Force Spotlight - 120 point Koritanii
Posted on Thursday Oct 30, 2025 at 06:54am in The Kaigus Pact
This week, Iain shares some pics of his 120 point Koritanii force, as used in the recent 'Enter, The Pact' battle report. You can check them out now on the Maelstrom's Edge website here!
Model Spotlight - The Kaigus Pact Troops Sprue!
Posted on Wednesday Oct 15, 2025 at 05:00pm in The Kaigus Pact
- by Iain Wilson
The arrival of the Maelstrom's Edge V2 rulebook was accompanied by the addition of an all new faction to the game - the Kaigus Pact! We're all very excited about them as the Kaigus Pact are very different to the other models we've released so far, with their alien appearance and organic approach to technology. This week, I thought I'd take a closer look at one of the new plastic kits - the Kaigus Pact Troops sprue.
The troops sprue is one of a number of plastic sprues that we created for the Kaigus Pact launch, building three bioengineered warriors.
The Kaigus Pact Troops sprue, sculpted by Kevin Johnson.
Kaigus Pact soldiers, known as Muharis, generally take to the field armed with organic weapons called Dart Hosts. These are bioengineered crustacean-like organisms that clamp over the Muharis' weapon arm and, as their name suggests, spit lethal darts with the same force as a more normal firearm. More at home in space, the massive forms of the Muharis are gangly and awkward looking on the ground, their asymmetrical torsos and giant, carapace-clad forms a stark contrast from their human forbears.
Kaigus Pact Muharis with Dart Hosts, painted by Todd McNeal.
Muharis have access to a number of other lethal weapon symbiotes, including a heavier version of the standard Dart Host, the armor-piercing Spike Rifle and explosive-lobbing Brood Host. When more close-range assaults are called for, Muharis make use of the giant taloned Ripper Claw.
(Left to right) Heavy Dart Host, Brood Launcher, Ripper Claw & Spike Rifle, painted by Todd McNeal.
Regular Muharis Sentinel units have more limited access to these, while Sentinel Strongpoint units provide battlefield support with access to multiple heavier weapons.
Sentinel Strongpoint unit with Brood Launchers, painted by Iain Wilson.
The troops sprue also allows you to build Biologis troops. more specialised than the Muharis soldiers, Biologis Attendants carry a shorter ranged but poisoned version of the Dart Host. The parts from the troops sprue can also be combined with the Proctat Upgrade sprue to build a Biologis Proctat, a Genostaff-equipped squad leader upgrade for Attendant units.
A Biologis Attendant unit, painted by Todd McNeal.
Biologis Adepts also serve as leaders in some Muharis Sentinel units, providing them the ability to spawn Thrall units on the battlefield.
A Muharis Sentinel unit with attached Biologis Adept, painted by Iain Wilson.
Because of the unique design of their armour and equipment, the Kaigus Pact troops are not quite as modular as some of our other plastic kits. The most notable difference is in the heads, which we couldn't separate at the neck as we usually do. Instead, the sprue provides a number of different torso fronts, so you still get a wide range of posing options by combining different legs and torso fronts.
Muharis with Ripper Claws.
Being plastic, the models are of course easy to chop and change to suit yourself! While weapons are fixes to the arms, again due to their unique design structure and the limitations of plastic tooling, it's easy enough to slice weapons off and switch arms to give yourself some different posing options.
Muharis with Spike Rifles. the model on the left is the standard arm configuration, while the model on the right has had the weapon switched to a different arm, and a left arm from the Proctat Upgrade sprue.
And, of course, if you're like me and enjoy wandering outside the bounds of the 'official' game units, there's nothing stopping you from going to town with these kits and creating your own units!
A unit I'm calling a 'Sentinel Spearhead', equipped with shields taken from the soon-to-be-released Orakan Shield Thrall, and a polearm made from a Proctat staff and Orakan legs!
The painted models shown here (both Todd's fantastic studio models and my more table-level versions) are representative of the Koritanii moot, found active in Zycanthus space. The Kaigus Pact models lend themselves to a wide range of organic color-schemes - we recommend looking to sea-dwelling crustaceans for inspiration!
Some alternate Kaigus Pact color schemes.
The Kaigus Pact Troops box is available to buy soon, but in the meantime you can nab the sprue in the Kaigus Pact Starter Force box available now from the Maelstrom's Edge webstore here!
What are you working on? We would love to see your models and terrain in the Comm Guild Facebook group!
For other building ideas, modeling tutorials, army spotlights and conversion walkthroughs, check out the Hobby section of the Maelstrom's Edge website here. And while you're there, grab a copy of the Maelstrom's Edge V2 Beta rules!
