Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (Classic)

OK. I know I am late in playing this game but I bought it during the Summer Sale 2026. The game is nice and interesting. However, the gameplay is quite difficult even at Easy Mode and I have to re-play a few times for certain missions in order to win them. This game really tests your luck and tactical skill.

Enemy always knows where you are. Data missions are pure BS. Generally speaking after few hours you've seen it all in this game. Every turn you have a grind mission. If you don't do them - game punishes you. Generally feels like a lot of filler and not much creativity in gameplay department.

Очень рутинная игра с тупыми механиками. Крайне однообразные бои. Допройду сюжетку. ДЛС навряд ли брать буду. Если брать то только по скидке и не больше 100 рублей. Нарвался на ид и о тс к у ю миссию где просто ограничивают в 300 очков, и миссии на время. У меня есть уже 2 корабля по 172 очка, но меня специально заставляют взять слабые корабли по 140. У хаоса 4 корабля и когда появляется таймер бомбардировки, враг летит на форсаже. Его не догнать и не остановить. Сколько таких ещё тупых миссий - не знаю. Мне уже хватило. Не говоря о том, что я стал что-то часто получать красные криты, которые до этого не получал. Удивительно, что это окупилось и они выпустили 2-ую часть

It's good, not many similar games to compare it to tho. We DEFINITELY need more 40k void battle games.

Fun combat, decent story. The physicality of the ships and the ability to ram is pretty unique, although I wish this was more pronounced in the interface

史诗级的太空战

6/10 tha gameplay is somewhat plausable, but the cinematics videos are unskippable and are rendered in 180p, i can count pixels in them and audio is too loud the space itself is flat and has no depth in, u cant go under or over just flat homeworld is similar game but has more depths in it, better try some homeworld

A review, ten years too late, lol. And... I really once again wish Steam had a 'not yes but not no either' option. I put fifty+ hours into this game on release and eventually uninstalled it. I was a huge fan of the tabletop game, and ultimately, Armada was good but not quite what I wanted. But, it's not BAD, overall, it's just off the mark in a number of small but significant places. 1) Not Armadas. --Quite simply, the fleets you control in BFG:A are miniscule, and even at the maximal size you eventually reach are smaller than the 1000 points which would be considered 'on the small side of average' for the tabletop game. Balancing that, each ship is much more detailed than the ones in tabletop, but you'll almost never have more than three or four, making the engagements feel extremely small. 2) Mission Design (it's not very good) --The designers added quite a few different types of mission to the tabletop, trying to add more ways to win (and lose) than just 'blow up the other guy's ships'. This is laudable, but Data Steal and Convoy in particular are extremely swingy, and victory feels essentially random rather than a matter of an admiral's skill. 3) Reloading after You Lose (it's not easy) --Given that there are mission types which feel essentially random in your ability to complete them, reasonable players might want to reload their progress and try the mission again. While there is a 'retry mission' option INSIDE missions, as soon as the 'defeat' screen appears, there's no way to restart until you've returned all the way to the campaign mission and heard the beginning of the NPC's speech berating you for your failure. Then you'd better hope you saved or that the autosave is feeling generous. Once you've reloaded and started again, if it's a story mission, you have to watch the opening shots of the ships flying around and listen to the same dialogue over again, with absolutely no way to skip it or even just make them shut up while the game loads. 3. The Campaign Feels Bad --The reason they probably made re-doing missions such a pain is that you're allowed to, and kind of expected to fail missions. The problem is that, due to the (entirely narratively appropriate) tension of the story the campaign is telling you, you get VERY few opportunities to act each campaign turn, and you suffer stacking penalties you can't completely get rid of. This is also a problem, since there's no BENEFIT to holding every planet in the sector, only penalties for failing to. Again, this is narratively appropriate, but feels terrible as you watch penalties stack up and all you can do is decide which ones to try to mitigate (and hope that you get missions you can reasonably win). Overall the game is quite atmospheric and gets the appropriate feel of what it must be like to be an Imperial Admiral trying to defend a sector against a massive invasion and attacks by various pirates (it feels like even when you win, you're still losing), as well as having a good array of ships and being a good simulator of ship combat. But your 'battlefleet' is tiny and the non-gameplay experience is 'acceptable' at best. Armada 2 fixes basically all of these and is totally worth your money, though.