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Armageddon is COMING!!!!

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:51:00 +0100

Armageddon invasion starts in 2014

Slitherine and Games Workshop® are pleased to announce Warhammer®40,000®: Armageddon™.

Having announced an exciting partnership with Games Workshop a few weeks ago, Slitherine are delighted to release further details. Slitherine have acquired the exclusive rights to Games Workshop’s "Battle for Armageddon” setting in order to create a series of amazing multiplatform, turn-based, hex-based games. Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon will make full use of Slitherine's expertise in creating compelling and challenging strategy gaming experiences. The initial game is set during the Second War of Armageddon and players will lead the Imperial forces of the Armageddon Steel Legion and Space Marines®from the Ultramarines, Blood Angels and Salamanders Chapters against Ghazghkull Thraka’s massive Ork Waaagh! invasion through over 30 scenarios, on the hostile terrain of the planet and its gigantic Hive Cities.

"It is very exciting to see a game like this come alive - I just can't wait to play it!", said Iain McNeil, Development Director of the Slitherine Group. "It's been almost 15 years since a turn-based strategy game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe has been released and we think it is now time to deliver that experience to all fans around the world".

"The Battle for Armageddon is a classic event in the lore of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, having been detailed in games, models and novels over the past 20 years.” said Jon Gillard, Head of Licensing at Games Workshop. "Slitherine's masterful use of their classic digital wargame style applied to this seminal setting will delight fans of both.”

The game is currently in development for PC and iOS and will release in the first quarter of 2014.

Main features of the game include:

The game portrays the Second War for Armageddon™ in great detail, from the initial Ork landings to the final liberation of the planet;

It contains a large branching campaign with 30 major scenarios, plus additional 5 tutorial scenarios that explore the story in detail;

A complex plot, which can develop during a mission, right in the middle of battle, creating an engaging story line with unexpected twists;

Players lead Imperial troops of the Armageddon™ Steel Legion, with supporting assets from a number of Space Marine chapters against the ferocious Orks;

Fight alongside Commissar Yarrik and Commander Dante against the cunning Ork Warboss Ghazghkull Thraka;

Carry over battle-hardened veterans from scenario to scenario, using their experience and upgrading their equipment;

Detailed combat model with terrain, weather and morale effects;
Extensive modding options delivered through a powerful and easy-to-use game editor.
Some numbers:

Over 35 scenarios;

Over 100 unit types, with unique roles, stats and special abilities;
20 different units stats;

A separate set of maps are designed and balanced specifically for multiplayer via Slitherine's PBEM++ system.

Discuss it on our FORUM!

Witness - Joe Parrino

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:10:00 +0100

Joe is bringing it again! This time in the form of the mighty Grey Knights! I hope you all join me in congratulating Joe on another achievement! Soon you'll be on the HH team bringing Valrak to life at the siege of Terra, just make sure he gets his chin blown off.

THE STORY

On the war-wracked world of Margentum, Captain Danel Prestoff and the Brindelweld Ninth Imperial Guard stand against traitors, heretics and… something else. Something alien. Something other. As events spiral out of control, Prestoff and his men find themselves on the brink of destruction. When reinforcements arrive, it seems that all is saved. But will the new arrivals, mysterious, silver-armoured giants, bring the Brindelweld victory… or damnation?

Get over to BL and buy this!

Star Citizen: Space Suite (Power Armour)

Wed, 01 May 2013 18:10:00 +0100

We would also like to share one of our design documents, explaining how the classification system for space suits works. Please note that this is what we’re working towards; you won’t find all of these in the game on day one (and some are for Squadron 42!) This also does not mean there are nine different space suits; there are nine types. Like ship upgrades, each suit will have a variety of different manufacturers, quality levels, upgrade options, etc. Suits will also have customizable colors, decals, etc. to increase variation. There will also be an array of player clothing separate from space suits.

