The Rapier is similar, providing Legion forces with a mobile heavy weapon or light artillery support. There are two new plastic kits on the way – one with a graviton or quad-bolter option, and one with a quad-launcher or laser-destroyer. Whatever you’re shooting, there is a Rapier for the job!

The new crew are packed with detail and character, including scanners, visors, controls and a selection of heads and arms, and like all Horus Heresy Space Marine plastics, the bits are interchangeable with other kits in the range.

If you would rather watch your enemy perish up close on your blade than in the fires of a distant artillery bombardment, there’s very good news.

Here’s your first look at the new MKII Assault Marine. This combat expert features a much more aggressive look than we’ve seen previously. He looks like an absolute murder-machine – look at the size of that chainaxe!

The new plastic Breachers are also inbound. Among the most requested of all Horus Heresy kits, you will soon be able to bolster your battleline or boarding force with stalwart shield-bearing legionaries. They are ideal troops for fighting in the close confines of Zone Mortalis warzones, and for holding the line against the odds.

While the humble bolter is the most ubiquitous Legion weapon during the Age of Darkness, there are plenty more exotic armaments, including deflagrating lethality of volkite guns – but who’s carrying this one?

While Space Marines are at the forefront of battles in the Horus Heresy, they are far from the only combatants. Here’s a peek at some other new plastic soldiers, courtesy of the forges of Mars.

And finally, staying in the Solar System, here is the glinting blade of an auramite spear…

Saturnine: What is Saturnine-pattern Terminator armour?

We’ve seen the hulking new miniatures, and we’ve heard the designation floating around the dark corners of the lore for years, but what exactly is Saturnine-pattern Terminator armour?

The origin of Saturnine technology is a mystery. What we do know, is that unlike most of the Imperium’s arms and armour it was not created on Mars by the Mechanicum, but instead in the secretive tech-enclaves of Saturn.

Towering over all other Legion infantry, a Space Marine enclosed in a suit of Saturnine Terminator armour is an impervious juggernaut of death, equipped with some of the most devastating Space Marine-portable weapons ever conceived.

The Saturnine Dreadnought is even bigger, larger even than the imposing Leviathan Dreadnoughts. Not just any Legionary could be entombed within these formidable constructs. Only a warrior of exceptional willpower and focus can pilot a Saturnine Dreadnought, but for those with the strength of mind fit for the task they become a walking engine of destruction.

Saturnine tech represents the pinnacle of human defensive technology, with stronger shields, more powerful generators, thicker armour, and a more durable warframe. Despite these advantages, complexities of production meant that Saturnine armour quickly became less common than other less-advanced suits, such as the Cataphractii and Tartaros patterns.

Early marks of Saturnine armour saw use in the final battles of the Unification Wars on Terra and during the initial conquest of the Great Crusade, but it was not until decades later, when the Primarch Vulkan took it upon himself to perfect this formidable technology, that it entered wider use.

Ever the good brother, Vulkan gifted his creation to every Legion, a generous act he would soon come to regret…

Quelle: Warhammer Community