Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (W40k RTS)

Lot's of Warhammer/40k games coming out it seems.

Alpha in game footage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWteWul9cBE

Q1 2016. Uses UE4.

No z-axis although more traditional I guess.

I'd actually love to see more games like Space Marine. I know it goes against its tabletop origins, but RTS was never really my bag and the lore interests me tremendously. This game looks extremely impressive, though, and it's only in alpha.

Armenius said:

I'd actually love to see more games like Space Marine. I know it goes against its tabletop origins, but RTS was never really my bag and the lore interests me tremendously. This game looks extremely impressive, though, and it's only in alpha.

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I'd rather see the first person shooter type go the way of Panetside, a MMOFPS with up to 900 players in a battle area. Space Marines vs Chaos vs Eldar for players, and NPC invasions/infestations as major events that can threaten all at any time, Orcs and Tyranids.

The Naval version should be a little more like World of Warships with a Z Axis, on player controls one ship, fighters are pets. Boarding Torps filled with troops would be an awsome way to generate instanced battles between players. Imagine you are a Space Marine doing your thing fighting some Orcs somewhere and a popup goes active looking for players for a boarding action, click the accept button, and within a few minutes you and 15 or so other players for two teams are dropped into an instance where your boarding torpedo has just hit home and the hull is breached, out you rush into an enemy vessel to fight against a similar number of enemies.

There is the new MMORPG, Eternal Crusade, although it won't hit everything you want probably. Not sure about the scale also. In general I think designing around a large scale has an issue in that what your realistic player base size would be. If we look at Steam stats not many games themselves have a player base large enough to consistently support that type of scale.

I actually haven't been into RTS games much recently but what attracted me to this, besides the fluff (40k), is that looking at the video the presentation and direction is what I liked out of an RTS game. All the RTS games I've liked in the past really depicted that clash of fighting really well (why I liked Starcraft but never got into Warcraft 3 as an example).

If you want to play a 40K RTS then I don't think there's any better than DOW2. It can be had on Steam inexpensively during a sale. I think it's even been in a humble bundle a few times.

After watching that battle in the video this game looks like it'll be boring and slow compared to how I'm used to the pacing of 40K battles.

I just saw this on Steam. The second trailer is interesting:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/363680/

Beta is given to those who pre-order.

I'm interested. The game look good from the video I've seen on Youtube.

You guys should check out the new Game =)

Picked this up on the Weekend sale on steam for 26.99 finally cheap enough to take a risk on it I hope the interface isn't that bad that is what ruined it for me with Warhammer II and their screwy you can't move interface.

Well? Are you liking it?

I just started the campaign it won't let you save the game unrill you play the the prologue. Its a nice change of pace from others games.

Once you get to the Overview map that is where the game starts I think I hope it doesn't get too hard game has a slight learning curve. Thank god for the fast forward in this game otherwise battles would really drag on not sure if I'm playing the game right or how hard it will get later on. You can have the Mechanicus fight along side you which is kinda neat.

You can just Ram ships if you are want takes out engines and stuff.



Finally got to the 1st main mission if you try to Auto Resolve the fights you will almost lose every time
so you have to manually do the battles or capture objective points. I'm only 6 hours in still don't know what I'm really doing captured lone ships on the overview map or easier targets then go for the stronger targets I'm playing on easy as well I don't think I would stand a chance on Normal.

I just picked up the original game for like 5.99
it's pretty nice actually it explains stuff alot better then the 2nd game.
You can tell they spent alot of time making the 1st game.