Play as one of four iconic Warhammer factions (Astra Militarum, Space Marines, Orks or Necrons), each with their own unique playstyle and technology tree. Explore a randomly generated world filled with special features and threatening wildlife that can crush your troop's morale. Secure control of powerful ancient artefacts to grant you an edge against rival factions.
Construct cities, buildings and fortifications to expand your empire and produce an army to vanquish your foes. Harvest resources and research new technologies to fuel and upgrade your machinery of war.
Progress through a different storyline with each faction as their destiny on Gladius Prime, a world tainted by the warp, unfolds. In the end, when all the dust has settled, only one faction can emerge victorious.
Command a wide array of devastating weaponry, issue city edicts and deploy tactical operations. Recruit hero units that possess distinct special abilities and can be equipped with items, ranging from advanced grenades to mighty relics of the past. As they become more and more powerful with each rank, they turn into true champions of your cause.
Posted on: July 13, 2018
MischiefMaker
Verified ownerGames: 818 Reviews: 66
More like Advance Wars than Civ
Do you remember when they brought Age of Empires and Age of Mythology to the Nintendo DS and changed them into Advance Wars-esque turn based strategy games with upgradeable cities? Gladius is like that for Dawn of War 1. The premise is that a warp storm has ravaged a once-prosperous Imperial stronghold, destroying everything, randomizing the map, and littering the place with Old One artifacts. It's a hex-grid turn-based strategy game with city founding/developing/spreading, units with a movement phase and an attacking phase who get overwatch if they finish their turn without firing, and cappable resource hexes and goodie hut-equivalents. The factions collect resources in significantly different ways that encourage different playstyles (Orkz gain resources by fighting and winning!) Research in this game isn't so much discovering new technologies civ-style but more building up your war infrastructure Dawn of War-style. With researchable upgrades, (like grenades for guardsmen) even beginning units have a role to play in the endgame. Units also gain XP up to 10 levels and a nice thing is kill XP is spread through nearby supporting units. Other than setting permanent alliances in the game setup, there is no diplomacy in this game. There isn't even city-capturing. You defeat your enemy by demolishing their capitol, which is heavily armored and has heavy defensive guns. In fact everything in this game has guns, even basic resource harvesting structures. The only victory besides total extermination is an optional story questline. Independent monsters are scary powerful in this game. Think Conquest of Elysium 4 powerful. And the AI is smart enough to retreat and heal heavily damaged units. You're going to be fighting a war before you even see the enemy. Aesthetics-wise it's the most professional-looking of the Slitherine 40K games, but it's still pretty bare-bones compared to modern standards. Like I said, a turn-based Dawn of War 1.
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