They are also keeping all the different sizes of blasts, which again, is great to see as it’s one of the mainstays of the game. The box that you’ve been waiting for. Warhammer: The Horus Heresy – Age of Darkness is a titanic offering. Available in English, French, and German, this box contains 54 plastic miniatures – two distinct Praetors, 40 Tactical Space Marines in Mark VI power armour, 10 Cataphractii Terminators, a Contemptor Dreadnought, and a Spartan Assault Tank. Everything except the Terminators are brand-new models. Melta Blast-Gun: Now we’re talking. 36″ range, so you’re getting armourbane only 6″ closer than the Flashburn Shells, and it’s a vicious 4 shots with enough Strength to cause Instant Death. This basically doesn’t have a bad choice of target other than maybe speeders and aircraft – pump four shots into a vehicle in melta range and you’ve got a good chance of totalling it no matter what it is. Pump four shots into infantry and that’s probably a few dead guys even if they have invulnerable saves and multiple wounds. It’s cheaper than taking Flashburn shells and it’s better. If you want to maximise the output of the Kratos, this is the main gun for you.

We don’t tend to look at construction guides in any real detail in these articles, but today we’ve decided to make an exception. There are two reasons for this. Well, I think. There are some serious problems evaluating this unit. Firstly, it has a special rule not in the core rulebook or the Liber Astartes/Hereticus (Independent Fire Control) and also mounts by default a “battlecannon” which isn’t in the Liber, and that can be switched out for a “Vanquisher battlecannon” which also doesn’t currently have rules. And finally, with the build guide out of the way and the cardboard frame removed, we find everything else.In the aftermath of the Age of Darkness and The Scouring that followed, worlds that had been lost vanished from the memories of Mankind. Proud Forge Worlds, once lauded in triumphant song and tales of awe, left nothing but their names, etched onto the ancient metalwork of weapons they once fabricated.

Big guns accounted for, how about moving large cohorts of heavily armoured Legionaries right up to the enemy lines and disgorging them into the heart of combat? Even the mighty Mastodon is having its hull tinkered with to suit these new plastic sponsons.As you’ll see in the unboxing above, there’s an absolutely vast amount of stuff in the Age of Darkness box. There is, in fact, so much stuff in the new Horus Heresy box that there was absolutely no way I could get it all in my lightbox. I’ve had to swipe the promo photo from Games Workshop’s webstore for the sake of this review. Source: Games Workshop Webstore As for other equipment the Dozer Blade is probably a sensible choice (there’s nothing worse than immobilising a tank turn one by driving over some rubble) and the searchlights are ok but I’d probably keep them on a sacrificial rhino or something similar rather than lighting up your heavy tank like a christmas tree.

Alternatively, if you want to chew through massed ranks of enemy infantry, you can go with the volkite cardanelle. This giant heat ray will merrily melt the flesh from their lightly-armoured bones. Guns are all well and good, but battlefield logistics are even more thrilling – relaying commands to your platoons is the stuff tabletop generals dream of. A new resin upgrade kit will let you outfit your plastic Deimos-pattern Rhino with a trusty vox relay and geo-locator beacon, transforming it into a Damocles Command Rhino from which your commanders can display their tactical brilliance.Forge World is also supporting the new edition of Warhammer: The Horus Heresy *** with a range of items – first up, even more accessories to make your Legions look the best they can. Sons of Horus MKVI Shoulders Pads and Heads Need to kill your enemies from further away? There’s an upgrade kit containing 10 heavy bolters and 10 missile launchers.

The Mark VI Tactical Squad is one of the most flexible kits ever. It’s the lynchpin of your army – which you need to claim objectives and win games, and with the addition of these new weapon upgrade kits, you can transform it into Legion Tactical Support Squads or Legion Heavy Support Squads to really bring the hurt. Stalwart and immovable, the Imperial Fists believe in the best offence being a good defence. Except for when the best offence is a good offence, which they also do quite well.The Horus Heresy has only really been a Forge World thing until now. With only a couple of plastic boxed-games releases, the range of resin miniatures never had the same appeal as the plastic Warhammer Fantasy/Age of Sigmar and Warhammer 40,000 ranges (because it’s comparatively a nightmare to build). But now, with a new range of plastic miniatures, times are changing. The Kratos is all but extinct in the 41st Millennium, but it was a common sight during the brutal battles of the Horus Heresy, where every Legion would field these armoured behemoths as line-breakers. One of the most flexible legions, you can actually go a couple of different ways easily enough with this box. The Dark Angels are split up into the six wings of the Hexagrammaton, so it’s common to focus in on one of those for your army, at least to begin with. Little changed over millennia, Space Marine shotguns – also known as Legiones Astartes shotguns – are short ranged assault weapons. Whilst more powerful than those issued to other Imperial armed forces, Space Marine Shotguns are simple weapons that are relatively easy to produce and maintain.