Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 Review
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- Опубліковано 20 тра 2024
- Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2 is a game about big dumb ships, with a big dumb title to match it. I didn't hear much about it since the first game didn't do so hot on launch.
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00:00 - Intro
00:39 - Battlefleet Gothic Armada 1
01:52 - Game Premise
02:08 - Visuals
03:38 - Music & Sound Design
06:28 - Battle Gameplay and Mechanics
11:12 - Campaigns & Story
16:27 - Conclusions
17:10 - Credits
18:18 - Stop this
#BattlefleetGothicArmada2 #BattlefleetGothic #BattlefleetGothicGame #Warhammer40K #Warhammer - Ігри
BFG2 on GOG - gog.la/LitanyOfLitanysLitany
THE LIST - docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_K3ziSxT9zcUUGCddS4sF1uNJTWHSbOwB1CQX2Rx4Uo
I was hoping to have this more spread away from Space Hulk but this month opened up some hell hours. Hoping next year will be more stable!
Halo Wars?
Thanks for the Christmas gift Lord Mandalore
There is also malal army that you can fight against a nice way to make him canon again
Bought!
whats the game after frostpunk at the end?
"Primarch?"
"Like the rest of them, but taller."
Man, Necrons are such memelords
They're skelly bois afterall
@@va5780 Spooky space Skelly yelling at the younger races that intrude upon their space lawns.
Your leaders are just taller than you?
@@seermayton-el3488 tfw manlet necron
It's such a sad line nowadays, given that the silent king's model is basically just an upscaled Necron warrior.
“Like them but taller” is how I explain most things in 40K to my friends
It's a great way to describe Primaris Marines when you think about it.
So space marines are just...orks?
@@depthcharge126 nah, Orks are like space marines, but usually taller
So... How do you explain the Emperor of Man?
You can't just say he's a man but taller, after all.
Zaa of Tommorow that cheeky bastard
"HOLY EMPEROR, I CAN HEAR THEM IN THE WALLS". Give the voice actor a raise, you can hear the absolute dread in his voice
Tryanids are easily the most horrifying faction
@@ofthecaribbean them and dark eldar
@@jacobburch7555 Suicide is easily a better fate than being in the hands of the dark eldar.
Time stamp?
Couldn't find this quote
@@idontlikethis980 15:20
“Primarch Zara?”
“Like them but taller”
“Their leadership is based on who is the tallest?”
Is the best part of the necron and every campaign
so... like orks ?
Eyyyy Hollow knight pfp.
Ah, the Invader Zim principle.
I mean... isn't The Silent King pretty tall? Or is he a midget and his height largely comes from his sweet chair?
I do love how the necrons say that and take it seriously like them but taller is apparently good enough for them
"It's named some shit like The Litany of Litany's Litany."
I got that reference.
ALWAYS ANGRY
@@Shaggygottasneeze ALL THE TIME
BATTLE BARGE: Maximum Fuck
Also we won't say that they were rocking out on the flaming hulk as it crashed to the planet... we won't say that they weren't.
Commissar Fuklaw approves.
“This guy won’t make it... but I won’t waste it” before ramming a few enemy ships and exploding is the most Imperium thing possible and I love it.
I find it even better that the captain sounded like a dalek
The crew of that ship now sit at the Emperor's right hand.
They went in glory!
@@comandershrapnel4696 EXTERMINATE
Farewell, _Thunderchild_
"You have a flying brick the size of a freeway. Its named some shit like the litany of litanies litany."
Thats, somehow, the most 40k statement i have ever heard someone say.
A reference to the Angrymarines :D
The Litany of Litany's Litany is one of the notable battle barges of the Angry Marines, the other being the Maximum Fuck.
The holly fuckuny of litfuckary
“Use it to ram”
@@thehoodedteddy1335 *Yes!*
"Arrogance is a poor shield" is a rad as hell line
Very useful to use in real life too!
Remember, no matter how fancy your weapons are, nothing beats simply smashing two colossal pieces of metal together
Ya speakz funy... 'Sure ya're an Ork ?
“Nooo you can’t just ram my 20 million year old living metal ship!!1!” Haha big red button go brr
@@pierre-mariecaulliez6285 Khorne will always have blood, Yours or theirs!
@@Fvllbright Necron Lord: Don't have blood. Im made of glowy metal bits.
