Description
Bio-Mechanical Savagery: Chaos Space Marines Mutilators
Heavy gunlines and fortified defensive bastions often pin down advancing Chaos infantry before your forces can engage in hand-to-hand combat. Conventional assault troops can struggle against elite terminators and towering war constructs. The Chaos Space Marines Mutilators resolve this tactical challenge by bypassing the firing line altogether, deep-striking into the enemy’s backfield to unleash pure, adaptive carnage.
Consumed by the techno-virus that birthed their ranged Obliterator kin, Mutilators have completely merged flesh, machine, and warp essence. They stride across the battlefield as living siege engines, capable of manifesting whatever crushing, rending, or cleaving armaments are required to tear the foe to pieces.
Tabletop Linebreaking & Twisted Warp Features
1. Fleshmetal Mutation: Adapting to Any Target
The hallmark of the Mutilators is their horrifying ability to mutate organic metal on command. Rather than relying on a static weapons loadout, their limbs twist and morph in real time:
- Chainfists & Power Claws: Slice through vehicle armor plating and shatter heavy infantry shields.
- Power Axes & Heavy Mauls: Deliver concussive, high-strength bludgeoning blows capable of leveling monstrous creatures and enemy warlords.
2. Teleport Shock Assault
Equipped with warp-infused teleportation transponders, a unit of Chaos Space Marines Mutilators can deploy in reserve and drop directly into contested sectors. By materializing within close assault range, they bypass perimeter fields and immediately apply heavy pressure to fragile support units, artillery batteries, and key objective markers.
3. Grotesque Body-Horror Centerpiece
For hobbyists and painters, these miniatures embody the horrific visual identity of the Heretic Astartes. Covered in bulging muscle, mutated cords of exposed cabling, segmented plates, and fused daemon-faces, each Mutilator offers an exceptional canvas for painting weathering effects, glowing power blades, and necrotic flesh tones.
Technical Specifications & Kit Contents
- Product Type: Multi-part resin / Citadel Finecast miniature squad
- Faction: Heretic Astartes / Chaos Space Marines (Cult of Destruction)
- Game System: Warhammer 40,000
- Battlefield Role: Elites / Heavy Melee Assault
- Unit Size: 3 Mutilator miniatures
- Base Size: 3x Citadel 50mm Round Bases
- Weapon Morph Options: Includes variety of mutating axes, blades, claws, and mauls
- Assembly: Requires cyanoacrylate (super glue); supplied unpainted
Frequently Asked Questions
How do Mutilators differ from Chaos Obliterators?
While Obliterators are part of the same Cult of Destruction and mutate heavy ranged weapons (such as plasma cannons, meltaguns, and heavy bolters), Mutilators specialize strictly in close-quarters brutal melee combat, sprouting power blades, axes, and chain weapons.
What type of glue is best for assembling this kit?
Because these models are cast in detailed resin (Citadel Finecast), standard plastic cement will not work. Use cyanoacrylate super glue along with standard hobby clippers, a hobby knife, and fine-grit sanding sticks to prepare and clean assembly joints.
Can Mutilators be deployed in casual, narrative, and older-edition games?
Yes. Mutilators are highly popular for narrative play, Warhammer 40,000 Crusade campaigns, casual Open Play, and older rules editions (such as 6th through 9th Edition). They also serve as fantastic heavy close-combat conversion proxies for custom Chaos warbands.
Unleash the wrath of the Cult of Destruction. Add the Chaos Space Marines Mutilators to your warband today and tear through the enemy line!
