

Warhammer: Dark Omen is the fifth computer game I know of that takes on the somewhat formidable challenge involved in translating a Warhammerworld to the PC. Though I enjoyed miniatures as a kid and found the whole game system kind of appealing, I can remember thinking two things at the time: "I'm not sure how seriously I can take this whole 'Orcs in Space' thing" and "Wouldn't some of these rules be better handled by a computer?" We followed him up into a dimly-lit space where dusty shelves were lined with leaden armies of the far-flung future, and a wooden door-sized battlefield braced itself for an imminent cataclysm of imaginary blood and bone.Īs a newbie, I was given command of a small regiment of "Blood Marines" or some such thing, which were matter-of-factly obliterated the first time they poked their tiny heads out from behind a smallish spray-painted bush. Our host led us into the kitchen, climbed a ladder on the wall next to the refrigerator, and promptly disappeared into a small hole in the ceiling. Orcs in the AtticĪ few years ago, a friend of mine took me to a house on the outskirts of town to get a taste of the Wonderful World of " Warhammer ", a nifty miniatures-based game system developed by an English company named Games Workshop. You will find help to run the game on this site too.

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