Warhammer Warhammer 40k: Regicide aka W40K Chess

[Infinitron]

Because why not?



http://warhammer40kchess.com/

Sydney – April 21st, 2014 – Hammerfall Publishing in association with Games Workshop has announced “Warhammer®40,000: Chess – Angels of Death” coming to multiple gaming platforms in 2014. Set in the Warhammer®40,000 universe, Angels of Death brings the iconic Games Workshop IP together with one of the most popular board-games of all time.

“The game has gone beyond the standard boundaries of chess to revolutionize the way the it is seen” said Cathrin Machin, the Project Lead at Hammerfall Publishing. “In creating the ground-breaking new Codex chess engine, the campaign mode represents a world-first in strategy gaming”.

Players can choose from both single and multiplayer modes with an enthralling Blood Angels story driven campaign, written by Games Workshop published author Ross Watson, along with levels created by highly rated Grandmaster chess champion GM Zhao Zong-Yuan.

“When this game was envisaged, it was like two worlds which belonged together had collided.” Said Cathrin. “The game honours the sheer brutality of the Warhammer®40,000 universe. It has hundreds of merciless kill and death animations that were created in a state-of-the-art motion capture studio utilizing military trained fight and stunt choreographers. Angels of Death combines this exciting feature along with environments, weapons, and upgradeable characters which have been meticulously crafted by some of the industry’s leading artists.”

On the same day, Hammerfall Publishing have released a cinematic teaser trailer for the Warhammer®40,000 : Chess – Angels of Death game, created by renowned cinematic studio Plastic Wax. Having created nearly every Warhammer®40,000 game trailer in the past decade, Plastic Wax felt right at home harnessing the game’s 3D characters to create a dramatic teaser trailer to announce the title.

“We have a great respect for Games Workshop” said Tyrone Maddams, Creative Director at Plastic Wax. “It was paramount that we created a cinematic which not only represented the quality of the game, but also did justice to The IP.”

 

[ERYFKRAD]

I don't even. Is Games Workshop struggling to stay afloat or something?

We get all THIS, but an Inquisitor(Dark Heresy?) RPG? An Only War squad tactics?
That Space Wolf game best get released soon.

 

[Darth Roxor]

wtf hammerfall publishing

 

[Brotherman Bill]

^ dose arms

 

[Jaedar]

That is one seriously epic trailer for chess.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Is the George Lucas working in GW or what? New games from WH40k comes, nothing that fans wanted.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

In the grim, dark future of the 41st Millenium, there is only TURN-BASED GAMING!!!

 

[Mangoose]

1m late

Honestly, GW just whoring out their IP to anyone in small doses is fine by me, so long as it leads to mroe stuff like Warhammer Quest and Mordheim.

edit: Also this should go in GRPG because that's what Chess is.

Chess doesn't have stats

 

[Infinitron]

Since they're designing "levels", it sounds like it might not be exactly a standard chess game. So maybe it needs to be moved to Strategy.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

^ dose arms

I'm looking for my father. Middle-aged guy in full plate armor. Have you seen him?

 

[Eyeball]

Gays Whoreshop have a load of excellent licenses that are still worth quite a bit of cash.

Why are 3/4ths of the games they release shovelware? Do they not care about their brand at all?

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Of course they do care about their brands.

It's the exact same love as Bobby Kotick has for all of the brands and franchises he owns.

 

[Infinitron]

Of course they do care about their brands.

It's the exact same love as Bobby Kotick has for all of the brands and franchises he owns.

Not exactly a proper comparison. Kotick doesn't throw the Call of Duty license at shovelware developers worldwide (although there have been some crappy mobile CoDs)

These European PnP license holders are quite clueless, although their shotgun approach to licensing is still better than what Hasbro is doing with D&D (ie, practically nothing)

 

[AbounI]

Archon with a warhammer background?

 

[Pope Amole II]

TBH, considering 7ed comes out not even 2 years after the release of first (and that their money-grabbing attempts become more and more desperate with each passing year), perhaps they aren't doing financially well enough so that they have to reserve to crap like that. Good fucking riddance, though, perhaps if they pop the franchise will fall in some actually competent hands (fat chance).

 

[Jaedar]

This is so bizarre. I kind of want to pay up just for the sheer insanity factor. (AND A T-SHIRT!)

EDIT: also it has a website http://www.warhammer40kregicide.com/

Apparently it has 2 modes: regular chess with AWESOME KILLING MOVES and also the mode where you can throw grenades and stuffies.

 

[Darth Roxor]

the codex astartes names this manoeuvre check mate

 

[Jaedar]

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/chess-40k.91633/

Dammit, I searched forums for regicide because I was p sure there was a thread, but nothing came up. Feel free to merge the threads or whatever.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

Infinitron thread naming fail.

 

[JohnTheRevelator]

Repetitive animations and oversized shoulder pads is just what chess needed.

 

[Pope Amole II]

Watched that promo vid and ugh, the dumbest thing here is the choice of enemeis. I understand that w40k fluff is deliberately over the top retarded, but still, fucking space marines are supposed to be fighting orks at 1 to 1000 power discrepancy. Making them die one on one easily is just fucking stupid. Maybe a one to dozen is a saner ratio here, but still, you get my point. It's just dumbfuck. Sure, the orks are big and green and shit, but how does that beat the fucking power armor, the holy bolter, the blessed chainsword & shit?

It's just the wrong kind of foes. Necrons would've worked (but they're not are as marketable), eldar aspects would've worked, dark eldar elites would've worked, CSM is the easiest choice here, but no, they have to do this orkish faggotry (probably for the sake of publicity).

 

[Jaedar]

Ork nobs are about equal to space marines aren't they? Not in training and gear, but otherwise.

 

[Pope Amole II]

Well, in the fluff - not really, in the rulesets - nobs are even better than both casual SMs and SM sergeants. But most of the orkz there are too scrawny to be nobz, besides, it's not like an orky force can be comprised of 100% nobz.

 

[Infinitron]

WhiskeyWolf Why is this stickied?

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

Ups, I forgot to un-stick it after the merge.