Battlefleet Gothic: Armada
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is the RTS videogame adaptation of Games Workshop's classic tabletop game, pitting the Chaos, Imperium, Eldar, and Orks against each other in visceral space-battles. Additionally an…
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Tindalos Interactive, released 21 April 2016 on PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $1.49 at Humble Store.
What Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Tindalos Interactive and released in 2016. It was published by Focus Entertainment. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is the RTS videogame adaptation of Games Workshop's classic tabletop game, pitting the Chaos, Imperium, Eldar, and Orks against each other in visceral space-battles. Additionally an extensive multiplayer mode with persistent fleets where up to 4 players can battle simultaneously, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada also features a big story campaign, taking place during the 12th Black Crusade and putting players in the middle of the Gothic War that raged between the Imperium and Abaddon the Despoiler. Players will be at the centre of every fight, commanding fleets of gigantic ships as the Chaos unleash a sequential chain of surprise attacks on Imperium worlds at the start…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 50 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Warhammer 40,000 series
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is the 52nd of 136 entries we hold in the Warhammer 40,000 series. The next entry was Eisenhorn: Xenos in 2016. Its critic score of 75 is 4 points above the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader - Void Shadows at 100.
How it was received
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 7 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD FX-4100 X4 (3,6 GHz)/Intel Core i5-2500 (3,3 GHz), 4096 MB RAM and 1 GB, DirectX 11, AMD Radeon HD 6850/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 10GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.49 at Humble Store, 90% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada launched on 21 April 2016, within three weeks of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Doom, DOOM (2016) and Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Doom, DOOM (2016), Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition.
Official trailer
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