Dawn of War

[Malladine]

So i'm pretty much settled on Ork or Eldar.

Anyone able to provide tips for multiplayer? I find myself defeated often with far more units than my opponent. They tend to have higher resources, but not THAT much higher.

With Ork my closest games seem to be when i upgrade my squads a LOT with Big Shootas, rokkits and Nob leaders instead of massing. Aren't ork supposed to overwhelm with numbers, the green tide??

With Eldar it's pretty much a banshee rush that wins it, or should i say won it...i've only won 1 out of the 4 eldar games i've played. I hear warp spider are good? How bout Eldar anti building? SM just upgrade their lps and build a turret and it's gg.

 

[stnicralisk]

I havent played it MP yet but there are replays of good players you can download and watch.

I would do that and see what they do to win. I was reading that SM is slightly overpowered in MP.

 

[Fenixgoon]

i don't play orcs much, so i can't help you there (but i do play eldar)

for me, i try and get to prism tanks ASAP because they own SM squads.. warp spiders are

good use for anti-tank and after your main army is fighting SM's (warp spiders in behind

them). one thing that you should do is upgrade the LP's (gives more resources) i found that's

one reason why i keep losing too

 

[Malladine]

Fire prisms? They're really expensive to get to arent they? And i thought they were mainly for anti vehicle use?

Ya, gotta upgrade those LPs more, good idea. How about countering the heavy bolters? And do you just ignore the force commander until his troops are dead or fleeing or focus him first? I'm thinking the troops do more damage to kill them first. The heavy bolters especially hurt.

Do you use Seer Councils? I haven't messed with warlock abilities yet but that's next. Seers do good melee damage too with the witch blades. But they're expensive to reinforce. Do you use wraithlords and dark reapers?

stn: i do watch the replays, but try to avoid it as much as i can. I prefer to build my own tactics from experience, or discussion

 

[Malladine]

more discussion pweez

 

[Malladine]

Really aren't many DoW players here huh?

 

[effee]

i do play, but IP only. if you looking for another guy that isnt too good to play with PM me

 

[Elcs]

Ive lost my killer instinct in games.

Cant play multiplayer RTS or FPS games anymore

 

[Malladine]

Originally posted by: effee
i do play, but IP only. if you looking for another guy that isnt too good to play with PM me

just might take you up on that. How do you play by IP if you don't have a static one, just the outside of the router?

 

[mhillary]

I like any computer games

 

[styrafoam]

With orks try to avoid shooting battles and get into close combat with slugga boyz. Build additional units instead of reenforcing the ones you have to make your morale harder to break. Set overwatch on a unit as it enters CC. Build a big mek to deal with enemy characters early on, he will need support for handling a force commander but he should wreck pretty much any infantry unit as long as he isn't caught in any heavy weapons crossfire(especially if he is upgraded). Charge into CC with 2 squads of boys from different directions or a big mek with a squad or two in front of it as a screen to deal with heavy bolters and flamers.

For eldar a banshee rush is proven tactic, support them with a farseer using his powers to tie up the enemy commander(mind war). If you have a warlock with entangle use that on the enemy as they flee towards cover. Warp spiders are a good anti turret unit, give them haywire grendades to make it that much quicker.

 

[Malladine]

Overwatch, what exactly does that do again? Auto reinforces?

Thanks for the tips Styra, i'll try em out soon.

Won another game last night as Eldar vs Marine using 2xguardians a farseer, warps and falcon/prism tanks. He was just worse than me though
I have to say that upgrading all lps to lvl 2 worked very well

 

[styrafoam]

If you right click on the squad's ++ button it will continiously reenforce the unit until it is at full strength. Unless the unit you are fighting is a dedicated CC unit they will be unable to kill units as fast as they are coming back in. It will put a good drain on your command points if you have a few units on overwatch so be careful unless you have a good surplus.