7 th was also something of an endpoint for the game’s original design template, and many long-time players missed the greater detail and grittier feel of earlier versions.

The rules are based mostly on 7 th edition, which was the one before the 40k designers really put the hammer down on making the game more streamlined and accessible. This box set, subtitled Age of Darkness and set in the “30k” phase of the Warhammer setting as popularized by the actually quite excellent series of novels by Dan Abnett and other writers, is something of an Old School Renaissance for the game.Īs with Dungeons & Dragons, which has had its own “OSR” movement, Horus Heresy is a somewhat atavistic antidote to complaints that more recent editions of the game have been made too streamlined, too simplified, and have introduced a whole range of complaints and grievances. And yes, this thing is loaded with Astartes in their magnificent Mark IV Corvus armor that takes me back to buying the RTB01 Imperial Space Marines box back in 1987. The big 2022 Warhammer release is upon us, and it is an absolutely massive box set that introduces Games Workshop’s atavistic Horus Heresy rules set and models to the masses.

The beakies are back and better than ever.

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