Horus Heresy New Edition, or Just Horus Hearsay?

[Mandragola]

I’m writing some articles going through the Astartes units, a couple of FOC slots at a time. 
 

The first article is on High Command and Command. It looks at the units themselves and the detachments they unlock. 
 

https://www.goonhammer.com/horus-heresy-tactica-astartes-high-command-and-command-units-in-third-edition/

 

Next one ought to be Troops and Support, fairly soon. I’ll do all the generic stuff and then see about what to do next. I think we’ll want to do some kind of legion focuses but there’ll apparently be over a hundred legacy units to look at too, plus of course Mech and SA. 

Edited yesterday at 05:54 AM by Mandragola

[Irongert]

7 hours ago, Xirix said:

Damn. I really like the track bridges for the tank-sized fortifications. Iron Warriors doing things in style.

I think the basis for those are the necromunda ash wastes walkways. With some extra greebling attached to the sides. Very good looking diorama indeed. 

[Marshal Loss]

There's a new 'resin restocks' category on the GW website now (link is to the UK store, but it's also on AUS, etc). They seem to have done a mass restock for Salamanders, Iron Warriors, Iron Hands, and World Eaters. Bad luck if you're hoping for something from another legion to come into stock for now. 

[Matcap86]

35 minutes ago, Marshal Loss said:

There's a new 'resin restocks' category on the GW website now (link is to the UK store, but it's also on AUS, etc). They seem to have done a mass restock for Salamanders, Iron Warriors, Iron Hands, and World Eaters. Bad luck if you're hoping for something from another legion to come into stock for now. 

 

You'd think they'd use the "email me when stocked" notification for that. But that's another thing that probably doesn't work on their godforsaken abomination of a webstore.

[Irongert]

Also, at least in my region Perturabo is already out of stock in the newly restocked section 

[Shovellovin]

3 hours ago, Marshal Loss said:

There's a new 'resin restocks' category on the GW website now (link is to the UK store, but it's also on AUS, etc). They seem to have done a mass restock for Salamanders, Iron Warriors, Iron Hands, and World Eaters. Bad luck if you're hoping for something from another legion to come into stock for now. 

Must be a UK only restock. Everything (not exaggerating, I mean everything) is still out of stock in the States. 

[PerfectChocolateMadeleine]

4 hours ago, Irongert said:

Also, at least in my region Perturabo is already out of stock in the newly restocked section 

same, the warsmith is gone too, but the rest is all there. i hope they do this for other legions in the future!

[Marshal Rohr]

I have had the notify me alert on for the Warsmith since it first went out of stock and I have never been notified so I am pretty upset I missed it again. I don’t know what else there is to do besides check the store every :cuss hour. 

[Cactus]

6 hours ago, Matcap86 said:

 

You'd think they'd use the "email me when stocked" notification for that. But that's another thing that probably doesn't work on their godforsaken abomination of a webstore.

I think you're right. My personal success rate for that email is only 1 model out of 3. 

[Shard of Magnus]

I had notify alerts for several of the items on that restock list.  I got one notification about an item being back in stock in the US store yesterday but it was showing sold out by the time I could check.

 

Not sure if there is a time limit before the notify me expires or if I am misremembering what items had on watch.  The availability of stuff is frustrating.

[Nephaston]

Notification worked for me. Timing is bad though as money is tight.

[Matcap86]

Got the Saturnine box a bit early and got to say the MK2 praetor is really well designed as a miniature.

 

The armour on the wrists is done in such a way that they fit perfectly on other MK2/melee arms so pose swapping is very easy.

 

The hiparmour plates are also optional with full details underneath if the reposing of stuff would need a bit more space in that area.

[Deus_Ex_Machina]

10 hours ago, Marshal Loss said:

There's a new 'resin restocks' category on the GW website now (link is to the UK store, but it's also on AUS, etc). They seem to have done a mass restock for Salamanders, Iron Warriors, Iron Hands, and World Eaters. Bad luck if you're hoping for something from another legion to come into stock for now. 

Have they put Legion dice back too?

[Cactus]

9 minutes ago, Deus_Ex_Machina said:

Have they put Legion dice back too?

No.

[Waaagh?]

2 hours ago, Deus_Ex_Machina said:

Have they put Legion dice back too?

