Another Plastic Horus Heresy Contemptor Dreadnought Spotted

By Travis Pasch | June 6th, 2022 | Categories: Games Workshop Previews, Horus Heresy, Space Marines, Tabletop Gaming News

It looks like a new Horus Heresy Relic Contemptor has been spotted on some promo material, as it’s much different than the…

It wasn’t that long ago we saw all the new sprues in the big Horus Heresy Starter box. However, there was a much different-looking Contemptor spotted with different weaponry and more. So, it looks like GW might follow the route they did with Armigers, where they sell two or three different types separately and in a couple of years, bundle them all together.

The pic comes from the B&C. Let’s get into it!

RUMORS: New Horus Heresy Relic Contemptor Spotted

The Age of Darkness saw the 18 Legions deploy some of the most devastating weapons the Imperium had ever developed – so it’s no surprise they also donned the mightiest armour available. Legion Veterans, Terminators of all flavours, and certain Legion-specific Elites now sport two Wounds to represent their robustness in the face of withering fire.

Dreadnoughts moving to wounds is a big thing, and most of the elite units we’ve seen also have more wounds. Plus, the Dreadnought above is actually not the one in the starter, and we’ve got some more info on how the kit will most likely work.

Here is the new picture, and right away you can see some big differences between the previous plastic monopose model and the Forge World kits.

The first main difference is the chest plate. Generally, GW doesn’t put converted models on box pictures. It has all the iconography of a relic contempt or with what looks to be the Aquila on it.

So besides those chest bits, on the same sprue could be all the extra weapons that don’t come in the original box (like the Kheres Assault Cannon pictured), thus either making you buy a new kit to get all the upgrades or maybe later they will release just the upgrade sprue itself.

Here’s a look at the sprue to see the actual differences via GW influencer Tale of Painters

Here you can see the chest is bare and there are unfortunately not all the weapon options were accustomed to for the Contemtpor. So maybe it would make sense for the relic kit to have exactly everything above, but just one extra sprue, which probably also means it will be more expensive.

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Some people were wondering if it’s just the one from the Calth box, however, the chest looks different, the knees aren’t right, and neither are the angles. Not to mention the old one is monopose.

So really, we think it has to be a new kit with just one extra sprue. We’re not sure exactly when we would see it but probably soon if they are putting pictures of it on Horus Heresy promo material from the open.

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