Games Thursday : Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine Trailer
An upcoming console game featuring the elite superhuman warriors from Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 universe. And of course, it’s the familiar blue Space Marines from Primarch Roboute Guilliman’s Ultramarines chapter again, a chapter which has featured prominently in most games bearing the license to Games Workshop’s grim vision of the far future – from leading a team of Terminators to explore and cleanse space hulks in Space Crusade (1992), awesome tactical squad-based action in Chaos Gate (1998) to a cameo appearance in the singleplayer campaign in the original Dawn of War (2004) and even in the PSP game Squad Command (2007).
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A mix of CG and gameplay snippets in the trailer released at the official site @ www.spacemarine.com and at THQ UK which devotes significant footage time to one of the space marines wielding an unusual weapon looking suspiciously like a thunder hammer commonly equipped by Space Marine Terminators.
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I know I haven’t been keeping up with the latest rules for the tabletop game but such a powerful weapon in the hands of an ordinary Tactical or Assault Marine looks just plain ridiculous. Besides, swatting Orks around with a huge hammer doesn’t seem to provide the same feel of more conventional assault marines jumping into the fray with bolt pistols firing at point blank and then proceeding to stab and parry with whirring chainswords – that IMHO is much more bloody, messy and WH40K-ish 
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Watch the trailer at THQ UK or the official Warhammer 40,000 : Space Marine site.
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I remember playing Space Hulk (also on abandonia (http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/421/Space+Hulk.html)).
1993. Im getting old…
To bad this will be a console game and not a PC game.
Hmm, haven’t seen much of the gameplay though – so it might not be a real loss for us PC folks.
My favourite Warhammer 40,000 game is still Chaos Gate. Rites of War wasn’t too bad though – Panzer General meets WH40K.
The thunderhammer IS a weapon that Space Marines use in normal armor.
just that they have to use it two-handed but Terminators use it one-handed
Hi Valtonis, is it a legal weapon for tactical or even assault marines in the rules? Never did see any miniature with that weapon in the Games Workshops’ online shop before.