Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 is a real-time tactics game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, where players control fleets of spaceships and engage in tactical battles. The game features impressive visuals, with detailed ship models and battlefields .

Gameplay
Players can choose from various factions, including the Imperium, Chaos, Necrons, and Tyranids, each with unique abilities and playstyles . Battles take place on a 2D plane, with capture points and asteroid fields to navigate. Ships have special abilities, such as scanning, fighter and bomber squadrons, torpedo barrages, and boarding actions .

Campaigns
The game includes three campaigns: Imperial, Necrons, and Tyranids. Each campaign offers a unique storyline and faction-specific missions . The Imperial campaign alone takes around 25 hours to complete, excluding side missions .

Pros:
- Involved and spectacular space battles with satisfying campaigns and great fan service
- Varied factions with unique abilities and playstyles
- Impressive visuals with detailed ship models and battlefields

Cons:
- Steep learning curve due to complex gameplay mechanics
- Limited customization options for ships
- Minor presentation issues, such as vivid backgrounds making battlefields hard to read

The game was once really good. Now its awful. It crashes constantly on the campaign, or it'll throw you back to the main menu over and over midway through. Do no buy this. It does not function

Until they patch the crashing *DO NOT BUY*

They probably won't though. Think they gave up on this one.

I hate Chaos all my homies hate Chaos
God Emperor all the way

just bought the game but its crashed 15 times in the span of 5 mins... i cant even enjoy the game

gud

DO NOT BUY, WONT RUN ON NEW SYSTEMS

permanently crashes...

Grande sequel del primo gioco moltissimi miglioramenti rispetto al primo, la grafica potrebbe essere migliore

Cool game.

I came across this when I was looking for some space fleet combat games. I hesitated to buy it because I read that newer systems had a bunch of errors running it. It came on sale for $4 so I figured what the heck, I'd roll the dice. Pleased to say that I didn't encounter any game breaking bugs or crashes. I will say that it didn't load past one of the beginning screens any time I would try to run it in offline mode. Online mode worked fine though. Towards the middle / end of the campaign there was some stuttering issues, but those were more of an annoyance than something that made it unplayable. Not sure if it's because of my computer or the game. Anyway, I would say the hours of enjoyable gameplay outweighed any sort of technical issue.

From the descriptions others posted I thought this would be like a mix between homeworld and civilization. It's not really like that at all. It's a 2d map, and rather than a swarm of ships to manage, in Battlefleet you only manage a handful of ships at a time. It feels more like old world naval battles where big ships slug it out while sailing circles around each other... except set in space.

It's very much a game of maneuvering... and it is quite satisfying to micro one ship's engines to burn full to make a pass at another ship, waiting for just the right moment to launch a boarding party... then passing the ship, hitting a high g turn to flip around and shoot some torpedoes right up the enemies butt. Just one maneuvering example of many.

Others have mentioned it's very slow paced. I disagree... It can be very fast paced, or not fast paced at all... depending on your play style. Ships don't just blow up after a few hits, and it does take some time to pound down the enemy and vice versa. however, with maneuvers and special abilities, you can keep yourself quite busy handling just a few ships. Or if you prefer, you can park your heavy hitters in strategic locations so they pound the enemy without you having to micro much at all. And that's one thing I really like about this game... it's not like Starcraft 2 where your entire army can melt in 2 seconds. You actually get time to watch, look around, zoom in and out, and really assess the situation before issuing orders, rather than just spamming A-move with your whole army. Those kinds of games can be fun too, but Battlefleet provides a fresh tactical experience that I haven't really had before.

The strategic layer, while not terrible, is probably where the game is lacking the most. It's not overly complicated and I was able to infer my way through it to get my economy going. If you're familiar with 4x type games you won't have a problem. The galactic map is divided into different sectors, with access to each other through specific space lanes. Within each sector there are several systems. Capture / control the sectors and systems is basically the name of the game, while completing story missions along the way. Build more fleets... take more sectors...

And that would all be well and dandy, if the AI actually did something other than sit around and every once in a while move one dinky fleet to attack a neighboring system. They mostly just sit there and wait for you to show up with overwhelming numbers. There's no real need to consider chokepoints... or strategic locations... or even which systems you should prioritize defending. Instead of an AI that builds up a force and moves it around, forcing you to counter, instead for some reason the devs decided to include "invasions". I guess they thought, "We need something to make the player focus on offense AND defense..." so they included a mechanic that has an enemy fleet just show up out of nowhere in any random system, friendly or otherwise. It does give you a certain number of turns to respond to it though, so its not a total surprise. But the real problem is that when you get 4 or 5 invasions in different sectors, it's difficult to keep track of them all. The galactic map overlay doesn't have any information regarding your fleet strength or invasions on the way... you can only find the invasion by clicking on the sector, then panning around at all the different systems to find it. In the beginning this isn't so bad, but once you control a bunch of different sectors, it's tedious to constantly zoom in and out of each sector to see if you placed fleets to cover all the invasions.

And honestly the invasion mechanic doesn't add any strategic consideration... I basically just built the max number of fleets, and had a few in each sector to wait around for invasions. This is all extra fleets are good for anyway, because another thing I wasn't too fond of was the fact that in order to do any quest mission, my main dude had to be there to fight it. With quest missions all over the galactic map, it felt tedious sending him from one spot to the other, especially when I had other fleets much closer.

But anyway, those are pretty small gripes. The tactical layer more than compensates for the strategic layer. It's a lot of fun, simple as that. And if BFGA 3 comes out, I'd more than likely get it