With the new edition imminent, there are more Horus Heresy new rules release rumors about what we may see this summer from Forge World and GW!
A new Horus Heresy Starter Set has finally been sort of confirmed by GW, the latest rumors seem to be more in line with a larger release for growing the game once again! Plus, they deal with how Games Workshop will actually handle the possible transition from Forge World of Horus Heresy.
Let’s start with a recap of value and possible price points for the Horus Heresy starter box (es) then get into the latest new rumors swirling around the release…
Here’s the most up-to-date list of new Horus Heresy Rules & Product Leaks. Click on the gallery above to see new Horus Heresy models and rules rumors!
Incredible Value For New Plastic Horus Heresy Starter Set
Thanks to the following exclusive image submitted by a Spikey Bits reader from this summer, we now have more to go off and a better idea of everything in the set. If these are right, this could be a gigantic starter.
Also just to note, these are all going to be priced in plastic.
- 40 Mark III Space Marines $200 ($50 for 10)
- 10 Cataphractii Terminators $130 ($65 for 5)
- Contemptor Dreadnought $60 (based on the existing kit)
- Characters $50 (based on the Space Marine Characters pack)
- Spartan $100 (drop from resin based on the Repulsor Executioner price)
- Rulebook and other potential accessories (note the absence of any templates…)
Total MSRP: $540
Total Values: if it’s priced in box at $200: $340 / at $300: $240
Whatever the price comes out to be, even at $300 this could really have the value-packed in there. Especially if the price of the Spartan doesn’t drop as we would expect.
If they do price this at the $200 mark (doesn’t look like it), it could really bring new players into the game, especially if the rules are coming updated along with it.
4 New Horus Heresy Plastic Starter Box Sets
Once again on Reddit, user u/Admiral_SKK, has more recent rumors focused around the new Horus Heresy plastic Starter Set(s.) New rumors have been added below in red and some grammar has been corrected.
Fundamentally the rumor states the “new” rules will still be true to 7th Edition, which we assumed from the Starter set pictures that showed a scatter die and templates still.
Age of Darkness – The Horus Heresy Launch Box:
As known, the Box will have the following content:
– 40 MkVI Marines
– 10 Cataphract Terminators
– 1 Spartan
– 1 Contemptor Dreadnought
– 1 Imperial Fist Castellan
– 1 Sons of Horus / Trainer Praetor
– “Age of Darkness” Rulebook
– “Horus Heresy” Intro Booklet
– “Battle for Heta-Gladius” Campaign Booklet
– Other Stuff for new Players
Story of the Box is about the Battle for Heta-Gladius, when the SoH
assaulted a small but important Imperial Garrison manned by Imperial Fists,
Blood Angels and the Imperial Army.
‘Heta-Gladius’ Launch Box:
- 240£
- Miniatures (as said)
- IF Castellan has two head options (with and without helmet)
- SoH Preator has three head options (with and without helmet, corrupted face)
- Campaign Booklet (as said)
- Horus Heresy Fluff Intro Booklet (as said)
- Large Softcover Rulebook
- FW Horus Heresy Catalogue
- Horus Heresy Flyer (how to expand your Horus Heresy Armies)
Already the new plastic Horus Heresy Starter Set Launch Box looks to have way more in it than the previous two starters, and now may definitely end up being the Indomitus version of 30k. Especially with this latest path to market rumors.
Considering the last two boxes for Horus Heresy were only $150 though, this may just be to push the price to that $200-300 mark. So we’ll see what happens with that.
We’ll have to wait a little longer on the confirmed price to decide that, but there are also some rumors this could be GW trying to up the price to $300 for a starter set.
Big Intro Box:
Supposedly this Launch box will be followed several months later by smaller new configuration repackaged sets just like the previous Indomitus, and Dominion set launches for Warhammer 40k and AoS.