"I understand, Admiral! Space is a vacuum and by no right should sound be able to travel through it! I'm TELLING YOU - I *HEARD* their dreadful *WAAAGH!* "
this game is at least a 7/10 just for the fact that the narrator managed to say "moreDakka Prime" without laughing
"space is famous as being somewhere where expensive things go to break."
the entirety of in-space sci-fi summed up into one line. 10/10
Also sums up several nation's space programs for that matter.
And real space science as well
Iron Hand: "The flesh is weak !"
Necron Overlord: "I like this one. Let's kill him last."
I'm pretty sure Necrons would kill him first instead. They see their metal body as a curse (albeit a curse with benefits) and one of their goals is to restore their biological bodies.
@@epithet052 less about biological, more about a way to keep their 'souls', if even possible.
"Cry in drop site massacre"
@@kinagrill The irony there being the Necrons should be buddies with the soul concerned Eldar.
@@epithet052 it very much depends on the dynasty/ individual. Not all necrons feel that way.
"I don't want to get too far into talking about Homeworld in this video."
I'm intrigued.
A man of culture I can see...
btw nice profile pic, almost makes me wish to kill the Taiidan emperor again
Using the soundtrack though
i hope he covers homeworld sometime , its great game.
He should totally take a look at the remaster
15:24
Describe the tyranids in 1 sentence: "HOLY EMPEROR, I CAN HEAR THEM IN THE WALLS"
"Instead of capturing worlds they vore--- devour them whole"
I don’t know why but I really like the delivery of that line
@@Povryan Probably because you can totally hear the absolute terror in his voice. Like you can feel the absolute dread. As in "We are fucking dead"
"our brothers have fallen!" - "I _bet_ they have"
*picturing Space Marines tumbling end over end with **_bowling-pin-noise.wav_*
I had a good laugh at that, ngl.
I just imagined that! XD Hilarious!
"Brother, I am pinned here!", eh? Aah, sorry.
@@s3dchr you win the internet for today
"FULL SPEED!!"
*sound of a bunch of troglodytes screaming joy after headslamming the Big Red Button*
Sounds about right
Ah yes, The Litany of Litany's Litany, the finest battle barge of the Angry Marines, alongside Maximum fuck.
Don't forget commisar Fuklaw!
@@onomatopoeia7505 I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Plague of gripes was the guy who did those comics
@@sailorshark3334 holy god fucking shit really??????????? goddamn it i love plague
Angry Marines always make me smile.
One correction: The ships don't scale to ridiculous sizes, they *start* at ridiculous sizes.
Wouldn't have it any other way
Lol the worst part is they’d be realistic for a galaxy spanning empire, if not slightly smaller than they should be haha
Sadly I wanted the ships to be even bigger. Like they didnt even put eternal crusade mobile chapter fortresses in this.
@@widdershins5383 Dunno, I've always considered Star Trek to have more realistically scaled ships. After all, shiny space metal is expensive and the bigger you make something the more systems you need to support it.
@@Zorro9129 but you gotta realize, those ships produce an entire armies worth of supplies at the same time as transporting marines, supporting units, occasional heavy armor AND air units, the Star Trek ships resupply from planetside depo, or at least that’s what’s assumed, they never actually say.
When the first BFG:A released, my computer was so shit ships and the map refuse to render, so I have to direct engagements using only UI, Minimap, and ship's status bars floating amidst the dark void that was supposed to be the actual battlefield. I somehow had way more fun than a pitch black screen with RTS UI on it had any right to offer me.
I mean it's incredible, I literally can't see shit yet I am having fun.
That sort of sounds like Ender’s Game
It's like a real naval battle
Ah, the joys only a potato PC can give ya. Especially when you're a kid and can enjoy a game's visuals without needing 4k 120fps ultra-high settings
Try Slizer's Battle Simulator
ha, that's great. I hope every lifelong gamer has a similar story.
I had to stare at my feet in 1st person to stay connected for raids in the Burning Crusade.
"The particle effects are particularly good. It looks like something nVidia would call 'Intelligent AI Smartdust' and then shackle it to a $1200 video card."
Fucking. Gold.
Aged like fine whine
"Like them, but taller." A burn 60 million years in the making.
Damn it, seems like the good 40k vidyas are also the ones with good sense of humor!
Damn not found.
Ironic since you could say the same about necron lord compared to warrior
@@ianaruto1 Silent king isn't tall at all and he's the #1 necron
@@ianaruto1 That's because the average necron warrior suffers from scoliosis.
