This announcement happened fairly quickly only one year after first game was released. Gothic Armada is a space strategy game where you command massive capital ships of major Warhammer40k factions like Imperium of Man, Chaos, Orks and Eldar (Tau came with the first expansion). In this game you had a campaign missions, skirmish and multiplayer modes where you engaged in tactical space combat scenarios where ship positioning, speed, special abilities made a huge difference.
In Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 the developers from Focus Home Interactive will introduce a new story revolving around the latest incident in Warhammer40k universe called Gathering Storm, a storm that had destroyed most of the universe with warp energies of Chaos. In addition to that, all Warhammer40k factions will be playable, you can expect to see Necrons, Tyranids, Dark Eldar, all of them battling it out in the most epic of scopes. This will be good.