Annoyingly, though, many of these plastic parts aren’t quite big enough to accommodate more than a couple of playing pieces each, which is a pain when many of them are meant to start with three or four figures in them as standard. Some of the features in this section, such as the palace and the bunkers, are represented by moulded plastic parts, which is a nice touch that adds extra height to the board.

To the left is the main map, which depicts the Imperial Palace and the surrounding area, and it’s here that the playing pieces representing the two factions are placed. It’s a conflict that many who play Warhammer 40,000, or who read the excellent books will recognise, and the game is played on a suitably large board that's split into a number of different areas. This is the epic confrontation into which players are dropped when they start playing the Horus Heresy board game, which is set during the final stages of the siege of Terra. Each was created by The Emperor of mankind - the greatest and most powerful human to have ever lived, and the man they've now come to Terra to kill. The core of the force is made up of renegade space marines - seven foot tall, genetically engineered post-humans that can spit poison, have no need for sleep and are clad in huge ceramite suits of armour.Īt the vanguard of this force are five Primarchs that tower above even the space marines that they command. At its gates sits an army without number, driven into a killing frenzy by dark, elemental forces that have corrupted it beyond recognition. The home-world and birthplace of the human race, Holy Terra, is besieged. Horus Heresy Board Game Review Publisher: Fantasy Flight

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