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Warhammer 40,000: Regicide will be Games Workshop’s idea of Chess with guns. Coming soon to mobile.

If you have been a PC gamer for a long period of time then you might remember way back in the day when Chess games started getting released for PC that featured animated pieces. These pieces would move and if there happen to be an opponents piece in their new spot, they would attack it. These attacks were fully animated as well. It looked pretty cool back then and we have had many iterations of the same idea since. Games Workshop will be bringing a similar concept to the Warhammer franchise soon.

The game is called Warhammer 40,000: Regicide and it is basically Game Workshop’s idea of Chess, except for the fact it takes place in the Warhammer 40K universe and has animated Chess pieces. If you are a fan of the franchise then you know that this means guns… lots of guns. Today Games Workshop, along with developers Hammerfall Publishing, have released the first in-game renders and animation loops for Warhammer 40,000: Regicide.

This will be a turn-based strategy game not too dissimilar from how Chess is played. It isn’t completely like Chess though since you can do things like calling in an airstrike and casting spells. Interestingly enough, there is a Blood Angels single-player campaign available at launch as well as cross-platform multiplayer. On top of that, the official forums for the game has an Honor System “where players can gain incentives by declaring their allegiance along with meeting their opponents before the game launches“.

There will be two types of game modes available for players to choose from:

  • Regicide: where you “plan an attack and command your soldiers through multiple phases of combat.”
  • Classic: where you “sharpen your tactics based on traditional chess rules, brutally executing violent kills in diverse battlefield terrains.”

Regardless of which game mode you choose to participate in, you can be sure that there will be plenty of blood involved. Right now Hamerfall Publishing is working on the PC version of Warhammer 40,000: Regicide and once that has been released then they will finish up and release the mobile version as well.

As for when any of this will happen, there has been no exact release date announced as of yet. We will be sure to post an update when more details are released. Until then, feel free to check out the first in-game renders (a couple are .gif files) and animations loops videos (both at the bottom of this article).

Official Website: Warhammer 40,000: Regicide

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