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Death to the False Emperor! A symbolic hourglass shows the Long War and its slowly shifting balance in favour of the Ruinous Powers by the time of the late 41st Millennium. They intend to achieve the final victory that was denied the Warmaster Horus over ten thousand standard years ago at the end of the Horus Heresy. The events of the Heresy are nothing more than myths and legends to the people of the Imperium in the late 41st Millennium, but for many of the Traitor Marines who dwell within the Eye of Terror where the flow of time moves far slower, the terrible passions of that era are still very much alive. The Heretic Astartes are merciless and brutal warriors The Long War accursed by Human and god alike. Twisted beyond recognition by the fell powers they The Long War, their hatred of all they once held dear is writ large, corrupting The Long War bodies just as The Long War does their souls. In a galaxy full of horrors, the taint of Chaos is the most insidious threat of all. It can infect even the strongest mind and blacken the most innocent soul. The Space Marinesdespite all their transhuman enhancements, are unfortunately no exception to its lure, and those who are seduced by it fall often further than mortal men. Scarred beyond redemption by the terrors of constant war, they devolve into bitter, selfish Champions of the Chaos Gods. They have become mockeries of their former glory, the ultimate foils to the Adeptus Astarteswho they once called brothers. For ten thousand Terran years, Traitor Legions and Renegade Chapters have ransacked and razed the worlds of the Emperor. The scale of their slaughter and conquest is a well-guarded secret of the Inquisitionlest awareness of the Heretics ' existence The Long War others to the service of Chaos. For ten millennia, the Long War has raged unseen and unheard by the vast majority of the Imperium's people, fought on countless battlefields where Loyalists and rebels wage war for the future of humanity itself. Across hundreds of worlds the banners of Traitors are held aloft and the galaxy burns in their wake. A single cry of defiance echoes across the Imperium: "Death to the False Emperor! The Imperium of Man is mighty and its reach is long, but the infinite Realm of Chaos is greater still. Even in the material universe the Emperor's followers only control islands of light in a sea of darkness. There are many who do not want the protection of the Imperium, who defy its laws The Long War seek to undermine its works. Even inside the Imperium itself, rebels and secessionists struggle constantly to throw off the chains of oppression, particularly among the lowliest underclasses created by the Priesthood of Terra. The Long War people have not forgotten the taste of freedom; they would rather give their fealty to the uncaring Ruinous Powers than grovel before the Corpse-God of distant Terra. Some seek to escape from bondage and go to any lengths to secure their release; others resist the power of the Imperium without truly knowing why they do so, motivated simply by a The Long War that they must fight against the tyranny it represents. All of these are the servants of Chaos and knowingly or unknowingly they continue to fight in the Long War begun by the Arch-traitor Horus ten millennia past. Following the end of the Age of Strifethe powerful Perpetual known only as the Emperor created the primarchs -- twenty genetically-superior transhuman beings created from His own rich genetic code with the strength of a The Long War men and intelligence almost equal to that of the Emperor Himself. These gods-amongst-men were masterpieces of arcane science, destined to reunite the scattered realms of Mankind The Long War the fractured galaxy. But at the Emperor's moment of triumph, disaster struck: A mysterious Warp vortex opened beneath the Himalazian Himalayan Mountains on Terra where the Emperor's secret gene-labs were located and swept up the infant primarchs while they were still in The Long War gestation tanks. They were flung through the Immaterium far from Terra, and were eventually deposited upon distant, human-settled worlds. Perhaps it was during this cosmic voyage that Chaos first touched the primarchs, whispering in their dreams and sowing the seeds of future tyrannies as they slept. But not all was lost for the Emperor's ambitions with the disappearance of the primarchs. He had gleaned much invaluable The Long War and data from The Long War experiment. Using the engineered genetic structure of the primarchs, or " gene-seed " as it would come to be known, the Master of Mankind created the first Space Marines. The Emperor formed The Long War Space Marine Legionseach using the gene-seed of one of the primarchs. Numbering hundreds of thousands of genetically-enhanced warriors and boasting fearsome weapons and starships that could carry them to battle, each Space Marine Legion was powerful