*"Great move!"*
– Ferrus Manus, Primarch

Update v1.8.7 is now live, with the following improvements and fixes:
● Improve the menu interface in devices with screen ratios wider than 16:9, removing the lateral bars.
● Prepare the ground for some upcoming balance changes to Iron Hands.
● Show Raum's art as opponent in menu when matched against him.
● Fix size of Chinese, Korean and Japanese fonts.
● Fix occasional issue closing the Challenges popup.
● Lower maximum time allowed to reconnect from 35 to 30 seconds (for the first disconnection in a match).

For the Tenth!

"Let's see if you've got what it takes."
– Nemiel

The first competitive season of the year brings a new opportunity to claim a spot in history! It is time to fight for the title of Warmaster and these exclusive card backs! At the end of this month, the top 1, 10 and 50 players on the Leaderboard will receive one of these seasonal cosmetics to mark their achievement.

How are you climbing through the ranks this season?

"I will claim victory!"
– Lion El'Jonson

Right in the midst of a new year's first season, it's time to take a look at the exclusive card backs earned by the players who came up on top of the rankings in last year's competitive seasons. Forever will these honours distinguish those who claimed victory in the most ruthless conflicts in galactic warfare.

Glory to the Warmaster!

"I am the Herald of what shall be."
– Calas Typhon

New alternate art! Calas Typhon, First Captain of the Death Guard receives new art and voice lines! Get this amazing artwork in a premium constructed deck including a legendary card and featuring an exclusive collector's card back. Only this weekend!

Get your hands on Typhon's alternate art and stand your ground with the recently updated Death Guard!

"Darkness falls."
– Farith Redloss, Commander of the Dreadwing

The highly effective Night Lords counter-assault has worn down the Dark Angels forces. In an attempt to sway the fight to their side, Farith and the Dreadwing join the Lion's assault! Unwilling to let that happen, Malcharion will come to reinforce the VIIIth Legion's defensive effort.

Farith and Malcharion join the event as reinforcement warlords. Fight to decide which Dark Angels Warlord will become collectable! Remember, if your lodge places in the Top 10, you will receive the new Warlord in your event reward crate!

"Can you hear it too? The coming change."
– Calas Typhon

With new enemies looming in the distance, the Death Guard takes to the battlefield with an updated arsenal of noxious weaponry. Meanwhile, the Knight Houses receive further adjustments to curtail their dominance. Check out the details and stay tuned for another balance patch coming this month:

Knight Houses
● Cerastus Knight: No longer starts with an extra card.
● House Orhlacc: Ability becomes "Choose a Weapon. Create a copy of it in your hand".
● Munition Depot: No longer triggers ability on Rally.

Death Guard
● Counterattack: Change description to "Give 0/+1 to a friendly unit".
● Garro: Change ability to "(2) Give 0/+2 and remove Poison from a friendly unit".
● Calas Typhon: Change ability to "(2) Heal 2 to all your units".
● Geldurk Squad: Change description to "Rally: Give 0/+2 to a friendly troop".
● Phordal Squad: Gain Poisonous.
● Purity of Will: Change description to "Rally: Remove Poison from your units. Resolution: Heal 2 to your units".
● Captain Holgoarg: Change stats to 6/5 and description to "Rally: Give adjacent troops +1/+1 and Poisonous".
● The Imperial Reaper: Gain "Backlash: Poison all enemy troops.".
● Chem-munition: Lower cost from 2 to 1.
● Shield Up: Change description to "Fully heal and remove Poison from a friendly troop. Give it +1/+1".
● Blessing of Nurgle: Ability now buffs all Death Guard troops, instead of Astartes.

PS: This patch also fixes an interaction between Brother Titus' ability and Pelagor Marner.

"No quarter, no respite."
– Leman Russ

Well-known warriors reclaim their status while new menaces stalk them in the rankings! Leman Russ claims Low Terra by the skin of his teeth, but High Terra is a whole different matter.

Check out the full report on:
https://www.horusheresylegions.com/december-2020-report/

Did your favourite warlord make the list?

"Honour commands it."
– Holguin, Commander of the Deathwing

Who will join the ranks of the Dark Angels as a new collectable warlord? Have your say!

Take part in the "Lion's Vengeance" event to determine whether Holguin or Farith Redloss become collectable at the end of the event. If the Loyalist forces of the First Legion succeed, Holguin will become collectable. If the traitor forces of the Night Lords prevail, Farith Redloss will join the roster instead.

Fight to pick a new collectable Warlord, and if your lodge places within the Top 10, you will receive the newly unlocked Warlord in your event reward crate!

Choose your side!

"You sound eager to fight."
– Sanguinius, The Great Angel

Start collecting a new legion with a special New Year deal!

Get 1,000 free coins with your choice of starter deck for any of the Space Marine Legions in the game. Only this weekend!

For the Emperor!

"The future stretches before us."
– Ulrach Branthan

Update v1.8.6 welcomes the new year with major improvements to the daily Challenges:
● Complete a different goal each day to earn a Challenge reward crate when the time runs out. Each Challenge has 3 tiers of completion, the higher you reach, the better the crate!
● You can now choose which faction you wish to get cards for, and all the cards in the Challenge crate will be from that faction.
● The list of challenges has been revised to focus on those that can be completed over several matches. You will no longer need very long matches or supportive opponents to complete them.
● The thresholds required to complete some of the challenges have been revised down.

This update also brings a number of other improvements:
● Add support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters.
● Enable a special New Year offer, offering 1000 coins with any of the starter decks for the Astartes Legions in the game.
● If a lodge leader leaves a lodge, the leadership will now automatically pass on the next most veteran lodge member.
● In deck editing, enable the +/- buttons to add or remove the warlord.
● Fix a bug in the interaction between Hydra Dominatus and Deathshroud.
● Other minor bug fixes.