However, the book calls out that an expanded list covering these units will be free to download on the Games Workshop website – and most importantly will be fully “legal” for use in games, this certainly isn’t a situation where these units will not be usable in events for example. Let’s start with a point that has spooked some existing Horus Heresy players – yes some profiles have been removed from the book compared to the previous army list. The first 140 pages of both of these books are the same and cover the core Legiones Astartes army list, new unit types, rites of war, universal special rules and wargear. With the new 2nd edition of The Horus Heresy, Games Workshop have taken a different route and instead have released two different 340+ page hardback books – One for the Traitors and another for the Loyalists.

While Forge World did release come consolidated volumes containing the core Astartes list and the Legion specific units, these too got later expanded upon across supplemental volumes.

The rules for various Legiones Astartes in the first edition of the Horus Heresy sometimes needed a small library, with entries scattered across the various Black Books over the lifetime of the game.

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