To get the most bang from your armoured buck in the Horus Heresy, you need a special kind of Space Marine – one who knows the many war machines in the Legion’s tank park inside out. Meet the Legiones Decurion.
These tank commanders are designed to fit in the cupolas on tanks across the Horus Heresy range and add heroic panache to your armoured columns.
New rules in Campaigns of The Age of Darkness: The Siege of Cthonia will let you upgrade squadrons of Predators, Sicarans, Sicaran Punishers, and Kratos with these Decurions, who grant battle benefits.
Any Legion can take the Decurion Locus and Decurion Defensors. Decurion Defensors do exactly what they say on the tin – these Space Marines have extensive hypno-indoctrination training in the weapons of the Imperium and can order their units to use the Advanced Reaction: Point Defence and return double the number of attacks with their defensive weapons.
The two headline factions in The Siege of Cthonia each get their own unique Decurion miniatures – the Decurion Lanius for the Sons of Horus and the Decurion Sagittar for the Imperial Fists.
The latter is armed with an Illiastus assault cannon and an augury scanner, with which they can pick out vulnerable targets for destruction. When their vehicle makes a shooting attack, they can choose to fire one defensive or pintle weapon at a separate target, with the added benefit of Skyfire or Precision Shots (5+).
These are both resin miniatures from Forge World, and they will be out later in the year. The release of Campaigns of The Age of Darkness: The Siege of Cthonia is approaching soon, however, and join us next Thursday, when the Sons of Dorn get another treat.