Heroes of Black Reach

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