The Kaigus Pact arrive on the battlefields of the Edge!
Posted on Monday Sept 29, 2025 at 05:00pm in The Kaigus Pact
Despite the alien appearance of the beings they have become, the ancestors of the Kaigus Pact were human. After many generations in space, little remains of their origins, with their tall, slender frames covered in armored chitin and reinforced skins designed to withstand even the harsh conditions of the void. Even their technology has shaken off all trace of their forebears as the Pact relies on bioengineering, growing their ships, weapons and other technology from living organisms and making use of genetically programmed thrall species in place of robots and other menials.
And now, you can bring these bioengineered forces to your own tabletop, with the release of the Kaigus Pact Starter Force for Maelstrom's Edge V2!
This collection of Kaigus Pact models builds around 50 points, forming a solid foundation to expand into a full force. Included are the following plastic Kaigus Pact sprues:
Biologis Curator, painted by Todd McNeal.
Biologis Attendants, painted by Todd McNeal.
Tamakin and Krii (Thralls), painted by Todd McNeal.
These sets will be released separately later on, but the starter force box gives you a small saving on the individual kits and allows you to get a good head start on assembling for Kaigus Pact force. Grab yours now from the Maelstrom's Edge webstore here!
To find out more about the Kaigus Pact, check out the Faction Focus article here and the Colors of the Kaigus Pact article here. Or, of course, pick up the shiny new V2 rulebook!
SecDef try in vain to hold off a Kaigus Pact assault.
The new V2 rulebook is available in the Maelstrom's Edge webstore now. You can also check out the V2 Rules Downloads section for PDF rules downloads, and the V2 Rules Articles section for some insights into the Maelstrom's Edge rules. The website also includes a handy Force Builder which allows you to easily build and save your force lists!
Stay Tuned for more!
And now, you can bring these bioengineered forces to your own tabletop, with the release of the Kaigus Pact Starter Force for Maelstrom's Edge V2!
This collection of Kaigus Pact models builds around 50 points, forming a solid foundation to expand into a full force. Included are the following plastic Kaigus Pact sprues:
- 1 x Kaigus Pact Biologis Curator with a 36mm base.
- 1 x Kaigus Pact Troops Sprue, building up to 3 models with 32mm bases.
- 1 x Kaigus Pact Proctat Upgrade Sprue, which combines with the Troops sprue to upgrade a unit leader.
- 2 x Kaigus Pact Thrall Sprues, which build 4 x Tamakin, 2 x Krii Vapor Thralls and 2 x Krii Shatter Thralls, with 32mm and 46mm bases.
Biologis Curator, painted by Todd McNeal.
Biologis Attendants, painted by Todd McNeal.
Tamakin and Krii (Thralls), painted by Todd McNeal.
To find out more about the Kaigus Pact, check out the Faction Focus article here and the Colors of the Kaigus Pact article here. Or, of course, pick up the shiny new V2 rulebook!
SecDef try in vain to hold off a Kaigus Pact assault.
Get the rules now!
The new V2 rulebook is available in the Maelstrom's Edge webstore now. You can also check out the V2 Rules Downloads section for PDF rules downloads, and the V2 Rules Articles section for some insights into the Maelstrom's Edge rules. The website also includes a handy Force Builder which allows you to easily build and save your force lists!
Stay Tuned for more!
Colors of the Kaigus Pact
Posted on Friday Sept 19, 2025 at 05:00pm in The Kaigus Pact
The Kaigus Pact is less of a single entity and more a constantly evolving flow of ships and creatures amongst the stars, ever-diverging from the humans from whom they originated. Their fleet groups, known as “moots”, are rarely concentrated in large numbers, and prefer not to associate with other cultures, keeping to their own territories in remote areas of deep space, or concealed in nebulas or dead systems. Individual moots keep apart from each other to avoid conflict over resources, but when threatened or in a system with resources too great to ignore, spontaneous new Pacts develop to pool their available resources and military forces.
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The Kaigus Pact will be coming to the Maelstrom's Edge webstore soon with a range of new plastic kits. Stay tuned for news!
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The Kaigus Pact will be coming to the Maelstrom's Edge webstore soon with a range of new plastic kits. Stay tuned for news!
Faction Focus - The Kaigus Pact.