Class I – basic protection; essentially a plastic bag. Think a Tyvek suit. Class 1 suits protect against vacuum during a hull breach but they can’t be worn for EVAs.
Class II – This is the "standard” suit for non-military pilots. Keeps you safe in the cockpit and is maneuverable enough in combat. Has limited EVA capabilities, although to do anything effective in zero G you need attachments that will slow it down.
Class III – Heavier civilian suit. A little slower and less maneuverable than the class II, but has increased armor. You’ll have a harder time moving around in boarding, but you can take more hits.
Class IV – Military suit, as seen in the Squadron 42 trailer. This suit is armored to protect against cockpit damage, has various self-repair features, advanced tactical display, etc. Roughly as effective in EVA as the Class II is in a boarding operation.
Class V – Advanced Military Suit. This is a much more expensive and rarer class of suit. Think the difference between a standard fighter pilot suit and the ones worn by an SR-71 crew.
Class VI – Marine armor. Too bulky to wear in a cockpit, but much more effective in boarding operations. A pilot wearing a Class III suit might fly a cargo load of his friends in Class VI suits to attack a freighter.
Class VII – Heavy Marine Armor. This is a heavy weapons suit with mech upgrade for carrying heavy weapons.
Class VIII –Full blown EVA suit, similar to a modern space suit with an MMU.
Class IX – Full blown mech suit. Somewhere between a space suit and the power loader from Alien. These repair the outsides of large ships, move heavy objects in hangars, etc.

For more information read the full article HERE

Relic says a new Dawn of War is a “strong possibility”

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:34:00 +0100

From PC GAMER:

It’s been over two years since we hot-dropped onto the battlefields of the 41st Millennium in Dawn of War II: Retribution, and the sale of Relic to Sega has left the series’ future a mystery. While Relic’s in-house property, Company of Heroes, changed hands along with them, there has been no official word on whether or not Warhammer owners Games Workshop will continue to license the franchise to the RTS developer. Speaking to Eurogamer recently, Relic’s Quinn Duffy gave us hope for a third entry in the franchise, saying there is "a strong possibility we’ll all be working together again on Dawn of War.”

Speculation about a Dawn of War continuation was rekindled after Sega was announced to have purchased Relic. The veteran publisher also owns Creative Assembly, of Total War fame, which is currently working on a game set in the Warhammer Fantasy universe. It seems the existing relationships are all there to make it happen. What might a hypothetical Dawn of War 3 look like, though?

Well, according to former THQ president Danny Bilson, some version of Dawn of War 3 was in the pipe before the house of cards came down. He described it as having "a much larger strategic component” and being "sort of MMO-like.” It’s quite possible this direction was scrapped, however, after the failure of the "MMO-like” Company of Heroes Online.

We’ll keep an eye out for any more Dawn of War 3 news—let us know in the comments what you’d like to see from the next entry in the series.

The Patient Hunter

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:47:00 +0100

If you haven't already heard one of our own has become a writer within the famous sanctuary of Black Library, Primarch of Chickens or as he is known in the real world Joe Parrino (Some sort of Italian Pasta?) has released his first E-BOOK. I hope you all join me in congratulating Joe on his achievement and wish many more to come.

I'm allowed to share a spoiler from his new upcoming book that will feature the Adventures of Valrak - it will explore the sexual relationship of how Valrak inducts new recruits and goes in gory detail on how they receive their implants from him.

Click the image below to order the book and show your support.

Space Hulk first look

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:13:40 +0000

From PC GAMER:

In 15 years of having the Warhammer 40K licence, THQ produced not one Space Hulk game. EA managed two in the early 1990s. Now, having reclaimed the precious licence geneseed from THQ’s still-smouldering corpse, Games Workshop is determined to rebuild its chapter, producing myriad new clones of its tabletop games – we’re counting nine right now, but we’re sure there’s more to come. And the lucky team to have Space Hulk warp onto their doorstep is Denmark’s Full Control. I saw the demo in action at GDC and caught up with Full Control’s CEO, Thomas Hentschel Lunt for a chat.

