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2010
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In the Horus Heresy board game, the most legendary battle in the history of the Warhammer 40,000 universe unfolds across the razed plains of Terra and in the frozen orbit above. Deadly fighting ranges from the Emperor’s golden Inner Palace to Horus’s flagship, the Vengeful Spirit.
Taking the side of traitor or loyalist, two players control either fearless Space Marine legions or deviant Chaos Space Marines, mighty Titans, Imperial Armies both loyal and traitorous, and a fearsome array of other units, including the Emperor and Horus themselves.
An innovative order and initiative system forces each side to carefully consider the commands they issue to their troops. A dramatic, card-driven combat system incorporates escalating damage, gives players the opportunity to allocate resources between attack and defense, and brings to bear the unique special powers of each unit type, from fortification-destroying Titans to the perverse daemons of Chaos.
This legendary tale of treachery and heroism is brought to vibrant life with over one hundred magnificent sculpted plastic playing pieces. The stunning three-dimensional map of Terra brilliantly portrays the landscape immediately surrounding the Imperial Palace, from the magma-filled crevasses to the fortifications that offer the Imperial player protection against both enemy assault and orbital bombardments.
Each one of these structures, as well as the Imperial Palace itself, have been expertly sculpted, and rise above the landscape to create a truly immersive experience. The fortifications of Terra have never looked more formidable! Once the board is set up with playing pieces and terrain for your first game, it will be a wonder to behold.
Horus Heresy includes six scenarios that differ in both difficulty and style. The first scenario, titled Brother Against Brother, is recommended for all new players as it provides predetermined starting locations for both player's forces. It is a well balanced version of the Battle for Terra, and also presents a roughly historical recreation of the conflict's events.
Horus Heresy is a board game that pits two players against each other to recreate the most famous battle of Warhammer 40,000’s rich history, in which the Warmaster Horus’s betrayal of the Emperor comes to its climax. Taking the side of either traitor or loyalist, players control a fearsome array of units, including the Emperor and Horus themselves. Brother fights brother, and the universe hangs in the balance!
Not to be confused with Horus Heresy (1993), the original 1993 Games Workshop game of the same name.
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Watch It Played Discussion at 10:33
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none
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none
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- I think we did it. We've started on time. That never happens.
- The words are on both sides. No, but for them, they're going to be seeing this side.
- This was not a sponsored segment. They didn't ask me to like feature this on their content.
- I think that's why I go half elf cuz I I do like role playing.
- Well, technically you could do this. Um, we just don't feel it creates an optimal playing experience.
- They're not going to make money off of all the board gamers who are suddenly going to jump to League of Legends because of this board game.
- My brain like blew out the back of my head.
- It's not a fake word. It might not be a common word to some of our listeners.
- The puns definitely got worse.
- I'm still above Daredevil. But again, I just in general just so impressed with how they're bringing those characters to life.
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Drive Thru Games Analysis at 4:33 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Heard it's a really fun game once you can grok it.
- A lot of crunchy stuff.
Cons
- Heard the rules can be a mess.
Thematic elements
- Reenacting the Horus Heresy storyline
- Warhammer 40k 30k universe
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- war game — A big, epic war game with a lot of rules, miniatures, and terrain.
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- I played a lot with this expansion for dominion I think this was probably the third expansion for dominion
- Ascension was kind of my jam I actually played Ascension right around the same time as dominion because Ascension really what kind of brought me back into the hobby like full full steam ahead
- Rune Wars this is a game I played once and I really liked it and we played it four player and one of my friends absolutely hated it
- This big bulky fantasy flight game which they just don't really make anymore at all these days
- I will say for me Race for the Galaxy I like it with the first two expansions probably once you add in some of this other stuff like scoring prestige and stuff it's cool but I just haven't played it enough with that extra stuff and there's already a lot going on
- there's something about cards I think that are really kind of interesting thing that was very present in this time period
- so this is what people are excited about so I'm just gonna kind of extrapolate my theory onto that
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Tabletop Minions Discussion at 1:40:34 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Charity event was a good day for a great cause
Cons
- Attendees were horse and needed recovery time
Thematic elements
none
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none
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Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Friends don't let friends Buy HP printers
- Wizards of the Coast would really rather that you just buy Magic by the case directly from them it seems
- They've been making a lot of really bad decisions in my opinion and if they go to business I will laugh and point
- I just don't understand why they don't want to do that
- I mean the machines that do the saddle stitching are a real pain to maintain they have a tendency to break down a lot
- The print books like the vast majority of people are buying the printed versions as opposed to just PDF only
- I don't know what the fourth dimension is
- I don't really pay attention to that stuff too much
- Most new Morheim players I talk to seem happy to download the PDFs for free from broheim these days and when I mention paper Printing and hard copies they think I'm crazy
- One odd thing about cyber punk red starter doesn't come with with gonks which I feel is like an essential mechanic
- Monac is a great game and the minis for the main monsters are beautiful and fun as heck to pain
- I attended a one-day charity Horus heresy event yesterday called Pride of the Legion a good day for a great cause but now I'm horse and this can be and need at least a day to recover
- If you want some great plastic modern soldiers look at the April issue of War Games Illustrated with the free sprew of warlord games special ops Troopers
- what's your favorite Warhammer mini does that mean which one that I own the most of because it's probably then going to be I don't know what they call them anymore they used to call them nurgle chaos Lord but nowadays he's that guy
- I think I have like six or seven of them it's great for kid bashing
- Does snarl not have a physical book to buy it doesn't
- the machines that do the saddle stitching are a real pain to maintain they have a tendency to break down a lot so some years ago they got rid of Saddle Stitch
- The newest Kill Team box set, 'Germination', is discussed.
