Hearthkyn Miniatures Revealed For 40K’s Leagues Of Votann
June 21, 2022 by brennon
We got a much better look at the Leagues Of Votann from Games Workshop this week! This time around, they previewed the Hearthkyn that will be making up the core of your Leagues Of Votann armies on the battlefield in Warhammer 40,000.
Hearthkyn Warriors // Warhammer 40,000
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The Hearthkyn are kin that can be drawn from all portions of society in order to fight for the Leagues. They undergo martial training to be able to fight for their Holds when they are needed to do so. It reminds me somewhat of the Guardians that are called to fight in Aeldari society.
Each of these Warriors is often engineered with cloneskeins that allow them to specialise in certain elements of combat whilst others augment themselves with bionic limbs and such to make them quicker and stronger.
Hearthkyn Warriors // Warhammer 40,000
As we've seen in previous previews, the Ironkin also walk into battle alongside their flesh and blood allies amongst the Leagues. They fight just as hard and are seen as invaluable amongst the other Kin. I absolutely love that and hope they get to be mixed in and around the other members of your Hearthkyn squads.
Leading the way for each squad of ten-to-twenty warriors are the Theyns. They can utilise more exotic weapons like Concussion Gauntlets and Plasma Axes/Swords. Importantly, not Power! It will be interesting to see what the qualities are on those.
Hearthkyn Warriors Details // Warhammer 40,000
There are, of course, also a bunch of special weapons included as part of this kit like the L7 Missile Launcher or the EtaCarn Plasma Beamer. How about a Magna-Rail Rifle? You can also play around with Ion Blasters and HYLas Auto-Rifles if you fancy. I don't know what any of those do but they sound awesome.
This new kit has pretty much sold me on the Leagues Of Votann. I am loving the designs and I think I would keep pretty much all of them without their helmets on. I think the character they've worked into the faces is suitably Dwarven and give off proper retro Squat vibes. I think these folks would look awesome painted with orange armour and black undersuits.
It will be fun to see what's next for the Leagues Of Votann and when that brand new boxed set comes out!
What do you think?
"I think these folks would look awesome painted with orange armour and black undersuits..."
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They look cool. I think the style suits them. My only problem is the female heads – they look silly on male bodies.
Under all that armour, I don’t think you could tell. Seem decent enough to me for Dwarven ladies and fellas.
You have to look between the legs to tell. Anatomy 101.
Also, the wokeness of the sculpts is appalling.
“Wokeness of the sculpts”? If you’re referring to the fact the bodies all look alike surely that’s a good thing, we’ve already got overly sexualised females in the likes of Sororitas and some guard surely having a more egalitarian look is preferable over a female kin in skintight form-fitting armour next to a male in what is essentially terran power armour from starcraft
Well, you got me there – the hyper-sexuality of those beat these all day.
Anyway, have a swell day – don’t forget to eat yer haggis.
There’s a question to be asked here – I don’t have a universal answer. If you want “female representation” in miniature wargaming, does it need to look like a female and does just switching the head out achieve the goal? If you can’t tell that a model is female without picking it up and looking at the face, does that model’s inclusion in an army achieve the goal that you want it to achieve? Sisters of Battle might have features that you find unrealistic or exaggerated (as do the Space Marines) but those exaggerated features make it immediately apparent exactly… Read more »
I think female representation is a good thing it obviously makes it more inclusive and opens it up to a broader audience but, I think it’s also important to make sure that it’s appropriate to the lore and mythos of the faction they’re representing, I think in this particular instance simply swapping a head out DOES achieve the requisite goal, from what we’ve seen thus far they are a far more equality orientated society than the Imperium and it makes sense they would wear the same as their male and robotic counterparts, if they did this with Space Marines I… Read more »
You can’t really tell that there is a man under all that armor either, the suits aren’t exacty form-fitting.
They’re “non-binary”, obviously!
Maybe they are…crikey. Maybe lay off. We get it, you don’t like them.
How are we supposed to imagine that there is a woman under the functional and rugged militarized mining suits if the suits don’t have tits?!?!
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Those look really good.
After seeing a size comparison using the squats, I have officially lost all interest in both of these lines.
Was going to get them for stargrave forces. However, they aren’t dwarven at all. They are basically human sized really wide people. I’m not interested bulky puggy humans.
Well yes, they’re genetically modified humans, not dwarfs so it makes sense.
Well, unless they have significantly changed the lore, they weren’t GM Humans. They were humans that, having lived on high gravity worlds for thousands of years had evolved into shorter, more compact humanoids. So the lore did always say they were shorter, they just weren’t called Space Dwarfs.
Scale creep has been a thing in GW Miniatures for a long time, which is probably why they’re the size they are.
As it turns out, they did significantly change the lore, but also the “early GW” look of dwarfs as literal blobs with tiny legs would look wildly out of place after nearly 30 years.
Haha, these guys looking at their wristwatches like they’ve got somewhere better to be and should’ve left already.
Not interested at all. GW should… squat them?
They’ed make a great squad of tooled up miners for fighting off an attack on the complex.
What complex?
The mine complex where they work.
cool minis
they’re not space dwarves
it’s got no beard
it’s not a dwarf
everyone knows dwarfs love their beards
and their beards love dwarves
even their women have beards …
I think they look awesome, first 40k army that I’m excited for in a long time. For some reason they remind me of tiny AT-43 Karman’s, could just be the colour scheme but they were ostensibly eggs with legs too.
Can’t wait to see more, that’s one thing GW do well these days is flesh out their lines.
I dig it. Looking forward to having at least a few boxes in hand to mess around with
I’m already trying to decide which ones to paint as a Scout/Gunner/Driller/Engineer
Honestly, they’re one of the better executed ideas GW had in a long while. I quite like the nods to admech castellan bots in the ironkin, and the no-nonsense armor, seeing as they’re as close to Dark age of Technology humans as we’re going to get. They’re all short king/queen clones, and yet it’s the imperium that’s more inhuman.
In and of themselves I like them but they don’t really say 40k to me.
I still might pick up a box or a sprue at some point but for other games.