GW have spawned a long line of video games over the years. Let rip...

Recently I was playing Warhammer Online but stopped when they made me move server. The guild I was in which had built up a pretty good rep on Maikison just fell apart after the move. It was a really good looking game as well it's just a shame they messed up with the servers.

Also I can't wait for the new Dawn of War to come out. I hope it is as good as Company of Heroes.

Thanks for another thread request F.T.

I really want to play Warhammer Online but my laptop won't run it (pretty sure it won't anyway as it tended to over-heat playing City of Heroes) and I really don't have the time but I have heard all kinds of rave reviews from the players.

As was mentioned in an earlier thread "Fire Warrior" is awesome.  I'd play it through again but my PS2 is so ancient it is ready to be claimed by the Machine God like all faithful machines whose spirit's eventually fade.

I played and beat "Warhammer 40k: Squad Commander" for the PSP not too long ago.  It is a rocking turn based game that reminds me of X-Com.  Some of the missions are insanely hard.  My only beefs would be that you can carry sooooo many heavy weapons that "regular" space marines are non-existant, and that there could have been a few more choices or an xp system for managing to keep troops alive.  Still a great game.
****/5 boltguns.

The new Dawn of War is already getting mixed reviews from the beta.  I liked the first one, never played the second.

Me? Ohhh, I've played Fire Warrior, Dawn of War, Dawn of War: Winter Assault, Dawn of War: Dark Crusade and Dawn of War: Soulstorm, plus Dawn of War 2 Beta.

Ooooh what's the beta like and how do you get it?

The beta, well, play Company of Heroes and you basically have played Dawn of War 2. To get it, you need steam which can be downloaded for free. Then you can download the beta for free as well.

Things I love about the beta are how heavy tactics are involved. For example, its a better idea to fight behind cover then to shoot in the open. Weapons can suppress now, meaning the unit suppressed takes more damage and moves slower. In addition, to reinforce your men, you need to be near your base/certain structures. Units can retreat to HQ, which means your men run towards your HQ faster than normal and take less damage.

I am currently playing both Warhammer Online and the Dawn of War 2 beta so I will toss in my two cents about both.

 For Warhammer Online, I am really enjoying it. The game might not be as expansive as another game whose shadow covers the MMORPG landscape, but thats cause Warhammer Online is still new. I find the Public Quests, the Scenarios, the RvR all very satisfying in a way that other game just doesn't scratch.

 For Dawn of War 2, it does take some adjustment in the way you play from the previous Warhammer 40k RTS. Units are smaller and tactics are more imporatant, as stated cover is almost necessary in some cases. With the Beta only being multiplayer, I am curious how the campaign will work on the game, I hope that there is one for each of the factions. Go Tyranids!! Consume that Planet!!

yeah its a shame that the tyrnaids are so weak at the moment in the Beta
One eldar shuricannon and you stopped a nid wave

Yeah, I did notice that. But there are ways around that I have found, it is alittle unbalanced with all the other armies being pretty much shootie while the Tyranids are all stabbie.

i'll be checking out the beta in like half an hour now!
might be fun

Blood Bowl fans REJOICE, people have been waiting to see live action shots, but there are not that many, the game is going to be almost completely turn based.  Released in June,  with the possiblities with online leagues this game could be the last game I ever buy.  I'm am already naming my Ork Blitzers, and goblin fungus eating lunatics swinging around randomly thrown ball and chains attached to thier feet.

new DOW is guuuuud

niddies are FUN to play

Yeah, I am really looking forward to that Blood Bowl came, preticularly how it game to be, proves that GW aren't always bad.

Tyranids rule all!!

To bad tough that only Blood bowl nuts will buy a Blood bowl Pc game ;)

but do we want the game for fun or so GW can make a profit?

it's all about the fun, not about how many people buy this stuf (well, not for us at least)

In reply to Valthek (msg #15):

Read the interview with the game designer, they were all avid BloodBowl fans before they even got to pitch the idea.  Their letting, dirty tricks in, bribe players, mercs, all sorts of stuff, it can't be that hard to not screw up, they used the same graphics generator as fallout 3, so i don't know why people are already slamming the damn graphics, at least GW did SOMETHING.

