Frontier's Warhammer Age Of Sigmar: Realms Of Ruin RTS hits PC on November 17th

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Mark your calendars for November 17th, strategy fans, as that's when Warhammer Age Of Sigmar: Realms Of Ruin is heading to PC - the same day as Atlus' Persona 5 Tactica, don't you know? Announced at tonight's Gamescom Opening Night Live show, Frontier Developments also showed off the game's new single-player Conquest mode, a procedurally generated series of challenges that will pit players against increasingly unpredictable combat scenarios, as well as its third playable faction: the wraith-like Nighthaunt. They'll be going up against the Stormcast Eternals alongside the Orruk Kruleboyz in the game's campaign, and I got to see them in action ahead of tonight's showcase. And I can confirm: they're a nasty bunch of spectral rags, this lot, especially when they pile on in large numbers.

The Nighthaunt are quite a different prospect from the Orruks, preferring to attack en masse in big ghosty gangs. Frontier have confirmed you'll be able to command Chainrasps, Myrmourn Banshees, Grimghast Reapers, Hexwraiths, the Mourngul and more in multiplayer, including the skeletal ferryman himself Awlrach The Drowner (that chap in the header image). Awlrach, alas, didn't make an appearance during my campaign preview, but I did have to fend off hordes of the aforementioned Chainrasps, Grimghast Reapers and Craventhrone Guards during the mission.

They come pouring out of the ether when the Stormcast Eternals attempt to remove a special artefact from an altar, an artefact the Stormcast believe will help them repel the Orruks from their ailing fortress home, but which the Nighthaunt would rather keep for themselves. The main objective in this mission is to defend your priest Demechrios as he attempts to break the giant chains that have