For the uninitiated, the game has the player controlling a squad of Terminator Space Marines as they explore an abandoned spaceship. Terminators, the elite of the elite Space Marines, are genetically-enhanced warriors clad in the ludicrously-named Tactical Dreadnought Armour and equipped with lethal weaponry larger than most men.

Their opponents on the ship are genestealers, tough six-limbed Alien pastiches that are supremely powerful in close combat. The game is turn-based: the Terminators trundle through the claustrophobic corridors towards their objective while the genestealers harry their progress. Each level is a puzzle in which the player has to work out the best squad configuration to get his troops through the tight corridors in one piece – or, more often, simply to sacrifice themselves to achieve their objective.

Full Control has recreated the board game in almost perfect detail, from the design on the hulk’s floors to the individually-named First Chapter Blood Angel Terminators of the Sin of Damnation campaign. Lunt is rightly proud of how accurate the game is. The only change I saw was to the Heavy Flamer – the third edition rules allowed you to fill an entire section of the boardgame’s modular levels with flame, engulfing an area as large as the room you were firing it into. Here it’s a standardised blast of fire covering a set number of squares. The one art innovation is in the hulk’s interior walls, which Lunt’s team based on the gothic cathedral feel of Imperial exteriors.

The campaign in the game is based on the classic third edition of the board game, where the Blood Angel first chapter is cleansing the hulk known as the Sin of Damnation. However, there will be both multiplayer and co-op, allowing players to take either genestealer or Terminator sides – Lunt hopes for up to four people playing at once. He also showed me the game’s extremely simple but flexible Unity-based level editor which will ship with the game. Building a level will take minutes and Lunt hopes that community moderation will help the best maps and campaigns float to the surface.

It’s worth noting that the game has been in development for just six months, but looks almost finished, save for a few details. The kill-cam – lifted unashamedly from XCOM – runs through walls too often. The multiplayer modes are yet to appear. Most obviously of all, the Terminator’s walking animation is missing. Even so, Lunt is already thinking about DLC. Each piece will be a new campaign with a new chapter of properly-modelled Space Marines, with the release almost certainly decided by community voting. We’re betting that the order will end up Dark Angels, Space Wolves then something else – though I’d personally kill to play as one of the pre-Horus Heresy legions, such as the Alpha Legion or Luna Wolves.

If it all works out for Full Control, Lunt already has an idea of what he wants to pitch next. "We want to make more games in the 40K universe – that’s definitely what I want to do. Not pre-made games, new stuff… I’d love to do something like Battlefleet Gothic or Necromunda, but they’d have to work. Necromunda, for example, has a huge following, but when you think about it in a 3D way, how are you going to make it enjoyable to play? But I’m still hopeful.”

Discuss this in our Space Hulk

Warhammer INC!

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:17:36 +0000

If you haven't heard already then THQ/Relic/Vigil/Destroyer of DMO/Dream Killers have gone bankrupt and their assets have been sold. Sega/Creative Assembly/Total War gods have acquired the Warhammer Fantasy IP, while the Warhammer 40k IP has a number of company that are making certain games, standby for awesome.

Here are some of the new Warhammer & 40k games that are in production at the moment:

SPACE HULK!
TITAN LEGIONS!
BLOOD BOWL 2!
TALISMAN!
WARHAMMER QUEST!

Looks like we have some interesting times a head of us, we've been down on our Warhammer luck as of late but I'm sure the Emperor is helping us now.

Forum/Site clean up

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:41:21 +0000

Over the next weekend I will be cleaning the site and forum area up, I’ve already started on the forums by moving threads from the Planetside 2, Guild Wars and DMO sections to the Junk section, I’ve also merged all of the RPGs such as Black Crusade etc into one area which is now renamed to ‘Fantasy Flight RPGs’, I will be going over the website and deleting dead pages and replacing broken images.

I will also be removing in active members from our list so we have a sense of who is still around.

