May 1, 2026
Total War: Warhammer 40,000's map destruction is "the biggest mental shift" for the strategy series in years, but "we've kept it to areas where it really works"
I confess, I don't think very hard about cover when I'm playing Total War games – I'm too busy micromanaging cavalry and ensuring all of my ranged unit formations are nice and stretched out, with minimal depth for a cannon ball to travel through. I'll have to address that mentality when playing Total War: Warhammer 40,000 , which is not only a strategy game in which you can do an Exterminatus on planets, but al...
I confess, I don't think very hard about cover when I'm playing Total War games – I'm too busy micromanaging cavalry and ensuring all of my ranged unit formations are nice and stretched out, with minimal depth for a cannon ball to travel through. I'll have to address that mentality when playing Total War: Warhammer 40,000 , which is not only a strategy game in which you can do an Exterminatus on planets, but also one in which players can destroy many other objects smaller than planets, including objects your squishy Imperial Guardsmen are cowering behind. Read more
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