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A Closer Look – Burning of Prospero: Components

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Join us as we take a closer look at the contents, and not the miniatures, inside the new Horus Heresy Burning of Prospero box!

Today we are going to focus on the components that are included in the Burning of Prospero box since we already covered the rules and miniatures in another video.

Taking a look at the contents we quickly realize that this is one of the best looking stand alone by Games Workshop yet. The tiles have a gloss UV coating on them. They are all highly detailed and double sided but for the first time in like ever there is a component of what looks to be the Emperor of mankind!

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The 32 page rulebook breaks down everything you need to know to play the game as well as some introduction that sets the back story for the stand alone game.

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The fluff book give you a little feel of what the larger Black Books are like from Forge World. This fluff book goes into a detailed back story on all of the units included in the game from Ahriman to Geigor and more!

Check out everything that Rob has to say about the components themselves and more below!

Burning of Prospero: $150

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The Story

On Prospero, the psykers of the Thousand Sons face the ultimate censure for their forbidden studies. The Primarch Leman Russ is sent to punish them by any means necessary – at his command, fire rains from the skies as his Space Wolves fleet bombards Prospero over and over, reducing the world of the Thousand Sons to ash. Tizca, city of glass pyramids and golden hopes, is protected from the fires by a vast force field of telekinetic power. So it is that the Space Wolves bring the Sisters of Silence, anti-psykers anathema to all who channel the Warp, and the Custodian Guard, shining heroes who are the elite blades of the Emperor himself to Prospero, there to attempt the riddance of the Thousand Sons forever.

The Game

The Horus Heresy: Burning of Prospero is a game of running battles set in a city torn apart by a fiery cataclysm, featuring six scenarios designed to stretch the strategic nous of two players. One player controls the Space Marines of the Thousand Sons, reality-twisting psychic superhumans, and one controls the Space Wolves, Sisters of Silence and Custodian Guard. It’s a fast-paced game full of strategic decisions, with the strengths and weaknesses of both sides meaning tactics and foresight are just as important as lucky dice rolls.

The Contents

Inside The Horus Heresy: Burning of Prospero, you’ll find:

Detailed plastic Citadel Miniatures:

–        Geigor Fell-Hand, powerful champion of the Space Wolves, armed with lightning claw and boltgun;
–        Azhek Ahriman, Chief Librarian of the Thousand Sons, wielding a heqa staff and bolt pistol;
–        a Legio Custodes Squad, consisting of a Shield-Captain and 4 Custodian Guard;

The Legio Custodes Squad comes with
–        5 guardian spears,
–        5 sentinel blades,
–        5 storm shields,
–        6 ceremonial daggers,
–        a custodes vexilla,
as well as 5 helmeted heads and 2 bare heads;

–        a Silent Sisterhood Squad, consisting of 1 Sister Superior and 4 Sisters of Silence;

The Silent Sisterhood Squad comes with

–        6 executioner greatswords,
–        5 Umbra-pattern boltguns,
–        5 flamers;

These can be assembled as Vigilators, who specialise in melee and carry executioner greatswords, Prosecutors, who operate more flexibly and carry bolters for longer-range combat andWitchseekers, who carry flamers for devastating multi-target assaults.

The Squad includes 8 heads, and a further 2 head options for the Sister Superior.

–        30 Legion Veteran Tactical Space Marines in MkIII ‘Iron’ Power Armour – these are split into a 10-man Loyalist force and a 20-man Traitor force.

Each set of 10 comes with

–        10 Phobos-pattern bolters,
–        11 chainswords (one left-handed, allowing a Sergeant to take 2 chainswords),
–        1 heavy bolter,
–        1 power sword,
–        1 power fist,
–        1 Phobos-pattern bolt pistol,
–        1 plasma pistol,
–        1 lightning claw,
–        1 melta gun,
–        1 plasma gun,
–        1 Legion Vexila;

as well as 12 helmeted heads and 2 bare heads, with an included transverse helmet crest.

–        5 Tartaros Terminators, who come with

–        5 combi-bolters,
–        5 pairs of power fists,
–        5 pairs of lightning claws,
–        5 left-hand chainfist attachments,
–        1 reaper autocannon,
–        1 plasma blaster,
–        1 heavy flamer,
–        1 grenade harness;

One Terminator can be assembled as a Sergeant, who can be assembled with

–        1 power sword,
–        a unique torso front, loin cloth and shoulder pads,
–        a volkite charger;

There are also 6 helmeted heads, and 1 bare head.

Gaming items:

–        a 16-page book covering the story behind Burning of Prospero;
–        a 32-page rulebook;
–        15 Psychic Power cards;
–        36 Warp Energy and Willpower cards;
–        5 detailed, double-sided board tiles representing the buildings of Prospero;
–        24 dice – an assortment of D6, D8, D10 and D12’s;
–        a transfer sheet.

“London Prospero is burning”

About the Author: Zeb Barrett

I am a huge gamer from miniature war gaming, to board games, to video games. When I'm not hanging out with my son, I try to spend all of my free time gaming in some sort of way and broadcasting on Twitch with my wife. I also like to do some video editing and throw up videos on our YouTube. Come check us out live! Twitch.tv/ChaoticCouplesGaming YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmffaTgT__t0Uu2WFkfQjsA