this game not have a story mode?

[[💩]ImWeTodd-Ded]

i hit new game and it sets up a skirmish match

[Cursed Hawkins]

Because the "campaigns" are technically in the Quests for each faction, however as anyone will probably tell you some of these "campaigns" are more of a hassle than they are fun so you're just better off turning them off and playing the game in all its glory.

[TemplarGR]

The campaign questlines for each faction serve as both a story mode and a faction specific tutorial in a way. But yeah, there isn't a "proper" single player campaign, and in my opinion it is not needed. In most strategy games that do have campaigns, they are essentially glorified tutorials anyway. The meat of the games is in skirmish/multiplayer.

[Grotzel]

I really like some of the campaign stories. Especially those that are voiced thanks to the Too Many Voices mod. Chaos is ... disturbing, but well written. Orks -obviously - have very funny stuff. The story for the Tau is surprisingly perhaps even darker than the one for Chaos (in the sense that you EXPECT the Chaos story to be utterly insane and evil). It is really well done. Both Eldar and Guard (sadly not voiced yet) have rather well written stories, too.

Still have to complete the rest. :)

However, the actual mechanics of the Campaigns are pretty basic and repetitive. Especially the endgame that can be tediously long if you have already pretty much defeated the other players. Haven't found the proper balance between triggering the quests too fast (dangerous) and too slow (boooring) yet.
The very first campaign I completed - Guard - actually worked very well - the spawned waves of campaign enemies were actually threatening & my Ork enemy was still alive and well when I finished.

A more fleshed out and varied campaign system would be better, but I still enjoy it for what it is.

[Still River]

Choose 1 vs 1 Skirmish and enjoy your campaign. Like in Civilization you choose how to win a game. Even after you beat your opponent you can still go through campaign, complete all the story quests and finish campaign.

[Theorden]

Originally posted by 💩ImWeTodd-Ded:

i hit new game and it sets up a skirmish match

It def needed a campaign and it also needs WAY more Warhammer art.

I'm not ungrateful, I'm really happy they made the game, it's fun for what it is, a sandbox to play with the different races.

I've played all the way thru Orc, Marine, and Necron and the lack of Campaign and the single map eventually bored me. Also the different factions kindof all play in a similar manner.

Unlike, for example, Starcraft 2, where with each race while the resources are the same, they all play in a vastly different way, Gladius is just churn out as many units as possible, grab as much land as possible and overwhelm the enemy as quickly as possible.

Maybe they'll make a Gladius 2 with more flavor with a series of Map based campaigns.

Also the Cut Scene images for the different races were pretty similar, which is really sad because there is an INFINITE amount of Warhammer Art to choose from.

I wouldn't compare it to civilization either because in Civilization there are like 100 different buildings to choose from and technology trees.

Comparing Gladius to Civilization is like comparing an Eldar to an Orc. =p