Cubicle 7 Announces New Horus Heresy RPG for Warhammer

Cubicle 7 is expanding their line of Warhammer TTRPGs with a new RPG set during the Horus Heresy. During last week's Warhammer Relics announcement event, Cubicle 7 announced that they were developing a new Horus Heresy RPG, set to launch in 2026. The Horus Heresy is one of the defining events of Warhammer 40K lore, and saw the famous Space Marine legions of the Imperium of Man engage in a bloody civil war. The Horus Heresy ended with the mortal wounding of the Emperor, which led to him being placed inside a massive supercomputer sarcophagus known as the Golden Throne, and led to the extreme stagnation of the Imperium that lasts until the present day.

One notable twist in this new RPG is that players will create two characters - a primary character that acts as a Consul within a Space Marine corps, and a secondary character that holds a specialty occupation. Players can swap between characters when their respective particular skills are needed.

Pre-orders for The Horus Heresy: The Roleplaying Game will start this summer, with a core rulebook and starter kit going on sale in 2026.

 

[Superchunk77]

Oooo, looks juicy.

 

[Cergorach]

Mostly interested in the art from this and possibly the fluff (there's a TON already out there).

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Slightly surprised by this as the Horus Heresy seems like one of the less "game-able" parts of 40K (I know, technically 30K), on a TTRPG level.

I suppose it is guaranteed sales as both a lore/art book for the era and merch though, so probably sensible.

 

[Weiley31]

I feel like it's all Cubicle 7 really does at this point: Warhammer RPG books.

 

[eyeheartawk]

Putting aside the fact that I think the Horus Heresy peaked as a two page write-up in the original Rogue Trader, this is now a cow that requires constant milking.

Anyway, any word on what rule system this uses? More Imperium Maledictum or more Wrath & Glory?

 

[UnplayedRanger]

So how many corebooks does this make for the Warhammer universe?

 

[ngenius]

So Cubicle7 is truly just "That Other Warhammerr Company" at this rate. But I love Warhammer so mighty pleased, especially because these are all concurrent product lines apart from those older PDFs.

WARHAMMER 40,000
1. Wrath and Glory with D6 pools
2. Imperium Maledictum with D100 percentile
3. Horus Heresy

WARHAMMER FANTASY
4. WFRP 4th Edition with D100 percentile
5. The Old World with D10 pools

AGE OF SIGMAR
6. Soulbound with D6 pools

And still selling PDFs of older D100 Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, Deathwatch, Only War and Black Crusade.

 

[eyeheartawk]

So Cubicle7 is truly just "That Other Warhammerr Company" at this rate. But I love Warhammer so mighty pleased, especially because these are all concurrent product lines apart from those older PDFs.

WARHAMMER 40,000
1. Wrath and Glory with D6 pools
2. Imperium Maledictum with D100 percentile
3. Horus Heresy

WARHAMMER FANTASY
4. WFRP 4th Edition with D100 percentile
5. The Old World with D10 pools

AGE OF SIGMAR
6. Soulbound with D6 pools

And still selling PDFs of older D100 Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, Deathwatch, Only War and Black Crusade.

In the pre-4e days Daniel Fox (of Zweihander and general internet annoyance fame) was talking about being in talks with GW about acquiring the WFRP license and a condition of that deal was that they also produce an Age of Sigmar game. So I imagine a fair amount of that output (especially the stuff that seems overlapping) may be a license dictate.

 

[Autumnal]

I’ll be curious to see what sort of setting they use and how they approach the setting. Both Wrath & Glory and Imperium Maledictum (and Age of Sigmar) take cool, useful, and thoroughly different approaches, so I’m cautiously optimistic.