Horus Heresy New Edition, or Just Horus Hearsay?

[Mmmmm Napalm]

47 minutes ago, Marshal Rohr said:

Do you have the book? 

Nothing about that marine's heraldry is reminiscient of destroyers. Granted it is alpha legion, but still. I also looked at the mk. iv destroyers and the color plate does not have the distinctive destroyer elements such as the reinforced plastron and their vent-less facemask. Besides the presence of rivets on the poleyns and elbows (which are noticeable more pronounced in the color plate), the details highlighted in the image are not clear analogues to details on the existing destroyer models, and in general are the sorts of slight alterations I would expect from an updated Mk. IV armor design. The backpack in particular does not resemble existing mk. iv backpacks. 

Edited 17 hours ago by Mmmmm Napalm

[Marshal Rohr]

9 minutes ago, Mmmmm Napalm said:

Nothing about that marine's heraldry is reminiscient of destroyers. Granted it is alpha legion, but still. I also looked at the mk. iv destroyers and the color plate does not have the distinctive destroyer elements such as the reinforced plastron and their vent-less facemask. Besides the presence of rivets on the poleyns and elbows (which are noticeable more pronounced in the color plate), the details highlighted in the image are not clear analogues to details on the existing destroyer models, and in general are the sorts of slight alterations I would expect from an updated Mk. IV armor design. The backpack in particular does not resemble existing mk. iv backpacks. 

So then we have examples of Mark IV Assault, Mark IV tactical, and now this Mark IV with reinforced forearms and shins but this one singular piece of artwork out of all the other artwork done for the rest of the new mark ranges is actually the Mark IV and not the variant with reinforced forearms and shins?

Edited 16 hours ago by Marshal Rohr

[Mmmmm Napalm]

1 minute ago, Marshal Rohr said:

So then we have examples of Mark IV Assault, Mark IV tactical, and now this Mark IV with reinforced forearms and shins but this one singular piece of artwork out of all the other artwork done for the rest of the new mark ranges is actually the Mark IV and not the variant with reinforced forearms and shins. 

The vambraces are distinctly different from the reinforced ones seen on the destroyers.

[Marshal Rohr]

20 minutes ago, Mmmmm Napalm said:

The vambraces are distinctly different from the reinforced ones seen on the destroyers.

As are all of the new mark three plates on their update. Just take a second and ask yourself why they’d have two different types of regular power armored Mark IV. Is it a headhunter? Maybe? Recon? Maybe. Destroyer? Probably. But it’s definitely not just some mistake. Once we get the book we can see what it says. 

[Stitch5000]

22 hours ago, Mandragola said:

I understand why you’d think this, but I’m sure it’s actually up the sides. The wording of the flyer rules is a bit ambiguous on this but it’s clear in the section for normal reserves. All can come on from the battlefield edge within your deployment zone.

 

As I said before, you never have a battlefield edge defined, other than the edge of the board within your DZ. units fall back towards the nearest point on the edge within your DZ too, for example, meaning they’ll quite often fall back sideways. 

The wording for Reserves is different to the wording for Aerial Reserves. the former states "a point along the edge of the Battlefield that is within the Deployment Zone for that Player".

The Combat Assignments generally state that "The Model may be placed anywhere along the edge of the Battlefield Edge that is within the Controlling Player’s Deployment Zone." This implies that there is ONE edge that can be used. 

[Joe]

This is also assuming they are actually in the office, and not ~checks hand~ booked off on annual leave like many, many working professionals in the UK are during this point of the summer.

 

I'd love to get half my outstanding tasks finished, were it not for colleagues that are now away until mid-to-late August. 

 

 

[Mandragola]

I’ve got a new article up on GH, this time looking at in depth at troops and support: https://www.goonhammer.com/horus-heresy-tactica-astartes-troops-and-support-units-in-third-edition/ 

 

Hope you find this useful. I’d be interested in any comments. 
 

Next up will be Elites, Retinues and Heavy Assault. 

[OttoVonAwesome]

18 hours ago, Mmmmm Napalm said:

God dammit I just finished modernizing the mark 4 and making new destroyers... Welp back to the mines.