The new Horus Heresy rules are so unplayable for some units that players went ahead and made their own alternative rules!
The new edition of Horus Heresy has some very interesting mechanics, but unfortunately, GW didn’t make rules for every unit, and there are some issues with the game. So, the Horus Heresy community has responded with a new set of player-made rules that seems to be gaining speed!
If you love HH and the minis but aren’t so hot on the rules, this might just be the perfect project for you! Liber Panoptica is the name of the project, and it’s just a really cool community.
Horus Heresy Alternative Rules
You can download the rules here.
They made have made this set of rules for Horus Heresy to strive for balance, and give all the unloved models rules! Not only that, but they have also added a FAQ already, and are in the process of adding Xenos to the game, which just lets more players get into it.
Here’s what they have to say about the project:
As you’re probably already aware if you’re reading this – the Liber Panoptica was a project made by the community and released on HH2.0’s launch day to ensure all models which didn’t have official representation in the rules were usable, as well as providing a full FAQ / Errata / Balance update to the game.
We’ve made some pretty big quality-of-life improvements for this release, first among which is the splitting of the FAQ, Errata, and Balance Changes into their own book, apart from the unit additions. Our second one is to add colour coding to all FAQs, Erratas, and Balance Changes, to make them easily distinguishable at a glance.
The two new supplements will carry different names for ease of distinction; Liber Panoptica will continue to be the FAQs and so on, whilst Liber Centura will be all the new units for the Legiones Astartes.
That’s not all though – as we’ve been busy reaching out across the community to other groups, and we’re excited to reveal that these supplements are not just from the Panoptica Team; we’ve taken the drastic step of unifying our work with that of prominent community ruleswriters from other teams to ensure all future content from us bears their ideas, concepts, testing, and approval. This, married with our rigourous playtesting and proofreading, will help to ensure all community rules are of the highest possible standard. It’s the Panoptica Team’s aim to make it so that instead of the normal question asked, “Are we using X or Y’s changes?”, instead, you will only have to ask, “Are we using the Community FAQ and Rules?” instead.
Now we’ve got the Liber Panoptica & Centura in general release, our aim will be for the Liber Ingenium to see the light of day in the near future. Hot on its heels will be two Xenos races many have wanted to see brought to HH2.0 – and so, the Eldar and the Orks will take to the field soon enough…
This is just a really cool community project, and if you want to play Horus Heresy but don’t love the rules, this may just be for you!
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Liber Panoptica or Liber Centura
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About Rob Baer: Founder, Publisher, & Managing Editor of Spikey Bits, the leading tabletop gaming news website focused on the hobby side of wargaming and miniatures.
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