In a world ravaged by warfare, fury is your greatest weapon.
In HORDES, even the earth trembles as towering warbeasts born to fight and trained to kill hurl themselves at their foes in a frenzy of claw and fang that churns the battlefield into a writhing sea of carnage. Within the bloody fog of war, their battle leaders seize this unbridled rage and from it forge momentous weapons to wield against their enemies, knowing only the strongest, fastest, and most cunning will survive.
Through careful excruciation, training, and the administration of certain drugs, beast handlers craft these titans into the mighty sentries. Their skulls are hard as stone, weapons unto themselves. Armed with shield and halberd, the massive titan sentries can withstand punishing damage before retaliating in a flurry of crushing blows. Those who come too close find themselves quailing before the enormous creatures, barely able to move as the sentry brings its mighty weapons to bear.
Throughout the eerie bogs and marshes of western Immoren lurk voracious swamp trolls, waiting and watching. Hidden just below the surface of the shallow waters, a swamp troll waits for its prey to wander within range of its enormous, sticky tongue. At the critical moment it leaps forward, flicking its tongue with deadly accuracy and alarming strength to drag the meal into its voluminous gullet.
Some of the most learned trollkin runescribes choose to accompany their leaders into battle. Carrying the sacred tablets of their kriel, runebearers are capable of amplifying the Dhunian gifts of trollkin warlocks. The glyphs glow as the runebearer speaks them aloud, easing their warlock’s use of their fury-driven prayers and sorcery.
Dragged from beneath the hardened ground of the Bloodstone Marches, razor worms are frightening and voracious monsters. The worms are difficult to track as they burrow through solid rock or the tangled roots of dense terrain. Under the direction of skorne warlocks, the razor worms bore through the surface earth of the battlefield, erupting from the ground as a nightmare of hungry teeth and piercing spines. Those they attack are dragged below the earth and consumed whole, their screams cut short by the choking earth.
The escalation of war has provided many windfalls for the kriels. Among these are certain dangerous and explosive chemicals, which though unsuitable for use as gunpowder have been put to other uses. The trollkin have begun arming some of the more cunning dire trolls with barrels of these chemicals to heave at the enemy. The explosions bother the resilient trolls little and wreak terrible damage upon their foes.
Privateer Press is proud to present the updated HORDES model rules. These rules are the culmination of countless hours of collecting feedback from the HORDES field test as well as continuing internal efforts and represent the new tournament legal rules for using HORDES models in both competitive and casual play.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the HORDES Mk II field test.
For this holiday edition of the HORDES Field Test update, we have included the full model lineup with all changes to date. We've come a long way and are on track to make HORDES Mk II a huge success. Thanks for all your input thus far. Keep on playing and sending in your feedback reports!
Along with the recent announcement of extending the HORDES Mk II Field Test, we are also posting an update for your continued testing and feedback. These model rules replace any previous versions of the same models. We will continue to listen to your feedback and continue our development and playtesting, so keep on playing and sending in your feedback reports!
The Field Test has been extended until January 17th at midnight, Pacific Time.
We will continue to provide updates as available.
This method of working through our updates while continuing to receive relevant feedback has extended the useful life of the field test.
Please continue to provide your feedback, thanks!
