i loved reading the battle novel to helsreach, such a brutal and bloody battle against so many orks. just goes to show how bad ass the black templars are. with only 100 in the beginning they were able to hold the ork horde at bay for a long time. yes though i remember the salamanders dropping in from the sky as well later on in the book.
I love city combat in video games, i feel as if it's always underrepresented in a lot of shooters. (Or just not done right.)
I cant see them not adding some good city combat now that Iron Warriors is in the game.Those guys live to break fortifications and breaking sieges.
If they do choose to add a cityscape I hope they go all out. As in not just some chest high walls and ruined structures.
Hopefully they make city or large "man" made structures the hub of most objectives for fighting with swathes of more open terrain between them to let the armor excel and have purpose. The focus of fights definitely needs to be in close quarter scenarios on city streets, inside large manufactories, forts, strongholds, or other similar structures.
I loved games like Day of Defeat in the past: the atmosphere of fighting over streets; the teamwork used to clear a machine gun nest and take new ground. So what you're hoping for was pretty much one of the first things I asked Brent and Steven about when I joined the team. The tech and level design bandwidth are in Patrick and Steven's hands, respectively - but I want this kind of experience! Also, it sounds like I should pick up Helsreach today. If there are other good source materials or novels detailing major battles or sieges involving Space Marines (or even other races) I would be interested to hear about it. Thanks!
michael, i think the best thing you can do is taking a look on some black library artwork, they really know how to portray well anything in 40k. that would serve you better than any literature imho. gaunts ghosts have a fair share of city combat, even though theyre no marines, it might give you a good picture. guns of tanith is aône of the novels i can recommend, maybe even cities of death expansion by GW.
Angel Exterminatus by Graham McNeill is a book about the Iron Warriors. I think that would be another good pick up that you may want to read. (Helsreach was an awesome book, i would love to fight a battle like that. I would love to have a siege last 1 or 2 weeks but yet not feel like a meetgrinder. The defenders are pushed back meter by meter as the attackers slowly push forwards until the defenders can counterattack, etc.)
