We must talk about combat. The combat in this board game is just wonderful. It's a mix of dice-rolling and card play, with both elements equally crucial to the final outcome. Forbidden Stars has found a way of giving a weaker force a fighting chance of victory – smart card play, and better cards, can help some cultists stave off some Space Marines. The combat system: At first I didn't like it. It took ages, I didn't fully get the morale system, and it always felt like I was peeing in the wind to get a victory. Now that I am familiar with it I have come to appreciate it for the complex and layered system that it is. Yes, there is some randomness with the card draws, but when you get to know the cards and how to react to changing situations then it becomes immensely satisfying as you do your best to shape the battle in your favour.

Construir: gastar recursos para reclutar unidades y, DESPUÉS, construir algún tipo de edificación (tenemos ciudades colmena, que marcan el nivel tecnológico; bastiones defensivos y centros de reclutamiento de unidades). The heart of your armies are the Chaos Space Marines themselves, the World Eaters known for their peerless military prowess and the extreme delight they take in spilling blood for Khorne. Their hunger for killing fuels their excellence in battle: a unit of these blood soaked Berzerkers rolls one more die than a unit of their most hated foes and former breathren, the Space Marines. And, for as much as I’ve complained about the complexity of the game, I think the labyrinthine rules are part of the draw for games like this. To really play the game demands an intimate and detailed knowledge of a highly esoteric body of information. And is that not the very definition of geekery, nay, High Geekery?So is the game worth it? Yes and a thousand times yes. Ok yeah it can be complex to teach, but once you get a hang of the rules and a passion for teaching it, then it gets much easier to condense the information for people into manageable chunks. Ok yeah it can also be a looong game, especially at 4 players when people don’t know the rules so well, but that cuts down when people get to know it better and there is less AP. Having long ago given themselves to the service of the Blood God, the World Eaters Chaos Space Marines have no dread of the Warp’s swirling and uncanny abyss. Of all the factions in Forbidden Stars, they alone can utilize the Warp for their own benefit. By playing a Combat in Forbidden Stars is tense, tactical and dramatic - so it’s ironic that it’s also one of the points where the game most noticeably falls down. While battles are absolutely gripping for the players involved, they leave everyone else at the table with nothing to do until the fight is resolved, and with a bit of mental arithmetic involved in calculating the outcome, it can cause the game to drag. Fantasy Flight Games is proud to announce Forbidden Stars, a new Warhammer 40,000 board game of planetary conquest and war for two to four players! Es un juego de estrategia con suficiente complejidad como para jugar de varias formas, con cuatro facciones que mantienen su esencia trasfondística, buenos acabados y muy buena rejugabilidad.

Fantasy Flight Games’ YouTube Channel has some very nicely produced tutorials for their other games; the Eldritch Horror Overview is excellent. Yet there was bupkis for Forbidden Stars, aside from the short promo linked above. After some searching I found a fan-made video demonstration. It was immensely helpful to watch a few rounds of play, the shaky-camera-from-a-90’s-Advil-commercial notwithstanding.To move a Warp Storm, the player chooses one Warp Storm that has not moved this phase. Then, he moves the token in one of the two directions indicated by the Warp Storm movement icon on the right side of his event card. Que no haya expansiones, lo que ha dejado un buen producto a medias, como consecuencia de una mala praxis comercial. Avanzar / atacar: es la forma de ir desde un cuadrante que controlas a otro, para ocuparlo (si no hay nadie) o para pegarte con quien esté ahí. But things changed. The audience expanded, and board games started to become more streamlined, more simple. The length of time you could expect to play a board game for started to shrink. Fantasy Flight released a Second Edition of Descent, and it was a prime example of how the industry was shifting. It was cleaned-up, stripped down, faster to run through. The rulebooks were improved and slimmed down. Descent Second Edition was a better game, probably, but it was definitely lighter. It had definitely lost a bit of that crunch.

Como decía, hay que intentar abstraerse. Cada facción tiene cuatro tipos de unidades terrestres (podríamos llamar infantería ligera, infantería pesada, vehículos y titánicas) y dos de naves espaciales. La representación es lo de menos; por ejemplo, en el caso de los Ultramarines la infantería ligera es un banderín (supongo que son exploradores), la pesada es un estandarte (¿marines estándar?), el vehículo es un Land Raider de los antiguos, con cañones láser en las barquillas; y la titánica es un warhound (que muy Ultramarine no es, por cierto). And that's all we need to say about it. This isn't a game about toys. It's a game about game, and man – has this game got game.Así ocho turnos, al final de los cuales gana la partida el jugador que más objetivos de su facción haya recolectado. Me dieron a escoger entre estas dos facciones. Quien me conoce sabe cuál elegí. Las unidades After this round, the battle is over. The routed Scout unit, being the last unit on the planet, wins the battle. Had a single Aspect Warrior remained, however, the Eldar would have won. Between this unit and the dice, the Eldar would have had four