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 In the grim darkness of the 41st Millenium, there is only war. That’s especially true in this case, as we are dealing with the kilometer long ships that ply the void between worlds, and try to murder each other in the most hostile conditions known to man. This is Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2, and we’re going to be taking the helm of these ships. BFG: Armada 2 is a real time strategy game with a turn based campaign. We will be moving giant ships around space, blowing stuff up and listening to men with very deep voices shouting at each other about who worships the god emperor the hardest, and how they're all about to die. Gloriously, for the aforementioned God Emperor. Okay. let's back up, What the hell is Warhammer 40,000? I’m going to assume you’ve been living under a rock for the last 40 years, and give you the extreme cliff notes background. Warhammer 40k started as a tabletop game back in the 80’s, its now the dominating force in the industry despite not actually being any good for the last 20 of those. Okay, maybe my own personal leanings are coming through here, but rules wise, Mantic, Legion and pretty much anything else have beaten anything Games Workshop have put out in a long time. Why is it so popular? The Lore. The lore is amazing as long as you love stupid over the top sci fi - this is what invented the idea of Grimdark, where there are no good guys, only death. Ten thousand years ago, the immortal God Emperor decided to rebrand humanity after ten thousand years or so of the “age of Strife” where humanity lost most of its tech and ability to travel the stars. To help him forge the new Imperium of Man, he created twenty(one - it’s complicated) ten foot tall superhumans, each with their own legion of 8 foot tall slightly less superhuman soldiers. The problem is that all space travel is based on moving through another dimension called the Warp (or the immaterium if you feel fancy). This makes interstellar travel possible, but it is inhabited by literal demons and dark gods who may or may not feed on souls.  These gods corrupt half the remaining Primarchs and lead by Horus start a civil war. The Imperium wins, but not before Horus mortally wounds the Emperor and he’s put into the golden throne to preserve what’s left so he can continue to guide mankind for all eternity. (or to keep the corpse alive so everyone can navigate by his physical death scream)   Yeah, That went well Ten thousand years later, and humanity is trying to not get killed by all the hostile forces in the universe, as well as trying to stop people learning about, and then getting corrupted by the forces of Chaos - the aforementioned dark gods. Of course, this means the imperium of man is a happy place that is in no way a fascist-feudal theocracy that relies on inquisitors to kill up to and including entire planets. No, this is not the case at all….. Jump forward to now, and Abbadon, the kind-of leader of the Chaos forces is about to launch the 13th Black crusade to defeat the Imperium and feed all of humanity's souls to his dark gods. In front of his stand the fortress world of Cadia, a militarized world that guards the entrance to the Eye of Terror - a rent in space where the real world and the warp meet. First up, I’m going to play through the prologue - this is the in game tutorial, but it also has a huge amount of cutscenes and back story thrown in before we then move on to the Imperial campaign! So, enough waffle - let’s get this ship going! 
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Wait, how did that last part do anything? If a group of ships had the energy potential to push something into a planet, wouldn't they inherently have the ability to do as much damage to a planet by crashing into it themselves?
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Jan 16, 2024 21:11
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I'm with the non-Cadian guardsman in Darktide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2yx7gdPyB0
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Jan 16, 2024 21:26
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Lustful Man Hugs posted:Wait, how did that last part do anything? If a group of ships had the energy potential to push something into a planet, wouldn't they inherently have the ability to do as much damage to a planet by crashing into it themselves? The Blackstone Fortress is a special super weapon so it probably had some secondary effect beyond the physical impact.
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Jan 16, 2024 22:03
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White Coke posted:The Blackstone Fortress is a special super weapon so it probably had some secondary effect beyond the physical impact. Yeah, in the first game they're literally running around deleting planets if you can't keep a handle on things. Even a busted one is going to have some Scifi Umph behind it.
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Jan 17, 2024 07:40
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Still wish they had gone for a weird mixed force Xeno campaign to go with the Imperial one. Dark Eldar, Orks, and Tau could totally team up! Or Tau could hitch their wagons to the Necron cause! I did like how the opening tutorial and scenes of the Imperial campaign are of failure. Its okay to lose occasionally, you don't have to reload.
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Jan 17, 2024 09:07
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Question, after you do the imp campaign are you gonna do the other races
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Jan 17, 2024 21:49
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Maybe, it depends on how long this one takes!
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Jan 17, 2024 22:03
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 The imperial campaign begins with some poor sod who has been lost in the warp for 800 years dropping back into another hellish fight. The game then walks me through the campaign turns. Grey Hunter fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Jan 22, 2024 |
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Jan 19, 2024 18:04
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I think you should be changing your engagement range setting. IIRC, Imp ships are better close in brawlers while Chaos are long range snipers
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Jan 19, 2024 19:55
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Hey the episode 2 link doesn't work. Other than that looking forward to this, the imperial campaign in particular is a lot of fun with its combination of things to manage.
