Recently something came to my attention. Blistered Thumbs is having opened positions! Well me a simple mortal man could never truly expect to reach into such ranks of greatness. However I am the worlds ultimate fool and will attempt to apply anyways. So I'm going to make a few quick reviews to show that I can belong to mount blistered thumbs.. Olympus, place.. God dammit you know what I'm trying to say.
For those of you who don't know Warhammer 40,000 is a minature game produced by games workshop that has been around for around 30 years now. The game Warhammer 40,000 came from their first game (to my knowledge) called Space Hulk which was basically the movie Aliens except the marines were bad asses in power armor! I'd explain more but likely in this scenario you wouldn't be reading this if you weren't already a fan of the miniature game or the Dawn of War series.
10. Some Horrible Portraits
This is a fun game series it really is (except soul storm.. I hate soul storm.) But here is an issue that should of never of been well... an issue. Some of the portraits are god awful. Some examples being the portrait having horrible art trying to show an entire squad member or in the example of the "Mek Boy" looking different from the unit itself. My favorites are likely the assault squad and librarian.. The assault squad basically showing a members backside and the librarian just making that AWFUL face at you. I know it's supposed to be him trying to do an epic battle shout but the sounds he makes are actually rather calm cool and collected.
Match my paint scheme dammit; Another thing I dislike and this some can be very disagreeable with but it would of been very nice. Could the damn portraits match up to the paint scheme? Likely a feature that would take more time and money but I wouldn't mind lower quality portraits if they looked like my paint scheme.
Match my paint scheme dammit; Another thing I dislike and this some can be very disagreeable with but it would of been very nice. Could the damn portraits match up to the paint scheme? Likely a feature that would take more time and money but I wouldn't mind lower quality portraits if they looked like my paint scheme.
09. What chaos god do we worship again?
Insanity, Decay, Consistent Mutation and, Excess. Take your pick.Alright this is something that seems to happen more so in the earlier games but as many are aware of the Warhammer 40k background. Chaos Cults tend to worship one god or all the gods. Its either All or one and as we also know some chaos gods hate others.. Now it is understandable not to make 5 separate templates for the same army (would of been nice however.) But the editor was completely asleep while writing the first expansion for the original Dawn of War called "Winter Assault." In this game you finally take control over the rest of the armies at war in the game (except space marines, they already got their own) each belong to one side of two. Simply Order and Disorder. The chaos space marines in this are dedicated Khorn in fact they're one of the most important chaos chapters in the game the "World Eaters." Well to try not to further nerd out Khorn hates magic/psykers. He's all about brute strength in fighting, loves melee, blood for the blood god, all that good stuff. So we have a sorcerer. Alright fair enough, maybe he is just savagely beaten every night to stay in line and to do as he's told. Oh wait now we have... Flamers of Tzeentch (a rival god to Khorne.) This honestly shouldn't happened, they should of kept with "Undivided" cults such as, Alpha Legion, Word Bearers, Black Legion and, etc, because only then it would make sense for the GIANT winged daemon of doom summoned from the blood god to not crush the puny Tzeentch daemons. Of course now a days things are different in the game and rivalry between chaos gods isn't really there anymore like it was. However the rule of Sorcerers not being able to take the mark of Khorne is still in place thankfully.
08. Yeah so about THAT Daemon...
"I am not your herald, warp spawn!" -Gabriel Angelos "Are you not? You released me." -Mysterious Daemon
07. Prologues are always nice
"I am not your herald, warp spawn!" -Gabriel Angelos "Are you not? You released me." -Mysterious DaemonThis pisses me off to no end. At the end of Dawn of War we have this almighty Daemon with this complete absolute "Just as planned" thing going on, being powered by the sacrifices of those who died in battle on the planet Tartarus (naming a planet that is asking for bad luck) and being released due to the foolish action against the better advice of the Eldar (you would think "YOU`LL DOOM US ALL!"would be something to heed from a creature that lives thousands of years. So yes we have a threatening Daemon running around that had an entire planet as its shrine basically. Now you would think the epic ending leading up to what could of been an epic crusade would be perfect sequel bait! But, nope just that plot just vanishes. I checked if there was a book or something where the Daemon was killed but, nothing. I dunno maybe he's a special character in one of the army books? Overall this enrages me greatly.
07. Prologues are always nice
Please note this never actually happened.
