Privateer Press Discusses Mercenaries in MKIV

Privateer Press just showed off a bunch of mercenary models that are coming later this year for Warmachine. But there’s been some question about just how those models will fit with the new army-building rules for the game in MKIV. In this article, Privateer Press goes into a bit more detail about just how that will work.

From the article:

Though WARMACHINE MKIV focuses on self-contained armies, armies within the same Faction and edition designation (Legacy or MKIV) are also intended to share some models and units. These shared models and units are called Cadres, and each Cadre can be included in two or more armies belonging to the same Faction and edition designation. For Factions that exist as both Legacy and MKIV, their Cadres are restricted to their edition designation. For instance, a new Cadre released for Cygnar during MKIV can only be included with Storm Legion and other new armies released for Cygnar during MKIV. Legacy Cadres can only be included in Legacy Cygnar armies. Cadres will include battle engines, colossals, and gargantuans, as well as a small menu of other models. We will be introducing the first MKIV Cadres in late 2023.

Legacy Factions in the MKIV Prime Arena will also include Cadres of models that can be shared between their armies. Each Legacy Faction will include roughly five Cadre offerings that will be shared between their two Prime Arena armies consisting mostly of the Faction’s battle engines, colossals, gargantuans, and primary support models.

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