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It's not entirely certain. They're some sort of horror coming out of the ruins of Hive Secundus, so presumably a Necromunda-specific Genestealer Cult-ish gang. But that doesn't really clarify much - are they a bit more personable than generic Cults? A bit less cultist? A bit more horde of creepy monsters? A revamp of the "Scavvies & Scalies" aligned to new lore?
It's not yet known.
But the Malstrain get a lot of mentions in the third Succession book. Heck, they're more antagonist to the plot than the actual A vs B factions. (Or vs C, or vs D, where C is Ash Wastes Nomad and D are dwarfs [ahem, Ironhead Prospectors].)
That sounds really interesting. I could see, given the lore, a genestealer cult that won their revolution. Took control only to have their Hive destroyed and isolated. I could imagine post revolution ukraine during famine vibes or the red guatd cultital revolution mixed in with post apocalyptic survivalism plus alien blood. Actually with that background you don't even need to imagine yhe post apocalyptic survivalism.
Wait, didn`t that already kind of happen in the old lore? Wasn`t there a hive city that was completely taken over by genestealer infestation and then sealed off from the outside? Are they just expanding on that? Or am I just hallucinating?
That's a thing, it's the reason for the dust wall, if I recall correctly.
The Malstrain genestealer cult are also the antagonists in the new Apocrypha Necromundus article/scenario over on Warhammer Community.
In my mind Malstrain would be the opposite of purestrain. Hideously mutated genestealer hybrids. Mal basically just means 'bad' as a prefix, so if purestrain are non genetically 'pure' genestealers, then malstrain should be mutant hybrids, or perhaps mutated purestrains, and their attendant cultists. Perhaps like the genestealer/scavvies.
That could be. Mutations don’t have to be caused by the influence of chaos. Toxic environment can do it too.
Maybe they’re bringing “back” those weird old combinations like mutant genestealers, chaos orks, etc?
Maybe they’re bringing “back” those weird old combinations like mutant genestealers, chaos orks, etc?
I mean, somebody does have to wash all the grime and gore off the vehicles between battles, unless you want to look like a John Blanche painting for five seconds before breaking down at the side of the grimdark road because a pureéd ork is stuck in the holy carburetor intake.
Ok, those are awesome while not being very Warhammery... Didn't think I needed anymore GW plastic but now...
They get new treemen? But not wood Elf or halfling. Already have 2 of the previous 
But they look fun. Only worry is they add too much crazy and there are already a lot of stunts teams. They seem to get a lot of cool skills too that other teams don't, perhaps because of ST1 and/or super low armour.
But they look fun. Only worry is they add too much crazy and there are already a lot of stunts teams. They seem to get a lot of cool skills too that other teams don't, perhaps because of ST1 and/or super low armour.
Gnomes are on page 218 of the WFB 3rd Edition rulebook and page 107 of 3rd Ed. Warhammer Armies. Mentioned as smaller relatives of Dwarfs AFAIK, they never got any models.
I stand corrected...
These never made into the red catalogue and never saw ads for them in White Dwarf the early 90s, when 3rd Edition was still around - first issue I got was #131 and don't see them in older back issues from #99+. Were these ported into the slotted base range?
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