Heresy 3.0 in Spring/Summer

[Bung]

4 hours ago, No Foes Remain said:

Not that limited though, to borrow the chart from 1d6chan's tactics page:

 

12 out of 19 consoles (generic not legion) can take termie armour, sure they have limited wargear but at the end of the day it will be the same options taken, a combi weapon and either a thunder hammer or power fist.

 

If you are not in a min-maxing Community, you see more variance, like Consuls with Bike and Jetpack.

 

[Mandragola]

2 hours ago, Bung said:

 

If you are not in a min-maxing Community, you see more variance, like Consuls with Bike and Jetpack.

 

True but losing access to options doesn’t affect the balance of the game if you still have access to the best stuff. It affects how much you can personalise your characters but not who wins the game. 
 

For my Raven Guard I do nearly always use power armour on food or with a jump pack, but that’s so I get infiltrate (on foot) or to join dark furies. Otherwise that extra wound would be very appealing. 

[Bung]

3 hours ago, Mandragola said:

True but losing access to options doesn’t affect the balance of the game if you still have access to the best stuff. It affects how much you can personalise your characters but not who wins the game. 

 

Depends how you define the best Options.

Moritats are a fine example which are Power Armour only and can be good (looking at Iron Hands and IF)

 

And if you dont play IF, a Charakter with Jump Pack is one of the few Options to get Deep Strike in a Charakter.

 

Granted, some stuff only works for Certain Legions.

[Astartes Consul]

On 4/29/2025 at 4:50 AM, Chapter Master Valrak said:

You also forgot me hiding in the walls.

 

You mean behind walls, surely, Son of Dorn?

 

 

 

 

I wonder if we'll have another Heresy-less Thursday today? The last time there were three weeks without anything was back at the tail end of 1.0, when GW were doing the monthly Legion Dispatch instead, I think?

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[Gaz Taylor]

No Heresy Thursday, so looking more like we won't hear anything until the Dallas preview. 

 

I'm just hoping there are Day 1 lists for people to use, the rules don't waffle. 

[darkhorse0607]

1 hour ago, Gaz Taylor said:

No Heresy Thursday, so looking more like we won't hear anything until the Dallas preview. 

 

 

Did they post that somewhere on social media? There are still 3 more slots today (10:30, 11, 11:30 for EST) that they normally post articles

 

and yes I realize I'm huffing hopium

 

Edit

 

My hopium has failed

Edited May 1 by darkhorse0607

[Mogger351]

13 minutes ago, darkhorse0607 said:

 

Did they post that somewhere on social media? There are still 3 more slots today (10:30, 11, 11:30 for EST) that they normally post articles

 

and yes I realize I'm huffing hopium

They showed off a new LotR model so the specialist games slot for Thursday is done.

[Astartes Consul]

8 minutes ago, Mogger351 said:

They showed off a new LotR model so the specialist games slot for Thursday is done.

 

Nah, usually they do both LotR and HH. 

[Ripper.McGuirl]

[Xirix]

We've still got like an hour and a quarter until the usual latest time they post the article.

[01RTB01]

2 hours ago, Astartes Consul said:

 

Nah, usually they do both LotR and HH. 

Apart from when they don't ;)

[Mogger351]

35 minutes ago, 01RTB01 said:

Apart from when they don't ;)

Which is more than they do? It's very usually one or the other.

[Ripper.McGuirl]

Between the lack of Thursdays, the lack of any Heresy at the Adepticon preview, and the lack of any preorders this week, it’s really feeling like a big release is imminent. 

[01RTB01]

18 minutes ago, Mogger351 said:

Which is more than they do? It's very usually one or the other.

Agreed. I don't especially remember seeing both HH and mesbg on the same Thursdays.

[Imriy]

I theorize that with the lack of Heresy Thursdays and the general lack of Heresy at anything else, there will likely be either a box or a smaller release sometime soon. Hadn't they done something similar with 10e, or am I misremembering? 