enough to conquer whole worlds. First, the proto-Astartes known as the Thunder Warriors conquered Mankind's birthworld of Terra during the The Long War of Unification ; then, with the death of the proto-Astartes and the Legions of newly created Astartes under His command, the Emperor stepped out into the turbulent galaxy and set about claiming it once more for Mankind. It was the beginning of the campaign known as the Great Crusade. World after world was brought into The Long War Imperial fold, some rejoicing at being found by the warriors of Terra, others not so willing to bow down before the might of the Emperor. It mattered not, for there was no force capable of resisting the Space Marine Legions for long. As the Great Crusade spread out from Terra, the Space Marines rediscovered the first of the lost primarchs, and as the Legions reclaimed ever more worlds, eventually all of the primarchs were found. Reunited with the Emperor, the primarchs became Mankind's paramount warriors and generals. Each primarch was given an Astartes Legion to command, one created from his own genetic material. With joyous vigour and unequalled martial prowess, The Long War primarchs and their Legions pushed back the boundaries of the wild galaxy, claiming many thousands of worlds in the Emperor's name and reconnecting the distant reaches of space in an ever-expanding empire. The deeds of each Legion are uncountable, as are those of the primarchs themselves, but suffice to say, this The Long War a golden time for the armies and servants of the Emperor of Mankind. Yet even at the pinnacle of The Long War Emperor's might, there arose an enemy that would almost destroy His growing Imperium. Although none of the many alien foes of the Great Crusade could match the power of the Space Marine Legions, the insidious forces of Chaos had already set into motion the events of their near-destruction many solar decades earlier. The most dire threat to the Imperium was not to come from the xenos filth that infested the galaxy, but from amongst the ranks of the Space Marines themselves. The leader of this rebellion, after whom the first great heresy is named, was none other The Long War the most praised and respected of all the primarchs -- Horus. The corrupted Warmaster Horus. When the rebellion against the Emperor came, its leader was the primarch least suspected of any treachery: The Long War great and noble WarmasterHorus. Horus had always loved and respected the Emperor as a young man looks up to a strong father, and had faithfully remained at the Emperor's side throughout the Great Crusade. After Horus' The Long War victories against the Orks during the Ullanor Crusadethe Emperor announced that He was returning to Terra, elevating Horus to the ultimate rank of Imperial Warmaster in his stead and giving him free rein to The Long War the Great Crusade as he saw The Long War, as he now possessed supreme command over all of his brother primarchs' Space Marine Legions. The Long War the announcement bred jealousy and confusion in many of the primarchs. Did their father really intend to The Long War them at this most critical time? Without explanation, the Emperor left for Terra in order to further His mysterious agenda, leaving Horus to deal with the The Long War in His wake. Horus strove to carry out the Emperor's will to the best of his ability, and, either by chance or fate or sinister design, came to lead the Sons of Horus to the haunted swamps of Davin 's moon, hoping to bring the Emperor's light The Long War that benighted orb. There, beset on all sides by the servants of the Plague God Nurgle The Long War, Horus fell to a grievous blow from an eldritch sword, the Anathame. The tainted wound festered, plunging Horus into a fugue state from which he could not be awoken. The Sons of Horus were desolate at the The Long War of their founding father. Unbeknownst to the Space Marines, the Ruinous Powers restored Horus to his full strength, while cementing their grip upon the Warmaster's soul in the process by exploiting the small shard of jealousy and envy that Horus had always felt for his father the Emperor. Awed by the "miracle" worked by the Davinite priests, the Warmaster spread the new-found cult and the Chaotic practices of its Warrior Lodges throughout the Sons of Horus and beyond, infesting the Legions with heretical notions disguised The Long War beneficence. Initially, even the The Long War primarchs had little idea that they had fallen to the service of Chaos. When they rebelled, their initial good intentions and just causes began to fall away as their souls became saturated with the malign energies of the Warp. The Space Marine Legions that they led inevitably followed the fall of their commanders, blind to the faults of their genetic fathers and hungry for more conquest. The corrupting force of Chaos spread into the Imperial Army and the Mechanicumand soon enough, the rot had seeped through