Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-216.80.140.168-20140620200240/@comment-216.80.140.168-20140716165522

Slug gunner fan wrote: MasterofAgony693 wrote: A Great Crusade RTS would be wonderful. Could you imagine having the Emperor himself and the primarchs as heroes?? Maybe, though I've never been a fan of the "hero unit" concept in RTS games being able to field a Primarch would be awesome.

As I said the Supreme Commander and Planetary Annihilation engines would be good choices for the game, because of the sheer expansive scale they allow which would really capture what true 40K battles are like in a way Tabletop and DoW never did. (The only issue being the colourful, cartoony nature of PA engine graphics which doesn't really suit the gritty diseselpunk or Gothic feel of many factions' aesthetics, really the only faction it works in favour of is the anime-like Tau)

A 40K RTS (sadly DoW never showed us this) allows for really diverse faction calculus: Space Marines and Nids as the Balanced; Guard, Crons and Orks as the Powerhouse; Dark Eldar and Tau as the Cannon; Craftworld Eldar and Chaos as the Subversive.

Great, now I have to spend all day writing an awful crossover fic to get all the ideas out of my head that were spawned by all this talk of 40k and RTS games >.< Well if you wish for an RTS of Warhammer 40k: The Great Crusade happen then we'll just hope for Games Workshop to give the rights for a video game company capable of making RTS games (besides Blizzard) to make it happen. Then we're completely out of luck.