Posted on Wednesday Sept 17, 2025 at 05:00pm in The Kaigus Pact
There is hardly anything now in appearance, behavior or technology that betrays the Kaigus heritage, but they are the descendants of the first humans to expand into the spiral arm. Due to generations living in weak gravity, the Kaigus have grown tall and slender, and tower over normal humans. Kaigus skins are injected with pigments and new cells to allow them to convert light hitting their skin into energy, a process they find preferable to consuming organic material. Nictating membranes are surgically implanted across eyelids and orifices to allow them to seal, protecting the Kaigus from exposure to vacuum. Limbs are supplemented by injections, growing layers of titanium or additional bone to protect against the deleterious effects of micro-gravity. Blood vessels and internal organs are tweaked surgically to stop them shrinking. The Kaigus species today are perhaps the most resilient humanoids in the spiral arm, with each of their weaknesses having been overcome through a combination of body modifications and symbiotes, all carefully developed by the Biologis.
The relative lack of raw materials in deep space and the prowess of the Kaigus in manipulating biotechnology inevitably led to their weapons and technology all using biological processes. Traditional bullets and more technological weapons like lasers are eschewed for rifles that have bio-engineered ligaments for throwing projectiles, poisonous gases and darts, gels that expand and suffocate or strangle their target and other exotic oddities. Microscopic organisms known as namites are controlled by Biologis adepts, able to consume, process and regurgitate organic matter. Operating en masse, these namites can decompose an object and spit it back out as something entirely new within moments. With training, Kaigus are able to control these swarms telepathically, coordinating the namites to construct physical matter to their design. The Biologis continually develop and catalogue a number of “thrall species”, created relatively easily using namites and designed to fulfill important roles within Kaigus society. The genetic blueprints for thrall species include a predisposition to follow telepathic commands and an innate knowledge of the vocation they have been created to fulfill.
On the table, the Kaigus Pact work quite differently to other factions. Forces are composed of a mix of Kaigus and Thrall species, designed to fill different combat roles. Heavier weaponry is carried by the Kaigus troops, while Tamakin act as lightly armed harassment troops, or melee-equipped close combat units. Explosive or vapor-emitting Krii skitter around the enemies' feet while massively armored Orakan use their carapace as a shield for their progenitors.
Most notably, Biologis and other Kaigus units are able to spawn thrall units directly onto the battlefield. The Hypergenesis ability allows Kaigus Pact commanders to skip the normal reinforcement bidding process. Instead, specific models can spend a fixed number of command points to spawn a thrall unit within 9". Through judicious use of command points, a shrewd commander can get their forces directly into the action when and where they are most needed, overwhelming the opposition with waves of thralls.
We'll be revealing more about the Kaigus Pact and releasing their first models over the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
The Maelstrom's Edge V2 rulebook is now available! Grab your copy from the Maelstrom's Edge webstore now!
The relative lack of raw materials in deep space and the prowess of the Kaigus in manipulating biotechnology inevitably led to their weapons and technology all using biological processes. Traditional bullets and more technological weapons like lasers are eschewed for rifles that have bio-engineered ligaments for throwing projectiles, poisonous gases and darts, gels that expand and suffocate or strangle their target and other exotic oddities. Microscopic organisms known as namites are controlled by Biologis adepts, able to consume, process and regurgitate organic matter. Operating en masse, these namites can decompose an object and spit it back out as something entirely new within moments. With training, Kaigus are able to control these swarms telepathically, coordinating the namites to construct physical matter to their design. The Biologis continually develop and catalogue a number of “thrall species”, created relatively easily using namites and designed to fulfill important roles within Kaigus society. The genetic blueprints for thrall species include a predisposition to follow telepathic commands and an innate knowledge of the vocation they have been created to fulfill.
On the table, the Kaigus Pact work quite differently to other factions. Forces are composed of a mix of Kaigus and Thrall species, designed to fill different combat roles. Heavier weaponry is carried by the Kaigus troops, while Tamakin act as lightly armed harassment troops, or melee-equipped close combat units. Explosive or vapor-emitting Krii skitter around the enemies' feet while massively armored Orakan use their carapace as a shield for their progenitors.
Most notably, Biologis and other Kaigus units are able to spawn thrall units directly onto the battlefield. The Hypergenesis ability allows Kaigus Pact commanders to skip the normal reinforcement bidding process. Instead, specific models can spend a fixed number of command points to spawn a thrall unit within 9". Through judicious use of command points, a shrewd commander can get their forces directly into the action when and where they are most needed, overwhelming the opposition with waves of thralls.
We'll be revealing more about the Kaigus Pact and releasing their first models over the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
The Maelstrom's Edge V2 rulebook is now available! Grab your copy from the Maelstrom's Edge webstore now!
