The battlefields of the Horus Heresy were apocalyptic affairs to say the least, with scores of super-heavy vehicles being blown apart in moments and dutiful infantry fighting amongst their burning wrecks. Luckily, today’s big tank will fare much better, with a new plastic kit bringing it bang up to date with the current edition of the game.
Fellblade Super-heavy Battle Tank
The Fellblade is a massive and advanced battle tank designed specifically with the Legiones Astartes in mind, and is the lynchpin of many armoured assaults across the Horus Heresy. Its massive double-barrelled accelerator cannon can put holes in hard targets from an astonishing distance, and the rest of the chassis is bristling with guns, from a hull-mounted demolisher cannon to arrays of defensive heavy bolters.
This huge super-heavy tank was previously available in Forge World resin, and now is ready to rule the battlefield with a new plastic kit. Each Fellblade comes with a choice of paired laser destroyers, gravis heavy bolters, or lascannon arrays on sponsons, while the hull-mounted twin heavy bolters can be swapped for a twin heavy flamer and there’s a choice of pintle-mounted havoc launcher, heavy flamer, heavy bolter or multi-melta.*
MkII Assault Squad
Charge headlong into the action with an old-school Assault Squad clad in MkII Crusade-pattern power armour, sporting distinctive turbine-powered jump packs. This unit can be used as a regular Assault Squad in games of Warhammer: The Horus Heresy and is particularly good for making a Veteran Assault Squad look suitably venerable and experienced.
Each kit contains 10 multi-part plastic Assault Marines with options for bolt pistols or combat shields in their left hands, two power mauls, two heavy chainaxes, two sets of melta bombs, two disintegrator pistols, and an assortment of grenades, pouches, and other customisation parts.*
Journal Tactica: The Forges of Saturn
Discover the origins of the distinctive Saturnine-pattern Terminator armour and Dreadnought in the next Journal Tactica, The Forges of Saturn. This 48-page supplement reveals the early use of Saturnine technology in the Great Crusade and Vulkan’s later efforts to revitalise the designs, including how each of the other 17 Legions reacted to the Primarch’s gift before Horus began his fateful rebellion.
Alongside the new and expanded lore, this book contains rules for three new units – equipping Centurions and Command Squads in Saturnine armour and giving the Word Bearers a unique daemon-infused Terminator unit – and a new Prosperine arcana for the Thousand Sons. It also includes a new Legendary Mission depicting the Salamanders’ assault on the Death Guard’s fortified positions during the Dropsite Massacre, and three new asymmetric Onslaught Missions that task players with attacking their opponent’s defensive lines.*
Legiones Astartes Combat Force
A new trio of Combat Force box sets give you the perfect place to start a new collection for Warhammer: The Horus Heresy – or expand your existing army – starting with the indomitable Legiones Astartes. This versatile set includes a mighty Leviathan Dreadnought equipped with a ranged weapons package, giving you the choice between any two of a cyclonic melta lance, grav flux bombard, or storm cannon, and a Rhino transport vehicle for shuttling your troops around the battlefield.
You also get 20 Space Marines in MkVI power armour and a Heavy Weapons upgrade set including 10 missile launchers and 10 heavy bolters, letting you build each group of 10 as either a Tactical Squad or a Heavy Support Squad. The box is rounded out with a Legiones Astartes decal sheet composed of 293 individual transfers and two Legiones Astartes Vehicle decal sheets with 44 transfers each.
Mechanicum Combat Force
The Mechanicum Combat Force leans into cybernetic troops with a unit of six highly mobile Thallax Cohort miniatures, equipped with lightning guns and with the choice of giving two either phased plasma-fusils, photon thrusters, or multi-meltas. This impressive complement of firepower is supported by a pair of Castellax Battle-automata who can be equipped with shock chargers or power blades and a choice of shoulder-mounted weapon, with two mauler bolt cannons, one darkfire cannon, and one multi-melta included, plus a towering Thanatar Cavas Siege-automata – a walking artillery piece packing an immense Hellex-pattern plasma mortar.
The box includes two Mechanicum Macro-constructs transfer sheets each containing 394 transfers and two Mechanicum Constructs transfer sheets with 558 transfers each.
Solar Auxilia Combat Force
Show those Space Marines the might of humanity’s finest with the Solar Auxilia Combat Force, which musters a full 20-man Lasrifle Section alongside a Tactical Command Section of five miniatures that can instead be assembled as either a lower-ranked Line Command Section or a Legatine Marshal and their bodyguard of four Lifewards – with loads of weapons and accessory parts for customising your officer. Two Hermes Sentinels can be assembled as either the Light or Veletaris variants, with a multi-laser or grenade launcher for the former and a heavy flamer or a volkite caliver for the latter, while a Solar Auxilia Leman Russ provides heavy armoured support with the choice of a battlecannon, twinned heavy lascannons or autocannons, or a long-barrelled Vanquisher battlecannon with a co-axial autocannon in the turret and one of five different hull weapons.
This box includes two Solar Auxilia Infantry Transfer Sheets each containing 152 transfers and two Solar Auxilia Vehicle Transfer Sheets with 180 transfers each.
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim™
Relive the epic tale of the War of the Rohirrim with the first supplement for the new edition of the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game, packed into a 48-page softback supplement filled with new rules and missions. Inside you’ll find a linked campaign of 11 never-before-seen narrative scenarios recreating key moments from the movie, playable as either the forces of Helm Hammerhand and Rohan or the vicious Lord Wulf on his quest for revenge.
