Fancy yourself as a pre-Heresy expert? Know your Locasta from your Locaster? Want to pit your skills against the geekiest of the geeky? Then the TGC Pub Quiz is for you... :D

At the 'Compliance of Gedren Prime' event, teams were invited to answer 40 questions and 10 tie-breakers on all things PH and HH, without any research or reference.

Here are the questions they were asked - see what you can remember, without cheating!

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Legions
1. Which was the first legion to be reunited with their Primarch?
2. Name the 5th Legion?
3. Which two legions were deleted from Imperial records?
4. Name the 18th Legion?
5. What were the Death Guard previously known as?
6. Name the 8th Legion?
7. What were the World Eaters previously known as?
8. Name the 13th Legion?
9. How many Primarchs were active at the end of the Great Crusade?

Technology
MK1 armour was known as ‘Thunder Armour’. Name these other MKs:
10. MK2?
11. MK3?
12. MK4?
13. MK5?
14. MK6?
15. The Contrador was a ship belonging to which legion?
16. What technology protects ships and their crews while travelling through the Warp?
17. Name the warhammer carried by Ferrus Manus?

Planets
18. The planet known as “140-20” by the Blood Angels and as “Murder” by the Emperor’s Children was known by yet another name by the Interex… what was it?
19. Where was Horus when he was supposedly mortally wounded by Eugen Temba?
20. Upon which Terran mountain range is the Imperial Palace situated?
21. The Primarch Angron was discovered as a slave gladiator on which planet?
22. Where did Fulgrim meet with the Eldar Farseer Eldrad Ulthran?

People
23. Who is the Chief of the Adeptus Custodes?
24. In spite of his various concerns, whom did Rogal Dorn eventually realise was the only living person he actually feared in the Imperium?
25. Who was the appointed Fabricator General before the Fall of Mars?
26. And who had replaced him by the time of the Siege of Terra?
27. Which was the first Primarch known to be slain by another?
28. And who killed him?
29. Whom did Garviel Loken replace on Horus’ Mournival council?

Games, Books and Background
30. To date, how many authors have written for the Horus Heresy series of novels?
31-35. In the newer version of ‘The Emperor vs Horus’ artwork, FIVE different kinds of weapons are carried by the characters depicted – name them all?
36. Charosion, Veterans of the Emperor’s Children, are depicted on their CCG card having captured the standard of which enemy legion?
37. To which legion does Assault Squad Amicus belong?
38. How many cards were published in the CCG mini-set ‘Blades of the Traitor’?
39. Who wrote the background stories contained in the Collected Visions series?
40. According to Bill King’s original story, in what year did the Siege of Terra begin?

Tie Breakers – the Horus Heresy boardgame
a) Astartes of which legion appear on the cover of the Horus Heresy boardgame?
B) Why is that odd?
c) Who painted the artwork?
d) Upon which real-world celebrity is the central unhelmeted character based?
e) How many long-service studs does the character have in his forehead?
f) In what year was the game released?
g) To what product line did the game belong?
h) Including the front and back cover, how many pages does the rulebook have?
i) How many Titan Legions are featured as playable counters in the game?
j) Into how many different geographical areas is the game board divided?

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Just for fun, if you want to post up your answers (no cheating!!) we can give you a score and see how you might have done on the day. Here are the scores from the event:

1: 'The Team With No Name' - 22pts and 4 tie-breakers
2: 'Dave the Second' - 22pts and 2 tie-breakers
3: 'Alex Muqtar's Desert Dogs' - 14pts and 2 tie-breakers
4: 'The Games Shop' - 7pts and 2 tie-breakers
5: 'Titus Pullo Driving Down the M1' - 6pts and 2 tie-breakers
6: 'Martin and Tom' - 2pts and 0 tie-breakers

The winners (Wolf Lord Mjolnir, Pacific and Josh!) walked away with a stack of new GW novel releases courtesy of our friends at Black Library. The fact that two of them are mods on this board may have contributed to their worryingly detailed PH trivia knowledge... :lol:

EDITED ANSWERS OUT - score of 14/0 :) -Shroud.

umm shrould can u post the answers because i only got 27/40 :lol:

yes i checked my answers if u want me 2 post them i will

No claim to a score can be made unless you post your answers on here - although people marked their rivals' papers on the day, we were reading to everyone from the answer sheet. Judges' decision is final! :lol:

EDITED ANSWERS OUT - score of 27/3 :) -Shroud

Whitehorn resets the bar with 27 correct answers. He would have got the fourth point in the tie-breaker if he'd chosen one year instead of two... :lol:

I had to guess. I have early memories and rough dates in my head :)

Not bad! Some of them directly applied to what I've exposed to though - like half of my armies :D
Was I right about the celebrity?

