New MkIV Tactical Squad + Assault Squad + Maximus Battle Group

[Evil Eye]

Are those plasma cannons new or have I not been paying enough attention? They look pretty spiffy.

[Xirix]

Nope, they're from the 3 different heavy weapon sprues that got released fairly close to the original launch of 2nd edition.

[Nephaston]

Definitely a good way to curtail all those endless threads of people asking "is this deliberately universally compatible upgrade sprue compatible with the kit meant for it?"

Now to wait for an article that explicitly says "you are allowed to pick and paint whatever you want, even if it isn't the presumed standard for the legion of your choice"

[soviet1337]

2 hours ago, 01RTB01 said:

I'm still curious to see the sprues as to how many power lances there are.

 

I wish heresy wasn't dead locally as I'd have grabbed two boxes. However, my bank account is very thankful.

 

There are 10. They said there were 10.

[01RTB01]

1 hour ago, soviet1337 said:

 

There are 10. They said there were 10.

Not to be "that guy" but where was that please? Good news though.

[Jukkiz]

I was thinking of getting some HH heavy weapons upgrades, but seeing how they´re all stand alone weapons, basically copy pasted to be easily changed unto pairs of arms, while missing backpack parts and cables, belts etc. Nah, i rather pay recasters for old time FW weapons then buy GWs offering of these. 

Plasma cannons look too light while held ontop of shoulder like Missile launcher, Heavy bolters, Heavy flamers, multimeltas and so are missing iconic backpack feeds, just everything feels too modern, light... I dunno, cheap? Sure it´s easy to make same ten/twenty man unit use same weapons with same arms but it just lacks all the OOPMH, so to speak. 

[Corswain]

4 hours ago, 01RTB01 said:

Not to be "that guy" but where was that please? Good news though.

Original reveal article. Technically it says a "complete set" but in a box of 10 guys that has to be 10 spears, even with GW logic. Hopefully. 

[Hfran Morkai]

35 minutes ago, Corswain said:

Original reveal article. Technically it says a "complete set" but in a box of 10 guys that has to be 10 spears, even with GW logic. Hopefully. 

 

Based on what I can see of the other two Assault Squads (On the GW, I refuse to call it Warhammer yet, site) we're looking at a set of 2 sprues, duplicated? So probably 5 different poses and we know at least one is one-handed 

[soviet1337]

I guess the spears replace the shields, which the other assault squads have 10 of. 

[Hfran Morkai]

That's the logical thing considering we haven't seen the MkIV Assault Squad shown with Shields.

 

I might pass on the box and wait for the separate release as whilst I know it'll be a good saving in the long run, I have no plans for the Contemptor nor Sicaran yet and I'd want to pick up probably another Assault Squad or two to make some more dynamic Grey Slayers and characters.

 

Plus I've just decided to buy a power station and solar charging kit.

[Firedrake Cordova]

As far as I can see it hasn't been posted, but there's a Warhammer Community article on the compatibility of the Horus Heresy infantry kits

 

 

 

[Son of Rawl]

2 hours ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

As far as I can see it hasn't been posted, but there's a Warhammer Community article on the compatibility of the Horus Heresy infantry kits

 

 

 

Is the Breacher Kit compatible with it? Asking for a friend.

[SvenIronhand]

7 minutes ago, Son of Rawl said:

Is the Breacher Kit compatible with it? Asking for a friend.

Should be if you don't mind using the Mk. III arms on Mk. IV bodies.

[Nephaston]

Well, that was painless to acquire. Also Tale off Painters review is out.

 

Sadly it seems the pistols are all left handed, seems GW, for whatever reason, opted to mirror some of the models in the initial article. BUT we have 5 spears per sprue of assault legionnaires, so that's a plus.

 

[Doghouse]

Got mine for £115 so I am happy with that.

 

The unboxing vids I have seen show subtle changes in some poses which also pleases me as I've never been keen on the leaning advancing pose.

 

I went with three sets but will be using them for 4th edition, I also got the Sabbat Crusades book as well so may do Iron Snakes.

[Lord Marshal]

1 hour ago, Nephaston said:

Well, that was painless to acquire. Also Tale off Painters review is out.

 

Sadly it seems the pistols are all left handed, seems GW, for whatever reason, opted to mirror some of the models in the initial article. BUT we have 5 spears per sprue of assault legionnaires, so that's a plus.

 

 

Huh, so there IS an 'whoops all Power Lances' option for the Assault Marines. I know there'd been a bit of speculation if it was just gonna be 2-4 in the box. Nice.

 

Edited June 27 by Lord Marshal

[Hfran Morkai]

Yeah I snagged a copy. 

 

A free Sicaran was too good an offer to resist considering I don't have one yet.

 

 

[Doghouse]

32 minutes ago, Lord Marshal said:

 

Huh, so there IS an 'whoops all Power Lances' option for the Assault Marines. I know there'd been a bit of speculation if it was just gonna be 2-4 in the box. Nice.

 

 

 

Yeah instead of doing shields like the MkII and Mk VI they went with spears. I do like that one is one handed allowing you to go full Spartan by adding a shield from one of the other kits, command squad has some too.

 

It does mean you can make veteran Assault squads with spears but hoping if they do MkV they have the option for all lightening claws which I personally think a lot of people would have preferred. 

 

Great for Blood Angels players though. 

[Marshal Rohr]

Ordering this was a total nightmare 

[Xenith]

On 6/24/2026 at 11:10 PM, Jukkiz said:

Heavy flamers, multimeltas and so are missing iconic backpack feeds, just everything feels too modern,

 

Backpack feeds *are* the modern version. Old school was all shoulder mounted goodness. And 'heavy' shouldn't come into it, they're walking exo suited tanks with anti gravity technology.

 

 

[MoriyaSchism]

4 minutes ago, Xenith said:

 

Backpack feeds *are* the modern version. Old school was all shoulder mounted goodness. And 'heavy' shouldn't come into it, they're walking exo suited tanks with anti gravity technology.

 

 

Retro stuff is cool, but regressions is bad. The FW versions of the shoulder mounted weapons that were based on the old designs came with accessorized backpacks that had extra optics and bits to represent as spare cells or magazines. This comparison is a bad excuse. 

 

Edited June 27 by MoriyaSchism

[Doghouse]

1 hour ago, Marshal Rohr said:

Ordering this was a total nightmare 

 

I get the feeling they kept a large part of the stock for the UK as it all seems to be still available over here. Australia seemed to run out really fast.

 

I know people were having issues with the gw website not checking out.

[Marshal Rohr]

55 minutes ago, Doghouse said:

 

I get the feeling they kept a large part of the stock for the UK as it all seems to be still available over here. Australia seemed to run out really fast.

 

I know people were having issues with the gw website not checking out.

From what I could glean from the error messages the checkout function could not check available stock and was timing out. 

[Hfran Morkai]

I didn't have issues ordering from Element games over  an hour after it went up in the UK (I was asleep haha as I work nights).

 

Then again, maybe they don't have an accurate count from GW and it'll get cancelled.

[Matcap86]

There were a bunch of limited edition books going up again so the scalpers were in full swing. Seems to have messed with the GW site for the 100th time.