The Carcass Front awaits!
We’re incredibly excited to announce Trench Crusade’s biggest project to date! Introducing our first starter set and supplement box: Carcass Front.
The ever-restless armies of Hell stir once more in the benighted lands beyond New Antioch known as the Carcass Front. Everywhere signs show the return of Leviathan is nigh. Warbands of the Faithful and Fallen gather to fulfill the Prophecy of Leviathan in the hope of mankind’s salvation, or to complete its damnation.
Carcass Front is packed with exciting new content for Trench Crusade. The core of the Carcass Front box is its Campaign book, which features two exciting campaigns to play through, as well as lots of spectacular new lore and art and revamped rules for two fan favourite warbands. This is accompanied by brand new plastic warband sets as well as gaming accessories.
Carcass Front is now available for pre-order, and will be arriving in stores in late July.
Pre-order Now!New fighters join the fray!
Let’s start with the minis. Carcass Front brings two long-awaited warbands to the battlefields of Trench Crusade: the blighted warriors of the Procession of the Sacred Affliction and the murderous Heretic Naval Raiders. These miniatures will be included in the box as full, ready-to-play, 700 Ducat Warbands, and each model comes with up to two assembly options. You can follow the included guides to build one of the examples listed or choose from a selection of weapons, equipment, and head swaps to create your own!
The Carcass Front box will contain 16 miniatures in total. We’ll be revealing more of them in the months running up to the release, but until then, here is a sneak peek at the first few…
The Heretic Naval Raiders
The Heretic Naval Raiders are known for their ruthlessness and brutality. Well trained and equipped, they stalk the shores like cruel predators, waiting for the perfect opportunity to burst across the battlefield with blinding speed and a seemingly endless number of bullets, each inscribed with runes of blasphemy.
The Heretic Naval Raiders are well suited to players who can leverage their smaller model count by using their enhanced mobility and infiltrating prowess to seek advantageous positions, luring their prey into a deadly hail of gunfire and wicked blades.
The Procession of the Sacred Affliction
The Procession of the Sacred Affliction are amongst the Faithful’s most resilient and zealous fighters. Protected by unwavering faith and blessed icons, each and every Leper-Pilgrim can shrug off lethal wounds long enough to drown their foes in the mud with the millstones tied to their backs.
The Procession of the Sacred Affliction is perfect for players who want to take the fight directly to the heretics with blade and holy fire in large numbers, leaping across trenches and ignoring lethal blows to send the denizens of hell back from whence they came.
The Campaigns
Both of the box’s campaigns are set in a hitherto unexplored area of the Trench Crusade world map: the Carcass Front, which is the name given to the war-torn lands to the north of New Antioch.
Carcass Front’s 2-player narrative campaign, The Path to Leviathan, is a conflict that will shape the next chapter in the Trench Crusade saga.
An ancient evil stirs under the blood-tinged waters of the Carrion Coast: will you slay Leviathan and feast upon its flesh, or unleash it to wreak horror and destruction on mankind?
Carcass Front also features a map-based campaign for 2-8 players that will see Warbands battle over the resources and esoteric secrets of the Carcass Front.
This campaign includes various new mechanics, ensuring that no two campaigns will ever be the same.
The ideal starter set
The Carcass Front box is full of brand new content for veteran players, but is also a great place to begin if you’re new to Trench Crusade!
The set contains most of what you need to dive straight in, including two opposing Warbands and their ready-to-play lists. Carcass Front also includes introductory rules and simple instructions to help get you started quickly and easily.
How do I get it?
Carcass Front is now available for pre-order on our web store, and will be shipping in late July. For all of our Crusaders in North America and the UK, note that we will have local logistics hubs in place by the time Carcass Front releases so your orders will no longer be subject to import tariffs.
Pre-order nowDistributors and stores, you’ll be receiving all the relevant info from your suppliers very soon.
It’s safe to say that as our first big box, Carcass Front is a very exciting new step for us here at Trench Crusade. What started as a Stretch Goal for our Kickstarter campaign has transformed into an incredibly ambitious project that we’ve been working on for the best part of a year with some of wargaming’s most illustrious veterans, including (but not limited to!) Tuomas Pirinen, Andy Chambers and Jervis Johnson on design, Mike Franchina, Pedro Nunez, Artem Demura and Thomas Elliott on art, and lore by Tuomas Pirinen and Graham McNeill.
We are incredibly excited to show you more about Carcass Front including the remaining models, a preview of the campaign systems, and more over the next few months leading up to the general release!
Additionally, Carcass Front is more than a one off release. It’s the first step in the yearly schedule we’re building up to that will mix miniature releases with events, organised play and the evolving story of the world of Trench Crusade! We’ll talk more about that later but, first things first, Leviathan awaits…