The forges of Mars glow red with activity and squadrons of new battle tanks are rolling off the lines ready to deploy in games of Warhammer: The Horus Heresy. You wouldn’t want to show your face at the next Magos conclave without a few new armoured assets in tow, would you? Just imagine the embarrassment.
Karacnos Assault Tank
By taking the venerable Triaros Armoured Conveyor chassis and filling its hold with mortar tubes, the Mechanicum created one of the most effective and resilient artillery tanks of the Heresy – the Karacnos Assault Tank. Well protected on all sides and armed with sponson-mounted lightning locks, the lingering radiological flames its ordnance leaves behind are lethal to both fleshy troopers and armoured assailants alike.
Krios Battle Tank
The Krios Battle Tank is the mainstay of the armoured cohorts, making use of technology that was strange and ancient even at the time of the Horus Heresy – to create a phenomenal all-rounder with impressive speed in one package. The usual armament is a lightning cannon that can evaporate entire squads in a single well-placed blast, and it can be replaced with a short-ranged irradiation blaster for extra lethality.
Alternatively, you can build this kit as a deadly Krios Venator – a dedicated tank-killer armed with a powerful but relatively short-ranged pulsar-fusil.
Thanatar Calix Siege-automata
Towering over other automata and packing a devastating Sollex heavy-las for blowing vehicles to smithereens, The Thanatar Calix Siege-automata is one of the biggest bruisers in the Mechanicum arsenal. Punching on a par with the mighty Leviathan Dreadnoughts of the Legiones Astartes, anyone who tries to get under the reach of their shoulder-mounted cannon will find a graviton ram to the face hurts just as badly.
Ursarax Cohort
Similar in design to Thallax, the Ursarax are not full-blown automata so much as a jumble of a living soldier’s important internal bits encased in a hard shell and strapped to a jetpack. These close combat specialists generally pack a pair of wicked lightning claws, though some are armed with power fists. They move at blazing speeds thanks to their Utan jump boosters.
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Farsight: Blade of Truth
The legendary Commander Farsight is dragged from his self-imposed exile to tangle with the Tyranids when the world he adopts as his home comes under attack. This new novel by Phil Kelly fills in the gap between Farsight’s early adventures and his return to the galaxy in the Second Agrellan Campaign, strapping into some brand new T’au Empire technology to fight back against the xenos hordes.
This new novel will be available to pre-order in hardback, eBook, and audiobook formats.
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The new season of Warhammer TV shows continues with a classic Ultramarines vs Tyranids showdown on Battle Report to celebrate March for Macragge – with a dedicated episode of Armies of Renown showing off Nick’s incredible collection. Elsewhere, Scribes and Scriveners meets the author Robert Rath to discuss his writing process, his love for assassins, and the stunning success of The Infinite and The Divine.
The mighty AdeptiCon is coming up this week – and there’s a big preview event on Thursday alongside live coverage from both the tournament floor and the US leg of Golden Demon. Come back tomorrow for a tantalising taste of what’s being revealed.
