#Battlesector

[zydrateacademy]

Review - Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector

What an amazing experience this game is.

I've had it wishlisted probably since it showed up but there it fell under my radar since its release. It may or may not have caught some sales in that time but again it went unnoticed and what an absolute crime that is. Released in 2021, it recently just came out with the T'au army which put the rest of the game and its various army packs on sale to an agreeable level, and putting it back on my radar.

Many Warhammer games usually nail the aesthetic, themes, diction, and storylines but very few capture the actual feel of playing on tabletop. There was Dawn of War which depicted swaths of armies cutting across the landscape but it was all in real time, the only methodology there was making sure your travelling teams had all the right counters to vehicles and infantry and after that you basically just let it go.

What we have here is a unique XCOM-like that may very well be the closest many of us will get to playing the actual tabletop game. We have a campaign (just one; following a Blood Raven chapter of the space marines) and two extra modes. Demonic Invasion is a wave based king of the hill type thing where you hold off for as long as you can as every round will continually spit the chaos god's minions at you. There's Planetary Supremacy, which is a sort of Catan/Risk style hex board that players of Dark Crusade or Soulstorm may be familiar with. It's the mode most of my hours have been played on. My only wish is that it could go for just a bit longer, maybe a bigger map, more enemies fighting each other, better node control.

In extension, there's also custom campaigns players can build as well as skirmishes for you to play against AI or other players. As of this writing there is no Co-op and that's quite a shame.

So there's a lot to do here. Some of the more mixed reviews, especially targetting the new armies, are complaining that there's not a super special story campaign for each and every single one of them. That is frankly not so much a problem for me, as I immediately gravitated towards the hex board game mode and just enjoyed having my hands on the Necron for the first time in many years. Now in HD with reflections! My dead bois are beautiful!

There's plenty to learn as well. Even on the easiest difficulties, the AI can route you. My Necron have units called Warriors, basically the equivalent to shotgunners. They also have the slowest movement of my army so it's difficult to get them into position and keep my general army momentum going. Sometimes they fall behind and I lack the much needed damage against enemy swarm units, and I've lost some good troops because I didn't have enough people shooting back. It's how I nearly lost against the Tyranids one game despite outnumbering them by 500 army points. Tactics very much matter here.

There's also a photo mode which is a bit fickle. The camera is locked at certain height over the floor tile so it's difficult to get sweeping, heroic visions of your armies from foot-level. You're more or less stuck staring at them from head-on. It's fun to play around with, though.

So while there is a campaign (just the one), this game could be treated more like a sandbox than anything else. I'm told from the game's discord they plan on releasing free units over the coming months. This is good, because that's one of my chief complaints about the game. There's a significant lack of versatile units to play with. Each faction gets around a dozen to fifteen to allocate with your army point cap (another staple of Tabletop that most games don't quite capture), with Khorne getting the shortest end of the stick (and the cheapest DLC) whom only have eight units to choose from. There's a significant lack of Kroot and vehicles here, and foot troops seem to be a choice between three different things. There's a lot more than that on tabletop.

Not that I expect this to be the tabletop simulator but it cuts real damn close. Closer than most games in this franchise. A must have if you like turn-based XCOM-likes.

[orphic-eluvian]

I just got Battlesector on ps4 and I’m struggling so hard I can’t wait to get good at this game 😩

[stefanonsense]

Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector - Tau DLC - Giant Robots & Tactical Teamwork! This DLC adds 14 new Tau units with a sleek, anime-inspired mech design. Focus on ranged tactics and teamwork to dominate the battlefield.

[foremanissleepy]

The theme of today is the colour 'red', lots of red, in various places.

[tlgtw]

If Warhammer 40k: Battlesector and all it's DLC didn't cost 170 fucking dollars I would straight up buy it. From what (little) I currently understand it's almost literally just a videogame version of the boardgame, which is what I've always always wished for. I'm having so much fun right now. Too bad it costs 170 fucking dollars, hahahaha.

