I'm GMT+1. We can work with that.
I don't know (or forgot?) your username on Steam but I'm easily found in Codex Diversity Squad as, surprise, Mangoose! Just pm me if I'm on, if I don't reply quickly I'm probably not at my computer.
(Unless you're
Konjad)
Don't worry about my experience playing DoW2. I've finished all of them (Retribution with all the species) at Primarch difficulty. Autism, you see.
I'd vote against playing it at a higher difficulty level though, it all ends up in playing just Cyrus and the others are merely a sideshow. I'm not joking, Primarch difficulty is Cyrus central for obvious reasons. Plus it's merely a bonus on enemy damage, not more interesting fights or else.
Tbh, the original DoW2 is borderline unplayable ("boss fight" design) but Chaos Rising is very nicely done with some C&C. Retribution is weirdly my favourite, merely for the options you are given and for some funnies (HAT, IG campaign). I'd bet we can find a hole when we can both play, despite, well, jobs.
Yeah CR was the best. Dat C&C. I remember one of them distinctly, the "gate" one that I don't want to spoil.
I never played Vanilla, not sure I have the urge. I didn't like Retribution mostly because the campaigns, encounter-wise, were almost the same.
Can't remember what mode(s) I played DoW2 in. All I remember is that I wanted "faithfully Codex" sized squads so... Well, it was cool, but man were there a lot of dead bodies.
If you can stand my terrible english accent, of course. Mamma mia
I still sound like a nerdy high schooler. "Still" because I am more than a decade older than that but whatever. Then again, I had this voice changing software and I was able to create a decent Space Marine (with vox) voice while playing Eternal Crusade. Maybe I still have it around. Wait, probably not since my hard drives have been through some... trouble in recent years (by "trouble" I mean breaking/bending SATA data pins... and I've always built computers for myself, and built ~a hundred when doing part time IT work at a uni while studying at the uni, because we replaced all the computers in the Engineering library floor. 600 divided between... 4 of us? (Not that it was hard, of course, being barebones library computers).
And yet I always break my own shit. I made a promise to never try overclocking again and I hope I keep that promise. Have a feeling I may have killed some mobo capacitors already. Being Chinese (aka an Asian Jew) means I always buy bang-for-the-buck. So yeah....
For some reason "Templar Battleforce" looks like a Space Hulk clone but apparently it has a variety of map types.
Templar Battleforce is very nice, if small and amateurish.
What I meant was that I thought it was corridor-y, like in a Space Hulk, but from reviews it seems like there are open areas. I don't mind amatuerish, tbh, because these recent year(s) amateurs have been making some nice turn-based tactics games (that are finally better looking than Wesnoth or Telepath Tactics lol). I really need to stop being lazy and try Warbands Bushido.
There are countless new WH40k games, but many evade my sight because.... they breed like rabbits, I swear.
Yeah... there's a Panzer General clone (like, please, I'd rather just play the original Panzer(s) or even Fantasy Wars) and then there's 40k BattleChess. I don't know what goes on with Slitherine because they started out making faithful Bloodbowl, then Space Hulk, and now a tabletop wargameish 40k even if not the same phase mechanics. I wonder if GW suddenly realized that video games with DLC sell better than overpriced miniatures. While still making those miniatures of course.
Actually I have this weird thought that a direct video game adaptation of 40k would be bad because the tabletop mechanics leave... a lot to be desired. I've only enjoyed Infinity (shoutout to
Vaarna_Aarne) and maybe would enjoy Warmachine if I felt like playing it. (The video game adaptation for Warmachine sucks for single player though, btw, and I don't have the balls to play it online given that in tabletop it's custom to lose every Warmachine game you play for your first few months)