Associate members of the Covenant of the Enlightened do not enjoy the respect or prestige that Covenant Peers do, but they are often the ones who do most of the leg work. In order to be officially recognised as an associate of a Peer, an individual will have to put in hours of thankless research and errand running for their sponsoring Peer. Of course like all who are drawn to the Enlightened, being in possession of a keen mind and a drive to push the boundaries of human understanding is a prerequisite. But associates often lack the opportunity or financial means to secure an actual Peerage in the Covenant.

Girauld Eres was one such associate, a Parisian naturalist who had developed into a minor celebrity as he toured Paris society with his collection of primates. Girauld's real passion lay in animal physiology and his personal menagerie was home to some impressive specimens. Showing a talent for specimen capture, he was approached by Warick Hudson and earned a sponsorship into the Covenant as an associate following his collaboration on the spectral containment technology with Hudson and Katherine Holst.

The night of his accident, Eres was working in his laboratory on a skin healing accelerant that went horribly wrong. When the beaker exploded, the chemicals that sprayed over him were not yet mixed correctly and began to eat away at his flesh. Fortunately Eres had been playing host the evening before to Xavier Bichat, an elderly Enlightened Peer. When Bichat was brought back to the house, it was already too late. Girauld’s skin had already been flensed from a large part of his body. Fortunately, Bichat was a keen study of the restricted galvanic arts, having reanimated a simian construct just the previous evening for Girauld’s entertainment. With a very little time remaining Xavier was forced to use that same construct to hold Eres’ brain.

The process was rushed and Xavier’s knowledge of the techniques involved were far from extensive. As a result Eres retained very little motor function in his new body and so, staggering like a victim of a massive stroke or palsy, Eres was conveyed by sea to Countess Augusta Byron in the Union of Federated States. The journey brought him close to death and his brain would not survive the trauma of a second transplant, so Girauld had little choice but to submit to a number of surgical procedures by the Countess that allowed him to regain greater control of the body, with the exception of his left arm. That was rectified by a prosthetic that gave Girauld significantly increased strength to further augment the exceptional size of his primate body..

Although Girauld was grateful to still be alive it would be impossible to return to Parisian society in his new form. He therefore spent some time in the Badlands of the Union, where open spaces away from others were plentiful. One advantage of having the body of a 700lb gorilla was a vastly increased strength. Girauld was a sickly child and life as an academic did nothing to increase his vitality so the change was significant. He realised that he could snap small trees, lift large rocks and even hurl a man bodily more than 30 feet through the air. He discovered that last fact when a group of American hunters mistook him for a trophy animal.

It was while in the Badlands during the Atlas Affair that the outlaw Jim Petersen gave him the nickname of Mr Ears. So extraordinary were the circumstances of their adventure together that the name was quickly adopted in the local press and a year later when President Johnson awarded them both the inaugural Presidential Medal of Freedom, it was presented in the name of Mr Ears.

With a new found sense of purpose, Mr Ears joined with Warwick Hudson and the rest of the ‘Soul Hunters’ on their expedition to Antarctica. Armed with the wrangling tools he developed during the Atlas Affair, Mr Ears is determined to study the reported megafauna discovered in the Lost World and create a new menagerie of wonders to show to the world.

The Mr Ears kit builds one multi-part resin miniature;

• 1x Mr Ears
• 1x Base

Med-Techs are adaptive bio-cybernetic creatures with hyper-rapid access to a vast library of medical programs for each of the races in the Combined Army, as well as an exhaustive database of military electronics and engineering programs.

Contains:

• 3x Metal Miniatures.

Dronbot is an acronym for Drone Robot. These semiautonomous, auxiliary robot units can be highly optimized for a variety of tasks.

Contains:

• 2x Metal Miniatures

The Lambda Engineers Battalion is responsible for repairing what others have destroyed. The Lambda engineers form mobile support units deployed both on the front lines and in the rear. For its part, the Lambda Battalion of Field Doctors is composed of military surgeons in charge of Bureau Aegis field hospitals. Their extensive training as doctors and surgeons enables them to work under pressure and with the limited medical resources available at the front.

