Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000

Due to Gog not keeping this upto date it WILL NOT RUN as provided on a new install of windows 10 past 22h2 or any version of Win 11, as windows no longer ships with all the required direct draw files. Fortunately the fix is easy to find off site and there is a neat directdraw-DX9 wrapper that can fix the same issue in most of these old direct draw games. The game itself is a fairly accurate port of the ancient games workshop game EPIC, this is both its strength and its weakness. Games workshop have never figured out how to write decent or coherent rules and you end up with this game as a result. Of the huge number of units available almost all of them are utterly useless and you will find yourself using the same 5 units exclusively. Following the X-com idea the AI gets HUGE bonuses to hit percentages and penetration, expect them to hit you at least twice as often as you hit them, forget about being aggressive as the AI will wipe you out with incredibly accurate fire while your troops struggle to hit a barn door at 5 paces. If you enjoy fielding a ton of tanks,artillery and walking cathedrals festooned with mostly useless weaponry this game is for you.

Works for me on Win 10. Halfway through the campaign with no bugs or errors with coding either. Even done some pitched battles. This is super fun and brings me joy hearing all the little dudes say 'commisar?' again. also makes me want to play Rites of War again... Couldnt recommend this enough! Great little strategy game. Even has cover mechanics!

Honestly if today game put as much effort into mechanics and unit diversity as this game did i wouldnt be looking to the pass to find more interesting games

Amazing classic, if you have the same problem I had where the game crashes after the loading cutscene go to the video folder in the games files and delete FLINTRO, HDILOGO2, and SSI_LOG from the folder. then when you boot up the game it should start at the main menu. Hope that helps

I used to play this game when it was new. It was a really great game, much overlooked, but in my opinion, one of the best strategy games and Warhammer games out there! In many ways, it's still a unique and remarkable great strategy game even if it is old. But unfortunately, this isn't a very good port GoG is selling. It constantly crashes on start up until I removed the videos. But the videos are some of the best thing in the game! And in-game, it takes about 5 seconds of calculations/freezes every time you move a unit if you toggle "show movement field" or "shooting field" on. And they are very necessary if you don't want to waste a lot of time calculating your possible movement and shooting options. Alternatively, you just move faster but looses significant tactical elements and possibilities of the game. If you sell a game today, then it has to work today! Everything else is just plain cheating and a rip-off of your customers! If I wanted to waste time researching how to make it work and turning off significant parts of the game, I could have just used my old CD version instead of buying this garbage version.