Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Rumors: Massive Detailed Rumor Set of Horus Heresy! Part 1

 
Wow, this looks amazing and quite possibly the thing that will bring a lot of people into the Horus Heresy that are kind of fading away from 40k. This looks like a great amount of focus into the Horus Heresy!


via a very solid Rumor Source here on Faeit 212---- Thank you for the Intel!

A massive block of Horus Heresy news is incoming. A bird twittered me the 
following:

"Age of Darkness - The Horus Heresy" Launch Box:
As known, the Box will have the following content:
- 40 MkVI Marines
- 10 Cataphract Terminators
- 1 Spartan
- 1 Contemptor Dreadnought
- 1 Imperial Fist Castellan
- 1 Sons of Horus / Trainer Praetor
- "Age of Darkness" Rulebook
- "Horus Heresy" Intro Booklet
- "Battle for Heta-Gladius" Campaign Booklet
- Other Stuff for new Players

Story of the Box is about the Battle for Heta-Gladius, when the SoH 
assaulted a small but important Imperial Garrison manned by Imperial Fists, 
Blood Angels and the Imperial Army.

This Lunch Box will few months later followed by three Sets as we know from 
40k and AoS.

Small Set:
- 10 MkVI Marines

Medium Set:
- 20 MkVI Marines
- 5 Terminators (don't know if Cataphracts or Tartaros)
- 1 Contemptor Dreadnought (the Monopose one)
- 2 Characters

Large Set:
- 30 MkVI Marines
- 10 Terminators (don't know if Cataphracts or Tartaros)
- 1 Contemptor Dreadnought (the Monopose one)
- 2 Characters

Age of Darkness Rulebook:
Main Rules for Games Workshops new main System
- Core Rules are technical 7th Edition 40k
- Units and formations are like in 8th and 9th Edition

Black Books:
First "Warzone" Book
- Featuring the Legions of Imperial Fists and Blood Angels for loyalists 
and SoH and World Eaters for traitors, also Imperial Army
- Includes content before the Traitors entered the sol system

Age of Darkness Horus Heresy Compendium
"Codex-like" Book for the Age of Darkness
- Over 200 Sites
- Summary for most of the FW Rules Content after the old Books will get 
replaced by new Warzone Books
- Rules for all 18 Space Marine Legions
- Mechanicus
- Imperial Army and Auxilia

GW Internal:
There will be some internal changes at Nottingham
- Staff from the FW Team (which were working on HH) switched already to the 
GW Main Studio
- Work on the new Age of Darkness Rulebook began before this
- White Dwarf Team will grow for more HH featuring content

Citadel:
New Spray Range is coming for easier painting of Space Marine Legions