I really wanted to like this game, I really did, but the game won't let me.

This game looks great on paper, but in reality it falls apart as painfully as Warhammer Fantasy.

I looks great, the voice acting is excellent, the SFX sound punchy and it remains loyal to its source material, but that is where the positive aspects end.

Here are some of the most glaring issues.

The moment to moment gameplay can only be described as an erratic back and forth battle over useless victory points in the middle of nowhere. You are just trying to constantly funnel new units into this boring, unresponsive meat grinder of combat.

Once units start fighting, they are unable to be controlled, outside of activating certain abilities or retreating halfway accross the map.

The economy system is mobile game like in depth. There are a few upgrades of which only a few meaningfully change your units. The resource point system of capturing zones on the map is horrible. The price of upgrading zones compared to just buying more fodder to throw into the melee makes it so that you never bother upgrading your zones. capture points take about 10 seconds to be taken and can't be meaningfully fortified. This leads to there being no front-line to the fighting behind which you can maneuver your units or you know.......EXPAND YOUR BASE.

The dichotomy between units being slow as slugs and dying as fast as them too, makes it so that moving your units is the only meaningful thing you'll ever do in this game.

I don't feel like comparing games is fair, but in this case the similarities are staggering. It feels like the developer looked at Dawn of War 2, copied all the gameplay elements, streamlined them, put a Age of Sigmar coating on it and called it a day.

Only they forgot to add all the things that made that game so great, the interactive combat, the cover mechanics, the upgrades to individual squads and heroes, the pacing. All of it is missing.

This review might come of harsh, but that's just because i'm dissapointed. Underneath all of the terrible gameplay, is a promising Warhammer RTS. Something we haven't had since 2012.

There are a hundred more things i could criticize, such as the lack of depth, the bare bones roster, the frankly ridiculous price tag, the lack of information shown to the player(Unit health, Damage, Armour, movement speed), the empty non informative UI, but I'm tired.

I want this game to succeed, But In this state I can't in good faith recommend it to anyone.

A real shame.