[ishouldbuyasword]

I love crunchy turn based games, but they're so taxing on me. i can only play for a little while before i have to like take a walk to clear my head. I really like the new x-com games and I've been playing warhammer 40k battlesector and really enjoying it but i wish i could play more than one or occasionally two missions before i feel my brain turning off.

I've tried a couple times to get into xcom ufo defense but trying to puzzle out that game's ui and mechanics at the same time has been too much for my dumb stoner potato head

[savingcontent]

Astra Militarum, the eighth DLC released for Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector today

Continue reading Astra Militarum, the eighth DLC released for Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector today

[nekasu]

Nekasu's Christmas Humble Bundle Giveaway!

I have Humble Bundle's subscription service, and it often results in games I don't really want to play. I have a lot saved up, so if any games interest you, leave a reply with which games you want. There's no explicit limit, but please only list a game if you want to actually play it. I'll decide the winners randomly within a week to give people a chance to join. They're all free, so don't think you have to give me money for them! The only caveat is that you be willing to give me your Steam ID so I can give out the games. Oh, and preference will be given to mutuals.

The games:

December

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

Old World

Atlas Fallen: Reign of Sand

Crime Boss: Rockay City

The Invincible

Moonstone Island

Inkulinati

Venba

Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip

November

Warhammer 40k Darktide

Persona 4 Golden

Lamplighters League

Cassette Beats

The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales

Karmazoo

Hexarchy

Garden Life

October

Remnant

Persona 5 Strikers

Jusant

Dome Keeper

Jack Move

Station to Station

Remnant Records

McPixel 3

September

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

Stranded: Alien Dawn

Coral Island

Spongebob Squarepants: The Cosmic Shake

Lost Eidolons

Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles

Infraspace

You Suck at Parking - Complete Edition

August

Sifu

High on Life

Gotham Knights

Blacktail

Astral Ascent

Diluvian Ultra

Universe for Sale

This Means Warp

July

A Plague Tale: Requiem

Ghostrunner 2

Starship Troopers: Terran Command

Sticky Business

Zoeti

Figment 2: Creed Valley

Heretic's Fork

Hyperviolent

June

Knights of Honor II: Sovereign

Lego 2K Drive Awesome Edition

Warhammer 40k: Battlesector

Miasma Chronicles

Stray Gods

A Guidebook of Babel

Empyrion - Galactic Survival

May

Yakuza: Like a Dragon

Steelrising

Hi-Fi Rush

Loddlenaut

King of the Castle

Bravery and Greed

Amanda the Adventurer

Mediterranea Inferno

April

Victoria 3

The Callisto Protocol

Humankind Definitive Edition

Fashion Police Squad

Terraformers

Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga

Coromon

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

March

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin

Nioh 2 - The Complete Edition

Saints Row

Citizen Sleeper

Black Skylands

Soulstice

Afterimage

Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter

February

Life is Strange: True Colors

Scorn

Destroy All Humans 2! Reprobed

Beacon Pines

There is No Light: Enhancecd Edition

Children of Silentown

Oaken

Snowtopia: Ski Resort Builder

January

Marvel's Midnight Suns

Two Point Campus

Aragami 2

Otxo

Roguebook

The Red Lantern

Hell Pie

Twin Mirror

[swampfrogcentral]

some free steam codes

I've got a ton of unused steam game codes from my humble subscription. These are games that I either already owned or just aren't for me, so I decided to give them away.

DM me with the game(s) you want and I'll send you the steam code.

