Horus Heresy Plastic Space Marines by GW CONFIRMED (images 1st post)

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**Istvaan**

My hobby shop propietor is under the impression, enough to tell me, that 30k is coming this summer and that GW is finishing up its contract with WB for LotR. I've read, though, that the LotR contract is in place for another two years, so I don't know how reliable the former is, either. The third piece of news he had was that WHFB is reducing the amount of minis needed per battle, which he hoped would have more people buy into the series because they won't need to buy so much to get started. Again, all three at once, not sure if all, none or some is true, ya herrd?

**pretre**

Istvaan wrote:
My hobby shop propietor is under the impression, enough to tell me, that 30k is coming this summer and that GW is finishing up its contract with WB for LotR. I've read, though, that the LotR contract is in place for another two years, so I don't know how reliable the former is, either. The third piece of news he had was that WHFB is reducing the amount of minis needed per battle, which he hoped would have more people buy into the series because they won't need to buy so much to get started. Again, all three at once, not sure if all, none or some is true, ya herrd?

Sounds like your hobby shop proprietor is reading the internet and not any other real source.

**the clone**

i think he has a point, gw hasn't supplied any solid info

**darkcloak**

Size difference? How much are we talking here? Does FW pa scale up with current GW pa?

**Torga_DW**

pretre wrote:
Istvaan wrote:
My hobby shop propietor is under the impression, enough to tell me, that 30k is coming this summer and that GW is finishing up its contract with WB for LotR. I've read, though, that the LotR contract is in place for another two years, so I don't know how reliable the former is, either. The third piece of news he had was that WHFB is reducing the amount of minis needed per battle, which he hoped would have more people buy into the series because they won't need to buy so much to get started. Again, all three at once, not sure if all, none or some is true, ya herrd?

Sounds like your hobby shop proprietor is reading the internet and not any other real source.

Valid enough rumours though, they are what's going around at the moment.

**the clone**

if games workshop make plastic 30k than what about rules? i myself will probably just use them as standard marines but will others use fw rules or will it be update with 8th edition. will they be more elite than the standard marine or will they be roughly the same. all in all i will be over the moon if gw make plastic 30k marines primarily for armour swaps and kitbashing with the occasional 5 man squad thrown in.

**alphaecho**

Now, this is pure speculation on my part following the receipt of the little gizzit below in my most recent Mail Order

I surmise the numeral 'I' is an indicator for the Dark Angels, along with the use of the horizontal Tac arrows.

A big assumption on my part is, never having noticed the use of that numeral with the Tac arrows before is that it could be a Legion marking.

Hint of upcoming Horus Heresy??

**Mathieu Raymond**

Oh man that badge is hot. I know I'm trying to sell my Dark Angels, but damn I want that.

**AllSeeingSkink**

pretre wrote:
Istvaan wrote:
My hobby shop propietor is under the impression, enough to tell me, that 30k is coming this summer and that GW is finishing up its contract with WB for LotR. I've read, though, that the LotR contract is in place for another two years, so I don't know how reliable the former is, either. The third piece of news he had was that WHFB is reducing the amount of minis needed per battle, which he hoped would have more people buy into the series because they won't need to buy so much to get started. Again, all three at once, not sure if all, none or some is true, ya herrd?

Sounds like your hobby shop proprietor is reading the internet and not any other real source.

I think that's basically it. Hobby store owners have no more information than anyone else, the only advantage they might have is they get new releases delivered to them a few days before the actual release date (which is when all the leaked pictures flood in).

Beyond that, the most they know is what they read on the exact same forums and rumour sites that the rest of us are reading (or crap they just invent themselves). My local GW store manager is at least honest in that he is upfront about saying he has no idea what's coming out more than a week in advance and any rumours he has he's just gotten from the internet like the rest of us.

**the clone**

i guess all we can do is wait until gw releases some solid info

**ImAGeek**

the clone wrote:
i guess all we can do is wait until gw releases some solid info

So, one week before it happens...

**Johnnytorrance**

the clone wrote:
if games workshop make plastic 30k than what about rules? i myself will probably just use them as standard marines but will others use fw rules or will it be update with 8th edition. will they be more elite than the standard marine or will they be roughly the same. all in all i will be over the moon if gw make plastic 30k marines primarily for armour swaps and kitbashing with the occasional 5 man squad thrown in.

The rumor about 30k is its a board game with plastic marines you can use with 30k. There's no need to make 30k units for 40k. It doesn't make sense due to the time line.

**bubber**

Selling a BA apothecary for £18 while being able to pick up Typhus for £11 doesn't make sense either......

**lliu**

bubber wrote:
Selling a BA apothecary for £18 while being able to pick up Typhus for £11 doesn't make sense either......

And what's with that giant goblet? That's a bit too Holy Grailish.

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alphaecho wrote:

Now, this is pure speculation on my part following the receipt of the little gizzit below in my most recent Mail Order

I surmise the numeral 'I' is an indicator for the Dark Angels, along with the use of the horizontal Tac arrows.

