Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector

A great turn based strategy game like the XCOM games! This is the closest officially licensed game we will ever get to the tabletop war game.

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For me, the inability to turn off the extremely limiting fog of war really spoils the game. It turns what would be a good game into a waste of time. To some degree or another, it seeks to emulate the table top game where you can obviously see each other's forces. Here, the field of vision is so narrow that you often can only see an enemy unit when it appears out of the fog, attacking you. This makes any tactics or division of your forces obsolete as you could be sending any of your units directly towards any number of theirs. This means the only effective tactic is to concentrate all your forces and indeed firepower in one place to deal with whatever lurches out of the fog. At the time of writing, you cannot turn this fog of war off and it sadly detracts from the game immensely.

Slightly similar to the actual tabletop game, very free customization for your armies, basically endless fun. (it is better with faction DLC though, and lots of people in the community are adult children and whine about everything)

The best adaptation of the tabletop faction v faction action warhammer 40k has ever had! Little buggy here and there but mostly with minor, often comical visual errors like a dead assault marine stuck in mid air killed via overwatch lol I hope they add more factions! Would love to see Aeldari and Mechanicus!

5 из 10 Огорчает, что в стандартном издании только две фракции, остальные нужно докупать за немалую сумму. Доступна одна кампания за Кровавых Ангелов и несколько режимов типа выполни все миссии на глобальной карте. Кампания душновата, миссии будто немного затянуты. Сюжет тоже сделан от балды, ходим-бродим по этой луне в поисках очень важных, но очень скрытных вожаков тиранид. Скучно.

I play this on steamdeck and PC, it is turned based and does not require knowledge of 40k to enjoy. That being said, it is sure to entice you to learn more about the universe and its canon. Regarding gameplay, it is enjoyable. I am working my way through the DLC. I got this game through a bundle so I cant speak to the value of it at full price. I found the base game with no DLC to be satisfying.

ESPAÑOL & ENGLISH: (UPDATE: Han añadido el modo Crusade que permite conquistar muchos planetas con cualquier raza y es todo un cambio que mejora mucho el juego asi que le he subido la nota a 9/10 ) Leí una reseña negativa de que este juego era un simulador de mover tropas en lineas bailando la conga y me hizo mucha risa porque en cierto modo es igual, los mapas son amplios en cada batalla y comprendo que para algunos puede ser tedioso.. Los gráficos y las anuimaciones son buenas, es tactic a y visualmente más detallado que su juego hermano por turnos el Gladius. Te recomiendo este juego si quieres conocer y aprender sobre las unidades de facciones enemigas. y no solo la tuya propia. Battlesector permite equipar a tus unidades con diferentes opciones de armas. Mi modo de juego favorito es el modo de Supremacía Planetaria que permite ir investigando tecnologías entre turnos de batallas a lo total war, y tambien ir conquistando sectores del planeta o reforzar tu ejército en el mapa del planeta permitiendote configurar el ejercito a tu gusto. Nota: 8/10 ———————————————————————————————————————— (UPDATE: The new crusade mode makes the game very interesting and now you can conquer many planets in long campaigns, so I increased the score of the game to 9/10 ) I did read a negative review saying that this game was a simulator of moving troops in lines like they’re dancing the conga, and it made me laugh a lot because, in a way, it’s true. The maps in each battle are large, and I understand that for some players this can be tedious. The graphics and animations are good, and it is tactical and visually more detailed than its turn-based sibling, Gladius. I recommend this game if you want to get to know and learn about the units of enemy factions, not just your own. Battlesector allows you to equip your units with different weapon options. My favorite game mode is Planetary Supremacy mode, which lets you research technologies between battles in a Total War-style approach, as well as conquer sectors of the planet or reinforce your army on the planetary map, allowing you to configure your army to your liking. Score: 9/10

Honestly, the game is really bad. The literal only redeeming factor is that it's WH40K, otherwise just about everything about the game sucks. If it wasn't WH40K, it would be absolutely review bombed. The voice acting is poor (as well as the sound engineering on the voices, it's amateurish at best), the voice script is poor (it's so goofy that I had to just turn it off, it's really awful), the QOL is poor, the balance is poor, a lot of the design/feature choices are poor, it's just not a good or fun game. Everything about it feels tedious and plain. Take the missions for example. You have an objective like, get to this point and hold out for 3 turns. After you complete every objective, you then *still* get "kill all of the other enemies". Why tf would you not just go and kill all the enemies anyway then if the game is going to force you to? It makes every missions colossally boring because you have to just slog through slowly clearing out enemies, and take away from the whole excitement of "hold out x point for x rounds!" The balance of stuff like enemies getting more movement + free attacks + free opportunity attacks is really dumb too, and even when you choose to take the hits from opportunity attacks, it just drags your units back anyway so literally what is the point? So poorly designed, and adds to the tediousness when you then have less units because your assault units get 1 shot by half the enemies so it slows down the whole game even more. There is basically no QOL in the game either, so many really easy QOL additions that would make the flow of the game so much better, and yet they can't manage it (but can manage to throw in some overpriced DLC tho!!! Hell yeah!). Makes it so obvious that the developers just lack the talent/int when compared to literally every other game in the genre, this game falls so far short when it comes to QOL. And then to top it all off, if you want *any* of the additional units/races, that will cost you literally 50-100% of the price of the whole game for a couple of units. Scumbags.