Lieutenant Titus has had an extended unusual journey, even for an enormous, alien-stomping genetically enhanced non secular zealot. He’s gone from being the star of the surprisingly-solid House Marine online game over a decade a go, to rising from obscurity and throughout the rubicon Primaris for its shock upcoming sequel. And now, eventually, he’s going to the tabletop that impressed him.
To go along with some new gameplay footage from House Marine II revealed yesterday as a part of Video games Workshop’s very personal gaming information occasion, the tabletop miniatures maker additionally confirmed that Titus could be getting his very personal Warhammer miniature to headline House Marine: The Video Recreation: The Board Recreation.
It’s the primary time that Titus—demoted from Captain to Lieutenant after the occasions of the primary recreation, and now upgraded into the even-more-enhanced Primaris House Marine gene template—has really had a devoted miniature in Warhammer, and at first he’ll be difficult to get. As an alternative of a normal launch for 40K, Titus will star in a particular boxed board recreation that may solely out there beginning within the US at Goal, earlier than being launched elsewhere internationally. Titus himself will then finally be launched as a standalone miniature for avid gamers to both show or use him as a traditional Primaris Lieutenant in their House Marine armies.
House Marine: The Board Recreation, very like House Marine (the online game) will face Titus off as a lone warrior in opposition to a swarm of twenty-two Tyranid miniatures—a number of Termagants, and two ripper swarms—the place as a substitute your capacity to roll cube effectively will determine his survival, moderately than how effectively you may smash a gamepad.
House Marine: The Board Recreation is ready to hit Goal cabinets within the close to future, whereas House Marine II is scheduled for a launch someday later this 12 months.
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