Warhammer 40,000: Darktide has done a lot to turn right its course and set itself up for some long term success, with a few reinventions and some very ambitious system redesigns – but the one space that the game had yet to dominate was the tabletop.
Well, consider that wrong to be sufficiently righted – as Games Workshop has now announced a tabletop version of the hit video game:
It’s kind of brilliant really, Games Workshop letting their IP come full circle and roost right at home alongside all of the other products that form the estranged family of Darktide. A bit like an inspirative ouroboros devouring it’s own tail – only with a price tag and plastic miniatures.
For the cynics out there, I do need to stress that Game Workshop has a respectable history when it comes to packaged game experiences away from their usual game systems – netting the buyer a fairly tight standalone experience that sheds a lot of the baggage and stress of the bigger army-based stuff. So consider me both tickled at the premise, and interested to see how it turns out. My only real beef is the terrible miniature they have packaged to represent the Zealot – in game, the Zealot is a vengeful basher of craniums, not a fire wielding loony with a goofy headdress. But, as somewhat of a hobby wizard myself – nothing I can’t fix.
As for the premise of buying a real-life version of Darktide to play with mates – it’s got some real Street Fighter™: The Movie: The Game energy to it. Maybe Warhammer 40,000: Darktide – The Videogame: The Tabletop Experience?
Might need another round in the think tank.
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Known throughout the interwebs simply as M0D3Rn, Ash is bad at video games. An old guard gamer who suffers from being generally opinionated, it comes as no surprise that he is both brutally loyal and yet, fiercely whimsical about all things electronic. On occasion will make a youtube video that actually gets views. Follow him on YouTube @Bad at Video Games
