The Imperial Truth - The Horus Heresy 30K podcast

Episode 206– DRPA And The Dropsite Massacre Special guests Roger and Duncan join us to talk about the Duncan Rhodes Paint Academy, Two Thin Coats and Lords & Legends which is a lot.... And then we go all the way back to the start of 3 rd and look at the first Journal Tactica. Just how much do we not know about the most infamous battle in the history of 40K. Plus all the other stuff. 00:00:00 – 00:...

Episode 205– Episode 205 – Battle of Tallarn Pt 1 & Neil Hollis GW sent us a preview copy of Battle of Tallarn Pt1 and we take a good look at the latest entry into the Journal Tactica series. How does it hold up to the others?? We are also joined by the Ex (Co-host), Neil Hollis to talk about Adepticon Golden Demon and some painting info from a multiple slayer sword winner. 00:00:00 – 00:35:24 – I...

Episode 204 – John French Returns John French joins us back on the show as we try and look back at The Horus Heresy numbered novel series. We definitely take a bit of time to look at the 'NuHeresy' though as well.  Due to some illnesses and my reading the wrong book, we didn't have a second section recorded but we will be adding it on to another episode – don't worry.     00:00:00 – 00:23:07 – Int...

Episode 203– Mailed Fist And Liber Custodes A dual release and we give our (maybe long) thoughts on both books and there maybe more than is immediately obvious in them. Plus we have an extend full rambling chat thanks to the delay in recording and being bak on the mic.. If this is your first experience with us you can always jump straight to the meat of the content using the time stamps below.    ...

  Episode 202– 2025 Review Well we are definiely in the new year but we can still take a look back at 2025 and what it bought us as well as seeing if that shows us anything about moving forward into 2026. Of course there is some hobby and some news on top. Happy New Year all.     00:00:00 – 00:23:45 – Intro, Hobby, rambling 00:23:45 – 00:50:56 – News 00:50:56 – 01:38:06 – 2025 Review 01:38:06 – 01...

Episode 201– Zone Mortalis and Games Played Hey all, Howard and I are back to talk about our hobby, the news and the new Zone Mortalis Rules – Oh and we also played a game each so we can talk about that..   00:00:00 – 00:25:20 – Intro, Hobby, rambling 00:25:20 – 01:17:34 – News 01:17:34 – 01:59:03 – Games Played 01:59:03 – 02:58:36 – Zone Mortalis 02:58:36 – 02:58:36 – Closing the Show Teespring s...

Episode 200– Mini Colour and The Forges of Saturn Woop, woop – we made it to 200 after 10+ years of recording and to celebrate we recorded a pretty regular show.. Henry from Cult of Paint tries to answer why another paint line may actually be a good thing with obvious bias (but also some really good points). Then we have a look through the new Journal Tactica and see how it stacks up as value for...

Episode 199– 3 rd Ed Demons We have a little look at the Demon army and what it may bring to the new edition of Heresy as well as the usual chat about hobby and gaming but maybe with some extra ruminations around what that may look like in the future,     00:00:00 – 00:31:42 – Intro, Hobby, rambling 00:31:42 – 00:49:25 – News 00:49:25 – 01:48:00 – Liber Strategia 01:48:00 – 01:51:57 – Closing the...

Episode 198– Liber Strategia and 'Terrain' GW sent us a preview copy of the new Legions book and as we explain in the episode we thought it was best to include our chat in the main episode. On top of that we have a little look at Terrain and Line of Sight rules in light of the current discussions going on. Guess what, we ramble a little bit as well, especially around the intro and news...     00:0...

Episode 197– 30K RPG This one is a little bit shorter than planned thanks to the delay to the legacies PDF delay. We will look at that next episode... But on this one we welcome Calum and Padraig from Cubicle 7 who are both working on the new 30k RPG, it's early stages but we get a glimpse of what to expect from the game..     00:00:00 – 00:20:35 – Intro, Hobby, rambling 00:20:35 – 01:27:55 – 'New...

Episode 196– 3 rd Edition Rules Launch Day is here and GW sent us a box and some PDFs so we have had a look through and want to give you our views. This episode is 3 hours and apart from some rambling into libers and other bits at the end the rest almost all about the new rules. We feel they are definitely worth considering separately. So have a listen and see if the game sound interesting to you....

Episode 195– 3 rd Edition Preview Well, it's on it's way and so we take a look at the preview and some of the information that we have received. This one is pretty straight forward and hopefully we are going to have a lot more to talk about next show!     00:00:00 – 00:15:18 – Intro, Hobby, rambling 00:15:18 – 01:04:48 – Preview Pt 1 01:04:48 – 02:17:57 – Preview Pt 2 02:17:57 – 02:26:57 – Closing...

