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.
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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.
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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 line was rebooted in 2017 with the popular box set Necromunda: Hive War, and has grown into multiple new factions over the years.The beakies are back and better than ever. While 40K and The Horus Heresy tell the story of fortified superhuman soldiers, the Necromunda line is all about violent human gangs fighting for control of a criminal underworld. The other big announcement of the evening was a massive new expansion for one of Games Workshop’s most vibrant lines, a system called Necromunda.
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The Games Workshop presenters indicated that it is less of a full reboot of the game, but more of a refinement. Diehard fans needn’t worry too much about that though. It will also include a revised core rulebook, which will also be sold separately. The new box set will feature multi-piece plastic miniatures, hopefully lowering the price and making things a little easier to build. The Horus Heresy Miniature Game was first published in 2012 and consists of multiple campaign books along with a slew of miniatures – many of them quite expensive, as they are cast in hard resin.
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… would eventually become the Sons of Horus.