"HOLY EMPEROR, I CAN HEAR THEM IN THE WALLS!"
God damn I love Tyranids
Makes me weep that i sold my 3k point tyranid army
Jesus dude, 3k?!@@Jebu911
"Your leaders are just taller than everyone else? thats stupid."
-Amarkun the gatherer
no he agreed with it "not to be underestimated" which fits way better necrons thinik that makes sense
15:24 "Holy Emperor, I can hear them in the walls!" I finished the campaign yesterday and played that mission thrice just to hear that line again. Chills. The voice actor did a truly great job selling the terror!
“Your words are like the droning of scarabs, full of fury but lack import.”
Have the scarabs always been pissed off little khorne worshiping robots?
They're the best Necron unit, I hear.
@@vincentmuyo you heard right. Super easy to hide behind terrain, cheap, and fast by Necron standards
*Angery scuttling intesifies*
They have no soul, but if they did Khorne would welcome them with open arms.
Because all they do is be angry and murder.
Also obsec
"ACTIVATE TACTICAL COGITATORS!"
I hated that phrase on release, then they removed it and I missed it...
Tactical cogitators engaged!
@@ineednochannelyoutube5384 Machine Spirit appeased!
@@floppydisksareop Rouse the engines to fury!
What is it with well written unit chatter alway turning into memes?
@@ineednochannelyoutube5384 It's just that you hear it so goddamn much. Same with "initiating THUNDERHAWK BOMBARDMENT!", or "severe damage to their corrupted machine"
*RESUMING NORMAL FUNCTION*
"Space is known as the place where expensive things go to break"
mix military and space and You get ultimate waste of taxpayers money
Space failed to deliver sadly
"Instead of capturing planets they vo- devour them whole"
Oof, close one
yeah he knows what kinda people watch his videos, how couldnt he. ever since david ate all 3 beans its really obvious.
vo- what is ending of that word?
@@nicatkanal2904 Well now you want to know. But when you find out you'll be wishing for forgetfulness.
@@nicatkanal2904 search google images for 'vore'. Enjoy
@@nicatkanal2904 Fair warning. It's a one way trip...
Two reviews in a week?! A Christmas miracle!
Next time will be in next year probably and if not thats will be a true miracle
Praise Sanguinius!
Mandalore wants to beat Ross Scott in making as many reviews as possible
@@SpecShadow well he can probably
@@SpecShadow Ross just posted a new one today so i'm not sure Mandalore can do it.
>edgier, unfinished Druids
I'm scared.
Halligan certainly isn’t
*Continues to casually eat human flesh*
🎶 THE MYSTERY OF THE DROODS 🎶
yeye... ye
"Khorne and Nurgle blow the other two out of the water"
It's just the natural way of things
Now with Total War: Warhammer 3 coming out let's see if the same thing happens again!
I dunno, I think Slaanesh is fairly proficient in the blowing things department.
@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick Obviously he's more about pop growth and corrupting planets from the inside out. There's not enough 4x for Slannesh's talents to be put to use.
@@FusionAlchemist It's even funnier the second time!
Fun fact: The cutscenes in this game were literally consisted of fan arts & official arts you can find on websites.
I was a bit dissapointed in that but they do look good and its a cost saver. So I mean its fine I guess even Total War: Warhammer did that aswell. With good sound and strong narration you can still bring them to life.
Never would've guessed, honestly
Were the artists compensated?
@@lissaquon607It's Games Workshop so... probably not
@@lissaquon607to give a legitimate answer, more than likely.
GW would have too, otherwise courts could get involved, and thats all just a legal headache that is more expensive than compensating artist.
"The Litany of Litany's Litany" Don't think we didn't catch that Angry Marines reference, Mandalore.
ALWAYS ANGRY, ALL THE TIME
Literally just came down to the comments just for this.
As an angry marine would say: FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU -
Someone say Empire at War?? Love to see Mando do that one. I hear its good.
:D
Captain Shack is here! :-)
It'd be cool to see him cover some of the mods for it, like Remake or Awakening of the Rebellion.
Hell yeaa
It was my childhood fr. Solid game
Yes please
watching older mandalore videos I missed and finding a vague reference to anonymous agony coming up in the future in the Q&A section feels like some sort of warning that should have been heeded now
He mentioned a similar statement during the end of Vangers iirc
Honestly having gone through all of Mandy's videos several times as well as finally having made my way through the available VODs , some of them several times, just enhances the experience. Disregarding all of the #Lowry in-jokes, there's just so much to unpack. Then add all of the #Lowry insanity, Drunk Mandy, friendship onions and Avery in general - it's insane, I'm sad I have no one IRL to share in on the jokes and I don't even know if I could even begin to attempt to bring someone else into this mess.
