Overview
Considering that the modding community for this game is split between the Steam and Slitherine forums there wasn’t a simple way to find mods to play, as you had to search both forums to find the mods (many of which are incomplete or never even launched).As such, I compiled this list to help people easily find the best mods that are available for Warhammer 40k Armageddon. I’ve included all the mods I could find and I intend to continue updating this list as new mods are released.
Purpose of this guide
Since the few released mods are scaterred all around the Steam and Slitherine forums (making it harder to find them) I decided to compile a list with links to help people like me that were having trouble findind them. It is woth mentioning that the following list is in no particular order.
Game Mechanics Mods
- First community update
Community update to the base game that adds the following features:
[link]
– Fourth weapon option to any unit and new GUI (possible to mod the game and add a fourth weapon to any unit and Baneblades were given extra weapons to fill the 4th slot)
– Siege weapon trait (he “siege” weapon trait makes it ignore half of the target’s cover bonus)
– Terror weapon trait (weapons with the Terror trait cause 10 points of extra morale damage)
– AA Weapon trait (100% accuracy against Flying units) - Tweaked Scenarios
The creator identified common player complaints regarding the campaign scenarios and tweaked them accordingly.
[link] - Total Balance Overhaul, Tyranid Tau Compatible (unfortunately download links seem to be broken)
A mod that makes massive balance changes geared towards multiplayer games.For detailed description see mod page.
[link] - Revised unittypes and weapons
A mod that makes massive balance changes to the game in order to bring it closer to the tabletop.
[link] - [MOD Vanilla++] Beta Test
Beta version of a MOD based on the original/official version of WH40K. Its main concepts are (i) making a MOD based on the vanilla version: Using maps, units, graphics from the original WH40K from Slitherine, (ii) player represented as the leader of a unit, (iii) adding secondary objectives to each scenario, (iv) additonal special orders with extra rewards, (v) adding ingame messages (atmosphere, hints for playing), and (vi) modification of enemies actions.
Asthetics Mods
- Red Lasers Mod
A purely asthetic mod that changes the color of Imperial Guard las based weapons from the default blue to red.
[link]
- Dirty War Repaint – graphic modification
A purely asthetic mod that alters colors and contrast for most of the building graphics in the game.
[link] - Epic Armageddon Mod
Purely asthetic mod that changes the scale of the units so that they better represent the true “grand” scale of 40k.
Unit Mods
- Tens of New Units to Steel Legion and All Space Marines
A mod which adds 37 new units to Steel Legion and 8 new units to all Space Marine chapters in the game, complete with custom graphics, sounds and animations.
Also includes the following changes to gameplay:
– All Steel Legion and Space Marines’ healths are tripled and added 10-20 more defence. Its overpowered in normal but still you can die quickly in very hard difficult if you don’t make strategic tactics.
– I’ve edited some weapons’ stats to be more canon-accurate. For example a space marine’s bolter was doing very less damage. I simply updated its shot count, so with the space marine’s accuracy and abilites it does much more damage.
[link] - Tyranids Full Faction Mod
As the developer described “this mod has all new nids graphics, sound and weapon effects and most important of all, tyranids stats behind each unit. the mod includes all tyranids units. from the tiny units like ripper swarm to the huge bio titans like hierophant or harridan! there are total 70 variants/units in this mod”.
[link] - Tau Full Faction Mod
A mod that adds the Tau race with around 76 variants/units. You can play as the tau attached to either imperium or the ork side, and both in singleplayer and multiplayer. Acording to the developed this mod is compatible with the Tyranids mod.
[link] - GST v1.2 Sisters, Eldar, Imperial Knight Chaos
A mod for PC and Ipad versions of the game.
According to the developer “This mod is for Ultramarine fans for sure. Its set in the Gathering Storm saga. Has custom menu images and a demo campaign. Campaigns: Angels of Salvation (4 scenarios ) Takes place on the Space Hulk known as Salvitus Ultima. Belisarius Cawl has sent out Ultramarine terminators to obtain a very important artifact/relic. Demo of Roboute Guilliman unit, his campaign is coming soon. Main enemy in the campaign is a nice batch of genestealers, broodlords, and genestealer hybrids”.
[link]
- Chaos Mod v0.2
A mod that adds Chaos units and two scenarios where you can play as Chaos or against it. The mod adds Heretics, Heretic Guardsmen (normal, with mortars and missile launchers), Chaos Space Marines, Raptors, Chaos Rhino, Vindicator, Dreadnought, Havocs with Heavy Bolters and Lasers, Predators (Annihilator and Destructor), Chaos Bike, Land Raider (as transport and tank) and Helltalon.
[link] - Stormtroopers mod
Adds Stromtroopers into the game.
[link] - Dark Eldar Campaign Mod (outdated – made for version 1.02 of the game)
A mod that adds the Dark Eldar as a playable faction, a new campaign, new units, a hundred new weapons and also features a modified ruleset, which tries to get closer to the tabletop experience.
If anyone has a link to a more updated version please leave it in the comments below.
[link] - Death Korps of Krieg and other additions W.I.P
A mod that originally intended to add the Death Korps of Krieg and additional units. Unfortunately it was never fully released, but the developer posted many of its assets in case anyone wants to manually include them in the game.
[link] - Pic units
Assets for Cadian fire support squad, Cadian Stormtroopers and Cadian Sentinel to be included manually into the game.
Modding Tools
- New map editor
New version of the map editor that doesn’t crash as often (not required if you already have the steam version of the game).
[link] - The Codexificator
Not actually a mod, but a tool to allow modders to better manipulate the game ruleset. I’m not sure if it is compatible with the game’s latest version, but thought it was worth listing it here.