Literally exactly how my first play thru ended up It was pretty epic

Space Marines in any dawn of war too lmao

I just dumped 7 1/2 hours into my first play. I literally made every mistake possible just to come out knowing that what you said is how you have to play the marines. I have lost so many units fighting all over the place until captain, my captain! Came out and put everyone and everything to the sword! Stay close to base and get whatever resource tiles to can. Spam end turn to get more fortresses, and then expand out.

Not every tile. There is a hexagon marker showing how many buildings it can have. Forests only have 2, unless the tile is cleared.

and the flag for resources

I got it from epics free stuff, its really fun but orcs kick my butt. You really need to be careful with your economy (only one city, so dont loose your fortresses)

For sure I'll be getting around to the filthy heretics just gotta get some free time. Thanks for the tips too!

Butter Nut Hydra Dominatus brother, I really hope we get to see more classic and non-spotlight-lit units, I was pleasantly surprised by the inclusion of the Vindicator tank, however I do wish that the orbital deployment was more balanced, best thing I can see is a capacity of sorts where you can either send squads up or have any in production go there instead of spawning in your city. That way you have to strategize what units you want to deploy/teleport and if you’re facing off of someone who has 2000+ influence, they can’t simply just land their entire army around the enemy stronghold and finish the enemy in one turn after an orbital scan is used. This way your deployment is balanced and thematic as that’s not how SMs always deploy and it’s thematic in a turn taken to go into orbit before landing back onto the surface next turn, after all I’ve read about how even in the HH some marines preferred riding Stormbirds or Thunderhawks into combat than the uncontrolled release of a drop pod assault. This way we can get the rhino as an early-mid game transport and you can’t abuse the orbital deployment ability, cause it does piss me off quite a bit that any transports aren’t avail til thunder hawks and when I’m sending my devestators to the front lines but I can’t get close as they’ll be butchered by the AI’s basilisks even though at times your own basilisks wont do the same kind of damage. This way they can be used as their supposed to to take the brunt of the damage and then unload their cargo where they need to go.

I'm sure you already know this by now but SM were given the Razorback in one of the DLCs since you posted this comment.

can you tell more plz?

@@AXharoth ,chaplains have a 10% damage buff on 3 turn cooldown that caps at 30%. They can also raise your city loyalty passively. Their level 6 skill is an aoe heal around them. The skill I level last is the one that increases nearby units morale and reduces enemy morale, but maybe someone else knows when to level it first. If you look at why prioritize the chaplain over the captain? Chaplains will buff up to 3 units, 6 if you position them in the middle, and start with 10 armor. They are essentially a brick wall. By the time you have the chaplain, if you've kept all your squads alive you can form an offensive or defensive line with them behind the chaplain. In the vanilla game the chaplain can fight many heroes to a draw, if not win. By the time he needs to retreat, you will have produced the captain, so he can take the chaplain's place on the front line

@@tennoskoom2233 cool thanks

@@AXharoth Captains with the "Deeds of Glory" skill will provide a ton of influence to your city, which you can put to good use in a number of ways. In combat, the Captain can do significant damage, but his DPS pales beside his ability to stand in the middle of a whole enemy army laughing maniacally as their firepower barely scratches him. Captains have armor 10, more than most tanks, and two different 50% damage reduction traits. And they count as infantry so can get even more damage reduction from forests/ruins/outposts. And when you finally wear them down a bit they self heal. And they get to use items, so you can even boost up their armor and add zoat hide for extra hit points. This isn't that huge an advantage in PvP as sensible players will shoot more fragile units first, but against AI enemies you can often sucker them into attacking the Captain, largely wasting their fire. Chaplains provide a very useful morale boost to your city, which you will need pretty soon because you have to expand that city like a kudzu patch to get production anywhere near what other factions can do with multiple cities. In combat, they are less directly useful than Captains, but they have handy support abilities that let them increase the effectiveness of nearby friendly units. Librarians are Psionically gifted beings that have a hodgepodge of psychic abilities. None of the abilities really stand out enough to make them very useful. Most players stick to Captains and Chaplains, and never build more than one Librarian if any at all.

@@WalkaCrookedLine yeah but by now i played a lot and dotn use heroes at all xD

@Roy Jamari Nobody cares and you didnt ever have a girlfriend.

Other one other. I haven't had too much time to get scripted vids out because of work. I do have a tyranids vid out with the Chaos Marines coming next

Other factions? THERE ARE NO OTHER FACTIONS!

Chaos Space Marines can have AWFUL early game, if you can't afford to train infantry. They only get their good vehicles in mid game. (Rhino is weak and breaks easily).

When you unlock them, they are on the top left