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Take your ticket to Armageddon!
Sign up for the Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon Beta





Epsom, UK – July 18, 2014.
Today we are overjoyed to share with you that Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon, one of the most anticipated turn-based strategy games of the year, is getting ready for release!

This detailed multiplatform wargame is now ready to enter the PC beta phase and we invite players to help us test it! By signing up for the beta, players will have a chance to be selected to be one of the lucky few, who will be able experience Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon before release and help us with the final touches, ensuring a smooth release later this year.

Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon is set during the Second War for Armageddon. In this hex-based, turn-based game developed by Flashback Games and The Lordz Games Studio, players will lead the Imperial forces of the Armageddon Steel Legion and Space Marines from a variety of Chapters against the Ork invasion through over 30 scenarios, on the hostile terrain of the planet and its gigantic Hive Cities. The game features a complex plot, involving known characters from the Warhammer 40,000 universe and while advancing through the campaign, the player will have the ability to carryover his core force from scenario to scenario.


Players can sign up for the beta by clicking here:

http://slitherine.com/beta_test





Get more information on Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon from its official product page at:

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/540/details/Warhammer.40,000:.Armageddon

Done.

Looking forward to this ^^

worth a go

hmm not sure about turn/hex based.

Edit: I mispoke, please see later posts.

Researching the developer, this reeks of more shovelware with 40k paint on it. It looks very much like their 2009 release of "Field of Glory".

Games Workshop needs to better cater who and where they license out their IP as this is watering it down.

this reeks of more shovelware with 40k paint on it

Based on what research?

Armageddon has nothing to do with Field of Glory, 0%, totally beside the point and even than, FOG is a very well known world wide respected and appreciated table top rule set books, just one out of hundreds of games and cross-platform products published by the Slitherine Group:

http://www.fieldofglory.com/


We have literally hundreds of games and award winning titles in our combined portfolio, stretching almost 20 years of being on top of the wargaming and strategy cross-platform market, over 100 developers are represented and producing around 35 new games published every year by the Slitherine Group:


http://www.slitherine.com/

http://www.matrixgames.com/

http://www.ageod.com/

http://www.thelordzgamesstudio.com/



About the Slitherine Group

The Slitherine Group is the world’s leading producer and publisher of digital wargames and strategy games. Under the Slitherine (www.slitherine.com), Matrix Games (www.matrixgames.com) and Ageod (www.ageod.com) brands it has published literally hundreds of games, with many award-winning titles in its portfolio and spanning all digital platforms, from home consoles to modern Smartphone’s and Tablets. Slitherine is also involved with book publishing, board gaming and works with a wide array of key licensing partners, such as HISTORY®, MILITARY HISTORY®, Games Workshop®, Horrible Histories™, Showtime, BBC, Osprey, Scholastic, Buzz Aldrin Enterprises and many others to deliver the best blend of historical accuracy in an exciting and entertaining way. Together the Group companies form the world’s largest organization specializing in this important and vibrant niche. The Slitherine Group’s mission over the coming years is to lead the way in innovation and growth in an ever expanding segment of the entertainment industry.

Yes, base all your research from the company trying to sell you the product.

Wiki the company(ies), find previous work, find reviews of precious work. No reviews is a bad sign (mediocre) and bad reviews are also telling. Compare screens from this game and their other work. Its quite obvious. Hex based game, 2000 era graphics. It received little coverage, most tepid to negative.

Like most of the recent 40k cash grabs. Much like the forthcoming MMO, former A2M, now behavior interactive, makers of zero MMOs and proud producers of hits like Naughty Bear and Wet.

Really wish GW would step up their filter.

.... find previous work, find reviews of precious work....It received little coverage, most tepid to negative


Total an utter bollocks and shameless untruth false statement


Here some reviews of Panzer Corps, just one of our games, we can present hundreds for dozens of games over the last 20 years:

Steam 70 reviews:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/268400


Metacritic average 80%+:


http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/panzer-corps


General reviews:

Politik Basis Review:
8/10 – “With Panzer Corps: Wehrmacht the joyful moments are dominant.”

BestGames.ru Review:
83% – “We have a reincarnation of the classic Panzer General with all the bells and whistles.”

