So, while the stream over on Twitch was sponsored by Slitherine, this video isn't and therefore I can speak my honest truth about the game. And I gotta say it's probably my favourite RTS in many years, since maybe COH2. Even the bad points I have like the scorpions being frustrating enemies, right-click attack not moving units or a few lacking UI options, they are utterly outweighed by how much fun I had with the game, the length for which it ran (as a singleplayer RTS, this is impressive) and the creativity of the missions, story and fednet. And good god, the music? Honestly, wild fun. Hope you all enjoyed too!

*Rimmy:* "They sent THREE Scorpion bugs out?!? Are you kidding me?!?" *Hopper:* "They switched their entire force to Marauders?!? Are you kidding me?!?"

Camera man with Veterancy: "I've covered wars ya know"

That 1-veterancy cameraman is the only journalist I trust.

Unit: Camera Crew Role: war support generator Armed with only cameras, microphones and charming faces the Camera Crew performs the pivotal role of supporting the frontline by showing the glory of the Federation and the horror of the Arachnids. Despite their inherent vulnerability which earns them odd looks by other MI troops, veteran Crews can do their part in unorthodox ways. Arachnids killed with a camera cries in view generates extra war support. Veterancy 1 Know your enemy The crew deploys a camera drone to show the audience ugly Arachnid mugs. The live feed also makes for good reconnaissance. Action shot Even command watches FedNet and when a promising soldier makes headlines they are quick to capitalize on it. Units near the camera crew rank faster. Veterancy 2 Doing my part! By order, necessity, or just getting into character some of the crew become capable soldiers. The Camera Crew is armed and deals damage equal to standard squad. Bugs killed by the Camera Crew generate further support. Never forget In war, losses are unavoidable, but seeing just how terrible the bugs are can inspire some e to heed the call. Soldiers lost generate war support. Squads lost increase attack speed for other squads. Veterancy 3 Your good side The Crew’s charm and the promise of fame can inspire soldiers to fight harder, and force their squads to cover for them. An ugly planet! -A bug planet! The radius for the Camera Crew is increased by 50%.

The guys who made this game really go the extra mile. After seeing them bring in the e-pulse rifles and mind control bugs from the second movie, then the suicide-bombing pillbugs and Marauder suits from the third one, I thought "The only thing missing is the MI in light power armour from the Japanese animated CGI films" ... and there we go; 23:00

I have the utmost respect for that camera crew. Literally wading out beyond the firing line for good shots of bugs being eviscerated!

That Colonel. Saves his men against orders. Receives a Dishonorable discharge. Decides he sick of sitting down and wants to fights, so he rejoins as a infantryman again (as he presumably already was a infantryman to get to colonel), gets sent to a unit that has a Penal Company and are basically meant to be cannon fodder, and still mamages to live. What a Chad.

My personal favorite dawn of war line is when the guard say “Thought they broke our back!” or when they scream “SHATTER THE SKIES!!!”

"A Veteran Cameraman"... He's covered wars, ya know...

This cameraman has gotta be the bravest cameraman in history. He straight up stood in front of the guns, while a charge of bugs were probably going to kill him if they did not get killed and he also fearlessly just followed around a small honor guard robot, despite all the madness of combat going around him. He deserves to have that veterancy. He will have stories to tell his grandchildren.

One of the most crucial elements in rts is the voice acting. If you can recall voice lines in a dime then it’s probably a good rts

The Camera man becoming a veteran implies he had no idea what he was doing when he was shipped out handed a camera and told not to run because the footage is more valuable than him.

"Look at the size of her pistol!" Out Of Context Rimmy Hall of Fame Entrant

Rimmy: What's that camera man doing on the front lines!? RubixRaptor: First time?

I love the fact that they leave Rico as a Captain with little desire to push up the ranks in the novel but i also love the fact that they've turned him into a general in what I'd guess the film related universe. Ricos Roughnecks is no longer a company but a corps in my mind

This game needs a single thing to become a masterpiece. A mission editor. Dear god, think of what the community could do if they had a starcraft style mission editor.

