The Age of Darkness was full of gigantic battles in which thousands of armoured vehicles transported troops and unleashed destruction on an unimaginable scale. Many of their ancient patterns earned legendary status over the course of the Horus Heresy. Three such vehicles are now making the jump to plastic, along with a new weapons configuration for dreadnoughts of the Legiones Astartes.
The Solar Auxilia get a massive transportation upgrade with a new plastic kit of the much beloved Arvus Lighter – a rough and reliable runabout that’s perfect for sending squads of Veletarii into the jaws of hell at double speed.
This kit has tons of small details and a fully modelled interior and cockpit. Unlike the previous resin version, it also comes with a new door gunner option at the rear to give the sturdy little aircraft a modicum of firepower.
The workhorse Malcador chassis was converted into a wide variety of tanks during the Great Crusade and subsequent Horus Heresy, with the most successful patterns becoming widely available throughout the Imperium. One such adaptation is the Valdor Tank Hunter, which replaces much of the large vehicle’s systems with an almighty Neutron Laser Projector – a fearsome weapon strong enough to put holes in Titans.
Those sent to assault fortified bunkers and entrenched defensive lines are often equipped as Malcador Infernus tanks, which mounts a massive Titan-grade inferno gun that can scour large areas of a battlefield in moments. Firing the inferno gun requires so much fuel that the Malcador needs a separate carriage to store enough for the battle, itself heavily armoured to protect the volatile promethium inside.
While most Dreadnoughts have at least some measure of close combat ability, the lumbering Deredeo chassis is all about overwhelming fire support that scythes down targets on land and in the air. For the ultimate answer to enemy air power, they strap a quartet of powerful Boreas air defence missiles to the top – lethal fire-and-forget munitions that home in on their targets while the Dreadnought keeps busy with its pair of large interchangeable cannons.
This kit comes with the two ranged weapon options not found on the Anvilus-pattern Deredeo Dreadnought, either a pair of infantry-slaying volkite falconets or the immense armour-busting might of the Arachnus heavy lascannon battery. In addition, this arsenal of weapons and the previous set, including the hellfire plasma carronade, Anvilus autocannon battery, and the Aiolos missile launcher, will be coming as standalone weapon sets so you can pick up one Deredeo and have all weapon options available.
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