The proportions are way more realistic, and sit around the same height as the new Chaos Marines for 40k. The MkVI marines, or beakies, are amazing sculpts. All of theses besides the Terminators are brand new sculpts too. This includes 40 Tactical Marines, 10 Cataphracti Terminators, a Contemptor Dreadnought, a Land Raider Spartan, and 2 Praetors. Inside you get an absolute mountain of sprues. This is a nice change of pace from where you usually have less then 1,000 points of models, and often not everything you need for your army to be legal in a boxed set. If you only bought this and nothing else (besides the appropriate Liber book for your Legion rules) then you could still play full and complete games of Horus Heresy.

While that is a lot for a starter, you could pretty much one and done this box. This, coupled with the gorgeous rulebook, helps soften the blow on the cost, which is reported to be close to $300. It's always a bit weird too, since they only come with one rulebook, so then who gets the book? No issue here if you want to keep the whole box to yourself, as you can use all of the models in it! In fact, if you plan on keeping all of the models then you have close to a 2,000 point playable army already.

This is a big plus for me, since I don't know about you, but I rarely split boxed sets with friends. This is true of the Titanicus starter set as well. The Heresy is unique when it comes to starter sets since everything included in it can be used all by one army, considering it's a civil war and all.

Well, the wait is finally over, and what an amazing starter set. This is a mystery that has perplexed me for quite awhile why no starter set? Especially when Lord of the Rings and every other specialist game has a starter set. I was super excited to see the Horus Heresy finally getting its own starter set.

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