Space Marine 2

I only use it to dodge toward a larger group of xenos, obviously.

I anyone here hasn’t played it, I highly recommend Rogue Trader. It is an excellent 40k game.

I need to go back to Rogue Trader. I started playing it at release when it was an absolute buggy mess. Decided to give it time for a patch or two and promptly got distracted by other shinies.

Really enjoyed what I played though.

The combat in Rogue Trader is like 40k Xcom.

It depends what you're after, really. Please tell me you've played Dawn of War 1 & 2 (and their expansions!) - if not, just stop here!

DO NOT play Dawn of War 3. It's shite. For some reason they decided everyone who loved the first two would much prefer a MOBA style game than an RTS. They were wrong and the backlash absolutely killed the series (and Relic) stone dead.

That Necromunda game is actually a half decent stab at bringing the tabletop to the screen. But then it's also a bit flaky and sort of has a 'budget X-Com' vibe to it. Sadly, the studio is also defunct, so whatever's broke now ain't getting fixed.

Battlesector is turn based and about the closest thing you'll find to actual 40K tabletop on the screen. Except it's also not all that much like it, either. It's not bad though, and they keep adding new factions every so often. For a fee, of course.

Gladius is a Civ-like 4X game with no other victory conditions other than kill everyone else or complete your faction's missions before you lose. It's surprisingly good fun if you like this kind of game, but again, they sting you for a shit-tonne of DLCs if you want the complete experience.

Battlefleet Gothic does a good job of capturing fleet combat. It's real time (though you can slow time to not get overwhelmed giving orders to your ships). The biggest hurdle is the campaign *will* get harder if you fail missions early on, as you need to upgrade your fleet. For this reason, it's probably best to either reload missions or restart the campaign once you've got the hang of it. The first game is set just before Abaddon's 13th Black Crusade and the second game is set just after (once Cadia goes boom). First game is a bit more linear than the second and you can only play the Imperial Fleet, whereas you get multiple Imperium factions in the campaign in the second (and can even play it through in co-op!), but I'd definitely recommend playing them in order as there's an actual story to them that follows a fairly major lore event.

That Mordheim game is pretty good but it's also a bit janky and it's really, really HARD. If you don't get a good few wins and XP in the first games you're as good as fucked. It's a good attempt at recreating Mordheim digitally, though!

I think there's more than this, but I can't recall right now. I'll pop back in if I remember any more worth playing.

Chaos Gate is aces. Not sure about the replay value.

Gladius is fun enough but gets boring due to the single win condition so isn't as replayable as civ. Just buy the DLC for the 1 faction you want and it's good.

BFG 1 + 2. The battles are fun. The campaigns are quite thin & repetitive, the 2nd one is better. But also the campaign is really only playing as the Imperials so there's no campaign for playing as the Eldar or what not. I'd say it's above average. Though it crashes on 12th Gen Intel CPUs and above. The fix of which is to set an OpenSSL environment variable, which I basically decided was a fucking stupid thing to do. But make sure that if you do, set it ONLY for that process. As lots of morons basically go around saying to change your OpenSSL implementation system wide.

Rainy Saturday night and perfect weather to be ripping the anuses out of some Xeno scum but £60 is a hard ask.

I give myself a couple of hours before I cave.

Feels very ‘10th edition’ in some of the design choices - like wargear. Literally do incentive to take anything but the power sword now I’ve got it.

They missed a trick not having a power fist in this.

If they play their cards right they could definitely do Terminator based DLC. Here’s hoping.

It certainly keeps pulling me back, anyway.

As we know I don’t own it yet but from the preview videos I watched there is 100% a power fist.

You can pick a power fist for the assault class in the co-op and pvp modes.

I did a good hour and a bit in Quality mode, then when I tried ‘Speed’ the camera jack was just too much. Can’t go back now.

I’m enjoying it. Quite refreshing to play something that reminds me of the 360/PS3 days and isn’t overly complex soulsbourne etc. I just want to smack things.

Like Don Draper X Mr Bean