Horus Heresy New Edition, or Just Horus Hearsay?

[Marshal Mittens]

I like that they are adding new stuff, and have loved most of it. Been playing since the very start of 3rd edition, lots of new things over the years. For Horus Heresy we had two new types of terminators in the last 12 years or so. Lots of new tanks in that time. I don't know why them continuing to add new* things is suddenly bad. Also a TON of sites had previously made eggs terminators and called them saturnine, probably for at least the last 8 years or so, and people had used them in their armies already. Dont love how they were implemented, but folks saying the sky is falling just seems like being angry for the sake of being angry. 

 

I'm very excited for the new stuff, and excited for them to continue to add more new stuff going forward. 

[Xenith]

On 6/13/2025 at 2:23 PM, TheTrans said:

So 3 Ststionary Lascannon 'Glances' kill a pred now no worries :/. 

Compared to the 3 glances that kill a pred in 2.0, that seems tougher.

[Wibbling]

58 minutes ago, Xenith said:

Compared to the 3 glances that kill a pred in 2.0, that seems tougher.

 

I also saw that the lascannon had the armourbane special rule, which (from my admittedly duff memory) indicated it now always penetrated, rather than glanced? I am a bit concerned about a stunned/immobilised tank is  - apologies for the term - useless as a vehicle that can't move and/or fire isn't adding value. 

 

Would someone with more motivation than I check that from the imgur content? I thought the melta weapons also had that rule, but I can't remember. I

 

(Apologies, I should check my info before I post).

[bristlybadger]

That's correct, Lascannons do not glance, they always pen. 

 

Meltaguns gets armourbane from the melta rule, so they can glance at over half range and only pen at less than half range. 

[Captain Idaho]

Thing is in this game, if you're going to face vehicles, Dreads and big stompy robots, relying on glancing to death is too slow beyond one maybe two opposing vehicles, so lascannons and melta guns are crucial.

 

However, if you load up on Lascannons, my masses infantry, Destroyers and the like will not have opposing options that deal with them.

 

I'm happy with the vehicle rules at this point.

[Son of Rawl]

I'm hoping they do an open day or something at stores, or WHW. I want to try it out and see how the game flows with the changes.