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The lack of good WARHAMMER 40,000 games is criminal.
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As a former Blood Angels player, I have to disagree :)
I never got the MOBA comments. Yes, they have maps with lanes, but surely the defining trait of a MOBA is playing one character?
It kind of defeats
I actually kind of liked 3, but I think its fair to call it a moba/rts hybrid. The progression in a game is very similar to a moba.As a former Blood Angels player, I have to disagree :)
I never got the MOBA comments. Yes, they have maps with lanes, but surely the defining trait of a MOBA is playing one character?
I was being slightly facetious.
I liked the scale of it, I just wished they retained some degree of cover mechanics, could have been somewhere between the first and second game (yes the first one had simple cover). Ideally I would have liked something on the scale of company of heroes which is closer to DoW1 than 2, but with the cover mechanics and base building.
As a former Blood Angels player, I have to disagree :)
Not bad, but the blue is just striking:
Dumb question: whats the lore difference between them?
Warhammer 40k Inquisitor Martyr will be going on sale according to the PS Blog:
The discount is pretty tempting and I'm looking for more WH40k games to play. So, how is the gameplay and performance on PS4?
The discount is pretty tempting and I'm looking for more WH40k games to play. So, how is the gameplay and performance on PS4?
A lot of the lore comes down to their Primarch's traits (the demigod sons of the Emperor that provided their genetic material for the conversion process from human to Astartes). Generally Ultramarines are good all-rounders, their Primarch, Roboute Guilliman, is a gifted administrator, and they effectively run an empire within an empire. Half the marine chapters are descended from them as they survived the Horus Heresy (the foundation myth of 40k where half the legions turned to chaos) comparatively unscathed, and their huge recruitment base made them one of the biggest legions. Guilliman was recently resurrected and is currently the lynchpin holding the rotting, embattled Imperium together.Not bad, but the blue is just striking:
Dumb question: whats the lore difference between them?
Blood Angels are the sons of Sanguinius, and balance his nature of a beautiful, charismatic angel with precognition on one hand with a vampiric bloodlust on the other. The inner struggle between light and dark is their thing. Generally they have stronger specialist assault units than the Ultramarines. One of their unique units is the Death Company, where some of their marines are plagued by visions of Sanguinius's death in the decisive, final moments of the Heresy (that he had foreseen), and, as they descend into uncontrollable madness, are shepherded towards the enemy as a sort of 'die well, brother' kind of thing.
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Thank you for this summary, that´s quite a deep lore.
I'm actually buying a couple of starting Ultramarine sets. Love the aesthetic and want to pose them in 1-2 squads after painting them.
(I also love the Starcraft marine armor, when you use blue teams, Ultramarines are like the Knight version and the Terrans are the futuristic version)
The lore built up over 30+ years is insane, start here if you've got a spare afternoon. :D https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Warhammer_40,000
Fair Warning:
Thats a god damn rabbit hole. It's almost endless and its amazing.
Yeah, navigation is not the best but I have already spent 3 hours reading through this.
Fascinating