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Title: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: Jarhead0331 on February 09, 2021, 09:04:20 AM
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Slitherine (Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War, Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach and Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon) and Black Lab Games (Battlestar Galactica Deadlock and Starhammer) announce a new turn-based strategy game set in the world-renowned sci-fi setting imagined by Games Workshop.

Experience every bone-rattling explosion and soul-crushing charge in Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector, the definitive battle scale turn-based strategy game that takes you to the battlefields of the 41st Millenium. Pick your force, develop your army, field mighty heroes and fight for victory using superior strategy, awesome abilities, and devastating weaponry, turn by turn on grid-based maps.

Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector will be released on PC in May 2021

Age of Crimson Dawn
Experience an epic twenty mission single-player campaign that explores the aftermath of the Devastation of Baal. Help Sergeant Carleon and his allies purge the Tyranid infestation on Baal Secundus, and preserve the honour of the noble Blood Angels.

Skirmish Mode
Fight across the surface of Baal on maps of your choosing and select either the Blood Angels or the Tyranids in the Skirmish mode. Completely customize your army list by picking your units, heroes and their loadouts.

Forge Your Armies
Command iconic units like the Sanguinary Priest, the Librarian Dreadnought, and the Hive Tyrant to annihilate your foes. Use over 60 abilities and 50 weapons to orchestrate your opponent's bloody demise.

Face Your Friends On The Battlefield

With live and asynchronous multiplayer, and hotseat modes available, there's no excuse not to take your friends to war. Asynchronous multiplayer will be only available on PC.



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Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: JasonPratt on February 09, 2021, 09:48:13 AM
Ah, so the new Sanctus Reach is coming! -- being in effect Advanced Space Crusade!

Note to self, still have to finish playing Sanctus Reach sometime.
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: Rayfer on February 09, 2021, 10:16:06 AM
Quote from: JasonPratt on February 09, 2021, 09:48:13 AM
Ah, so the new Sanctus Reach is coming! -- being in effect Advanced Space Crusade!

Note to self, still have to finish playing Sanctus Reach sometime.

+1 My thoughts exactly.
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: Jarhead0331 on February 09, 2021, 10:26:18 AM
I like Sanctus Reach a lot, but I cannot, for the life of me, beat the first mission of the Imperial Guard DLC. I've tried every strategy I can think of...it made me give up on the game long ago.
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: W8taminute on February 09, 2021, 10:48:41 AM
This game looks good!  Thanks for sharing, I'm keeping my eye on this one.
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: Geezer on February 09, 2021, 12:18:40 PM
I wish someone would do WH40K at the scale of Total War.
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: FarAway Sooner on February 09, 2021, 12:32:56 PM
I'm not familiar with the game engine.  Is it something new, or is this just the 40K handling of the Order of Battle engine?
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: Pete Dero on February 09, 2021, 01:11:07 PM
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/907422174

Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector | Gameplay Reveal  (was streamed live last hour)
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: Toonces on February 09, 2021, 01:25:18 PM
Quote from: Geezer on February 09, 2021, 12:18:40 PM
I wish someone would do WH40K at the scale of Total War.

Isn't Total War: Warhammer what you're looking for?
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: Geezer on February 09, 2021, 01:31:50 PM
Quote from: Toonces on February 09, 2021, 01:25:18 PM

Isn't Total War: Warhammer what you're looking for?

I have that, but I want a game on that scale set in the 40K universe.
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: SlagDog on February 09, 2021, 03:25:19 PM
Turn-based Tactics - Check
40K Universe - Check
Great graphics - Check
Two armies - Fail

I'm just hoping the developers finish by adding all of the 40K armies in DLCs. That would be amazing! I would love to play a digital replacement for tabletop 40K. There will never be a replacement for rolling dice but having a proper 40K tabletop game would sure easy the gaming pain significantly.

I'm looking forward to seeing how this progresses. 
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: Jarhead0331 on February 09, 2021, 03:27:35 PM
Quote from: SlagDog on February 09, 2021, 03:25:19 PM
Turn-based Tactics - Check
40K Universe - Check
Great graphics - Check
Two armies - Fail

I'm just hoping the developers finish by adding all of the 40K armies in DLCs. That would be amazing! I would love to play a digital replacement for tabletop 40K. There will never be a replacement for rolling dice but having a proper 40K tabletop game would sure easy the gaming pain significantly.

I'm looking forward to seeing how this progresses.

I agree.  However, I'm sure there will be more armies released through DLC. Look at Gladius, for example. They've added Eldar, Imperial Guard, Tau, Tyranids, etc.
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: Destraex on February 09, 2021, 05:19:28 PM
Looks amazing and I got really excited until I saw gameplay. It's not WEGO like their last game Battlestar Deadlock was.
Therefore apart from prettier graphics this is simply every other 40k game.
Not a fan of watching static units take hits. It's silly, boring and it's been done to death in a thousand other 40k games. In my humble opinion at least.
It does not have coop out of the box either. I am struggling to see the point of difference here for this game. Black Labs went from something unique and niche to something that has been done to death.

I know it's just my opinion and the majority will lap it up. But I am very disappointed :(

I played turn based on PC for 40k back in the 90s.
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: al_infierno on February 09, 2021, 06:24:28 PM
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on February 09, 2021, 03:27:35 PM
Quote from: SlagDog on February 09, 2021, 03:25:19 PM
Turn-based Tactics - Check
40K Universe - Check
Great graphics - Check
Two armies - Fail

I'm just hoping the developers finish by adding all of the 40K armies in DLCs. That would be amazing! I would love to play a digital replacement for tabletop 40K. There will never be a replacement for rolling dice but having a proper 40K tabletop game would sure easy the gaming pain significantly.

