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Lead Blood Angels against Tyranids in turn-based battles, building an army and using tactical abilities across missions.
Released 22 Jul 2021
Battle Tyranid Swarms
Customize Army Loadouts
Capture Planetary Sectors
Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector is a fast-paced turn-based strategy game set in the grimdark universe of the 41st Millennium. Pick your force, develop your army, field mighty heroes and fight for victory using superior strategy, awesome abilities, and devastating weaponry.
Developed by Slitherine Ltd. · Published by Slitherine Ltd.
In the single-player campaign, command the Blood Angels as they fight to purge a Tyranid infestation on Baal Secundus. The campaign spans 20 missions, each with objectives and opportunities to develop your force.
Battles are turn-based, with units moving and acting across the battlefield. Choose units, heroes, and weapon loadouts, then use their abilities and faction-specific Momentum systems to chain actions or strengthen attacks when units Surge.
Skirmish mode lets you customize armies, choose opposing factions, and select objectives. Planetary Supremacy links procedurally generated battles through a map where you capture tiles and gather resources, while Daemonic Incursion challenges you to survive waves of daemons. Live, asynchronous, and hotseat multiplayer are also available.
Many supplied reviews praise the turn-based battles as a satisfying way to play a tabletop-style Warhammer 40,000 army, with distinct units, tactical choices, and opportunities to customize forces. The campaign and modes such as Crusade and Planetary Supremacy also appeal to some players. A prominent recurring complaint is the cost of paid faction and unit content, alongside reports from some players of slow battles, weak AI, or clunky controls.
Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector is a fast-paced turn-based strategy game set in the grimdark universe of the 41st Millennium. Pick your force, develop your army, field mighty heroes and fight for victory using superior strategy, awesome abilities, and devastating weaponry.
Experience an epic twenty mission single-player campaign that explores the aftermath of the Devasta-tion of Baal. Help Sergeant Carleon and his allies purge the Tyranid infestation on Baal Secundus, and preserve the honour of the noble Blood Angels.
Fight across the surface of Baal on maps of your choosing in the Skirmish mode. Pick the faction you'll lead as well as the one you'll face. Completely customize your army list by selecting your units, heroes and their loadouts. It is available with three different types of Objective: Exterminatus, Conqueror and Strategic Command.
Planetary Supremacy is a conquest-style skirmish campaign, introduced in a free update as part of our ever expanding plan for Battlesector, in which you, the player, decide the outcome.
Take command of your favourite faction and conquer the planet in a series of procedurally generated skirmish battles. To achieve victory, capture more tiles, acquire strategic resources and expand your army. Then, bring destruction to your enemies in Skirmish battles.
Daemonic Incursion is a single-player mode that is available to all Battlesector players as part of a free update that was launched alongside the Sisters of Battle Faction Pack. In Daemonic Incursion, waves of Khornate daemons enter realspace to spill blood, collect skulls and overrun your forces. This is a last-stand mode, in which your objective is simple: SURVIVE!
Command iconic units like the Sanguinary Priest, the Librarian Dreadnought, and the Hive Tyrant to annihilate your foes. Use over 60 abilities and 50 weapons to orchestrate your opponent’s bloody de-mise.
Each faction has a unique Momentum system that can result in a Surged unit. Units that Surge are able to string together superhuman chains of actions, or use the opportunity to further upgrade their abili-ties.
Use Command Points to call in faction-specific air support abilities. The Blood Angels Stormraven can obliterate xenos with a missile barrage, or deep strike a unit of veteran Assault Marines behind enemy lines. Meanwhile, the Tyranid Harpy can devastate the enemy defenses with its Sonic Screech, or scat-ter the battlefield with its deadly Spore Mines.
With live and asynchronous multiplayer, and hotseat modes available, there’s no excuse not to take your friends to war.
1. Lieutenant
2. Primaris Librarian
3. Sanguinary Priest
4. Death Company
5. Inceptors
6. Intercessors
7. Hellblasters
8. Aggressors
9. Assault Marines
10. Techmarine
11. Furioso Dreadnought
12. Librarian Dreadnought
13. Baal Predator
14. Land Speeder
15. Land Speeder Tornado,
16. Primaris Invictor Tactical Warsuit*
//Stormraven – HQ Flyer
*Unit added in a free update
1. Warriors
2. Termagants
3. Hormagaunts
4. Venomthropes
5. Gargoyles
6. Trygon
7. Tervigon
8. Exocrine
9. Thornback
10. Tyrannofex
11. Hive Tyrant
12. Genestealers
13. Prime,
14. Pyrovore*
15. Biovore*
//Harpy – HQ Flyer
*Unit added in a free update
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 30 |
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| Players | From 2 (maximum not specified) |
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| Multiplayer | The game supports multiplayer PvP through live online matches, asynchronous play, and hotseat/shared-screen play. Multiplayer is described in the official text as playing against friends on the battlefield, and Steam lists Online PvP and Shared/Split Screen PvP. The provided information does not state player counts or any team-based modes. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Custom campaigns and creator content are mentioned, but no direct multiplayer mod support is confirmed. Reviews indicate DLC factions affect multiplayer availability, with one review stating both players need to own a DLC army to use it in multiplayer. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 12 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |
