Lots of information has been flowing in regarding the upcoming Horus Heresy boxed game. Here’s the latest:

Horus Heresy Boxed Game

The Game is real, and is already into production.

Ship date is listed as Q4, November, to hit right at the height of the holiday shopping season.

Like “Execution Force” the initial boxed set is a fully standalone game, with no further purchases necessary.

Sprues shown so far confirm posable Mk. IV Maximus armor, marines (in sets of 10 per pair of sprues).

Sprues shown so far confirm 2 command figures with a Power Armor and Cataphractii Terminator models.

This boxed Game will serve as the introductory product to an entire Horus Heresy product line that will become GW’s new “3rd Line”, alongside Age of Sigmar and Warhammer 40,000.

An entire line of plastic kits is coming, that will appear on normal store shelves with Horus Heresy line badging (and 40k as well in some cases)

Ruleswise, the Horus Heresy will be a “40K light” ruleset sitting at the middleground between 40k and Age of Sigmar

Horus Heresy plastic kits will contain both 30K and 40K rules in the box.

Box Contents Rumors via Voices in the Trees 3-8-2015

Horus Heresy Starter Set2 sides, Identically EquippedModels are NOT legion marked. 2 sides, Identically EquippedModels are NOT legion marked. Generic Heresy-era models. – Early Heresy mark armor Astartes x20 – Cataphractii Terminators x5 – Contemptor Dreadnought x1 – Praetor x1

Speculation Mode

Sources are speculating that the Horus Heresy line will replace the Hobbit and represents yet another experiment in rulemaking for GW. Nottingham knew that WFB was so flawed that it needed a very large shakeup and change – hence the risktaking with the Age of Sigmar ruleset compared to what came before it. With not much to lose on such a gamble (as WFB 8th was so far gone), GW was much more able to really make a dramatic move – ruleswise.

Horus Heresy will represent a more conservative experiment in rule design, one designed to test the waters of using a streamlined, tidier version of 40K to see how the gaming public reacts. Based on how the customerbase reacts, there are certainly possibilities of some of these streamlined mechanics rolled into future editions of 40K, (as we saw challenges, and elements of WFB migrate over into 40K for example).

~So whats parts of the 40K ruleset most need cleaning up or if you had your say?