look better than the original unit I think I’ll be getting them ? I wonder if that’ll make me ill as i have two gaunt ? Lol
Love the books, hate the game.
Too little too late from GW.
Yup the Gaunt’s ghost books are great.
But these are minis, not books…and you can use them in any game you want…
Can’t use them to read ?
Is it just me or is dan morphing into Terry Pratchett?
Gaunt’s ghosts is 40K Dirtydozen/Sharpe i think?
This right here- THIS is the true crown jewel of the Warhammer Fest announcements! Forget the vampires and giant centaur-thing, I want the Ghosts!
I love the books, but GWcan make a price, where I can hold me back. The sculpts are good, but I think that:
– Gaunt looks good, but his face should be longer.
– Bragg is waaay to small.
– Rawne shouldnt be that muscular.
– Not much to see, so not much to criticize about Larks.
– I would have imagined Corbec and Mkoll tge other way around…
– Where is Dorden, Domor, Varl, Caffran, Mkvenner, Milo, Bonin, Feygor and Brostin?
Now they leave me wanting more, more Tanith, Belladona etc. I want to field Gaunt’s Ghosts not just a handful of special characters!
Amazing minis and amazing paintjob!
Maybe i should finaly start reading the series…
Those are good looking miniatures but OG Gaunt’s Ghost miniatures had some female ones as well.
First of all, this set must be based on the very early novels. Both Corbec and Bragg are long dead. In most of the books Gaunt wields the relic blade of Heironymo Sondar, not a chainsword. I have the original set that I generally like better than this. The new Rawne and Mkoll are pretty good, but I prefer the older Larkin. Plus there is no Dorden, although he did die later on…
A shame the models don’t look like the art. These look quite silly, caricatures of soldiers in terrible ‘heroic’ poses.
This is what happens when you sprinkle MSG on your IG models.