Contains:

• 4x Metal Miniatures.

Yáokòngs are semi-autonomous robotic units employed by the Yu Jing military as infantry support. The key to the dazzling versatility of Yáokòngs lies in their modular design, allowing any model to be adapted to the specific needs of the tactical scenario with ease and speed.

Contains:

• 2x Metal Miniatures

Cosmic Terrain Pack. This pack includes a host of highly detailed miniatures terrain so that you can create the perfect cosmic landscape for your superpowered showdowns across the galactic worlds of the Marvel Universe.

Contents:

• 1 Vendor Shop
• 1 Tethered Node
• 1 Untethered Node
• 2 Signs
• 4 Lights
• 8 Barricades

Thanos is one of the most powerful beings to ever live. Obsessed with order and fate, Thanos works tirelessly to bring all living things to heel and remake the universe as he believes it should be. Despite his incalculable strength, to achieve his goals Thanos has devoted much of his life to acquiring the six Infinity Gems, artifacts of limitless cosmic power that, when combined, grant the bearer the power to control all of existence.This expansion pack provides players everything they need to add Thanos, the Mad Titan to their games of Marvel: Crisis Protocol. This expansion pack also introduces rules for a new multi-player game mode: Ultimate Encounters. In Ultimate Encounter: Infinity Gauntlet, two players team up in one last desperate gamble to attempt to defeat Thanos before he can use all six Infinity Gems to fulfill his mad vision for the universe.

Contents:

• 1 Character Stat Card
• 2 Tactic Cards
• 6 Infinity Gem Cards
• 14 Ultimate Encounter Cards
• 40 Tokens
• 1 Ultimate Encounter Rulebook
• 1 Thanos Miniature
• 2 Bases
• 1 Throne Terrain Feature

Faction: Bayou; Keyword: Wizz-Bang; Contents:

• 1 Wong
• 1 Olivia Bernard
• 1 Alphonse LeBlanc
• 3 Lightning Bugs

Faction: Outcasts. Keyword: Mercenary. Contents:

• 1 Alt Vanessa Chambers

Faction: Outcast. Keyword: Outcast Versatile. Contents:

• Barbaros

Faction: Outcasts. Keyword: Plague. Contents:

• Rat Kings x2
• Malifaux Rats x8
• Rat Catchers x2

Faction: Outcast. Keyword: Outcast Versatile. Contents:

• Malifaux Child
• Hans
• The Midnight Stalker

Faction: Ten Thunders. Keyword: Honeypot. Contents:

• 1 Alt Mr. Graves
• 1 Alt Mr. Tannen

Faction: Ten Thunders. Keyword: Last Blossom. Contents:

• Alt Ototo

Faction: Ten Thunders. Keyword: Monk, Tri-Chi. Contents:

• 3 Fermented River Monks

Faction: Ten Thunders. Keyword: Oni. Contents:

• 1 Kamaitachi
• 3 Tengu

Faction: Ten Thunders. Keyword: Last Blossom. Contents:

• 1 Misaki Katanaka
• 1 Shang
• 1 Ototo
• 3 Torakage

Keyword: Journalist. Contents:

• Allison Dade
• Undercover Reporter
• Newsies x3

Keyword: Retainer. Contains:

• Sun Quiang
• Chiaki the Beacon
• 2 x Komainu

Born under the Raj in Delhi, Rani Nimue had a turbulent childhood. Her English-born father worked for the diplomatic service and moved across the country to wherever Her Majesty required him, his wife and only child dutifully following. At the height of the Indian Mutiny, Rani’s mother was killed and her father was faced with the difficult task of raising his daughter alone. Seeing to it that she was educated by a succession of governesses and tutors, her father proudly saw her grow into a beautiful and fiercely intelligent woman. Rani secretly harboured a wanderlust and restlessness that, added to the stifling restrictions of Victorian society brewed within her until she was fit to either explode or run away and leave it all behind. Eventually her love for the swaggering Outlaw Broad Arrow Jack, after a chance encounter in the Port of Bombay, twisted her father’s pride to shame when, at the age of sixteen, she ran away with the pirate and was not heard from again for nearly a decade.

