In today's tough times for tactical turn-based games, "Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters" has decided that there is a place not only for war, but also for the big coffin robot that is the star of its first DLC: the first DLC " Duty Eternal," is the star of the show. There will be a playable dreadnought and a new class called the Techmarine. Duty Eternal adds a new campaign and a new mission, Technopurge Outbreak. The venerable Dreadnought is a customizable walking robopal with an eerie twist. Buried inside is a mostly dead Grey Knight, kept alive only by machines. It is a rare example of a death metal album cover in both form and function. You can't take the dreadnought with you on every mission, but you can unlock and customize various weapons, and the Grey Knight inside is one of your own squad and can bite you in battle. In the unlikely event that Brother Steve must survive as a living weapon for your amusement, you are the monster.

While not as imposing as the Dreadnought, the new class of Techmarines are no slouches at Grim's Per Second. This is because they can deploy and manipulate mountains of Combat Servitors, cybernetic zombies reprogrammed for combat. Techmarines can repair and buff Servitors and Dreadnoughts, making them a useful support class if you don't mind a large number of cybernetic frame bots hanging around between missions.

If you like the strategic aspect of large maps, Duty Eternal also introduces a second attack ship, the Gladius Frigate. While it's pretty cool to be able to be in two places at once, these additional missions simply auto-resolve and bring back rewards (or body bags if you fail), so you never actually play them. what Frontier Foundry excelled at with Daemonhunters was the ability to create special events to maintaining the ship, and the new Gladius Frigate seems to add an extra dimension to that strategy.

For more information on the game, which will be available on Steam and the Epic Games store on December 6 for $15, check out Duty Eternal's reveal trailer (opens in new tab).