I just watched the trailer and i must say it looks like loads of fun!

In 2000 I remember on a three day drive from Santa Fe New Mexico to San Francisco in a U-haul truck pullying my sister's car, my brother and I spent the entire drive smoking funny cigarettes and customizing entire Madden Teams to represent a Blood Bowl like experience, I still have the 120 hand written pages filled with stats compiled to make up an Ork, Dwarf, Elvish, and Human and Halfling teams, just as Madden made it possible to completely alter the look and the 20 plus stats for each player.  It was October and we started entering in the data at the beginning of the World Series and were not done until game three.  We set the strength and injury prone settings at maximum differentials as to cause more pain.  Five minutes into game play we realized the whole project was an outright disaster and the biggest waste of time of my life, although if in San Francisco go to Big Foot Bar on Polk street, serves the best irish car bombs and the bartender if she is in will match you bomb for bomb, and drink almost anyone I know under the table.  This was our office, so for Teddy a new post request for haunts that inspire the Old world or a pub in Gun Metal City.  A travel and leisure section :).

I *LOVE* Warhammer Online.

I am a strategic thinker, so I love the idea of a game where you can do PVP against other people of similar power. I hate the gankfests of other PVP games where twinks with uber-gear rule.

Instead, I love watching as battle lines form in new emskrank. Quick raids from the enemies while wizards and preists cast from affar.

Warhammer Online feels very organic, I wish they had used the WHFRP career system instead of classes, but I understand why they went with what they did.

Lots of chatter about Space Hulk so it got me thinking to wayyyyyyy back.



Anyone remember this game?  I loved it!  I thought at the time that video game graphics had finally reached the point of being totally awesome.  I beat this game but due to the DUMBEST save system I had loads of trouble at the mid-way point.  You beat a level it auto saves.  There was no other way to save and by mistake I beat a level with one termie left.  It took me forever to beat the next level and get reinforcements with just one termie and I did not want to have to re-do all my progress and restart.  I could not fathom why the game was soooo cruel.

Fun stuff and I got my $$ out of it time and time again, especially when I was stuck and determined not to fail the Emperor.

I would love to see a new version with a decent save system and one where the termies you are not controlling at the time actually do something.  I hated switching back and forth to make sure jams were cleared and my boys were working the way they should.

Thats the 3d shooter or the tabletop variant?

Real Time Strategy.

You could pause the action and had some much tome to use for that.  Whatever Termie you were controlling worked a lot better than the computer ran marines and you could switch back and forth between them.

God I loved that game. I remember starting the game over and over just to get a cool set of names for the termies under my control.

I never got around to beating it, that library with the Chaso Marines whipped the piss out of me... I was prepubescent at the time, I think, so my grasp of tactics really was subpar. My favorite thing was to set up termies in overwatch positions, and then just slowly work through the map. You could have one termie follow you, and he would usually turn around in time to catch a genestealer who was coming at your back.

There was a lot of fun in the way you had to clear room to room.


Could you imagine having the same game tuned up for the 21st century? Character custimization, experience gains, sick graphics, mood-setting lighting, the sound of a genestealer's claws scabbling against air ducts overhead! Multiplayer modes!

I salivate!!!

If they made a new one I'd buy it for sure!

If you could choose what chapter you were from, that would be sick as all get out too! Where do we go to tell the gamergeeks to make this now?

Yup that would rock!

Oi!  <pokes game designer with a pointy stick> getcher butts in gear and make us a new game to spend $$ on!

I'm sure I'd need to get a new computer but that and Warhammer online would be enough to sell me on the idea.

I'm rather curious to see what they do with the 40k MMO they announced last year. I was hoping for a 40k version of Planetside (FPS), but it sounds like they're going for an RPG, so my guess is it'll be WAR with different graphics.