I'm looking forward to seeing how this progresses.

I agree.  However, I'm sure there will be more armies released through DLC. Look at Gladius, for example. They've added Eldar, Imperial Guard, Tau, Tyranids, etc.

Sanctus Reach is probably a better point of comparison than Gladius, and the only new armies they added to that were Imperial Guard and Chaos Daemons.  It's honestly shocking they never even bothered to add Chaos Space Marines.

But, yeah, I'm in the disappointed camp so far.  This just looks like a reskinned version of Sanctus Reach, which was good, but suffered a lot from a lack of army variety IMO.
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: Fetrik on February 10, 2021, 02:18:14 PM
Is it only me that thinks it kinda resemble Epic 40K?

It looks good and i am interested.  Unless it is Pzg style missions.
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: SlagDog on February 11, 2021, 10:52:22 AM
Nice! I didn't even think about how it does look like Epic. I played a crap load of Epic and miss stomping troops with my Eldar Titans. I would totally dig a digital version of Epic any day!
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: JasonPratt on February 13, 2021, 12:11:03 PM
There is a game specifically about 40K Titans somewhere on Steam, that I've never gotten around to yet. (Also one about 40K airpower.)
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: Jarhead0331 on February 13, 2021, 01:28:00 PM
Quote from: JasonPratt on February 13, 2021, 12:11:03 PM
There is a game specifically about 40K Titans somewhere on Steam, that I've never gotten around to yet. (Also one about 40K airpower.)

Adeptus Titanicus: Dominus - Have it but never played. Supposedly pretty good. https://store.steampowered.com/app/853140/Adeptus_Titanicus_Dominus/ (https://store.steampowered.com/app/853140/Adeptus_Titanicus_Dominus/)

Aeromautica Imperialis: Flight Command - Have it, played it, was underwhelmed. In all fairness, the aerial combat in the 40K universe has never appealed to me. The aircraft look way too clunky to stay aloft and the mechanics are too simple. ITs like WWI or WWII air combat in the 41st millennium? I don't think so. https://store.steampowered.com/app/610160/Aeronautica_Imperialis_Flight_Command/ (https://store.steampowered.com/app/610160/Aeronautica_Imperialis_Flight_Command/)
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: JasonPratt on February 13, 2021, 05:58:44 PM
To be fair, a lot of Orks Innnn Spaaaaace can be described as "this clunky technology in the 41st millennium??"

The in-universe explanation is that no one understands how the tech works anymore and so they just use older tech in primitive ways. That explanation can't go much farther than the Imperium and the Chaos Marines, however. (I suppose it works for the orks, too, come to think of it.)

The real explanation is medieval fantasy tropes + science fiction = Rule of Cool.
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: Jarhead0331 on February 13, 2021, 06:09:07 PM
Quote from: JasonPratt on February 13, 2021, 05:58:44 PM
To be fair, a lot of Orks Innnn Spaaaaace can be described as "this clunky technology in the 41st millennium??"

The in-universe explanation is that no one understands how the tech works anymore and so they just use older tech in primitive ways. That explanation can't go much farther than the Imperium and the Chaos Marines, however. (I suppose it works for the orks, too, come to think of it.)

The real explanation is medieval fantasy tropes + science fiction = Rule of Cool.

Nah. That's the explanation for things like Titans, certain kinds of cogitators, warp technologies, world builders, etc. It doesn't explain why even imperial aircraft look like flying garbage trucks.
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: Jarhead0331 on April 01, 2021, 10:54:43 AM
Playing an early preview build of this now. I'm enjoying it a lot so far.

The preview only has two missions. From what I have seen to this point, its on a smaller tactical scale from Epic.

Stay tuned for a preview feature on the front page.
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: JasonPratt on April 02, 2021, 02:42:38 PM
Sampstra demos the demo released by Slitherine!

Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: Destraex on April 02, 2021, 08:27:07 PM
Will there be a demo for the rest of us laymen, women and catpeople?
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: Jarhead0331 on April 02, 2021, 08:50:34 PM
^Dunno...but I'm really enjoying it. Looking forward to a more complete build.
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: Destraex on April 02, 2021, 09:15:00 PM
Quote from: JasonPratt on April 02, 2021, 02:42:38 PM
Sampstra demos the demo released by Slitherine!


I tried listening to that video but her voice is too much like a high pitched 13 year olds. Grinds my ears.
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: FlickJax on July 22, 2021, 06:04:22 AM
Review:  https://www.pcgamesn.com/warhammer-40000-battlesector/review
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: Con on July 18, 2023, 05:56:50 PM
Arise my Necron brothers and time to push this thread alive again

I just picked this game up got the bundle (pretty expensive) but I am having a blast
Cant put it down in the campaign and now working on the Planetary Supremacy.  Time for Ork Boyz to go Waaaaagh
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: Gusington on July 18, 2023, 07:54:28 PM
Post impressions please!
Title: Re: Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sector!
Post by: Jarhead0331 on July 19, 2023, 08:32:56 AM
This is a great game. Definitely one of the better 40K titles in recent memory. I have almost 60 hours into it and still going strong.