Series : Warhammer 40,000 Developer : Black Lab Games Publisher : Slitherine Genres : Turn-based strategy Wargame Release Info : Xbox Game Pass Other Tags : Dad Game Trophies : truetrophies.com
not completed.
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Facts
- In this game, the only factions are Blood Angels and Tyranids. It's kinda cool with this kind of narrow focus.
The Imperial Guard showed up in Crusade Mode.
Mode overview:
Mode Description --------------------------------------------------------- Campaign Mode 20-missions Blood Angels v. Tyranids Planetary Supremacy Hex-based overworld conquest Crusade Mode 'Roguelike' Mode (1) Daemonic Incursion Survival Mode Skirmish Mode Single battle? --------------------------------------------------------- 1) Pick army, level up, go through sequence of randomly generated battles
Veteran Status - Each unit levels up and gains a Veterancy level, which gives them +1 accuracy and +1% critical chance.
Analysis
Intercessors
- Standard tactical squad
- The auto bolt rifle is a great upgrade, shoots double the number of bullets
Aggressors
- Short range tanky unit
- Really high melee damage, can be used effectively against huge Tyranid units
- Missile rack good against normal squads, deals low damage to every unit
Hellblaster
- Plasma guns is one of the only effective ways to kill the huge Tyranid enemies, when bolters can't penetrate their armor
Landspeeders
- High movement, OK armor, long range Heavy bolter
Predator
- It's a tank, great for drawing enemy fire
The campaign mode gives me the Warhammer 40K fix I need, and even though it has a lot of flaws around the missions, and even the gameplay itself has a bunch of issues, it's still one of the games that best captures what it's like to play the board game.
List of issues for later:
- sound is weirdly mixed, weapon hit sounds are as loud and often louder that weapon fire, which feels very weird. A lot of combat animation is missing sound.
- the default camera controls are poorly scaled for the controller. It can be adjusted to feel OK, but then the strategic map controls incredibly slow.
- The strategic map is all but unusable, which is too bad, the game could need a nice overview.
- The models look weirdly off on PS4, like it's a automatic LOD downscale from the real model, which might actually be the case, since the Windows version seems to look way better. They do look OK from a distance. The combat animations are often very rough.
- Viewing info and selecting actions during gameplay is weirdly confusing, buttons are overloaded with different functions, you need to click L3/R3 for info, and the camera rotation can be overridden by textbox scrolling when hovering over an enemy, which can be confusing.