Nah the 40k MMORPG is in development by Relic (of Dawno of war fame) so i expect an entirly diffrent system. Sadly i guess Space marines will be playable...

Given the popularity of Marines, they'd have to be.

Yuck, a 40K MMORPG? that can't be good. and with MARINES? *shudders*

Yeah, i agree that a 40k MMO would fit more in the style of Planetfall. One planet, X contenders. Just imagine being three players commanding a Leman russ
Tanks rocked in Planetfall :D

I don't know, a 40k definately has the potential to be pretty groundbreaking. If they have you work up from a grunt level doing you're classic run and fetch quests to a commander where you get pitted up against other factions, it might be pretty interesting.

Get to a certain level, and you can create your own Space marines chapter, picking out what implants are generated and what geneseed you descend from, that would be pretty dope.

On the other hand, I'd probably get fed up seeing "Maximus Awesomus" running around in Ultramatine armour. Maybe a way to limit what type of name you can play as.

And then, throw in some Space Orks and you're freakin' mmmooonnnneeyy!!!

I'm really interested to see how Halo Wars is going to handle multiplayer combat, if that is any good, then we'll know that 40k has hope, since I can't see it being much different.

Had it been me, I'd have gone for a persistant world FPS like Planetside.

Imperial, Chaos, Eldar and Orks as the factions. Set it during the Black Crusade, so you have a logical reason for everyone fighting.

Different regions .. jungle, artic, desert, hive cities, underground caves and tunnels and orbital stations.

Probably do something like Planetsides skill points, where when you level up you get access to another skill point, and can buy the ability to use different weapons, equipment and vehicles.

No quests or missions. Just take the territory and kill the enemy.

I wouldn't mind that, if you found a way to include the wargaming aspect of 40k that drew me to spend ungodly amounts of money on figures and paint in the first place.

You persuade all your friends to join up, and have then join your chapter, legion, waaaagh, craftworld etc :)

If there are Orks as PC's I'm so there!

I watched the trailer for game player on WH40K II on Steam. The game is available now.

I don't have the reflexes to be a good RTS player. I wish so badly it was a turn based approximation of the table top experience. I don't understand why they cannot do both.

Very impressive, but I know to stay away because I'll end up forgetting that lone unit off to the side and they'll get pinned down and killed because I will be busy on the other side trying to micromanage my guys and then I'll do what I Do with all RTS's I get (uninstall).

Dont diss DoW2 before you try it. Its actually less micromangament then ordinary RTS since there aint no base to defend.
And its even better that the Tyrnaid enemy must be the teleporting hive fleet that ate the squats, i mean the warp is clear and then BAM! Tyranids everywhere

Anyone who plays Warhammer  Online, want to get together regularly and game?

I play Order on Ostermark and Destruction on Pheonix Throne, but I'd be willing to check out your server. It's always better to queue up with a partner and work back to back. Maybe an Archmage/Swordmaster combo or something.

I play Destruction on Phoenix Throne, and that is about it.

I'm getting a new laptop soon and I was wondering if anybody knows if the knew Dawn of war is worth getting? I know some people commented on the beta but what's the actual game like? I'm a big fan of Company of Heroes so is it actually worth getting seeing as a new CoH is coming out soon?

aparently, DOW II sucks ass in single-player, but the skirmish and multiplayer seem to be worth it. I liked the beta multiplayer.

I have been playing a lot of my Dwarven Slayer on Ostermark. I love this class. I didn't think I would, but it is a lot of fun.

I *REALLY* want to get that "Recruit two people" reward. If I can recruit two players to the game, I earn a Pet in the game.

Does anyone want a trial period? If so rmail me, and we'll work it out.

BLOODBOWL IS COMING BLOODBOWL IS COMING!!! RELEASE DATE TBA, JUNE SHIPMENT DATE, but the company is French so, it probably will never  come out.  My ork team is ready, can't wait to see an Ork smash to death a stunty or least give him a niggling injury or a FUMBLE!!!

"The Fighting Dakka's" are ready to take the field, still working on names, anyone with a good Ork name I would love to see em', there is already a team leader, stole your FF name GM and Moderator, team mob-boss is team Captain Flakk!

LOL!  Steal away!

Just a thought but Bloodbowl for the Wii would be awesome!  Pretty please.....

Hehe only if they add Bonuspoints for ACTUALLY punching out your oponent. Got to simulate dirty moves dont we?

I have no problem with that=:)  Anyone who has seen me playing my wii knows to stay clear.

No kinda strange, you can already sign up for beta, or even play the fummble sight.  But just for PC, psp, x-box, and no ps3, very odd, but Cyanide did do all the graphics for fallout 3 and it had stream less visuals in my controller's opinion.

PSP?  Score!  Speaking of PSPs, I love mine and picked up the Warhammer Fantasy card game for it and man I have to say....it sucked!  The explanations on how to play were very poor and I spent most of the time confused...very confused....



I hope Bloodbowl is much better.

I GOT DoW2.

Funny, I really really liked the single player. I mean, its based around you, a force commander (whose name you choose) and five squads. The squads are:

Tarkus, leading 3 Tactical marines.
Thaddeus, leading 2 Assault Marines.
Avitus, leading 2 Devastator marines.
Cyrus, leading 2 scouts.

You also get a Vehicle

Davian Thule, Dreadnought.

Each squad has its own specialized role. Tactical is versitile close ranged firefights, Devastator is long range support fire, Assault is close combat, Dreadnought is even more close combat and Scouts are specialized anti-something units.

Don't write the scouts off though! Cyrus with High powered shot and a sniper rifle RIPS through Tyranids like no tomorrow. He kills a synapse creature and the gaunts go bezerk.

Even better, ALLIED IMPERIAL GUARD are in this game! And they actually support you in the game, for like, two missions! At the end!

Cool!  I so need to get DOW2.  I loved the first one.

I really enjoy DOW2, but I have to turn off my GW Vet functions, some of the things there are just a bit daft. The fact that there was a SM captain running around with a heavy bolter for a start, the game designers obviously heard about Codex, got a copy and used it to stopp their table from wobbling around.

But at least the marines are as good as they are meant to be in the fiction, 5 of them they can take down an entire ork mob, unlike the wargame where 5 marines can be bowled over by about 20 guardsmen with some long range cigarette lighters.

"Final Liberation"

Anyone remember this game?  It was a blast and chock full of mega-cheesy cut scenes like this one-



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hDfSwEsmKM&NR=1
This message was last edited by the GM at 13:34, Sat 30 May 2009.

Final liberation.
HELL YEAH!

Loved it and its cutscenes :D

Commissar Holt, reporting! :D

As for DoW2... I'm loving it. I can allow the few changes, like Commanders with Heavy Bolters, etc, because, well, it allows for a lot more flexibility in your forces.

The single player rocks, especially since you can play it co-op with another player (each of you controlling half the units) and the multiplayer is fun too.

All in all, I'd highly recommend it.

Only problem i found with DoW2 is some of the later boss fights.
They mainly turn into hit and run actions where you blow a few shots then run away because the boss easily auto kills your marines with one swing

Yeah, and the fact they have a crap ton of hp so you have to repeatedly coming back. Took me like 50 minutes to do the Warboss mission, 20 getting to him, the rest hit and running.

flakk seriously how bad is the psp game, I have been waiting for that to come out and now it sucks, what is up with psp all the games I have waited to get have been terrible does any one know of a psp game that does not suck Warhammer or not, I don't understand how PS3 can come out with such good titles and even the psp versions are not even close to as good and it seems they change the whole programming this is not a good sign, because Blood Bowl for some reason is not coming out on PS3 but it is coming out on the psp, chaos stirs in the french developers of Blood Bowl and they have been very slow working out the release and I heard there are some problems already.  Best bet is PC most likely or just go back to Fumbble online for free, anyone new to Blood Bowl Fumbble is giving "coaching" techniques for the game, each race, special players and so forth, they are a good bunch.

sorry here http://fumbbl.com/
This message was last edited by the player at 20:22, Sun 31 May 2009.