It has returned...GAME NIGHT! 06/10/2012

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 02:43:00 +0100

This Saturday we will be returning to our official Warhammer game night, if we get enough people maybe we can have an old school game of Space Marine or some matches of Dark Crusade! We could even get round to exploring the old world of Hammercraft :P Also if people want to learn how to play Space Hulk, Golden Throne or Deathwatch then give me we can give you a tutorial. Everyone is invited to join so please join us on our mumble server and join in on the fun.

Gaming will start at 20:00 GMT

The following games will be getting played:

DoW Retribution
Original DoW
Space Marine
Minecraft (HammerCraft)
Golden Throne
Space Hulk
Deathwatch

Vigilia Mortis

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:08:00 +0100

I wanted to make an article on how far we have come over the last couple of months, the blow of Space Marine having awful MP connections and Dark Millennium Online turning into Dark Millennium Offline hit us hard and we lost quite a chunk of members but I've also said that to conquer the Galaxy you must first ride the horrors of the Warp. Over the last couple of months we've expanded ourselves into different methods to show our 40k love, branching into different games, some non 40K/Warhammer games but we still chose to bring the Emperors name to those that apposed us.

I’m so lucky to find a bunch of players who share the same love and passion for the 40k universe; those of us who are still around, some from the very beginning still have the fire burning deep down inside of us to move and push the Chapter to new limits and make it stand out. I don’t think I’ve ever come across a website like this, the sense of community that we have, the role-playing has really taken off and I look forward to bringing and participant in many more stories with my brothers.

We’ve been lucky to also find artists to bring us alive on paper, we had our own banner and some of us have had our own characters drawn as you can see below.

It all started with an artist called Slaine69 who brought us the the banner of our Chapter:

We then asked an artist called AeriontheFaithful to commissioned a piece of art showing the founding members of Vigilia Mortis:

Some of us then wanted more and asked a well known artist who goes by the name of Studio Colrouphobia who brought some of our characters to life:

Between us all we have brought the 40K universe to life and we have lived it in our own way, thanks for being a part of Vigilia Mortis, I really hope that this will truly go forever.

Guild Wars 2 - Our Server - UPDATED NEW SERVER*************

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 22:09:00 +0100

Guild Wars 2 is nearly upon us, I just want to make sure for everyone who will be joining Vigilia Mortis in the Guild Wars 2 experience that you choose the right server.

We will be rolling on the following server:

Ruins of Surmia

This server is based in the EU, I will be making the guild 'Vigilia Mortis' soon as possible. The pre-order early start opens on the 25th August, luckily for me that is my first day off, please jump on our mumble and ask for an invite to the Chapter - we welcome all of your friends into the GW2 Chapter but they won't be considered official Vigilia Mortis members unless they make an application.

New Vigilia Mortis Products

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:29:00 +0100

Visit our Donation/Shop and check out the new range of T-Shirts that we have designed, all profits from the Shirts go to the website so if you want to contribute and come away with an awesome piece of VM Clothing then this place is for you.

BF3 Server is now LIVE!

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:42:39 +0100

Our server is now live and kicking, I've set in game admin up, everyone who donates each month will be given a reserved slot and in game admin with the ability to kick/ban people. Please be aware that only players who Hack/Glitch/Abuse members will be banned/kicked, don't be kicking players because they're try hards.

The Map rotation is

Caspian

Firestorm

Damavand Peak

Kharg Island

I will be adding Back to Karkand Maps at the end of the week.

The server is non hardcore, regular settings.

For those of you who have donated please respond to this thread with your in game name, CASE SENSITIVE!!!!

My name for example:

RogalDornsFists

Please try and get all of your friends on the server :)

Vigilia Mortis - PlanetSide 2

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 05:27:00 +0100

Anyone who will be playing PlanetSide 2 with us, make sure you visit the Chapter discussion area and join in on our topic about PlanetSide 2, we're taking all ideas on how to best ourselves within the game and how we can best strike at the enemy.

