Horus has revealed his dark plans, but nobody is prepared for just how far he will go. The force sent to end the Warmaster’s rebellion doesn’t realise they are heading towards a slaughter unlike anything the galaxy has seen.

READ IT BECAUSE
It’s the deepest exploration so far of one of the most horrific battles of the Horus Heresy. You may know what happened during the Dropsite Massacre, but you don’t know it all. It’s far worse than you thought as the treachery is revealed.

THE STORY
Horus has rebelled against the Emperor by purging his and his brother’s Legions, but what was supposed to be a secret act of murder has been revealed. In the Emperor’s name, Rogal Dorn and Malcador the Sigillite dispatch the largest force of legionaries and primarchs ever assembled to end Horus’ rebellion before it can begin.

But the loyalists, on their way to enact vengeance, do not know the depth of the betrayal they face. They will not be the perpetrators of a massacre, but its victims. The last hope of returning to the Great Crusade and the unity of the Imperium will die in the dust of Isstvan V, and those who survive will live in a new age of darkness.

Written by John French.

The Emperor’s Finest

This multipart plastic kit builds 6 Aquilon Terminators for Legio Custodes armies in games of Warhammer: The Horus Heresy and Adeptus Custodes armies in Warhammer 40,000. These resplendent golden warriors use their armour’s superior defensive capabilities and deadly advanced weaponry to shrug off the most savage assaults and stand firm while defying the foes of the Imperium.

Reap a Terrible Tally

Each Aquilon Terminator is equipped with 1 Infernus Firepike, 1 Solarite Power Gauntlet, and 1 Misericordia. The kit includes parts to equip every miniature with either Adrathic Combi‑destructors or Lastrum Storm Bolters in place of their Infernus Firepikes, and wielding Solarite Power Talons rather than their Solarite Power Gauntlets.

These miniatures are highly customisable and come with the following interchangeable parts:
– 6 chest plates (of 3 designs)
– 6 helmets (of 3 designs)
– 6 tilting shields (of 3 designs)

Contents:
– 180 plastic components
– 6 Citadel 50mm Round Bases
– 1 construction guide

A Gleaming God of War

This multipart plastic kit builds one Custodian Dreadnought, a mighty war machine for your Legio Custodes armies in games of Warhammer: The Horus Heresy, and for Adeptus Custodes armies in Warhammer 40,000. They excel in melee, where the machine’s power combines with the interned Custodian’s martial abilities to create an almost unstoppable team. On the front lines and in the thick of the fighting, these gleaming walkers give Custodes armies some serious punching power.

Customise Your Dreadnought

The Contemptor-Achillus Dreadnought is highly customisable and can be built in one of 2 configurations – the spear-carrying Achillus, or the Galatus, equipped with a warblade and praesidium shield. Both patterns are highly poseable. The Achillus has a choice of 2 spear heads, can be armed with a lastrum storm bolter, twin infernus incinerator, or Adrathic combi-destructor on each arm, and has the option of a closed or open left hand.

There are also lots of cosmetic options, including interchangeable helmet sections, 2 sculpted shoulder pad decorations, 2 chest decorations, and optional pteruges, making it easy to customise your devastating walker.

Contents:
– 162 plastic components
– 1 Citadel 60mm Round Base
– 1 Legio Custodes Dreadnought Transfer Sheet
– 1 construction guide

The Legio Custodes Dreadnought Transfer Sheet features 165 high-quality waterslide transfers. These include Custodian symbols, text for locations of great battles, and more to decorate your miniature.

Peerless in Defence

This multipart plastic kit builds 6 Sentinel Guards for Legio Custodes armies in games of Warhammer: The Horus Heresy, or for Adeptus Custodes armies in Warhammer 40,000. Armed with Sentinel Blades, Misericordia, and Praesidium Shields, they are well protected without sacrificing offensive capabilities. No traitor can withstand a dedicated assault from these superlative warriors as they wade through waves of small-arms fire before lashing out with their own bolts and blades.

In Auramite Clad

Each Sentinel Guard is lavished in details, including sculpted iconography and filigree, giving them the ornate appearance you’d expect from the Emperor’s bodyguards. One miniature can be built as an optional Sentinel Vexillarius, exchanging their Praesidium Shield for a Magisterium Vexilla. They can also be assembled with either their Sentinel Blade or Misericordia in their left hand.

