Bombard Horus With the New Plastic Solar Auxilia Basilisk & Medusa

By Travis Pasch | February 22nd, 2024 | Categories: astra militarum, Forge World, Games Workshop, Games Workshop Previews, Horus Heresy, Imperial Guard, Tabletop Gaming News & Rumors, Warhammer Community

GW promised more plastic Solar Auxilia for Horus Heresy, and they are delivering a new Basilisk and Medusa dual kit!

The Solar Auxilia are humanity’s finest mortal troops, and they’re coming to the battlefield with a range of new plastic kits! This is the 2nd kit we’ve seen since the huge reveal at LVO, and we expect to see even more! Just keep in mind that this won’t be in that big launch box. Even if you don’t play Horus Heresy, these would make for one of the coolest Guard regiments out there!

Bombard Horus With the New Plastic Solar Auxilia Basilisk & Medusa

Here is the latest on the new plastic Solar Auxilia kits from Warhammer Community.

In the 31st Millennium, if you’re not a genetically enhanced super-soldier, you have to rely on prosaic considerations such as ‘weight of fire’ and ‘strength in numbers’. The Solar Auxilia understand this – which is why they have so many armoured vehicles. For instance, the Basilisk and the Medusa.

If you’re planning on playing the Solar Auxilia, you need as many tanks as you can get! What kind of human is fighting Space Marines without tanks?

Sharing a chassis, these two workhorse medium tanks demolish things at long and close range, respectively. The Basilisk mounts an earthshaker cannon that puts out denture-rattling Strength 9 hits at extreme range as an Ordnance weapon with the Barrage special rule.

A dual kit is always nice as you get way more bits, and if you can magnetize this, you can get way more value out of your kit! The Basilisk looks pretty awesome and since it’s in plastic, it should be a much better experience to build.

The Medusa, on the other hand, prefers to get up close with the Strength 9 medusa mortar, another Ordnance weapon, this one with the Rending special rule. Neither alternative is especially pleasant for anyone who finds themself on the operative end of either barrel.

If you’re a little braver, you can get up close and personal with the Medusa and smash the enemy with ordinance weapons.

Crew Details

This is a dual kit which makes one self-propelled gun in the pattern of your preference, but there are loads of options to customise it to your exacting standards. For instance, the hatch may be built open or closed, and there are two head options for a tank commander, who may either be built examining a monitor or operating a pintle weapon.

This kit looks like it will have all kinds of options and should give you plenty of bits to build out your forces.