Lets play warhammer total war

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Needless to say I wasn't too keen to try their take on Space Hulk. The one I've played the most has to be Cyanide's Blood Bowl (2009) and the 2015 sequel, both of which are fairly competent renditions of the board game that are let down by the horrendous AI, which is among the worst I've ever seen in a video game. For some reason, GW policy seems to be to work with relatively small and inexperienced developers, and the result is that the games they produce are at best mediocre. Since then, though, things have been different: I've gotten a lot more miniature gaming done, and most Games Workshop-licensed games in the 21st century have just been bad. These are the only GW-based video games I remember playing in the last millenium, and they were good! Given how expensive the hobby is and how hard games were to come by, I spent way more time with Warhammer video games in the nineties than I ever did with any of the physical products.

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Another really good nineties Warhammer game was Shadow of the Horned Rat (1995(!)). Later I got Space Crusade (1992), which was very faithful to the board game and is still quite good fun today. It was really good, incredibly atmospheric and quite difficult. The first one I ever played was the 1993 version of Space Hulk. Warhammer video games have always been a very mixed bag.