This book also includes a selection of guides for alternative paint schemes so you can represent the forces of the various lords of Rohan, with further multi-stage painting guides on how to paint Wulf’s horde of Hill Tribesmen. As a supplement to the core rules, you will need a copy of the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game Rules Manual, and Armies of The Lord of the Rings™ to use the contents of this supplement.
Helm Hammerhand, King of Rohan™
Lead the forces of the Rohirrim with the legendary Helm Hammerhand, King of Rohan – for whom Helm’s Deep is named – at the height of his greatness. Helm is an immensely powerful Hero of Legend with a Fight Value of 6 and a powerful Strength 5, letting him go toe-to-toe with the mightiest warriors of Middle-earth.
This pack of plastic miniatures contains Helm Hammerhand both on foot and mounted on an armoured horse.
Fréaláf Hildeson™, Olwyn™ & Lief™, Heroes of Rohan
Three of Rohan’s finest heroes, who stood beside the horse lords in their hour of greatest need, join the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game as a pack of six plastic miniatures, with foot and mounted versions for each. This set contains Fréaláf Hildeson, the First Marshal of the Riddermark and a seriously strong warrior in his own right, Olwyn, the sworn protector and mentor of Hera, and Lief, a loyal page tasked with delivering the king’s orders to his lords.
Rohirrim™ and Hill Tribesmen™ Dice Sets
Accessorise your army with a set of eight dice cast in complementary colours, featuring the faction logo on the six face. The Riders of Rohan get pearlised green dice with white pips, while the Hill Tribesmen get weathered bone dice with a fetching worn effect on the corners and black pips.
Voidscarred
The Starsplinters are aeldari corsairs, and Baron Myrin Stormdawn is one of their greatest leaders. When his running conflict with the Badskab Bukkaneers of Uzgul da Magnificent escalates in unexpected ways, Myrin is forced into an alliance with Taenar Leotharan, an exiled admiral from his former home: the craftworld Ilmaren.
As Taenar is forced to adapt to the unfettered life of the corsair, where freedom is a double-edged sword, Myrin faces challenges of his own. For when a Starsplinters captain’s authority rests on the success of their last voyage and the whims of their feared commander, Princess Tishria, Uzgul da Magnificent's freebooters may not be the deadliest threat…
Voidscarred is the new aeldari novel from Mike Brooks, and it will be available in a suitably lavish special edition, including art pages, a foreword, an authorial autograph, and the additional short story Invisible Chains.
This novel will also be available in regular hardback, eBook, and MP3 audiobook editions. Special Editions are available strictly while stocks last, so make sure you’re back here on Saturday to get yours.
The Remnant Blade
Dalchian Rassaq, the Skin-Taker – erstwhile lord of the Blades of Atrocity – is broken, battered and betrayed. From the heights of infamy he has fallen, and now his Night Lords face the threat of extinction under the command of a hated rival. Would-be allies and merciless foes circle, and what few warriors remain loyal to him are riven by open defiance. Dalchian must outplay his rivals and regain mastery among his own, or be condemned to oblivion in The Remnant Blade by Mike Vincent.
As the whisper of a phantom voidship reaches him, he sees a chance to reclaim what he has lost and strike out at those who have wronged him. With only a renegade tech-priest and the cruelty of the Night Lords to his advantage, his ordeal will be great. But the will of the Skin-Taker is no meagre thing, and his blades yet thirst…
The Remnant Blade will be available to pre-order in hardback, eBook, and MP3 audiobook editions.
Darkness Eternal: Stories from the 41st Millennium
In the grim darkness of the far future, the galaxy burns as its disparate races fight for resources, territory, and divine purpose. The Imperium of Man faces threats both alien and heretic, and the touch of the warp is ever a moment from seeping into reality, with deadly consequences. Survival is earned in blood.
Darkness Eternal runs the gamut of the Warhammer 40,000 setting, featuring tales from Nate Crowley, Justin D Hill, Peter Fehervari, and many more. With a hugely diverse range of characters from across various factions, Darkness Eternal takes us into the worlds of the savage kroot, the ravenous tyranids and the avaricious Leagues of Votann – and the Imperium of Man’s struggle for primacy against them all.
This compilation of 13 short stories will be available to pre-order in paperback, eBook, and MP3 audiobook editions.
Elemental Council
Pockets of resistance are a constant thorn in the rapidly expanding T’au Empire’s side, and one such insurrection threatens to overwhelm the recently acquired world of Cao Quo in Elemental Council by Noah Van Nguyen. An insurgency commanded by the ruthless Brother-Sergeant Artamax of the Raptors Space Marine Chapter must be put down with all due haste, and the young Ethereal Yor’i is assembling an elite team drawn from all four castes to hunt down the secretive Space Marines.
Elemental Council will be available to pre-order on Saturday in a new paperback format.
This week on Warhammer+, How We Roll delves into the fires of industry for one of the interviews we’ve been anticipating for months – a discussion on Helsmiths of Hashut design with Matt, rules lead for Warhammer Age of Sigmar. On Loremasters, our experts go on crusade with the zealous Black Templars, and Ultimate Paint-off kicks off a three-episode series as four contestants compete in various painting challenges to earn the title of Ultimate Painter – starting with a ‘Contrast’ theme.
Here at Warhammer Community, our own coverage of the Helsmiths of Hashut continues with the next in a series of roundtable discussions with the design team, all leading up to the Army Set’s release in just a couple of weeks.
* This product has been delayed in Australia and New Zealand
