Horus Heresy Tarantula Missile Battery

[Lord Marshal]

Aim for the skies.

 

 

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The Tarantula Missile Battery box contains two platforms that can be assembled with Hyperios missile launchers or Orias frag missiles.

 

The Tarantula Missile Battery is made of plastic and will be released later this year, with rules available as a free download here on Warhammer Community.

 

Edited Thursday at 12:58 PM by Lord Marshal

[Matcap86]

Well... Huh. Okay? I guess we'll see the other designs with lascannons and bolters as well in due time then? 

[Vassakov]

Well that came out of nowhere.

[The4thHorseman]

While I can appreciate the nod to the old Whirlwind Crayon launcher design, I do prefer the Previous Version of the Tarantulas.

 

Edited Thursday at 01:08 PM by The4thHorseman

[Astartes Consul]

Weird! Assumed these would go the way over so much other OOP stuff and be excised from the game. So, it's nice to see another quaint, weird little kit survive. Much like the Arvus still being around.

 

Guess it confirms that GW really are going to 28mm scale everything from LI in plastic.

 

9 minutes ago, Vassakov said:

Well that came out of nowhere.

 

What my Xiphon will say when it gets blown from the sky by one of these.

[Robbienw]

This is cool, hope they release the gun variants soon as well.

Edited Thursday at 03:06 PM by Robbienw

[01RTB01]

Weird looking breachers these lol.

 

That notwithstanding, interesting surprise for sure.

[Nephaston]

Camba Diaz on his way to release:

[Lord Marshal]

5 minutes ago, Nephaston said:

Camba Diaz on his way to release:

 

He's just anxious, knowing all the hate he'll get for being an IF character.

[Jukkiz]

50€ for a box where you get 2 tarantulas. I´m calling it

[Deakz28]

Weren’t these supposed to be a part of the rumoured 3rd edition launch box? 

[TheMawr]

1 minute ago, Deakz28 said:

Weren’t these supposed to be a part of the rumoured 3rd edition launch box? 

 

I came in just to say that, also not being aware that these where already excisting Tarantulas.

 

But among the rumor was indeed those turrets like Space crusade had, wich where until this moment the only Tarantulas I knew

[Captain Idaho]

2 minutes ago, Deakz28 said:

Weren’t these supposed to be a part of the rumoured 3rd edition launch box? 

 

I believe those were Rapiers, but does bring up questions eh. Like, maybe the rumour source didn't know the difference, asked his friend what the platforms were in heresy and he went with it.

 

Or maybe the tarantulas heralds Rapiers alongside them in a mainline box?

 

Or a happy coincidence, but as Garak says:

 

 

[Firedrake Cordova]

I quite like the variant with only two missiles (I'm not so keen on the one with banks of them for the reasons @The4thHorseman mentioned - I think the older Hyperios launcher looked better - however, I'm wondering if they can be used to make a Whirlwind conversion that's a bit closer to the old 2nd Edition model ...)

[MoriyaSchism]

50 minutes ago, The4thHorseman said:

While I can appreciate the nod to the old Whirlwind Crayon launcher design, I do prefer the Previous Version of the Tarantulas.

 

Not sure where I would source the launchers but the targeting array with the radome from the old Helios Tarantula is pretty close to the targeting array on the plastic Deredeo Dreadnought missile launcher.

 

I'm happy to see the Tarantula return in plastic. Can't wait to see the other weapon options for it.

Edited Thursday at 01:57 PM by MoriyaSchism

[Nephaston]

Iirc the one in the rumoured box was supposed to be one big emplacement, akin to oversized Icarus Lascannons.

[N1SB]

10 minutes ago, TheMawr said:

But among the rumor was indeed those turrets like Space crusade had, wich where until this moment the only Tarantulas I knew

 

Nono, you know 1 more so this is but a humble reminder, there were lead Tarantulas in 1st ed 40k, after Space Crusade.

 

They were much more industrial-looking with that front armour plate.  I had trouble assembling it, it kept collapsing under its own weight.

[StrangerOrders]

Anyone remember what the point spend on these things is off the top of their heads?

 

They are kind of cute and I've had a bit of an anti-problem recently I 'd prefer to fix for cheap.

[N1SB]

23 minutes ago, StrangerOrders said:

Anyone remember what the point spend on these things is off the top of their heads?

 

They are kind of cute and I've had a bit of an anti-problem recently I 'd prefer to fix for cheap.

 

Iirc they were 30 points each in 1st ed 30k, + weapons.  Like 30 + 10 for Twin Linked Lascannons.  Was a good deal.

[SkimaskMohawk]

And like a lot of interesting things, they're much degraded in 2nd. They don't prioritize targets based on unit type, so the weapons you want shooting at one thing might never do that. They don't get scout or shrouded to represent their hidden positions. They lost BS. They lost options. They got way more expensive.

[Valkyrion]

Being released later this year with free rules to download may imply that the Libers aren't being updated at launch of 3.0, further implying that the new edition will be an update rather than reboot maybe?

[No Foes Remain]

20 minutes ago, SkimaskMohawk said:

And like a lot of interesting things, they're much degraded in 2nd. They don't prioritize targets based on unit type, so the weapons you want shooting at one thing might never do that. They don't get scout or shrouded to represent their hidden positions. They lost BS. They lost options. They got way more expensive.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but most of that was a issue in 1.0 as well wasn't it?

[SkimaskMohawk]

22 minutes ago, No Foes Remain said:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but most of that was a issue in 1.0 as well wasn't it?

 

The issue being they had a narrow use case and were more of a fluffy unit? Ya kinda, but the things I listed were changes 2nd made, so they can't really be shared issues.

 

Like a lascannon tarantula in 1st shot at the closest vehicle/monstrous creature, while a heavy bolter shot at non-vehicles and hyperios only shot flyers; you generally shot at the proper targets.

 

They had scout in 1st to represent that forward picket, and could buy shrouded to represent being concealed (until fired).

 

They were bs3 in 1st as opposed to 2, combined with twinlinked most of their weapons had, they averaged more consistent hits (though the changes to wounds/toughness/armour value/tarantula targeting muddy the water on total output).

 

I was kinda wrong on the price. In 1st it was 35/model+weapons+upgrade, meaning a concealed battery of 3 hyperios tarantulas was something like 195; 3 hyperios tarantulas with augury are 75 points in 2nd. But, you could take units of 1, meaning a single lascannon was 45 points in 1st, where it's now a minimum of 60 points for one in 2nd.

 

Oh, also they went from t6 in 1st to t4 in 2nd lol.

 

None of those previous stats or rules shifted them out of that fluffy zone I mentioned at the start, but at least they felt more useable when you decided to take them. Like that lascannon or multimelta could feasibly pop a non spartan that got in its sights, now you basically only use them to intercept as the las/missiles might be stuck shooting infantry units all game. 

[apologist]

3 hours ago, The4thHorseman said:

While I can appreciate the nod to the old Whirlwind Crayon launcher design, I do prefer the Previous Version of the Tarantulas.

 

 

 

'Crayon launcher' might be my favourite phrase today!

 

While I do like the boxy design pictured, the crayon launcher style hits my retro-vibes, allowing an easy update of the short-lived Epic 40,000-style Whirlwind:

 

[Gorgoff]

Se can only hope that they get usable rules in that PDF. 

The models are really nice. Would be a shame if they still have sucky rules