EDITED ANSWERS OUT - score of 30/2 :) -Shroud

ROFL

As 'lore master' shouldn't your first answer be correct? :rolleyes:

[Edited to save embarrasment to The Red Sorcerer and remove answer]

It really should, shouldn't it? Heh. This is why attempting this was a BAD idea :D

Must learn to engage brain first.

Very good RS! You've set the highest score so far, but with a couple of wrong answers and a few more unanswered. As befits a Lore Master!

Whitehorn - no, you got the celebrity wrong. You were the first to get the SOT date right though, albeit in the wrong date format.

Heh. S=hould have thought more carefully. Lessee, I reckon incorrect were:

1. DOH :D
18
30

Fairly sure I got the celebrity right tho!

Billy Idol?

I've looked at the art now, LOL! Dolph Lundgren?

Ähm Whitehorn..here in the Artwork we have also that blond Hair black hair problem like with Ragnar Blackmane...or was it just because otherwise if they drew black hair it would be obvious who that Marine could be in the real world ?...

Al Pacino aka Scarface M16 with Grenade Launcher Scene in the Movie...the face is 100% Al....

Am i correct Shroud ? ;)


PS: Hmm could someone please make a miniature with this face ?...I think it would look great....

Uncanny

I have another one......

Bonus Point for knowing this:

The Horus Heresy Board Game shares its Cover Artwork with another game...Which game was it ?

They didn't get too creative with Space Crusade either.

Lmao :lol:

That's not even the original cover for Space Crusade - anyone find that?

EDITED ANSWERS OUT - score of 21/2 :) -Shroud

Interesting to see which answers are regularly throwing people off...

I think the one with who Dorn is afraid of and such is one...

Dang, why must I have the lowest score :(

Cause I haven't tried :P

It is Shroud...the German MB Version had that Pic on it...

Back to that Bonus Question...someone had an answer ?

Yes, and the French version also had that cover... the European versions were released YEARS after the UK version, and coincided with the UK reprint using that artwork.

After LOVING Heroquest, I bought Space Crusade on the day of release and it had a different cover for the first print run. That's just a fact.

EDIT: Found it.

Muhaha yes thats Space Scarface the third time *ggg* but this time from the other side...I think that was even before the other Game im knowing that used that pic was released...

that brings me to the point of searching an sculpter who could do me a scarface head for use with hero sized miniatures *g*....

Shroud there is still one game left that used the same pic like Horus Heresy...

Battle for Armageddon was *kinda* similar... much worse though.

Go on then :)

Ok i will end it then...the very very first Version of Space Marine aka Epic had the same Artwork like the Horus Heresy. After that was released i think the guys at GW thought about a change and released another Version of Space Marine with another artwork...

here is the first edition:



the second one had an Ultramarine Assault on the front with two warlord titans striding in the background...

ah here it is...



And i found another Box just for 40k aka Rogue Trader i think there were Space Marine Miniatures in it...but i cant find the Box Artwork again...but it was definitly 40k Style and with the pic of the Horus Heresy on the cardboard box.

Nostalgia kicking in now. Have most of these boxes in the loft!

I love that 2nd edition epic boxart, have got it set as the background on my laptop..

Yeah I bought that edition of Epic. Ahhhh. The rhinos from the set are currently being used for my Thousand Sons many moons later. And I have plans for the Warlord Titan it came with too...

Mind you, i remember the 'Eavy Metal paint jobs for epic infantry in those days were pretty dreadful. Nice paint jobs on the Titans, but everything else was incredibly basic.

hehe the secon head from that warhound gave me the perfecdt head for my Space Wolf Cybot...that Epic Version kicked ass....

EDITED ANSWERS OUT - score of 28/4 :) -Shroud

EDITED ANSWERS OUT - score of 25/3 :) -Shroud

EDITED ANSWERS OUT - score of 28/0 :) -Shroud

The average score is going up... either people are reading others' answers before I can edit them out, or the most knowledgeable people are only just having a go now! :D

I will post up the answers after the weekend.

I'm too embarassed to post my answers as I have only got about 5 so far.

To be fair though I have just finished Galaxy in Flames. :lol:

Yay!! I'm either the 2nd or 3rd most knowledgeable person on the site. :lol:

I'm not gloating, honest :rolleyes: