AWarhammer 40Kfan recently discovered something interesting about one of the Genestealer Cultist figurines. Examining the model reveals that the Genestealer Cult Nexos appears to be looking at a map of a real-world location that manyWarhammer 40Kfans will be familiar with.
Games Workshop launched the tabletop wargameWarhammer 40Kin 1987. An over-the-top sci-fi spinoff of the preexistingWarhammer Fantasy Battle,40Keventually proved far more popular and ultimately outlived its predecessor.Warhammer 40Khas gone through numerous updates, changes, and retcons over the years as Games Workshop continues to release new models and sourcebooks. This includesWarhammer 40Kfactions like the Tyranid Genestealer Cults, whose most recent update came with the release of a new expansion book last year.
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Reddit user andWarhammer 40Kfan NewEnglandHeresy noticed something when examining the Genestealer Cult Nexos figurine. The Nexos is an alien-human hybrid who serves as a general in the armies of Genestealer Cults. The current model for the Nexos thus depicts him standing over a holographic map with a radio in hand as he oversees a military operation. However, as NewEnglandHeresy pointed out, the hologram the Nexos is looking at seems to be a map of Warhammer World, aWarhammerstore and exhibition center at the Games Workshop headquarters in Nottingham, England.
Genestealers are one the more nefarious threats to humanity intheWarhammer 40Kuniverse. A subset of the ravenous Tyranid hive mind, Genestealers infiltrate human planets, indoctrinating some of the locals into a Genestealer Cult. The Genestealers then breed with humans to create hybrids. Meanwhile, indoctrinated humans and human-passing hybrids infiltrate the local population, government, and military. Finally, when the Tyranid fleet draws near, The Genestealer Cult launches an uprising to cripple, or at least distract, the Imperial garrison. The hive then consumes all the planet’s biomass, including the brainwashed cultists.
As otherWarhammer 40Kfanspointed out in the comments, the Genestealer Cult Nexos model features a very impressively detailed map of Warhammer World. Players can even see the bridge that connects the exhibition hall and museum building to Games Workshop’s company headquarters. The map also marks the location of the life-sized recreation of a40KRhino APC parked outside the building, which the model represents as one of two red blips on the map.
Meanwhile, the arrows representing the Genestealer advance points toward Warhammer World’s guest parking and Bugman’s Bar. The latter is Warhammer World’s restaurant and bar, which offers a variety of food and drinks named after things and characters fromWarhammerand40K. Apparently,Warhammer 40k’s hideous human-Tyranid hybridsstill fancy a burger and a pint.
