Games Workshop - Warhammer - The Horus Heresy - Age Of Darkness (Boxed Set)

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So while the initial price is a little higher than we had hoped (but expected), this has some great value, and you get more than 100% of the box price in value. Plus, you just get so many minis! Now you know whether you’re a Loyalist or a Traitor, you can see the rest of today’s big reveals for Warhammer: The Horus Heresy in a new light. Stalwart and immovable, the Imperial Fists believe in the best offence being a good defence. Except for when the best offence is a good offence, which they also do quite well.

To say this is huge might be an understatement! With 6 giant sprues, you know this will be massive and quite the build. The commander on top can have two different options, and the weapons are basically all covered. Looking at how everything fits together, you should be able to magnetize the kit and future-proof it. Warhammer has previously made several games in epic scale, and we’ll be taking a look down memory lane later this month, and this new game system is based on the best bits of previous incarnations of these epic scale games – while adding lots of cool new elements.From how it looks, there may be a pretty aggressive four-month path to market for the new edition of Horus Heresy starting in June of 2022. New Horus Heresy Primarchs & Releases Once you’ve got your books, you’ll need the usual set of tabletop wargaming tools – with a few extras.

First up are the two Legiones Astartes army books – one for Loyalists and one for the Traitors.* Each book includes the profiles for shared units, from heroic Praetors to armoured Contemptor Dreadnoughts, as well as weapons, special rules, and guides to building your Legiones Astartes army. Space Marines are formidable soldiers indeed, but you need more than just massed infantry to carry the day. That’s where the Kratos Heavy Tank Squadron comes in. You get four in a box, each tank bristling with sponson and hull guns, and with a choice of a Kratos battlecannon or melta blastgun for the turret.* There are a whopping 223 miniatures in the box, split between Space Marines, Solar Auxilia, and Titans. That’s 106 Space Marine infantry and walkers, five Space Marine tanks, 104 Solar Auxilia infantry and walkers, six Solar Auxilia tanks, and two Warhound Titans with brand-new plastic weapon options. Temple of Silence by Richard Strachan is a new Warhammer Age of Sigmar novel, charting the trials of the witch-hunting, daemon-slaying ven Densts as they seek shelter within the strange temple – a place whose true mysteries are revealed only when night falls… Your terminators were going to be tough anyway, but the Sons of Horus make these chonky lads even tougher. Combi-bolters and power fists are a good choice for this unit to take advantage of the Death Dealers advanced reaction if you get an opportunity, but All Lightning Claws All The Time is also 100% a cool and good way to go. Bundle them into your Spartan (with heavy bolters if you’ve gone for fists and lascannons if you go for lightning claws to balance out the focus you’ve taken on those riding inside), ram that puppy into anything you like then bundle the terminators out into their mashed faces. Good times.The Solar Auxilia Infantry set starts your army off with a wide assortment of critical units, including lasrifle or flamer-toting Auxilia, Charonite Ogryns, Aethon Heavy Sentinels, and veteran axe-wielding Veletarii. Each box is led by an Auxilia Commander and their Tactical Command section, and just one or two sets forms a dependable core for your epic scale Solar Auxilia army.* Warhammer+ has a trio of awesome episodes coming to screens this Wednesday. Battle Report shrinks down for their first tussle on the battlegrounds of Legions Imperialis, while Loremasters bends its scrying talents to the fearsome Howling Banshees of the craftworld Aeldari. A little bit of masking tape goes a long way when painting vast numbers of tiny tanks, so Citadel Colour Masterclass shows you their techniques for making detail work a doddle with tape.

Demonic and destruction, the Word Bearers lean far heavier into the “nightmare horror” aspect of Chaos and the heresy than any other legion. As such this is a great legion to pillage Chaos Marine bits from 40k for and get some very spiky lads into the fray. If you go with some heavy/special weapons, you’ve got a wide range of choices, mostly depending on how you want to equip the rest of your box. As we work through the various units keep in mind that you’ll want to have a mix of anti-infantry, anti-elite, and anti-tank weapons, balanced a little towards anti-tank (in part because your basic bolter marines are already good anti-infantry, in part because you’re likely to run into a lot of spartans). Make your new army your own with 18 separate transfer sheets – one for each Legion. Each of these contains more than 500 decals, including vehicle markings, script, and assorted infantry markings, tailored to your chosen side. The Horus Heresy Legion Dice

Terminator Sprues

Legions Imperialis zooms right out to portray some of the largest, fiercest battles to shake the Age of Darkness. It’s truly mind-boggling in scale, and a fantastic hobby project for avid painters looking to turn their skills to dozens of small yet incredibly detailed miniatures. Many of the miniatures found in Adeptus Titanicus and Aeronautica Imperialis can find new homes in Legions Imperialis, so to match the new road tiles and urban terrain, new bases are on their way. Engraved with an urban tile pattern, these range from 40mm round bases right up to huge 120mm oval bases for the largest Titans.* When a bolter and chainsword won’t do the business, the Tactical Squads of the Legiones Astartes turn to special weapons, forming Legion Tactical Support Squads. With six varieties to choose from in this comprehensive set of upgrades, no battlefield conundrum will go unanswered. This set contains 10 weapons each of six types – flamers, plasma guns, meltaguns, rotor cannons, volkite chargers, and volkite calivers. They’re designed to fit seamlessly onto the Mk VI Tactical Squad, with hands moulded onto the guns to fit your Space Marines’ arms. Legiones Astartes Heavy Weapons Upgrade Set (Missile Launchers and Heavy Bolters)

Getting its ruleset makes sense, especially when you see what looks like a scatter die in the images of the models. GW taking decals makes sense, especially since pretty much all of them still apply in 40k in some ways. Horus Heresy getting “Warzone” style expansions is exciting; maybe it will make the rules easier to follow. Specifics on locations seem legit but could technically not be true.For the rest of your Mk VIs (or all of them if you don’t want to get spiky with it) I would build two 10-marine tactical squads with chain bayonets and a vexilla each to take advantage of the legion special rule, and buy them a rhino each so they can go grab objectives fast. If you build some despoilers you’d be silly not to kit out the last 10 marines with each plasma guns upgraded to Warpfire blasters from the special weapons kit, or missile launchers from the heavy one – you want that pinning to make the most of Spite of the Legion. If you didn’t then doing both is actually a very solid plan anyway – warpfire blasters are fantastic, and missile launchers are very versatile. Prefer fire, melta, and plasma weapons? There’s an upgrade kit for you! It features 10 plasma cannons, 10 heavy flamers, and 10 multi-meltas. Build the praetors how you like, though some arm swaps on the axe guy and leaving off the cloak is a nice way to make him into something a little… sneakier. He would be an unconventional Vigilator, but you could probably make it work. If you want to go a completely different route, sell the Spartan and buy Sevatar and another big unit of terminators (this time probably with chainfists and combi-bolters). With Sevatar as your warlord you’ll be able to deep strike those units of terminators onto the battlefield.