Warhammer: The Horus Heresy Gets Brand New Cinematic Trailer
March 24, 2022 by brennon
The worst kept secret from the Games Workshop design studio has now been revealed. Warhammer: The Horus Heresy is now officially on its way and we got a great new cinematic trailer to tease us on what's to come...
Cinematic Trailer // Warhammer: The Horus Heresy
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The trailer is pretty awesome and shows Horus striding proudly across the battlefield, cutting down all those that he thinks are lapdogs of the False Emperor. You get a sense of the scope of it all too with massive Legions of Space Marines clashing in various planets whilst Titans and rumbling war machines gouge huge chunks out of Loyalist and Traitor forces.
On the back of the new trailer, we also got a glimpse of some of the new plastic miniatures coming out way for the boxed game.
Praetor // Warhammer: The Horus Herey
Above we see a Sons Of Horus Praetor. A rather chunky individual I think you'll agree with some interesting additions to his armour from various makes and marks. He is shown in the trailer with his rebreather as you see here and helmeted, so I'd assume there will be head options in the set. The eagle-eyed will also have noticed the other character from the set that he duels with momentarily.
As well as the Praetor, we also got a look at a rather fantastic Mk VI Space Marine. A "Beaky" as the Orks would call them in battle.
Mk VI Space Marine // Warhammer: The Horus Heresy
There promises to be a whole host of these in the new boxed game when it lands. It will be interesting to see if they make this more of a Starter Set than a here-and-gone boxed game as we've seen in recent sets. I would imagine all of the plastic elements will be available later in the future anyway - much like with Betrayal At Calth and Burning Of Prospero.
The game rules are going to be refined and retuned but they will still remain 7th Edition Warhammer 40,000. So, it should mean that all of the books you diligently snapped up from Forge World are still relevant.
More reveals are planned every Thursday throughout the month of April so keep an eye out if you're already stoked to see more of The Horus Heresy in plastic.
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"The game rules are going to be refined and retuned but they will still remain 7th Edition Warhammer 40,000..."
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I really want to – I got both the other sets but mostly in assembly still, really needs the rulebook streamlining which I’d hoped they would do last time , and need a few more core in plastic , mainly assault troops and a rhino !
It will be interesting to see how far they go with the plastics – will it be just the core stuff or will they begin to do more specialists. I get the feeling it’s still going to be primarily Forge World orientated.
I was really hoping the rules update would bring this in line with 9th edition 40k. So many amazing AdMech units I can’t use.
I guess they didn’t feel like invalidating the previous line of books – although that hasn’t often stopped them before haha
Most of the community seems to disagree. They could always bring the Admech stuff into 30K with a new book but a lot of people are happy with the current style of rules. Mainly it’s the use of bubble effects and herohammer that turn a lot of people off current 9th edition rules for 30K.
But HeroHammer is what GW do……
yeah … I don’t understand why they stick with an updated 7th edition instead of a clean 9th edition set.
It’s not like the weapons and tactics are that different, right ?
Bolt guns are still guns that shoot big rounds of rocket powered bullets (and somehow manage to eject casings 😉 )
9th has got some problems mostly that every special rule gets a unique name and slapped on a unit and that heroes become a token to stick next to cheese just to buff them, think tooled up melee characters sitting at the board edge to give some OP long range units a reroll. Power creep is at a whole new level to where Tyranid chaff have guns with better stats than Astartes. There’s nothing wrong with the rules that 9th would fix.
yeah the power creep through all those complex ‘special’ rules for troops in 8th/9th was silly (and annoying as fck). Why the heck re-label the same skill across several factions ? However I think that’s because GW doesn’t want to keep the game balanced … and by using different named skills/rules you make any attempt at keeping things balanced so much more difficult. As such it’s not so much the fault of the rules, but of how GW has expanded them to contain the factions in 40k. With 30k/HH there would have been an opportunity to restart the balancing act… Read more »
They stick with 7th because HH is kind of a niche product with a dedicated fan base. Change it to match 40k and not only does it piss off the existing audience but becomes a direct competitor to 40k.
fanbase is going to be pissed off no matter what GW does.
