Warhammer 40k’s co-op shooter Darktide returns to the land of plastic and resin in a new skirmisher

Warhammer’s militarised science fiction and fantasy worlds have been outsourced to dozens of different video games over the past decade, resulting in both dubious stinkers but also smash hits such as Total War: Warhammer and the Vermintide series. But it’s exceedingly rare that the video games filter back to the tabletop, which makes Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s upcoming miniatures skirmish box that much more surprising. Announced on the Warhammer Community page on April 22nd, Darktide: The Miniatures Game transmutes the setting, plot and characters of Fatshark’s cooperative action shooter video game into a mission-based tabletop experience for up to four players as they mow down Chaos hordes and hunt traitorous holdouts within the hive city of Tertium. If you’ve not played the video game, the premise is fairly simple: the Guardsmen of Tertium have gone rogue, and the Imperium has dispatched four very expendable, press-ganged prisoners to bring them to justice. Players take control of either the Veteran, the Zealot, the Ogryn or the Psyker and wade through hordes of enemies to accomplish the impossible. Read more