The game was designed as a skirmish storytelling system – with the rules encouraging a games master role to design scenarios and battlefields for the other players to fight over.
This adapted the rule system of the Warhammer Fantasy game and placed it into the sprawling universe of the Imperium – a vast human stellar empire. Thirty years ago, designer Rick Priestley, introduced the world to the first edition of Warhammer 40,000, also known as Rogue Trader (also known as 40k).
And that’s all I’m going to say about that right now. Over the years they have been vilified and justifiably so, however they of late are trying finally to move with the times and fix some of the sins of the past. I shall briefly pause for you to praise or vent your spleen about the good/evil that Games Workshop is responsible for. Well, a new version of their Warhammer 40,000 miniatures war game has just been released and trust me, they really want you to know about it. For it is here that the goliath of the UK games industry, Games Workshop, is based. Unless you have been living under a rock (or perhaps deep in some form of cave system), you’ll have noticed that there has been rather a lot of noise coming from the direction of Nottingham.
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