History VideoGame / Warhammer40000ChaosGateDaemonhunters

* MinionMaster: The Techmarine's specialty is controlling various combat servitors in battle.

* ActionBomb: Bloated Poxwalkers explode when killed, afflicting your Knights in the vicinity with the plagued status(though you can prevent this from happening if you take off their head via Precision Targeting). The Eversor Assassin also blows up if killed, inflicting direct damage to anyone around.

** When you initiate a fight all of your units have their Action Points automatically refilled. Similarily, when you finish off the last enemy your units also automatically refill their Actions Points and reload their ranged weapons, allowing you to push forward without wasting time on recovery.

* CoolShip: The ''Baleful Edict,'', the Grey Knight Strike Cruiser that will serve as your base in the game is this. At the start of the game, it's in bad shape following a confrontation with a Khornate warhost; you will spend quite a bit of time trying to bring it back to full functionality.

* DropTheHammer: The Grey Knights use Nemesis Daemonhammers in their fight against the daemons.

* MagicKnight: Grey Knights are invariably potent psykers and also being excellent fighters.

* MechanicalAbominations: Blight Haulers and Bloat-Drones, daemonic engines of Nurgle that are utilised by enemies.

** On some missions to destroy a Bloomspawn the bloomspawn in question is actually an apostate preacher that you need to kill. The preacher stands on a ritual pad, and is protected by 4 eye growths that give him 12 extra armour. Destroying the growths removes the extra armour, making him easier to kill (or you can use armour piercing attacks). Not killing him in time will let him complete his ritual, which will have him transform into a daemonic herald of nurgle accompanied by 4 other nurgle daemons, that you still need to kill - so dealing with his armour one way or another is a must.

* CombatMedic: Unlike the original ''Chaos Gate'' your apothecaries here are no less capable of dispatching foes than the rest of your battle-brothers, and even have some unique psychic powers of their own.

* PoweredArmor: Grey Knights wear these, which you can customise visually and came in 2 types: the basic Power Armor and the larger Terminator Armor that can be worn by veteran Knights.

* RuleOfFun: [[spoiler:When Kadex invades the ''Edict'', you can still play the Orbital Bombardment stratagem. One must wonder how the Edict can bombard its own interior.]]

** Another mission type has you protecting three sanctified servitors carrying bloom seeds for Vakir's research. Each servitor is located in a fortified position and protected by a squad of imperial guardsmen, and in a pinch they can attack enemies next to them - however the positions are scattered to the opposite edges of the map, enemies spawn in overhwelming numbers much higher than what you would normally get, the guardsmen are only good as meatshields and distractions, completely useless for actually killing enemies, and aren't even under player's control like Vakir. You only need to preserve one servitor to win the mission and unless you bring a squad of top-level knights decked in master-cradfted wargear you'll be struggling even with that.

* AntiMagic:
** The Culexus assassins' specialty. They are immune to psychic powers, they can block enemy psykers from using their abilities with one touch, they can remove buffs from group of enemies and they can even close Warp Rifts before enemies emerge from those.
** On the enemy side we have Nurgle Blightbringers - plague marines armed with nothing but a profane bell. They are comppletely immune to psychic abilities, while their sole attack is an area-hitting blasts that inflicts damage and blocks those affected from using psychic abilities.

* FinishingMove: Killing an enemy with a critical melee strike allows Grey Knights to execute an enemy to restore an action point to the rest of their squad.

* TimedMission: The missions to destroy a Bloom Spreader need to be completed within a turn limit before the Spreader activates. Played with in that the initial limit is in fact not sufficient to get get to the Spreader and destroy it in time, but you can extend the limit by purifying Bloom vents scattered across the map.

* WithThisHerring: You start the game with a handful of Knights and a single strike cruiser barely hobbling along. With all [=DLCs=] you will have at most around 20 battle-brothers across two ships supported by 4 assassins, and that's all you're getting to stop a full-scale daemonic takeover of an entire sector. Justified, as there's only a thousand of Grey Knights and they are spread extremely thin, suppressing similar outbreaks across the whole galaxy.

* ActionBomb: Bloated Poxwalkers explode when killed, damaging your Knights in the vicinity (though you can prevent this from happening if you take off their head via Precision Targeting). The Eversor Assassin also blows up if killed, with a much larger blast radius.

* AntiMagic: The Culexus assassins' specialty. They are immune to psychic powers, they can block enemy psykers from using their abilities with one touch, they can remove buffs from group of enemies and they can even close Warp Rifts before enemies emerge from those.

