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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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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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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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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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 ]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: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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Jan 27, 2024 06:33
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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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Jan 29, 2024 17:13
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SIGSEGV posted:You linked to video 4 twice. Fixed!
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Jan 29, 2024 21:19
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 Oof. Oof. These are some bruising battles - the Eldar melt through my ships here, and the heavier Chaos cruisers can take a beating. These "victories" may well cost me big in the long term.
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Feb 2, 2024 10:25
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 After a couple of brutal wins, it's fine to see if I can sort my economic situation and get this rolling again. As you can see from the thumbnail, this is going to be an interesting one! I'm fighting my urge to just concentrate on the economy and actually buy ships, not the ways of making ships.
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Feb 5, 2024 10:03
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 You asked for some bigger ships, so let’s get them - and massively expand the fleet!
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Feb 9, 2024 12:50
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url=https://youtu.be/a0WMW1nM8Ok] [/url]Let’s take on the Necrons - and the last of those Eldar Pirates! The necrons are interesting, but seems like less of a threat than the Eldar, who are responsible for most of my losses this campaign.
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Feb 12, 2024 11:20
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Nope, apparently some things are hard coded now.
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Feb 12, 2024 18:15
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 In a series of close defeats, I grind down the enemy. I lost lots of battles in this one, but preserved most of my fleets. That sounds like the Imperial way!
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Feb 15, 2024 10:57
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 I push forwards on two fronts, taking more ground for the Imperium!
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Feb 18, 2024 14:08
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 The Tyranids are here - and that is a bloody bruising battle at the end!
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Feb 21, 2024 11:04
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 After a brutal encounter with the orks, the main job is breaking an Eldar stronghold. I need to make the decision if I concentrate on the main missions - I get the feeling the whack-a-mole is only going to get worse, and I should concentrate on getting the job done rather than trying to hold the entire map against 4 other hostile races throwing huge fleets at me! What do you guys think? Grey Hunter fucked around with this message at 10:58 on Feb 25, 2024 |
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Feb 24, 2024 13:24
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SIGSEGV posted:That game-ness ambiguity between either storyline missions gating escalation or storyline missions being independent of escalation is always annoying to face. Fixed the link! But yeah, the story missions add in new challenges, but the invasions are coming from everywhere now, and I can't have the fleets needed to face 4 1,200 fleet strength invasions a turn. Chronische posted:It's also very important to keep developing your fleet commanders and ships' levels while you can! That, and building up resources to grow your battle groups. Phasing out most of the lighter vessels in exchange for cruisers with maybe one or two escorts, or even Battle/Grand cruisers (though that'd take quite a bit of whack-a-mole) is pretty important, because light cruisers become little better than escorts after no time flat. Yeah, escorts are popping in seconds now - their active scan is great against Eldar, but they have no life expectancy.
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Feb 25, 2024 11:00
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 Man, can those Tyranids do a number on you! I'm just lucky I didn't lose more ships!
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Feb 28, 2024 11:40
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 So many tyranids, and some brutal losses - I'm getting better at dealing with them, but that is a big wave on the horison....
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Mar 2, 2024 08:27
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https://youtu.be/IZzTK90nd6Q Those big invasion fleets come in, and bio titans are a thing to fear!
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Mar 5, 2024 17:12
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https://youtu.be/TBiKsyttzoA Man, I was hoping for better reinforcements than that!
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Mar 8, 2024 11:04
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bunnyofdoom posted:Did you cut that cutscene off on purpose? No, is it cut? dammit! I was in a hurry editing videos
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Mar 11, 2024 09:51
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 Let's clear the Eldar out of Medusa - unlocking a lot more problems. I'm focusing on the economy for a while, so I can get hold of some bigger ships.
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Mar 13, 2024 11:32
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 I take some more serioous hits here - which is not good as I'm supposed ot be trying to build up my forces!
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Mar 16, 2024 16:17
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https://youtu.be/-wa7vwbrFdo Let's take down the first of those chaos Admirals!
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Mar 19, 2024 15:49
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 The game, while hammering me at every opportunity, gives me a way to at least start slowing down the other factions!
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Mar 22, 2024 10:43
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https://youtu.be/cUMnX-lACw0 Today's video, let's interrupt the Orks And pick the wrong upgrade.
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Mar 25, 2024 19:03
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 Let's clear a path to the Anchient Tyranid!
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Mar 28, 2024 07:44
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGHl752L3Q8 Let's see if I can take out the Tyranid threat (for now!) -Some save scumming will be involved! midnight77 posted:Grey Hunter, when will you complete your magnum opus? Even I'm not that mad! The main problem is I don't have the time I used to - even finding time for text based LP's is hard. I'm at that time poor part of life. Video LP's work better as they don't take another hour and a half + to edit and type up. in short, Adulting Sucks.
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bunnyofdoom posted:It's an Easter mircale. I once again have to work midnight to 8am for a two week stretch, starting Easter Sunday. Last time, I made it through by binging your great war LP (speaking of, are you thinking of going back and doing it from the Allies side? Marching Canadians straight into machine guns) It's on the list, I just want to get through Easter!
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Mar 31, 2024 10:27
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https://youtu.be/bGHl752L3Q8 https://youtu.be/qxXj0jGd6mw Dammit, I missed one. Doing this from my phone ISA pain. Let's see if we can kill the local hive nexus!
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Apr 3, 2024 06:53
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bunnyofdoom posted:Hey Grey, dunno if you noticed, but some of your fleet commanders have unlocked some upgrade slots, but also, in battle, the Space Marines have a 2nd Lightning strike that IIRC bypasses shields call "For the Chapter" that is an order, and is only limited by the amount of troops on your ships. All lightning strike bonuses also apply to it. So you can literally do lightning strike twice in a row from each space marine ship. I miss the for far to long. I'm currently unable to get to my computer, so I'm running a buffer - then I get one day before I go on holiday to cover 4 days of work. Honestly, I don't think my wife cares about my youtube career!
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Apr 5, 2024 11:11
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bunnyofdoom posted:So......I can't relentlessly tease you about missing the obvious for a couple videos? I'm always up for help. Improving ones self is the aim of life.
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Apr 5, 2024 12:46
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https://youtu.be/whzoiDjfvEU Let's drive on to the next side mission!
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Apr 5, 2024 20:51
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 Back at my computer for one night only! And we're at the obligatory time loop episode!
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Apr 7, 2024 18:48
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 Right, this is from a few days ago, but it's time to hit the Necrons!
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 Nova Cannons are just so good. And I teach the orks why.
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