Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters

BAD BALANCING!!!! This game has probably got the worst balancing issues I've ever seen in a game of it's class (turn based squad combat). The game features heavy impact rng elements both in combat and in campaign, which can and potentially will ruin your day. You can literally lose an entire campaign worth days of gaming to rng factors. The same accounts for battles. When I first started this game I played on normal, was progressing fine, until one mission the game randomly started throwing plague marines by the droves at me, not just some, but like 12 at a time + cultists and a mage. The game also features a "chaos boon" meter which regularly fills up every turn to give the enemy some nice buffs every few turns, or outright call new ones. There is a great deal of effects this can cause and some are simply absurdly out of balance. Take armour for instance, which comes in points before hp. A terminator armour in this game gives 2 armour. A regular chaos plague marine gets 3 (wtf), then a chaos boon happens which gives every enemy unit +5 additional armour for 3 turns, which means you will have a super hard time doing any damage at all as even chaos cultists get tank like a…

Personal recommendation: Play on lowest difficulty. The balancing on this game is quite bad. Everything else, it was good. As a W40K fan, the story was the best part and of course the Astartes themselves. XCOM2 has more depth and engaging mechanics, but what's here is good enough as a XCOM-like game. 7.5/10 Get it on sale, or wait for the next instalment of this series (Chaos Gate - Deathwatch)

Well, this is basically XCOM in the Warhammer universe. It takes a while to stop thinking in the XCOM way and start playing aggressively. The game's mechanics are solid, and combat is really fun, especially when you start using the environment. If you're into Warhammers, picking up this game is a no-brainer

X-COM with enormous pauldrons? Yes. Immaculate artwork (if a touch cartoony for 40k)? Yes. Inquisitor Boobsuit? Sigh....yeah, that too. I guess you had to expect they'd do that. Even her scars are absurdly arranged so as to preserve her sex appeal to people who have developed an unfortunate sexual attraction to animated women. Aside from that one point, I can't fault much about Chaos Gate. The gameplay can be a bit overwhelming if you aren't used to turn based tactics/managerial kind of games, but any fan of the genre will figure it out fast. The storyline is typically hammy and forgettable, but that's to be expected. You fight a "plauge" with squads of Space Marines equipped with everything but medicine. I found the excessive focus on ship repair a little distracting, it leads one to wonder why they didn't deploy a ship with an intact set of engines to deal with a Nurgle plague that's wiping out systems by the handful. You have to be carerful how you direct your tiny bed of resources so as to avoid deploying exterminatus too frequently. The objective is to stop the spread, not wipe out the entire sector. I wouldn't have minded larger squad sizes as well, but it makes missions c…

I'm new to the tactical rpg genre, and enjoyed the gameplay as well as the preparing for battle strategies.

its no xcom and the timers are really bugging me without really knowing how urgent it is that i have to throw caution out of the window. But mechanics are solid and fun.