I can easily see any faction performing well in the Gallowdark they’ll just need to adjust their strategy by, among other things, leaving their long-range snipers at home. But, while that game’s rules for terrain were essentially designed only for the factions that came in that specific box, this time around the rules are much more widely applicable. That makes Into the Dark similar to Kill Team’s most disastrous release: Pariah Nexus. then the newly formulated Citadel Shade Biel-tan Green over the top. Into the Dark is explicitly two-dimensional, so much so that it is literally against the rules to climb up and over the walls. However, Kill Team - like Games Workshop’s other small-unit skirmish games Necromunda and Warcry - is a very vertical game that uses multi-level terrain to encourage players to maneuver their troops off the beaten path. Into the Dark also grants some extra oomph to explosives and area-of-effect weapons. Some deal with opening and closing doors, while others modify how and when you can interrupt or fire during your opponent’s turn. There are plenty of new rules concerning the confined environment of the Gallowdark, however. That’s a good thing, in my opinion, as the core rules themselves are excellent. Just like the mysterious lost primarchs, founding fathers of the original Space Marine chapters, the new details in the sourcebook are lore gifts to hobbyists and kitbashers - open breaches in the larger universe that dedicated fans can fill in with their own creations.Īs far as the ruleset goes, outside of the units and perks, there aren’t any substantive changes to the general flow of play in Into the Dark. The included paperback sourcebook mentions several obscure races like the Fra’al and the Khrave, but there are also entirely new entities, called the Larvae of Silica and the Eclosions of the Metal, which are both described as “artificial species granted intelligence by their now extinct creators.” All four races are said to have “built settlements and waged wars across the Gallowdark” for millennia. The Breachers in particular are shockingly easy to paint, and they’re a great starting point for any newcomers to the hobby in your circle. Both the Imperial Navy Breachers and the Kroot Farstalker Kinband have lots of different options for poses and weapons. That invitation to tinker and modify extends to the miniatures in this kit as well. You could take this even further by creating a textured base, with holes at regular intervals for LED lighting - which would look just like the more interesting side of the included double-sided battle mat.
I also pasted on some cheeky in-fiction propaganda posters that I’ve been hanging on to for just such an occasion. Combined with a very high zenithal application of a silver metallic spray paint, I think it really conveys that muted, monochrome look of lighting up a pitch-black room with a flashlight. For Polygon’s build, I took a stab at airbrushing in some object source lighting - that is, painting in the reflection of light sources as they would naturally reflect off of surrounding surfaces. Photo: Charlie Hall/Polygonīut the terrain also rewards extra attention, especially for those looking to practice new skills. The extremely rough texture on these walls comes from a liberal undercoat of Rustoleum enamel. It makes them an absolute breeze to paint with rattle cans, and after that you’re just a wash away from being done. Each of the 16 wall sections comes pre-weathered, with dings, dents, and gouges already molded into the surface. Each wall section is festooned with skulls, naturally, but also with computer screens, cables, and all manner of grimdark industrial nick-nacks. What makes Into the Dark so special is the terrain, which portrays the labyrinthine corridors of the doomed starship in chunky gray polystyrene. This particular space hulk is called the Gallowdark, and Into the Dark takes place in a very small part of it, a human-made starship called Glory of Terra Triumphant. They can sometimes contain valuable treasures, but they’re also home to all manner of fell creatures, including Chaos Space Marines, Asuryani Eldar, and worse. These masses of derelict space ships, asteroids, and other debris blink in and out of reality, appearing seemingly at random all over the galaxy. Into the Dark takes place in a space hulk, of which there are many in the 40K universe.
Note that I didn’t write Space Hulk, the classic 1989 board game that pits Space Marine Terminators against Tyranid Genestealers.
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