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: The assassins from the ''Execution Force'' [=DLC=] have a number of notable differences in how they play compared to your Grey Knights. They don't have branching skill trees like your Knights, instead following a linear progression path. They don't get additional Resilience points like your knights, which means once they're down they're down for good, and generally speaking they're understandably quite fragile (except Eversor). They also don't gather Seeds from enemies they kill in melee, and your stratagems and many psychic powers and special abilities don't affect them, and they don't get extra AP from Executions performed by your Knights. They also don't use Willpower, except Culexus - Vindicare's and Callidus' abilities run on cooldowns and Eversor has cooldowns and/or has his abilities CastFromHitpoints. In exchange, the assassins offer some specialised but ''very'' strong abilities that only get better as they level.
** The Culexus is unusual even compared to the rest of assassins. She uses Willpower to fuel her abilites but stars every level with 0 of it - however she gains points of WP every time your Knights use psychic powers in addition to standard methods of getting WP, so she tops off very quickly. Many of her abilities also scale with how many Willpower points she has, potentially making her tankier than your terminators and letting her hit foes right through walls for ridiculous damage.

* MinionMaster: The Techmarine's specialty is controlling various combat servitors in battle. He can also fix your Venerable Dreadnought.

* ProtectionMission: If you let the Bloom corruption get high enough on a planet then the Nurgle worshippers will construct a [[TitleDrop Chaos Gate]] on its surface, prompting a mission where you have to escort Inquisitor Vakir to it so she could perform a rite to close it. Getting her there is not the problem as Vakir is fully capable of defending herself (and may in fact be stronger than some of your Knights), but she is completely helpless while she is performing the ritual, and your Knights need to protect her from incoming daemonic hordes.

* NintendoHard: The Grey Knights are an elite among the already elite Adeptus Astartes, armed with formidable weapons, mastercrafted armour and a vast array of psychic powers tailored to kill their chosen enemies. You will need all of that and more to win, because enemy units have even more tricks and dangerous abilities up their sleeve all of which they're not afraid to use, they have plenty of their own elite troops their own that can match your Knights in combat, and they heavily outnumber your small force. The game does not pull its punches if you misstep.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The Callidus assassin's specialty, along with ArmorPiercingAttack. She can use her polymorphine drug to assume the shape of a poxwalker and crawl around the map unimpeded, with enemies ignoring her. As a result she plays the closest to what you would expect from an assassin unit. She does need to change back to attack, which leaves her exposed.

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: The assassins from the ''Execution Force'' [=DLC=] have a number of notable differences in how they play compared to your Grey Knights. They don't have branching skill trees like your Knights, instead following a linear progression path. They don't get additional Resilience points like your knights, which means once they're down they're down for good, and generally speaking they're understandably quite fragile (except Eversor). They also don't gather Seeds from enemies they kill in melee, and your stratagems and many psychic powers and special abilities don't affect them, and they don't get extra AP from Executions. They also don't use Willpower, except Culexus - Vindicare and Callidus abilities run on cooldowns and Eversor has cooldowns and/or has his abilities are CastFromHitpoints. In exchange, the assassins offer some specialised but ''very'' strong abilities that only get better as they level.

* NintendoHard: The Grey Knights are an elite among the already elite Adeptus Astartes, armed with formidable weapons, mastercrafted armour and a vast array of psychic powers tailored to kill their chosen enemies. You will need all of that and more to win, because enemy units have even more tricks and dangerous abilities up their sleeve than you do which they're not afraid to use, they have plenty of elite troops of their own that can match your Knights in combat, and they heavily outnumber your small force. The game does not pull its punches if you misstep.

** [[spoiler:It is later shown to be subverted, as [[BriarPatching this was Kadex's plan all along]]. Kadex intended to lure Draigo to the Garden of Nurgle so that Mortarion would lay a trap for the Supreme Grandmaster.]]

* Freudiantrio: Ectar, Lunete and Vakir form one, with Ectar as the Id (straightforward and simple in his kneejerk reactions to purge corruption on sight), Lunete as the Superego (the most rigidly dogmatic of the three and focused on upholding rules and principles of her faith and your operations above all else) and Vakir as the Ego (pragmatic, flexible and just as willing to bend the dogma as to uphold it, depending on the needs of the moment).

* BotanicalAbomination: Bloom-affected environment get taken over by vile corrupted flora straight from Grandpa Nurgle's realm. Some pieces of said flora become dangerous enough to serve as mission targets, they can often bombard your group of Knights from afar.
* ColdSniper: The Vindicare assassins, who're thankfully on your side, are one of the best marksmen in the galaxy.

* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: In the final battle, [[spoiler:when Mortarion devours Vakir's soul, Kadex, her ArchEnemy, is ''furious'' at being denied his revenge.]]

* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Inquisitor Vakir does ''not'' make the best first impression on [[TheLancer Ectar]] or [[TheEngineer Lunete]], and constantly butts heads with them in random events, causing buffs and penalties as you attempt to mediate between them.