Heroes of Black Reach and Expansions available for Pre-Order!

Devil Pig Games brings Heroes System Tactical Scale to the Warhammer 40,000 universe in Heroes of Black Reach. Designers Yann and Clem previously implemented the Heroes System Tactical Scale in Heroes of Normandie and Shadows over Normandie.  Heroes of Black Reach is being released with two expansions and a demo kit, all of which are available for pre-order now from Iello. On the hive-world of Black Reach, the Ultramarines, commanded by Captain Cato Sicarius, fight the Waaagh! ork, commanded by the Goff Warboss Zanzag.  Like the previous Heroes System Tactical Scale games, units are represented by punchboard tiles. Heroes of Black Reach is a game for 2 players, ages 14+ and plays in about an hour. The core game comes with rulebook, campaign with 8 scenarios, 6 terrain tiles, bunkers, Ork Units, Ultramarine Units, 100 cards (50 per Army), and 4 dice. The Ultramarine Units in the core game include the following:

• Sergeant Telion
• Chaplain Elianu Trajan and his options
• Veteran Sergeant Daceus
• 1 Tactical Squad (Vandar) with its Rhino and options
• 1 Scout Squad with its Land Speeder Storm and options
• 1 Predator Tank
• 1 Razorback Tank
• Order tokens, Ultramarines 50-card deck, Wargear and Upgrade Options, Command Options, Vehicle Equipment and Personalisations

The Ork Units in the core game include the following:

• Goff Warboss Rockbrakah
• Snake Bites Weirdboy Gravebrakka and Psychic Powers
• Evil Suns Mek Grugnoz and his Grot Oilers
• Bad Moon Boyz with their Nobz, Trukk, and options
• Goff Stormboyz with their Nobz, and options
• Goff Nobz with their Trukk, and options
• Death Skull Burna Boyz, with their options
• 1 Deff Dread
• 1 Battlewagon
• 1 Trukk
• 1 Warbuggy
• 1 Mek Gunz
• Order tokens, Orks 50-card deck, Wargear and Upgrade Options, Command Options, Vehicle Equipment and Personalisations

  The Ork Reinforcements expansion tells the battles at the walls of Gospora Hive, and Zanzag’s escape and includes the following:

• New rules
• Campaign with 4 scenarios
• Goff Warboss Zanzag
• Death Skull Painboy Grimsnagga and his Grot Orderlies
• Bad Moon Big Mek Kagbozak
• Goff Boyz with their Nobz, Trukk, and options
• Blood Axe Kommandos with their Nobz, and options
• Goff Runtherdz and Gretchins with their options
• Bad Moon Lootas with their options
• Goff Meganobz with their options
• Evil Sunz Tankbustas with their options
• Battlewagon
• Deff Dread
• Trukk
• 2 Warbuggy
• Mek Gunz
• Gorkanaut
• Morkanaut
• Killa Kan

  The Ultramarine Reinforcements expansion tells the battles at Sulphora Hive, taking place during Telion’s hunt for Zanzag, and the final fight between Cato Sicarius and the Ork Warboss. It includes the following:

• New rules
• Campaign with 4 scenarios
• Cato Sicarius
• Brother Vandius, the company banner bearer
• Honoured Brother Gaius Prabian
• Apothecary Venatio
• Tactical Squad (Octavian) with its Rhino and options
• Terminator Squad (Helios) with its Land Raider and options
• Devastator Squad (Tirain) with its Rhino and options
• Assault Squad (lxion) and options
• Bike Squad with its options
• Dreadnought (Ultracius)
• Vindicator tank
• Razorback tank
• Land Raider Redeemer
• Land Raider Crusader
• 2 Thunderfire cannons
• Land Speeder

  If you are not sure this game is for you, check out the Drop Zone Demo Kit.  It is a stand-alone game that will introduce players to the Heroes of Black Reach. Players will have to provide two six-sided dice, but the demo kit contains everything to play a full game in a scenario.  Drop Zone includes the following:

•     1 booklet (containing the rules and 1 scenario)
•     1 battleground poster

Ultramarines units:

•     Brother Malcian
•     1 Tactical Squad (Solinus) with its Rhino
•     1 Dreadnought (Agnathio)
•     Wargear and Upgrade Options

Orks units:

•     Goff Boyz with their Nobz
•     1 Killa Kan
•     Wargear and Upgrade Options

  To learn more about this game, visit the Heroes of Black Reach website where you can find videos explaining the game rules, descriptions of units, and other support for the game.