Warhammer: The Horus Heresy – Legions Imperialis is a game of truly massive conflicts, pitting hundreds of Space Marines, soldiers, tanks, and Titans against each other in true meat-grinder clashes which capture the grand scale of the Warmaster’s galaxy-spanning civil war.
We’ve already seen a chunk of the Legiones Astartes arriving in the launch box, including Tactical Marines, Contemptor Dreadnoughts, Deimos Predators, and Sicaran Battle Tanks. There’s more following hot on their heels – and here’s the first of that bunch, in the shape of the Legiones Astartes Support box.
This box is packed with heavy firepower. Leviathan Dreadnoughts are some of the toughest units to crack below Knight-scale, and are more than capable of messing up heavy tanks with their mix of weaponry. They’re joined by Deredeo Dreadnoughts, which are absolutely stacked with devastating long-range armaments.
The Legiones Astartes Support box also adds Rapier Batteries to this selection of Dreadnought death-dealers. These semi-automated carriages are used when Legions need to rapidly deploy ordnance that is too heavy for even Legionaries to carry unaided, trundling into terrain unfriendly to tanks.
Tarantula Sentry Batteries armed with lascannons or Hyperios air-defence launchers are generally deployed as point-defence weapons, but are often dropped in ahead of the main Legion battleline as disposable assets, where they exact a heavy toll on advancing opponents.
Every model in this article is available in the Legiones Astartes Support box, which contains four Leviathan Dreadnoughts, four Deredeo Dreadnoughts, four Rapier batteries – and their miniscule crew – alongside four Tarantula Batteries, all in plastic.
Keep an eye out for yet more extremely small miniatures that might be lurking underfoot as we make our way through our Legions Imperialis coverage over the next few weeks, and join us for another Heresy Thursday next week.