I love Mandy's channel and I love the people who watch Mandy.
Ducks bite
And now you can see that he shows us Genesis Rising when he talks about bioships!
He teased Anonymous Agony back in the Pathologic video
I’d actually really like Mandalore to review the homeworld franchise
same
ITS COMING
@@dwarfplayer It's gonna be his next video
@@StrikeWarlock is it?
@@ineednochannelyoutube5384 Yes
Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2 factions:
Imperium: "We shall drive the Xenos and Chaos from our borders!"
Chaos: "We will bring the gifts of the dark gods to the galaxy!"
Eldar: "We are attempting to survive and avenge our Craftworld."
Necrons: "We shalt reforge our Dynasty."
Tau: "Hey everyone, would you like to join our newly form empire..."
Orkz: "WHICH UN OV YA GITS KRUMRD MA FISHIE?!?!"
Tyrainds: omomomomomomom
Dark Eldar: "Sees unsuspecting agriworld. It's free real-estate!"
"Space combat is like a more in-depth Empire at War"
SOLD
Just no land combat sadly all space.
@@Demicleas Based on my experience of land combat in EaW that’s a positive haha, I always hated having to mess with it when I was only ever there for space combat
@Evil Magnitude
Kinda wish land combat would be as fun as Dawn of War's...
@@EvilMagnitude fair enough ya theirs a 40k mod for empire of war.
"Litany of Litany's Litany"
Fuckin' dead
7:12 - the angry beehive of small ships stops rather quickly once the Necron player has a Tombship with the Lightning Arc configured for anti-small ships. This configuration halves the damage output of its primary weapons, but that halved value is fired at EVERY ship in range. So if there is a single enemy cruiser in range, then it only does half damage to that one cruiser. But if there are a dozen small ships in range, each gets hit with that halved damage value
"Like them but taller"
Yep sums up Primarchs perfectly. Gotta love Necrons.
Mandaloregaming mentions "Empire at War". My childhood has come full circle.
No no, we need him to review it now
We talking about star wars empire at war or something else?
Because I have over a thousand hours on the star wars one because mods are great and its easy to run so It was basically all I played when all I had was a crappy normal laptop
@@cameronroy2129 that one and it’s amazing S Tier Modding Community
Empire at War/Forces of Corruption review plus another mod review with Corey for thrawns revenge and fall of the republic would be cool
@@BurntPlaydoh that'll be fairly soon, FotR just got the 1.0 release
The Litany of Litany's Litany is the most Warhammery Warhammer name that ever Warhammered. Exceptional video yet again.
Some pretty old Anonymous Agony foreshadowing in the end
starcraft 2: mothership is the size of 10 marines.
Warhammer:
Star Wars: "Look at our mighty battle ships! 1.3 km long and we have tens of thousands of them!"
Warhammer 40K: "We call those escorts. We don't even know how many of them we have. This is my space cathederal, its a healthy 10km in lenght and considered a cruiser. We have several billions of those. Don't even get me started on our battle ships."
And the Orks are like, "WE TURND DAT ASTROID INTO A BIG SPAYCE SHIP! NOW OIM GONNA KRUMP YA WIV IT! WAAAGH!"
Necrons: Pull a literal teleporting planet ship out of nowhere & destroys a sub sector
@@EMan-1920 Paint it red to make it go fasta!
@@oz_jones "WE'RE PUTTING DA BIG GUNZ ON IT FIRST! DEN WE SPLATTER DA SPAYCE WHALE GUTS ALL OVA DA ROK! NOICE AN RED!"
Been waiting for this review for a long time :D
Ah shit the legend himself
Same,but I've never expected he will make it
Love your vids haha
why, cant you form opinions of a game on your own?
@@krusokat wow, almost a decade of trolling right here
you are a man of sheer dedication
"Like them but taller"
Best description of a primarch ever.
