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You start with a main HQ, which you can upgrade across three levels to grow your population cap and unlock more advanced units, such as the Stormcast Eternals’ dragon-like Stormdrake and the Orruks’ giant Troggoth, but there’s no option to build additional buildings alongside it or relocate closer to your opponent.

For one, there’s no real base-building in Realms of Ruin. While developer Frontier bills Realms of Ruin as an RTS in the traditional vein, that’s not quite apt. | Image credit: Frontier Developments/Games Workshop Realms of Ruin's matches move very quickly, taking under half an hour - or even half that time, if you play well enough. The two factions I was able to play as - the Stormcast Eternals and Orruk Kruleboyz - and the multiplayer map are the same as those you’ll be able to play for yourself during the open beta. Even so, there’s a clear focus put on using a small handful of troops to the best of their abilities, learning their unique advantages and disadvantages inside-out to emerge victorious.Īhead of Realms of Ruin’s open beta, which launches this Friday July 7th, I was able to spend a couple of hours with both the first mission in its single-player campaign and three one-on-one multiplayer matches. It’s not quite the unit-spamming mass carnage of classic RTS like Age of Empires, but sees you fighting on more fronts than the single-character perspective of video games like Vermintide. You oversee command of up to 16 separate squads, each comprising a handful of units from one of four Age of Sigmar factions, but each squad is designed to feel unique and individual.

Upcoming real-time strategy game Realms of Ruin - the first such RTS for Warhammer’s fantasy universe since it rebooted as Age of Sigmar almost a decade ago - aims to split the difference somewhat. Manage cookie settings Matt and Wheels take a first look at Realms of Ruin's gameplay Watch on YouTube To see this content please enable targeting cookies.