Horus Heresy Exemplary Battles of the Age of Darkness - Volume I

[Lord Marshal]

Alrighty then.

 

 

TLDR: Four existing Exemplary Battles, one new Exemplary Battle (with Salamanders Sanctifers), corrupted Emperor's Children and Fulgrim Transfigured rules in print. 

 

Edited September 7, 2023 by Lord Marshal

[darkhorse0607]

Ah. Another riveting Heresy Thursday

[StrangerOrders]

Well, at least that solves for the two people out there that did not consider Exemplary units valid...

 

Yay?

[Petitioner's City]

Absolutely lovely to have this; a book with a kitbash section, with lore and narrative? Love it - it's like an old chapter approved compilation, so good to have. 

[Noserenda]

Its alright, reprinting/updating free content is the epitome of filler though, this had better be in addition to the campaign books rather than instead of, especially as at this rate theres more than a handful of these before we hit clear water. 

really doubling down on Fulgrim though eh? Though i guess that was decided before they knew the reactions? 

[Astartes Consul]

Un...unexpected...!

 

More things in print is good! And I guess it moves these rules from 'Expanded' to 'Core' if that is relevant. Who knows, maybe brand new Salamanders rules will mean Praetors soon?

 

11 minutes ago, darkhorse0607 said:

Ah. Another riveting Heresy Thursday

 

I mean, when they announced new plastic tanks every other week, we all said it was too much...

 

[Stitch5000]

Makes me think there's more to deamon fulgrim than just a single unit profile. 

[arnesh88]

Im really curious what the sanctified squad is. Never heard of them

[Nagashsnee]

Could they not have put in 1-2 missions to give mech, militia, auxilia and talons a unit too? Was there truly no other room past the re prints? How hard could it be to make up a slightly different version of castellax? Or introduced a arvus lander thats has been packed with explosives? Anything! 

 

[Lord Marshal]

3 minutes ago, Nagashsnee said:

Could they not have put in 1-2 missions to give mech, militia, auxilia and talons a unit too? Was there truly no other room past the re prints? How hard could it be to make up a slightly different version of castellax? Or introduced a arvus lander thats has been packed with explosives? Anything! 

 

 

They said future WarCom Exemplary Battles would focus on non-Marine units, so presumably they'll be in their own Volume (3?) down the line.

 

Personally I'd rather have a book which is just non-Marine stuff by itself, than have them shared across a bunch of Marine-focused books.

 

Edited September 7, 2023 by Lord Marshal

[Noserenda]

1 minute ago, Nagashsnee said:

Could they not have put in 1-2 missions to give mech, militia, auxilia and talons a unit too? Was there truly no other room past the re prints? How hard could it be to make up a slightly different version of castellax? Or introduced a arvus lander thats has been packed with explosives? Anything! 

 

That would involve writing new content though, rather than some reprints and probably something from the cutting room floor. Id cut some slack for a rush product to fill in the gap intended for an Epic book but the timelines dont match up and they are planning a whole series of these...

[Matcap86]

Huh, weird release.

[Petitioner's City]

There is more than just Fulgrim in the book for E's C's; as it says

 

[derLumpi]

Well, if the price is reasonable I buy it.

[TheHaplessHeretic]

So I guess this rules out that the next campaign book will feature Fulgrim and the EC?

[Minuros]

I've been waiting to restart an Emperor's Children army for 30K for some time. This and Fulgrim will be a definitive buy for me.

[SalamandersBro]

1 hour ago, arnesh88 said:

Im really curious what the sanctified squad is. Never heard of them

Same! What is a Sanctifier Squad?

[Silent Observant]

Probably Fulgrim / EC vs Salamander Sanctifiers

[Casual Heresy]

An unexpected release but one I'll be picking up for the lore and updated Nemesis Destroyer rules. Plus Battle of Calth sounds great as my best mate has just started getting in to Heresy with Word Bearers.

[Xenith]

I guess this explains GW's weird timescale, scheduling and decreased time between editions of games, HH2.0 came out end of June 2022, so less than 15 months ago in real time, which is apparently almost 24 months in the Eye of Terror (Lenton).

[loginomicon]

I read the thing a bit quickly. Will this have all the exemplary of battle that came out ? 

 

I'm kinda mixed about it really, I'm a lore guy and I think the new books are really is poor in term of art and cool lore like the old black books were. This release scream low effort to get the rules for fulgrim in something that can be monetized...

 

anyway can't wait to see what's inside

[Cactus]

7 minutes ago, loginomicon said:

I read the thing a bit quickly. Will this have all the exemplary of battle that came out ?

There's a TLDR in the first post that answers your question.

[Aztek]

I'm actually very excited for this. New Night Lords units. New awesome Fulgrim model. Let's go!

[Misterduch]

51 minutes ago, Aztek said:

I'm actually very excited for this. New Night Lords units. New awesome Fulgrim model. Let's go!

the way he article is written, only the Salamanders are getting a brand new unit outside of the EC.

[Marshal Rohr]

Oh buddy, I hope they expand options for Huscarls eventually.