Battlefield 40k is a total conversion of Battlefield 1942 based on Games Workshops table top war-game - Warhammer 40,000. Set in the future, in the year 40,000 AD. Worlds are at war, the Empire heroically battles the forces of evil with devastating result
A Universe of Total War
Battlefield 40k is a total conversion of Battlefield 1942 based on Games Workshops table top war-game - Warhammer 40,000. Set in the future, in the year 40,000 AD. Worlds are at war, the Empire heroically battles the forces of evil with devastating results. Featuring Imperial Guard, Space Marines a race of genetically enhanced ‘super’ human, battle hardened and clothed in suits of powered armor. The adeptus astartes, or space marines, are the finest soldiers under the emperor's control. These super-human marines were developed by the adeptus mechanicus of mars. The procedure to turn a simple human into one of these fighting machines involves implantation of cybernetic organs and other gene and mental manipulation. The Imperial forces battle the Eldar and Necron. Eldar, an ancient race of elf who embraces technology, whom have developed some of the most advanced technology known to mankind. Immersed in a battle of survival in a galaxy overrun by barbaric usurpers, Eldar warriors are diverse, utilizing advanced weaponry, ultra fast tanks using ‘Anti Gravity’ technology and mysterious weapons of war.. The Necrons are skeletal warriors whom have lain dormant in their stasis-tombs for millions of years. After ancient portents had been realized a horror from the darkest depths of pre-history was awoken...
» Battlefield 40k's Mission
Battlefield 40k will accurately model the races, the technology and the equipment of future warfare in the 40,000 universe. Featuring wars in distant galaxies and in a host of difficult, unforgiving terrain. Humankind has to struggle for it’s very existence in a universe of total war. The Imperial Guard are equipped with a whole range of Ground and Air units, The Leman Russ, for example; an Imperial Battle tank is a powerful heavily armed battle tank. Armed with battle cannon an array of heavy bolters and las cannon. Battlefield 40k will supplement the depiction of brutal future warfare with a host of highly detailed depiction of distant worlds and civilizations. Never before has the future of warfare looked so clear.
» Battlefield 40k's Background
Even in the early stages of it’s development the mod has already attracted a small but hardworking team of skilled highly motivated coders, scripters, modelers, skinners, as well as a team of dedicated, enthusiastic Warhammer 40,000 fans. We are keen to generate as much support for this fantastic modification of Battlefield 40k. Already since it’s inauguration on July 28 th 2004. The Leman Russ, The Rhino and the Predator have been modeled and the Leman Russ has been scripted in game along with the Imperial Thunderhawk dropship and the mighty Necron Pylon, a huge laser weapon mounted in a massive rotary pylon hundreds of feet in height.
