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There's a nonsense story that expects you to have read all the Kal Jerico comics I have , and cared I didn't. Side missions increase your rep with factions including genestealers and Chaos cults, separated by difficulty grade, but some are always hard and others where you can ignore the endlessly spawning enemies to zipline around completing objectives are always easy. And yet, it's really fun. The combat's hectic, and you end up with so many abilities it's like Borderlands only you're playing all the classes at once.

Every level is a perfect evocation of the setting, whether corpse-grinding factory or maglev megatrain, with dead-ass servitors controlling doors, cargo ships, and even the bounty board.

One of the villains looks like Marie Antoinette gone Mad Max. If you like 40K enough to read this list, you'll probably like Hired Gun. When I wrote about Sanctus Reach, I said other games do what it does better. That was before Battlesector came out, but it's a perfect example. It's the same kind of mid-sized turn-based tactics game where you control squads and vehicles rather than a handful of individuals or massive armies, but what Battlesector gets right is that it gives troops personality.

That's thanks to a momentum system that rewards you for playing to type, with bloodthirsty Blood Angels scoring points if they kill enemies close enough to see the whites of their eyes, the swarming tyranids for staying within range of a hive leader, and the sadomasochistic Sisters of Battle for taking damage as well as dealing it.

It would be even better with some kind of veterancy system for squads rather than just HQ units, but Battlesector remains a cut above. There are other Panzer General-alikes with 40K trappings, but this one was straight-up made in the Panzer General 2 engine.

It's got the tactical depth you want thanks to a collection of pixel units who all work slightly differently, with every turn a stream-of consciousness where you're thinking things like, "If I attack this guy the heavy weapons will be able to support, but the jetbikes are in cover so they can make a pop-up attack, but then there's a unit who can attack and fall back in the same turn The campaign lets you play as the eldar, colorful but stone-faced murder elves with psychic powers and a weapon that unspools a long monofilament wire inside someone's body to reduce their organs to soup.

They can summon an incarnation of their war god made of superheated iron, and they charge into battle wearing harlequin pants. It's a crime more 40K games aren't about them instead of the same four chapters of space marines every time.

The first of the many attempts to turn the Space Hulk board game into a videogame remains one of the best for two reasons. An innovative freeze-time mechanic lets you transition into turn-based mode where you can move your five space marine terminators around like you were playing on a tabletop—but gives you a timer. When it runs out, you have to play in real-time, bouncing between them in first-person and the map to keep your squad alive while genestealers boil out of the walls.

Manage that for long enough and you earn more freeze-time, and the relief of switching back is intense. The other thing it gets right is the atmosphere. Spinning wall fans chunk away, unknowable alien sounds echo down the corridors, and somewhere in the distance there's a scream. When marines die their screen goes to static, fuzzing out one by one.

Plenty of videogames have been inspired by Aliens, but few of them do the panicky "game over, man, game over" moment as well as this. It's brutally difficult, but that's because it's not really a strategy game—it's horror.

In the 40K universe faster-than-light travel is made possible by briefly hopping over to a universe next door called Warpspace, where distances are contracted. The downside to Warpspace is that it's inhabited by the Ruinous Powers of Chaos, gods who represent and are fueled by the dark urges of mortals, as well as their daemonic servants.

Chaos wants to spill out of the Warp into realspace, and when they do you get places like the Eye of Terror, a hellish overlap at the edge of the galaxy. Near its edge is the Imperial world Cadia, a bastion that stood firm against multiple excursions led by the forces of Chaos—until the 13th Black Crusade, when Abaddon the Despoiler crashed a gigantic alien starfortress into it. This happens several minutes into Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 while you're playing the prologue campaign.

It's a hell of a spectacle. This sequel improves various small things about the spacefleet RTS game, adds campaigns from the perspective of the insectile tyranids and Egyptian robot necrons, and leaves its core of 2D sailing ship combat intact.

The one big thing it changes is that sense of spectacle, understanding what we want to see is entire worlds falling and a galaxy in flames. Where the first Dawn of War is about masses of tanks and a screen full of lasers, Dawn of War 2 gives you just four badasses, maybe eight replaceable squadmates, and a bunch of special abilities. It's not about researching at your base until you've put together an unstoppable force—most missions begin with you falling out of the sky, sometimes squashing a few enemies, and it's immediately on.