My only major complaint about this game is that I've beaten it and I require more of it

My favourite RTS unit voicelines still have to be from the Homeworld games. Deserts of Kharak especially has this amazing random chatter that really helps sell giant tracked land-aircraft carriers as something not completely absurd. :D

“It knows fear” “IT FEELS FEAR!”

I hope this is the start of more Startship Troopers games in the future, something along the lines of Left 4 Dead/Vermintide would be pretty awesome.

The powered troops are exactly like the ones from the animated movies I’m so happy

The camera crew reminds me of the camera crew unit in Conflict Zone. Those guys were actually needed to record you winning fights to get more support in order to bring out better units. lol

My engineers have never lived long enough to get a chance at a promotion so i never knew about the blue flame

Camera Man gaining veterancy like Frank West from Dead Rising: "I've covered war zones, you know."

Rimmy I found the gat marauder pretty good, they nuke spitters and warriors at range, can tear up tigers reliably and are less likely to take cumulative damage from the odd bug that slips through the flamer burst. Although if they add horde or skirmish it would depend on the map, cause a close range fight you need the flamers.

so they mixed all the movies together to get a complete roster? thats fucking cool

"SHATTER THEIR SKIES!" That's my outright favourite.

Honestly the best counter to scorpions in my experience is a battery of three Rocket Squads, together three rockets on normal difficulty is enough to one tap a scorpion with their normal attacks.

I can see them adding new planets for other campaigns. Hell, I can see them adding a 'Based Off the Book' series of campaigns.

I hope they add more to this game. It's really fun and i believe that the Starship Troopers world lends itself very well to this style of game.

The only difference between Honor Guard and Penal Battalion is Commands approval.

This game was such a pleasant surprise . Really enjoyed it.

You released this right as I beat the game as well. Some points for people interested in purchasing the game. Good points: -Music Score is fantastic and gets you in the mind of Starship Troppers. -Story for an RTS it isn't the most ridiculous and with the help of Fednet "Cut-scenes" it spliced in some humor. -Fednet: Whoever wrote and/or animated needs a raise. -Unit options that compliment each other and can cover each others weakness. Bad points: -Some pathing issues specifically in the city maps and around bug hives from what I noticed. Few of my front line troopers ran the opposite direction from where I told them to go which made the formation getting completely slaughtered. Thankfully I had some autosaves close by so not to much time lost. -Scorpion Bugs. If they are supposed to be a "Sniper" bug then then need less armor and health. If they are supposed to be a ranged tank bug then range needs cut in half. Spam Rocket Troopers if you see them. Neutral Point -After about 10 hours the game is over on the second hardest difficulty. I WANT MORE!!!! Overall I enjoyed the game and would like more which will hopefully come down the pipes at some point in the future.

1:17 “MI does the dying, the fleet just does the flying.”

I love how the devs of this game are tying in all the Starship Troopers adaptions when making the Mobile Infantry and Arachnids Riflemen - Classic MI from the first film Grenadiers - The MI from the third film with the bulky assault rifles EM Troopers - The MI with flashlight guns used in the second film Marauders - Obviously the Mechs from the third movie Power troopers - The Mobile Infantry from the Japanese Animated films M11 Honor Guard - The marauders from the end of the third film The female character appears to be a nod to the officer who followed Rico around at the start of the third film and the male officer who acts as your mission control seems to be based on the mission control character from the Starship Troopers first person shooter. The fleet psychic guy also appears to be based on Carl after his crossover into villainy Warrior - Starship Troopers 1 Tiger - Starship Troopers FPS Game Royal Guard - Starship Troopers FPS Game Tanker - Starship Troopers 1 Scorpion - Starship Troopers 3 Plasma Bug - Starship Troopers 1 Grenade bug - Starship Troopers 3 A "Queen bug" - Starship Troopers FPS Game Mind control bug - Starship Troopers 2

Veteran camera man: Can now film in 8k and HDR

I love that the powered armor troopers are in this game. They were my favorite part about the book and the CGI films

I'm waiting for the day when I load up a new 40K game and Rimmy's voicing the guardsmen. It's truly a testement to Dawn Of War as to how everyone has different, equally amazing favourite lines. For me it has to be "We need a new driver, this one is dead!" from the Khorne Berserkers while dismounting a transport. Oh and this game looks fantastic. I'm terrible at RTS's in general, but I can get a good time out of a good one, and this looks great.

