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SAVINGS – Plastic Horus Heresy Details Emerge

By Rob Baer | March 9th, 2015 | Categories: Warhammer 40k Rumors

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Checkout the retail values on this deal! Will this be Games Workshop’s biggest hit yet?

Everybody I talked to wants two or more of these, and heck why not checkout the value on this rumored starter box!

Here’s the latest ‘confirmation’ about set itself.

via Steve the Warboss 4-9-2015

Horus Heresy Starter Set

-2 Generic Legio Astartes Armies
-20x Tactical Marines (2 Sprues)
-5x Cataphractii Terminators (1 Spure)
-1x Contemptor Dreadnought (1 Sprue)
-2x Legio Centurions (both with options for Consul options, 2 identical Sprues)
-Transfer Sheet with Symbols of 3 Loyal and 3 Traitor Legions
-Suppliment includes a summary of the great crusade with important events and timeline
-Description of the Legions from the Decal Sheet with small history of them

OK, that’s yet another source saying something very close regarding the HH Starter set.  Putting together everything from the last couple weeks from all reliable sources we come up with this:

Horus Heresy Starter Set

2 Identical “Generic Legion” Sides.

EACH SIDE consists of:
-20x Tactical Marines (2 Sprues, There are a handful of Tactical bits on the sprue for Sergeants & other specialists, but not entirely different specialist models.)
-5x Cataphractii Terminators (1 Spure)
-1x Contemptor Dreadnought (1 Sprue)
-1x Legio Centurion/Praetor (with bits for various Consul options, 1 Sprue)
Other Items in the Box:
-Transfer Sheet with Symbols of 3 Loyal and 3 Traitor Legions
-Suppliment includes a summary of the great crusade with important events and timeline
-Description of the Legions from the Decal Sheet with small history of them
-Gaming Set Includes a Suppliment for the Age of Darkness
-Rules and a Dettachment for Playing Legio Astartes and Xenos in the Past of 40k
-A new Allied Matrix including Xenos of the 31st Millenium
-Very generic Dataslates for the models, only the featured Characters will have specific Background, but can used for any Legion
-Models are designed to fully compatible with Forgeworld’s Legion add-on kits.
Price:
Said to be north of £130.00
Lets take a second to break this down versus the current Forge World prices.
54 Heresy models, including 2 Contemptors, 10 Cataphractii, and 40 dudes, plus command figures.
Normal retail approx; 450.00 GBP = 680.693 USD for the same items!
With that kind of savings I think we all have some wiggle room on the price.  Plus to be honest I’d rather work with plastic over resin.
So the big question may be not if it’s for real, but how much will it cost for the plastic starter??
Plus if I was a betting man, I’d wager with the sprues structured like this we’ll see individual box sets released to support this new ‘Horus Heresy’ line.
How many boxes are you down for? Leave it in the comments below!