Yes, Warhammer 40,000 Superfan Henry Cavill Is Playing Space Marine 2, No He Won’t Reveal His Username

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Henry Cavill, the world’s most famous Warhammer 40,000 fan, is like so many others enjoying the recently released Space Marine 2.

In an Instagram post, the Superman and Witcher star praised the developers at Saber Interactive for the action game set in Games Workshop’s grimdark universe, although revealed he failed to complete the campaign solo on the Angel of Death difficulty, which is the hardest of the four difficulties available.

As we can see from the photo, Cavill is currently big into Space Marine 2’s PvP mode, dubbed Eternal War. We can see him matchmaking on the PC version of the game, although the actor was smart enough to paste over his username with the word “nope.” Yes, that means you could be playing with or against Henry Cavill in Space Marine 2 PvP and you’d never know it.

Space Marine 2’s PvP, Cavill said, “has real potential to be absolutely awesome,” but he admits he knows nothing about video game development.

“Disclaimer: I know nothing about game development so the kind of dreams I have may be rather difficult to implement!” he said.

Also of note, Cavill is playing as an Ultramarine Tactical class, and he’s got a copy of The Horus Heresy Book Two on his table. The book contains rules and special characters for the pre-Heresy Iron Hands, Salamanders, Night Lords, and Word Bearers Legions, which I'm sure will set tongues wagging among the Warhammer 40,000 community.

It might make sense for Cavill to be submerged in the Warhammer 40,000 universe right now. Games Workshop recently reiterated that Amazon’s hotly anticipated Warhammer 40,000 film and TV series, to which Cavill is attached, will not happen unless both companies can agree “creative guidelines” by December 2024.

In December 2023, Games Workshop said it would work with Amazon for a period of 12 months ending in December 2024 “to agree creative guidelines for the films and television series to be developed by Amazon.” And that agreement “will only proceed if the creative guidelines are mutually