As with most beta versions and betas the features available to you are limited.   Only the multiplayer mode is available.  Though at first I thought this meant you had to play verse live opponents, I did discover that you can set up a game against cpu opponents, and even have several levels of AI difficulty to select from. The beta came with two multiplayer game types, head-to-head, just you and your opponent, or three verse three where you can team up with any combination of armies and battle it out against three other armies.  The maps are limited having only two 1-on-1 maps, and three 3-on-3 maps, to choose from, however I did find them to be varied enough to maintain interest.

The armies available to you are Space Marines, Orks, Eldar, and Tyranids.  In addition, each army has three different types of commanders or heroes that you can select, with each one having a slightly different combination of abilities in order to fill a general role on the battlefield such as attack, support, or defence.

The main strategy of each game is to capture and hold points that are distributed among the battlefield, while keeping them out of the hands of the enemy.  There are three types of points: requisition, energy, and victory.  When a requisition or energy point is held by your team it increases how much of that resource you receive with each tick. Units cost a combination of either requisition and/or energy so taking those points increases your ability to produce units.  Note, you no longer have a specific unit running back and forth to that point collecting the requisition, once you have captured a point it remains yours and increases your resource production until the end of the game or the enemy takes it from you.  While capturing resource points is important, a game is won by capturing and holding victory points.  Captured victory points slowly decrease the tickets of the opposing team, when one side’s tickets reach zero the game is over, and the other side is the victor.  Generally there are three victory points on a map, and each side starts with 500 tickets.