These are sort of the unique skills of the unit, each of them having a different display of them.

This way, you can keep on smashing your units against the enemies until they get destroyed, although this isn’t always the best move. Attack doesn’t drop by using the unit, just the remaining health based on the enemy attack. This is the most basic way of damaging the enemy, and it’s stated with a number at the lower left corner of the unit portrait. It’s stated at the lower right corner of the unit with a number, and it’s lowered down by battle or other card effects. You start the first turn with 2 energy points (2e), and will gain one per turn until you reach 10. This is the main resource in a match, used to play your cards and units. But as now, we will focus on Garviel Loken, the first Warlord unlocked right at the beginning. There are currently a vast of 46 unique Warlords to play in the game, and more will come with following expansions. Kill the enemy warlord and win the game, get your warlord killed and you’ve lost. This is the main unit of the game, and represents the commander in the battle. I’ll gather some of the basic concepts here:

First of all, we are welcomed by the Tutorial, which is pretty self-explained. With brothers fighting brothers, each with powerful armies to back them up, there is little hope for humanity.įor in the grim dark future of the Horus Heresy, there is only war.Īfter this brief introduction to the lore, which I can’t advise strong enough to expand by reading the Black Library novel or lurking the Lexicanum, we can begin with the game itself. The influence of such foul enemies has started a revolt against the Emperor, led by the most trustful of His sons, Horus. The Gods of Chaos, powerful entities whose only existence is denied by the Emperor himself, are plotting to tear down all work done by Mankind, to bring humanity to another age of darkness. In time, the Sons of the Emperor were found again, and to each of them was assigned a Legion to command, therefore named Legiones Astartes, aided in battle by the Imperial Army and the Mechanicum.īut among the Primarchs there are seeds of corruption. To achieve such a massive task, the Emperor himself created 20 genetically-engineered transhuman individuals, the Primarchs, which would later be spread by unknown forces across the galaxy. World after world are being pacified, and now the embrace the Imperium of Man as their flag. The Emperor of Mankind, in an effort to unite the human race, has launched a Great Crusade among the stars. You may have played some other card games already, and there are similarities to them, but I intend to explain everything so there is no doubt left in your immortal soul. Welcome, legionaries! If you're reading this guide, I assume you're new in the game, and may be kind of lost about how does it work.

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