Warhammer Fest introduces new 40K Kill Team, Chaos Marines, squats, and more

polygon.com:

Games Workshop’s Warhammer Fest Online has been running all this week, and concludes with even more big reveals on Saturday. The interstitial event — streamed live on Twitch for about an hour each day — includes all manner of new models and products for virtually every single game and franchise that the British company produces. The biggest reveals, however, arrived for marquee franchises Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer: Age of Sigmar.

The event effectively sets the tone for the next six months, an important period for the hobby games industry that spans the summer convention circuit and sets up for the holiday season. Here’s a rundown of the most important announcements made so far.

The Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team: Moroch boxed set includes some fantastic-looking traitor soldiers. The set echoes the design of the Guardsman included in Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress and adds a Commissar (a leader unit) and an Ogryn — a mutated, ogrelike close combat unit. Presenters said they’ll handle a bit like the Death Korps of Krieg included in the critically acclaimed reboot Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team: Octarius. The opposing force is a Space Marine Phobos Strike Team, an existing set of models that will be included here with an all-new upgrade sprue.

Prospectors — independent excavators working in the wastes of Necromunda — were introduced in passing with the new Necromunda: Ash Wastes Rulebook. On Friday, Games Workshop finally revealed the first full set of units to fill that role and, surprise, surprise, they’re squats.

This new warband for Necromunda marks the first appearance of a full unit of squats. However, presenters were quick to note that these particular squats are not actually related to the recently announced