Only War
In the grim darkness of the 41st Millennium there is only war. And so ever it has been, well, since 3rd Edition at least. One war unending, unbroken by the years both in the game and without. It has been a war of big characters and grand ideals, one never questioned and always pushing forward, requiring us to empty our bank balances to field vast swathes of reinforcements and new toys every few years. Rarely do we get to see the other side of this. Oh the fields of Cadian dead are mentioned, where you’re memorialised only as long as you can be remembered. Warhammer 40,000 is not short on tales of death and grim defiance in the face of it. Still it has never seemed as well realised I think as right here, in the Dawn of War III trailer. The monologue is as daft and over the top as ever, but there’s something there, in the way it’s presented. The violence is nothing new. Relic has always understood that Chainswords, under-represented on the tabletop,...