That Necron voice acting is on POINT
eh, maybe i’m spoiled with Mechanicus but they sound bland
As someone who did play the original board game quite frequently, I'd say that they basically did what the Space Hulk guys tried to do by carrying some stylistic elements over into the strategy game, but BFG did it right. A lot of things (in particular the Special Orders) but also some of the maneuvers and odd mechanics like the scattering novacannon feel like a direct carryover from the tabletop. This was more obvious in the first game because of the much smaller scale and detail on each ship, but they still did a lot of mechanical decisions inspired by the tabletop.
That's a Good Thing in my book. Tabletop BFG was one of the best games GW has ever made, balance issues and all.
@@richmcgee434 Absolutely, it was a fantastic game.
@@richmcgee434 That and Mordheim.
@@richmcgee434 absolutely yes. Well either BFG or Bloodbowl.
"Fifteen Orks on a dead man’s hulk,
Lookin’ down the barrel of a gun,
Gruntin’ to each other
through big, sharp teeth,
Sayin’ “This one’ll give us some fun”
Fourteen Orks on a humie’s ship,
Killin’ anything that isn’t green,
Gruntin’ to each other
through big, sharp teeth,
Sayin’ “Times be getting’ lean”
Thirteen Orks with the Captain’s chest,
Hopin’ to quench their greedy thirst,
Gruntin’ to each other
through big, sharp teeth
Sayin’ “I was da wun dat saw it first”
One lone Ork left to steal the loot,
Wishin’ it hadn’t turned out so,
Gruntin’ to itself
through big, sharp teeth
Sayin’ “I shoulda let the pilot go”
EV'RY SCREEN'S GONE *RED* DAT MEANS I'M SUPPA FAST
A swear Amarkun and Zaa are the best characters in this game. Amarkuns story threw out the campaign is so good and Zaas voice is it's own reward plus he's the biggest meme lord in the game after trazyn
The “our brothers have fallen” joke was gold lmao nice one
*“Some [chaos] subfactions are just recolours”*
So like the tabletop?
I love how you are literally encouraged through gameplay to go kamikaze when one of your ships' destruction is inevitable. It's not only promotes an aggressive, hold nothing back kind of gameplay, but it just fits 40K so damn well. Fanatical Imperial captains ramming full speed into the middle of an enemy fleet in the name off the God Emperor is exactly what I want out of them. And since it's 40K, this works with every faction. Maybe some less so than others, like the Eldar, but for the most part, it makes perfect sense. One small detail through gameplay that fleshes out the 40K experience. I love it.
For the Imperium It takes decades and tons of ressources to build a simple cruiser. Many of them are centuries or even millenia old with a long and honored history. Some of them are equiped with old technologies that can't be replaced and all of them are sacred to the Mechanicus, their machine spirit being an incarnation of the Omnissiah.
It's stated many times in the lore that the loss of a single cruiser is a tragedy for the Imperial navy, and they will go to great lenght to recover one if it has been captured. Expeditions have been launched to recover the wreck of a single battleship and whole armies and chapters will be mobilized to salvage ancient ship parts from a spacehulk.
So yeah it's fun but it's totally not lore friendly. Exept for the orks, there you can go all kamikaze.
@@solwen Well in the sense of if your ship is fucked 7 ways to Sunday and it’s clear that it’s not going to be even limping out of the battle alive it’s totally in character for the imperium to go out in a blaze of glory for the god emperor than die with a whimper and let the ship go to waste.
“The Litany of Prayer’s Holy Litany of Furious Purity” -Some 40k ship, probably
I recently beat BFGA2's imperial campaign. At one point I overwrote my solo save accidentally and lost 7 months of progress. This game is so good that I immediately replayed that 7 months of campaign and enjoyed it even more. Nearly 300 hours I got out of it, the value for money in this game and general quality are god tier.
Fifteen Orks on a dead man's hulk. Starin' down the barrel of a gun. Gruntin' to each uvva through big sharp teef Sayin' this one'll give us some fun.
Fourteen orks on a humie ship. Killing everything that isn't green. Grunting to each uvva through big sharp teef Saying times are getting lean
Thirteen Orks on the captain's chest. Looking to quench their greedy thirst. Grunting to each uvva through big sharp teef Saying "I want da wun i saw it first!"
One Ork left to steal the loot. Wishing it hadn't turned out so. Grunting to itself through big sharp teef Saying "I shoulda let the pilot go"
WAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHH!!
