Having a few players, gladly some people from the studio, beginning with the Age of Darkness box, and talking about the idea behind their project, their progress, making the generic plastic kits theirs, some neat kitbashes and first games.
Something like a four generals series (wasn't even part in the current White Dwarf) would have been more interesting, in my opinion. Zorpazorp is probably the loudest of the content creators, but to be honest a bit of handful to watch, and even OmegonEdge didn't progress much further than mostly painting his Kratos tank. With the release of the updated Contrast range and events like World Model Expo their focus went elsewhere and to be honest, would painters / content creators really go for the Heresy? It's a rather large project and if you're more about things like painting large miniatures, they would probably be done after painting the primarch and maybe a praetor, but not 2,5k points of Heresy. You've partially seen the tutorials on the miniatures they painted and that's mostly it. On my end, I noticed that the people Games Workshop invited for the Horus Heresy event were mostly "influencers" and painters, as it became rather silent after the event on their side. I can ensure that on my end with a moderate investment in something like a Rode, but I'd need something for my guests, as it is rather likely that were not in the same room while taping these. The biggest is - I'm doing this bilingual and I want to keep it that way and yes, doing something like a podcast in English would be possible, but I'd like to provide for my German speaking audience as I do now. There are multiple smaller barriers here. I was asked multiple times if I wasn't interested in doing something like a podcast. Unfortunately speech to text didn't work as assumed, making this kind of an article incredibly labour intensive at this point. We even did our first interview ( with an active member of the 30k community, Broncofish) and I have to say, I quite enjoyed it having the chance to cover something like this. We did our coverage on the Age of Darkness / Horus Heresy, quite extensively for our conditions. Quite a clever move, especially as you want to have your customers paint loads and loads of Space Marines, so things like the new Imperial Fists yellow comes in handy. The releases and novelties were rather supporting, for example adding the rulebook as a stand-alone or giving the Contrast Paints an update. As well as teasers on the new plastic Predator based upon the Deimos Rhino (full plastic kit as well) and even a first peak on the Leviathan Dreadnought - coming as a plastic kit as well.īeyond that, Games Workshop did not draw away the attention that period that much.
Games Workshop has published additional content in the four weeks since the official launch, like a very extensive document with Legacies of the Age of Darkness covering a lot more units in addition to the Traitor and Loyalists books, along with a free Horus Heresy mission.īut that's not all, to keep the players interested, we had previews on the full Contemptor Dreadnought kit, because as it seems the Contemptor from the Age of Darkness box is not the final release. The Horus Heresy is around for about a month.