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Author Topic: The Horus Heresy Book (Forge world)  (Read 8700 times)

Offline steders

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The Horus Heresy Book (Forge world)
« on: March 26, 2013, 09:53:39 AM »
Anyone bought this? I fancied the look of it, my cursor hovered over the buy it button until I saw the price tag. £70!
Is this one for the hardcore 40K lads or will a crusty RT player get anything from it?
Any thoughts?

Offline Commander Vyper

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Re: The Horus Heresy Book (Forge world)
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2013, 09:56:40 AM »
Don't.  Too pricey.

There's a 200+ page pdf on here somewhere,  (saw it on Sunday,  downloaded it very nice) I think its from bell of lost souls. Very good quality and loads of info. Its free pete, meaning more cash to splash for minis.

I'll try to find the thread.
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Offline steders

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Re: The Horus Heresy Book (Forge world)
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2013, 10:03:40 AM »
I'd be interested in that thread Mr Vyper

Offline Commander Vyper

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Re: The Horus Heresy Book (Forge world)
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2013, 10:09:10 AM »
http://www.tempusfugitives.co.uk/pdf/40k/AotE%20Expansion.pdf


Tempus fugitives and BOLS are grea y heresy references. If I ever stop flitting around a heresy skirmish level is definitely on the cards.

Offline Westfalia Chris

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Re: The Horus Heresy Book (Forge world)
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2013, 10:11:12 AM »
There are actually two HH PDfs floating around, one from the Tempus Fugitives group and one from Bell of Lost Souls.

The Tempus Fugitives one is called "Age of the Emperor - A Rules Expansion for Warhammer 40k". I'd recommend getting that one as it is more recent, includes far more rules and a very well thought out requisition system with very fluffy units, and is far prettier when it comes to layout issues.

If you google "Age of the Emperor", it's the first result that comes up. I didn't want to directly link, but you should be able to get it quickly. Really good one, that.

My brother got himself the Forgeworld book. "Lavish" is the word I would use to describe it. The main issue, IMHO, is the fact that it only covers the "opening shots" and only a handful of legions. The TF one has them all, albeit in lesser detail and obviously non-official, but still very well done.

EDIT: Dang, ninja'd by the Commander.  lol

Offline Commander Vyper

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Re: The Horus Heresy Book (Forge world)
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2013, 10:13:23 AM »
[Stealth]  :D [/Stealth]

Offline Kitsune

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Re: The Horus Heresy Book (Forge world)
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2013, 10:52:05 AM »
It was very tempting before they released it and I realised it was £70 & only covered 4 chapters of marines. Idea sank like a stone after that.

Offline steders

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Re: The Horus Heresy Book (Forge world)
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2013, 12:21:10 PM »
Downloaded, looks interesting. Thanks for that

Offline dijit

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Re: The Horus Heresy Book (Forge world)
« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2013, 03:03:44 PM »
I downloaded the Temous fugitives pdf a few days back and can honestly say I felt  apull to play 40k again and it dd have just a little whiff of RT days - Rad grenades and conversion beamers.

Offline MajorTalon

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Re: The Horus Heresy Book (Forge world)
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2013, 11:33:43 PM »
I got the book. I don't regret it one bit. Me and my friends have had loads of fun gaming the Heresy. I had the BoLS PDF, but I feel that it's not as good as the book IMHO.

Offline Commander Vyper

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Re: The Horus Heresy Book (Forge world)
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2013, 11:39:24 PM »
Yeah but £70 better?   :?

Offline voltan

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Re: The Horus Heresy Book (Forge world)
« Reply #11 on: March 27, 2013, 12:50:04 PM »
Yes it's worth it, get some wd40 and open your purse.  ;D

And I'm not just saying that as I'm planning to get a copy.
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Offline Love_the_Lash

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Re: The Horus Heresy Book (Forge world)
« Reply #12 on: March 28, 2013, 08:06:49 AM »
Honestly if you can afford it I'd go for the official book bu then I love the background to the Heresy and you'll fin that in spades in the book.

My only problem ATM is collecting marines is so expensive these days!

Offline King Tiger

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Re: The Horus Heresy Book (Forge world)
« Reply #13 on: March 28, 2013, 08:39:36 AM »
Yeah but £70 better?   :?
Your forgetting, £70 for the book, plus £1000 for 250pts of space marines
(Unless you went the cheap ass gamer route and just did it in GW plastics, then your games can be unrecognizable as horus heresy games thereby waisting the £70 book...plus your 250pt force from GW might still set you back £500 with current prices)

Offline steders

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Re: The Horus Heresy Book (Forge world)
« Reply #14 on: March 28, 2013, 11:15:18 AM »
Your forgetting, £70 for the book, plus £1000 for 250pts of space marines
:o
Bloody hell. I thought the old Beakies could be used? I have to admit I'm not really up on the 'history'
Does anyone know if the chaos lads are 'chaosed' up early on or do they look like normal marines?
Thanks

 

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