♥ i added a heart to all my faves

·       Aliens Dark Descent

·       Amanda the Adventurer

·       Amnesia: The Bunker

·       Aragami 2

·       Astral Ascent

·       Atlas Fallen: Reign of Sand

·       Beneath Oresa

·       Black Skylands

·       BLACKTAIL

·       Bravery and Greed

·       Cassette Beasts ♥

·       Coral Island ♥

·       Coromon

·       Corpse Keeper

·       Crime Boss: Rockay City - First Month Edition

·       Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes

·       Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter

·       Diluvian Ultra

·       Diplomacy is Not an Option

·       Distant Worlds 2

·       Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes

·       ELEX II

·       Empyrion - Galactic Survival

·       Evil West

·       Expeditions: Rome

·       Fashion Police Squad

·       Fort Solis

·       From Space

·       Garden Life

·       Ghostrunner 2

·       Gotham Knights

·       Gravity Circuit ♥

·       Hardspace: Shipbreaker

·       Hell Pie

·       Hexarchy

·       High On Life

·       Homeworld 3

·       HUMANKIND Definitive Edition

·       HYPERVIOLENT

·       InfraSpace

·       Inkulinati

·       Jack Move

·       Jagged Alliance 3

·       Jusant ♥

·       King Of The Castle ♥

·       Knights of Honor II: Sovereign

·       Lamplighters League

·       LEGO® 2K Drive Awesome Edition

·       Loddlenaut ♥

·       Lords and Villeins

·       Lost Eidolons

·       Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

·       Marvel's Midnight Suns Digital+ Edition and Midnight Suns - Doctor Strange Defenders Skin

·       McPixel 3

·       Metal Hellsinger ♥

·       Miasma Chronicles

·       Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip ♥

·       Moonstone Island ♥

·       Mr. Prepper

·       My Little Universe

·       Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master

·       Nioh 2 - The Complete Edition

·       Nomad Survival

·       Old World

·       Pacific Drive

·       Patch Quest ♥

·       Persona 4 Golden ♥

·       Persona 5 Strikers ♥

·       Prodeus

·       Racine

·       Rebel Inc: Escalation

·       REMNANT II®

·       Remnant Records

·       Risk of Rain 2 ♥

·       Roguebook

·       Saints Row

·       SCP: Secret Files

·       Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew

·       Sifu ♥

·       Sir Whoopass™: Immortal Death

·       Souldiers

·       Soulstice

·       Spirit of the Island

·       STAR WARS: Bounty Hunter

·       Starship Troopers: Terran Command

·       Station to Station

·       Steelrising

·       Stranded: Alien Dawn

·       Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical ♥

·       Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga

·       Tales & Tactics

·       Terraformers

·       The Callisto Protocol

·       The Gunk

·       The Invincible

·       The Pegasus Expedition

·       The Legend of Tianding ♥

·       The Red Lantern ♥

·       This Means Warp

·      The Thaumaturge - Deluxe Edition

·       Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered

·       Total War: PHARAOH DYNASTIES

·       WWE 2K23

·       Trepang2

·       Twin Mirror

·       Two Point Campus

·       Victoria 3

·       Warhammer 40,000 Darktide

·       Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector

·       Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin – Ultimate Edition

·       Yakuza: Like a Dragon ♥

·       Zoeti

[thegreatclowncat]

Ive been playing expedition 33 and for the first time in my life I like fighting enemies. Who knew I was a turn based person (I did bc I loved Warhammer 40k Battlesector)

[revscarecrow]

Rev I played Warhammer battlesector, do the Tyranids models in the table top game also have cute little guns in their gross awful hands?

Yes! All of their guns are flesh made versions of guns they knew about previously. I forget the lore but I think they adapt news threats into their mutations and get flesh guns etc.

[kharrneth]

Battlesector: Bloodthirster of Khorne

[pestilentia-play]

Warhammer 40000 Battlesector #7

[stefanonsense]

Warhammer 40.000: Battlesector got a recent DLC, making the Daemons of Khorne a playable faction!

[margbarcisforever]

hey guys what’s going on my wife made some chili, we ate it with doritos it was good. also installed warhammer 40k battlesector (illegally hehe) and that’s pretty cool

[skxrbrand]

*Buys Battlesector even though 40k is dumb*