The Horus Heresy: The Battle for Beta The Horus Heresy represents a conflict of unprecedented scale, marked by numerous critical campaigns. Set over many years, the Garmon Cluster has become a crucial barrier where the forces of the Warmaster must be halted. Its central system, Beta-Garmon, is a fiery battlefield where the loyalist armies, led by the Great Angel Sanguinius, the Warhawk Jaghatai Khan, and the remnants of the Shattered Legions, fight to delay the inevitable assault on Terra. This expansion book for Warhammer: The Horus Heresy immerses players in the Garmon Cluster, a pivotal space arena witnessing some of the largest battles of the Age of Darkness. The book enables players to engage in this monumental conflict through the Onslaught campaign system, connecting battles across the Garmon bulwark, and introduces new core missions and narrative Apex missions. It includes rules for the Legiones Astartes Blackshields, Shattered Legions, new units for Solar Auxilia, rules for Legiones Auxilia affiliated with each legion, and guidelines for notable characters of this tumultuous era. Contained within this 208-page hardcover book, you will find:
- An exploration of the defining dark age - An in-depth look into the final war for the Garmon Cluster, with a detailed timeline of the many battles leading to this fierce confrontation, insights into the Blackshields and Shattered Legions, and details on the Solar Auxilia cohorts that fought alongside the Legiones Astartes.
- Dark Age Campaigns: The Garmon Bulwark - A comprehensive Onslaught campaign system providing rules for a series of connected battles where each victory or loss leads to a final showdown. Specific rules are included to tailor your campaign to the struggle for the Garmon Cluster.
- The Age of Darkness: Core Missions - Five core missions balanced for both campaigns and matched play events. Race to secure vital strongholds in Sudden Strike, adapt to changing tides in Strike and Fade, or fight for central ground in The Heart of Battle.
- The Garmon Bulwark: Apex Missions - Two new Apex missions with extensive special rules aimed at campaigns and narrative games. Rescue survivors from a mine-laden hellscape in Across the Fields of Dead, or pit one Primarch against another in a summit duel at Ghal-Zammad.
- Legiones Astartes: Shattered Legions - Rules to create mixed Space Marine legion armies, influenced by distinct doctrines and hybrid tactics.
- Legiones Astartes: Blackshields - Guidelines to field armies and allied detachments comprised of marginal Space Marines, renegades, and dissident groups from various legions, forming new and often peculiar warbands.
- Legiones Auxilia and Solar Auxilia - Four new units for the Solar Auxilia, including Hermes Light Sentinels and Aethon Sentinels, alongside a new Cohort Doctrine and rules to ally Space Marine detachments, featuring specific rules for each Legion.
- Legiones Astartes: New Units - Rules for five prominent characters in the narrative, including Shadrak Meduson and Endryd Haar, plus command squads and lower-ranked Optae officers for all legions.
- Showcase - In addition to atmospheric photos and annotated illustrations, the book includes a gallery of beautifully painted miniatures for the White Scars, Blood Angels, Sons of Horus, Shattered Legions, and Blackshields.
To utilize the content of this book, you will need the Warhammer: The Horus Heresy - The Age of Darkness Rulebook and one of the Army Books for Warhammer: The Horus Heresy, all available separately.
