6 boardgames to shoehorn the Warhammer 40,000 licence into
With pictures!
You might have spotted today that Games Workshop is working on a Warhammer 40,000 version of chess. It's chess, but with enormous guns and more grim futuristic Gothic-ness. Woo.
That got our simple brains whirring. What other beloved game franchises could GW crowbar its Space Marines into?
So here's a list of the best suggestions we could come up with. I'm available for freelance Photoshop work as well, in case you were wondering.
Warhammer 40,000 Cluedo
Was it the Chaos Gods in the warp with the mind-destroying corruption? Or was it the Nekrons on the tomb world with the green glowy laser of death?
No, wait, I've got it. It was the Orkz on the Rok with the big shootaz. This game basically designs itself.
Potential for Space Marine-ification - 7
Warhammer 40,000 Jenga
Instead of wooden blocks you need to constantly balance a stack of ammo caches, making sure they don't topple over and in some non-specific way sully the name of the Emperor.
One player is a member of the Inquisition and is allowed to shout 'ARE YOU A HERETIC!?!' in your face every time you try and move a case.
Potential for Space Marine-ification - 4
Warhammer 40,000 Kerplunk
Each marble represents a brave member of the Adeptus Astartes. The straws are the cruel whims of battlefield fate. Every clattering fall is another death in the name of the Emperor.
You could even paint the straws different colours to represent different types of ammunition. And different coloured marbles are different chapters of Space Marine.
Potential for Space Marine-ification - 5.5
Warhammer 40,000 Hungry Hungry Hippos
Instead of hippos there are Space Marines at each corner of the board. The marbles they're munching represent kills.
The Marine that munches the most murder by the end of the game is heralded as the champion of the Emperor, and gets to kill some more people, because that's all he's good at.
Potential for Space Marine-ification - 12?
Warhammer 40,000 Ludo
I've never played Ludo, but it seems to have some colours on the board. They could be Space Marines, maybe?
And the winner is the one with the most Space Marines when all the things have happened?
Potential for Space Marine-ification - Unclear
Warhammer 40,000 Warhammer 40,000
An epic table top game set in the grim darkness of the far future, but transposed to the grim darkness of the far future. And then put on a tablet.
Who am I kidding, this is never going to happen.
Potential for Space Marine-ification - none