The Tragedy of Rust
“For days they drifted through the darkness of Swill. The Dregg crew writhing like rats below deck of the oil slick
scab-steamer. Locked in his cabin, Vaine sobbed into ledgers of sale, counting the slow tick tock minutes until the
welcome home of his old town fog came rolling in.
Rattling in the hold, a pompous collection of ingenuity, metal and death belched smoke in legion. Warming their
cold pig iron, wrought iron hulls in the furnace fires of the psychopomp riverboat.”
Bargains of the Pit: Until now, Swill has existed only in
the dying whispers of strange travellers. They fatally wheeze
sorry memories of the abyss, of warring factory warrens and
of inventions inconceivable to the turnip mind. Dark clouds
gather over Cist. Mechanically written letters, dropped by
foul birds, call out to the most foolhardy Regiments. “Make
the perilous descent into the dark, and strike up a contract
with the Factory Cults of Swill”.
When building your Regiment you may take 1 Scab
Tank as a Follower unit. This Tank must be equipped
with Devastation Shells.
A Metal Tomb: If you wish you may weld your Toff
inside a Scab Tank. If you do, replace your Toff with a
Scab Tank. This additional tank counts still counts as a
Toff and a Snob, but may no longer give orders.
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Scab Tank (1 Model)
Base Size: 50mm/150mm *
Corpulent maggots working as one squabbling
organism. The Scab Tank revs into gear.
M A I W V
6” 5 6+ 3 4+
* Tank Bases: Scab Tanks are unique in that they
do not require bases. To use a tank without a
base, its hull must roughly fit within the basing
limitations above. If a tank does not have a base,
measure from the tank’s hull instead, ignoring any
guns, spikes or other small details.
A Scab Tank can either be equipped with
Devastation Shells or a Death Trap Prototype.
h Devastation Shells (Weapon’s Range: 18”)
The player rolls three shooting attack dice.
Any hits cause 2 wounds to the target unit.
These wounds cannot be prevented by a
Vulnerability roll.
Devastation Shells do not create powder smoke
tokens.
h Death Trap Prototypes: A tank equipped with
a prototype may choose one of the prototype
weapons from the list on the following page. A
tank may only be equipped with one prototype
weapon and may not switch between them or
devastation shells during the game.
Impenetrable Armour: A tank automatically
passes all vulnerability rolls unless it has 3 panic
tokens.
Unstable Icon: Scab Tanks have the Unstable Icon
special rule.
Far Worse Horrors: The sights of Swill have
burned themselves forever your minds.
Units you control can only ever have a maximum
of 3 panic tokens each.
 Prototypes
The infamous Yarg IV boasted improved fire power, excellent acceleration and unfortunate propensity to suck its crew into
the engine when put in reverse.
Prototype Weapons: Players may either
choose or randomly pick their prototype.
h Hecatomb Howitzer: Immolation cannisters
conduct an orchestra of bubbling flesh as explosions
of fire scourge the foes of the Hecatomb Howitzer.
(Weapon’s Range: 18”)
Roll a shooting attack dice for every model
in the enemy unit. Any hits cause 1 wound.
These wounds cannot be prevented by a
Vulnerability roll.
For every hit place a flame token within 1” of
the enemy unit, and not within 1” of any other
unit.
Flame Tokens: Flame tokens use a 25mm
round base. Flame tokens once placed are
treated as Dangerous Terrain. You may only
place a maximum of ten flame tokens.
If flame tokens cannot be placed for any
reason, they are not.
h Ichorjet Beam Cannon: The high pressure
stream of the Ichorjet cuts a bloody swathe through
the enemy, slicing through flesh, iron and stone.
(Weapon’s Range: Infinite)
Pressurise the Cannon: Before shooting the
Ichorjet Beam Cannon, a player may roll up to
5 dice as if they were making a shooting attack
to increase the pressure of the cannon.
The Pressure of the Cannon starts at 1 at the
start of every shooting engagements and every
hit increases the pressure of the cannon by 1.
Any Rolls of a 1 are subject to the Unstable
Icon rule.
Firing the Cannon: Draw an imaginary,
infinitely long line stretching from the barrel
of the tank to the edge of the board. ANY unit
crossed by this line suffer wounds equal to the
pressure of the cannon. These wounds cannot
be prevented by a Vulnerability roll.
h Coaxel Punch Guns: Terrifying tandem
machine guns click into motion as filing Scabs
nervously feed targeting instructions via belts of
punch cards.
(Weapon’s Range: 18”)
Roll 6 shooting attack dice for every panic
token this unit has. Any hits cause 1 wound.
These wounds cannot be prevented by a
Vulnerability roll.
Pollinator Leech Gauntlets: Twisting metal
fingers reach out to inject the warmachine’s prey
with virulent propagators. Enemies and Friend alike
bloom and collapse before their mulchy remains
are harvested into a whirring mouth built into the
centre of the tank.
The Tank is considered to be equipped with
Close Combat Weapons.
Increase the Attack (A) of this unit by 2.
Cultivation: Whenever you fight a melee
bout, before any dice have been rolled, you
may remove ANY number of friendly models
within 12” of this tank to increase its attacks by
3 for each model removed this way.
h Lepidoptera Bio Duster: Soaring over the
battlefield on leathery sails, the feather light engine
releases extermination clouds of microscopic needle
hairs into the wind.
(Weapon’s Range: 18”)
Roll a shooting attack dice for every inch this
model moved this order. Any hits cause 1
wound. These wounds cannot be prevented by
a Vulnerability roll.
Increase the Movement (M) of this unit to 12”
Soaring Terror: A Scab Tank equipped with
this prototype has the Fly special rule.