Warmachine new releases are leaning hard into spooky spectacle.
However, this wave is not just one creepy army box. Instead, the Fane of Nyrro gets several nasty new tools. Meanwhile, one demolition-loving dwarf crashes the undead party. This is a summary of the community post found here.
Fane of Nyrro Expands With Harasheth’s Attrition Engine
The biggest release is The Gathering Darkness, an army box built around Harasheth and his followers. Harasheth is framed as a master of life and death, using friends and enemies alike as fuel for his ravenous sorcery. On the table, that makes the box feel like a perfect entry point for the Fane of Nyrro.
It supports both Command and Skirmish games, while also offering existing players more pieces for larger battles. Better yet, the article points players toward the Fane of Nyrro Compendium in the Warmachine app for more lore, rivalries, and character background. That is a smart move, because this faction clearly works best when its rules and gothic political drama feed each other.
The rest of the Fane releases push that same horror theme in different directions. Styrge Hounds are young pack predators driven into war by Fane Knights. However, they are too primitive and fragile for the psychic domination used on greater beasts. Instead, they are broken to the hunt and thrown forward as expendable killers.
Riven bring a sadder kind of horror. These spirits have haunted Ios for over a thousand years, trapped between life and death after the first fractures between the gods and elves. Now, the Fane sends them toward enemies, where they tether themselves to the living and wait for death to offer escape.
Meanwhile, the Razor Bat Alpha adds a bigger aerial threat, bred from the nastiest Razor Bats by Fane Stalkers. Finally, the Hollowed are failed experiments from attempts to understand elven souls. They caused an undead plague in Eversael and now shamble forward as hungry, expendable horrors.
Captain Dunax Brings Explosives to the Fight
Away from the Fane’s corpse-haunted weirdness, Captain Barl “Demolisher” Dunax adds a much more direct solution: explosives. A former Searforge Commission engineer and student of Durgen Madhammer, Dunax brings demolition and fortification expertise to Gravediggers, Winter Korps, Kithguard, and Rhul Guard armies. Honestly, after all that undead misery, a dwarf with bombs feels almost wholesome. For more details, read the original Warmachine article.
Summary and Final Thoughts
Overall, this wave gives Warmachine players strong theme and useful table variety. The Fane releases add attrition, speed, swarms, ghosts, and shambling bodies. Meanwhile, Dunax gives several armies a mercenary problem-solver with proper explosive charm.
