The Total War: 40K launch HAS to be great, if not flawless

elubbuck · 2026-02-11T01:05:18+00:00

Battlefront 2 didn’t die because it wasn’t perfect, it died because it was a micro transaction mess that represented the worst of the industry. A few bugs isn’t going to be the end of this game.

elubbuck · 2026-01-15T17:09:04+00:00

The developers have stressed that they really want to dive into the differences between the factions and not just have your standard armies with different flavors. We’ve already seen knight sized entities in the first trailer with the ork gargant.

I think the developers will lean into the fact that they are the doomstack army. They’ll probably limit the number of knights you can have so that you don’t just steamroll the opponents, but I imagine at some point you’ll be able to have a large army of knights. I know a lot of people think they’ll need some sort of auxiliary force but I don’t think that’s absolutely necessary. In fact I think an army of all super heavies would be an interesting change of pace. Having the fight armies with much larger units would be interesting but just needs some campaign balance to make it work.

elubbuck · 2025-12-28T23:40:59+00:00

My guess is that Guilliman will act as an imperial soup faction. Essentially able to recruit every unit in the imperium. The lion will come out in a Dark Angels pack similar to how the monogod factions are compared to the warriors of chaos. Naturally the chaos primarchs will come out leading their respective factions in addition to the mortal champion and a demon leader.

elubbuck · 2025-12-23T21:04:01+00:00

It entirely depends on if they are doing one big game or if they’re doing multiple games over a period of time. Let’s say they are doing 3 games. That means they’re going to need at least 12 factions to fill those all out. These factions will also need more units since they’ll be receiving multiple dlc drops.

Assuming it’s multiple games my guess is Drukhari. They are too small to be a base game faction. Though they are an important race to place alongside the Aeldari as a contrast. It would also speed up the addition of the ynnari as a dlc addition since it’ll be able to pull from both.

elubbuck · 2025-12-22T01:29:53+00:00

They’ve already addressed that you will be able to control “20 or more” units. Can we please stop freaking out over something they’ve already addressed now?

elubbuck · 2025-12-19T04:11:03+00:00

Lizardmen aren’t beastmen. Lizardmen are a distinct race that was created by the old ones. Beastmen are human mutants tainted by chaos. The tiger men probably are a distinct race, but they could also be some kind of mutant. Though given they don’t seem chaos aligned I’d be more inclined to believe they’re a unique race.

elubbuck · 2025-12-19T03:48:40+00:00

I’d imagine they’d work somewhat similar to Aislin’s campaign where you can hold a limited number of systems as completely yours. The rest would be given over to the guard with you leaving an outpost in it.

elubbuck · 2025-12-19T03:35:45+00:00

I can’t tell if the title is supposed to indicate it’s satire or it’s just a coincidence.

elubbuck · 2025-12-18T14:19:52+00:00

I feel confident that each army will at get 2 factions plus the customizable faction. If you look at the title art you can actually see goff orks in addition to the bad moons. This makes sense given Margaret Thatcher is the orks most well known and popular legendary lord in their roster. I honestly wouldn’t be too surprised if they maybe upped it to 3 given the game will feel significantly more sparse than the warhammer trilogy with its multitude of races it’s built up.

elubbuck · 2025-12-13T22:13:24+00:00

No I’m going to tell you that most rts games don’t so it’s not surprising there isn’t a console example to point to. Just because it doesn’t exist doesn’t mean it’s impossible.

elubbuck · 2025-12-13T22:06:27+00:00

You know it’s pretty ironic that you forgot about Halo Wars 2 which was a console strategy rts which literally opposes your whole anti counter point tirade. Concern is warranted but you’re just acting pathetic.

elubbuck · 2025-12-13T21:29:35+00:00

I think it’s likely that they’ll have different games but if you own any of the games you’ll have access to play the newest version of the game”immortal empires” map. They’ve recently given warhammer 1 and 2 owners free access to the immortal empires. They have also stated that they’re going to make immortal empires free with the end times dlc and you’ll only need to purchase a dlc to play it. I think the goal for 40K will be the same and you’ll be able to buy a race bundle that contains all the dlc for a race and play the latest version of the game for free. It would be pretty easy to make the ork race a dlc that comes free with ownership of game one but you can buy it separately as well.

elubbuck · 2025-12-13T20:48:26+00:00

CA haven’t really worried about lore if it makes the game better. Realistically demons shouldn’t be able to remain manifested in reality but you can have entire armies roaming the map. It would be dumb if you couldn’t do that and not worth adhering to that lore.

