Warmahordes - Iron Kingdoms Tabletop Games

News - new expansion is being funded for Warcaster Neo Mechanika, including a new faction, the Empyrean

News - Privateer Press is holding a kickstarter drive for setting books compatible with 5th edition d&d

Ooooh, that could be very interesting~

...and the results are in with 594k in funding

I'll probably wait for their Unleashed equivalent, if that's coming. One of the main points of appeal to the setting for me is the dichotomy between warcasters/jacks and warlocks/beasts.

I wonder if Neo-Mechanika will ever get a faction that uses mega space monsters...

Fair enough, out of curiosity what sort of factions would you add of you were with the developers?

The original flavor already has the popular Tyranid/Bug/Zerg archetype of the alien horde that devours everything in its way and uses to grow more monsters in the Everblight so don't know if they would use that again.

Hard to say. I think a futuristic Everblight could be interesting, but they could lean in a more Simic Combine direction than Tyranids, emphasizing that the monsters are engineered. (Shades of Evangelion here, too, maybe?)

I'm not sure how closely they want to mirror the past factions, because they could also try something like the Trollbloods, where the "warjacks" are actually huge dudes in power armor. (Might evoke the Zentradi, which wouldn't be the worst reference.)

Perhaps a faction where the warbeasts are actually in charge - titanic beings with strange powers and armies of thralls. That might require different rules, though, I don't know.

I wonder of toruk would survive here in this game as sort of elderich abomination, is near one already in the original game.

Well Anthancs are pretty much indestructible, about the closest any thing got is the Chimera and that just made him a crazy mutant so Toruk could be floating around somewhere

To lean into the sciency direction, I suggested - it could be a Weyland-Yutani situation where some sinister space faction has Toruk in their possession but doesn't understand his nature. They make monsters from his flesh, unaware that he's corrupting and manipulating them from within.

That sound way more as everblight who body horror and creepy creature are his fortress......

how much everblight show up with a alien expy?

Oh, that's embarrassing. I'd somehow gotten Toruk and Everblight mixed up!

Yeah, Toruk seems more like an Evil Space Empire sort, doesn't he?

For what I see....yeah, Toruk just show up one day and wreck stuff, he is pretty much your typical space emperor who decide to divided himself and them it found out he didnt like it, which is hilarious.

I have a headcanon that toruk come from space but that is just me.

It might be interesting if Toruk were brought low somehow, like sealed, controlled, or enslaved by a space empire, and Everblight were trying to free him, with some ambiguity over whether their relationship has changed over thousands of years, or if Everblight just wants to kill him personally.

Blight and Spawning are pretty much standard dragon powers (makes me wonder if anyone on the team ever read Chronicles Of The Dragon Knights). The Satyxis were created when Toruk ripped open a dragon over their isles for example - so he could be having fun at playing at being Palpatine, corrupting the heart of an empire for ultimate power.

Now the Aeternus Continuum with science fiction Necromancy and mysterious leadership would be prime candidate for Cryx version 2.0.

Edited by jormis29 on Feb 18th 2021 at 3:45:24 AM

Idle question because I'm bored and curious - if you had to give one Hordes faction a warcaster and a line of warjacks, and one Warmachine faction a warlock and some warbeasts, where would you put them?

My first thought would be to give Skorne the caster - as a vast empire, they'd have the resources to build warjacks, and they'd probably have an interesting aesthetic. Spiky samurai?

Cryx could get the warlock, with some squids and sharkmen to fight alongside the pirates.

https://home.privateerpress.com/2021/06/04/this-is-not-a-keynote/

Apparently the Iron Kingdoms is getting a new faction next year.

Scroll a bit past the end and you'll find that its the Orgoth.

I've always thought the Orgoth were a fascinating part of the IK backstory and am happy to see them getting fleshed out in the current timeline.

Considering they're a huge part of the backstory, not surprised myself.

Found the Hordes rulebook for $8 at a used bookstore. I'm confused, I thought Warmahordes models were all pre-painted, hence the price. Wasn't expecting to see painting guides in the book.

Im because they said they wont do that and they didnt want to use the ogroth so they kinda backtrack on that, probably predictable.

Some gorgeous new models revealed for the Orgoth. Haven't actually played either game, but I've long enjoyed the design for the minis in Warmachine and Hordes.

https://home.privateerpress.com/2022/03/16/orgoth-reveal-reference/

Edited by Mara999 on Mar 20th 2022 at 8:41:05 PM

Yeah, I don't have spare money to get one or even someone to play with in my country even if I am able to get one, but I always like the design of their minis and I think it's worth buying them even if it's just for collection.

They are serious about adding Orgoth, huh? And back then, they always go: "We won't add Orgoth. Adding them means that we are jumping the shark or something."

They look good, but I expect something more outlandish or doom reavers on steroid the faction at least, considering all the shillings the backstories gave to them.

For me at least, the Orgoth look like a steampunk in-between state of Chaos Warriors and Chaos Space Marines. While I know pretty much nothing about the Warmahordes setting, the miniatures have always been really cool and put the gears in my head into motion. Since these guys remind me of Chaos Warriors with steampunk tech, they also make me imagine an alternate version of the Old World from Warhammer, where they have advanced from a Reneissance-equivalent into a fantasy-version of the late 18th century.

The Orgoth do indeed look good. I just wish that they look more outlandish since they come from a different continent outside Immoren. Not to mention that they have been lauded as masters of dark magic and have forged blades formed from screaming pile of souls in eternal torment (or at least have screaming faces on them I kinda forget) that drive their wielders into murder frenzy. At the current lineup, using Digimon as an analogy, if Skorne is Greymon, the Orgoth look just like Metal Skorne/Greymon.

Privateer Press do at least have said that Orgoth is that world's version of Vikings in the past, so I really should have also tempered my expectations there.

Steampunk Chaos Warriors aren't that bad I guess.

Edited by SteamKnight on Mar 20th 2022 at 4:10:11 PM

one of the first thing the Orgoth did was to hang on woman and children with their hair, yeah they are pretty much warmachine chaos warriors.

And really, you can do a crossover between warhammer and warmachine pretty fine: Khador as Kislev, Skorne to Druchii(More or less) and so on and on.