Why shoot the Space Marines when you can drop houses on them Image credit: Sega I confess, I don't think very hard about cover when I'm playing Total War games – I'm too busy micromanaging cavalry and ensuring all of my ranged unit formations are nice and stretched out, with minimal depth for a cannon ball to travel through. I'll have to address that mentality when playing Total War: Warhammer 40,000 , which is not only a strategy game in which you can do an Exterminatus on planets, but also one in which players can destroy many other objects smaller than planets, including objects your squishy Imperial Guardsmen are cowering behind. "One of the really big and exciting things that we're doing here is the destruction now is going to come into play," observes David Petry, the game's battle product owner, during the closing segment of the very first Total War Show & Tell.…