Tiny New Drop Pods Fall From The Sky For Legions Imperialis!

By Travis Pasch | September 28th, 2023 | Categories: Drop Pod, Games Workshop, Horus Heresy, Legions Imperialis, Space Marines, Tabletop Gaming News & Rumors

Tiny Drop Pods are going to be a part of Legions Imperialis, perfect for letting your epic-scale minis get into the thick of it!

If you’ve patiently waited for Epic Warhammer 40k to return, it’s being rebranded in the Horus Heresy era as Legions Imperialis. While we’ve seen plenty of the miniatures in the starter box, it’s always nice to see what else will come to the game!

GW announced the game will be pushed back some, but this gives us some more time to decide on the game by looking at the models! If you want to see some of the core rules, you can check those out here. Let’s jump into the new miniatures.

Tiny Drop Pods Coming to Legions Imperialis!

The latest on the new Drop Pods for Legions Imperialis comes from Warhammer Community.

The Legiones Astartes utilise a number of methods of deployment into hostile war zones – but none are more iconic than the Drop Pod assault. Each pod is a self-contained orbital descent capsule, launched from a spacecraft and searing through a planet’s atmosphere before retro jets fire to slow its descent just enough not to be obliterated upon impact with the surface. Upon landing, a deadly cargo of Space Marines charges directly into the heart of battle.

Drop pods are just always cool, and when you have tons and tons of tiny models on the field, do you really want them to walk? No, you send them into the thick of battle where you need them the most!

This kit can also build Deathstorm Drop Pods – an explosive innovation that replaces passengers with rapid firing missile launchers, which lay anti-tank waste to any enemy armour in the vicinity.

What’s really cool about these models is the fact that you don’t have to glue the doors – they’re hinged, and can be opened or closed according to taste.

Deathstorm Drop Pods are also really fun; when the doors drop, instead of troops flying out, missiles do! They mention the box these come in will have four Drop Pods, so you could build two and two, or do all four of one type. They also say it’s coming soon, but we’ll see when it actually drops.