Horus Heresy Boardgame

Been playing Dawn of War 2:Chaos Rising and in the instruction booklet there is an add for a Horus Heresy Boardgame.

"Horus Heresy is packed with over 120 detailed playing pieces, three dimesional terrain, and hundreds of components that will bring this saga to life on your table."

It only a 2 player game, play as either the Holy Emporer of Mankind or the traitorous Warmaster Horus. Made by Fantasy Flight.

Haven't been to the sight to check it out yet, just thought some you might want to know about it.

So does the Emperor lose automatically because he's in a coma or dead?

RetroPengo wrote:

So does the Emperor lose automatically because he's in a coma or dead?

We wins because he's still alive (even if it's on life support) can't say the same about poor Horus.

If I recall correctly, Horus killed Sanguinius first... So an injured and worn out Horus puts up just as much fight as the God-Emperor of Mankind? All powerful my foot . That said, I saw an ad for this game in one of the magazines up at CHG about a month ago and I'm immensely interested. I'm a huge Heresy buff, well... I'm becoming one may be more correct, but being able to play that out would be amazing.

I concur that it would be amusing

He bitchslap sanguinius but while fighting the emperor he saw the error in what he did and was struck down but not without mortally wounding the emporer and making him have to be put on the gold toilet.

I have four copies on the way; one will go to the store as a Store Copy, the other three will be put up for sale.

If there are any here that want one let me know and I can get extra copies.

Please, only serious requests. I still have loads of the Conan board game that more than ten people said (not on this forum) they definitely wanted.

And it's an excellent game; imho.

I would like to get a copy of Conan. I had a lot of fun the time I played it up there, but don't want to spend that much money on a game that will just collect dust.

If one of friends moves back this summer, hopefully they will get played.

Conan is an excellent game. My only gripe with it is that it takes as long to teach as it does to play (and it isn't that short a game). If we ever do it again for board game night I'll insist that everyone read the rules ahead of time.

Fulminata wrote:

Conan is an excellent game. My only gripe with it is that it takes as long to teach as it does to play (and it isn't that short a game). If we ever do it again for board game night I'll insist that everyone read the rules ahead of time.

You ought to know by now that every Fantasty Flight game is like this. Fumble through learning the rules a few times. I prefer this to making the games to easy. Although I thoroughly enjoy Munckin and it's easy as hell to learn to play.

It isn't really the complexity of the rules, it's that if you don't understand all of them from the beginning it's very easy to screw yourself over early in the game. With most other complex games it's usually possible to go over all the rules briefly before beginning and then introduce the details as they come up in the game, but with Conan that isn't enough. Players need to understand the details from the beginning or they will constantly be making bad decisions. Another possible way to do the game would be to have someone doing a pure demo and not actually playing. The problem with that solution is that I don't usually want to just demo a game, I want to play it too :-P

Arkham Horror isn't all that complex as far as actual game play. The complexity comes in when you make decisions whether to fight certain monsters or which location to go to to get Clue tokens or which gate to close first and whether or not you should use the Elder Sign that is burning a hole in your pocket (literally)

gamewizard wrote:

Arkham Horror isn't all that complex as far as actual game play. The complexity comes in when you make decisions whether to fight certain monsters or which location to go to to get Clue tokens or which gate to close first and whether or not you should use the Elder Sign that is burning a hole in your pocket (literally)

I agree and will add just that Arkham Horror's complexity only starts once the monsters start surging and the horror track starts climbing...pretty soon you can't get magic spells or magic items...and then Cthulhu comes out and you're screwed anyway. However, there is that sweet geek at Miskatonic with his little device that could potentially close all the gates.

Agreed; I wasn't able to finish my post; I had a customer come in that demanded my full attention.