Horus Heresy: Plastic Boxed Set Latest
It’s been a couple of weeks Heresy fans, and the latest tidbits are drip, drip, dripping out. Come see!
via Warseer’s grissom2006 9-18-2015
Regarding the Plastic Horus Heresy Boxed Set:
Well according to my sources within GW the price tag floating around in here of it being £95 is wrong and it’s going to be a three figure price tag. Not going to say the amount as it would be all to easily sourced back to my source. As for those after a release date start thinking about the end of October (expected preorders) start of November time (actual release).
…I’ll expand slightly on the thinking behind why the pricing is likely to be in the realms of what i keep on hearing. The current think is that GW is looking at three gaming systems AOS being the first stage entry level gaming quick to pick up and play and complete with free rules. 40K more complex game to play and greater cost due to codices add ons etc.. Horus Hersey being the top end of the gaming spectrum and aimed at veterans/experienced gamers supposedly complete with even more complex rules.
Ohh and just to add into the mix there may not be just one set release but TWO!!
…I can see how one can think Marine on Marine will be simpler. But the formations the weapons the specialist rules that each chapter had could be become a lot more engaging and much bigger than that of the chapter tactics we currently have. We are talking about an era in which the Primarchs were in command not a set of chapter masters that we currently have. A marine is a remarkable creation but that could never achieve what the Primarchs could. There are units that operated weapons and other things all lost with the Hersey. The game is set while all that stuff is very much still there for use and hasn’t become the stuff of legends and myths. So there is plenty of scope for it to be more complex even if the basic starting block isn’t that gets supplied in the box which is meant to be PACKED to the GILLS.
via Warseer’s Wintermute
It is Ultramarines vs Word Bearers.
According to my sources: the rules are not 8th Ed and they haven’t been Sigmared simplified. The major difference is that the ‘read this first’ sections and the reference cards have simple to follow tables. For example the BS rule instead of being the traditional ‘BS3 =4+’ style in fact has the BS as ‘4+’. All other rules are as per 7th edition which will also be in the box.
I can tell you there are no points values in the box its intended to be a stand alone game but it will teach the basics of 7th Ed.
(Editor’s note – Regarding price of the game): I was hoping you wouldn’t ask me that. What would you pay?
The HH Box will (hopefully) be available to buy at the 40k Open Day in October.
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