- It's been a minute since I've liked both sets of models in a kill Team box.
- Kill team germination is coming this week can't wait
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Tabletop Minions Discussion at 1:33:02 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
- focus on Space Marines
- can have Space Marines fighting Space Marines
- models are cool
- fun to paint
Cons
- lack of aliens/Xenos
- requires GW to make fewer kits
- niche compared to 40k
Thematic elements
- Civil War
- 30K
Comparison games
- Legion Imperialis
- 40K
- Adeptus Titanicus
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Civil War Story — Horus Heresy is basically a civil war story. So, it's all about we're not even paying attention to the aliens right now.
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Quotes (from this video)
- If you see something and you want it, get it right away.
- It's kind of like when Nova used to be in the old place when it was in several years back it was in Crystal City. Technically, there was like one restaurant within three blocks of the place and that was it.
- The benefit to this being in downtown Milwaukee is that it's in the convention district and there's a lot of restaurants and bars and all kinds of places around there. So uh it's going to be real nice.
- I think that the number of people obviously that go to conventions in comparison to the number of people who are in the hobby it's a very small percentage that go to conventions and I think there's a lot of folks that are just not that are either unable to due to distance or you know cost or social anxiety or just you know they just never have the the um the you know like they they got you know, several kids and two jobs or stuff like that. You just don't have the time to take off and go to a convention or whatever. So, I think that that happens a good deal.
- The reason they moved out of the old place was because they just literally had outgrown it. um when they moved to Shamberg I think adept to con was about 5,000 people maybe six and then over the years being in Shamberg like last year they hit 10,000 people so
- I have found that you get less of that overlap with speed paints. They they maybe don't I don't feel like they dry quite as quickly or something. I don't know what it is, but they don't seem I don't have a problem. They What do they call it? tide marks, coffee stains, something like that. And it's because you've taken a transparent color that dries so quickly that when you bring the other transparent color over and you have them kind of overlap a little bit, so there's not like a space in between where you, you know, on this thing, then you get double transparency, which means it gets darker. So you get this line where you stopped and then had to go and get more and then come back.
- The benefit I think what happens is almost every single convention gets to a point where it can no longer be in a convention center and hotel combo. It gets to the point where they need a convention center and then hotels around the convention center. It's the way Gen Con does it. It's the way that, you know, Adepticon's doing it now.
- It's like you're colorizing an old black and white movie or something like that. Um, but it does make things quicker and simpler and it still looks pretty good in most situations.
- Am I doing it right? I mean, I don't know. It's up to you.
- Would love if GW re-releases Mheim, but I fear this will also cause most people to overlook unofficial fan-made Mheim content, but who knows, maybe GW will open to unofficial content.
- Horus Heresy is basically a civil war story. So, it's all about we're not even paying attention to the aliens right now.
- It's because they were spending 50% of the time working on stuff for Warhammer Fantasy, but it was only 18% of sales and they were like, 'Well, this isn't going the right direction.'
- It's been a long time since GW's made a Kill Team box where I liked everything in the box.
- I find that I have the best um luck with OSL when I'm using my airbrush.
- The difference is is if you are like, 'Well, I would rather do something a little bit different and tweak things differently that way.'
- Overall, Army Painter Speed Paint wins for me, but there's um always a couple of the contrast paints I love, like the Blood Terror Red. It's just a gorgeous deep burgundy.
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Tabletop Minions Discussion at 1:35:34 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
- Age of Darkness box set mentioned as a notable product
Cons
none
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none
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Quotes (from this video)
- Puddle bases make me cry.
- Is Necroanda a fun game?
- Kingdom Death Monster is not for kit bash.
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Analysis at 8:38
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Pros
none
Cons
- two-player only
- way over the top tons of plastic
Thematic elements
- a very specific battle
- 40K lore
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I've been going through all the most anticipated lists on Board Game Geek starting with 2010 I'm up to 2014.
