Basically, the mission does tell you how to solve it, and if you listen properly you can probably win it, but it is still kind of hard for a first mission for someone who had to wipe the dust off their battlecruiser. They would happily fly into the explosive jellyfish, get in the way of your shots against the enemy, or otherwise have some kind of death wish. The cargo ships were all AI controlled and about as sharp as a bowl of gelatin. The first mission has you defending cargo ships from the enemy as well as from what basically amount to giant explosive space jellyfish. I have to admit, that I did not enjoy the first few missions that this DLC had to offer, but eventually they became more enjoyable. There is your standard must complete mission to progress the story, some side quests you can do, as well as you just brutally pushing your way through sectors and forcing them to bend to your will. The campaign in this DLC feels the same as the other campaigns.
If you found the game too hard even on easy, or too easy even on hard, you can now tailor your experience to be exactly how you want it to be. While not directly related to the DLC, there is now a customizable difficulty setting. There is plenty to talk about with the UI, but this review is more about the DLC itself. That way the AI will do its best to do what you want even if you ignore some of your ships for a while. Besides micromanaging your weapons, you can also adjust things such as firing distances and priorities. Had I not used that ability, there is no way that cruiser would have survived its encounter. Luckily it was able to swarm them right back with its pestilent flies which quickly engulfed each of the enemy ships and chewed their hulls apart quickly while restoring my larger cruiser back to its former glory. While it could easily handle one of them on its own, maybe even two, it couldn’t handle being swarmed by them. A good example of this was one of my Marked ships that had the fly swarm ability was being attacked by multiple smaller ships. Each ship has abilities which if ignored may cost you the battle as they can really turn the tides. If you want to succeed in this game, you will want to micromanage each of your ships in combat. The game can get quite confusing with all of the options it lays out to you. Something we didn’t go into great detail on in the main game review was the User Interface. Each Marked sub-faction option lets you choose a ship based on the gifts bestowed upon you by the Dark Gods. The Marked Faction is the interesting one because these four are tied to the Dark Gods themselves. The first two, Renegades and Chaos Legions are not really worth mentioning as they are similar to those sub-factions found in the main game already and we talked about them briefly before. There are three sub-factions you can pull from to build your fleet and each of those can have multiple sub-sub-factions. Some of the Chaos ships borrow abilities from other factions as well such as having a fly swarm that chews away at enemy armor while at the same time restoring armor to the host ship. One method is eroding the hulls of an enemy fleet to reduce their effectiveness in battle or banishing a fleet to another sector entirely. Each Dark God, once enough tribute has been made, will be able to impact the tides of battle in their own unique ways. While they are not that divergent from the other factions in terms of ship types and functionality, they still do have their own unique resources and faction specific elements. They also do not bother to try to protect worlds all that carefully because once they are done with a world there is nothing left to protect on the remains of the now dead world. The Tyranids rely on inflicting terror into their enemies as they infest or otherwise consume them. They also can move quickly move between sectors thanks to their gates. The Necrons rely on their ability to warp around to do burst attacks rather than sit in prolonged combat. The Imperium possesses battle ready vessels designed for charging into battle before unloading their broadsides onto the enemy. While the core gameplay is basically the same and can be a bit repetitive in extended sessions, each faction has enough variation to it to give it a different feeling. The traitorous Chaos faction is now playable.Įach of the now four campaigns do play a little differently. Perhaps we should say going to the dark side. It appears like there are more and more individuals straying from the Emperor’s light these days. It looks like change is on the horizon now as something seems different. We deliberately tried to give that impression by saying things like it would be heresy to do this or you will be branded a heretic if you do that. A while ago we ran the review for Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 and decided to have a little fun with it by writing it as a strictly devout Emperor follower.
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