Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector

Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector is a turn-based strategy game set in the 41st Millennium. You choose a faction, build an army, command heroes and units, and fight using abilities, weapons and tactical planning.

The campaign

The 20-mission single-player campaign follows the aftermath of the Devastation of Baal. As Sergeant Carleon and his allies, you fight to purge the Tyranid infestation on Baal Secundus and preserve the honour of the Blood Angels.

Game modes

Skirmish mode lets you choose a map on the surface of Baal, the faction you lead and the faction you face. You can customize your army by selecting units, heroes and their loadouts. Choose from three objective types: Exterminatus, Conqueror and Strategic Command.

Planetary Supremacy is a conquest-style skirmish campaign in which you lead a faction through procedurally generated battles. Capture tiles, acquire strategic resources and expand your army as you try to conquer the planet, then fight your enemies in skirmish battles.

In the single-player Daemonic Incursion mode, waves of Khornate daemons enter realspace to spill blood, collect skulls and overrun your forces. Your objective in this last-stand mode is to survive.

Armies and abilities

The Blood Angels and Tyranids each field a roster of units, including heroes and powerful battlefield forces. The Blood Angels roster includes a Lieutenant, Primaris Librarian, Sanguinary Priest, Death Company, Inceptors, Intercessors, Hellblasters, Aggressors, Assault Marines, Techmarine, Furioso Dreadnought, Librarian Dreadnought, Baal Predator, Land Speeder, Land Speeder Tornado and Primaris Invictor Tactical Warsuit. Their HQ flyer is the Stormraven.

The Tyranids can deploy Warriors, Termagants, Hormagaunts, Venomthropes, Gargoyles, Trygon, Tervigon, Exocrine, Thornback, Tyrannofex, Hive Tyrant, Genestealers, Prime, Pyrovore and Biovore. Their HQ flyer is the Harpy. The Primaris Invictor Tactical Warsuit, Pyrovore and Biovore were added in free updates.

Across the armies, you can use over 60 abilities and 50 weapons. Each faction has a Momentum system that can cause a unit to Surge, letting it chain together superhuman actions or use the opportunity to further upgrade its abilities.

Air support

Command Points let you call in faction-specific air support. The Blood Angels’ Stormraven can fire a missile barrage or deep strike a unit of veteran Assault Marines behind enemy lines. The Tyranid Harpy can use Sonic Screech against enemy defenses or scatter the battlefield with Spore Mines.

Multiplayer

You can play against friends in live or asynchronous multiplayer, or use hotseat mode.