Tamwulf wrote:They have announced such things during the Forge World Open Day in November or February. I can't remember if they talked about book 9 release dates from the
FW Open Day earlier this year. To tell you the truth, I was more interested in the Blood Angels and Sanguinius. Book 9 is supposed to have what, Dark Angels and Dark Mechanicum? Anything else?
I seem to recall that book 9 was supposed to end the Horus Heresy series, and start a new three book arc for the Siege of Terra.
So let's clear this up a little, starting with book 9 contents (that we roughly know from the
HH Weekender and Open Days so far this year).
- Thramas Crusade: Entire Sector at War, Dark Angels vs Night Lords, with various amounts of the Dark Mech. thrown around too.
- Definitely rules for
DA and Dark Mech units, suggestions of extra stuff for the
NL's but only by deign of them being in the book (nothing confirmed for that Legion as it were, just supposition)
- This is roughly the mid-point book for the
FW Black Campaign Book series, they have plans to do a LOT more (think roughly 20 sketched/noted out off-hand)
- Book 9 does not end the Heresy series (it's not set during the end-point,
FW are still only midway through having only covered Istvann, Calth, Signus Prime, Chondax and (soon) Thramas. Those are all before Imperium Secundus, Tallarn, Horus going to Molech, Beta Garmen (spelling), etc and well before the Solar War.
- Siege of Terra book series ending the Heresy was in relation to the Black Library
HH series, it being a 6/7 part series that details the Siege.
FW has not got up to that point yet, though they have come out and said doing the Siege would be a 3-part series much like how Istvaan was a 3-part series. At present we have no further information on the future of the
FW Heresy than this, though there's no reason to think it is ending anytime soon. Nor is it likely changing to the current
40k rules set either (no matter how people feel on that one, the decision has been made and is being stuck to for now).