Armchair General Review:
90% – “Overall, PanzerCorps is one of the best “beer and pretzels” turn based wargame releases in years. The game is very polished and stable. It is fun to play.”

Gamer Tell Review:
93% – “In its day, Panzer General was the best introductory WW2 game around and Panzer Corps is a worthy upgrade and addition to the genre.”

CPUGamer Review:
9/10 – “When it comes to being Panzer General, Panzer Corps beats the pants off the competition.”

Gamers Hall Review:
96% and Gold Award!-”Panzer Corps is a solid and loving overhaul of the classic Panzer General.”


Peliplaneetta Review:
90% – “…nothing short of brilliant.”

Gamer.no Review:
8/10 “Whether you”re Panzer General-veteran or a beginner who wants to try a serious strategy game without the absurd amount of detail and a rule book with the same number of pages that the Bible is, Panzer Corps is a very good buy.”

Warfare and Wargaming Review:
8.5/10 “Panzer Corps has successfully delivered a blitzkrieg of entertainment for strategy gamers everywhere.”

RTSguru Review
9/10 “This was seriously one of the best games that we have ever played. If you do not pick this up, you are missing out”

GameShark Editor`s Choice Award
GameShark Review
A-(90%) and GameShark Editor`s Choice Award: “Now that the official review is complete, if this were any other game it would go on the shelf next to other games that have been “finished” but I have every intention of firing it up again.”

GameSquad Review
85% “Panzer Corps is a wonderful tribute to the days of deep but easy to play wargames. Really, if you have ever wanted to get into wargaming but were scared off by the more hardcore fare out there, this is perfect opportunity.”

Entertainment Depot Review
9/10 and Editors Choice Award: “Panzer Corps is an engaging, addictive title that has seen and will continue to see many hours of play for some time to come. Highly recommended.”

Polish Onet Review
9/10 “Panzer Corps is enjoyable, heart melting, a sentimental journey to the times we were younger, had more time, less worries and games… games were better.”

Gamere.dk Review
8/10 “Panzer Corps manages 15 years after Panzer General to capture the exact same sentiment, and the gameplay still works just as well.”

The Wargamer Review
“Matrix, Slitherine and the Lordz Games Studios have done a superlative job not only of reviving a classic but improving it while keeping the original feel.”

PC4War Review
8/10 Front cover an 10 page review and interview on PC4War! “All honors to the developers as they restored an gaming masterpiece based on a proven concept and on deeply tactical gameplay.”

Gamespot Review
8/10 “Panzer Corps is a great turn-based strategic wargame that captures Panzer General”s deep and involving classic gameplay.” “Panzer Corps is a rare gem.”

Lookie Review
85% This successful remake of a great classic should be missed by no strategy gamer!

Gameokratie Review
Panzer Corps is a thoroughly enjoyable game that will give all Hobby Generals great fun. My advice: buy it yourselves now!

PC Games Review
85% and PC Games Award: Strategically and tactically challenging combat.

7idgaming Review
88% A great strategy game with addictive gameplay and high replay value.

Digitally Downloaded Review

Digitally Downloaded 4 stars out of 5

As a labour of love, it’s good to be able to say “Panzer General is back!” 4 stars out of 5!

Gamestar Review

Gamestar Gold Award
Panzer Corps is brilliant. 85% Gamestar Gold Award!
(German game magazine also published in Hungary, Czech Republic and China, Gamestar has an average monthly circulation of over 250,000 copies and is therefore the best sold PC computer game magazine in Europe)

Review on 4Players.de

4Players Gold Award
86% (Very Good) and Gold Medal – A thoroughly successful and addictive remake of Panzer General – tactical, complex, very good!

The Reticule Preview
You will find a game which is deeply layered and very involving.

Gamershall.de Preview
In summary, it seems that The Lordz Games and Slitherine did everything right, because Panzer Corps combines the strong points of the original Panzer General with the ease of modern convenience. If this first impression survives a second glance will be determined in a full review soon.

RiotHouseLP - Video review on Youtube

Historia Games - 7.0 / 10 - "Allied Corps is a pleasant standalone, avoiding the player to give yourself a headache, without fall in simplicity. However, there are some minor drawbacks that affect the realism".