A great PSP game!  A little short but well worth it.

There are a ton of good PSP games-
Burnout: Legends, Metal Gear Acid, Ridge Racer, Final Fantasy I, Lumines I and II, etc.....

The new PSP Go is coming out this fall and looks amazing.

In seconds the Prime Edict Flakk of hand held electronic duty to the Emperor is served.

 Thanks again, can you just get your own website or cable channel for all that is GW, actually that would be sweeeeeeeet, they have a ton of gaming shows GW channel, painting tips in RL so you can see the actually work, interviews with the crew, some animation shows,

If people can stand to watch poker, let us geeks and freaks watch the big tournaments roll by roll with sick camera's set up to look like a real battle with some animation of gunfire, lasers, bombs, psych attacks during turns and movement..... sorry but a GW half hour or hour show would be awesome and has me drooling. I will stay off the boards for a few hours and remember to breath.

You want to breath?

Then have I got a video that will cause you to suffocate even further!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgPsiYiAAII

Yup it looks very cool!  I saw a video of some game play a few months back and it looks very fun, although from all reports it is less of a shooter and more of a hand to hand fight (missile weapons "stun" opponents allowing you to close and kill them so hopefully that is not correct and you can also kill with shots).

Xbox 360 and PS3 but no Wii?  Makes me cry a little inside.

From Snidesworth on the FF forums re. the old trailer out a few months back

"It's not technically the same game. The old, leaked video we all saw was made by a different development team. It got scrapped and what you see above is an entirely new endeavour. I presume it was "ballet of destruction" and SMG style bolters that got it canned.

Anyway, yes, much excitement to be had."

There might be hope for it yet then....although no Wii still makes me cry inside.  I'm not buying a whole new system for one game.  No way.

I'm hoping there is multiplayer or co-op involved somewhere, well that and the option not to play as a smurf.

What you don't like the Ultramarines?

Well if it is to be smurfs lets just hope we get a level where you play as Marneus calgar.
End boss?
To Pimpslap another Avatar of khaine ofcourse

An option to play as an Ork might just convince me to buy a new system to play.  Well I can dream can't I?=:)  Orkie dreams full of oomie stompin' and giving the Pansies a taste o' good old fashioned boot leather!

Think GW.s singleplayer games more and more turn towards the fact that Spacemarines are the bomb. I mean i really missed the presence of multiple sides in DOW2 outside of multiplay

That is actually the reason I haven't bought the game yet. Only space marines to play? Bah I'll pass XD.

Give me my Tau or my Guard and perhaps I'll consider it!

It is all on Cyanide now... If Bloodbowl fails no one is going to be taking any pitches over GW games for awhile

It wont fail though, the round based mode is going to be awesome!

Cyanide did fallout 3 graphic engine, the game is pure fun, the designers played table-top before they even pitched the idea, and the hopeful drop date around before the American football fans work themselves into a frenzy should help, but they are against the two second attention span gaming core.  50/50 but I will be losing a lot of sleep.  What platform you going for Araxosh?

If the action mode part of the game is as entertaing as Chaos League was I'll be happy, the rts point and click play style worked quite well and the commentary was fantastic, here is hoping that the commentary will be done by Bob and Jim and Lord Borak is hanging around handing out his own famous brand of advice.

I am PC gamer my friend!

Thanks Araxosch good luck on the pitch, oh great tips for all races coming from the grand folks at http://fumbbl.com/
Instead of being pissed for being shunned for so many years they are more excited than most, great tips, do not unwrap the game until you have read, "The art of blocking".

Seems an eternity till the release though.

Lets get ready to rrrrrrrrumble.....
The new blood bowl game for PC have now been released :D

http://bloodbowl-game.com/index.php?rub=home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...ure=rec-HM-fresh+div

Wow!  Looks like it will be very fun.  I so hope there is a Wii version...I can dream can't I?=:)

Has anyone picked up a copy of Blood Bowl for the PC. If there is enough people we could start up a league.

