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I'm thinking of building a pre-heresy Emperor's Children army and I was wondering:

 

what units/vehicles in the new SM codex would not fit with a pre-heresy army? Specifically, what about land raider crusaders, redeemers, razorbacks and speeders? Any other weapons/vehicles/units that you would avoid? Thanks in advance.

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Check out Bell of Lost Souls' Horus Heresy mini-dex, it has all the info your looking for. Also if you need artistic inspiration i would highly recommend picking up a copy of the Horus Heresy: Collected Visions. It has everything a pre-heresy modeler such as your self will need

As the guys above have said, also for a more indepth view of individual forces and characters (although these are more specific) take a look at the Tempus Fugitives rules for their continuing campaign:

 

Tempus Fugitives downloads

 

Scroll a little way down for the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy rulebooks (there is a seperate one for Emperor, Horus and various Aliens).

 

Also, here is a comprehensive llist which deals with what is and what is not available during the heresy:

 

From the great crusade forum

Assault cannons, or their prototype versions, were available in limited numbers (hull mounted weapons being the more common example of this)

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/Pacific81/lorg.jpg

 

Theres also a pic of a support squad of marines holding one but unfortunately I don't have that one to hand.

Razorback is a redicovery of the oldest versions of the Predator. According to the Forge World book the original Preds had no side sponsons and carried 6 troops for support. Later it traded the troops for the sponsons and more ammo. But I don't know if that version was still in use durring the early years of the crusade.

Assault cannons are a tricky one.

 

Most fluff (and rules sets) says they were uncommon/not developed.

 

But there's a piece of SW artwork, where a devvie squad is toting about 8 of the cannons, in power armour!

 

 

 

Having played with the TF's lists, they are an excellent way of representing M31 marines and I would definitely recommend them.

Hmm, once again I will have to disagree with this im afraid at least as far as vehicles are concerned - theres mention of one in Galaxy in flames, the IA article on the Baal predator (which confirms it is pre-heresy), not to mention Collected Visions. There was a higher basis of technology in the Great Crusade than 10,000 years later. This was when the weapon was first developed, so as the crusade went on they would have become more and more prevalent.

 

There are several more than these below, but these are the only ones on pa-sy and I'm not going to risk ire by uploading them myself

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/Pacific81/poarthDREAD.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/Pacific81/wroath.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/Pacific81/ymirDREAD.jpg

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