Up to four players test their mettle against a GM, who takes the form of the evil wizard Morcar and tries to stop them at every opportunity. Mighty heroes battling through dungeons and overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds felt more original in the ‘80s than it does now, but either way HeroQuest delivers this tried-and-tested story in one of the best packages. In recent years, HeroQuest has been rebooted under the guise of Warhammer Quest titles Silver Tower and Shadows Over Hammerhal (of which the latter is probably better), but there’s nothing in the current Games Workshop roster that compares to the original. HeroQuest You can’t beat the classics The later Warhammer Quest was based on HeroQuest, but the original eighties classic still stands alone as a uniquely nostalgic experience. It’s never been more exciting to dive straight into epic city-levelling warfare on the smallest scale.īuy Adeptus Titanicus on Amazon US and Amazon UK. The rules are deep enough to allow for advanced tactical play, but simple enough that you’ll be able to play with nothing more than a reference sheet after a couple of games. But the game itself is even tighter than the miniatures. Ideal for Warhammer players who would love to buy a Warlord Titan but don’t have a spare grand to splash on Forge World, the designers pack an incredible amount of detail onto the tiny titan models. 10 millennia before the events of Warhammer 40,000, Adeptus Titanicus pits brother against brother, Space Marine against (Chaos) Space Marine - and you have a front-row seat to watch the treachery of the Horus Heresy play out in your own home.
Hulking machine behemoths slug it out as the Imperium falls apart around them. Adeptus Titanicus Tiny titans! Adeptus Titanicus supersizes the miniature combat of Warhammer 40,000 with towering mechs. This is the best way to play, both hilarious and brutal in equal measure.īuy Blood Bowl on Amazon US and Amazon UK. League play ups the stakes as reckless play can leave a team ravaged by injuries or a winning streak can allow you to hire hulking trolls or glamorous star players. As with all Games Workshop games, dice play an integral role (pun intended) and more often than not lead to your downfall. The game itself is pretty simple - manoeuvre your players by running, passing, and blocking (lots of blocking) to forge a gap in your opponent’s defence that you can exploit to score a touchdown. A Goblin yeets a chainsaw twice its size at Griff Oberwald - the Old World’s equivalent of Tom Brady. The crowd literally dismembers a member of the opposition team. Trolls bash anything they lay their eyes upon. Blood Bowl Putting the fantasy into fantasy football - and the murder Part of the expanded Warhammer universe, Blood Bowl sees the wargame's factions swapping a battlefield for the pitch.Īnything goes in Blood Bowl. Necromunda: Fight for domination in the underbelly of the Imperium.Aeronautica Imperialis: Nnneeaoowww! Pew-pew!.Forbidden Stars: Interplanetary warfare on a massive scale.Lost Patrol: Predator: The Board Game: 40k edition.Space Hulk: Aliens: The Board Game: 40k edition.Warhammer Underworlds: Close-quarters tactics, deckbuilding and stunning miniatures.HeroQuest: You can’t beat the classics.Blood Bowl: Putting the fantasy into fantasy football.If looking through the countless boxes seems overwhelming or you’d just like some advice on where to start, here are our top picks of the best Games Workshop games that aren’t Warhammer. What’s more, they often provide shorter, cheaper and more streamlined experiences. While recreating huge battles using the major systems is undeniably fun, these boxed games don’t need any rulebooks, terrain or models that aren’t contained within their cardboard walls. However, Games Workshop has produced some frankly brilliant boxed games - standalone board games that require no prior knowledge of either Warhammer's rules systems and no vast collections from their wide range of miniatures. (Yes, the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game has a small, dedicated community and some players prefer the old-school rules of Warhammer 30k, but it’s safe to say they are in the minority.)
And, most of the time, they’d be right, as the vast majority of GW fans play those two massive miniatures games. If you tell someone you’re into Games Workshop games, most people would naturally assume you play either Warhammer 40,000 or Age of Sigmar.
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