This week I’ve been mostly playing Warhammer…
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| If you don't like the taste of salt, steer clear of Eldar... |
I’ve been having a pretty decent time with Eternal Crusade;
I’m starting to find my feet a bit with the game and the different classes now.
I enjoy running the Heavy class if I’m Chaos, the Jump Assault class if I’m
Space Marines and the Slugga if I’m Orks. It’s still very rare that I achieve a
score beyond the bottom third of the leader board, but if I place anywhere
other than the last position on the table then I’m happy. I’m up to level three
with those three factions and I’m enjoying finding the different ways they can
advance, although I find it curious that a lot of the buffs you can give them
mean less points for certain weapons (you equip your characters on a points-buy
system.) When your points limit is 1000, you’d welcome having to spend less on
your weapons – and if there was anything else you could conceivably give them
in their place, you probably would. As it is, knocking 100 points off your main
weapon doesn’t do you much good when all the other equipment slots are full and
there’s nothing else you can give them.
Also as I don’t play this style of game very often, I’m not
used to the nastiness that very often permeates their multiplayer communities.
As it stands, it seems to be a faux pas to play as Eldar, as their hit boxes
are slightly smaller and their weapons do a lot of damage. They also seem to be
very well co-ordinated. As for me, I don’t really mind; I’ve played against
Eldar and won. But I find myself spending a fleeting few seconds wondering if
people making those remarks would say that to people’s faces. Maybe they would.
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| Wow, this looks dated now... |
I’ve also been playing Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat.
This was a game I borrowed off someone years ago when I was still at school. I
think I still have the disc somewhere but I’ll never get it to work on my
laptop in a million years, and I’ve got it for the PlayStation but the controls
are very difficult on that. So I downloaded it again of GOG and I’ve been
thoroughly enjoying playing through it again, although the game is very
difficult and I found myself stuck on the same levels I was stuck on all that
time ago. I’ll probably keep playing it though!
My new game for this week – I’m on a bit of a Games Workshop
kick – was The Horus Heresy: Drop Assault for my Kindle Fire 7. This is
essentially a clicker game popular on mobile devices – click on a thing, wait
for a thing to happen, click on another thing to make another thing happen,
build up more resources so you can click on other things to make other things
happen. I wasn’t expecting much more, frankly, but I find myself disappointed
that I didn’t get more. It’s supposed to re-enact one of the key moments of the
Horus Heresy: The Massacre on Isstvan, but that was a swift and brutal
massacre, not a full-blown campaign.
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| At no point when I was playing did it get this exciting... |
To be honest it’s not a canon I have much interest in
exploring. There’s a series of 42 books on it, and I read about the first ten,
but they’re so unforgivably grim and bleak that I couldn’t bring myself to read
another. Not when I know perfectly well how it all works out anyway, given that
the result of the Horus Heresy is what the entire Warhammer 40,000 universe is
built upon. If there’s some form of interactive media that’s going to make the
journey interesting, I’m probably not going to find it on a mobile game.
There’s nothing wrong with Drop Assault, but I didn’t find it very
entertaining.
I also had some time in Warlords and Wizards on Saturday
night painting some of my Word Bearers. It’s a really nice atmosphere in there
and it’s a pleasure to sit down and paint some models for a few hours. I’m
looking forward to getting my Word Bearers on the gaming table, but one thing
at a time; I’ve still got a load of cultists to paint!
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