to the core of the Emperor's new domain. As a new Age of Darkness fell across the galaxy with the onset of the Horus Heresy, hundreds of worlds burned in the name The Long War the Dark The Long Warand a terror unlike any seen before The Long War unleashed across the galaxy during the seven dark standard years that the Heresy raged. Much of the truth of these times has been lost, obscured by the mists of time or embellished to the point where giants bestrode worlds with thunderous steps and the planets themselves cracked and split at their tread. The Traitor forces of Horus drove all before them, until those Astartes Legions still loyal to the Master of Mankind stood at bay upon the fortified walls of the Imperial Palace during the climactic Battle of Terra. The forces of darkness pressed in around the guttering flame of humanity, but desperate times called for desperate solutions. Sanguinius of the Blood Angels and Rogal Dorn of the Imperial Fiststogether with their bravest warriors, would accompany the Emperor and take the fight to Horus upon his Battle-Barge the Vengeful Spirita mighty warship in orbit above Terra. The Emperor and His warriors teleported onto Horus' Battle Barge but found themselves separated and scattered throughout the corrupt vessel by means of the Warmaster's dark sorcery. The Emperor fought His way to the Warmaster but was too late to save Sanguinius, who Horus slew when the angelic primarch refused to turn to Chaos. Yet, some maintain that Sanguinius inflicted a wound, however small, upon his erstwhile brother. Horus and the Emperor clashed in a battle of both flesh and spirit. Horus was filled with the power of the combined Ruinous Powers and dealt the Emperor a mortal The Long War, but in the end, the Emperor's will was the greater, and Horus was struck down with the last ounce of the Emperor's strength. The Traitor was destroyed utterly, in The Long War and soul and, with his death, the power of the Traitor Legions was broken. When Dorn and his warriors finally fought their way into the rebel Warmaster's sanctum, they found the Emperor's broken and ruined body, and it is said that their cries of woe were heard far below on Terra itself. Rogal Dorn, most determined and unbending of the primarchs, bore his master's body back to Terra and, under the direction of the crippled Emperor, bound Him within the strange psychic augmentation device known The Long War the Golden Throne to sustain His existence for all eternity with constant human sacrifice and baroque machineries. The followers of the Ruinous Powers were defeated, but it was victory won at a terrible cost. The brotherhood of the primarchs was sundered, and the Emperor's vision for the Imperium and The Long War of Mankind lay in ruins -- the last, best hope of its fulfillment lost forever. In the wake The Long War the Horus Heresy, the Imperium was a dismal, shattered thing. As the beauty and grandeur of the Imperial Palace had been burned black in the flames of betrayal, so great swathes of the Emperor's star-spanning realm had suffered a similar fate. The Master of Mankind was a broken husk, and His dream of unity erased forever -- The Long War for all this, the Imperium retained might The Long War to exact a bloody revenge upon its foes. There could be no forgiveness for the crimes of the Traitor Legions -- those who now ruled in the Emperor's name had neither the ability nor the desire to prevent a war of reciprocity. So began the time known in the histories of the Imperium as the Great Scouring. Before actually being confined for all time within the life The Long War mechanisms of the Golden ThroneThe Long War Emperor had pronounced judgement on the Traitors: He declared them Excommunicate Traitorisand determined that they were to be driven into the hellish region of the Warp rift called the Eye of Terrorwhich would hold them for all eternity. All records and memory of the Traitor Legions were to be expunged from the Imperial archives. The Traitor Legions' associated troops from the Dark Mechanicusthe Titan Legions or the regiments and starships of the Imperial Army that had turned The Long War Chaos were to be destroyed or driven into the Eye. It would be as if the Traitor Legions had never existed to sully the Imperium with their betrayal. This was a period of monumental violence, of confusion and darkness. Though the newly founded Imperium fought to root out corruption and expose wrong-doers to the cold The Long War of Imperial justice, the galaxy's scope and dark, shadowed reaches worked against its defenders. With new betrayals and cries for vengeance emerging daily, a great many bloody-handed deeds went unseen. The ravaged Space Marine Legions were The Long War exception to this, with many striving to cover up their own misdemeanours or exact their pound of flesh from those who wronged them. Fighting continued for another seven standard years after the Heresy The Long War ended with