Are they staying or are they going? Games Workshop said the Horus Heresy rules wouldn’t change for a while. What do you make from all of this?
It wasn’t long ago when Games Workshop said it would take some time before the rules would change for The Horus Heresy. But let’s take a look at some of the book descriptions between Black Library and Forge World that a lot of keen eyed hobbyists noticed this evening.
Do they tell a different story about the fate of this premium book series that many have collected for years.
UPDATE: GW has reverted back the descriptions of the digital product to match the physical ones. You can see the new reverted texts by clicking on the product header links below:
Mechanicum: Taghmata Army List
For the first time ever, Forge World rules are available in Tablet and Enhanced Editions! The Mechanicum Taghmata Army List brings the war machines of the Legio Cybernetica, the Knight houses and the Titan Legions to the tabletop, with full rules and background.
READ IT BECAUSE
All players of Horus Heresy games can benefit from adding some Mechanicum (or Dark Mechanicum if that’s your metal bag) to their army, and with this digital edition, it’s easier than ever to carry the rules with you!Warhammer 40,000 is being updated soon and we’ll be releasing updated rules for playing games set during The Horus Heresy shortly after. Though the rules in this title won’t be compatible with the updated version of Warhammer 40,000 or the upcoming Horus Heresy rules, all of the great hobby content and background narrative will be as valid as ever.
Of course, until the new Horus Heresy rules are released, you can continue to use the existing Warhammer 40,000 rules for games set in the Horus Heresy.
And this is what the description is for the same book, but over on Forge World:
Description
A new, updated edition of Warhammer 40,000 is arriving soon.
Games set during The Horus Heresy using Forge World’s Battles in the Age of Darkness expansion will continue to use the rules set out in the current edition of Warhammer 40,000. Please check our Facebook page for further information
The Horus Heresy Mechanicum: Taghmata Army List brings together the Mechanicum units and rules from The Horus Heresy Books One to Five in a 120 page, hard back book. It includes background and profiles for all of the units available to the Mechnicum Taghmata, Legio Cybernetica and Ordo Reductor armies as well as support aircraft, seven classes of Knight, the Warhound, Reaver and immense Warlord Titans and introduces powerful new units such as the Ordinatus Macro Engines.
Additionally, this book includes updated Age of Darkness expansion rules for playing games of Warhammer 40,000 during the Horus Heresy, and all of the weapons profiles and special rules you’ll need for your Mechnicum army.
The Horus Heresy Mechanicum: Taghmata Army List is an expansion to Warhammer 40,000. You will need a copy of the Warhammer 40,000 rulebook in order to use this book.
THE HORUS HERESY LEGIONES ASTARTES: AGE OF DARKNESS LEGIONS
Your digital guide to Horus Heresy Space Marines
In the two centuries of the Great Crusade and the devastating civil war that followed, the eighteen Space Marine Legions were the backbone of Imperial might. With this eBook, you can create your own Space Marine Legion army, an army from legend that will conquer the galaxy… and the tabletop.
READ IT BECAUSE
It’s very simply your complete guide to using a Space Marine Legion army. Indispensable for anyone who wants to wield the might of the Legions in battle.Warhammer 40,000 is being updated soon and we’ll be releasing updated rules for playing games set during The Horus Heresy shortly after. Though the rules in this title won’t be compatible with the updated version of Warhammer 40,000 or the upcoming Horus Heresy rules, all of the great hobby content and background narrative will be as valid as ever.
Of course, until the new Horus Heresy rules are released, you can continue to use the existing Warhammer 40,000 rules for games set in the Horus Heresy.
And once again this is what the description is for the same book, but over on Forge World:
Description
A new, updated edition of Warhammer 40,000 is arriving soon.
Games set during The Horus Heresy using Forge World’s Battles in the Age of Darkness expansion will continue to use the rules set out in the current edition of Warhammer 40,000. Please check our Facebook page for further information
The Horus Heresy Legiones Astartes: Age of Darkness Army List is a 144 page hard back book containing the complete profiles, special rules and wargear, compiled and updated, for all Space Marine Legion armies in Horus Heresy games using the Battles in the Age of Darkness gaming expansion for Warhammer 40,000. This book contains the unit profiles 65 units, from Command units and Troops, such as Legion Tactical Squads, to vast fortifications and devastating super-heavy units like the Stormbird, each available all Space Marine Legion armies including new units such as the Legion Jetbike Sky Slayer Support Squadron.
Collecting together all of the unit profiles and special rules for Space Marine Legion armies from the Horus Heresy Books One to Six, along with the full Battles in the Age of Darkness gaming expansion rules, it allows you to carry something lighter to your games than the weighty tomes of our main volumes, and is intended to be used both as a resource for consulting and collecting your armies and as a handy reference during play.
This book also contains twenty-eight Rites of War previously published in The Horus Heresy Book Six – Retribution. This includes a Rite of War for each of the thirteen Legions found in Legiones Astartes: Age of Darkness Legions.Using this book, you can create army lists for any Space Marine Legion and engage them in the devastating conflicts of The Horus Heresy. This book is intended to be used alongside its companion book – The Horus Heresy Legiones Astartes: Age of Darkness Legions – in which you’ll find special rules and wargear for individual Legions, as well as unique units and unit profiles for the mighty Primarchs.
THE HORUS HERESY COLLECTION
Description
A new, updated edition of Warhammer 40,000 is arriving soon.
Games set during The Horus Heresy using Forge World’s Battles in the Age of Darkness expansion will continue to use the rules set out in the current edition of Warhammer 40,000. Please check our Facebook page for further information
From the later days of the Great Crusade, through the fall of Horus the Warmaster into treachery and the bloody massacres at Isstvan, to the devastation of the Word Bearers attack on the Ultramarines at Calth and the vengeance exacted by the Shattered Legions, the Horus Heresy rages throughout the galaxy. Brother fights brother as the Imperium of humanity burns. Whoever reigns victorious, the galaxy shall be forever changed.
The Horus Heresy Collection comprises of all six Horus Heresy books from Forge World in a great value collection; Book One – Betrayal; Book Two – Massacre; Book Three – Extermination; Book Four – Conquest; Book Five – Tempest; and Book Six – Retribution.
These lavishly printed, leather-bound books contain extensive backgrounds, unit profiles for the Legiones Astartes, Mechanicum, Questoris Knights, Solar Auxilia and other Imperial armies, campaigns and rules for fighting Warhammer 40,000 battles in the Age of Darkness.
Games Workshop literally posted on Warhammer Community after the announcement of 8th titled “The New Edition of Warhammer 40,000 – Your questions answered” and said this:
**A few of you might be wondering how the new edition of Warhammer 40,000 affects Forge World’s Horus Heresy rules and army lists. Well, for the moment, it won’t! You can carry on using the existing Warhammer 40,000 ruleset for your Horus Heresy games.
Did Black Library get the update and Forge World somehow didn’t get the memo? They’re not changing The Horus Heresy, they are changing The Horus Heresy…??? So what exactly is going on here?
We can see where some of the dedicated Horus Heresy hobbyists out there are starting to squirm, especially after reading all the comments on social media this evening.
Let’s be honest here, some people have spent well over $1,000 on the black books plus the two editions of red books that have been printed thus far, and now their is some indication that these books may not be usable anymore just like the 7th Edition codex books?
For those of you out there that might be thinking “just play the version of 30k you want, adjust with the change”, it’s really not that simple. There are still Legions that have not even been fully released yet rules wise and will not therefore may not even be playable with older versions.
What is everyone else’s thoughts on this? We really want to hear what the community has to say about all this. Speak up, now’s your time!
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