The Falchion was developed long before the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, and as such, its prey was not the enemy Titans it would later see extensive combat against. As the Great Crusade expanded, it encountered a staggering array of foes, some of whom were of a truly gargantuan scale. The Falchion’s neutron-wave cannon is one of the most powerful vehicle mounted, anti-tank weapons in the Imperium’s arsenal.

The Spartan is a huge armoured conveyor whose purpose is to carry a large contingent of troops into the heart of the battle, weathering incoming fire that would be the death of any lesser vehicle. Its armament is potent, the Prometheus variant mounting quad heavy bolter arrays to devastate enemy infantry.

The Rapier weapons carrier is used extensively by the Solar Auxilia – its rugged track assembly can transport support weaponry too heavy for an auxiliary to carry. The Rapier fulfils a number of battlefield roles in both attack and defence, and can be deployed alongside all manner of different force types, from vanguard exploration to full-scale planetary assault.

The Rapier weapons carrier is used extensively by the Solar Auxilia – its rugged track assembly is able to transport support weaponry too heavy for an auxiliary to carry. The Rapier fulfils a number of battlefield roles in both attack and defence, and can be deployed alongside all manner of different force types, from vanguard exploration to full-scale planetary assault.

Charonite Ogryns are biochemically and cybernetically altered abhumans. Mutilated in mind and body, they are creatures of brute obedience and drug-induced frenzy. The difficult and unstable technologies used in their creation were deemed unholy by the Mechanicum and may, in part, have alien origins.

Before war came to Tallarn, few planets could match its splendour and abundance. Then the Iron Warriors came, and fewer planets still would be subject to such spite and ruin. But the people of Tallarn refused to lay down and die, rising up in defence of their ruined world, with the aid of the loyal Legions of the Adeptus Astartes.

The Coronus Grav-carrier grants the Legio Custodes a degree of speed and agility unmatched by the grinding armour of the Imperium’s other hosts, allowing them to deploy, redeploy, and evade without risk of being pinned down by enemy troops or hazardous terrain. They are both the primary transport for the Sodalities of the Legio and the template upon which several other grav-craft are based.

The Dreadnoughts of the Legio Custodes are advanced, beautiful machines that wed phenomenal strength and speed with the interred warrior’s own unmatched martial skill. In those isolated cases where a Custodian has sustained irrevocable harm with their mind intact, internment within the cold and unyielding body of a Dreadnought is assured, for no Custodian would tolerate an end to their service short of death.

Sentinel Guard Sodalities are deployed to protect emissaries on hazardous ground and hold defensive positions against the most grievous onslaught. They are outfitted with energy field-reinforced ‘praesidium’ shields – a precursor to the Legiones Astartes’ storm shields – capable of resisting the heaviest weapons fire. In spite of this protective role, the physical prowess of each Custodian, and the peerless wargear with which they are outfitted, also affords the Sentinel Guard the mobility to perform far more aggressive functions in open battle, where their resilience makes them formidable linebreakers.

Shield Captains are warriors of consummate and superhuman ability, rare insight, acumen, and knowledge. Afforded the finest of the Imperium’s arms, each of these legendary fighters commands the Legio Custodes against all manner of threats – they bear the might and power of the Legio, manifested in a single indomitable warrior.

The role of Custodian Venatari is a high honour among their Legio and is reserved for those who have proven themselves successful in the Blood Games. Their domain resides among the rooftops and spires of the Imperial Palace and in the skies above any Custodian assault, overseeing and assessing potential threats below before swooping into a killing dive.

The Custodian Guard are terrifyingly potent fighters – stronger, faster and more resilient than even Space Marines. Clad in uniquely alloyed armour and armed with lethal guardian spears, they are both living symbols of the Emperor’s authority and unrivalled warriors.

Stronger, faster, and more resilient than even the transhuman Space Marines, the Custodian Guard are potent fighters. The uniquely alloyed armour and lethal guardian spears they carry render them both living symbols of the Emperor’s authority and unrivalled warriors. Both in their duty of guardianship and in those shadowed instances requiring the action of the Legio Custodes abroad from the Emperor’s holdings, the Custodian Guard are the first to be deployed in service.