Out of Eight - Video review on Youtube

Gamers Hall (German) - 88 % - "Allied Corps represents the logical continuation of the series and complements the existing title to the perspective of the Western Allies. At the same time it is proved that the familiar gameplay is still addictive and still do excellently entertained. Revolutionary changes are not expected, but they are probably also missed by anyone".

Der Stratege - 92% - "Allied Corps is a lot of fun to play, as it rewards careful planing and thinking. It is like a modern version of chess additionally it has a nice historical touch and is more complex than chess".

Digitally Downloaded - "Allied Corps wears its heritage well. Modern pretenders offer more visceral battles, but the core Panzer General-style gameplay still provides a worthwhile experience".

7idgaming - 92% - "Panzer Corps" can be recommended to anyone. Whether casual or recreational general. Whether young or old. The "Grand Campaign MegaPack" represents a very excellent compilation.

Gamers Hall.de - 84% - The Mega Pack includes all published campaigns and the latest patch. The fair price and the endless addition of emissions is a strong buy recommendation for amateur strategists

Game looks more like FoG with terrible graphics. Given the fast turnaround, I can almost bet its a reskin version.

That's a misunderstanding on my part, as they alsobmade Unity of Command which is decent, not great. However, there's more turds in that punchbowl than good.

I think the fact that you guys are working with Osprey should speak for itself as a mark of quality. *

I signed up for the beta, it took some fooling around though, because as soon as I signed up to your site it told me merge accounts and kept logging me out when I tried to enter for the beta program.

* That's not sarcasm by the way, but a proper compliment, unlike some here.

 TheKbob wrote:
Yes, base all your research from the company trying to sell you the product.

Wiki the company(ies), find previous work, find reviews of precious work. No reviews is a bad sign (mediocre) and bad reviews are also telling. Compare screens from this game and their other work. Its quite obvious. Hex based game, 2000 era graphics. It received little coverage, most tepid to negative.

Like most of the recent 40k cash grabs. Much like the forthcoming MMO, former A2M, now behavior interactive, makers of zero MMOs and proud producers of hits like Naughty Bear and Wet.

Really wish GW would step up their filter.

My theory is that GW deliberately picks small-time developers because (a) they're probably a lot cheaper to hire, and (b) they're probably a lot easier to bully, if needed.

Imagine if Games Workshop lent the 40K rights to a mega-publisher like EA Games. EA would probably take very good care of it- they'd find a good developer who they know would make a good game using the licence, and they'd spend the money to market it, etc.

But they'd also ravage GW's coffers, and they wouldn't give a gak about Tom Kirby or anyone else' opinion on how the game should be made.

"GW: E-excuse me, Mr. EA Games. We like the gameplay vids you've sent us, but... t-there are no female Space Mari-

EA: Shut up.

GW: ._.

EA: Market research says gamers want female models.

GW: B-but the zygotes-

EA: Don't care. We'll write a mission explaining why there's female Space Marines.

GW: ._.

EA: And sell it as $10 day-one DLC. Muhahahahahaa"

I dont care for graphics. The best games I have ever played and still play have kinda bad graphics apparently. I find all graphics in all games pretty bad anyway haha. 'Good' graphics is usually a sign to not buy without lots of research in my opinion.

Whats important for me is the detail in how this game works. Is it a simple HP game where you kill the HP or are there bonuses based on range, terrain etc. Moral?

I dont know much about the game but I am interested.

I apologize for being harsh. The game looks super rough for being "beta" which is the modern equivalent of a demo. A bit jaded with the surprise glut of 40k games that are hot street trash.

This one has the potential to be good.

 BrookM wrote:
I think the fact that you guys are working with Osprey should speak for itself as a mark of quality. *

I signed up for the beta, it took some fooling around though, because as soon as I signed up to your site it told me merge accounts and kept logging me out when I tried to enter for the beta program.

* That's not sarcasm by the way, but a proper compliment, unlike some here.

it happened to me too, but there's an option near the bottom that lets you skip it and move on with signing up so give it another go

That is all we ask, judge the game when it is done and out, but be sure we take our work and wargaming seriously we are passionate about our products and service.

It is an honour to work with Games Workshop and Warhammer 40,000 is one of the greatest fantasy lores in the world.

We will do it justice and give it all we have got.

