The enemies of the Imperium Of Mankind are multiple in theWarhammer 40,000universe. While the gameWarhammer 40,000: Darktideonly shows the ongoing fight of the Imperium against chaos, it’s more than enough to keep you busy.
Daemonhost, mutants, and the remnants of the Moebian 21st are just some of the enemies that the underhive ofTertium will throw at you, but the universe of Warhammer 40k always has more. Throughout all the lore built over the years, there are plenty of other enemies Fat Shark could add to the game, but which of them seems the most likely?
9Xenos
Here Be Aliens
The other major fight that humanity is always in the middle of is the constant war against the various alien species across the galaxy. Many other Warhammer 40k games touch on the war against creatures like the orks or necrons, and Darktide could as well.
It is slightly less likely, considering that Darktide is mostly about the fight against chaos, but a war on two fronts isn’t uncommonin the lore. The leading idea could be genestealers, an offshoot hybridization of humans and tyranids that infiltrate humanity from the inside. This would be on par with the current chaos incursion as well.
8Psykers
Kill Them With Your Mind
While you can play as one to help the Imperium fight back, psykers are also often used by the forces of chaos as well. As they have an inherent attachment to the warp, they can often become gateways to far darker powers.
Psykers range in power, some having minimal abilities that verge more on sleight-of-hand than anything, while others can destroy buildings and tanks with their minds alone. A mid-ranged psyker would be a solid enemy or even an end-mission boss with a wide range of abilities that would be similar to that of the psyker character class.
7Combat Servitors
A Gruesome End
Players get a brief glimpse of servitors through the various merchants on the Mourningstar and from the medicae servitors that are dotted across the maps. Servitors are used throughout the Imperium, though, and not just for mundane tasks. Servitors are sometimes used as the first line of combat by Imperium and heretical forces for their unquestioning status and expendable nature.
Surgically modified, they can carry a whole series of different heavy weapons like machine guns and cannons or industrial equipment like drills and power claws. A servitor walking at you like a cybernetic zombie would be quite the scene in the underhive.
6Dark Mechanicus
IT Gone Rogue
While Hadron and the rest of theagents of the Omnissiahusually work hand-in-hand with the Imperium (minus trying to execute you for being a few seconds late to meetings), some also work for the forces of chaos. These Dark Mechanicus agents keep the cybernetics and war machines of the heretical forces running smoothly, but they are also potent fighters.
A heretical tech priest could be a tough enemy to beat, with various high-tech weaponry and the ability to buff enemies or even dampen your own technology. It would be a fun addition to the roster that further removed the humanity from the chaos forces.
5Nurglings
Little Versions Of Their Father
While you do get to see deamonhosts, people with the souls of deamons possessing them, daemons in their true forms are absent from the roster, mostly due to them being far too deadly. However, not all of the daemons are the warp are as deadly as others. Nurgle, the chaos god whose disease-ridden forces you face in Tertium, has a small daemon he often deploys called nurglings.
Small, odd, and often seemingly playful in nature, nurglings are perhaps the weakest of his warp forces. They would be an addition that, while small in stature, would be surprisingly hearty and deadly to regular humans. Plus, they could further influence the game’s corruption status since they are made of pure warp-stuff.
4Assassins
Cloak And Dagger
Neither side in this conflict is above using knives in the dark; assassins are a go-to strategy in the world of Warhammer 40k, and why not when there’s so much subterfuge afoot? It would be relatively easy to add to the current flow of the game, as it could easily take the form of a special enemy like the trapper.
An assassin-type enemy sneaking into a horde and severely injuring a player before trying to sneak away would make for quite a stressful encounter. It would make sense on higher difficulty levels as you make more of a name for yourself.
3Pox Flies
Get The Swatter
Another somewhat daemonic entity, Pox Flies are a breed of insect often found inhabiting the bodies of Nurgles chosen. Parasitic and carrying a host of diseases, it wouldn’t take much for a cloud of these enemies to cause some havoc on missions.
Even a carrier type enemy working as a hive for the Pox Flies would make sense. They could work similar to the Pox Burster, but instead of an explosion a storm of flies would emanate from them, injuring and even chasing down party members.
2Arco-Flagellants
Whip It Good
Similar to servitors in nature, Arco-Flagellants are people who have been lobotomized and cybernetically altered by either imperial or chaos forces. Outfitted with combat stimms and their hands replaced with electrified whips, they are let loose on the battlefield to kill in fits of rage.
They’d be similar to the ragers that torment players even now. Players instantly having to switch gears to deal with a monster who’s been chemically conditioned to throw themselves at the party would be a harrying experience to be a part of.
1Other Chaos Gods
And The Laughter Of Dark Gods
While Nurgles forces seem to have staked claim to Atoma so far, it isn’t unheard of for multiple of the chaos gods to work in tandem if they think a planet is particularly important. Adding forces from some of the other chaos powers wouldn’t have to be a major task either. Some new designs or skins for current enemies would be all that Fat Shark would have to add.
It would be rather interesting for long-term fans of the universe to see some of the forces of Khorne, Slaneesh, or Tzeentch pop up in the underhives, too. This would give a better sense of just how valuable Atoma is as well.