[darkhorse0607]

2 hours ago, Imriy said:

Hadn't they done something similar with 10e, or am I misremembering? 

 

Similar, I believe there was one or two releases but nothing major, same for AoS

 

The big difference is that they announced 10th edition and whatever edition AoS is at Adepticon during those years, so people generally understood that it would be quiet.

 

While we all have seen the rumors from here and Valrak, there's been no wording on a suspension of Heresy Thursdays (like they normally do when there's a big gap) or a new edition by WHC which makes it feel like it's almost in limbo

[TheTrans]

8 hours ago, Gaz Taylor said:

No Heresy Thursday, so looking more like we won't hear anything until the Dallas preview. 

 

I'm just hoping there are Day 1 lists for people to use, the rules don't waffle. 

Yeah the 2.0 drop was great fun for every player that didn't play a base legion ey... god that was terrible haha. 

101 on how to suck the wind out of a release's sails! 

[Schrödingers Primarch]

The last Heresy preview stated "something new each month." We'll see a model and / or release in May. Should a new edition preview at the Dallas Open, it's possible we don't see the 3.0 release until July or later. Horus Heresy 2.0 was announced March 23rd, 2022 and released in June, 2022 for context. 

[Gaz Taylor]

14 hours ago, Schrödingers Primarch said:

The last Heresy preview stated "something new each month." We'll see a model and / or release in May. Should a new edition preview at the Dallas Open, it's possible we don't see the 3.0 release until July or later. Horus Heresy 2.0 was announced March 23rd, 2022 and released in June, 2022 for context. 

I think if they show it off at the Dallas preview, we will see it in July. GW have usually released a summer game for as long as I can remember (30 plus years!), but I can see things being delayed with all the recent tariff stuff going on.

 

17 hours ago, TheTrans said:

Yeah the 2.0 drop was great fun for every player that didn't play a base legion ey... god that was terrible haha. 

101 on how to suck the wind out of a release's sails! 

I couldn't believe it when it dropped. It was like "Wow, this looks cool" and then just had to wait for rules for stuff. I'm really hoping we get to see some pdfs but then they may just take the approach that the target audience will just buy whatever books they need on release. They just need to be there on release. 

[ZeroWolf]

16 minutes ago, Gaz Taylor said:

I think if they show it off at the Dallas preview, we will see it in July. GW have usually released a summer game for as long as I can remember (30 plus years!), but I can see things being delayed with all the recent tariff stuff going on.

 

I couldn't believe it when it dropped. It was like "Wow, this looks cool" and then just had to wait for rules for stuff. I'm really hoping we get to see some pdfs but then they may just take the approach that the target audience will just buy whatever books they need on release. They just need to be there on release. 

To be fair, didn't AoS 4 launch in July last year anyway? Their production troubles might have led them to shift things a little bit

[Wraith776]

Possibly has all the nonsense in the US delayed a potential release schedule? They may be looking at options to deal with it.

There is a good 20 pages in this thread so no idea if it has been discussed or not.

[Corswain]

Doesn't seem to have affected GW's release thus far.

 

We'll never really know unless GW tell us anyway. We're not privy to their release schedule so everything is rumour and educated guesses so for all we know it could release in September but maybe that was always the plan.

[crimsondave]

7 minutes ago, Wraith776 said:

Possibly has all the nonsense in the US delayed a potential release schedule? They may be looking at options to deal with it.

There is a good 20 pages in this thread so no idea if it has been discussed or not.

I seriously doubt it.  $32 on a $315 box is noticeable but I can’t see it keeping people willing to spend $300+ away.  GW has been well in the black so they could eat it or share it.  Even if they passed 100% on I think people will buy it regardless.  The book is likely printed in China but if it goes through the UK for packaging it will probably be ok, but I’m not sure how that works.

[Marshal Rohr]

Fortunately for us, GW is so cutting edge they were operating like they had tariffs and a collapsed global supply chain for years before the tariffs or supply chain collapse.