I would be in as well!

LOL! That Blood Bowl game looks hilarious!

I don't play PC games really, but I might pick up a copy for my hubby if it doesn't come out on PS3... SERIOUSLY doubt it'll come out for the Wii, being that the Wii does very few games that aren't "family friendly" really. So crossing my fingers for a PS3 version. ;-)

Lady -Bast... who are you?! Nim?

Yes I am! ;-)
Sent you a PM so we don't go off subject here...

I have had the Blood Bowl game for alittle while, a league would be interesting.

indeed

<Bump>  I just bumped this thread so that the 40k MMORPG discussion can take place here=:)

Hope it dosent turn out to be a pure Astartes funk fest...

ArenTrel,

BB is a good game, I was worried they would make a ...' watered down' version or something  But its all there and room for customising the rules.

Weird tho, because it looks so great to watch, I think I take more risks...

And weirder still, that doesn't seem to make me lose more games...  if anything I get more TDs.

Must admit I'm more familiar with LRB 4, but I am getting used to and enjoying the newer additions, like Fend and Wrestle as a counter to Block...  been needed for ages TBH.

I'd be nice if you could be Sisters or Guardsmen in the MMO.

I won't play it because I can't afford the cost of an MMO, but, I can always thumbs up Sisters and Guardsmen.

Emperor forgive me, this will be a long rant:

I haven't played any of the psp games.

But (before you say it, yes I'm old!) I've played (in order) HeroQuest, Space Hulk (Space Crusade for some reason did not work on my Amiga), Chaos Gate, Dark Omen, DoW, Warhammer Battlemarch (which my pc can't run), and Warhammer Age of Reckoning (which my pc also can't run).  I didn't play Final Liberation but god I wanted to! And DoWII will cause my current PC to keel over and die.
Chaos Gate has some of the best 40k music ever!

HeroQuest was just so much easy fun to while away an hour or two.
Space hulk: Oh my god what a tough game.  It took me weeks just to get off the first unmapped tutorial.  And boy was it fun.
Chaos Gate is kinda meh.  It was made about the same time as XCom I think and it shows.  Apart from specific troops you will kill far more enemies using overwatch fire than in your own turn.  But the music... the music stays with you forever.
Dark Omen (and 2): Also tough, also fun. One of the only translations of Warhammer Fantasy to computer until battlemarch, which for some reason everyone hated.
Dawn of War: Oh my god I love this game for it's quick in and out style.  I'm no competetive gamer but I will chuck this game into my drive change sides and work out the strategy to wipe my CPU opponent off the map.  Except the guard.  I've never yet beaten CPU guard. Too many bodies to shoot through.  The only blight in this series is the meh that is Soulstorm.  I love seeing the sisters of battle, but the series should have stopped at Dark Crusade until the sequel.
Battlemarch: The Warhammer snipe at the Total War brand and doesn't quite pull it off.
Warhammer Age of Reckoning: So many of my hopes here. And so many got knocked off their pedestals like the targets at a Coconut Shy.  I followed this on the forums since pre-alpha, got disillusioned with the whole thing, and then came back during a 14 day trial.  It was just unfortunate that nearly everything characterful is now locked in game and can't be accessed.  Like the orc and dwarf starting zones (the orc one particularly).  The Order side get stuck with a been-here-before human city and the chaos starter, while vaguely more interesting gets boring when you have to play it through with every conceivably possible Destruction class.
RE Bloodbowl:  When I saw who was making it I headdesked.  I played Chaos League, in its defence not particularly well, and was not impressed.  From what the reviews stated about Bloodbowl, I guessed my initial instinct that they just repackaged the graphics was not too far off the mark.

40k MMO:  I don't see how they are going to make this fly without being very specific.  In a way, this will not be a bad thing. Part of the reason WAR was not as successful as anticipated was that the design was too ambitious from the get go, and looking to include too many features (but we are all wise with hindsight).