A typical battle involves parking the heavy weapons and sniper in cover, charging in with your commander, then telling the assault squad to jump-pack over the top and setting off abilities as they come off cool-down. The boss fights can be chores, but maps where you're on the defensive , outnumbered by hordes of tyranids or whatever, are excellent—both in singleplayer and the Last Stand, a three-player mode with waves of enemies and unlockable wargear.

Final Liberation is a strategy game that gets the scale of conflict in the 41st millennium spot on, with a mixed force of Imperial Guard and Ultramarines having to not only pool their forces, but then unearth an entire lost legion of titans to repel an ork invasion on a planetary scale. The orks are faster and brutishly hard to put down in hand-to-hand, but you have artillery on your side and, as the Tyrant of Badab said, "Big guns never tire.

The peak of the 40K games to come out of the s, Final Liberation has two extremely s things about it. The first is its heavy metal soundtrack, and the second its FMV cutscenes. Both are cheesy in exactly the right way, clearly being taken seriously by people unconcerned with the ridiculousness of what they're doing. Criminally underrated because it came out after a string of middling games with the words Space Hulk in the name, Tactics is the best of them.

It's an adaptation of the board game that understands what makes it fun—the asymmetry of five clunky walking tanks pitted against limitless numbers of speedy melee monsters—and also understands that it's even more fun if you can play either. Tactics has an entire genestealer campaign, and finally getting to be the aliens is a blast. It doesn't skimp on the marine side either, and the AI plays genestealers like a tabletop player would, lurking around corners until enough gribblies have gathered to charge an overwatching marine en masse, knowing his bolter's going to jam eventually.

Where Space Hulk Tactics makes additions to the board game's rules, like cards that give single-use bonuses, and a maze-like map of the hulk to explore, they're well-balanced and complement the base. In fact, they feel like they could be from one of Games Workshop's own expansions to the original. While you can control from first-person for that Space Hulk experience, played in isometric view this is finally the XCOM-but-with-space-marines everyone wanted.

During the dark heyday of the third-person cover shooter, Space Marine was a revelation. Why would an armored superhuman need to crouch behind a waist-high wall? Space Marine isn't having a bar of that. You regain health by killing bad guys up close, charging forward with your chainsword or slamming down out of the sky thanks to the best jetpack ever.

Each fight reminds you this is what you're genetically engineered to do, and early on there's a quiet moment where you enter an Imperial Guard base and wounded soldiers several feet shorter than you look up in awe. It nails the fantasy of being a space marine. Specifically, of being Captain Titus of the Ultramarines voiced by Mark Strong, a man born 39 millennia too early.

The Ultramarines are the chapter of choice for 40K videogames because they stick to the book. They aren't like the Space Wolves with their fangs and Viking schtick, or the Blood Angels and their periodic descent into the Black Rage. You don't have to explain anything extra to an audience who don't know the setting with the Ultramarines. Because they're boring. Space Marine lets them be boring so Titus has something to rebel against.

His brothers follow tactics from ancient tomes. Titus jumps out of a spaceship to fight orks across the deck of a flying pirate ship—and that's the tutorial. What Space Marine did for the third-person shooter, Mechanicus does for turn-based squad tactics.

Your band of Adeptus Mechanicus tech-priests don't need cover. They've got disposable cannon fodder instead, servitors and skitarii soldiers to soak up the necron lasers. Those predictable enemies will only attack the closest target, and that closest target should be a replaceable cyberzombie rather than one of your leveled-up tech-priests.

The psychologically abnormal scientists of the AdMech see everything as a learning opportunity, and while their subordinates are dying they're off examining the architecture and sending servo-skulls to inspect alien glyphs, all of which gives you cognition points. These can be spent on extra movement or activating special abilities, and when you defeat a necron you get more of them, with a bonus for reaching the corpse within a turn to stand over them creepily watching the light in their artificial eyes go out.

For science. Spend those points right and you snowball, ending each turn in the right spot to earn more. Your robed worshippers of the Machine God zip around the necron tomb they're investigating with a force axe in one hand and a data tablet in the other, six more Doctor Octopus cyberlimbs whipping around just for fun.

The AdMech normally show up as support in other games, but here they're the stars and everything from the way the mechanics accentuate their oddity, to the droning music, to the mechanical garble that serves as their voices fits perfectly. Because Dawn of War 2 ditched the base-building, its predecessor has become a standard bearer for fans of build orders who miss that particular flavor of RTS. The thing is, what made Dawn of War's base-building great was how downplayed it was compared to the RTS games that came before it.

