Dawn of War now awailable on Steam

[Inspector Jihad]

The gold edition comes with the expansion Winter Assault. But the other expansion, Dark Crusade is seperate and says it does not require the original DoW to play. Does that mean its a new game? what order should i play the games in and is there any advantage to buying the gold pack if the expansion can be played by itself.

 

[lupi]

The more of the 3 you own the more factions you can play in online play (or solo play for Crusade).

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: lupi
The more of the 3 you own the more factions you can play in online play (or solo play for Crusade).

single player for Dark Crusade features all races. only multiplayer is limited by which parts you own.

last i checked for MP, necrons were cheese (flayed one spam), but they may have patched that since.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

what about the campaigns?

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
what about the campaigns?

for single player campaigns

original DOW: unaffected (no imperial guard, necrons, or tau)

Winter Assault: requires original DOW, (no necrons or tau)

Dark Crusade: all races available in single player campaign



Multiplayer:

if you own:

Original DOW: space marines, chaos, eldar, orks

DOW + Winter Assault: SM, Chaos, Eldar, Orks, IG

DOW + WA + DC: all seven

DC + original: SM, Chaos, Eldar, Orks, Necron, Tau

 

[Inspector Jihad]

so the only reason to buy the whole set over the dc standalone is the extra races playable online

 

[imported_sushicide]

The campaign missions were alot of fun too, if you can get the packs cheap I'd go for it.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: sushicide
The campaign missions were alot of fun too, if you can get the packs cheap I'd go for it.

the single player campaigns are a lot of fun. i may just reinstall DoW now... after i beat starcraft though. in my 10 years of owning starcraft, i have NEVER beat the single player campaigns so far i beat SC terran, working on zerg. still have SC protoss + all of BW to go

 

[shortylickens]

Little trivia:

They rebalanced the units for Dark Crusade.
Builders no longer take up population points but you can only make so many of them.
Most units have a slight change in resource cost, usually less.
Many buildings have difference costs, upgrades to control points cost much less Requisition.

Oh, and most importantly:
Like the builders, many of the hi-power units can only be built one or two at a time. The few you can train still use up a lot of population points though.