WH40K Gladius: Relics of War out soon

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Boggit

I've just had this head's up from Slitherine...

Warhammer 40,000 Gladius: Relics of War

Meet the Necrons!


WH40K Gladius: Relics of War is the new strategy game from Slitherine/Proxy Studios, set for release for PC on July 12th. It is now available to preorder on Steam and GoG.com, with a special discount on the glorious Deluxe edition (at only $34).

WH40K Gladius is the first ever 4X set in the dark Warhammer 40,000 universe: you will be able to eXplore and eXpand on the newly rediscovered Gladius Prime planet, to eXploit its immense richness of ancient and forsaken artefacts, but you will need to eXterminate all living creatures that you meet. On Gladius there is no space for diplomacy, as the only good Xenos are dead Xenos!

You can choose to lead the mighty Space Marines, the immense power of the Astra Militarum or the untamed green tide of the Orks. But if you want an unusual and challenging fight, choose the Necrons.

The Necrons are a weird mystery even by the twisted standards of the dark and deadly Warhammer 40,000 universe: robotic warriors who have slept for 60 million years in their tomb-cages.

The Necrons have been on Gladius Prime since time immemorial, sleeping deep beneath the planet in their ancient tomb cities, but recent events have awoken them. In ancient times they were flesh and blood but today they are a soulless race of relentless machines driven to exterminate all life from the galaxy.

Tactically, Necrons can only build their bases on the sites of their ancient tomb-cities, which means that a Necron player has to fight for control of their
required locations for expansion.

Beyond that, their troops display few limitations. Not only are Necron armies extremely resilient, but they can rapidly repair their own units out on the battlefield. If you’re fighting against them, make sure you finish them off quickly. If you are playing as the Necrons you can turn this to your advantage and drag your enemies into a war of attrition.

Necron infantry might seem slow but they can make use of dimensional corridors to teleport across vast distances, granting their armies exceptional manoeuvrability. To maintain their metal warriors, the Necrons rely on ore supplies for upkeep, while they use energy for raising their troops from hibernation. By expending extra resources, they can rush the production of units to overcome any enemy with their greater numbers.
Given how resource-intensive Necron armies are, a wise enemy will hinder their access to raw materials (save for food, which they simply don’t use, as machines don’t eat). Cut off their ore supplies and you’ll see their warriors crumble and fall apart - if you live that long!
Necron units have the Necrodermis Repair trait: if they are mildly damaged, their living metal body will heal itself.

Let’s see some units from the Necron roster!

Monolith
The Monolith is an ancient war monument of unimaginable destructive potential. When its massive silhouette looms over a battlefield, it will lay waste to entire armies with strobing torrents of gauss fire and deafening crack of its particle whip.

Night Scythe
The Night Scythe is the Necron’s favoured tool of invasion, a sickle-winged herald of woe that possesses the ability to beam Necrons directly into battle. Manoeuvrable enough to evade orbital defences and interceptors, and swift enough to outpace mustering foes, Night Scythes can ghost through a defence perimeter to deploy invasion forces well behind enemy lines.

Tesseract Vault
Only a race as ruthless and self-serving as the Necrons would think of unleashing a Tesseract Vault to further their aims – though each Vault is a potent weapon of war, the beings held within these floating prisons pose an almost incalculable threat.

If you want to preorder or wishlist WH40K Gladius, you can do it now on Steam (and you will also fine a special sale for the Deluxe Edition)!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/489630/Warhammer_40000_Gladius__Relics_of_War/

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Boggit

Apologies ... I missed some pics for you....
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley

Foul Temptress! (Mirth replying to Gus) ;)

On a good day, our legislature has the prestige of a drunk urinating on a wall at 4am and getting most of it on his shoe. On a good day  ::) Steelgrave

It's kind of silly to investigate whether or not a Clinton is lying. That's sort of like investigating why the sky is blue. Banzai_Cat

Jarhead0331

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bbmike

Watched a video review of this. It looks like a re-skin of Pandora: First Contact.
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JasonPratt

That isn't helping me feel any better. I can't put my finger on why, but I was palpably disappointed with Pandora (having bought it on release).
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I guess the thing that annoys me most is that this is marketed as "4x" and it is clearly not. It is more like a "2x", with only the expand and exterminate aspects present in the game. I had my concerns from the get go when it was revealed that the entire game takes place on a single planet. No fleets, and no space exploration, combat, or colonization component.

I think I will definitely get this eventually, but it will have to be at a steep discount.
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Destraex

Would be interested if the armies were more to scale and had a proper TO&E. Not a fan of these one dimensional unit representations. Look at that marine howitzer. Is that thing supposed to cover an entire hex with no supporting units or guards of any kind?
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bbmike

Quote from: Jarhead0331 on July 13, 2018, 08:59:55 AM
I guess the thing that annoys me most is that this is marketed as "4x" and it is clearly not. It is more like a "2x", with only the expand and exterminate aspects present in the game. I had my concerns from the get go when it was revealed that the entire game takes place on a single planet. No fleets, and no space exploration, combat, or colonization component.

I think I will definitely get this eventually, but it will have to be at a steep discount.

The diplomacy in Pandora was a horrible mess. It looks like for this game they just pulled it out entirely.
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-Sherlock Holmes

"You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."
-Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

"There's a horror movie called Alien? That's really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you!"
-The Doctor

"Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth."
-Clifford D. Simak

PanzersEast

Not a fan of Pandora, however I think there maybe just enough here to purchase.... but maybe not at the price point that is being asked of:




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Jarhead0331

Quote from: Gusington on July 13, 2018, 10:10:08 AM
^What the hell is going on in your avatar?

Its clearly a Quarian from Mass Effect playing the drums. Duh.  :2funny:
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PanzersEast

#11
Quote from: Gusington on July 13, 2018, 10:10:08 AM
^What the hell is going on in your avatar?





Avatar is from Get Lucky...


PipFromSlitherine

While the codebase definitely shares a lot with Pandora (seeing as it comes from the same developer), calling it a reskin does it a major disservice.  The gameplay is almost entirely different.

Cheers

Pip

bbmike

Someone listed the differences with Pandora on Steam. After watching the videos and reading those listed differences I don't really see any huge changes. It still just seems like a really big mod for Pandora. I like Pandora and will probably get this at some point but the price will have to be much, much lower.
"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
-Sherlock Holmes

"You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."
-Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

"There's a horror movie called Alien? That's really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you!"
-The Doctor

"Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth."
-Clifford D. Simak

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