Doing Heresy is as much about narrative as it is about tuning your list or painting your models.īut forging that narrative is difficult, and it’s not all about “A” single narrative. Moreso than in any other mass battle Games Workshop property, the Horus Heresy tells a narrative – a galaxy wide tale of tragic betrayal and relentless corruption, the dawning of a grim and indeed dark age, but also on smaller scales, of friends turning into enemies, of moral codes crossed, or the billions of individual lives extinguished as humanity reached towards the Emperor’s vision. Opening The Black LibraryĪ big part of building your Heresy army in this mock-historical Age of Darkness is in making them yours. This article covers the Traitor legions – look for the tragically deluded loyalists coming soon. Read! The dizzying highs! The furiously abyssal lows! The Garro-shaped middles. Every single word the Harlequins have prised from the Black Library on the Heresy. They go from genuinely good military SF through a wide range of solid Black Library fiction and into some that are best… left unread and unremembered.ĭuring that bit of 2020 where we all suddenly had a lot of time on our hands, I read them all.
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THE HORUS HERESY BOOK ORDER HOW TO
Over the next few weeks this series is going to take a look at how to build your army, and how those choices you make will affect you on the battlefield.īetween the Horus Heresy series and the Siege of Terra, the Black Library has spent the last 16 years cranking out 50 books, numerous audio dramas, innumerable short stories and a dozen collections telling the tale of the heresy, with an extremely variable hit rate.
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With the release of the Age of Darkness and the second edition of the rules, there’s never been a better time to jump into (or return to) a world set 10,000 years before Warhammer 40,000.