The Custodians are the finest warriors known to the Imperium, outfitted from the secret arsenals of the Emperor himself. They serve both as protectors – of the Emperor’s person, domain, and secrets – and as aggressors, executing those who might betray the Emperor and prosecuting the Great Crusade’s most pivotal campaigns. Their warships, vehicles, weapons, and wargear are utterly unparalleled and are the apex of the Imperium’s military might.

Skitarii Battle-Pilgrym Marshals are selected from the most compatible, often veteran, ordinators within a particular conclave. They lead the warriors of a battle pilgrimage, acting as both a field commander and representative of the Fabricator General’s authority.

Vultarax automata make use of a complex cortex unit that allows them to control the various gravitic impellers and jets that hold them aloft, and grant them more affinity for independent action. While the Magos of the Mechanicum employ the Vultarax as a forward unit, ranging ahead to engage and harass the foe, those automata they grant the Skitarii Conclaves are employed primarily as scout surveyors. In this secondary role, the Mechanicum permit some Stratos-automata to be retrofitted with additional auspex scanning arrays.

6 plastic miniatures for Warhammer: The Horus Heresy

Add single-minded walking weapons platforms to your Mechanicum army

Shred enemy infantry with debilitating irradiation engines or destroy vehicles with armour-busting darkfire cannons

Wade through the heaviest of fire thanks to heavily augmented bodies

The Skitarii Battle-Pilgryms are bound together as conclaves, and each of these war formations is led by an ordinator, an individual through which the will of the marshal is conducted. They are singularly focused on the defence of the domains of the Omnissiah and the acquisition of lost technology, to prevent it from falling into the hands of the unworthy.

Breacher Squads are sent into the most hazardous spheres of warfare, such as boarding actions on spacecraft or the first wave of attackers into a fortress. Since the early days of the Great Crusade, specialised wargear and tactics have been under continuous development, including the use of heavy shields to resist enemy fire and specialised weaponry to bypass bulkheads and shatter strongpoints.

One of the first issued Tactical Dreadnought Armour patterns, Cataphractii suits are heavily protected with slablike ceramite pauldrons housing additional shield generators, augmenting the toughness of even a Legiones Astartes warrior. At the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, all Legions maintained significant numbers of Cataphractii Terminators among their ranks.

One of the first issued Tactical Dreadnought Armour patterns, Cataphractii suits are heavily protected with slablike ceramite pauldrons housing additional shield generators, augmenting the toughness of even a Legiones Astartes warrior. At the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, all Legions maintained significant numbers of Cataphractii Terminators among their ranks.

Breacher Squads are sent into the most hazardous spheres of warfare, such as boarding actions on spacecraft or the first wave of attackers into a fortress. Since the early days of the Great Crusade, specialised wargear and tactics have been under continuous development, including the use of heavy shields to resist enemy fire and specialised weaponry to bypass bulkheads and shatter strongpoints.

Warhammer The Horus Heresy – Legiones Astartes Siege Assault Battle Group

All throughout the Horus Heresy, the Space Marine Legions were required to attack and take down enemy fortifications, frequently built and maintained by their former brothers in arms. The Siege Assault Battle Group brings together 23 miniatures that excel in cracking fortresses and bunkers, and fighting in the remaining rubble.

The Legiones Astartes utilise a combined arms doctrine, deploying a range of squad types supported by mobile artillery pieces, fearsome Dreadnought walkers, and implacable battle tanks mounted with even heavier weaponry..

The Falchion was originally designed to engage gargantuan enemies. With a potent mounted neutron wave cannon, it’s capable of inflicting catastrophic damage on even the heaviest of armoured foes. Developed from the Falchion chassis, the Ascalon instead mounts an inferno gun similar to those found on titans of the Collegia Titanica.

The Fellblade is built around the rugged Baneblade chassis. Its reinforced metaplas alloy hull is crowned by a traversable turret mounting a formidable twin-barreled accelerator cannon, capable of firing a variety of specialised shells. The Glaive, on the other hand, utilises a vast volkite carronade on its turret.