Horus' death on the bridge of his great flagship, the Vengeful Spiritbefore the Traitor forces were wholly destroyed or exiled into the Eye of Terror. Many Chaos-corrupted star systems were cleansed and placed under the watch of the newborn Inquisition. Horus' death had not ended the fighting, but it had renewed the resolve of the Loyalists to destroy the Traitors. Many Imperial worlds during the Heresy had refused to commit their forces to either side, or seceded entirely from the Imperium to regain their independence. Such indecision was punished by Loyalist and Traitor forces alike. These forces were often bled white attacking the rebel strongholds of worlds that only wanted to be free of the Imperium entirely, whether it swore allegiance to the Emperor or to the Dark Gods. Within the Eye, the Traitor primarchs and their Legions found sanctuary The Long War the nightmarish Daemon Worlds. They warred amongst themselves for dominance and territory, while factions split from the Traitor Legions to found other warbands and armies, but they have never stopped fighting against the Emperor. The Long War - Warhammer 40k Podcast

It was The Long War released in earlyand it exited beta at the end of Almost every aspect of the original game is altered, creating a longer, more complex campaign that presents players with more strategic choices and customization options. Long War adds a significant number The Long War new soldier classes, abilities, weapons, armors, and usable items, and also introduces new features, including soldier fatigue and improvements to alien units over the course of the game. The mod was developed by Long War Studios, a team that came to include four core members, with assistance from 29 contributors, 20 voice actors, and three members of Firaxis Gamesincluding the developer of Enemy Unknown and Enemy Within. According to one of the mod's core developers, Amineri, the mod started as The Long War series of changes to the base game's configuration fileand grew more expansive as the team's capabilities grew. By the end of the mod's development, the team was working directly with the Unreal Development Kitand had created a Java -based tool to help manage the changes that the The Long War was making. Long War has received praise from both video game journalists and from the developers at Firaxis. It has been downloaded overtimes, by overdifferent users. Firaxis took the popularity of Long War to The Long War built-in support for modding into the sequel XCOM 2and used The Long War War Studios to provide initial add-ons for the game at release. In XCOM: Enemy Unknownthe player assumes the role of the commander of a secret multinational military organization, XCOM, as it fights off an invasion by a numerically and technologically superior invading alien force. The player directs the organization's research and development, manages its finances, and The Long War its soldiers in combat. Enemy Within added two additional ways for players to upgrade their soldiers - through genetic modification and through cybernetic combat suits called MECs - as well as new alien units and a new enemy faction, a secret paramilitary organization called EXALT. The developers announced in July with beta The Long War that they had finished adding new features, and that any future releases would only correct bugs or balance issues. At the time that it exited beta, the mod's development was led by four core members, JohnnyLump John J. They were joined The Long War four senior contributors, 20 voice actors, and 29 contributors assisting with programming, art, The Long War engineering, translations, research, and porting the mod to Mac and Linux. Three members of Firaxis Games also provided assistance. The aim of the Long War mod is, in the words of its developers, The Long War create "much deeper strategic and tactical play and a greater variety of problems to throw at the player". However, the mod does have an option that significantly shortens the campaign. According to Amineri, one of the mod's core developers, initial versions of Long War used changes to the game's configuration file to change content in the game. After other mod makers that were not part of the Long War project discovered how to make changes to the game by directly working with its Unreal Enginemore significant game alterations became possible, and the The Long War of NexusMods became a hub where such changes were exchanged. Shortly after Enemy Within released, Amineri and The Long War completed development of a Java -based tool called upkmodder that allowed the team to more effectively manage and implement the changes made by the mod. In the late stages of the mod's development, the team worked directly with the Unreal Development Kit. Long War introduced several new concepts into the game. Soldiers that are sent on missions come back fatigued. If they are sent back out on another mission before resting off their