Horus Heresy: More Details & Dates
The Plastic Horus Heresy hints just keep on coming as we get closer. Here’s the latest to hit the scene:
We’ve been pieceing together tidbits of the impending plastic Horus Heresy range since Q1 of this year. Here’s a rumormonger who’s been chiming in for months and his latest:
via Warseer’s Grissim2006 (collated from the last several months)
“I’ve actually heard they are going with a plastic Contemptor kit and heard it off multiple sources who’ve never once in 15+ yrs steered me wrong.
The think with starter box sets the plastics for the core games in them are never designed in line with how the rest of the plastic ranges go. They are designed to be simpler in the putting together because they are design as a hobby starter kit as such they make it as easy as possible to get a person up and running with the core basics supplied in the box. With HH they know at the end of the day they do not need not to this marketing ploy the other whelming majority of sales are going to be coming from experienced hobbiests.
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.
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.
Right guys you need to keep yourselves at the ready for dates the 7th and 14th of November 😉
As to the what you can expect i already hinted on that pages back that it wasn’t planned at being a single box release or a stand alone release.”
Plastic Horus Heresy Roundup
~It’s almost here! How would you make Horus Heresy “more advanced/complex” than 40K?
