History VideoGame / BattlefleetGothicArmada2

** Chaos Campaign''': Lord High Admiral Spire, TheHero of the first game and Imperial campaign, leading the remnants of the Imperial defenders against Malos Vrykan's all-out assault to conquer the Segmentum. [[spoiler:The TrueFinalBoss is actually Arkrist Vane, Vrykan's own TreacherousAdviser, who turns on him after Spire's flagship goes down and attempts to kill him with his Titan ship the ''Monarchia Redeemed'', a stolen and Chaos-corrupted version of the ''Macragge's Honour''.]]

* DownerBeginning: The prologue ends with Abaddon throwing the remains of the ''Will of Eternity'' straight at Cadia as a final middle finger to the fortress world that had denied him for so long, destroying the planet and, far more importantly, the Cadian Null Array [[HopeSpot just as it was fully powered.]] Without the Necron technology suppressing it anymore, the Eye of Terror expands into the Cicatrix Maledictum that rends the Imperium in two.]]

* DownerBeginning: The prologue ends with Abaddon throwing the remains of the ''Will of Eternity'' straight at Cadia as a final middle finger to the fortress world that had denied him for so long.

* DoubleUnlock: Level 3 ship upgrades in the campaign are ''[[UpToEleven quadruple]]'' unlocks even. First you need to unlock all preceding Level 1 and 2 upgrades. Then you need to find, secure and fully evolve a specific planet to activate a certain upgrade option. Then you must invest an upgrade point in them, and ''then'' you have to keep your ships alive long enough to reach Level 3 themselves so they can actually make use of the upgrade.

* UpToEleven: The Massive Fleets Update did this to the entire skirmish mode by increasing the fleet limit to 4,000 points and throwing the gigantic Titan class of ships into the mix. That's enough to field, say, the Vengeful Spirit, a Blackstone Fortress and about a dozen battleships, or so many light and medium cruisers that the fleet barely fits into the deployment zone. The intense micromanagement this game normally relies on becomes next to impossible with so many ships in the field, and the devs made no secret of the mode being unbalanced, so the whole point of it is to throw giant piles of metal/wraithbone/flesh at each other and enjoy the ensuing carnage.

* FactionSpecificEndings: The Imperium, Chaos, the Necrons and Tyranids each have a campaign with a specific ending in which they manage to conquer the Segmentum Obscurus. Only the Imperial one is somewhat canon, as the others involve killing Spire and Guilliman.

* ArcWords: "As it should be" for the Necron campaign.

** Asteroid fields are practically solid walls to non Ork or Tyranid AI controlled ships. The AI would rather risk standing still, or fly in very easy to predict way around an asteroid field. This lets you easily land timed skills with huge damage like plasma bombs, rad tempest devices or nova cannons, instead of flying through and taking some minor damage from said asteroid field.

'''Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2''' is a 2019 space battle RealTimeStrategy developed by Tindalos Interactive, based on Creator/GamesWorkshop's specialist game ''TabletopGame/BattlefleetGothic'' and set in the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' universe. It is the sequel to 2016's ''VideoGame/BattlefleetGothicArmada''.

* EasyLevelTrick: For the Imperial Navy, the fight against the Ancient One in the campaign can easily be the hardest level, as you're forced to spend the better part of an hour desperately maneuvering your lumbering, behemoth battlecruisers around the sporefields, fending off countless tyranid ships, ''and'' trying to stay away from the Ancient Psychic Scream radius while you slowly, slowly, ''slowly'' chip away at the Ancient One's absurd amount of body points with your broadside guns... Or you could just bring over Spire with two additional fleets' worth of Astartes ships and board the Ancient One to death. Being so well-armored, the Astartes ships can afford to ignore most other tyranid vessels for the (short) duration of the fight. Being immune to morale damage, they don't have to move away from the Ancient Psychic Scream. All they have to do is keep pounding the beast with their countless boarding and assault abilities. Since tyranid vessels can't become Drifting Hulks, when the Ancient One runs out of troop units it just dies instantly.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: After defeating the Space Marines as part of the Tyranid campaign, a cutscene will play wherein a Mechanicus servitor relays that all space marines in the sector were eventually devoured, as they refused to fall back against the Tyranid onslaught. In game, Space Marine vessels are completely immune to morale damage and as such cannot under any circumstances be made to run (although they can technically make a tactical retreat if the player commands them... [[FridgeBrilliance which they don't in this case, as they're playing the Tyranids!]])

* NintendoHard: Battles in this game are extremely heavy on micromanagement. Simply sending your fleet(s) at the enemy and hoping for the best will result in a PyrrhicVictory at best, but more often a TotalPartyKill instead no matter how heavily you outnumber and outgun the opposition. Carefully managing your ships' facings, stances, abilities and morale at all times is absolutely essential to claim victory. Otherwise you won't make it out of the starting sector in the campaign even on the lowest difficulty. Fortunately, single-player allows players to slow our outright pause the action, catch their breath, strategize and issue commands.