I wont lie, playing "Dark Crusade" and "Soul Storm" I was a little confused as to what had happened previously in continuity. It wasn't exactly completely clear on every detail
on what happened in the previous game I.E who won in Dark Crusade? And what if I was new to the series? The games don't require the previous expansions or even the base game to work (I.E you can own just dark crusade and the same thing goes for Dawn of War II and its expansion soon to be expansions.) We only find out some of the things to happen in Dark Crusade and Soul Storm in "Chaos Rising" the expansion to Dawn of War II that the space marine commanders from "Dark Crusade" and "Soul Storm" were defeated, however it still doesn't explain the actual victor/victors of the conflicts. Well at least in Dark Crusade it told us what happened in the previous game. We also know that Captain Thule is the victor of Dark Crusade in Dawn of War II but if he was victor how is it the Imperial Guard commander was shown in the intro of soul storm?
Now I know from Dark Crusade and Soul Storm the objective was more to make the campaign like a table top campaign. But when you reference previous events and such it is really nice have clear detail as to what happened. Plus once again why if I was new to the series? In reality it does sound really fun to emulate dark crusade in an actual game store with others.
06. Eliphas is made a bitch
03. The good the bad and just rip out my freaking ears now
KHAAAOOSSS ITH STRONG
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Alright I just needed to emphasize the level of WTF that image brings. Alright so Eliphas is a word bearer, basically a space Mormon except he will kill you. Eliphas is sly bad ass who is incredibly witty with his every remark. But apparently at one point in his career of summoning horrible daemons and spreading chaos amongst the galaxy he failed some how and was tortured for around 1000 years in a place called "The Basilica of Torture." Now in the strong hold defeat of Chaos in Dark Crusade we see a Daemon Prince communicate with Eliphas. Eliphas claims his worshipers were too weak and the prince simply responds "It is a poor shepherd who blames his flock. This is failure is yours and yours alone " At the idea of returning to the basilica Eliphas starts firing on the Prince in fear of returning to such a nightmare. In which the Daemon Prince replies "Fear not apostle the basilica is reserved for those who may redeem themselves." The prince makes some hand movements and Eliphas cries out "No!" Before exploding.
So he's dead right? You would think he was dead but do to his popularity amongst fans of the series they decided to bring him back in Dawn of War II's expansion "Chaos Rising." No a member of the Black Legion and not the Word Bearers but hey who said Chaos was organized? But this is never explained as to how he comes back and why hes now a member of the black legion. I actually would of liked to hear that! Oh and at the ending of the game you see him tied down (armor and all) about ready to be tortured by a more famous character in Warhammer Abbadon the Despoiler (aka the man who failed like 16 times to take over a planet right next to where he should be most powerful.) and cried out claiming that the Blood Ravens will fall. I just find it odd that they know of the characters popularity and just did THAT to him.
No, sadly I am not.
In more so an apparent problem in Dawn of War II there are some really off choices for commanders that I know they're there for multilayer reasons but c'mon! There is no excuse for not having Autarch as an option. They do EVERYTHING literally. They're trained in every art of war the eldar do. Also you could add a thing or two that they normally wouldn't have I mean after all relic you made up your own two Tyranid units (but I`ll try to excuse them from this since in the actual army Tyranids don't have many commander options.)
Now for all Starcraft 2 players I want you to imagine this. You first units may be produced from your HQ, however in the case of Terran it would be reapers that only cost minerals that are always cloaked.
This was a huge problem when I used to play Dark Crusade. The first military unit produced from the Tau is INVISIBLE. You can actually win by producing 1 squad of Stealth Suits and just kill anything they put out, the moment it comes out. Just sweep in, shoot up their early units so they can't capture points, and shoot down workers to prevent them from doing anything. Added this with the fact they can use JUMP PACKS (Jet Packs) and eventually can be upgraded to go from anti infantry to anti vehicle and building. By the time that comes along you`ll likely have turrets and your appropriate diction units around but you have to rush to proper tech for detection it seemed in many cases. That and if you ever mass them up (note that if they can be detected they wont stand a chance against a proper army) and give them their Fusion guns (anti vehicle and building gun) You can actually wipe out key structures and jump away well before an army can come to counter them (but that will of course be YOUR fault for not building ANY defense near you key buildings.)
