New Plastic Falchion Super-Heavy Tank Kit Revealed for Horus Heresy

Games Workshop dropped the reveal for the Falchion plastic kit on March 9, making it the first time this Titan-hunting super-heavy has been available in plastic. The official product listing, "Legions Imperialis: Falchion / Ascalon Super-heavy Tanks," makes clear this is a two-for-one deal: one multipart plastic kit that builds two distinct super-heavy vehicles for your Legiones Astartes armies.

The Falchion itself was originally designed to engage gargantuan enemies and carries a neutron wave cannon capable of inflicting catastrophic damage on even the heaviest armoured foes. Its variant, the Ascalon, takes the same chassis in a different direction entirely, swapping that main gun for an inferno gun similar to those found on titans of the Collegia Titanica. So whether you want to crack open enemy armour at range or bring something with a more thermite-flavoured argument, the kit covers both.

Beyond the main armament, the Falchion offers meaningful loadout decisions at the sponson level. A pair of side turrets lets you choose between heavy bolters for clearing infantry chaff, autocannons for light armour and void shield stripping, or lascannons for finishing off anything that survived the neutron wave cannon. That flexibility means the Falchion can be tuned to whatever gap exists in your Legiones Astartes list.

The rules for fielding it arrive alongside a new Journal Tactica: "Mailed Fist: Legiones Astartes Super-Heavy Tanks," a 48-page supplement covering background on super-heavy vehicles from their inception through the fires of Horus' ambition. Inside are new rules for fielding companies of these machines, background lore, and datasheets for all the recently revealed Legiones Astartes tanks. Games Workshop's own teaser for the book put the Falchion's table presence in appropriately blunt terms: "Finding a table big enough to contain it will probably be tougher than finding a target it can't obliterate."

Both the plastic kit and the Mailed Fist Journal Tactica are heading to pre-order soon, with no specific date confirmed at time of writing. Pricing has not been announced. Given how long the Falchion has lived in resin, its arrival in plastic is a significant accessibility upgrade for Heresy players who want serious anti-Titan firepower without the resin surcharge.