But no new units. But the most important aspect is that you can play those missions, with ANY race!!! Not simply some "new units" added in the existing Vanilla races I hope this helped.

Originally posted by pmm :. Unfortunately unification has always been overshadowed by UA. Plus all the cool stuff like survival that gambit has made.

We are a small team so whilst some races need revisiting, we're still getting there whilst making new things, like the imperial fists!

Man, you're still at it, Fuggles? I've been a fan of many of the projects you've worked on in the past. It does my shriveled old heart good to see you're still pumping out quality content for the community. Thank you, my dude. I realize nobody here is the original author of the mod, but since Unification does include a direct link to the mod and a required patch to make it compatible, I thought I might try.

The download appears to be nonfunctional on moddb, and I can't find it for Soulstorm elsewhere. Any words of advice? Last edited by Ulfgard the Unmaker ; 5 Jul, am. Yes, check my link above, that article has links to all downloads. That said, may need a new link to the updated version at some point down the line, but that's minor patches.

I just checked the link on my phone so definitely works. Also thanks for the kind words! If there is any doubt in your mind, then don't download it.

I hope that those of you looking for a means to spice up DC have found something to your liking. I know that installing them and getting them to work for battles with friends can be a hassle, but it is worth it. I value feedback on my guides, so please rate and comment as you see fit. I am particularly interested in how you feel some of these mods are balanced, whether they are worthwhile and any troubleshooting tips that you may have as well as suggestions for other mods that I have not included.

Tried a combination of Titanium Wars and DoW Kingdom for exactly the same reason you mentioned in the article. Had to start the new campaign for the changes to take effect. However one of the issues I am seeing is that when you save and load on during the battle, the game loads with Fatal Scar Error and seems to be Kingdom Scar related since the QOL tweaks stop working the mission becomes unwinnable.

If you abandon mission and attack another province the script continues working. Manageable for shorter missions, but can see it being a problem on Stronghold missions. No Fun Allowed 19 Feb am. So my friend is trying to install Titanium Wars while extracting he gets the error in Winrar that says Titanium. He has redonwloaded Titanium Wars but gets the same error each time. I'm not sure how he would fix this. Bettanre 24 Dec, pm. Thank you so much. Tarzan 25 Nov, am. I was really looking for mod overhauls that worked with the campaign, since I love it very much.

It seems however, that these mods either disable the campaign or aren't compatible. The only thing that can be added is the camera mod, and thank the emperor for that But yeah Bob 18 Oct, pm. Player Three 2 Oct, am. Thanks for the reply! Yeah, I've managed to get some mods working now, thanks to the guide. The only one which really doesn't want to work is the Half Scale mod. Thanks for the guide, super useful! Perdiccas [author] 1 Oct, am. Player Three When you install the mod, do you have any.

Player Three 1 Oct, am. Hey, sorry if this isnt the place for this but I've tried many times over the years to install mods on DC, but it has never worked.

I follow all the instructions fine, but no mods show up in the game manager. A Block of Jelly 9 Aug, am. I really have to try these thing again.. But I think I remember doing it twice but did not worked at all.. Share to your Steam activity feed. You need to sign in or create an account to do that. Sign In Create an Account Cancel. Eagles no longer one hit clumped wagons but deal more damage when it's hit by hit.

Dwarves vs Isengard. Saruman blast weaker scalared down against dwarven infantry. Guardian stronger to Uruk Hais. Uruk Hai weaker to mines and general builders. Dwarves vs Men. Gondor archers more effective against dwarven infantry. Elves vs Goblins.

Rivendel lancers way stronger, fundamental in this MU, within Arwen. Elves vs Mordor. No longer share experience between themselves nor gain insane crush damage statics after level 5. Mordor Archers weaker to arrows, and less damage against elf infantry. RIvendell lancer stronger to Nazguls and damage bonus against Slaugher Houses added. Summoned barricades with fire no longer counter summoned ents in two seconds.

Isengard vs Mordor. Isengard pikemen no longer so effective against attack trolls, crossbow stronger; effectiver against flyers and orc spam. Flyers damage bonuses against structures no longer affects Furnaces. Corsairs damage vs furnaces reduced considerably. Isengard vs Goblins. Damage scalared down against cave trolls. Drogoth damage bonuses against heros and structures no longer affect Isen heros and furnaces.

Berserkers, uruks stronger to poison. Goblins weakened against furnaces. Marauders no longer one-hit wargs.