


“There’s a lot of work we’ve done on the animations, to make the combat seem more dynamic and responsive,” project lead Ian Roxburgh tells me. So large units such as trolls do area attack strikes, much like Total War’s elephants, which send the Empire’s swordsmen flying. It has to do that Dawn of War thing where it combines accurate game mechanics with outrageous bombastic battle scenes. Of course, this new game can’t be completely accurate to the tabletop. Forest Goblin Spider Riders and Arachnarok Spiders literally eat their way through the Imperial Greatswords.
