AdeptiCon Preview 2026 – Ogryns, big guns and a Spartan in Horus Heresy

Reinforcements are coming for Legiones Astartes and Solar Auxilia armies in the Horus Heresy.

The Spartan Prometheus, Charonite Ogryns and a variety of extremely destructive weapons mounted on Rapier platforms are all heading to plastic, making them easier than ever to add to your collection.

Spartan Prometheus Assault Tank

When the Space Marines need to get across a battlefield quickly, safely and in numbers, they pile into Spartan Assault Tanks. These rugged and sturdy vehicles can carry entire squads of power- or Terminator-armoured warriors, and pack hefty munitions as well.

The Spartan Prometheus trades in the lascannon arrays of the standard model for a choice of gravis heavy bolter arrays for mowing down infantry, or laser destroyers, which exchange a little of the range of the lascannon array for even more tank-busting power – ideal for when you really need to take down something big and menacing.*

Loyalists and Traitors alike can add this formidable transport to their armies, and customise it to their liking with a choice of pintle-mounted weapons and accessories.

Charonite Ogryn Section

When fighting heavily armoured Space Marines, the regular humans of the Solar Auxilia need warriors capable of facing their post-human foes on something approaching equal terms. Enter Charonite Ogryns.

Biochemically altered, these hulking warriors are squeezed into armoured void suits, pumped full of combat stimulants, and pointed towards the enemy. They wield a variety of claws, blades, shredders and crushers, which are more akin to industrial tools cybernetically implanted into their arms than traditional weapons.

Rapier Fire Support Battery

When the Ogryns aren’t available, overwhelming firepower is a valid option, and Rapier weapons carriers allow the Solar Auxilia to field weapons too heavy to be man-portable.

A Rapier Fire Support battery is designed to operate behind the front lines, delivering long-range firepower via quad launchers and mole mortars. The former, known colloquially as a “thudd gun”, fires a choice of frag shells, which pepper a wide area, or shatter shells, which can smash through enemy armour.

The mole mortar being pointed downwards isn’t a mistake – it fires into the ground, sending munitions burrowing beneath the enemy before exploding in showers of earth and, with any luck, eviscerating the enemy.

Rapier Direct Fire Battery

Other Rapier platforms carry more direct weapons, with the choice of a gravis heavy bolter battery or gravis multi-laser array – both useful for mowing down lightly-armoured enemies – or a powerful, tank-busting laser destroyer.

Updated rules for the new Rapiers and Charonite Ogryns (and for the Command Tank version of the Spartan Prometheus) will be available in the upcoming supplement Journal Tactica: The Battle Of Tallarn – Part 1, which focuses on one of the biggest battles of the Horus Heresy.

We’ll be taking a closer look at that soon. In the meantime, head back to the AdeptiCon Preview hub to see what’s coming for your other favourite games.