Gone Cardboard: More Details on Horus Heresy from Fantasy Flight

Fantasy Flight Games lifted the lid on Horus Heresy, a two-player game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe in early December 2009 – news item here – and now the publisher has passed along a more detailed description of the game’s setting:

Long before the grim darkness of the 41st millennium was a time of myth and legend, where god-like beings met in a monumental battle of brother against brother. Let us return to the Imperium of the 31st Millennium when a golden age was shattered by betrayal, and exploded into the greatest battle of all time.

One player will take the role of the godlike Emperor of Holy Terra and valiantly stand as the last beacon of hope for the future of all mankind. The other player will lead the attack as the Warmaster Horus, once the most trusted and loved scion of the Emperor, now turned entirely away from sanity and hope, twisted beyond recognition by the insidious taint of Chaos.

Both players will command their vast legions in pitched battle across the now war-torn surface of Terra, birthplace of the human race. Can Horus succeed in this profane quest to crush the Imperium, drowning the galaxy in a flood of Chaos and destruction, or will the steadfast Holy Emperor of Mankind break the bloody siege, turning the tide of assault against the cruel machinations of the Dark Powers of the Warp? Brother fights brother, and the universe hangs in the balance!

Horus Heresy, which retails for $100, is being targeted for a March 2010 release. This game has been updated on Gone Cardboard.

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