Horus Heresy - A Brief History of Mark VI Power Armour

[No Foes Remain]

Warhammer: The Horus Heresy – A Brief History of Mark VI Power Armour

 

 

  Warhammer Community have put up a new article regarding the Mark VI power armour, a few new tidbits and some better images of other Legions in Mark VI.

 

 

Strangely I think the shoulder pads on the Legion art look too far down (or too small, maybe both?) in comparison to the models above.

 

[Marshal Reinhard]

Beak.

[Bradeh]

Embrace the Beak.

 

Edited May 17, 2022 by Bradeh

[Slave to Darkness]

Embrace the Beak.

 

I wonder if they corrected his spelling and made him write it out 100 times?

[Arkhanist]

 

Strangely I think the shoulder pads on the Legion art look too far down (or too small, maybe both?) in comparison to the models above.

 

I think you're right about looking a little low - normally you can see a bit of the upper arm, but in the art they come right down to the elbow ribbing.

 

 

Both bangels and world eaters in MK VI. As a literal beardy who still has his original RTB01 bangels, and is starting WE now; yum.

Edited May 17, 2022 by Arkhanist

[Redcomet]

Blood Angels rtb01 was my very first army project of any kind. So this pulls in all the right nostalgia strings

[RedFurioso]

New art looks cheap :(

 

[WrathOfTheLion]

Looks pretty analogous to me, except less shiny, more weathered and at a different perspective.

[Captain Taelos]

Yeah, I really like the colour plates they showed.

[Marshal Mittens]

I like the new plates alright, world eaters look great.

[lansalt]

World Eaters need to look more agressive, maybe with painted teeth like the old RT Flesh Eaters

[Karhedron]

I don't agree with the potted history of Mk6 armour in the article. The HH novels claim that Mk6 armour was introduced after the Istvaan Massacre and the first suits were delivered the Raven Guard for field testing. Alpha Legion infiltrators stole the designs along with the pure geneseed that Corax was using to develop the Raptors.

[lansalt]

Yeah, but the later Black Books ignored/"reinterpreted" that, and gave MkVI not only to RG and the AL, but also to other legions like White Scars or Dark Angels before the war started.

[Gederas]

I don't agree with the potted history of Mk6 armour in the article. The HH novels claim that Mk6 armour was introduced after the Istvaan Massacre and the first suits were delivered the Raven Guard for field testing. Alpha Legion infiltrators stole the designs along with the pure geneseed that Corax was using to develop the Raptors.

Which is directly contradicted by every single one of the Black Books

 

Edit: Ninja'd

Edited May 17, 2022 by Gederas

[BitsHammer]

I don't agree with the potted history of Mk6 armour in the article. The HH novels claim that Mk6 armour was introduced after the Istvaan Massacre and the first suits were delivered the Raven Guard for field testing. Alpha Legion infiltrators stole the designs along with the pure geneseed that Corax was using to develop the Raptors.

Yeah, things aren't always that clear cut. I mean we've got lore going back years saying that MkVI was more common than that:

 

Also, based on the tie in book it looks like the box set isn't the Siege of Terra exactly, but the Siege of Cthonia which is apparently 12-14.M31 which puts it around Late-Heresy according to the timeline:

[Gederas]

There's also book covers before the Heresy showing Mark VI iirc

[Slave to Darkness]

We have just gone full circle, 1st edition epic was Mk6 marines, and that was our first taste of the heresy. 

[Slave to Darkness]

There's also book covers before the Heresy showing Mark VI iirc

Right of the guy with the red toilet brush on his head.

 

If I recall rightly Shroud Film Laurie Goulding was hired by GW to deal with the 'inconsistencies' between the Heresy books, I wonder if the general lore is under his gaze as well?

Edited May 18, 2022 by Slave to Darkness

[01RTB01]

The leaked docs already confirmed it was siege of cthonia for the new box setting. Not that it strictly matters as they're thankfully all generic

[Jareddm]

 

If I recall rightly Shroud Film Laurie Goulding was hired by GW to deal with the 'inconsistencies' between the Heresy books, I wonder if the general lore is under his gaze as well?

 

Goulding left GW ~5 years ago.  As far as we know, there is no one doing this particular job anymore.

[Felix Antipodes]

 

 

If I recall rightly Shroud Film Laurie Goulding was hired by GW to deal with the 'inconsistencies' between the Heresy books, I wonder if the general lore is under his gaze as well?

 

Goulding left GW ~5 years ago.  As far as we know, there is no one doing this particular job anymore.

 

And it shows 

[Slave to Darkness]

 

 

 

If I recall rightly Shroud Film Laurie Goulding was hired by GW to deal with the 'inconsistencies' between the Heresy books, I wonder if the general lore is under his gaze as well?

 

Goulding left GW ~5 years ago.  As far as we know, there is no one doing this particular job anymore.

 

And it shows 

 

Always made me laugh when he got hired considering he was leaning towards 'me no likey GW anymore', fun fact, the term Great Crusade was registered/copyrighted to him before he worked for GW as a big middle finger to them. I miss that guy, his music was pretty good as well. Tbh if it wasnt for his forum and some absolute legends like Doghouse and Apologist influencing people to truescale and sculpt/kitbash Mk7 into earlier marks (not forgetting BoLS and Tempus Fugitives producing rules sets, yes BoLS was actually good at one point) I dont think the heresy would be as popular as it is now. 

[Noserenda]

Yeah Tempus fugitives directly proved to GW that the Heresy was tenable as a setting, weirdly enough i was looking at pics of a game with Laurie at WHW during the Tempus Fugitives era just now :D 

As for the pics, side by side the White scar just ooozes more character even if the World eater is technically more detailed, the eyes maybe? But then there is something i dislike about the new Mk6 in general that i cant define so its probably that.

[Slave to Darkness]

Yeah Tempus fugitives directly proved to GW that the Heresy was tenable as a setting, weirdly enough i was looking at pics of a game with Laurie at WHW during the Tempus Fugitives era just now  

 

 

Just found his old youtube channel, giving his old tunes a blast, I cant believe all that fun stuff happened over ten years ago, memories... :wub:

 

As for the quality of the pictures, at least they are not the dodgy MS Paint looking ones they were sticking in all the 7th ed books. I really dont know what the Warp GW was doing there, would have looked better if they were coloured in with chunky crayons by a kid. 

[Fire Golem]

I don’t think the new plates look as good as the old ones either, which is a shame. They’re not bad by any means though.