"Orks have a need for speed. Their ships commonly mount a plethora of thrusters, boosters and extra drives, usually all wired up to a prominent red button in the cockpit." - Admiral Spire
[push]
[horn blaring]
[horn blaring]
[horn blaring]
One Ork left to steal the loot Wishing it hadn't turned out so. Grunting to itself through big sharp teef Saying "I shoulda let the pilot-"
[Ork warship crashes into Imperial Battleship]
"-GOOOOOOOO!!!"
[smash]
Is that supposed to be Ram Ranch? Cause I read it as Ram Ranch
There are only two forms of motion: Drifting in place while the engines warm up, and ramming speed
I swear, the Cardinal's voice acting sounds like someone doing a bad impression of Moss from IT Crowd. Had to check IMDB to make sure it wasn't Richard Ayoade cashing a cheque.
Holy shit you were not wrong
the pain of pc gaming - "it works on MY machine"
"Strategic ship combat." You telling me I can do other things besides ramming my orc ships into everything that moves...
What heresy is this? Ramming is the only way to win! Lol
The crashes are an unreal engine issue, I've had it on multiple unreal engine games this year (including this one), it's a very easy fix too if you're ever experiencing crashes in unreal engine related with a message along the lines of "Win64-Shipping.exe" forgot what the exact error was, but everytime it's the 64bit exe of the game in question.
Go to nvidia control panel, set OpenGL Rending GPU forced to your GPU on your global profile, not to auto, EVEN if you're on a PC and not a laptop, developers of 2 games (Red Solstice 2, Deep Rock Galactic) also noticed it happend each time with calls from the rendering engine that it would crash, we don't know why it works, that's literally all you have to do and your unreal engine games will never crash with that error again.
Do note that newer games and demos are often not recognized by the nvidia control panel so you might have to create a profile and apply the forced setting there for the exe, otherwise you'll still crash.
Why don’t they just patch it
I knew something was up with madalore's system/install/settings. Deathwing and BFGA2 both run flawlessly for me and my friend on old hardware
Why are you still using nvidia? Are we back in 2007?
@@SomeUnsoberIdiot what?
@@mickethegoblin7167 I think he's saying that Radeon is the most popular but I don't think that's true right now? I guess for the price. I went with Radeon over Nvidia this last time.
Anyone still got their Voodoo 3d graphics cards locked and loaded??? haha
This video is so nostalgic for me. My family had corona around christmas 2020, so I spent it alone in our summer house, and this video kept me company. Thank you mandy, makes me happy to see this again now
At 1:56: "You have a flying gun-brick the size of a freeway. It's named The Litany of Litany's Litany or some shit like that. Use it to ram."
I'm dead.
"Our brothers have fallen!"
I bet they have.
Ah, there’s no greater present than the absolute annihilation of the vile, reprehensible, despicable, heretical Xenos. I hope you have a very merry Sanguinala or Christmas Mandalore!
...So sayeth the yellow marine...
@@Gekkibi It’s a Imperium mandated tradition.
Would you celebrate Great Horned Rat day?
@@ultimategamer876 Don’t be ridiculous, there’s no such thing as walking, talking, 5 foot, ratmen! Yes-yes
Happy Slaneshmass to you!
The GOG negotiation illustration is beautiful.
2 years and a few months later and blood ships come back
This "holy emperor, I can hear them in the walls" legit made me scared
And Ebenezer Scrooge opened his window and saw a young boy and shouted:
"You there! What day is it?"
"Today? Why it's a new MandaloreGaming-video day!"
And Tiny Tim did not die, for he had something to live for.
I enjoy this
Sseth's really sticking to his medication lately.
Crisis has hit the Merchant Guild it seems.
One of the things that actually annoyed me about the campaign once I realised it, was that the AI fleets really don't function the same way as the players. They pretty much just auto spawn overtime rather than actually needing to hold planets and actually build up the same way the player does.
distracted by the bangin' Blast Corps tunes in the background 2:13
"Genre that is neglected by game developers." *cries in RTS*
I feel your pain.
Its largely dominated by Starcraft, I've played several fun RTS games, but starcraft kept leeching the player base from them. It also doesn't help that bias of starcraft=good is in a lot of game reviewers.
@@kriegscommissarmccraw4205 It's a genre that doesn't work well on consoles...
Ages 2 DE is great. there is some light at the end of the tunnel.
@@kriegscommissarmccraw4205 well, the thing is, star craft is a very well designed RTS. That's why people play it. In all honesty, in most cases a well designed game will retain their own player base. AoE2 and Warcraft 3 are also prime examples of RTS that have literally survived decades. Though in the case of WC3 Blizzard has tried their best to actively kill it.
