No,i mean that there isn't a single great Warhammer game. Most of them are garbage and there are a few decent ones,but not a single great one. I noticed that most of the garbage tends to stay close to the boardgame rules and forgets that it is a computer game.
On the contrary, no Warhammer game ever tried to approach the boardgame rules because:
1) GW would have gone nuclear (they were incredibly aggressive and defensive regarding the tabletop rules, to avoid "redundancy" with the tabletop rules, thinking that it would have cut into their sales. They let out Total Warhammer only because they nuked the Old World, and you'll never get a Field of Glory equivalent)
2) The tabletop rules for Warhammer are complete trash nowadays. They were adequate in the 90ies (if a tad unbalanced) and proceeded to become weirder and worse in the decades following. Nowadays Warhammer (both 40k and AoS) is a weirdo abomination of cargo cult design
and insanely shitty "updates" that make the game flat-out puzzling to play for someone used to "real" tabletop wargames (bar Bolt Action, probably, because Bolt Action is 40k 3rd edition with Nazis instead of Space Marines).
Made-up TB rules are easier to develop, simple as that. Even with Panzer General clones, you get good games (Rites) or messy confusing what the fuck (Armageddon).
I'd love to play Mechanicus, but the
arrrr versions I've found have
massive framerate problems. I don't exactly get why the hell the reqs are so high.
Something like Darklands but in th Empire would be perfect!
Seeing the attempts with the Inquisitor game, don't ask because you'll get monkey paw. GW's approach is to throw the license at everyone and hope they make a buck, and the Old World is dead and buried for 'em.
(Also I liked Mark of Chaos a lot for the dubbing - TOWARDS IMMORTALITY!, CHOOSE NOW THORGAR CHOOSE YOUR ETERNAL MASTER- the ambience and....that's it pretty much. Also sexy delves in the exp pack. Pity it's unplayable with recent systems).
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