My top 3 favorite RTS lines to impersonate: - Kirov Repoting - Enemies of the Free World (although "Doing What's Right" when you order your Paladin to blow up a hospital is pretty solid) - GOT MY MISSILE LAUNCHER RIGHT HERE

Dude, you have to rewatch starship troopers, all these references I get from rewatching it recently is wild.

The "Death from above" symbol in the fed net cut scene is the Tattoo that Rico and his friends get in the movie. The game looks interesting, but I kinda want a game based on the book.

The only thing that could possibly make this game even better would be the introduction of the Skinnies as another faction.

the devs must be lovers of the books as well, i love that they added the marauders and power armor troops as a reference to the fact that in the book, all the MI were power armor troops

02:38 "Compromised by the bugs" they are going to bring back the brain bugs from Starship Troopers 2, innit? Nice, the movie was not good, but had some neat ideas. 08:35 they even brought in the third movie, wow... 23:03 even the two CGI movies? No way!

My only nitpick is that it didn't end with "They'll keep fighting! And they'll win!"

40:15 'We're with the science team!'

13:34 you can cheese that bridgehead by pulling all your troops onto the Bridge itself just close enough to attract the bugs attention so they'll go after your units instead of the flag and turn it into a massive chokepoint and put say a HMG turret halfway across the Bridge.

*Turns towards Camera* I'M DOING MY PART!!! TBH Rimmy, this makes me wanna buy and play this game even more :P

"Why's he look like a Commisar, he looks like Cain." I mean you're not even wrong though.

"Scope cleaned and mounted" Command and conquer generals

"do you hear the voices to" that is a chaos marine line lol

"Save the engineer!" Marauder: *Spews fire specifically on engineer.*

While the movie has a clearer thesis and one I agree with more, the book has cooler tech. I hope to see a game based more off the book.

One of my favourite games of all time “RUSE” has my fav voiceline, the Churchill tank/mobile artillery would say in a jolly Londoners voice “he won’t be back in time for tea”, it’s been almost a decade since I last played the game and I still randomly quote that line to this day

You posted this video right after I finished the game, so i am intrigued on how you did the later levels.

I find it cool that this game was able to put in alot of stuff from the starship trooper movies. like the pules troopers being the one from starship troopers 2, with that little pew, pew sound effect the guns. The marauder mechs from 3, to the the elite troopers from the cgi movie starship troopers. There even added the different kind of bugs from the films as well which is pretty damn cool.

Good to see this finished XD was a good show. You think you will do the two special scenarios? The airport isn't that peculiar, but the Elite Team one can be interesting. Untill they break out the Scorpion bugs of course XD

The cameraman who gained a promotion: "I COVERED WARS YOU KNOW!?"

Still really hope we get a new Starship troopers FPS some day, I remember there was one ages ago. Honestly I'd settle for a L4D clone. (Wouldn't mind something more themed around the Roughnecks TV show over the books/movies.)

Something I dont understand about this whole universe is why the scientists haven't figured out a chemical means of damaging the bugs. I'd imagine something would weaken the bugs' hard shell or some Earth bacteria/virus/mold would weaken or kill the bugs systematically. It would also seem useful to use dead bugs' bodies as a source for armor. I cannot imagine the bugs evolved to fight anything but other bugs or whatever used to be on the planet.

22:41 Bugs: (about to attack the airbase) M.I., sending in their own brand of Spartan super soldiers: *"Oh I don't think so!"* Bugs: *Confused screaming*

Veteran camera man: has secured funding for doc on hometown issue no one else will care about.

I adore how this game is pulling in material from every Starship Troopers visual media: all of the movies including the CG ones, the old FPS game by Strangelite, the CGTV series...

Me watching Part 1: "I wonder if they have Marauders..." Me seeing thumbnail: "They have Marauders!"

