There are some variant FOC’s to represent an attacking force, a defending force and a force based on a large asset (like a titan). “Age of Darkness” rules are next, and there are some different ones then the first book. In particular, I like each player taking a hidden objective, which is then revealed as a pass/fail after hitting a campaign milestone. There’s some interesting campaign rules, too. There’s also a discussion on the type of scenery appropriate to the battlefields. I did a brief read of these, and the scenarios look good, though none stood out as being amazing.

Overall, this section is very similar to that of the first book, as a Salamander player I enjoyed this section immensely and a lot of it can be used to ensure a fluffy 40K army.Ĭampaign rules are next, along with scenarios to recreate the battles. There is also some great artwork of the legions. It has a few pages for each of the traitor legions that were fully fleshed out in Horus Heresy: Betrayal, and then much more extensive Legion history, order of battle and notable battles for each of the four new legions detailed here (if you haven’t heard, the new legions in this book are Salamanders and Iron Hands for the Loyalists, Word Bearers and Nightlords for the traitors, the remaining legions that participated in the Dropsite Massacre (Iron Warriors, Alpha Legion and Ravenguard) are going to be in the next HH book, along with Imperial Fists). From there, it goes into Legion description.

I didn’t find much surprising here, though some of the scenes are quite cool and seeing the tactics of both sides. The book contains the narrative story of the Drop Site Massacre, which is actually pretty brief (the first 40 pages).

It’s not severe so not sure if I’m going to report it to FW customer service, but after spending that kind of money on a book it’s a bit disappointing. It’s beautiful, production and appearance-wise, though my copy did have an issue with some of the high artwork pages sticking together, and the ink being torn off after opening. I received my copy of Horus Heresy: Massacre earlier this week. Check out John’s review below, with a few spoilers, and a overview of what you can expect to find in the new book! Cheers! Set in the 40k universe at the time of the Horus Heresy, this book picks up where the last book left off – at the events leading up to and including the massacre at the drop site of Istvaan V.

My good friend John does it once again and provides a great book review for the newest installment to the Horus Heresy game supplement series from Forgeworld with his review of the 2nd book in the series – Massacre.

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