Image credit: Deep Silver / King Art Games

Right, let's get one important thing out of the way first: I've played a fair bit more of Dawn of War 4 's main campaign, after my initial impressions of a single mission last year , and I think it is very good . The action is as screen-filling as ever, the Orks are a delight, and the combat director, which sees individual combatants lock onto each other with bespoke animations when groups fight in melee, remains a genuine feat of RTS engineering. I'll have much more to say on that front soon, though I'd like a little more time with it first.

And so, in the meantime, I bring huge* news.

(*This is not likely to be huge news to very many people at all.)

That news is, amongst other things, confirmation of how and why developer King Art decided on the colour of the Blood Ravens' chestplate "imperialis". For the un-neckbearded out there, this is a big deal amongst a very specific part of the 40K community.…