OPINION PIECE
Well here we are, the very much anticipated and pained-for announcement on the Horus Heresy...
An absolutely spectacular trailer by Games Workshop, truly some of the best work they have done in recent years in terms of supporting a games system. The trailer is full of little hints at vehicles to come - the Sicaran with single cannon is but one - epic warfare that we have all wanted to se, and in mind-blowing scale. Not only that, but having The Warmaster himself be the conduit for us to enter this world is so clever and doesn't define the good or evil at this point - everyone is a hero!
And then of course there is this glorious update to the venerable MkVI Space Marine armour. For those of us who started back in the late 80s, this is everything we saw when we constructed that early plastic boxed set. Don't get me wrong, we are very happy to criticize GW when they do something wrong, but with this miniature everything is RIGHT! Will there be some scale-creep? Probably. Will it matter? Maybe, but this miniature is actually perfect. Let me explain:
- Thematic pose
- Correct gun discipline with the finger placement
- Rebirth of the classic bayonet
- The segmented toe area harking back to the old metal miniatures
- Return of bonding studs that are actually round
- A small update to the classic backpack.
We're all for respectful feedback to GW about things they may have missed, done in a silly way or even completely balls-ed up. this trailer, this miniature is not the place. But unfortunately, social media is a place where everyone's opinion is equal, even those ill-informed with no real understanding that this universe existed before they started playing the game. Their is a history, their is ample evidence that MKVI armour was in fact used in the Horus Heresy. Was it as wide spread as MKII, or MK IV? Maybe, maybe not. But the fact is, for over 30 years, MKVI armour has been depicted in GW art as being in the Horus Heresy. It is unequivocally there! I used the term "unfortunately" earlier in terms of equal weighting in social media, and I'm sure that may have caused some to stir, but this fantastic preview has brought out a part of this community that others point to all the time; the toxicity.
Within minutes, hours, there were posts about how this is retconning, how this wasn't factual - vitriolic posts proclaiming special knowledge and opinion as fact. Arguments even.
We live in a post-Trump world of true facts and false facts - well facts are facts and the evidence is there, so how about we all calm down, enjoy this awesome video, get excited to see what's coming very soon and just be pleased we have PLASTIC Horus Heresy.
I am so excited to make the new kits, put paint to plastic and create, let my imagination run wild and get completely absorbed in these new minis. A plastic Spartan? A plastic Phobos Land Raider? A plastic Deimos pattern Rhion? Yes, this is what we have been asking for for over a decade, so how about giving GW credit and stop spewing venom around and proving the rest of the hobby right about the toxicity of our small pocket of this much much larger hobby.
- Thematic pose
- Correct gun discipline with the finger placement
- Rebirth of the classic bayonet
- The segmented toe area harking back to the old metal miniatures
- Return of bonding studs that are actually round
- A small update to the classic backpack.
We're all for respectful feedback to GW about things they may have missed, done in a silly way or even completely balls-ed up. this trailer, this miniature is not the place. But unfortunately, social media is a place where everyone's opinion is equal, even those ill-informed with no real understanding that this universe existed before they started playing the game. Their is a history, their is ample evidence that MKVI armour was in fact used in the Horus Heresy. Was it as wide spread as MKII, or MK IV? Maybe, maybe not. But the fact is, for over 30 years, MKVI armour has been depicted in GW art as being in the Horus Heresy. It is unequivocally there! I used the term "unfortunately" earlier in terms of equal weighting in social media, and I'm sure that may have caused some to stir, but this fantastic preview has brought out a part of this community that others point to all the time; the toxicity.
Within minutes, hours, there were posts about how this is retconning, how this wasn't factual - vitriolic posts proclaiming special knowledge and opinion as fact. Arguments even.
We live in a post-Trump world of true facts and false facts - well facts are facts and the evidence is there, so how about we all calm down, enjoy this awesome video, get excited to see what's coming very soon and just be pleased we have PLASTIC Horus Heresy.
I am so excited to make the new kits, put paint to plastic and create, let my imagination run wild and get completely absorbed in these new minis. A plastic Spartan? A plastic Phobos Land Raider? A plastic Deimos pattern Rhion? Yes, this is what we have been asking for for over a decade, so how about giving GW credit and stop spewing venom around and proving the rest of the hobby right about the toxicity of our small pocket of this much much larger hobby.
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