Welcome to the Jungle…. Heresy.

[eternal_warrior12]

So with the coming of the new Civil War box coming my buddy and I are trying to decide what legion we want to play and I’m down to two.

 

Nathaniel Garro and the Valorous 88 (Loyal Death Guard)

 

Or Iron Warriors because of cool.

 

I know tons about the Heresy but very little about the actual game. May I get some insight how these two would perform on the tabletop.

[Cris R]

I can let others speak to the play style for both Legions but the overall mindset of the 30k community is less focused on how Legions perform, which you see in competitive tabletop games, and more on which ones get you excited to play the game and paint your models. You're already thinking along those lines but I wanted to flag this as you get into the game. 

[Marshal Mittens]

Loyalist Deathguard are cool, and Garro did lots of cool stuff.

[UtariOnzo]

The answer is, it depends on the list. All the legions will play very similar if you ignore all the rites of war and go with basic core units. However, with iron warriors you have a bunch of options to go either infantry and artillery heavy with their rites of war, or a nice big mechanised force with the hammer of olympia, or a terminator core alongside Perty thanks to their teleport rules etc etc

 

Nathanial you’ll get deathguard, but might want to go for a small elite veteran force to be able to play outnumbered, but not be overwhelmed. Or you could lean into massed infantry to take advantage of the death guard rules. Or whatever you like.

 

Horus heresy community is, unlike 40k, much more theme and narrative focused for building forces (though netlisting, waac/spartan bomb spam lists still exist of course) so the limit and way your force will play is your imagination

[MARK0SIAN]

With the Caveat that any legion can be geared (to a reasonable degree) to play in any way you like, the iron warriors rules and legion specific units tend to favour a shooty style of play. They have access to iron havocs which are a kind of better heavy support squad and tyrant siege terminators which have storm bolters and havoc launchers. Both units are really thematic for the iron warriors.

 

They also have access to iron circle automata which are, in my opinion, some of the coolest heresy models to date.

 

They also have an awesome paint scheme!

 

In a way, Deathguard and iron warriors share some similarities in playstyle in that they want to advance and grind the enemy down/outlast them to a certain degree.

 

I’ve never played Deathguard myself but I think you’d have fun with whichever you went for.

[eternal_warrior12]

Thank you all! Garro it is then. Plus being Death Guard I don’t have to put any flair or accoutrements on them.