A big assumption on my part is, never having noticed the use of that numeral with the Tac arrows before is that it could be a Legion marking.

Hint of upcoming Horus Heresy??

That color is an indication of the black horus heresy symbol of the Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus/Black Legion. The pin could relate to more stuff about the Unforgiven.

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Will they release any primarchs? I don't think so, but will they?

**Formosa**

No we will not see a gw primarch, several reasons.

They don't do finecast anymore
nor do they do metal
this leaves plastic and it's extremely doubtful they will release 1 or 2 primarchs in plastic
Fw does the primarchs

**Talys**

Formosa wrote:
No we will not see a gw primarch, several reasons.

They don't do finecast anymore
nor do they do metal
this leaves plastic and it's extremely doubtful they will release 1 or 2 primarchs in plastic
Fw does the primarchs

I don't think we will see a GW primarch any time soon. But I don't think that not doing finecast or metal makes it a good reason.

Think about it -- if they wrote in a way to revive Roboute Guilliman (and made him playable as a 40k LoW), GW would sell a bazillion plastic clampacks at $50 a piece, or whatever. Or they could include him as a "bonus" in a $200 box of stuff that they want to get rid of!

**TwilightSparkles**

The I symbol is the style GW uses for the Inquisition, so probably Deathwatch symbol after they retcon the old markings.

**Whumbachumba**

TwilightSparkles wrote:

The I symbol is the style GW uses for the Inquisition, so probably Deathwatch symbol after they retcon the old markings.

The Inquisition symbol is similar, but not the same. It has a skull in the middle and three lines on each side extending outwards.

The Dark Angels codex has pictures of a very similar squad marking on page 73. It has the arrow extending left and right with the numbers 1 & 2 in them. Change the number into roman numerals and it would look just like these pins.

**lliu**

Whumbachumba wrote:
TwilightSparkles wrote:

The I symbol is the style GW uses for the Inquisition, so probably Deathwatch symbol after they retcon the old markings.

The Inquisition symbol is similar, but not the same. It has a skull in the middle and three lines on each side extending outwards.

The Dark Angels codex has pictures of a very similar squad marking on page 73. It has the arrow extending left and right with the numbers 1 & 2 in them. Change the number into roman numerals and it would look just like these pins.

Amen. Exactly.

**PandaMango141**

Dark Angels vs Chaos SM box set...

Maybe it's unmarked Dark Angels vs Fallen and this is the plastic HH box set everyone's talking about.

**manrogue**

Just spotted this on BoLS-

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2015/04/oh-snap-plastic-horus-heresy-uncovered.html
OH SNAP: Plastic Horus Heresy Uncovered!

Posted by Larry Vela at April 15, 2015

Oh, How the Plot Thickens! Your wallet won’t survive this. Hello plastic Horus Heresy!

First, here is the today’s news:

Just in from Atia on Bolter & Chainsword 4-15-2015

Coming Very Soon – Horus Heresy Product: redirect found:
“Horus Heresy – Age of Darkness”
http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/…ge-of-darkness

Next week’s White Dwarf Teaser says:
“Can you Save the Galaxy”

“Citadel Legends

“Forge World”

So we may be looking at that Plastic Horus Heresy set coming up for pre-sale April 25, with a streetdate of May 2nd.

Note that most previous rumormongers up till last month were saying to look for plastic Horus Heresy in May with only “Lords of War” saying it was not going to happen. It looks like we will know who’s really correct next week.

**Nvs**

I was still holding out hope that the HH box was just a rerelease of BFG and we could fight do the naval battle at the siege or terra or something.

But I'd probably buy anything they release at this point so bring it.

**Talys**

Wow wow wow. Going to be a banner year for GW purchases for me, the way it's shaping up :X

**lliu**

Will definitely go and buy some. Looks epic!

**Eldarain**

Talys wrote:
Wow wow wow. Going to be a banner year for GW purchases for me, the way it's shaping up :X

Which is really saying something coming from you.

**edlowe**

Thought it maybe for the hh black libary book, but then the redirect would send you to the bl page. Guess it could be legit

unless their selling the hh books through the main gw site.

**manrogue**

Yeah my initial thought was a HH novel, any precedence for them to be sold through GW proper rather than BL?

LoWG was pretty adamant that plastic HH wasn't coming in May (or any time soon).

**gianlucafiorentini123**

If this is true god help my wallet!

**Azreal13**

Larry Vela is a coin flip, so I'd still expect LoW to be right, but even a broken clock is right twice a day.

I'd be really pleased if it is true, I'd essentially decided to quietly all but withdraw from playing 40K if the Eldar stuff panned out (not because I have to win, but because it would be the most obvious sign that GW does not care about making a playable game yet.)

A widely available HH game could be just the thing to allow me to keep a gaming toe in the universe I like most.

**RedFox**

there's a lot of BL books on GW main site...