If the rumours abound on the internet can be beleived, (and there are a substantial amount of them flying around), it looks like Forgeworld, Games Workshops sister company, are about to release a new Warhammer, Warhammer 30,000 (artistic license used with that title)
Based on the Horus Heresy, there will be a series of books similar to the Imperial Armour books such as The siege of Vraks and Battle for Badab, which detail the historical battles taken place during the Horus Heresy.
For people who don't know a lot about their Warhammer 40,000 history, the Horus Heresy was pre M41, when there were huge battles between Space Marine legions and others, about the time when the Emperor was still human, before he was defeated by Horus and place in the Golden Throne. There are lot of books and source material dealing with the subject. On the most basic of levels, Horus was a close leader with the Emperor, but got tainted with chaos, and decided to wreak vengeful wrath on anything and anyone (thats definatly the short story)
So what are Forgeworld going to release? Well, the books look definate, which will contain army lists and history behind the games. Rumors are saying that the first Space Marine legions to be dealt with will be the Luna wolves, Death Guard, Emperor's Children and World Eaters, with Imperial Guard being involved, aswell as some Xeno's. Three Primarchs will also be detailed, Mortarion, Angron and Fulgrim.
New models will be released, and I expect the Primarchs, new HQ units, and special elite units to be created. Maybe there will be special pre-heresy troop models made, but this remains to be seen as it may just be a conversion job.
Games will be centered around 2500pts each side, but there is a snippet of one of the special scenarios being 10,000pts a side and NOT a Apocalypse game.
All in all, looks very promising, with a new take on the game and will spark a whole host of new projects and armies around the world.
After getting into 40k wargames back when I was still at school, it has taken me twenty years to pick up the Horus Heresy series! I'm loving it, and can't wait to see what comes of Forge World taking a swing at it.
ReplyDeleteI think pure awesome will come of this. We have been talking for years about doing pre heresy stuff, but the job was just to much.. but with models coming out then maybe, just maybe it will be possible...
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