In a starting MMO, you have to consider basic classes and party synergy and a marine tactical squad, or an imperial guard squad really does have this down on the table top.  Heavy weapons check, assault weapons check, general utility check.  The same with a basic ork squad.

Other races basic groupings are usually too specialised to fit nicely into archetypal roles and usually so forgettable people do just that.  Take the Eldar.  People don't want to play Eldar Guardians.  They want to play Howling Banshees, or Dark Reapers, but although the MMO doesn't have to follow the rules of tabletop Banshees and Reapers fight in squads with other Banshees and Reapers which are extremely specialised.  The only unit the Eldar have with the overall synergy expected in an MMO is the humble Guardian squad.

I really do apologise for my long, long and probably completely off base rant.
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Well I think they might be a decient way to pull that off in an MMO, with in world justification with the Eldar. Basiclly everybody starts out as a Guardian at first level, and as they level up they can specialize and get training in one of the aspects. Of course it'll take a while but it might allow some specialization or generalization, such as you can specialize in a strict Howling Banshee path by stock Guardian, picking up some Storm specialty, and maybe building your way to Exarch. Though it would also make it easy to change your spec, if they are going to allow something like they do in Warcraft, by just 'changing masks' going back and building up the Defender path or what not. Of course the other races will likely need more justification, especially the Imperials which are pretty much the definition of sticks in the mud.

Though one thing I want to see more than anything else, if they do go the Order and Chaos distinction, is something like a Logician, your typical mad scientist to counter the typical Techpriest. Though at the moment, that looks like a long if not impossible shot, so just have to wait and see.

It's too bad that it'll probably end up being Ultramaroons vs Xenos vs Heretics.

No love for normal people.

http://e3.g4tv.com/videos/4663...nium-Online-Trailer/


http://e3.g4tv.com/videos/4663...e-Marine-E3-Trailer/

Warhammer Mod for civ III...

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=197452
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That beginning of that Dark Millenium trailer really reminds me of the intro to Medieval 2: Total War. It's like the same scribe just all 40ked out.

Speaking of total war, there is a great warhammer mod out called Call of Warhammer. It's what I've always hoped for in a warhammer game.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=1377

On a more roleplaying note, anyone else ever played Darklands? It's set in 15th century Germany instead of the Empire but it's the computer RPG that feels the most like WFRP. I'm currently replaying it with characters based on the PCs from my games on here. It's abandonware so it's out there as a free download.

Anyone play Warhammer Age of Reckoning, the Warhammer MMO? I really enjoyed it but had to give it up shortly after launch when my daughter was born. They're doing a 14 day free period for people signing back up so I think I'm going to take advantage of that.

I only played it for a few months when it launched, but it was quite fun. If it's free, you should try it out.

I've played the free version of WAR, and I still have it on my computer.  It's definitely a lot of fun.  I love seeing the Old World like that - not only is it a pretty good MMO, but seeing all of the atmosphere and setting makes me want to play the tabletop WFRP game.

Going back to your older message, Overkill, I used to play Darklands, though I never got very far in it.  However, I printed out the game manual years ago because it was chock-full of information detailing the Holy Roman Empire of the 15th century, which made it a gold mine for use with WFRP.  I still have that document somewhere...

Yeah, I am a great fan of Darklands - fully agree that it's the closest to WFRP you get in a computer game.

Absolutely brilliant, they should remake it, staying true to the original.

I went ahead and did it. I'm back playing WAR. Come join me on the Badlands server (destruction side) or on the Volkmar server (order side).

As for Darklands, I'm right there with you. Even a relatively quick and dirty remake would be awesome.

Regarding Darklands, I actually read some article about it, purporting someone was considering that oh so wonderful proposition of remaking it, but it fell through due to pecuniary issues. Bummer.

Yeah, they had some impressive plans even when the first version came out.  There was talk in the end of the game manual of making another game set in the same time period, but covering other parts of the world...

Is this complete? I heard rumors awhile back. And is it for Medieval II?

