The New Year Preview keeps feeding Horus Heresy tank addicts, and honestly, I get it. After the Fellblade reveal proved everyone loves absurdly destructive armor, the next wave rolls in hard.
First is the Glaive super heavy, which is a Fellblade variant packing a bus-sized volkite carronade. That thing is sold as a power armour eraser, and it is tailor-made for legion-on-legion brutality. Better yet, this is the first time the Glaive has ever been in plastic, and it is a multi-part kit with lots of hull and sponson options like the Fellblade. Then, if you would rather delete units from safety, the classic Whirlwind is coming in plastic too. It is Rhino-based artillery that can fire without line of sight, and it supports multiple munition types, including incendiary Pyrax rounds.
Finally, all this tank energy feeds into a new 48-page Journal Tactica book, Mailed Fist: Legiones Astartes Super-Heavy Tanks. It includes Leviathan Missions for massive vehicle-heavy, asymmetric, and even chaotic multiplayer clashes, plus lore and Exemplary Battles like the Siege of Portresh. These releases land later this year, with weekly Community updates and a closer look at the book before launch.
Big Tanks, Bigger Problems
If the Fellblade taught anything, it is that Heresy players want tracked nightmares. So the setting’s scale hits harder when a super-heavy bulldozes the table. And because the Age of Darkness is pure escalation, more armored monsters are inbound. However, this time you get both frontline terror and backline punishment.
Glaive: Volkite Carronade Madness, Now in Plastic
The Glaive is a super-heavy special weapons tank built on the Fellblade chassis. Instead of “normal” big guns, it mounts a volkite carronade the size of a bus. So it fires a heat beam so intense it burns through power armour and cooks what is inside. Also, the write-up jokes that this became very useful once Marines started killing Marines.
Most importantly, this is the first plastic Glaive ever. It is a multi-part kit, and it comes with lots of hull and sponson weapon options. So if you liked how customizable the Fellblade kit sounded, this follows the same philosophy.
Whirlwind: Classic Rhino Artillery With Nasty Ammo
Seeing a Glaive across the table should make you hide, and that is the point. However, if you want to stay safe while still wrecking people, the Whirlwind shows up right on cue.
This is the iconic Rhino chassis with a massive missile launcher on top. It can bombard enemy units even without line of sight, which is huge in Heresy boards with terrain. Also, its targeting gear lets it load and fire different munition types independently. That ranges from standard high explosives to incendiary Pyrax rounds.
Artillery usually folds when enemies get close, yet the Whirlwind is fast enough to relocate. So it works in mobile battalions and in siege lists. And because it can pin and panic targets before your push, most commanders will happily take the missile rain.
Mailed Fist: Missions and Lore for Vehicle Heavy Carnage
All those super-heavy squadrons get the spotlight in the next Journal Tactica book, Mailed Fist: Legiones Astartes Super-Heavy Tanks. It is a 48-page supplement focused on how these armored fleets were used, and abused, during the war.
It includes new Leviathan Missions built for huge numbers of vehicles in asymmetric fights. Also, it supports chaotic multiplayer throwdowns where everyone’s armored squadrons collide. On top of that, it packs lore about how the Legiones Astartes created and organized these super-heavy forces. Finally, it ends with new Exemplary Battles, including recreating vehicle-heavy clashes like the Siege of Portresh.
Outro
These kits and the book are slated for later this year, so the hype train has time to build. Meanwhile, the plan is weekly pre-order timing updates on Warhammer Community, plus a deeper peek inside the Journal Tactica closer to release. And once you finish daydreaming about armor columns, the preview hub has more reveals waiting.
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