If GW really cared we would never have seen AoS …
As such I can only think of one reason : money
Releasing a re-print with minor updates is cheaper than actually making an effort.
And that’s why they’re sticking with the ancient rules.
It’s not for the fans.
It simply is cheaper for them …
Love the beaky. The praetor looks a bit 40k to me though
That’s a heck of a trailer ?
Scale Creep!
look how long that Mk VI’s legs are!
Excellent.
They do look more proportional at first glance. (At least they are not all posed as if taking a dump!)
Do we know if that is a beaky primaris marine or a normal 32mm chap? Or gal of course.
It’s heresy so it’s a Firstborn. But I have read somewhere that they are a bit bigger then the old models.
Same is said to be true forsome Forgeworld Praetor models and Fafnir Rann:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer40k/comments/t24xwj/for_those_wondering_about_fafnir_ranns_size_next/
A pity we didn’t get to see the starter box. I was hoping to get a peak at it at Adepticon.
That would have been nice, but we will get more information throughout April, so maybe we will see the contents soon enough.
Fingers crossed!
New 30k plastic marines?! Yes please!
Those look really good.
Love the video if they do the heresy well it will be a winner for their games an player’s. more 30K figures you can’t beat that.
the problem is never the art or the lore …
it’s the mechanics themselves.
If they can’t keep their core game streamlined without adding tons of clunky ‘special’ rules then I have my doubts about this one.
yup for sure, I’m hoping they make a good series about the heresy?
It predates primaris marines … so at least they’ve got to make the coolest spacemarines ever : classic beakies 😀
I do hope we get to other factions (surely it’s not brother vs brother ?), but otoh … that limited scope might force them to make good rules for once …
yup the Primaris marines are the new remould’s that’s why their bigger? to beef up troop numbers as the enemy is increasing in numbers over taxing all imperial forces.
nah, everyone had all the spacemarines ever made and threatened to stop buying more.
Thus the primaris were created and given better stats.
And thus the cycle continued.
Probably I’ve not even painted all of mine.
30K has been a game for a long time now and it’s bigger than just Marines v Marines. Different types of cultists/militia, heaps of Admech, elite human troops, demons and a few others. There’s also plenty of pretty widely accepted fan Codecies for Eldar and Orks.
but it has all been Forgeworld exclusive, right ?
At least as far as I know.
This thing sounds like GW itself will sell (something) HH related.
GW has sold small stuff in the past, the two latest characters and Betrayal at Calth were sold by GW. Betrayal was broken up and is still sold as plastic kits.
I forgot about Betrayal at Calth, but I thought that was more boardgame and less like a skirmish game set in the Horus Heresy.
I honestly doubt if anyone actually played it as a board game in any significant numbers. The boxes were bought nearly exclusively for the MK3 and MK4 armours (besides the Terminator variants) – mostly for 30K. It proved to be a great entry point into the large scale skirmish nature of the game.
I could be wrong, but I honestly doubt it.
I think that’s fairly typical for GW ‘boardgames’.
They are usually a pretty good deal for just the minis and the ‘game’ tends to be a bonus.
Well they got away with showing the least amount possible for a reveal. Looks good though, looking forward to it.
Awesome trailer!
I will properly buy this boxset when it eventually releases. Once again I will never play it. However I have loved the idea and pretty much everything about the Horus Heresy since it was first mentioned (apart from the demon Samus – what was that about???).
I assume that there will be different transfers / decals in the box, as I don’t want to drop probably £150 quid plus on a boxset of plastic figures where half of them have to be Imperial Fists! Awful – not sure why they are getting so much attention at the moment!
Samus comes back in a big way during the Siege of Terra books.
Nooooooooooooooo!!!!!
Every now and then I am tempted by 40k, and especially 30K, but I am not willing o spend serious time and money o miniatures that I know will be obsolete in a few years.
Wouldn’t a Horus Heresey game have squats in it?
I still have the Horus Heresy board game from Fantasy Flight and some Beakies from way, WAY back when…..
Is it confirmed that it’s going to remain 7th edition? The trailer and idea of delving into Heresy had me really excited, but I was terrified they were going to ‘update’ the rules to 9th Edition.
If they’re for sure keeping the old rules, then I’m sold.