Interchangeable parts:
– 6 helmeted heads
– 7 bare
– 6 helmet plumes
– 6 shields

Contents:
– 125 plastic components
– 6 Citadel 40mm Round Bases
– 1 construction guide

An Exemplar of Terra’s Might

This multipart plastic kit builds one Shield Captain, an exemplary warrior and strategist for your Legio Custodes armies in games of Warhammer: The Horus Heresy, and for Adeptus Custodes forces in games of Warhammer 40,000. They are clad in the finest armour and lavished in details, including magnificently sculpted iconography and filigree, giving an ornate appearance. This resplendent leader is equipped with a Praesidium Shield and an Eternity Blade – both a mark of office and a deadly weapon. The miniature comes with a choice of 2 heads, 1 helmeted and 1 bare, so you can customise your Shield Captain.

In games of Warhammer: The Horus Heresy, this miniature can be used to represent a Tribune – a mighty leader held in immense esteem by their fellow Custodians.

Contents:
– 24 plastic components
– 1 Citadel 40mm Round Base
– 1 construction guide

Strike From the Skies

This multipart plastic kit builds 6 Venatari, elite airborne infantry for your Legio Custodes armies in games of Warhammer: The Horus Heresy. For Warhammer 40,000, these miniatures can be built as either a Venatari Sodality with Kinetic Destroyers or a Venatari Sodality with Verutum Lances for use in Adeptus Custodes armies. Held aloft on their Custodian jump harnesses, they fly over the battlefield, hunting their targets. Armed with advanced archaeotech weapons, these swift killers excel at using their speed to take out isolated enemy targets.

Hunt in Style

Each member of the unit can be equipped with either a Tarsus Buckler and brutal Kinetic Destroyer to slay the Emperor’s enemies from afar, or a Verutum Lance to strike down foes in close combat. They can each take an optional Neutronium Cascade Mine to destroy vehicles at the molecular level, and 2 Ventari can be assembled carrying these baleful devices in their hands. There are also several interchangeable parts, which make it easy to customise your swooping predators.

Interchangeable parts:
– 10 heads (of 5 designs)
– 6 Tarsus Bucklers (of 3 designs)
– 8 Custodian jump harnesses (of 3 designs)
– 12 left shoulder pads (of 2 designs)
– 12 right shoulder pads (of 2 designs)

Contents:
– 196 plastic components
– 6 Citadel 40mm Round Bases
– 1 construction guide

Harass, Swoop, and Strike

This multipart plastic kit builds 2 Gyrfalcon Jetbikes for Legio Custodes armies in games of Warhammer: The Horus Heresy and Adeptus Custodes armies in Warhammer 40,000. Gyrfalcon Jetbike Sodalities operate as rapid response and suppression units, screening their allies from potential encirclement, reacting quickly to blunt enemy attacks and mercilessly hunting down any foe attempting to flee before the might of the main Custodian force, ensuring the enemy’s utter extermination.

Corral Foes Unto Death

The Gyrfalcon Jetbikes can each be armed with your choice of Adrathic Devastator, Arachnus Volley Cannon, Twin Corvae Las-Pulser, or Lastrum Bolt Cannon.

The riders can be built with their Solarite Power Lance mounted to the jetbike, or held in their hand in one of 3 positions. There are also 6 helmet plumes in 3 designs to choose from.

Contents:
– 156 plastic components
– 2 Citadel 90mm by 52mm Oval Bases
– 2 Citadel 50mm Ball Flying Stems
– 1 construction guide
– 1 Legio Custodes Vehicle Transfer Sheet

The Legio Custodes Vehicle Transfer Sheet features 210 high-quality waterslide transfers. These include Custodian symbols, text for locations of great battles, and more to decorate your miniature.

Guardian Eternal

This multipart plastic kit builds 1 Telemon Heavy Dreadnought for Legio Custodes armies in games of Warhammer: The Horus Heresy and Adeptus Custodes armies in Warhammer 40,000. Boasting masterwork levels of protective technology, paired with superior Custodes weaponry, the Telemon is a truly terrifying adversary on the battlefield, blasting foes apart from afar and crushing them up close in melee.

Towering Dominance

This massive war-machine is equipped with a shoulder-mounted Spiculus Bolt Launcher and Dual Caestus Fists with Twin Neutronium Cascade Projectors, one of which can be replaced with a flexible Iliastus Accelerator Culverin, a high-damage Adrathic Desolator, or an armour-ruining Arachnus Storm Cannon.

