When making a 40k game, one has to grapple with the fact that the setting's existing elements all exist for the sole purpose of being smacked one against the other in an endless, galaxy-spanning meat grinder.
For Gladius, this means being a 4X title with little to offer beyond base management and warfare. It's barebones, you don't even have access to diplomacy options, only your marines/troopers/warriors/boyz trading blows on lifeless hexagons.
Gladius also makes the mistake of being a dry 40k game. Baroque excess is a large part of the setting's atmosphere, but Gladius feels weak on that front: an utiliatrian UI, no original art, non descript sound effects and ok music. Overbearingly ok. An easy skip for all but the diehard fans.
For Gladius, this means being a 4X title with little to offer beyond base management and warfare. It's barebones, you don't even have access to diplomacy options, only your marines/troopers/warriors/boyz trading blows on lifeless hexagons.
Gladius also makes the mistake of being a dry 40k game. Baroque excess is a large part of the setting's atmosphere, but Gladius feels weak on that front: an utiliatrian UI, no original art, non descript sound effects and ok music. Overbearingly ok. An easy skip for all but the diehard fans.