I hope it is, Ive been away from TW series for a while.  I think it was all downhill after Rome but a warhammer mod may tempt me back for a bit of a replay.

which version of TW do you need in order to run it. I wish they had the directions and shit.

Version 1.3 of the mod is complete and playable. To run it you need Medieval 2 with the Kingdoms expansion.

There is supposedly a 1.4 coming out but it keeps getting pushed back.

No way, Medieval 2 is phenomenal! Although I admit to a huge amount of nostalgia for Rome... the world was more interesting by far.

Yeah the enemies in M2TW weren't varied enough.  If you played as scotland for example it would be quite some time before you fought anyone that didn't have a similar army composition to you.  While in Rome every nation was different, although some were different like the barbarians they had very individual bonuses.  You also had a feeling as the Romans that you were outnumbered all the time but you had superior training and tactics that if employed successfully would win the day.

I'd love a WHFB mod for Rome:TW.... :-(

They've got one of those too. I just haven't played it.

Oh really? Last time I checked someone started it and then GW smacked it over the head with a ban-hammer.

If nayone knows of it's existence you'd make me a very happy camper (and probably annoy the wife too as a bonus!)

In reply to overkill (msg #96):

I actually still have it on CD somewhere in my stack of CDs.

A bit more of Dark Millenium Online

http://www.gametrailers.com/vi...rk-millennium/705949

Looks cool!  Must...resist....

On a random note, several years after buying it I am on the last campaign mission of the original Dawn of War (Normal). I'm not good enough to win on hard modes. As a player, and I'm sure this will change (and I know it doesn't work in multiplay) I have found no base that cannot be solved by whirlwinds.  But the later missions take forever.

Got the Blood Bowl Legendary for PC for Christmas...does anyone know if there is a Warhammer battle tabletop-esqe PC game?

Warhammer: Mark of Chaos and the expansion Battlemarch

Any good?

I found mark of chaos to be a letdown. The opening movie is great though.

In reply to Croatoan (msg #117):

Shadow of the Horned Rat, baby!

The Call of Warhammer mod for Medieval Total War 2 is the best Warhammer Fantasy Battle video game out there. I haven't played Shadow of the Horned Rat though.

I have.  It can be unforgiving.

Dark Omen was fun too

Brutally unforgiving.  Curse those squig hoppers!

Dark Omen was better, I thought, though it has been a long, long while since I played those games.  All I really remember about either of them is watching my regiments get pancaked by those twice-cursed squigs in SOTHR.

Dark Omen was better on the basis it had a difficulty curve. SOTR was more like a difficulty cliff, with the player at the bottom, and the rest of the game at the top.

I expect I will get Legendary Blood Bowl eventually.  Though I must be prepared to be bottom leaguer for the rest of my mortal days. ^^

Earlier today I saw a screenshot of Inquisitor Adrastia, an Imperial Guard hero character appearing in the new Dawn of War 2 expansion (Retribution).

http://community.dawnofwar2.co..._heroes_adrastia.jpg

I frothed a bit about this earlier on RPGnet, but I'll froth again here.  I think she looks -fabulous-.  And I'm stunningly impressed that Relic have managed to make a female character who looks feminine but badass, sexy yet without showing loads of flesh and cleavage.  She's not even wearing improbably high heels!  I wish that more female computer game characters are like this!

I have mixed feelings.  I've seen too much puritan witch hunter inspired art to say much else.  It does it's job, but just take the shiny off the sword and the I off the hat and you can see any number of her running through WAR any day of the week.

Dawn of War 2 blew up my graphics card ;_;

That is an excellent look. I love the puritan look.

I'm surprised that Space Marine hasn't been brought up yet, looks to be pretty good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFHKIFDjk9I

Out this week, in the UK at least.

Aw man I still gotta pre-order it i want to get the Emperor's Elite pack.

I'm dubious about my pre-order now, Game seemed to have made lots of changes to their website and my pre-order disappeared and came back but still haven't had any confirmation of it shipping ... although still early days yet, fingers crossed it comes for Friday though.