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.

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. 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.

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