The Telemon Dreadnought is highly customisable, as its legs can be posed in different positions, along with the elbows and fingers of each Caestus Fist. You can also choose from one of 2 waist armour designs, 2 helmet bases, and 3 helmet crowns.

Contents:
– 148 plastic components
– 1 Citadel 100mm Round Base
– 1 Legio Custodes Dreadnought Transfer Sheet
– 1 construction guide

The Legio Custodes Dreadnought Transfer Sheet features 165 high-quality waterslide transfers. These include Custodian symbols, text for locations of great battles, and more to decorate your miniature.

Deliver Swift Death

This multipart plastic kit builds one Pallas Grav-attack for your Legio Custodes armies in games of Warhammer: The Horus Heresy and for Adeptus Custodes armies in Warhammer 40,000. In battle, this sleek tank zooms into the best firing positions so it can inflict devastating hit-and-run assaults on the enemy. It boasts powerful weaponry in the form of a hull-mounted Twin Arachnus Blaze Cannon, or a Twin Iliastus Accelerator Fusil – expertly engineered weapons that can successfully eliminate both infantry and armoured targets alike.

Contents:
– 76 plastic components
– 1 Citadel 105mm by 70mm Oval Base
– 1 Custodes Vehicle Flight Stem
– 1 construction guide
– 1 Legio Custodes Vehicle Transfer Sheet

The Legio Custodes Vehicle Transfer Sheet features 210 high-quality waterslide transfers. These include Custodian symbols, text for locations of great battles, and more to decorate your miniature.

Muster Your Shield Company

If you want to take the fight to the enemies of the Emperor, this box is the perfect way to start a new Adeptus Custodes collection – or expand an existing army – and save money compared to buying the kits individually. Led by an illustrious Shield-Captain, with a Sentinel Guard Sodality at their side, your infantry core is composed of elite, flexible, hard-to-kill units that are a threat both at range and in melee. Highly mobile winged Venatari add speed and disruption tactics to your arsenal, while a Contemptor-Achillus Dreadnought provides heavy fire support. When taken together, they form a complete army for use in tight, tactical Combat Patrol games of Warhammer 40,000.

This boxed set builds 11 multipart plastic Adeptus Custodes miniatures:
– 1 Shield-Captain
– 6 Sentinel Guard Sodality miniatures
– 3 Venatari with Kinetic Destroyers (can alternatively be built as Venatari with Verutum Lances)
– 1 Contemptor‑Achillus Dreadnought (can alternatively be built as a Contemptor-Galatus Dreadnought)

The miniatures in this box are easy to customise. The Shield-Captain offers a choice of a tall helmet or bare head.

The Sentinel Guard Sodality are armed with Praesidium Shields and Sentinel Blades. One can exchange their Praesidium Shield for a Magisterium Vexilla, wielding either their Sentinel Blade or Misericordia in their left hand. The kit also includes 13 interchangeable heads – 6 helmeted and 7 bare – 6 plumes that are interchangeable across the helmets, and 6 interchangeable shields.

The Venatari with Kinetic Destroyers are equipped with either Tarsus Bucklers and Kinetic Destroyers, or two-handed Verutum Lances. They can each take an optional Neutronium Cascade Mine on their hip, and 1 Venatari can be assembled carrying one of these baleful devices in their hand. There are also several interchangeable parts, including 5 heads, 3 tarsus bucklers, 4 jump harnesses, 6 left shoulder pads, and 6 right shoulder pads.

The Contemptor-Achillus Dreadnought is highly customisable and can be built in one of 2 configurations – the spear-carrying Achillus or the Galatus, equipped with a Warblade and Praesidium Shield. Both patterns are highly poseable. The Achillus has a choice of 2 spear heads, can be armed with 2 Lastrum Storm Bolters, Twin Infernus Incinerators, or Adrathic Combi-destructors on each arm, and has the option of a closed or open left hand. There are also lots of cosmetic options, including 2 helmet facemasks, 2 helmet tops, 2 sculpted shoulder pad decorations, 2 chest decorations, and optional pteruges.

Contents:
– 507 plastic components
– 10 Citadel 40mm Round bases
– 1 Citadel 60mm Round base
– 1 construction guide
– 1 Adeptus Custodes Transfer Sheet

The Adeptus Custodes Transfer Sheet features 210 high-quality waterslide transfers. These include Custodian symbols, honour markings, script, and more to decorate your miniatures.