History VideoGame / BattlefleetGothicArmada

** The Eldar Corsairs are very strong on hit-and-run strategies with ships that are very mobile and have highly disciplined crews and the best spacecraft available. This comes at the heavy cost of their ships which have very little armor, are very vulnerable to boarding actions, and have no shields (which are substituted by Holo-fields that reduce accuracy of hostile gunfire).

* EarthShatteringKaboom: Abaddon's flagship, the unsubtly named Planet Killer, is capable of destroying an entire planet with its [[WaveMotionGun main weapon]]. Likewise, a single Activated Blackstone Fortress is capable of this (though it doesn't often come up in the campaign), while three combining fire can ''[[UpToEleven detonate a star.]]''

** The opening cutscene zooms in on the Planet Killer in a manner highly reminiscent of an iconic scene from ''[[Anime/CaptainHarlock]]''.

* WeAREStrugglingTogether: Your captains have a chance of becoming insubordinate, choosing to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere activate the emergency warp jump on their own]] every time an allied ship is destroyed or if their ship's remaining hull drops below 30%.. You can chose to prevent this by [[YouHaveFailedMe executing your captain]], though. This comes at the cost of giving the "mutiny" debuff though, reducing skill effectiveness on the ship. Each race has a means to help "encourage" your ships captains to not become insubordinate, reducing the chance of it occurring, such as commissars (Imperial), demonic influence (Chaos), or the mysterious Harlequins who worship Cegorach the Laughing god to enforce one of his mysterious plans (Eldar). Orks can't do this by default, but can get a ship upgrade that add cages filled with very angry squigs that are placed behind the ship's Kaptain, and released at the command of the Ork fleet's admiral.

* ArtificialStupidity: The AI makes some truly boneheaded decisions. Half the time, AI ships won't bother to avoid going through {{Asteroid Thicket}}s (somewhat justifiable in that the damage is minimal and the field grants some stealth) or mines (completely unjustifiable, as all mines do it explode, insta-killing escorts and dealing serious damage to capital ships). Especially egregious when, in the main campaign, [[spoiler: you ally with the Eldar, and Eldar AI ships in battle seemingly want to die.]] Other allied AI-controlled ships (Imperial Navy, Space Marines) are little better, constantly getting in each others' (and your) way trying to get firing solutions on enemy ships.

* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: Orks tend to be like this (when controlled by the AI, at least). They have pretty low morale, and so have very high chances of being Insubordinate and attempting to retreat when a ship gets sufficiently damaged or destroyed. And since ships retreating through Insubordination are apparently counted as "destroyed" for purposes of other insubordination checks, it's very easy to create a domino effect where an Ork force that's otherwise doing very well as one ship retreat, then another, and another, until they're all gone. Even ones that haven't even been damaged (or even ''seen'') by your force yet.

* CriticalHit: When your ship gets hit with one it will destroy a weapons battery, subsystem, set your ship on fire (including multiple fires), or cause a hull breach which inflicts extra damage. There's an upgrade that lets you ignore the first one in an engagement, but ''only'' the first.

* GreaterScopeVillain: Whilst Abaddon the Despoiler is the main BigBad, being directly responsible for the game's main conflict, [[spoiler:the Deceiver orchestrated the entire war for the sole purpose of destroying the Blackstone Fortresses, ancient weapons built by the Eldar gods against the C'tan.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: Whilst Abaddon the Despoiler is the main BigBad, being directly responsible for the game's main conflict, [[spoiler:the Deceiver orchestrated the entire war for the purpose of destroying the Blackstone Fortresses, as these are ancient weapons built by the Eldar gods against the C'tan, and perhaps the only weapons truly capable of killing them.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: Whilst Abaddon the Despoiler is the main BigBad, being directly responsible for the game's main conflict, [[spoiler:the Deceiver set the game's events into motion as part of some plan we can only guess at.]]

* AsteroidThicket: Most battlefields are strewn with large swarms and clusters of rocky debris of varying sizes. Ships can use these for cover, although they will damage any ships that actually pass through them.

* {{BFG}}: Puns about the title notwithstanding ''every weapon'' on the ships you control are one of these, evidenced by the use of the prefix "macro-" which means "large." Lances are even bigger.
** Special mention goes to the Nova Canon, a FixedForwardFacingWeapon that fires projectiles the size of buildings at relativistic speeds, which then implodes dealing respectable damage to everything around it. Two of them fired in unison (and landing near their target) can ruin just about any enemy ship's day, or at least significantly cut down the work your regular weapons have to do.

** GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:The Deceiver is manipulating the game's events.]]

** It also reveals that the Imperium will wind up allying with the Eldar at some point.

* AsteroidThicket: Most battlefields are strewn with large amounts of rocky debris of varying size. There are also small (somewhat bigger than a large ship) clusters of closely orbiting rocks and dust scattered around battlefields than ships can use for cover, although they will damage any ships that actually pass through them.

* AsteroidThicket: Most battlefields are strewn with large amounts of rocky debris of varying size. There are also small (somewhat bigger than a large ship) clusters of closely orbiting rocks and dust than ships can use for cover.

* StoryBranching: While the campaign remains true to the source on how the Gothic War went, some of the player's decisions can change how the story will go.(eg. One or both the "Hand of Darkness" and the "Eye of Night" can be prevented from falling into Abbadon's hands when in canon he was able to get both devices and the Imperial Navy can formed an alliance with the Eldar Corsairs or not when in canon the Imperial Navy did ally with the Eldar Corsairs.)

The game features a single-player campaign with the player in control of the Imperium of Man. Other factions such as the Forces of Chaos, The Eldar and the Orks are be available to play on Skirmish and Multiplayer modes. A Space Marine faction will also be available; though as DLC, and will be available a few weeks after release.

* StoryBranching: While the campaign remains true to the source on how the Gothic War went, some of the player's decisions can change how the story will go.(eg. One or both the "Hand of Darkness" and the "Eye of Night" can be prevented from falling into Abbadon's when in canon he was able to get both devices and the Imperial Navy can formed an alliance with the Eldar Corsairs or not when in canon the Imperial Navy did ally with the Eldar Corsairs.)

The game will feature a single-player campaign and will control the Imperium of Man. Other factions such as the Forces of Chaos, The Eldar and the Orks will be available to play on Skirmish and Multiplayer modes. A Space Marine faction will also be available; though as DLC, and will be available a few weeks after the game has been released.

The game is slated to be released on April 21, 2016.

* {{BFG}}: Puns about the title notwithstanding ''every weapon'' on the ships you control are one of these, evidenced by the use of the prefix "macro-" which means "large."

* BFG: Puns about the title notwithstanding ''every weapon'' on the ships you control are one of these, evidenced by the use of the prefix "macro-" which means "large."

* CriticalHit: When your ship gets hit with one it will destroy a weapons battery or subsystem. There's an upgrade that lets you ignore the first in an engagement, but ''only'' the first.

* DeathOfAThousandCuts: The Eldar's Shuriken Cannons. They do very little damage, and their base critical hit rating, is terrible. However, the guns fire extremely fast compared to other fleets macro batteries, and from the light cruisers on up, pack at least 6 of these. End result, they shred through both shields and hull with ease.

* FlechetteStorm: Say hello again to the Eldar, using ship-scale Shuriken Cannons. While it doesn't fire a cloud of Shurikens like the smaller scale versions for their ground/air vehicles or infantry do, Eldar ships do however carry a lot of them on their ship[[note]]the Aconite-class Frigate escort packs '''15''' of the Light Shuriken version. The Solaris-class light cruiser packs 6 of the standard sized ones.[[/note]] and have a very high Rate of Fire, between 1 and 3 seconds reload time. And if you're wondering, it's the heavier versions that fire faster.

'''Battlefleet Gothic: Armada''' is a space battle RealTimeStrategy developed by Tindalos Interactive and based on Games Workshop's specialist game ''{{TabletopGame/BattlefleetGothic}}'' and set in the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' universe.

* DeflectorShields: They protect ships by absorbing much of the damage. Armor only comes into play if the shields are down.

* ArtificialStupidity: The AI makes some truly boneheaded decisions. Half the time, AI ships won't bother to avoid going through AsteroidThickets (somewhat justifiable in that the damage is minimal and the field grants some stealth) or mines (completely unjustifiable, as all mines do it explode, insta-killing escorts and dealing serious damage to capital ships). Especially egregious when, in the main campaign, [[spoiler: you ally with the Eldar, and Eldar AI ships in battle seemingly want to die.]] Other allied AI-controlled ships (Imperial Navy, Space Marines) are little better, constantly getting in each others' (and your) way trying to get firing solutions on enemy ships.