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X-com idea...

Korgan

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The whole "Secret agency vs the invasion of whatever" angle isn't done enough in gaming. It should be about humans, though, otherwise the atmosphere is lost (see UFO: ET).
Actually, DoW 2 could've at least done something X-Com like. I don't like Nids, but they would've made good opponents in a turn-based Deathwatch game. You fight in special missions, assist the Guard in randomly generated battles and earn prestige, exchanging it for the favor of the AdMech, who build stuff and research the enemy, the Ordo Xenos, who assign specialists from other chapters to you, coordinate allies and call down Exterminatus when needed, or a radical Inquisitor for various shady stuff and dangerous relics.
OK, this sounds nothing like DoW 2.
 

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Actually, a 40k squad based tactical game with rpg elements and a resource system could be interesting if you played an Inquisitor as your hero character. Allows you to use all sorts of different imperial (and otherwise) guys on your side throughout the game.

Tyranids are not a very interesting opponent in this sort of scenario, but chaos and genestealer cults certainly are.
 
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How about a 'nazis invent time-travel in the dying months of WW2 and travel back to fight King Arthur and Merlin' plotline (with the knights of the round table being the x-com equivalent). Use a diplomatic map based on the real european nations of the time (except for Britain, obviously, that being under the fictional control of Arthur), together with a fantasy-europe magic and knights vs Nazis who slowly learn to bring larger scale weapons, vehicles and so on through the portal.

Would allow for alternate tech trees as well: you could try to beat them by going a pure fantasy route (researching dark magic spells, necromancy, magical weapons and so on) or by stealing the Nazi's tech and learning to use and build modern weaponry.
 

muffildy

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neat

wow thats a neat idea; not a whole lot of games based on that mythology either.
 

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Serpent in the Staglands Dead State Torment: Tides of Numenera
Azrael the cat said:
How about a 'nazis invent time-travel in the dying months of WW2 and travel back to fight King Arthur and Merlin' plotline (with the knights of the round table being the x-com equivalent). Use a diplomatic map based on the real european nations of the time (except for Britain, obviously, that being under the fictional control of Arthur), together with a fantasy-europe magic and knights vs Nazis who slowly learn to bring larger scale weapons, vehicles and so on through the portal.

Would allow for alternate tech trees as well: you could try to beat them by going a pure fantasy route (researching dark magic spells, necromancy, magical weapons and so on) or by stealing the Nazi's tech and learning to use and build modern weaponry.
hm, i would buy it.
 

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