Scabbers, Plague Born – The Ratfolk Warriors

Scabbers, Plague Born – The Ratfolk Warriors

Monster Type: Beastfolk Humanoid (Fighter/Rogue)

Unleash a swarming tide of desperate, disease-driven fury onto your battle map with the Scabbers. This hand-selected trio of premium ratfolk Artifacts captures a vicious unit of arena skirmishers gripped by a mind-eroding cosmic blight. Completely disregarding their own survival, these warriors are frozen mid-assault, brandishing a savage array of daggers, loaded hand-crossbows, and jagged shortswords. They project a premium aura of raw, unpredictable desperation and predatory coordination.

Highlight

For the Keeper seeking a high-impact skirmish squad or a relentless vanguard threat to pressure characters across the grid layout, this collection delivers immediate mechanical tension. The highly texturized fur patches, intricate chainmail mesh, and unique scrap-metal armor plating offer an exceptional canvas for advanced drybrushing, heavy grime washing, and rust weathering effects.

Encounter Insight

Deploy these Ratfolk Warriors as an aggressive, high-mobility flanking unit or erratic arena hazards. In tactical grid combat, leverage their low-slung, frenzied postures to represent pack-tactics mechanics—swarming isolated player characters to gain immediate combat advantages, while their ranged crossbow variant provides suppressive fire from elevated structural cover.

Features

• Three Unique Sculptures: Includes a dual-dagger rogue lunging forward, a center vanguard marksman aiming a hand-crossbow, and a heavily armored brute preparing a sweeping blade strike.
• Scavenged Battle Armor: Styled with remarkably detailed chainmail coifs, segmented shoulder pads, buckled leather straps, and studded greaves.
• Vermin Physiology: Features hyper-detailed snarls, whip-like tails coiling around their steps, and clawed feet molded dynamically to convey sprinting momentum.
• Subterranean Scenic Bases: Each figure is anchored upon a circular stone-and-conduit foundation littered with rusted pipe infrastructure, fitting perfectly into arena sewers or underbelly vaults.

Ideal For

• Swarming Vanguards: Ideal for representing high-level Wererat thralls, Underdark mercenary cells, or specialized rogue cohorts.
• Gladiatorial Chaos: Perfectly suited for multi-wave arena gauntlets, prison breaches, or dark fantasy sewer crawls.

Size Category

Size: Each occupies a 1×1 square (25mm bases, Medium Humanoids)

Tabletop Lore

Ratfolk loyal to the Königsratte, they have all become infected with the strain of Dragonblight that sits within their regent. Their minds are quickly eroding, and they attack with a ferocity that is unrelentless, disregarding their own safety and preservation so long as their foes would perish with them. Swept up into the brutal economy of the Crucible, they fight not for glory or coin, but to spend their final, maddened heartbeats dragging their targets down into the blood-stained sand with them.