Warhammer 2 Total War: Skaven Official Trailer, and they are not DLC.

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

My dream 40k Strategy game is not a Total War style game, but say an ambitous Turned Based Strategy game

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.952491-The-Warhammer-40k-game-of-my-dreams-is-a-Turned-Based-Strategy-game

To summerize the thread, I want it to be like say a bigger scale X-Com/Fire Emblem, with the Story Presentation of Starcraft 2 and the acting of Dawn of War. And every battle animation is unique to each unit.

And it will have all the Major factions and I would split the DLC like this:

Start of the game: Space Marines (Ultramarines), Imperial Guard (8th Cadians), Orks, Chaos Space Marines (Black Legion).

DLC 1: Eldar and Dark Eldar. (Eldar vs Dark Eldar themed)

DLC 2: Necrons and Tyranids. (Aliens and Robots)

DLC 3: Adeptus Mechanicus and Tau Empire. (Mecha vs Mecha)

DLC 4: Sisters of Battle and Daemons of Chaos. (Heaven and Hell themed)

Free DLC would be the unique Space Marines like the Space Wolves and Chaos Space Marine chapters like the Thousand Sons.

I'd play that game.

I'd play that game right now

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

My dream 40k Strategy game is not a Total War style game, but say an ambitous Turned Based Strategy game

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.952491-The-Warhammer-40k-game-of-my-dreams-is-a-Turned-Based-Strategy-game

SNIP

Maybe the wrong topic, but since that other one is 4 months old...

My ideal 40K game would be kind of like a multi layered Galactic Civ/Battlefleet Gothic, Civ/Armageddon or final liberation and finally a sort of Xcom/Dawn of war scale.

Start as a newly appointed planetary governor on a newly colonised planet with the imperial remit to conquer a newly found/accesible sector. Start as either a Rogue Trader, Ecclesiarch, retired IG general, Mechanicus, Ex Inquisitor or Imperial Noble (Fuck Xenos, acquire planets). They give you different bonuses, early acess to tech, different playstyles etc.

Space battles can be auto resolved or played out like BFG.

Planetary invasions can auto or you can play them out at a Civ/HoI scale (albeit simplified). Then if you want any engagements on that map can be auto'd like they would in Civ or HoI or played out like Armageddon or Final Liberation, though if you could come up with a decent realtime representation at Epic scale I'd go for it.

Occasionally minor skirmishes and missions can pop up due to AI activity (or you can seek them out) over certain things that you can play out in an X-com or DoW style. "Some stinky Tau have landed on planet X and are trying to influence the population, take them out!" "Inquisitorial agents have found a small cult guarding a heretical artefact, send in a stormtrooper squad to purge them! (and what will happen to the artefact afterwards...)"

It's a rather grand vision admittedly, but would be so awesome.