I am on the first mission of the first campaign and it's telling me to board manually after my boarding torpedoes failed. I have tried everything even flying into the enemy ship and pressing the flashing board key but the game just keeps saying 'that would be impossible' The tutorial info is as base as it can get and tells you very little....

I am having a hard time getting into any of them, any advice? Tyranids: Really weird fleet to play. This one might just need me figuring out their playstyle so no tips needed here I think. Chaos: I sort of like them but they feel like the imperium if you break it down to lances and fighters / bombers, removing pretty much all the diversity you got in the imperial fleet through Admech Navy and Space Marines. Am I getting this wrong? Necrons: ... I don't even know where to begin. They feel so terrible. S...

Sorry if this has been asked and answered before. Does the enemy AI ever fire AOEs into gas clouds or asteroid fields to scare players out of them?

I mean, I'm playing on Very Easy, and the Tyranid mission had thrown roughly 4000 points at my face (with my barely 1100 fleets), the Ork final mission just the battleships and titans were like 4000 points (as in each, 4000 points battleships and 4000 points titans). If I filled my fleets with nothing but Firestorms, then I'd matched the Ork cruisers. Not to mention the great mechanic of the Tyranids, where even their dead ships are not actually deead, because they leave behind a damaging spore field that...

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