Its not an insult to your company, but several recent releases have been bad, buggy or both. One reviewed by TotalBiscuit is a literal reskin (which gave Dark Angels Storm Ravens which they do my have access to, hilarious). Even Space Hulk was extremely buggy on release.

Glad to see Steam offering and here's to you bucking the trend.

No offence taken, we give it our best and hope you all like it.

As always, the proof will be in the pudding... but please don`t judge and condemn us before given a fair trial.

 BlaxicanX wrote:


EA: Don't care. We'll write a mission explaining why there's female Space Marines.

GW: ._.

EA: And sell it as $10 day-one DLC. Muhahahahahaa"

GW: ... I'm so turned on right now! Tell us our fans are idiots, tell us we're a bad boy!

EA: Get out of my office Kirby!

 Boggy Man wrote:

 BlaxicanX wrote:


EA: Don't care. We'll write a mission explaining why there's female Space Marines.

GW: ._.

EA: And sell it as $10 day-one DLC. Muhahahahahaa"

GW: ... I'm so turned on right now! Tell us our fans are idiots, tell us we're a bad boy!

EA: Get out of my office Kirby!

I may have choked on a cheeto reading this, bravo! *deploys exalt click*

Signed up for the beta as well, had to jump through the 30 hoops to register but tis done! Honestly, I grew up on hex-turnbased computer games, so this is exciting!

OMG This looks soooo cool! I love these type of games!

Totally not going to sign up for the beta though... because then I might buy it... and I'm totally trying not to buy anything until I get my debt down... oh man I never should have checked this thread in the first place.

There's a huge huge market for hex map turn-based wargames. Many from the 90's are still insanely popular - look at Panzer General (1994) and it's sequels. Slitherine publishes lots of them and are fairly well known and recognized as being one of the leaders in publishing those games.

Some people love FPS, so there's Fire Warrior; some people like 3rd Person Shooters, there's Space Marine; some people like twitch RTS, there's Dawn of War; some people like turn based wargames, there's Chaos Gate and Final Liberation and now Armageddon.

For me this game is giving me this feeling:

If anything it's similar to Panzer Corps which was a terrific game!

Signed up!

 BrookM wrote:
For me this game is giving me this feeling:

Spoiler:

I bet that was a massive box, too!

I'm skeptical, but I signed up. It could be good, could be crap - at least if I'm in the beta my feedback might mean something.

Also the registration process on your site is atrocious. I signed up on the Slitherine site, kept getting prompted to merge accounts with other sites, and also had a difficult time telling if I was logged in (or staying logged in) . The first time through the beta signup it told me I was signed in as (blank), so I went through it a second time, where it finally showed me logged in as my login name. Hopefully those two duplicate applications can be resolved.

Reminds me of Final Liberation indeed. Looks nice, actually. I like the art.

I also love how it's decently Epic 40k-like with modernized units like the Elysian vehicles and such.

I'm interested, but probably not for beta-testing. I hope the engine and such end up being great if only for the modding potential for other factions. I also hope the AI is competent.

---

The:
"Editor: Yes"

On the left side makes me happy and hopeful.

I too have signed up for the beta and been following this since it was first announced. I have several Matrix games, and overall they are very good. I also have Panzer Corp, which is the spiritual (and pretty much exact) successor to Panzer General. Panzer Corp is the closest thing that this is based on and I beleive the same engine was the starting point. That said, LODZ has said that they modified the engine quite a bit for this title.

I too hope for a new Final Liberation, which is one of the two greatest games of Warhammer 40K on the computer (the other being Chaos Gate.) I don't think we are quite going to get that based on Panzer Corp, but I think this will be similar and should play really well. Sounds like they are putting a lot of time into making this very 40K is tone too.

I agree that there have been more crappy 40K games than good ones. I enjoyed Dawn of War but I am just not fast enough in my old age. (Played Dark Crusade last night on Easy and can barely eek out wins after an hour. Sigh)

Anyway, I am very hopeful for this to be a fun game. Someday I do hope for a new Final Liberation and Chaos Gate however.

Thanks,
Duncan

Definitely signed up for the beta. I have high hopes - an editor being released with it is a huge plus in my book.

Any word on when the beta will begin?