The Marines are, without exaggeration, the best that GW has ever put out. A wonderfully archaic-looking Contemptor Dreadnought, which was also in the Calth box, lumbers on to the battlefield with a few cool weapon choices. In addition to enough Astartes to field two forces (40!), there’s also a stunning Spartan tank, a predecessor to the iconic Land Raider. Not just at the insane stack of sprues of shoulder pads, but also at what all is provided in the box. When I opened the preview copy, kindly provided by Warhammer Community, I was stunned. But there are some hefty qualifiers and caveats in terms of cost and rules weight to consider if you are looking to get stuck in.įirst impression, this thing is just packed. Now, with Age of Darkness, they are making a play to offer Horus Heresy to the masses- now in plastic, mind- and as an introductory set, it almost obliterates this goal.
Instead, the game was mostly a Forge World concern, which meant limited availability, resin models (shudder), and even more expensive than usual books and models. So Horus Heresy gave players not only a way to get back to the classic rules, but also a way to play in a different era- a time after Horus slew the Emperor and a massive civil war betwixt the Loyalist legions and Traitor legions broke out, a time when the Primarchs walked the battlefield and the Xenos threat wasn’t as great as the creeping taint of Chaos.īut Horus Heresy was never a mainline GW product- the closest it got was the very excellent Horus Heresy: Betrayal At Calth board game back in 2015, which was at the time the only release with plastic Heresy-era Astartes. 7 th was also something of an endpoint for the game’s original design template, and many long-time players missed the greater detail and grittier feel of earlier versions. The rules are based mostly on 7 th edition, which was the one before the 40k designers really put the hammer down on making the game more streamlined and accessible. This box set, subtitled Age of Darkness and set in the “30k” phase of the Warhammer setting as popularized by the actually quite excellent series of novels by Dan Abnett and other writers, is something of an Old School Renaissance for the game.Īs with Dungeons & Dragons, which has had its own “OSR” movement, Horus Heresy is a somewhat atavistic antidote to complaints that more recent editions of the game have been made too streamlined, too simplified, and have introduced a whole range of complaints and grievances. And yes, this thing is loaded with Astartes in their magnificent Mark IV Corvus armor that takes me back to buying the RTB01 Imperial Space Marines box back in 1987. The big 2022 Warhammer release is upon us, and it is an absolutely massive box set that introduces Games Workshop’s atavistic Horus Heresy rules set and models to the masses.
The beakies are back and better than ever.
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