Warhammer 40K’s big announcement has nothing to do with Space Marines

polygon.com:

Warhammer 40,000 spin-off game Necromunda is getting a massive new expansion called Necromunda: Ash Wastes. The announcement, made live from the Las Vegas Open tournament late Thursday night, was fairly vague, but that’s par for the course with Games Workshop. It could be a complete boxed set, a bunch of kits, a hardcover sourcebook, or some combination of all three. Whatever the plan, fans are thrilled at this long-awaited expansion to the cult favorite miniatures skirmish game. We’ve included the animated trailer above.

The original Necromunda game is a small-unit skirmish game that requires just a handful of models to play. It was released in the mid-’90s, and was supported by novels and even a magazine. The base game received a lavish reboot in 2017, and the setting writ large has since grown into one of the most exciting aspects of the Warhammer 40,000 hobby. There are several boxed sets with terrain, individual model kits, a series of sourcebooks, and even a fairly decent first-person shooter video game. But fans have been hoping for the Ash Wastes expansion to come back for some time.

Traditionally, the action in Necromunda takes place inside the towering hive city that goes by the same name, a kilometers-tall tower run by violent, heavily armed gangs. The Ash Wastes represent the rest of the surface of the planet. That’s where roving bands of nomads eke out a meager existence while massive armored convoys move from point to point.

It’s basically Mad Max in the year 40,000, and the community is stoked.

“I was freaking out, absolutely,” said Steve “Hivescum” Uden in an interview with Polygon. He and and Chris “Underhiver” Iddon are co-hosts of the Necromunda-themed podcast Sump City Radio. What’s shocked him the