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First Look At Prospero Burns – Unboxing & Review

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Ruin has come to Prospero, But all is not dust! Check out our first look unboxing of the brand new Horus Heresy: Burning Of Prospero!

The Horus Heresy Burning Of Prospero is everything we have been waiting for and Games Workshop has knocked it out of the park!

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This kit comes with a ton of normal generic MK3 Space Marines that you can paint up to represent any legion you want.

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The New Tatarus Armor is here in plastic with tons of weapon load outs for all your 30k or 40k needs!

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The Custodian’s Sprue is very possible and each has their own storm shields so you can kit them all the same or switch it up if you choose.

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The Sisters of Silence are each on an individual sprue. Very detailed with fur capes and a couple of head options.

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The fluff book is here to get us all hype with a solid back story.

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We love to see that two quick reference sheets come in this box.

Here’s the complete load of the box via Games Workshop:

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 and Witchseekers, 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.

For the entire video unboxing, check out the video below:

We will be taking a closer look at all of the individual components and more over the next week here on Spikey Bits!

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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