Exceedingly tedious combat, awful stiff animations, super lame and simplistic environments, clunky resource mechanics. Just a subpar game overall. If you want a turn based 40k game, Chaos gate or Rogue trader are 100x better. Hopefully the sequal improves .. well, everything.

After completing the game, I achieved full sync with Faustinius. To me, he's by far one of the best portraits of a leader figure in all of fiction.

He's literally the glue that binds the cohort of Cestus Metallican. Without him, Videx and Scaevola would have already killed each other or, worse, sent thousands of Skitarii to meaningless deaths. Sooner, I would think the ship would simply crash from orbit because no one would pay attention to the fuel and resource problems.

Khepra is one worth praising, for she does think for herself and the Skitarii that she commands, and literally says that sometimes simply dying for a tomb to smell better with Videx's religious incense, or almost dying and blowing up the entire ship because of Scaevola and Teresius's greed for knowledge, is illogical to say the least. But funny enough, she is either still inexperienced or just stupidly good-hearted, because even in prime missions she will never forget to say how many Skitarii died or how hard it is for them. Like, woman, what do you expect? We are at war. Logical and moral thinking should be balanced, not mixed.

By the end of the game, I already thought like Faustinius, who balances between the tasks of all these "devoted" personnel. He does the hardest job of them all — commanding and taking the blame for the errors of the entire mission, which earned my full respect.

I thought that in my head canon, he would help both Scaevola and Videx, thus allowing Scaevola to take everything from the library but denying Silva Tenebris as a hub for Xenarites by performing an extermination with Videx to be calm that a situation like The Sufferer and Teresius never happens again.

But it would seem we either take the full Videx ending as canon, OR maybe the Exterminatus command came later, after Faustinius left the planet, as per the decision of Mars.

Delved into necron tomb world. Spoiled necron tech. Got ass beaten. 10/10 would do it again, praise the Omnissiah!