 

This is what I'm hoping too 

[rpraetor]

The US GW web page has a large announcement "Add Character to Your Legions.  When you click thru, the primarch models and most other items (resin and plastic) are listed as temporarily out of stock.

[Sgt.Sangha]

23 hours ago, Mandragola said:

I’m writing some articles going through the Astartes units, a couple of FOC slots at a time. 
 

The first article is on High Command and Command. It looks at the units themselves and the detachments they unlock. 
 

https://www.goonhammer.com/horus-heresy-tactica-astartes-high-command-and-command-units-in-third-edition/

 

Next one ought to be Troops and Support, fairly soon. I’ll do all the generic stuff and then see about what to do next. I think we’ll want to do some kind of legion focuses but there’ll apparently be over a hundred legacy units to look at too, plus of course Mech and SA. 

Doing The Emperors work brother thank you!

[Vassakov]

Here's a question... can Gal Vorbak attack?

Cause it almost seems like the answer is no. 

[Sky Potato]

Depends what (Malefic) gives you I guess.

[No Foes Remain]

Seems that way, since Malefic is just a tweaked Corrupted rule. More to be added to the Day 1 FAQ.

[Xenith]

On 7/17/2025 at 2:41 PM, Captain Idaho said:

The article could have been done in 5 mins easily.

 

Schrödingers Games Workshop: simultaneously too incompetent, money grubbing and understaffed to get things right first time and to play test rules, but also efficient and well resourced enough with highly trained staff to create a 200page pdf, write an article and get it approved on a Friday night 

[Captain Idaho]

38 minutes ago, Xenith said:

 

Schrödingers Games Workshop: simultaneously too incompetent, money grubbing and understaffed to get things right first time and to play test rules, but also efficient and well resourced enough with highly trained staff to create a 200page pdf, write an article and get it approved on a Friday night 

 

You don't have to be good quality to write a reactionary article consisting of the kind of prose on Warhammer Community.

 

I wrote more complicated things than that for a living for 15 years and it takes no effort or time when you do it every day for a living.

 

Also, you're attributing accusations I've never said. I've never claimed GW are understaffed. Also, being money grubbing or greedy doesn't affect quality or skill since greed is a personality trait and ambition, so that's a false equivalency.

 

And where is this completed PDF then? There isn't one yet, because it likely hasn't been completed.

 

Incompetent? Sure they are. But an article a week after their disastrous customer liaison as a competent response? Nah.

Edited 13 hours ago by Captain Idaho

[Vassakov]

22 minutes ago, Sky Potato said:

Depends what (Malefic) gives you I guess.

 

Means the unit swaps statuses for taking D3 wounds with no saves allowed. It's pretty solid but doesn't make you a wizard.

Edited 13 hours ago by Vassakov

[Marshal Loss]

Pacifist Gal Vorbak wasn't on my 3.0 bingo card 

[MARK0SIAN]

1 hour ago, Xenith said:

 

Schrödingers Games Workshop: simultaneously too incompetent, money grubbing and understaffed to get things right first time and to play test rules, but also efficient and well resourced enough with highly trained staff to create a 200page pdf, write an article and get it approved on a Friday night 

People aren’t claiming they invented the whole PDF in response to the backlash, they stated prior to preorder that the PDF would exist. Most arguments seem to be that it has had an emergency expansion in response to how negatively the changes in the libers were received. 

And this expansion wouldn’t have had to be completed on the preorder weekend or in time for the warcom article. It’s a digital release so they can be adding to it seconds before it goes live. That gives them at least two weeks from the backlash to complete the expansion, actually a bit longer because they’ve only said it’ll be released shortly after the new edition drops. Shortly after could mean another week giving them 3 weeks.

 

Now for an ‘all hands on deck’ emergency, two weeks is easily long enough to crank out any expanded rules for the PDF. Particularly as most of the rules are already written. For example the Tartaros siege terminators entry can simply copy/paste the Tartaros entry in the libers and add a single line to let them take chainfists or powerfists. The same will be true for characters with jetbikes etc, the characters already exist in the liber, they just need to give them a few more options. 
 

Even units like destroyers that aren’t in the liber at all aren’t hard to create. Jump pack infantry already exist, bolt pistols already exist, rad grenades already exist, they’ve basically just got to slap it all together and give it a points cost.

 

All this is easily achievable in two weeks for a team of people who’ve been writing these rules for  years at this point.