The Solar Auxilia are a flexible fighting force, employing everything from massed infantry to heavy weapons emplacements and columns of battle tanks to wage war. When deployed as a Combined Arms Battle Group, there is little in the galaxy they can't take on head-to-head.

When it comes to heavy infantry for the Legiones Astartes, Saturnine-pattern Terminator Armour is the pinnacle of innovation and technology. When deployed in numbers, there's little Saturnine units can't take on with their heavy energy weapons and disruption fists. When supported by Saturnine Dreadnoughts, flyers, and heavy weapons, they are a hammer blow to their enemies.

On Isstvan V, the Salamanders had been broken. Their warriors had been slaughtered, their Primarch lost and presumed dead. Their wargear, abandoned during the battle, had been claimed as spoils of war by the Traitors and turned against the Loyalist cause. It was a defeat so utterly complete that most forces would never have recovered, becoming just one more laurel for Horus to fix upon his standard as he marched upon Terra. Yet, the sons of Vulkan did not succumb to such a fate.

Araknae platforms are manned turrets, dropped into position by transport aircraft. Usually armed with potent quad accelerator cannons to engage a variety of targets, including light armour units, the Araknae can also be armed with a variety of anti-infantry weaponry, including Orias heavy frag missiles and a devastating twin punisher cannon.

Saturnine armour is bulkier than the more widely utilised Cataphractii and Tartaros patterns of Tactical Dreadnought armour. Mounting an array of fearsome energy weapons, combined with complex and potent energy shielding, those warriors capable of wearing such armour see the already legendary resilience of a Legionary improved significantly, allowing them to stride through the fires of battle with impunity. Saturnine Dreadnoughts were developed at the same time, standing even taller than the mighty Leviathan – they obliterate foes with overwhelming firepower.

This multipart plastic kit builds 157 individual epic scale miniatures, which assemble 67 models for your Solar Auxilia armies in games of Legions Imperialis. The bulk of the force includes a mix of infantry and command units, along with a sizeable contingent of heavy weapons platforms and sentinels. These units are supported by plenty of battle tanks, which can be customised with weapons and cosmetic options. This boxed set is perfect for starting a new army – or bolstering your existing collection – and you'll save money compared to buying the kits individually.

The mighty Legiones Astartes go to war with a mix of heavy infantry, dreadnoughts, tanks, and support weapons platforms. They are an aggressive and tenacious force, breaking the backs of their foe and then moving swiftly on to the next target.

The Mechanicum employs a wide variety of units to execute their wars, including cybernetically enhanced thralls and automata, as well as bizarre, esoteric tanks of an unusual design. Their mastery of arcane technology allows them to field weapons that can't be found elsewhere, and their mechanical constructs are incredibly hard to take down.

Even in the glory days of the 31st Millennium, many worlds of the Imperium favoured a gothic aesthetic in their cities. Towering spires encrusted with gargoyles, domed roofs and vaulted windows featured heavily in their construction, lending the Imperium's colonies a distinctive look and feel.

The Saturnine Dreadnought was developed as an extension of the technology utilised to create Saturnine Terminator armour. This chassis requires vast generators to power its potent weaponry and complex energy shielding. Taller than even the Leviathan Siege Dreadnoughts, there is little on the battlefield that can stand before its wrath.

A Centurion is both a champion and a line officer of the Legiones Astartes. To have risen to such a rank means they have already demonstrated their worth in the bloody fires of conflict.

Some praetors take to the field in prototype or experimental plate, such as Saturnine Terminator Armour. Upon their approval and wider distribution, these warriors display exemplary knowledge of their benefits and drawbacks, leading their companies into the deadliest fighting protected by the very best wargear the Legions have to offer. Pairing this superior protection with weaponry able to shatter even a mighty Dreadnought chassis, such commanders become a true colossus of battle.

Saturnine Terminators were first seen in numbers on the black sands of Isstvan V – this pattern of armour was developed by the Primarch Vulkan and stands taller and bulkier than other Terminator variants. Mounting an array of fearsome energy weapons, combined with powerful energy shielding, warriors wearing this armour stride through the fires of battle with impunity.