If you want to relieve the biggest and most devastating battles of the Horus Heresy, then there is no better game than Legions Imperials, where entire tank squadrons unleash barrages on hunkered-down infantry companies, squadrons of aircraft buzz overhead, and entire maniples of Titans stomp into battle with weapons blazing.
As far as colossal battles go, the Devastation of Tallarn is right up there, and the next Legions Imperialis supplement lets you take part in the battles that turned this verdant agri-world into a rad-scored desert.
Legions Imperialis: The Devastation of Tallarn opens with a 40-page section on lore that documents the transformation of Tallarn at the hands of the invading Iron Warriors force, the battle for the Sapphire City, and explanations of the Legions’ approach to armoured warfare.
It also contains a complete section on how to run Legions Imperialis campaigns, with rules for running a Warfront Campaign, which sequences battles together, or a more advanced Breakthrough Campaign, these represent Traitor and Loyalist forces battling across multiple fronts to destroy strongholds, capped off with a climactic Breach the Stronghold mission.
This provides the framework for the Northern Desolation campaign, recreating the pitched battle between the forces of the Sightless Warren and Rachab Fortress. There’s a new mechanism for Fog of War to recreate the thick mists that would mask approaches, and the unnatural virus storms of Tallarn, while Spearhead Assault battles allow for the deployment of entire armies of armoured vehicles across three new missions.
On top of all of that, there are new Battle Honours to purchase for Veteran Detachments. As well as these stalwarts, you can also field Formations of Legend who represent the lore-accurate forces present on Tallarn, as well as further new Formations and Detachments for the Legiones Astartes and Solar Auxilia, including the Legion Subterranean Assault and the Solar Auxilia Titan Hunter Company.
That’s before we get to the new units. Some of these we’ve previewed before, like the Termite Assault Drills and Solar Auxilia super-heavy tanks, but there are more!
Joining the battle for the Legiones Astartes are the Sabre Strike Tank, the missile-armed Sicaran Arcus, and the Sicaran Punisher, with its intimidating rotary cannon.
The forces of the Solar Auxilia are diversifying their portfolio of tanks with four new Leman Russ variants – the Exterminator with a twin-linked autocannon turret, the Annihilator with a twin-linked lascannon turret, the Executioner with a massive plasma destroyer, and the Demolisher with – you guessed it – a demolisher cannon.
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