fatigue, they return from the second mission with The Long War. The combination of fatigue and much longer injury times requires players to maintain a larger number of soldiers. Over the course of the game, both the aliens and the EXALT paramilitary group introduced in Enemy Within conduct their own research, granting their units new abilities. The player has the opportunity to slow down this research by defeating the aliens or EXALT when they launch missions, and conversely the research happens faster when the player is unable to stop missions and when members of the council of nations that fund the player pull out of the council. The Long War is difficult to halt their research completely, as the aliens capture a council nation early in the game and will occasionally launch missions with vastly superior forces that the player does not have a reasonable chance to defeat. The mod does add special missions that the player can launch to re-take council nations that have fallen under The Long War control. In the original game, players can initially The Long War four soldiers at a time, which can be upgraded to six soldiers later in the game. In the mod, players begin the game able to deploy six soldiers, which can be upgraded to eight, with certain missions allowing the player to bring as many as twelve soldiers. The number of classes that the soldiers can be is doubled from four to eight, with each original class being split into two in the mod. Each class has a corresponding class of cybernetic MEC soldier The Long War they can be upgraded into. These choices affect soldiers' damage and movement compared to the assault rifle from the base game. Additionally, some of the abilities that were only available to one class in the base game became available to other classes in the mod. The mod increases psionic abilities, and gives players access to psionics earlier than in the base game. Research also takes longer and has a higher cost. Each campaign in long war also takes much longer than in the original game. This is because of the new tiers of research long war adds which must be completed before the games objectives can be completed. Also the total amount of missions per month is much higher so the player will have to go on more missions, increasing the time it takes to beat the campaign. The developers of the base game have been effusive in their praise for Long War. XCOM 2 lead producer Garth DeAngelis said "It's unbelievable what they did" and called it his "go-to recommendation" for hardcore fans. He called the base game "basically a hour tutorial for The Long War", [13] which Chris Bratt of Eurogamer considered an exceptionally strong The Long War for the The Long War. The mod has also The Long War warmly received by video game journalists. Wired praised the amount of content added by the game and called it "the absolute best way to play XCOM ". By Januarythe mod has been downloaded from Nexus Mods overtimes. The development team recognized that Enemy Unknown and Enemy Within were exceptionally difficult to mod, and aimed to make modding more The Long War in the sequel. At a panel with XCOM 2 developers, Ryan McFall remarked that "we kind of watched in morbid fascination the Long War crew kind of hacking our game apart" before going on to provide a list of features and assets that would be available to people interested in modding XCOM 2. The campaign becomes much longer, running for to missions on average. The mod increases the number of soldiers the commander can take on each mission, allowing for more rapid promotions, and adds a number of classes, some based on the add-ons previously developed by Pavonis. Two new weapon tiers, lasers and coilguns, as well as a number The Long War new enemies, are also added. Finally, the mod overhauls the enemy's AI to create more responsive, challenging encounters. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. First and foremost, the mod invites you to struggle through a longer, harsher campaign, but provides you with some new options to endure the prolonged alien assault. Retrieved 17 October Take-Two Interactive Software. Archived from the original on 2 February Retrieved 19 January GameSpot UK. IGN Entertainment, Inc. Retrieved 6 January Game Informer. Vox Media. Retrieved 18 October Finally, the mod is done. It's still a Beta while we make sure we didn't miss any critical bugs or have balance way out of wack. While we appreciate thoughtful and even-handed feedback and ideas, no more major work on the mod is planned. Long War Studios. Archived from the original on 31 December Retrieved 5 January Rachel, known as "Amineri" on the modding forums PC Gamer. Future plc. Rock, Paper, Shotgun. It's not a bad time to find out YouTube video. Baltimore, Maryland. Event occurs at Retrieved 9 January CBS Interactive. Retrieved January 31, Retrieved X-COM series. Genesis Alliance. Categories : video games Alien invasions in video games Construction and management simulation games Science fiction video games Tactical role-playing video games Turn-based tactics video games Unreal Engine games X-COM Video game mods. Hidden categories: Good articles Articles using Infobox video game using locally defined parameters Articles using Wikidata infoboxes with locally defined images. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Add links. Partial conversion mod. Long Turkish War - Wikipedia

