Battle of Tallarn is a decent hex-based tactics game. Very minimalistic in design and visuals, obviously low-budget. Also, it's an iOS port, so if you're alergic to such things, stay away. This game has a lot of problems, beginning with serious balance issues, clunky UI and somewhat "cheap" feeling. Some of those issues were patched, other are promised...
The Horus Heresy: Battle of Tallarn2017
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The Horus Heresy: Battle of Tallarn
2017 HexWar Games63Worthwhile
Overview
The Horus Heresy: Battle of Tallarn is a turn-based strategy game that recreates one of the most important events in Imperial history. Command a vast array of tanks, Dreadnoughts, Knights and Titans across the toxic landscape.
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Players59
Mediocre- Steam59from 51 reviews
40k themed port of Hexwar's basic WW2 game engine. Many of the missions are exceedingly awful pieces of design, with narrow chokepoints which leave a player little to no choice as to how to proceed, and enemies arriving behind friendly forces with the ability to flank and shoot first. Since most scenarios score a loss for taking excessive losses, weak...
I know this game gets a lot of heat for being ugly, unbalanced (for the Traitor faction in particular) and troops missing "all the time" but it's really not that bad. Make no mistake, it's definitely taken a spill from the ugly tree hitting every branch on the way down, but Its a fun little game. Playing the "unbalanced" Traitors was actually the most...
Really not very good. Most of the missions are very badly designed, tiresome and repetitive. For the few that aren't, the game is let down by weak AI, poor UI, lack of maneuver (most units can only move a couple of hexes) and an over-reliance on random combat results.
Very enjoyable turn based 40K title. It's certainly no walk in the park so if you like a challenge it's well worth a look.