This is the most basic and straightforward of the campaigns, but also the most robust. The first campaign available follows Admiral Spire on his eternal quest to make all Chaos scum regret ever lighting the candles for their first infernal incantation. It’s simple and fun, allowing you to focus more on building up your fleets and combat. You’ll also have the option to build different defenses, but most of the decision making comes from what order you choose to tackle the objectives in.
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Each planet comes pre-loaded with benefits, and your only decision is to spend the funds to upgrade it. It’s all very basic, with no actual choices to be made in what kind of buildings you’ll make. You’ll expand your territory by wresting it from the control of other factions, and build up your economic base through upgrading the development level of those planets. There is now a campaign map, with various systems and subsystems to conquer at your discretion. The campaign system has been overhauled in Armada 2, taking a few steps further towards grand strategy. This story serves as the backdrop for each of Armada’s three campaigns. Being essentially a machine designed solely for delivering hot broadside volleys into foul Xenos/Heretic face, Spire is immediately ready to receive new orders and get back to the fight. Apparently he’s just been kicking around The Eye of Terror since the conclusion of Armada, eternally hunting down Abaddon and blowing the shit out of all the Chaos baddies that get in his way. Admiral Spire arrives just after the fireworks go off, which was a surprise to me seeing as how this is 800 years after the first game. It did a decent job with the source material, but we already know that Abaddon fails in his attempt to end the Imperium.īattlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 kicks things off at an 11, with Abaddon returning to blow up the Imperial planet Cadia as a prelude to his 13th Black Crusade. The campaign was fine, but laden with pacing issues, bugs, and some inconsistent design choices. The previous game focused on Admiral Spire, an Imperial Admiral who led a Battlefleet in the Gothic sector against the Chaos bad guy Abaddon and his 12th black crusade. The second major way that Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 improves upon the first is through the campaign. Tyranids have access to a multitude of close-range weapons and dash attacks, while Chaos is almost entirely long range accurate laser weapons. There’s also a lot of variation between the races. All human factions have access to the Nova Cannon, but the Adeptus Mechanicus uses it like they’re 40s at a frat party (absolutely mandatory). While there are major differences in how similar factions play, there’s a lot of overlap in what kinds of weapons they bring to the field. You’ve got the Orks, Tyranids, Necrons, Eldar, Evil Eldar, Magic Eldar, Humans, Other humans, Other Other Humans, Chaos Humans, Tau, and Tau. While the original game launched with only 4 factions (up to 6 with the DLC), Armada 2 launches with a whopping 12. It’s more of a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 level of, “same shit, but better,” rather than a Resident Evil 7, “out with the old, in with the new approach.” The most obvious improvement is to the roster of teams. So why buy Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 when there’s a perfectly good Battlefleet Gothic: Armada still available? Well, Armada 2 adds a number of gameplay features that set it on firm standing above the original. If you’re the kind of person that prefers strategy over micromanagement, then Armada is probably your thing. It’s uniquely slow and tactical for a modern strategy game, far closer to the speed of Total War than Starcraft.
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The Armada series also manages to faithfully adapt the board game into a digital format, updating and streamlining mechanics while eliminating the cumbersome dice and unit cards that make tabletop gaming so inaccessible. Armada 2 starts with a whole planet exploding, and only ramps up from there. Games rarely get the feel of Warhammer 40k right, but the Armada games really give you the sense that billions of people senselessly dying is just a normal Tuesday.
As I don’t want to repeat myself, I’ll just quickly recap the things that make the series special.
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