Warhammer 40,000 Forbidden Stars review: an absorbing evening of combat

This deep, strategic board game of interstellar warfare and galactic empire building is a love letter to the 28-year-old tabletop game

If you're remotely interested in strategy games, there's a good chance you're already familiar with Warhammer 40,000. In the nearly 30 years since it was first released, the science-fiction tabletop battle game has amassed legions of fans around the globe, spawned multiple video game adaptations and turned its publisher, Nottingham-based Games Workshop, into one of the biggest companies in the analogue gaming industry.

For the uninitiated: Warhammer 40,000 is a game in which players collect armies of hand-painted miniature plastic soldiers and fight battles using a complex set of rules. One of its greatest attractions is its setting - a rich, dark, gothic universe filled with war-torn worlds and populated by a multitude of belligerent alien races.

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