For the Emperor!

Vigilia Mortis - BF3 Server

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 15:15:00 +0100

Over the last couple of weeks myself and a lot of our members have purchased BF3, we've enjoyed playing it so much we've been thinking our purchasing our own server. I have been looking at 64 player servers and the cheapest I can find is www.gameservers.com, they offer a 64 player server for $83 (Approx £56). For this to happen we need donations, not asking for a large sum of money but anything you can spare. Anyone who donates $5+ monthly will receive their own reserved server slot so you can game anytime. If you're interested then please comment on the article so I can see how many people we have willing to make this happen.

Birthday Celebration - 01/06/2012 - 1 year Old!

Tue, 29 May 2012 04:31:00 +0100

This Friday Vigilia Mortis turns the grand old age of one, to mark this event we will be having an awesome game night dedicated to everything Warhammer related, get your gaming socks on and jump into the battle. Bring all your friends, animals and heretics to join in on the fun and share this special day with us. I would like to thank everyone who is still a part of the Chapter and those who have moved on, these past couple of months have been ruff with the news about DMO etc but thanks to you we have come through the stormy seas and set up our own games dedicated to the Emperor. I'm sure everyone will agree that we have a great community of Warhammer fans here and we've all made some great friends along the way. Let’s carry it on make the next year of our Chapter even better.

Dedicated Warhammer Nights

Sat, 19 May 2012 07:33:00 +0100

Starting from the May 26th every Saturday will be dedicated to Warhammer gaming, this means on that night we will try and get as many people on as possible to wage war in the Emperors name or whoever you see fit to call god...heretics. Nearly all of us own every Warhammer game from the Original Dawn of War to Space Marine but there are also Warhammer games that have been made from the modding community for other games, over the next week I will be bringing these games to light which will hopeful get some of you interested in them.

Apart from those games people among our Chapter have gone beyond the call of duty and sacrificed their time in bringing you games such as Space Hulk, Golden Throne and Deathwatch. If you are like me and thought you would never play these games due to rules and such then I must beg you to try them out at least once, they are really fun and with the help from the Game Moderators you will be master of the game within a night. Everyone is invited to join so please join us on our mumble server and join in on the fun.

Gaming will start at 21:00 GMT

Saturday 12/05/2012 - War is coming...

Wed, 09 May 2012 19:37:00 +0100

This Saturday we will be having our first official Warhammer game night, if we get enough people maybe we can have an old school game of Space Marine or some matches of Dark Crusade! Also if people want to learn how to play Space Hulk, Golden Throne or Deathwatch then give me we can give you a tutorial. Everyone is invited to join so please join us on our mumble server and join in on the fun.

Gaming will start at 21:00 GMT

The following games will be getting played:

DoW Retribution
Original DoW
Space Marine
Minecraft (HammerCraft)
Golden Throne
Space Hulk
Deathwatch

The Vow

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:20:00 +0100

A few months back, some of put our money together to get a commission piece of artwork done, we wanted to show the founding of Vigilia Mortis so we got in contact with an amazing artist called Aerion-the-Faithful.

Below you can see what he came up with:

(Click the image to enlarge)

Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium Goes Single-Player

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:54:00 +0100

Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium Goes Single-Player as Layoffs Hit Relic and Vigil

"The fate of the Warhammer 40,000 MMO has been revealed: It's no longer a Warhammer 40,000 MMO. THQ has announced Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium has been "refocused" as a single-player action game with multiplayer elements, a change that brings with it substantial layoffs at developers Vigil Games and Relic Entertainment.

Originally thought canceled due to financial troubles at THQ, the publisher assured fans that the massively multiplayer game was still in development, though the exact nature of that development was left up in the air. In any case, it didn't seem like the company was in any shape to maintain a big budget MMO game."

To read the the whole article go HERE. A thread has been made in our member section about suggestions for our future, please visit and read.