- I don't need to play it anymore and how much do I need to play a game to have gotten my worth out of it or whatever I'm not talking about dollar amount either it's like you know
- better to let it move on to somebody else and they can enjoy it and they can pass it on to somebody else as well
- so I think that's okay doesn't doesn't it because it's on my shelf has nothing to do with the quality of the game
- so we have seen those disappear a little bit no still being made it's still being played and as we add more people to the Hobby by osmosis some of them are going to you know find out about war games
- those big crazy games those coffin boxes and those those big splash releases from Fantasy Flight they just really haven't been doing that
- I don't like that and I don't know that any of the games on the on the last two lists are like that but I'm sure God I know there was some of that
- it's no different than like let's say GMT or Fantasy Flight or whoever has a newsletter you know that goes out let's say every month an email newsletter and they tell people hey we're nominated on this list go vote for
- it's a reviewer getting a review copy is much less biased than a Kickstarter backer
- The way the hobby has worked I think going back to the 70s somebody will do something and this is the way a lot of things work somebody will do something that's successful and so you get copycats you get people trying to iterate on that
- expansions will show up on these anticipated lists and that kind of says something to the kind of known quantity
- there was a fair number of games that had a lot of trouble whether it was licensing trouble like glory to Rome nothing personal alien frontiers or other kind of Kickstarter Shenanigans
- crowdfunding we're going to see more of that for sure moving forward in the years but it was also kind of still like the wild west back then
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Shelfside Discussion at 3:19 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Array
- Science Fiction
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- board games are a hobby very dedicated people to it and my god it is wondrous
- it's a hobby
- I could do this myself and I realized that there's a lot of other games besides just this
- we're really glad we gone to YouTube as soon as we could
- there's a bigger audience so there's more to watch
- there's so many of them
- it's a start of something crazy there's more to come for board games
- I would not have gotten into board games if it wasn't for YouTube
- the board games space because now board games are newer the more aesthetically pleasing they're more balanced
- I remember that there were three different clubs at UC San Diego consistently playing board games
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Tabletop Minions Discussion at 10:31 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- immersive Horus Heresy setting and hype
- potential for thematic, narrative play
Cons
- pricing/box configuration concerns and potential complexity
Thematic elements
- imperial conflict, epic scale warfare
- Dark sci-fi setting in the Warhammer 30K universe, civil war era
- heroic, lineage-driven campaigns and warbands
Comparison games
- Grim Dark Future: Firefight
- Turnip 28 (as a headcanon alternative approach)
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- large-scale tactical engagements — focus on narrative-driven battles with distinct heavy and elite units
- warband/army-building — players assemble four-model warbands (250-point list) with limited squad choices
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's your game you can do what you want
- you have to stumble through the rules and then go back and read the rules again
- print on demand so when someone wants that thing they'll print one and send it to them
- water slide decals... gloss coat first then micro set and micro sol
- it's print on demand so the game will never be dead because it'll always be for sale
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Tabletop Minions Discussion at 0:09 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- appealing concept for a space-marine clash
- cool models
Cons
- perceived preference for larger army games over skirmish play
- unclear if a skirmish version will exist
Thematic elements
- militaristic civil conflict among factions in a grimdark sci-fi setting
- Horus Heresy era within the Warhammer 40,000 universe, a civil war setting featuring Space Marines
- historical-scenario style with grand-scale battles and iconic models
Comparison games
- Warhammer 40,000 Seventh Edition
- Warhammer 40,000 Eighth Edition
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- army-scale combat — large units and formations with tactical play
- cover and line of sight — terrain-based bonuses affecting engagement
- Dice-based resolution — dice pools determine hits and outcomes
- Line of Sight — terrain-based bonuses affecting engagement
- model customization / assembly — collectible miniatures with varied loadouts
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Quotes (from this video)
- i would be tempted i'm not gonna lie um
- i like the concept of it i think the models are cool
- no interest in army games like big army
- i already played seventh edition 40k
- didn't like it
- it's what caused me to stop playing 40k until 8th edition came out
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3 Minute Board Games Top List at 8:07 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
very positive
Pros
- Clever mechanics
- Really responsive design
- Deep strategic gameplay
- Solid war game
- Good scale for 40K universe
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Epic space marine battle
- Chaos vs Empire
- Legendary 40K moment
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
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Tabletop Minions Discussion at 42:40 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- iconic factions and a deep background universe
- extensive model variety and historical kits for conversion
Cons
- high complexity and sprawling rules
- older kits can feel brittle or dense to assemble
Thematic elements
- giant space marines, epic sci-fi fantasy warfare
- Warhammer 40,000 universe during the Horus Heresy
- epic, lore-rich conflicts with deep faction history
Comparison games
- 40k
- Horus Heresy vs GW current lines
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- codex-based army building — Armies built around faction-specific codices/points, with varied unit selections.
- Line of Sight — Tabletop engagements using terrain to determine sightlines and cover.
- massed combat resolution — Dice-driven combat resolution with hits, saves, and armour mechanics.
- Terrain and line-of-sight — Tabletop engagements using terrain to determine sightlines and cover.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- "Chrome Rangers... the cool mech game"
- "14th of November is when Snarl 2025 will come out with Chrome Rangers"
- "I prefer customization in my kits. It's probably why I don't build GW as much anymore."
- "Space Weirdos is for solo play."
- "Don't sleep on Conflict 47. It's exceptional."
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