Episode 194– Hall Of Fame and Versatile Terrain Whilst we wait for GW to give us something new with Heresy (Hearsay) we plug away with the podcast introducing a new segment – Heresy Hall of Fame. We are going to build a Hall of Fame of miniatures for the game so let us know what you think of our choices and who should be in there. Plus we have Keith on to talk about Versatile Terrain's awesome new...

Episode 193 – Dan Abnett and Adepticon Author Interview (Chats really) are back with the always wonderful Dan Abnett, we had to record using different software so the sound is quite different to normal for that part. Have no fear though Dan is always good value and I think it's a interesting chat. Then we have a little look back at Adepticon and definitely the (lack of?) reveal plus the usual news...

Episode 192 - What goes on at Beachhead Following up from last episode we chat about Howard's experience at Beachhead and how useful was our chat about his army list. Plus a little bit about the event and then the News, the most rambling intro maybe ever and actual hobby..     00:00:00 – 00:20:46 – Intro, Hobby, rambling 00:20:46 – 00:59:36 – News 00:59:36 – 01:49:56 – Beachhead 01:49:56 – 01:52:5...

Episode 191– List Honing and News Howard is off to Beachhead to play some Adeptus Titanicus and we talk about the his options of what to take, how they might affect his play style and strength and weaknesses of each – I feel it's a decent lookat how to design lists. Plus     00:00:00 – 00:16:27 – Intro, Hobby, rambling 00:16:27 – 01:13:08 – News 01:13:08 – 02:31:13 – Beachhead Lists 02:31:13 – 02:...

  Episode 190 - How was 2024 for Heresy Welcome to the first episode of 2025, we look back at last year's releases and talk about just how it felt in Heresy circles. Plus a usual bit of chat of course :)     00:00:00 – 00:13:38 – Intro, Hobby, rambling 00:13:38 – 00:53:49 – News 00:53:49 – 02:12:39 – 2024 02:12:39 – 02:16:28 – Closing the Show   Teespring store: https://teespring.com/en-GB/stores/...

Episode 189 - Top 5 Battles and Adepticon 25 The last one of the year and we offer you a look at our Top 5 Battles in the Heresy which we give our working on battles vs wazones – this one could see lot of disagreement from listeners to be fair... Then we are joined by Zac and Derek to talk about Adepticon Heresy, well their side of things but also about the event itself a little as it faces it's n...

Episode 188 - Legio Laniaskara and Player Responsibilities? For Titan fans out there we take a look at The Impalers from background through rules to painting and modelling. We then have a chat – maybe more of a stream of consciousness – about what our responsibilities are as event attendees. Of course we chat about hobby, news, and all kinds of other stuff as well..   00:00:00 – 00:17:18 – Intro,...

Another 'extra' episode where we takre a look at the new Legions Imperialis book and unlike a lot of places we do look into the lore segment.  Hope you enjoy.

Episode 186– Dark Inferno And Top 5 Heresy 'Moments' Exploits from a trip to the Dark Inferno event run by Attrition Gaming and Greetings From The Warp as well as a look at our top 5 'moments' from the Heresy novels – this might be one the most vague criteria we have had for a Top 5. As usual we have plenty of random chat and a look at what has been going on in the Heresy Scene     00:00:00 – 00:3...

Episode 185– The Martian Civil War   GW allowed us to look at the new book and so we jump into it here. Busy lives meant we had to take parts of the book each and then you might be able to tell we are a little tired on this recording but maybe we can give another side of the story to what's here: Of course plenty of other chat as well, you know what we do...   00:00:00 – 00:36:56 – Intro, Hobby, r...

Episode 184– Devastation of Tallarn   Hey peeps, we have some new LI content and we jump on it to give you our thoughts on the latest expansion.. On top of that the usual chat, what we have been up to and what is going on in Heresy.   00:00:00 – 00:36:09 – Intro, Hobby, rambling 00:36:09 – 01:02:29 – News 01:02:29 – 02:00:39 – Devastation of Tallarn 02:00:39 – 02:05:09 – Closing the Show   Teespri...

Episode 183– Looking At 'Events'   A shift of approach this episode as we take a look at gaming events and how to approach running them, challenges faced, attendees, what you can learn while at them and more?? Of course all the normal stuff as well in a very 'relaxed' episode...   00:00:00 – 00:45:58 – Intro, Hobby, rambling 00:45:58 – 01:07:05 – News 01:07:05 – 02:33:06 – Events? 02:33:06 – 02:35...

Episode 182– 10 Year Anniversary and Barbarus   It's been 10 years since I launched Episode 001 and over 190 episodes later the Heresy has been through some changes, some ups and downs and we take a look over the our history with the game. We also look back our weekend out on the south coast at the Scouring of Barbarus doubles event. On top of that the usual ramblings and looking back over what ha...