The title might come across as a bit deceiving. Today, I wanted to mention the hype surrounding the New Space Marines Codex. No, not the 40k space marines. The 30k space marine. The original legions!
I came across this video teaser / trailer earlier today and wanted to share it with you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OERW6DuG5Qg
That's Horus Heresy Book II: Massacre.
As the title suggests, its about the second major event in the Istvaan system: the massacre on Istvaan V (following the betrayal and the purging of the 4 core heretical legions on Istvaan III). The trailer looks totally compelling -- Games Workshop clearly needs to up its output quality to match Forge World on this front.
With a release date of about a month's time (UK Games Day), there are many fans (including me!) who will be anxious to get a hold of this tome. The book will feature 4 new legions: the Iron Hands, Night Lords, Salamanders, and Word Bearers. The other legions who participated in the Massacre will feature in the 3rd (planned) volume in the series. Given how well they treated Mortarion, Angron, Horus and Fulgrim (and their unique units like the Palatine Blade Squad), I'm pretty excited to see how they portray Ferrus Manus, the Night Haunter, Vulkan and Lorgar. In addition, the existing legions that were already detailed in book 1 are rumoured to be getting updated for the future books as things develop along. Given Australian dollar prices for the new codex, the second book in the Horus Heresy era looks to be quite a bargain by comparison...
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