So… as we know, my weakness appears to be Horus Heresy space marines.
And, uh… the new box came out, and I wanted it.
So I got it. And I preordered it.
And I’ve been excited about it for around three weeks, community noise aside.
Here it is:
This box is colossal. It weighs more than six kilograms. It’s enormous. The delivery guy was clearly struggling with it a bit, and a heap of people online have reported damage to the models.
It’s a lot of plastic!
Fortunately, my sprues only had some superficial scuffing and mostly limited to places that will be hidden on the finished models, or it’s on the aquilas - and seeing as my Death Guard are traitors, that seems fine to me.
This box includes:
- A Saturnine-armoured Praetor
- A Centurion in MkII Armour
- 6 Saturnine Terminators
- 40 (!) Marines in MkII Armour
- A Saturnine Dreadnought
- An Araknae Quad Accelerator Platform
I’m most excited about all the MkII dudes, since my Death Guard project is mainly about mass painting, but the Saturnine stuff is growing on me as I see lots of stuff about their versatility and posability.
This obviously is a huge hit to my BATG score - 50 models, including a couple of beefy things which will no doubt need a lot of love to get done. I’m note quite giving up on a positive score for the year, but I’m certainly no fool. I know what I’ve done here. There’s a 50-point penalty in Shame Golf for preordering this, too, so I’m going to have to sell some stuff if I want to offset that.
The Horus Heresy Discord has a Challenge to paint 1500 points of Heresy by September, so I’m going to try and complete that, but we’ll see how we go.
Also I picked up a Siege Breaker Consul because the one I finished earlier this year hasn’t got a Thunder Hammer and that’s a mandatory piece of equipment now:
So that brings me to 51 onto the pile, for this post. I will need to put some serious work in, and attempt some serious self-restraint, to crack net zero this year.
We’ll see what happens when the Militia PDF for Horus Heresy releases in August…
BATG Score: +102
