Warhammer The Horus Heresy Solar Auxilia Battlegroup 31-69

Description

Key Features:

• Recruit a solid core of Solar Auxilia infantry and armoured vehicles, and save money compared to buying the kits individually
• Contains 28 multipart plastic miniatures, all available for the first time in this set – including the first Aethon Heavy Sentinel for Warhammer: The Horus Heresy
• Start a new army for Warhammer: The Horus Heresy, or reinforce your existing collection with new plastic miniatures

The Solar Auxilia are the most elite division of the Imperial Army, mortal soldiers trained to fight in alien atmospheres, toxic death zones, and even the cold vacuum of space – the most hazardous battlefields of the Great Crusade. Equipped with sophisticated wargear and sealed environmental armour, the Auxilia are recruited from across the Imperium’s many conquests, chosen for a mix of skill, discipline, and raw aggression. As the Age of Darkness sweeps across the stars, the countless cohorts of the Solar Auxilia must each declare their allegiance – honour their Warmaster, or stand with their Emperor?

This battlegroup makes a fantastic foundation for a new Solar Auxilia army, or a great way to reinforce your collection with new plastic miniatures. The infantry core of this battle group is 20 Solar Auxilia troopers armed with lasrifles and bayonets, led by a prestigious Auxilia Captain and his Tactical Command Section of four Companions. They’re carried to battle in a massive Dracosan Armoured Transport, and supported with firepower from an Aethon Heavy Sentinel and an environmentally-sealed Leman Russ Strike Tank.

These new kits offer loads of wargear and cosmetic options, allowing you to customise your troops and tanks as you desire. They also come with new Solar Auxilia transfer sheets, providing you with plenty of optional squad markings and iconography.

This set includes the following:
– 20x Solar Auxilia Rifle Section miniatures
– 5x Solar Auxilia Tactical Command Section miniatures
– 1x Aethon Heavy Sentinel
– 1x Dracosan Armoured Transport
– 1x Leman Russ Battle Tank
– 2x Solar Auxilia Infantry Transfer Sheets
– 2x Solar Auxilia Vehicle Transfer Sheets

All models are supplied with their appropriate bases. These miniatures are supplied unpainted and require assembly – we recommend using Citadel Plastic Glue and Citadel Colour paints.

This incredible box is strictly limited in quantity, meaning once it’s gone, it’s gone – secure yours before it’s too late! The individual miniatures in this set will be available separately at a later date.

From the Community:

The iconic void-sealed armour of the Solar Auxilia protects these elite infantry from the rigours of hazardous and alien battlefields in the Age of Darkness, while their finely-tuned lasrifles unleash volleys of blistering death. While their personal equipment may lack the raw power of Legiones Astartes wargear, these cohorts make up the difference with discipline, numbers, and a style all their own.

Each Lasrifle Section box builds 20 Auxiliaries, who can be deployed as two 10-model units or a single large Section. This includes plenty of command equipment, so you can build an Auxilia Sergeant, a vox operator, and a vexilla standard bearer – with two different icons – for each squad.

All 20 miniatures can attach bayonets to their lasrifles, giving them an extra punch in close combat, and the kit includes a wealth of grenades and pouches to adorn their belts. You can freely mix-and-match different leg poses, head poses, and lasrifle arms for extra variety, and you’ll even find cosmetic blast-charger cells that fit right onto a lasrifle’s cylinder.

The Sergeant gets a fancy chestplate and a choice of heads, and can augment their arsenal with an absolute array of weapons. They can tote a laspistol, blast pistol, needle pistol, plasma pistol, or hand flamer in one hand, while swinging a power sword, power fist, or charnabal sabre in the other.

Solar Auxilia armies are directed in battle by Tactical Command Sections, comprising an Auxilia Captain* and four Companion support staff, who augment the basic Lasrifle Section with a packed upgrade sprue. The Solar Auxilia Battle Group army box previewed at the Las Vegas Open includes a full Tactical Command Section in addition to its Lasrifle Sections – you can also use it as a Line Command Section in charge of a larger Infantry Tercio formation.

The Auxilia Captain is covered head to toe in Imperial iconography and fine trim, with a choice of bare or helmeted heads, and has access to the same extensive armoury as the Auxilia Sergeant. His Companions augment the standard Solar Auxilia infantry models with a variety of extra parts, including ornamented chestplates and helmets to set them apart from mere line troops. The kit also includes a cohorts vexilla banner, a command vox, and an augury scanner to equip your Companions for command roles.

Alternatively, the Auxilia Captain can be built as a Legate Marshal* – a celebrated (or feared) commander who throws off the shackles of an attendant unit to better inspire the troops under their command. This further increases their arsenal, adding a volkite serpenta, an inferno pistol, an archaeotech pistol, a thunder hammer, a paragon blade, and a melta bomb – all of which are also included in the kit. Plus another, even more impressively plumed helmet – this is the Imperium, after all.

Of course, this means your support staff will have no-one to support. While you could always use these models to reinforce your other Tactical Command and Line Command Sections,** you can also promote them to a personal Lifeward Section, entrusted with the Legate Marshal’s safety (and their spare weapons). You’ll soon find rules for these personal protectors in The Battle for Beta-Garmon.

Both units are available first in the Solar Auxilia Battle Group set, alongside a new Leman Russ Strike Tank, an Aethon Heavy Sentinel, and a Dracosan Armoured Transport. This will be available for ordering imminently, and the individual kits will receive standalone releases shortly after.

* The officers of the Solar Auxilia actually go by a dizzying variety of titles, but much like “Praetor” and “Centurion” for the Legiones Astartes, “Legate Marshal” and “Captain” are decent catch-all terms.

** In fact, the Tactical Command Section kit includes enough parts to build an extra Companion model – so if you have a spare base lying around, you could make a whole Line Command Section even without the Legate Marshal.

Assembly and painting required. Kit does not include model cement glue, paint, and tools. Adult supervision where required.

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