Games Workshop has announced a pre-order date for their Warhammer: The Horus Heresy Saturnine army box. This army box, the first of tabletop miniature game's latest edition, contains everything new players need to get started, including brand new units.
The Warhammer: The Horus Heresy Saturnine Army Box Pre-Order Announcement
According to a report by ICV2, pre-orders for the Warhammer: The Horus Heresy Saturnine army box will go live on July 12. The army box will contain everything a new player will need to start playing this prequel spin-off set in the iconic grimdark sci-fi world.
This army box will contain the following miniatures and products:
- A Praetor in Saturnine Terminator Armor
- A Centurian Wearing MkII Crusade-Pattern Power Armor
- 40 Legionaries in MkII Crusade-Pattern Power Armor
- 6 Saturnine Terminators
- A Saturnine Dreadnought
- An Araknae Quad-Accelerator Platform
- 2 Sets of Disintegrator Weapons
- 20 D6s and a D6 Scatter Die
- Templates for Blast and Flame Weapons
- A Plastic Range Ruler
- 40 Tactical Status and Objective Tokens
- A Transfer Sheet With Over 1100 Decals
- A full 352-page Rulebook
- A 48-Page Introductory Rules Guide and Miniature Construction Guide
In a Warhammer-Community post, Games Workshop posted an interview about the Warhammer: The Horus Heresy Saturnine army box. In it, they discussed the new addition of the Saturnine Terminator armor. In the interview, it was mentioned that the armor has been in development for a while; it has even popped up in expanded media material before this point.
The developers even mention an earlier version of the armor was repurposed as the Indomitus Terminator pattern from the 1980s edition of Space Hulk.
Since The Horus Heresy is a quasi-historical period, an extended prequel of Warhammer: 40,000, this attention to detail was important on the developer's part. Expressing the power of these Terminator armors while within the restraints of technology at the time. As for how these details will gel with the latest edition's new mechanics remains to be seen.