** Chaos fleets are a more aggressive yet more fragile counterpart to the Imperial Navy, using antiquated and badly maintained ships. Although they have poorer armor and firepower, they are on average faster, have strong and precise weaponry at long range and have access to more launch bays to send many small crafts. Thus Chaos Fleets tend to prefer long range battles, maneuvering around the battlefield to keep their distance and pelter away at the enemy.

* FriendlyFireproof: Zigzagged. Standard ship weapons can't hurt allied ships. Torpedoes, Nova Cannons and generally everything with a blast radius, however, don't differentiate between friend or foe, and these attacks ''hurt''. A lot. Allied ships can also crash into each other, with all the damage that entails, although they usually try their best to avoid it.

* MoraleMechanic: The game implements one, morale occupying a bar just like health. Skillful commanders will watch for their ship's morale, as one that has lost its morale will have its efficiency reduced, mutiny, and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere start fleeing to the edge of the battle map, whereupon they disengage]]. If all of a fleet's surviving vessels are undergoing mutinies like this, the battle automatically ends.

* NintendoHard: Battles in this game are extremely heavy on micromanagement. Simply sending your fleet(s) at the enemy and hoping for the best will result in a PyrrhicVictory at best, but more often a TotalPartyKill instead no matter how heavily you outnumber and outgun the opposition. Carefully managing your ships' facings, stances, abilities and morale at all times is absolutely essential to claim victory. Otherwise you won't make it out of the starting sector in the campaign even on the lowest difficulty.

* NoSell: All (once-)human factions can take the Supercharged Voidshields upgrade that makes their flagship's shields invincible for 10 seconds. It also confers immunity to most special abilities that don't pierce shields, with the exception of the shield-killing Disruptor Bomb.

* ObviouslyEvil: Lord Admiral Drang, simply by the oily way he talks to Spire, makes little effort to conceal that he's no longer on the Imperium's side. True enough, he ends up stabbing Spire in the back by sending him into a trap.

* ZergRush: The M.O. of the Tyranids. Most of their 'escort ships' are cheap in price and point count, allowing them to field huge numbers of them, and incredibly squishy even by escort ship standards. Their only attack is to ram the opponent, and they usually can only get one successful strike off before they die. The issue is, that when these escorts die, they leave behind deadly spore clouds that slowly damage enemy ships and slow their movement to a crawl. Once the initial Zerg Rush passes, the board is filled with these clouds, and the bigger, nastier Tyranids move in to finish off the crippled enemies.

Set in the Segmentum Obscurus - the region of Imperial space that surrounds the [[{{Mordor}} Eye of Terror]] - over eight-hundred years after the events of ''Battlefleet Gothic: Armada'', the second game covers the events of Abbadon the Despoiler's 13th Black Crusade; the [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore defining conflict]] of ''Warhammer 40,000's'' 8th edition.

* EveryCarIsAPinto: All of the playable spaceships tend to explode when their health bar is depleted, leaving behind a scorched hulk. It may be explained for the Imperium's ship because they use plasma drives, which can explode if their containment system is too damaged.

** Chaos ships are a dark parody of Imperial vessels, angular and spiky ships that have long since been retired from Imperial service, retained by the servants of the Dark Powers. Thousand Suns ships are [[BrightIsNotGood blue and gold and illuminated in arcane glows]], World Eaters ships are covered in skulls and dried gore, Death Guard ships are coated in rot and buzzing with flies, and Emperor's Children ships are decorated with garish Slaaneshi imagery.

Set in the Segmentum Obscurus - the region of Imperial space that surrounds the [[{{Mordor}} Eye of Terror]] - over three-hundred years after the events of ''Battlefleet Gothic: Armada'', the second game covers the events of Abbadon the Despoiler's 13th Black Crusade; the [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore defining conflict]] of ''Warhammer 40,000's'' 8th edition.

* ArcWords: "As it should be" for the Necron campaign.

* AlwaysAccurateAttack: Lances have 100% accuracy no matter the distance. It makes them ideal for extreme-range sniping, coupled with the most reliable damage output available, but at the cost of lower per-shot damage compared to macro-weapons and similar ballistic weaponry.
** Ork Zap Kannons also have 100% accuracy with an impressive long range, this is to compensate for their ships slow speed, and their other weapons that have greater damage with miserable accuracy.

* VillainProtagonist: The whole ''40K'' universe runs on BlackAndGreyMorality at best, but as far as the game's campaigns go, playing the slightly-less-evil Imperial Navy can be contrasted by assuming the mantle of a [[KillerRobot Necron Lord]], the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Tyranid]] HiveMind or, with the appropriate DLC installed, a [[TheLegionsOfHell Chaos Lord]].

* YearOutsideHourInside: The effects of time in the Warp are bizzare and unpredictable. Admiral Spire, from the first game, returns from warp travel to real-space, but discovers that centuries have passed since the Gothic War.