- 180£
- Miniatures (as said)
- Both Characters / HQ choices are not the same identical from the Launch Box
- Dreadnought is the Mosopose from the Calth Box
- Large Softcover Rulebook
- FW Horus Heresy Catalogue
- Horus Heresy Flyer (how to expand your Horus Heresy Armies)
This was previously rumored to have the following contents:
– 30 MkVI Marines
– 10 Terminators (don’t know if Cataphracts or Tartaros)
– 1 Contemptor Dreadnought (the Monopose one)
– 2 Characters
Medium Intro Box:
- 100 £
- Miniatures (as said)
- Both Characters / HQ choices are not the same identical from the Launch Box
- Dreadnought is the Mosopose from the Calth Box
- Small Softcover Rulebook
- Horus Heresy Flyer (how to expand your Horus Heresy Armies)
This version was previously rumored to have the following contents:
– 20 MkVI Marines
– 5 Terminators (don’t know if Cataphracts or Tartaros)
– 1 Contemptor Dreadnought (the Monopose one)
– 2 Characters
Small Intro Box
- 40 £
- Miniatures (as said)
- Small Softcover Rulebook
- Horus Heresy Flyer (how to expand your Horus Heresy Armies)
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This was said to come only with ten of the new MkVI marines.
RUMORS: Horus Heresy Releases June-September with Prices
According to Faeit, these are the new Horus Heresy releases that we will see this summer! Keep in mind these prices seem a little low compared to some of their 40k equivalents.
- “Heta-Gladius” Launch Box: – £240
- Rulebook – £43
- Three Codex like compilation Books – £32.50 each: Loyalists, Traitors, Other Age of Darkness Armies – Loyalists and Traitors
- Three different Starter Sets – £180 /£100 / £40 each
- Space Marine Legionary + Paints Sets (A + B) – £23 each featuring 3 Space Marines and 7 paints
- Getting Started with Horus Heresy Magazine – £10 Includes 2 Space Marine Legionaries
- Space Marine Legion Tactical Squad – £36
- 10 Models multipart in the same fashion as the Chaos Space Marines
- Common weapon options
- Deimos Pattern Rhino – £31
- Space Marine Legion Praetor – £22 Not the same Model than was already shown
- Deimos Pattern Predator – £39
- Upgrade Sprue Sons of Horus – £9.50
- Upgrade Sprue Imperial Fists – £9.50
- Upgrade Sprue Blood Angels – £9.50
- Upgrade Sprue Emperors Children – £9.50
- Upgrade Sprue White Scras – £9.50
- Upgrade Spue World Eaters – £9.50
- Deimos Pattern Vindicator – £39
- Kratos Battle Tank – £52.50
- Land Raider – £52.50
- Land Raider Spartan – £60
- Contemptor Dreadnought – £35
- Space Marine Tactical Squad + Rhino – £57
- Deimos Pattern Rhino Suqadron – £87
- Deimos Pattern Predator Squadron – £107
- Space Marine Auxillary (details unknown)
From the looks of it, there may be a pretty aggressive four-month path to market for the new edition of Horus Heresy starting in June of 2022.
RUMORS: More New Horus Heresy Rules & Forge World Releases
These also come from Faeit212 and they say are from a very solid source.
- Spartan and Deimos Rhino-based Vehicles will have options to build the Crew with different armors (MkIII and MkVI).
- Those Compilation Books are a stop-gap for more Expansion releases with new unit options.
- There exist plans for separate codex books for EVERY Space Marine Legion which will be released over the next years.
- GW doesn’t plan a 3 years Edition lifetime for Horus Heresy.
- FW weapon packs for special and heavy weapons will be sold regularly via the GW main shop after the release of HH as a new main game.
- This is another test run to sell FW stuff via GW.
- They plan to release certain smaller model parts which can be produced fast and with a lesser risk of miscasts.
So overall these rumors seem to paint this wave of new releases as a test run of sorts to see how moving a game (like Horus Heresy) from Forge World to Games Workshop will work.
Here’s the most up-to-date list of new Horus Heresy Rules & Product Leaks. Click on the gallery above to see new Horus Heresy models and rules rumors!
- 4 New Plastic Horus Heresy Starter Box Sets
- All the Horus Heresy New Models & Rules
- Horus Heresy Legion Rules
- Horus Heresy Weapon & Unit Rules
All the Newest GW Model & Rules Previews
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