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Legions of the Horus Heresy – The Thousand Sons Know More Than You

I've been critical of the writing in these army overviews, but I thought today's was really well done. Some cheeky asides, humorous anticipations of criticism, and knowing in-jokes, e.g. Magnus did *something* wrong.

This one also benefited from a really nice army paint job. It's a slight variation from the normal pattern, but only just slightly and was executed to a solid standard. Kudos to all involved!

Yeah, A+ to whoever wrote this article, and great army showcase.

The lack of color scheme diversity for the founding legions hurts a little here- the painted box army looks like 1st/2nd edition blood angels at that zoom distance. At least the beakies do- its the bright primary colors red.

The one thing about these articles that I really like is the name drops for 'Old Terra' placenames. It makes me want a Unification Wars game.

£180? I'm definitely not that curious about 30K.

That said, it'll be interesting to see the price of the beakies kit, as I wouldn't mind a few beakies as tactials in other games such as Rogue Trader or Kill Team.

SamusDrake wrote:
£180? I'm definitely not that curious about 30K.

That said, it'll be interesting to see the price of the beakies kit, as I wouldn't mind a few beakies as tactials in other games such as Rogue Trader or Kill Team.

Good news! With 40 in each box and discount retailers selling the box for as little as £135, for the rest of this year you're not going to be able to visit ebay without being flooded by cheap beakies.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/05/26/heresy-thursday-wither-under-the-warmasters-gaze-with-these-sons-of-horus-upgrade-kits/

Sons of Horus upgrade kits

Those are pretty distinct heads.

Never like Mk.IV heads, so these are a nice change.

I think it's a bit of a shame they're only showing these upgrade kits as the individual bits, rather than in use on the actual models they're supposed to be upgrades to.

Really nice...looking forward to seeing the Emperor's Children and the Space Wolves.

Frankly, the direction I am seeing from the Horus Heresy launch is making me less and less interested in picking up anything new for 40K, and just focusing on my 30K addiction for some time.

Especially if we start seeing some Dark Mechanicum releases.

I love the "I've seen things, man!" face they painted on the bare head. Pretty nice helmets, too. They'd look the business on all kinds of Chaosy marines, IMO

Those heads are pretty nice. I'll get a set just to put the topknot head on the axe praetor.

Oh my, this presages great things. Eighteen upgrade kits, all presumably with cross compatibility between several different legions, this is gonna be great (though still, ofc, not fully posable!!!).

 Nazrak wrote:
I think it's a bit of a shame they're only showing these upgrade kits as the individual bits, rather than in use on the actual models they're supposed to be upgrades to.

This. Would it kill them to have at least one model wearing one of these helmets?

Is it just me or is the design of these very similar to some of the “space knight” heads available from Spellcrow

Well, that's two weeks in a row of "new heads" for 30KThursday. I now seriously question if there are any more plastic models beyond what we've been shown.

Well my 30k Salamanders army was jacked @ 0245 this morning so now I need a bunch more minis than I had originally intended with the new stuff.

The thing I'm most pissed about is my RTB-01 squad I've had since 1990...and all the OOP FW upgrades/torsos/etc

The leader helmet on the axe praetor looks pretty awesome

Racerguy180 wrote:
Well my 30k Salamanders army was jacked @ 0245 this morning so now I need a bunch more minis than I had originally intended with the new stuff.

The thing I'm most pissed about is my RTB-01 squad I've had since 1990...and all the OOP FW upgrades/torsos/etc

Oh my condolences. Who even steals minis?

 lord_blackfang wrote:

Racerguy180 wrote:
Well my 30k Salamanders army was jacked @ 0245 this morning so now I need a bunch more minis than I had originally intended with the new stuff.

The thing I'm most pissed about is my RTB-01 squad I've had since 1990...and all the OOP FW upgrades/torsos/etc

Oh my condolences. Who even steals minis?

It probably has to do something with people online buying OOP minis for crazy prices.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Who even steals minis?

Off-topic, I'm still occasionally irritated about when someone stole my chaos lord (that my little teen self had put who knows how many hours into converting/painting) off a store gaming table...

 lord_blackfang wrote:

Racerguy180 wrote:
Well my 30k Salamanders army was jacked @ 0245 this morning so now I need a bunch more minis than I had originally intended with the new stuff.

The thing I'm most pissed about is my RTB-01 squad I've had since 1990...and all the OOP FW upgrades/torsos/etc

Oh my condolences. Who even steals minis?

Often been case of grabbing carry case expecting something more common target for thefts. Might been case here too and thief atm not too happy about result either

This is why if I ever make a case I’m putting a radio transmitter in there, not to track it, but to detonate the c4 and shrapnel surprise that’s hidden in the lid, taking out whoever stole it.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

Racerguy180 wrote:
Well my 30k Salamanders army was jacked @ 0245 this morning so now I need a bunch more minis than I had originally intended with the new stuff.

The thing I'm most pissed about is my RTB-01 squad I've had since 1990...and all the OOP FW upgrades/torsos/etc

Oh my condolences. Who even steals minis?

They hit 7 cars within 3 streets of mine.

I can only hope they looked inside the beat up cardboard box, saw what it was and dumped it somewhere close by...

Racerguy180 wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:

Racerguy180 wrote:
Well my 30k Salamanders army was jacked @ 0245 this morning so now I need a bunch more minis than I had originally intended with the new stuff.

The thing I'm most pissed about is my RTB-01 squad I've had since 1990...and all the OOP FW upgrades/torsos/etc

Oh my condolences. Who even steals minis?

They hit 7 cars within 3 streets of mine.

I can only hope they looked inside the beat up cardboard box, saw what it was and dumped it somewhere close by...

Please check local facebook markets, ebay, etc. Sometimes armies that get stolen end up on marketplaces : (

 GaroRobe wrote:

Racerguy180 wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:

Racerguy180 wrote:
Well my 30k Salamanders army was jacked @ 0245 this morning so now I need a bunch more minis than I had originally intended with the new stuff.

The thing I'm most pissed about is my RTB-01 squad I've had since 1990...and all the OOP FW upgrades/torsos/etc

Oh my condolences. Who even steals minis?

They hit 7 cars within 3 streets of mine.

I can only hope they looked inside the beat up cardboard box, saw what it was and dumped it somewhere close by...

Please check local facebook markets, ebay, etc. Sometimes armies that get stolen end up on marketplaces : (

Craigslist as well

The launch box is a loss leader though in GW’s case their margin is so insane that they will still make a great profit on it.

I think Discourse Miniatures pretty much nailed it as she summed up GW’s business plan with Horus Heresy that it is basically GW coming up with a way to get a large segment of their current customers to buy more space marines (re-monitize is the term she used), with an added twist this time in the form of a much heavier focus on plastic DLC, i.e. the upgrade kits.

Buy the marines, buy the weapons sets, buy the legion specific sets = spend way more on a 30K space marine squad than what you currently spend on the 40k equivalent space marine squad (which you probably already had enough for an army.....or 3 or 4 armies )

Honestly, FW is expensive and they definitely will sell lots of upgrade sprues.

But I believe they'd have made so much more money off of plastic ones. Easier to buy, easier to use, etc.

 GaroRobe wrote:
Honestly, FW is expensive and they definitely will sell lots of upgrade sprues.

But I believe they'd have made so much more money off of plastic ones. Easier to buy, easier to use, etc.

Agreed. I will probably skip these specifically because they're resin.

I can print resin bits at home so... yea good luck selling those tho.