![]() Not only do Armada 2’s battles look flashier and more detailed than those in the other titles, eager admirals are given a host of different bells and whistles with which to control their fleets. Compared to similar fleet-level space combat games, such as Stellaris and Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, the difference is night and day. During the cutscene that followed, the wreckage of that collision fell from orbit and cracked the planet itself in half.Įven more exciting than the cutscenes, however, is the sheer quality of the game’s tactical engagements. ![]() To properly get your head around what this means in gameplay terms, understand that the tutorial required me to ram an orbital weapons platform the size of a small continent into a starship the size of a large country. What appear to be stationary stars in the background are in fact thousands more ships painted onto the massive skybox itself. The introductory CG sequence alone includes thousands of ships in high orbit moving in parallax against a brightly lit nebula. It’s the same battle where the fortress world of Cadia itself, as the saying goes, broke before the Imperial Guard did.įor PC players new to the franchise, expect to be completely overwhelmed by the scale of the battles that unfold. Fans of the 40K universe will know that engagement as one of the most epic battles of the 41st millennium, with millions of warriors on each side. Its sequel begins at a seminal moment in the history of the 40K universe - the fall of Cadia. Tindalos picked up the slack, releasing Battlefleet Gothic: Armada just three years later to critical acclaim. Sadly, the franchise went out of print in 2013. The game benefits from Games Workshop’s grimdark lore, of course, but also from mechanics that draw upon the hobby game industry’s generations-long love affair with naval wargaming of all kinds. Just a handful of ships is all that’s required to represent crews numbering in the tens of thousands. While traditional 40K miniatures battles are fought by ground forces representing the squad or company level, Gothic is a game of space-based naval warfare. The original Battlefleet Gothic is a tabletop miniatures franchise from Games Workshop, first published in 1999. Games set in the 40K universe are a dime a dozen these days, but the moment-to-moment gameplay in Armada 2 has so far exceeded my wildest expectations. The team at Tindalos Interactive sells the dream of Warhammer 40,000 combat on a galactic scale. After just a few hours with the game’s pre-order beta, I’m legitimately blown away. This time around, I vowed to make time out of my busy spacefaring schedule to check out its sequel, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2. To hear some tell it, that means I missed out on one of the best strategy games of that year. When the original Battlefleet Gothic: Armada came out in 2016, I decided to skip it.
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