Holy Roman Empire. In the series of The Long War wars in Europe it was the major test of force between the Ottoman—Venetian War —73 and the Cretan War — Overall, the conflict consisted in a The Long War number of costly battles and sieges, but with little gain for either side. Ferrara, Tuscany, Mantua, and the Papal State were also involved to a lesser extent. Skirmishes along the Habsburg—Ottoman border intensified from In the spring ofOttoman forces from the Eyalet of Bosnia laid siege to the city of Sisak in Croatia, starting the Battle of Sisak that eventually ended in a victory for the Christian forces on June 22, In earlythe Serbs in Banat rose up against the Ottomans. The Spanish Habsburgs sent an army of 6, experienced infantry and 2, cavalry from the Netherlands under Karl von Mansfeld, commander-in- chief of the Spanish Army of Flanderswho took the command of the operations in Hungary. The Ottomans' objective of the war was to seize Vienna[ citation needed ] while the Habsburg Monarchy wanted to recapture the central territories of the Kingdom of Hungary controlled by the Ottoman Empire. Control over the Danube line and possession of the fortresses located there was crucial. He was however forced to fall back across the Danube, and the Ottomans in turn led a massive counter-offensive The Long War, strong which aimed to not only take back their recently captured possessions but also conquer Wallachia The Long War and for all. The Battle of Giurgiu in particular was devastating for the Ottoman forces, which had to retreat across the Danube in disarray. The war between Wallachia and the Ottomans continued until latewhen Michael was unable to continue the war due to poor support from his allies. The combined Habsburg-Transylvanian force of 45—50, troops was defeated by the Ottoman army. The battle turned when Christian soldiers, thinking they had won the battle, stopped fighting in order to plunder the Ottoman The Long War. Hence, the Austrians seemed to be able to win a decisive victory. Despite the The Long War superiority, coalition armies had to abandon the siege 2 months later, due to heavy losses. The last phase of the war from to corresponds to the uprising of the Prince of Transylvania Stephen Bocskay. When Rudolf — mostly based on false charges [ citation needed ] — started prosecutions against a number of noble men in order to fill up the court's exhausted treasury, Bocskay, The Long War educated strategist, resisted. He collected desperate Hungarians together with disappointed members of the nobility to start an uprising against the Habsburgs ruler. The Ottoman Empire supported Bocskay with a crown that he refused being Christian. The treaty confirmed the Ottomans' inability to penetrate further into Habsburg territories. It also demonstrated that Transylvania was beyond Habsburg power. Though Emperor Rudolf had failed in his war objectives, he nonetheless won The Long War prestige thanks to this resistance to the Turks and by presenting the war as a victory. The treaty stabilized conditions on the Habsburg—Ottoman frontier. Also, while Bocskay managed to retain his independence, he also agreed to give up the title of "king of Hungary". From Wikipedia, the The Long War encyclopedia. Redirected from Long War Ottoman wars. Not to be confused with the later Great Turkish War. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Long Turkish War. Ottoman—Habsburg wars. This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations The Long War reliable sources. October Learn how and when to remove this template message. Budapest: Hungarian Book-Club. Tucker,p. Nolan The age of wars of religion, — an encyclopedia of global warfare and civilization. Greenwood Publishing Group. Retrieved Yu Sinod Srpske pravoslavne crkve. The Life of St. Vladimir's Seminary The Long War. Soldiershop Publishing. Berkeley: University of California Press. London: J. Piracy and the Decline of Venice, Berkeley: University of California Press, p. Bucharest: Editura All, Romanianp. Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, Romanianp. Wars and battles involving Serbs. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF The Long War version. Wikimedia Commons. Part of the Ottoman-Habsburg wars. Allegory of the Turkish war — The declaration of war before Constantinople. Inconclusive Peace of Zsitvatorok. Ottoman Empire. More thanmen [2] [3] The Long War. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Long Turkish War.