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From Exterminatus Manual
Welcome to the Exterminatus - Rival Species 2 Manual, the defintiive guide to 40k Source.
New Players
Getting Started - Everything you need to know to start playing Exterminatus.
Warhammer 40,000 - An introduction to the Universe where Exterminatus is set, aimed at FPS gamers new to Warhammer.
What's new In Rival Species 2? - The major differences between Rival Species 1 and 2.
The Inquisution
The Inqusisition will help you search the EX mannual for what you're looking for, just type what you need.
Community
The Exterminatus Game Group on Stream is where games are scheduled, new releases announced, feedback and suggestions are collected. This largely replaces the earlier Forum
Exterminatus also has a regularly updated area on ModDB, where you can post reviews, find all our downloads, screenshots and news articles.
IRC channel : #rspecies2 on the quakenet network
Discord channel : Exterminatus Discord Server
Gameplay
Exterminatus plays like deathmatch with Teams from the 40k universe, using a spawn wave mechanic to keep the team together. Each team has its own classes and each class has its own set of Weapons. Exterminatus games are played on special Maps with setting specific Objectives.
Exterminatus focuses on two of the many races from the Warhammer 40,000 universe, the Imperium of man and an alien race known as the Tyranids.
Imperium of Man
In the 40th millennium humanity has colonized much of our galaxy. Millions of human worlds are ruled over from Terra (Earth) by the Emperor. Each of these worlds contribute a regiment of troops to the army of the empire, the Imperial Guard. They are the hammer with which the Imperium smites its xeno (alien) foes beyond the empire and rebellions within it. The Imperium has a second, smaller fighting arm, better equipped, trained and physically augmented, the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines. There are a thousand chapters of marines within the empire, each with a thousand marines and yet they number less than one marine per human world. They are the scalpel to the Guard's hammer.
Imperial classes : Tactical ++ Scout ++ Assault ++ Veteran ++ Specialist ++ Apothecary ++ Heavy ++ Terminator ++ Dreadnaught
Tyranids
Named after the planet Tyranus where they were first discovered, the Tyranids are an alien threat like no other. They have traveled from the cold, dark abyss between galaxies. They are a voracious horde of beasts, unified by a single conciousness, the 'Hive' mind. All of the Tyranids technology is organic: their ships with which they strip planets to the bedrock, the weapons with which they slay all before them. They know no fear, they cannot be argued with, they cannot be reasoned with and they absolutely will not stop. Wave after wave of Tyranid 'hive fleets' have been broken on the galactic disc, each ravaging further, pillaging more worlds than the last.
Tyranid Classes : Warrior ++ Genestealer ++ Biovore ++ Lictor ++ Carnifex ++ Zoanthrope
Class costs increase from left to right. The left most class on each team is effectively free, with the remainder being upgrades offered for playing well.
Chaos Legions
During the 30th millennium a civil war, known as the Horus Heresy split the Imperium of man. The Warmaster Horus allied himself with the psychic forces withing the Warp, known as the Chaos Gods, recruiting many of the legions of Space Marines that existed at that time to his banner. The imperium of man has declared that all those who allied with Hourus during his hereticial campeign to be traitors, renegades and heretics. Horus was finally defeated and his forces fled the Imperium to The Eye of Terror, an area of the galaxy where warp space and normal space are breaking through and blending with each other. The Lunar Wolves legion, that had been commanded by Horus, painted their power armour black in mourning for their fallen primarch and addopted the name of the Black Legion. Over the last ten thousand years the Black Legion have waged many Black Crusades against the Imperium, under the leadership of Abbadon the Despoiler.
Chaos classes : Renegade ++ Raptor ++ Aspiring Champion ++ Chaos Specialist ++ Saw bones ++ Havoc ++ Chaos Terminator ++ Chaos Dreadnaught