Plastic Kingdoms: What's New Today ...New Horus Heresy Boxed Game

So it begins...

It's here, it's official, our new boxed game – The Horus Heresy: Betrayal at Calth – is available to pre-order now! As you'd expect, this is huge news and today's post is going to be suitably massive as a result. Read on to find out more about this new boxed game and the miniatures inside it.

Get in the game!

Inside the box you'll find 38 brand new plastic Citadel Miniatures, including a Captain, a Chaplain, a Contemptor Dreadnought, five Legion Terminators and 30 (yes, 30!) Legion Space Marines clad in Mk. IV power armour. Add to that four double-sided hex-grid board tiles, an assembly guide, a rulebook, gaming tokens and command cards, a transfer sheet and 12 unique dice and you've got one very impressive boxed game.

Look at those (funky) dice... and markers!

The war for Calth is fought in the cramped confines of the world's underground arcologies, which are represented by the four board tiles. Each of the six missions in the game features a different tile arrangement, making each battle a new and exciting challenge.

Moar, we want MOAR!

The Space Marines in the box are all multi-part plastic kits that are fully compatible with other Space Marine models and Forge World resin kits. They come with an impressive arsenal of weapons and wargear to choose from, too, giving you loads of modelling options (more on that next week). In the meanwhile Forgeworld has released their own bundles such as the Ultramarines Task Force (image above) and the Legion Devastation Force... check their releases here!

Even the book looks like those from Forgeworld series...

The 48-page book that comes in the box is a brilliant introduction to the Horus Heresy, setting the scene for the war on Calth and introducing the main protagonists – Captain Aethon of the Ultramarines and Chaplain Kurtha Sedd of the Word Bearers. In White Dwarf 93, out now, we play through Wrath of Veridia, the first mission presented in the box. If you're after an insight into how the game works, make sure you pick up a copy today. Remember, every Games Workshop and Warhammer store, plus many larger independent stockists, have a copy of The Horus Heresy: Betrayal at Calth in store now for you to look at, touch and marvel over. If you're lucky, you might even get to play a game of it. Pay them a visit today to see what it's all about.

The promo video...

Excited? Still want more? Also available to pre-order today are two Horus Heresy novels – The Honoured and The Unburdened – which follow the stories of Captain Steloc Aethon and Chaplain Kurtha Sedd, the two commanders in Betrayal at Calth. They're great stand-alone novels and excellent introductions to the madness, destruction and desperation of the Horus Heresy, though they also tie in nicely with existing novels such as Know No Fear. There's even a special edition available from the Black Library website that includes both books, though if previous special editions are anything to go by it's bound to sell out fast, so make sure you order it now.

Meanwhile, something has come up recently, a new model for Archaon... the New Archaon on Dorghar!