The Horus Heresy

So, I receive Forge World's newsletter fairly often, but these days, with the new chaos space marines miniature range revealed on the 22nd of September, and with Golden Demon 2012 in Birmingham  the Horus Heresy era minis are almost done, and are already being promoted.

From what I've seen there is going to be a campaign/series of books like the Badab War and the Siege of Vraks that saw the new Khorne and Nurgle upgrades and the Krieg and Heretic armies respectively. Here though we have a whole different theme: We have legions fighting against legions, pre heresy and heresy era loyalists and traitors killing each other.

We've all seen the signs for some time now, brassed etched and shoulder pads for Sons of Horus, Emperor's Children and Death Guard, the Fellblade, jetbikes, the old school looking Deimos Pattern Predator, the old-school Land Raider. You name it. But now, we have cataphractii. It's actually a heresy era terminator armour, with elements seen previously on the chaos armies (ripper autocannons, combi-bolters, the Rogue Trader era close combat bayonet/chain-blade), and, obviously the cataphract armour, with the special shoulder plates, the armouring in the back of the armour, the special helmet.

A Rogue Trader era space marine.

The new cataphract terminator armour. The similarity on the bayonet is obvious.

It's really nice though, to see that people tend to remember the humble beginning of the hobby with more than love. I always loved the look of those space marines (despite the fact that now seem mishap and crooked next to a new model, those were the ones that I saw first).

The whole miniature range, seem like they jumped out of the Horus Heresy collected visions book. I can't wait to see some of them painted and ready.

Let the galaxy burn!