Our core Legion Traits are for the most part unchanged from their 2012 counterparts. Credit: Book 9: Crusade, Forgeworld LEGION TRAITS Finally, if you want an air assault force, that’s based out of gunships and has fast moving elements the narrative is behind you.
After all, the mostly unknown Armoured Caradara Claw (featured in Book 2: Massacre) is exactly what that is about. If you want a heavy armoured company with specialized light and heavy infantry supporting again, you can build it and the narrative is behind you.
If you want an elite force that’s infantry heavy you can build it and the narrative his behind you. This is also a Legion where you can genuinely play the army you want to play. That doesn’t mean the Night Lords don’t have teeth, we have plenty of teeth and plenty of ways to bare them. This is a great thing as its the core of the Horus Heresy game system. The pages containing the Night Lords rules and rites are firmly within the realms of narrative. Don’t expect a top tier army, one that is incredibly strong and has near-broken or overly-versatile units or something with overpowered excess denied to you only by a meager points cost. PLAYSTYLEįirst off, we need to say one thing.
There are still points within these articles that you need to be aware of, especially when using Drop Pod Assault rules for entering play. Additionally, the artwork contained within is genuinely great and would be a good start to draw inspiration from.įurther to the rulebooks, there are current FAQ & Erratas for both the Legiones Astartes Army List and Drop Pods. This is the most expensive black book to date, but as a resource for the Night Lords players it is worth the cost, having all of our Legion units in their most up to date form. Horus Heresy Campaign Book 9: Crusade – £84 This book contains all of the generic units core rules and a lot of the universal weapons rules that apply throughout the Legions. Legiones Astartes Army List Rulebook – £40 It has a quick reference section that most certainly is useful, even for more veteran players. This book contains all of the core rules for the gaming system and a lot of the universal special rules that apply throughout the Legions. With regards to those starting Horus Heresy, there are actually three books you need to properly play the Legion: This was exacerbated as those units that the Night Lords specialists were based on were reduced in points cost whilst the Night Lords received no such reduction.ĭeath is nothing compared to vindication – and vindicated we have been in Book 9. There were problems with the rules, points cost of our units was but one complaint routinely projected from the community. We saw the true faces of the Spectre of Judgement manifest in a set of highly narrative rules with strength in forced-asymmetrical warfare and tactical cowardice. In 2012, we saw our rules for Battles in the Age of Darkness took this narrative and ran with it. We are a Legion of ruthless murderers and masters at guerrilla warfare combined with tactical cowardice. Over the years, the Black Library has provided us with slivers and glimpses into the VIII Legion and how it operates – even as I write this article, I’m listening to John Banks narrating Pharos. Instead of updating the older article, I’m writing a new one because I feel the changes are worth the effort. Jago Sevatarion, 1st Captain, VIII Legion CONTENTSīook 9: Crusade is out, bringing with it a wealth of updated rules and Rites of War. Night after night, raid after raid, we’d overwhelm stragglers from their fleets and bleach their skulls to hang from our armour, until none remained.” If we were ever ordered to assault another Legion, we would virus bomb their recruitment worlds slaughter their serfs and slaves poison their gene-seed repositories and spend the next dozen decades watching them die slow, humiliating deaths. If they were ever ordered to destroy another Legion, they would do it by hurling warrior against warrior, seeking to grind their enemies down with the admirable delusions of the ‘noble savage’. They fight, they win, and they stalk back to their ships with their tails held high. They also kill quickly, and we have never done that, either. “Because the Wolves kill cleanly, and we do not.
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