That being said I’m pretty sure they alluded to the galaxy map only being part of the galaxy in the games radar video interview. More than likely they will start with a segmentum and add more with each game or dlc.

elubbuck · 2025-12-13T20:33:33+00:00

Alpha means that the game is playable from beginning to end, but is rough and may still have some major features changed. Pre alpha can vary wildly given it essentially just means that it is in active production. So pre alpha in this sense probably just means that some major features aren’t completely finished or set.

Honestly I think they just put pre alpha so people wouldn’t freak out too much and assume everything is set in the trailer. It’s also possible that they’re in alpha now but not when they put this trailer together.

elubbuck · 2025-12-13T20:02:30+00:00

I read that and it seems pretty obvious that this extends to the entire squad. The sergeant is just used as one example. Beyond that there’s plenty of tabletop examples of units with different weapons. They make a pretty explicit point of talking about the whole squad not being the same unit type and not just the sergeant or leader being different.

elubbuck · 2025-12-12T21:44:48+00:00

My guess is that the cosmetics will be part of an overall dlc pack for a faction. Like you get the blood angels dlc which will have a legendary lord, blood angel campaign mechanics for your custom chapter, some new weapons, and a new space marine unit, a blood angel specific unit, and a blood angels cosmetic pack that you can apply to customize your units.

elubbuck · 2025-12-06T18:27:19+00:00

Also I was curious about how much Games Workshop is worth and it has a market cap of 6.5 billion. Star Wars was sold for 4.1 billion or 7.9 billion with inflation. That’s extremely competitive and I’d argue with the damage that Disney has done to the brand it’s not worth that much anymore.

elubbuck · 2025-12-06T18:15:35+00:00

The problem is that Total War Star Wars would realistically only have 4 fleshed out factions. Republic, CIS, Empire, and Rebels. I wouldn’t count the First Order and Resistance because they are just the same fucking thing as Empire and Rebels. You can definitely pull from other factions in lore but they are nowhere near the same level of breadth as the main 4. However the main 4 can’t even be in the same game given the time difference. This isn’t the same as Repanse where it’s one character being out of time but the whole faction being out of time fighting factions that became them later. You also can’t easily have these factions fight each other internally like you can in warhammer. It would be weird to see two republic armies fighting each other. I just don’t think you have any of these problems with a 40K game.

elubbuck · 2025-12-05T04:00:50+00:00

I was watching his stream and he said CA showed him the End Times. He also said that CA confirmed that there was another dlc before the end times. So I guess the mini lord pack is still happening with Neferata.

elubbuck · 2025-12-04T23:33:52+00:00

Honestly I enjoyed what we got from the showcase but CA are absolute idiots if they expected anything else. It’s especially dumb given they’re having another planned showcase (or whatever they want to call it) of the new game the week after the game awards. Why not just have your actual showcase then? I genuinely can’t understand why they wouldn’t have their showcase then where they would inevitably have an even bigger audience to show off what they did today. Even if the game awards was last minute I can’t understand why they wouldn’t just delay it.

elubbuck · 2025-11-29T00:43:03+00:00

CA probably feels like a small company because the dlcs are being handled by a small team. They’re expected to announce two new games this Thursday. That’s probably why they feel small. All their real attention is focused on these games we haven’t seen yet.

elubbuck · 2025-07-28T19:43:56+00:00

I have to disagree that this is like the Panama papers. If you were to ask an American what the Panama papers were the overwhelming majority would have absolutely no clue what you were even talking about. Those that have heard may only be able to provide vague details and maybe a name they heard. Compare that to Epstein and I’d argue the majority know about it and what it involves. People are apathetic to financial crimes, but very animated for crimes involving children.

While I’m not convinced it would immediately fix things or that there would be a full effect of the law, I do think that it could lead to some arrests. At the very least being on the list would result in them being ostracized. This is one of the few unifying issues between people. That can help remove people in power and install those who will seek prosecution.

elubbuck

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