If the player count is dropping to the point of extinction and players are looking for their entertainment somewhere else, that's usually a problem with the game (and/or the developer/publisher) and little more.
Imagine a 40k Empire at War. One can dream.
A 40k total war series lol
Wouldn't even have to change the name!
God, that anonymous agony foreshadowing
13:23 "The Tyranids take things further by vor- devour them whole"
They're called the great hungerer for a reason
The great devourer.
@@skalgrimfellaxe5796 The great vorevourvorer
"I don't want my cosmic horrors to get too blurry" lol
Mandy wants to make the full 1d00 sanity check, not some weak 1d4 that doesn't even trigger temporary maddness to his alter-ego(s).
The lore deepens!
Thank you for your content, you've been great to watch and I can't wait to see what you bring out in the New Year. Take care and have a good one Mandalore!
5:27 is that Gelt's great (x500) grandson or something . He sounds like a pitched up Gelt.
"Brother get the ship, the heavy ship!!!"
The only correct answer playing the game
G L O R I A N A C L A S S BA T T L E S H I P
I always hoping there is a game that has Endless Space 2 (campaign), Dawn of War (Land Battle), Battlefleet Gothic Armada (Space Battle). Three perfect mechanic combined into the BEST and Biggest strategy game ever
I think that would be great but I'm not sure if commercial computers can run thay
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@@mohammadibrahim-fw6ui They could if they scratch their heads. Star Wars Battlefront II (the one from 2005) had ground and space combat and it was awesome.
Not to mention rudimentary campaign strategy
I feel like sticking 3 games worth of content into one just isn't very commerically attractive to publishers
I wish one of the captains was voiced by TotalBiscuit. I can only imagine how passionate and how incredibly British he would've gone.
I wish he never moved to America to suffer our atrocity of a 'healthcare' system.
Or our food. I can't decide which is actually worse.
@@AceStrife Both are terrible, but he moved to be with the person he loved, so I can't blame the man.
@@reynoldkao2598 I miss him...
@@AceStrife Funny that the healthcare is so bad, considering the food is so unhealthy that Americans need medical care more because of it.
@@trustytrest A perpetual cycle of profit.
Humans are renewable after all.
Feels so disgusting to say, but it's the only way I can think of them justifying how horrific the system in this country is. The same regulatory body should not be allowed to control both the food and drug industries, but here we are..
Nice present in time for the Holidays. Thanks for all the great content, Mandalore! And, have a great christmas!
There is also a mod out called Skalgrim, that severely amps up the battle scale of things. They managed to unlock adding new ships entirely, so they've been working on adding a whole lot of ships to each race as well, adding a whole lot more choice and variety.
A lot has been changed as well, to make large fleet engagements more brutal. You generally can't just like, sit in a cloud and pew pew the enemy from afar when the screen is filling with ork ships :D.
The only caveat, is that if you're playing as the Necron, if your system can't handle the scale of the battle and starts lagging, 75% of their firepower becomes useless, because it scatters and never hits. It looks very pretty though while it doesn't hit.
Still, for pvp and especially for the campaign, I can recommend it, it's bunches of fun!
It still counts as hits, just wonks out in graphical terms. And you can always slow the game down and that problem stops. But yeah, it can get laggy when you can increase the games to pretty insane sizes if you want. :) Thanks for the kind words! (/Creator of Skalgrim Mod)
I personally love it, and really, do they count? Because it felt to me like they weren't counted, I might have not seen things correctly! I stopped my Necron campaign for nothing!
But hey, absolutely, it's been a blast, and it's more like, a goal to get a better computer and run it better, it was lagging for various reasons and I wasn't that far in yet, and I don't really wanna lower the scale, haha.
Thank you for making this insanely awesome mod!
@@skalgrimfellaxe5796 Your service to the community will be remembered, and you have my thanks... along with my respect.
See, this is nothing like Homeworld and everything like Treasure Planet: Battle for Procyon.
Which is A) Real, B) Shockingly good and C) by the homeworld: catacylsm devs which...does explain B.
Holy shit, how did I not know this game existed. Your comment is a fucking christmas miracle, thank you so much
I remember playing that shit like 15 years ago. Could never remember the name.
Thanks friend
I still play the SHIT out of Battle for Procyon. I’m so, so glad to see someone else who appreciates and loves it.
Those ironclads still set the bar for ominous!
