Forge World Drills For Horus Heresy Night Lords And Blood Angels
January 24, 2019 by dracs
Forge World are delving back into the tumultuous times of the Horus Heresy, bringing out new releases for the Night Lords, Blood Angels, and the Mechanicum at this year's Horus Heresy Weekender.
Fear The Night
The Night Lords are arguably the most terrifying Space Marines, even before they turned to Chaos. the armour of these two Praetors, one with a jet pack and one in terminator armour, highlight their favoured methods of brutally striking fear into their enemies.
Both of these figures make very intimidating character models, perfect for leading units of these vicious killers. The details on the armour, especially their grizzly trophies, are very effective, though I do think their stances are rather dull.
Now, what's more terrifying than a Night Lord? A Night Lord Dreadnought!
This new Night Lords Leviathan Dreadnought body features plenty of Legion-specific iconography and details to separate it from other such war machines.
While this is a particularly cool and intimidating model, I do think that Forge World may have missed a trick given the larger canvas it gives them to work with. On the other hand (which is currently pinned to the dreadnought's hip), too much would have made it rather comical.
The Blood Angel Elite
The loyalist companies have a little love too, in the form of the Crimson Paladins for the Blood Angels.
Even by the standards of Horus Heresy terminators, these are beautiful sculpts. Their shields and close combat weapons makes them the perfect front-line troops for an army.
It's the shields that really makes them stand out, their ornate decoration matching that of their armour to set them above even their fellow Blood Angels.
The Mechanicum Digs Deep
Perhaps one of the most exciting things Forge World have previewed has to be the Mechanicum's Ordinatus Aktaeus.
This drill serves as a super-heavy transport, helping you to bring your soldiers wherever you need them to be on the tabletop. That's not to mention the damage a massive drill turning up beneath your feet can do.
I love this model. It may be rather simple in its design, but it shows off the grungy style of the Mechanicum and puts me in mind of pulp TV like Thunderbirds, which is just fantastic to see.
Are you going to Forge World's Horus Heresy Weekender? What are you excited to see?
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Those Night Lords and Blood Angels are really good but that drill thing is overly silly to my taste. When I see that drill thing I can only think ones from 80’s TMNT cartoon that bad guys used.
My question is, how do night lords always manage to attach flayed skin, decapitated heads, and evicerated corpses to their armor while the armor remains 100% pristine of any blood or gore? 😉
Dammit man, they are still space marines after all! Hahaha
That drill transport thingy is very impressive but it’s the Night Lord with the chain-spear that really shines out in this update for me.
The drill is begging for orkification, think it looks like it would make a great base for a flyer scratch build…. As for the tracks can think of many uses, though as is I think it looks a bit rubbish, way to much like a copy and paste of a tmnt transport module or the mole from thunder birds As for the rest bit of a mixed bag in my opinion, the BA’s are nice enough but not nice enough to make me want to buy them, love the nightlords stuff apart from the dread, i hope that torso is… Read more »
Ooh very nice I like the mole perfect for new epic titanicus gamer’s.
That corpse on the Dreadnought… is that that 40k equivalent to dead flies on a cars windshield? 😉
Come on GW, you’ve made a drilling machine, just give us some Squats.
There’s one in the necromunda range. The stunty end of the wedge … ??
both of these ^^^ x5
“Reset the Clock!!”
I don’t play 30k…. But I NEED those Blood Angels 🙂
That’s for sure!
only thing i can see wrong is fluff wise the dead marine has ribs when it’s meant to be a solid bone to protect his gizzards
I really like the BA shields and chestplates, but I find this mark of terminator a bit gangly and awkward to look at, sadly.
I love the tunneler and the dreadnought. I like the terminator praetor but the stretched face / skull of the power armoured one looks pretty odd to me.
Night Lord Praetors look good. The Deadnought looks ok apart from the corpse on the front. From the size of the corpse it should be a marine? If that is a marine, why does it have ribs? Marines have one complete chest cavity.
The legs on some of the Blood Angel Terminators look too thin (but perhaps only at the picture).
And that “Drilldo” thing….not for me 😉