​Free Update – Patch 1.12.0 out now! Skitarii later today     ​

Warband!We’ve just released a major new update, containing tons of changes and fixes, alongside some new enemies! The long-awaited Skitarii DLC class release later today, as will a new live event to go along with it!Special Live Event: Heretical Artifacts – 14:00 CESTThe Admonition have been sighted gathering relics and sacred effigies and doing…unnatural things to them. Strike teams have been tasked with retrieving these stolen artifacts and returning them to Tertium’s clerics.Starting from later today, at 14:00 CEST, players can participate in the event by joining missions with the ‘Relics in Ruins’ modifier to recover relics from the cultists. Once back in the Mourning Star, visit Sire Melk to deliver your recovered relics, and choose which faction to give them to.The Adherents of Saint Messelina, which will bestow players with an increased coherency radius, alongside boosted attack and movement speed. The Scourge of the Faithless, which endows players with increased damage, burn damage and burn duration.Participating in the event will reward players with Ordo Dockets, Plasteel, Diamantine, and this brand new Portrait Frame!EnemiesNew enemies: Scab & Dreg VanguardsA new threat approaches…Human melee bruisers equipped with breakable shields, these new enemies will bolster the enemy hordes and make them tougher to crack!The Scab variant is equipped with a harder more durable shield that will last longer, but comes in more scarce numbers, while their Dreg equivalents are more numerous but only equipped with scrappy handmade shields that are more prone to breakingEven without the shield, these vanguards are stronger than their non-shielded counterparts. Balance Changes:As part of our ongoing balance commitment continuing on from the previous reduction to Ogryn enemies (and at the time, specifically the Crusher), with the release of the Vanguards we’ve reduced the amounts of Bulwarks throughout the missions.PackmasterThe Packmasters have moved beyond the wastes of Atoma to reinforce their brethren in TertiumPackmasters will now appear outside of Expeditions, across the other gamemodes starting from Heresy level difficulty and up.Improved mobility: the Packmasters will now have an easier time keeping up with a retreating playerThe amount of Pox Hounds spawned with the Packmaster has been changed to be based on the difficulty, with an increase of the armoured version at higher difficulty levels.Plasma Gun Mk IIIA brand new Mark has been added to the Plasma Gun, the Mk III! Available to the Veteran class and the (releasing today!) Skitarii class, this Plasma Gun variant has less focus on piercing through enemies in favor of devastating explosive power. Give it a try!Expeditions UpdateThis update also sees an injection of new content into the Expeditions game mode, as well as various quality of life changes and reworks of certain systems!New time of day: DawnNew Expeditions level content, including:New Scavenge ZoneNew Sites of Interes