So he's dead right? You would think he was dead but do to his popularity amongst fans of the series they decided to bring him back in Dawn of War II's expansion "Chaos Rising." No a member of the Black Legion and not the Word Bearers but hey who said Chaos was organized? But this is never explained as to how he comes back and why hes now a member of the black legion. I actually would of liked to hear that! Oh and at the ending of the game you see him tied down (armor and all) about ready to be tortured by a more famous character in Warhammer Abbadon the Despoiler (aka the man who failed like 16 times to take over a planet right next to where he should be most powerful.) and cried out claiming that the Blood Ravens will fall. I just find it odd that they know of the characters popularity and just did THAT to him.
05. Proper Command
No, sadly I am not.In more so an apparent problem in Dawn of War II there are some really off choices for commanders that I know they're there for multilayer reasons but c'mon! There is no excuse for not having Autarch as an option. They do EVERYTHING literally. They're trained in every art of war the eldar do. Also you could add a thing or two that they normally wouldn't have I mean after all relic you made up your own two Tyranid units (but I`ll try to excuse them from this since in the actual army Tyranids don't have many commander options.)
04. Stealth Suits of DOOM
Now for all Starcraft 2 players I want you to imagine this. You first units may be produced from your HQ, however in the case of Terran it would be reapers that only cost minerals that are always cloaked. This was a huge problem when I used to play Dark Crusade. The first military unit produced from the Tau is INVISIBLE. You can actually win by producing 1 squad of Stealth Suits and just kill anything they put out, the moment it comes out. Just sweep in, shoot up their early units so they can't capture points, and shoot down workers to prevent them from doing anything. Added this with the fact they can use JUMP PACKS (Jet Packs) and eventually can be upgraded to go from anti infantry to anti vehicle and building. By the time that comes along you`ll likely have turrets and your appropriate diction units around but you have to rush to proper tech for detection it seemed in many cases. That and if you ever mass them up (note that if they can be detected they wont stand a chance against a proper army) and give them their Fusion guns (anti vehicle and building gun) You can actually wipe out key structures and jump away well before an army can come to counter them (but that will of course be YOUR fault for not building ANY defense near you key buildings.)
03. The good the bad and just rip out my freaking ears now
KHAAAOOSSS ITH STRONGImage from http://thunderspoons.blogspot.com/
The dawn of war series has hired some really good voice talent. But it also some horrible, horrible voice talent. Some this could easily be due to bad directing but some of the voices and dialog to go with them.. Makes you wish for a quick painless death. Actually you'd settle for painful if it meant getting away from some of these voices quicker. For this example let's use the much more famous speech (since I couldn't find a video of unit audio clips.)
I can't see where I'm going.
Don't judge a book by its cover. Or else you would think this would be the most epic game EVER.
It's a bit amazing that this is worse than a balance issue.
Oh and let's not forget this little speech
“Look! Rhinos! RHINOS! Our enemies hide in METAL BOXES, the cowards! THE FOOLS! We… We should take away their METAL BOXES!”
Oh and let's not forget this little speech
“Look! Rhinos! RHINOS! Our enemies hide in METAL BOXES, the cowards! THE FOOLS! We… We should take away their METAL BOXES!”
02. Flying units
I can't see where I'm going.Flying units just didn't fit in well and that's actually really sad to say. They looked akward in some cases when they were being kept in one play, whenever they moved the animation had a tendency to be a bit choppy and finally the ultimate in fail, On occasion obstacles would still register as being in their path! It's a little weird when they ignore everything till suddenly a tree in their way somehow. However it was nice to see they were all fragile to prevent them from unbelievable harassment. Flying units feel like a last second decision that just wasn't properly done.
Oh and The Tau Barracuda is a bit OP.
Oh and The Tau Barracuda is a bit OP.
01. Soulstorm (Game)
Don't judge a book by its cover. Or else you would think this would be the most epic game EVER.Now I know this is a cheap spot but listen. Soul Storm wasn't exactly very well made. Along with this it has everything on this list in full force basically of the fallowing 2, 3, 4, 7, 8(like every expansion,) 9, 10, and a bit of 5. It introduced #2 and is the source of the video of #3. Oh and the source of "Metal Boxes" meme. Oh and let's not forget the huge deal it made about planetary conquest when in reality it was the same thing as Dark Crusade's system, not a thing different. I thought it was going to make every planet a big as Kronus from Dark Crusade! Well instead the game WAS basically as big as Dark Crusade! That is a huge let down man. I know Dawn of War II was in production and this was to hold everyone over but Ive seen fan mods with more love and care!
nice this is fantastic
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