40K End Times (Plastic Horus Heresy)

[Path Walker]

Plastic armour kits mean the most common complaint I've seen about playing Horus Heresy (buying expensive models and then having loads of parts left over when you buy the Legion upgrade sets) isn't going to be as contentious an issue.

I don't think anything serious about "tiers" of the game is every likely to occur, they want people to play all their games and be able to buy as many models as they want, they won't want to restrict people and they don't want to stop parents buying them a massive expensive Horus Hersey box for Christmas!

People have been talking about the tiers of play idea for ages and its just never panned out that way at all.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Good, I can get cracking on a Shattered Legion force

[Bigred]

via [URL="https://disqus.com/by/disqus_9kDU0zOo6w/"]Squiggly[/URL] (DISQUS) 2-25-2016

"Basically the calth stuff will be released in boxes labelled for 30k and 40k. The HH range is a big thing, and a handful of kits is not a "big thing"

I know the Mechanicum models were intended to be Heresy models too. So I suspect they too will get repacked as 30k/40k models when the range is launched. Or soon after.

Yes the 40k Mechanicum stuff is all labelled all same, but it is split into two factions. They were intended to be one 40k faction and one 30k faction.

I hope that makes more sense."

[Path Walker]

Lords of War Gaming on FB pretty much just laughed at those rumours, Squiggly has been right about pretty much just the Deathwatch game so far, so I think that needs to be taken into consideration.

[Bigred]

via a very reliable source who spoke to BoLS on condition of anonymity:


We have been hearing for several weeks now of the Sequel to Betrayal at Calth. One long, long term rumormonger with a fantastic record chimed in with these tidbits:

• The sequel to Betrayal at Calth is real.
• It is scheduled for SEPTEMBER 2016.
• The kit itself is being manufactured as a stand alone game by GW proper, as the previous boxed games have been, but the exact sprue contents being Heresy relates are pretty much dictated by Forge World. This ensures they will fit in nice and neatly with existing and future planned Forge World Horus Heresy kits.
• Games Workshop is very much committed to continuing to push and expand the Horus Heresy line into a bigger part of the business - one that is reported as ALREADY outselling Age of Sigmar!
• The new kit will feature plastic sprues with Mark III armor.

[grimmas]

Nice. If it's anything like the miniature content we got in BaC we'll all be rocking proper sized Heresy forces in short order. It probably cost the same as my 10 man squad of MK IIIs did in resin (it got out hand &#128563

[Psychosplodge]

Pads, torsos, helmets, weapons, and bording shields?

[Kirsten]

boarding marines would be awesome

[Psychosplodge]

I was just thinking for him to make a ten man squad cost the same as a boxset

[grimmas]

Pads, torsos, helmets, weapons, and bording shields?

That's about right. They just kept bringing out more stuff 😳