Warhammer 40,000 Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters teases Mortarion, the Daemon Primarch of the Death Guard Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Warhammer 40,000 Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters teases Mortarion, the Daemon Primarch of the Death Guard Sick. News by Wesley Yin-Poole Deputy Editorial Director Updated on 26 Nov 2021 1 comment You wait years for Nurgle to turn up in a video game and then two come along at once... Hot on the heels of reporting on Nurgle's lovely-looking star turn in the upcoming strategy game Total War: Warhammer 3 comes a closer look at everyone's favourite pimple-poppers in upcoming Warhammer 40,000 strategy game Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters. In the video below, developer Complex Games dishes the dirt on Warhammer 40,000 Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters' take on the Death Guard, the Traitor Legion blessed with the power of Nurgle, the god of death and plagues. Watch on YouTube In the game, which sees players control the mysterious Grey Knights chapter of the Space Marines, the Death Guard have unleashed what's called the Bloom - a pestilence that threatens to swamp the Tyrtaeus Sector in disease and plague. Warhammer 40,000 Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters is, obviously, a very different game than Total War: Warhammer 3. It's strictly turn-based, for a start, and features battles on a much smaller scale. The easiest comparison is to XCOM. As part of the story campaign, you have to work out how to stop the Bloom, whose various strains trigger different effects in the Death Guard's units. The strain of pain, for example, gives enemies higher damage mutations. The death strain saps the Death Knights' willpower. You must also manage the Bloom outbreak at the strategic level, from on-board the Grey Knights spaceship, the Baleful Edict. Here, you spend your limited resources on researching new effects, stratagems and upgrades. You can also upgrade the Baleful Edict itself, improving its ability to respond quickly. Complex Games says players have to make difficult choices in the campaign, choices that will have "far reaching" consequences. In one example we see that the Baleful Edict's plasma reactor must be repaired - to do so you have to assign a certain number of servitors and wait a certain number of days. As for Nurgle, there are some significant enemy boss characters, including Greater Daemons and Daemon Princes. These Lords of the Bloom, as they're called, have their own unique personalities and strategies, and should make for challenging encounters. And, most exciting of all for me anyway, there's a glimpse at the inclusion of Mortarion, the Daemon Primarch of the Death Guard and the (current) greatest Daemon Prince of Nurgle. This chap is seriously bad news - I'm looking forward to seeing him in the virtual flesh! Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters will release on PC in 2022. Become a Eurogamer subscriber and get your first month for £1 Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Support us View supporter archive More News Google announces cloud gaming Chromebooks less than a fortnight after Stadia shutdown GeForce Now preinstalled. 4 Atari will hold RollerCoaster Tycoon rights for another decade Ups and downs. 7 Lady Dimitrescu will be a tad smaller in Resident Evil Village's Mercenaries DLC Level the playing field. 1 Overwatch 2 suffers another DDoS attack and character roster bugs Mei Mei. 13 Latest Articles Digital Foundry Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090: a new level in graphics performance The Digital Foundry video review - and how the new GPU champion delivers for 4K 120fps gaming. Google announces cloud gaming Chromebooks less than a fortnight after Stadia shutdown GeForce Now preinstalled. 4 Feature Evercore Heroes wants to wind people up the right way "There's less rage at them, because they didn't end your fun." Genshin Impact Path of Gleaming Jade dates, login event rewards Including other anniversary rewards and how to claim them. Supporters Only Premium only Off Topic: Take a minute to appreciate Cookin' with Coolio's incredible scallops recipe. What a great book. Premium only Off Topic: Reading City of Glass in comic form "Where exactly am I going?" Premium only Off Topic: Il Buco is a transporting film about a really big hole Underlands. Off-Topic Netflix handled Sandman brilliantly It was Dreamy. 9 Buy things with globes on them And other lovely Eurogamer merch in our official store! Explore our store