![]() ![]() Their presence is felt in battles rather than between them, which meant I never really connected to the overarching story linking it all together. Though the campaign's opening act is ostensibly about the old firstborn marines making peace with their even more bulked-up replacements, the primaris don't really get to talk. But if you haven't read the books or played the tabletop game lately, you'll have some catching up to do. An opening cutscene explains the basics, and why there are newly created primaris marines-even more transhuman than the regular variety-joining you for their first taste of battle. ![]() ![]() The story also expects you're up to date with the unfolding metaplot of 40K's recent years, throwing around names like "Archmagos Cawl" and "Indomitus Crusade". Between missions your HQ units narrate with tough-guy lyricism, saying things like, "On this hallowed ground, every one of us fought with tooth and bloody nail for the chance to become angels." (Only the techmarine Croginax is more prosaic, crankily muttering, "That's enough poetics from you.") It's a vivid portrayal, one that benefits from familiarity with Warhammer 40,000. It takes place on a moon covered in red deserts, ruined cathedrals, and factories whose main item of production is apparently giant statues holding goblets shaped like skulls. In moments like this, Battlesector is goth as hell. Your bonus objective in this mission is to help five of their units die. The first time you see a Death Company in Battlesector's campaign, they're engaged in a fight that's been going for days, swinging chainswords while knee-deep in a river of blood. They paint their armor black and form a separate unit, a Death Company who take on dangerous missions in the hope they'll die doing something valiant. Those it descends on spiral toward a berserk state that'll eventually kill them. As well as the constant Red Thirst there's the rarer Black Rage. The Blood Angels' curse is double-pronged. ![]()
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