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Jan 22, 2024 03:54
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Grey Hunter posted:
I can't remember, was he promoted to Lord Admiral at the end of the last game?
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Jan 22, 2024 06:13
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Captian Nuke posted:Hey the episode 2 link doesn't work. Fixed!
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Jan 22, 2024 06:23
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 Today I push on to clear the remains of the Cadia sector of the worst of my chaotic foes. I only lose a few Space Marines. They are easily replaceable, right?
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Jan 23, 2024 10:06
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Never really liked the cutscenes with the 'moving' picture effect. Feels a bit... Well, cheapening of something that could have been simply better in stills? Regardless, this LP has inspired me to give this another go. While listening to a podcast or two while I'm at it. Also provides good opportunities for coming up with stupidly arrogant names for the ships. Samovar fucked around with this message at 11:00 on Jan 23, 2024 |
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Jan 23, 2024 10:32
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Samovar posted:Never really liked the cutscenes with the 'moving' picture effect. Feels a bit... Well, cheapening of something that could have been simply better in stills? Yeah, the cutscene choice is a odd one. And you also bring up a very good point I didn't even realise - if we can rename ships - lets get some good names in!
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Jan 23, 2024 12:35
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Thank you for listening about close range for imp ships. Notice how much faster the chaos ships went down? As for name Lepus Leti
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Jan 23, 2024 13:38
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I would like to suggest Lux Invictus Ignis Sanctus Imperator Dominus Dei for either our first Battleship or the smallest ship we have.
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Jan 23, 2024 14:23
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I propose Ostentatious Mononym
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Jan 23, 2024 15:06
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Revengeful Spirit and Foreshadowing of Doom.
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Jan 23, 2024 20:36
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Cave Canum Let's not blow all the great ship names before the fancy ships come into play.
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Jan 23, 2024 22:18
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Litany of Litanies' Litany, The Occasional Crusader, and The Canticle for Tarvitz if we get some space marine vessels. The Neverending Hail of Devastation, The Unending Torrent of Fury, The Ten Thousand Fists of Vengeance, The Unyielding Lance of Judgment for proper broadsides gunship Imperial Navy vessels (or lance ship for the last one). The Invincible II, The Indestructible II, Indefatigable II, etc. for your expendable escort ships. Every time one explodes, name a new escort as the same name but one number higher than before. The 502 Bad Gateway, The 401 Unauthorized, The 403 Forbidden, and The 404 Not Found for Adeptus Mechanicus ships.
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Mentula
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Blood for the Emperor and Skulls for the Golden Throne
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Im not sure how similar to the board game it is but ramming in this game is heavily weighted to ship size and a smaller ship is pretty much always going to do little damage to a bigger ship while taking a ton of damage in return. By contrast a bigger ship can easily demolish a smaller ship while taking little damage in return. I think this is true of all the ships in the game except for the ork fleet. This is why your recent attempts to ram with your scout ships have been so ineffective.
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Light of the Lion Radiant Revenge Impetuous Justice Furious Flame Slammer of the Scruntfather
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 ]I deal with the last chaos fleets in the Caidia sector in neat and tidy fashion - the ships names are in, and soon we shall expand into the next sector!
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Jan 26, 2024 09:48
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bunnyofdoom posted:Thank you for listening about close range for imp ships. Notice how much faster the chaos ships went down? So uh....I don't get a ship?
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bunnyofdoom posted:So uh....I don't get a ship? Dammit, I must have missed you! There will be more ships - this just means you get a bigger one!
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Grey Hunter posted:Dammit, I must have missed you! Thanks! I expect it to die horribly!
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Jan 27, 2024 07:30
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Is there a character limit to names and can we crib from culture books.
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Jan 28, 2024 01:36
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The Overwhelming Arrogance.
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Space Hulk Coast to Coast.
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ita semper a tyrannis seems fitting. Since we aren't quite ready for Sic Semper Tyrannids
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My Other Ship's a Battle Barge - with obvious bonus points if it's an Imperial Navy ship rather than Ad Mech or Spice Marines And Totally Legit Humie Space Krooza
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 The Eldari are up next - and their ships hit hard, dance away, but crack if you can actually hit them!  The new sector looks like it’s going to be fuuuuuun! Grey Hunter fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Jan 29, 2024 |
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Gotd, I despise fighting the Eldar- sorry, Aeldari. That one move where they can flip 180° instantly is a right bastard.
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You linked to video 4 twice.
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SIGSEGV posted:You linked to video 4 twice. Fixed!
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Minor correction, that Space Marine ship should be named the Revengeful Spirit. Don't want people thinking Zeke's flagship is showing up.
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