Now master of a crew of her own, the self-styled Captain Nimue has earned a substantial bounty on her head for the audacious theft from the Barrow Shipyards of a prototype RJ-powered submersible. Nimue rapidly built a notoriety for using the stolen submarine, which she had christened ‘The Nautilus’, to make lightning raids on European shipping. While this brought down the ire of the Crown and their allies, her exotic looks and penny-dreadful fuelled reputation made her popular with the press and the public.

In the space of three years, Nimue and her crew of highly efficient Chowkidar were reported in raids as far apart as Portsmouth and Kolkata Port in India. Agents for the Crown identified a common thread in many of these raids being linked to Nimue’s apparent obsession with collecting antiquities from across the Empire. Whether this is simple fascination or part of some greater strategy is unclear though an interrogation of a former accomplice hints that Nimue believes she is a reincarnation of the Lady of the Lake from Arthurian legend. Fanciful as this might seem, in an age where there are whispers of werewolves and mechanical monstrosities coming from the former American colonies, as well as ancient alien technologies and mega-fauna in Antarctica, it cannot be discounted.

Mythical figure or not, when repeated attempts to apprehend Captain Nimue proved futile, the Right Honourable Jonathan Peel of Her Majesty’s government brokered an alternative. Under Peel’s bargain, Nimue was gifted copies of dozens of historical documents from the archives and granted access to restricted sites of special interest across the Empire. In exchange for this consideration, as well as a generous charter, the fierce Pirate-Queen agreed to put her considerable skills in service to the Empire by targeting the enemies of the Crown and aiding the East Indian Trading Company in supporting British interests in the West.

Whether stealthily operating submerged in the Gulf of Mexico or audaciously sailing on the surface up and down the Mississippi, the newly dubbed HMS Nautilus was a constant thorn in the sides of both the Union and Outlaws operating in the area. Leading her rough but highly disciplined crew ashore in raiding parties she operated as a privateer on behalf of the British Empire, though has no real love for the Crown or the English.

Highly skilled with the blade and trident she is a formidable adversary on land or at sea, especially as her harpoon gun is never far from her side. Nimue’s love of fame and fortune is only tempered by her sense of loyalty to her crew. Beautiful, but deadly, Nimue and the Nautilus are a force of nature, and now with new orders their wheel has turned them South towards Antarctica and the Lost World...

The crew has changed many times over the years, some decide to take their share of the wealth and settle down, some fall in battle and are given up to the depths and fresh new recruits come aboard whenever the need arises. Some faces have remained the same, however, such as the solid and dependable Violet Smee who, as Nimue’s first officer, commands the Chowkidar with ruthless efficiency. Sardar Hardit Singh, The Nautilus’ Boatswain is very protective of his Captain and is never far from her side in a fight. Erasmus Darwin is the resident engineering specialist and while he rarely speaks of his colourful past his knowledge of Enlightened Technology is clear to see in the power-chair he uses to move around in. Charlotte Anning is the ship's navigator and archivist, never short of the answer to any questions, given enough time to research it in the vessel's surprisingly extensive library. Neko Mei’s role is a little harder to quantify but she has a number of skills including infiltration, stealth and close combat, this would then make her the Nautilus’ ‘acquisitions' specialist.

The Wrath of the Nautilus Detachment builds six multi-part resin miniatures;

• 1x Rani Nimue
• 1x Sarder Hardit Singh
• 1x Charlotte Anning
• 1x Neko Mei
• 1x Violet Smee
• 1x Erasmus Darwin
• 6x Bases