Oh my god I keep forgetting that game's real and not just a weird fever dream. Remember that time they ripped off a track from Star Wars for that one escort mission?
I actually just bought the game on Steam. Gonna see if it works.
"HOLY EMPRAH, I CAN HEAR THEM IN THY WALLZ!!!"
Mandalore teasing Frostpunk and Homeworld videos? Oh be still my heart
Litany of litany's litany. Mandalore, are you playing as Angry Marines?
"Still, next year could be better."
*Forstpunk*
At least global warming will be no more, I guess?
Just you wait for 2021 act 2 act 6 part 4
Technically, Frostpunk can be a result of global warming. The issue comes with it being a misnomer lol
@@a.parker7362 precisely why climate change is the more used term nowadays
@@NMahon It's more accurate but it's also a very neutral word. It really defangs the actual consequences IMO. Some dummies say shit like "Manmade climate change isn't real"...
@@chucklebutt4470 .well, i know throwing money at governments hoping they will fix it is the real scam
Thanks for the great video man, if it's been rough lately I wish you all the best for the upcoming year. Be well Mando, happy holidays.
Now we just need a 4k 40k that combines Dawn of War, Planet and system management, and ground and space combat.
So empire at war 40k edition
Imperium at War?
@@gwynmarigold9141 YES WRITE THAT DOWN.
So we basically want Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2 and Dawn of War Dark Crusade to make a baby?
That would be a big baby
We will get one... In Grimm Darkness of a Far Future.
I played it way too much and mostly had fun. But some parts annoyed me a lot:
1. The campaigns are helllllaaa grindy.
2. The AI makes some way too obvious mistakes, like Tyrannid ships regularly ramming each other to death before the battle even starts.
3. I feel like the mechanics are a fair bit too simple. In single player there often is little to no benefit to doing anything but running around in a blob and focus firing one enemy after the other, for example because ships tend to have the same armour in all directions and because surrounding an enemy just lets them shoot more of their guns. And direct damage skills just seem way overpowered.
4. The special campaign missions are mostly boring. Outside very few encounters with awesome unique ships, the special mechanics are all just "avoid the red AoE circle". The chaos rocks really annoyed me with how unimaginative they were - in five different battles.... (except the teleporting ones, those actually created some interesting situations).
5. The huge background structures on some maps dwarve even the biggest battleships , which kinda ruins the sense of scale. Not sure how canon they are, but they seem overly common for their absurd scale.
6. Singleplayer highly encourages an all big ship lineup, the only reason I could see for small vessels is scanning. There is little attachment to veteran ships from the early game. It's kind odd since the game seems to frame the ability to bring more escort ships as a bonus that you have to earn, when in reality I only want the bare minimum to have a forwards scanner.
It may be an unfair comparison because each player only has a single ship there, but World of Warships showed how to get much more depth out of the basic mechanics. There it is all about getting to the enemy's broadside to hit the core parts of the ship or to score multiple hits in a torpedo salvo. That strongly encourages both sides to contest the flanks and therefore spread out wide rather than just move in a single blob (which would inevitably get flanked by a battleship with big guns or drown in torpedo soup from all directions), creating many more tactical situations depending on the map layout and particular ship combinations.
Performance on the other hand was good for me, especially the short loading times into battles were very welcome after Total War. The only issue I experienced were some oddly long loading menus (especially the ship construction menu somehow takes like 10 seconds), FPS were very good on an older laptop with medium-high settings.
"The Litany of Litany's Litany"
Yep I am definitely naming one of my ships that
Idk if you'll read this mandy but, you are literally my background soundtrack in anything, thanks for the videos you make it bring me gr8 joy
"Space is famous for being the place where expensive things go to break" got a big laugh out of me. Following up my Pathfinder Kingmaker purchase of BFG:A2 pretty much cements MandaloreGaming as the cheat code for my wallet.
I've never played this game, but when Mandy said it looks like space combat from Star Wars: Empire at War. I think now I'm interested
Plus Warhammer 40k's world is always an interesting... world, maybe it's not always suffering.
*"It was fine from far, why would you do that"*
Must be one of Tzeentch's trickery xD
Its worth it, I love both games!
"It's been rough"
Yeah man. Felt that
One setting I would love to see is hard scifi in a way that doesn't focus on simulating it. I would love to see a Mass Effect style thing taking place entirely within a Dyson Swarm in our solar system.
"The litany of litany's litany"
I understood that reference.