Warhammer 40,000: Regicide isn't your typical Warhammer game. The upcoming title from Hammerfall Publishing is a variation on chess that, according to the game's press release, will let you "turn a chessboard into a defensive gun line, power up your pieces, call in airstrikes, cast spells, and score a checkmate at the end of a chainsword."

The game is coming to PC first and will eventually roll out to mobile platforms as well.

Regicide's primary gameplay has two modes:

• Regicide: where you "plan an attack and command your soldiers through multiple phases of combat."
• Classic: where you "sharpen your tactics based on traditional chess rules, brutally executing violent kills in diverse battlefield terrains."

You can check out the new units in action in the above-embedded GIFs, or click through the image gallery below to see even more of the Ork and Space Marine models.

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