I just finished the most recent star ship troopers video when i got the notification for this, awsome timing

THE BUG STOPS HERE

"He's lying about being the colonel." No, he got busted back down to Sargent at BEST. EDIT: Eh, close enough.

You can never finish starship troopers; you want more and there's always bugs to kill

Rimmy at 9:55 : I just mimic the voice lines Every Command and Conquer Generals fan: ALALALALALALALALALALALAAA

damn you are quite a good voice actor, the dawn of war impressions are amazing

When I saw the thumbnail I thought this was a Titanicus game or something before reading the title since those mechs look a whole like Warlord Titans

"Federatsiyagrad" Really sounds like a Bulgarian word! Like Tsarigrad,Velingrad,Traiyanovgrad,Novograd and others 😂😂😂

I have similar fun repeating unit voice lines, but for me it's the Command & Conquer series.

Whenever I play Age of Empires 2 DE with my friends, we'll end up saying "Wood please" in the same way the ai says it because of how weird and funny it's said. I'd also just repeat what my Villagers will say whenever I tell them to do something, which is of course different depending on their nation.

My favorite rts voice lines are from command and conquer, where if you recruit a sniper and only the spotter is alive, he sounds terrified

If they would add a horde/skirmish mode I would be entirely sold on this game.

Its unfortunate that the books are being completely ignored

Something I wish I had known on this mission the first time, is that the Wavebreak mortars have infinite range. Once they’re activated, you can use them to like two shot scorpions

37:50 glad to see the cameramen act exactly like they did in the movie. With absolutely no self preservation

Tell you what this needs. Limited squad rosters and an actual order of battle Like COH2 Ardenne Offensive, your division gains experience as it goes, if you loose all your strength in a mission you die, you need to spend a resource in between missions to replenish with fresh troops Also for the love of god this game needs, NEEDS a hoard mode

I was really expecting a “would you like to know more?” At the end there to tease a sequel

I loved the plot twist on the airfield mission. It's so completely out of left field after the whole damn game conditioned you to expect high command to just always shit the bed.

"The losses are so bad" Fleet does the flying and mobile infantry does the dying, HOORAH!

Truly a masterpiece

Love me Fed Net 'ate me bugs. Simple as. -- I did my part and watched the stream live.

For anyone interested there is a novel named War Queen on Royal Road which is basically Starship Troopers but from the perspective of the bugs. It has great worldbuilding which makes the humans feel really alien from a Arachnid-perspective.

To be fair, the Imperial Guard officers voice actors did a stellar job all of them. The Priest, the Psyker... my favourite is the Commissar, they were all top tier interpretations.

You mentioned dawn of war and your dawn of war videos are my favorite. You should do more of those

Silly Rimmy, shouldn’t you know the camera man never dies

11:00 my favorite Psyker's line from DoW1 is the idle one, where he screams, sobs, and whimpers. btw the line "do you hear the voices too??" is from Chaos Marine Squad

I love when you mimic the Dawn of War lines! 🙂

0:03 only real chads will know what this is

Gotta love the totalitarian Terran Federation, with their complete military transparency and extremely liberal political systems XD

You seem to be one of the few youtubers who clears bug nests the right way. By that I mean throwing your men into the occupied bug hole to breach and clear in hail of bullets. What people tend to do is pussyfoot around the bug holes and ignore them completely unless it is a mission objective. Or they sit outside of them for 15 minutes waiting for the bugs to trickle out until the hole is finally empty and only then clear it because they're so terrified of losing men.

This is a really good game, and I'm glad to see you cover it, Rimmy. The cameraman being a badass is even canon, if we go by the first movie (where the cameraman joins the retreat during the Klendathu drop; it's the reporter partner who gets nommed) and the CGI TV series (Higgins, who has his moments).

I’m doing my part!

Love this game, shame they made the federation turbo evil. If this game was book accurate AND the gameplay was like this? Top tier.

Finished the game today and was amazed that this game featured MOST of the content that are seen in the movies and prior games from the franchise.

I really love that slytherin games puts marauders from starship troopers 3 and powered suit troopers from starship troopers 5, it's like ultra fan service game for starship troopers fan. I love them so much