

"But really, what you're worried about is the advance of the corruption levels on these various systems - once they get to a certain level, then they're at grave risk of kind of pushing things over the edge, in terms of what we call the Morbus, which is this cataclysmic event. "There are a large number of solar systems that you can travel to, and the Bloom is starting to appear in the sector and it will continue to appear, and you'll basically get eruptions of the Bloom over time, and you'll have to decide which of those eruptions you want to deal with based one where you physically are within the solar system, how quickly you can get there," he said. Watch on YouTube Here's the cinematic from Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters featuring the Exterminatus in action.Ĭreative director Noah Decter-Jackson explained that this is the "main focus" of the strategic campaign and Starmap when he elaborated to us some more: It's your job, commanding a squad of Grey Knights - mysterious, elite Space Marines - to save as many planets as possible and ultimately stop the spread.

The central premise here is that a plague called the Bloom has broken out across a series of planets, thanks to Nurgle, the Chaos "Plague Lord" whose MO is being gross on a large scale. Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters, a new turn-based tactics game in the vein of XCOM, coming 5th May, will let you fire it, and is actually the first 40K game to feature it as a proper mechanic. Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters The other day, for instance, I learned about the Exterminatus, a giant, Galactic Empire-inspired space gun that blows up planets when all other options - Space Marines, Grey Knights, Titans, Orbital Bombardments, et cetera - have been exhausted. One of the great delights of being a purely surface-level Warhammer 40K enjoyer is that around every corner there's always some new, human-made horror to discover.
