Author Topic: Lets play: Dawn of War (The Ultimate Battle!)  (Read 2069 times)

Sup. Dawn of War. Real Time Strategy.

But wait? What is this Dawning of Fight?



Dawn of War is a series of Real-Time Strategy games developed by Relic Entertainment. It is based on the Warhammer 40,000 series and includes several races fighting for control of planets or galaxies within the universe. Many races include human kind as either the numerous Imperial Guard, the gun-ho Space Marines, or the corrupted sadistic forces of Chaos which are Space Marines tainted by evil warp influences. There are also such "fantasy" races like Orks, green pig-like brutes, Eldar, BIONICLE-looking magical elf people, and Necrons, dark and silent machines who detest the living.

So how can I get this Dusk of Wam?

...You can buy it on Steam or in stores.
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=THQ&advanced=0&term=Dawn+of+war&category1=998
This is a complete list of all the Dawn of War games on Steam.

The first Dawn of War series includes some stand-alone packs which may cause confusion for some people.
You can own only one of the stand-alone packs and still play the game normally online. But you will only be able to play the races exclusive to that game. For instance, Dawn of War Dark Crusade (abbv. as DC) includes two new races. The Tau and the Necrons. If you own only DC, you will be only able to play as those two races online. But, if you own DC and lets say Dawn of War 1 the original, you'll be able to play as all the races in the original Dawn of War 1 and the two in DC.

UPDATE: Read this post for clarification on "race/game" issues.

Suggestion: Soulstorm isn't a great game. It has the Dark Eldar and Sisters of Battle. Dark Eldar are these forgeted up weird lame versions of the Eldar that make you think it's like Chaos but for Eldar, but it's just a lame version of them. Sisters of Battle are not hot space marine women, contrary to your belief. They're just really angelic and they're like nuns with guns essentially. Get it if you want though.

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You better have said yes to the above statement!

So lets get this straight.

We're going to play a game on Saturday. We're going to be playing Dawn of War 1. If any of you people who actually own Dawn of War 2 want to play a match for that, we might organize something for that later on. Maybe. MAYBE.

The match will probably be either a teamed match or a free for all, depending on what the people vote. The map will be something according to how many people we have.

If we don't get enough people playing this weekend, then we'll post pone it. Please note I may or may not be able to attend this so someone other than me will have to host this. We may be doing Hamachi VPN LAN so that it will be easier for some people due to connection difficulties I've encountered earlier with some people.

I'll probably announce a specific time later on but we're shooting for Saturday night definitely.



Discuss Dawn of War and Dawn of War 2 here as well if desired.
« Last Edit: April 06, 2010, 10:26:46 PM by General Nick »

DoW1 is unbalanced, winter assult and dark crusade fixed those issues.

But I will be there, with orks.

Assuming we can all use the same patch we'll be playing equally.


I'll be there too, with SPACE MARINES.

If I use Dawn of War 1 only will I still be able to play against you guys with Dark Crusade and stuff?

EDIT:
http://forums.relicnews.com/showpost.php?p=1709572&postcount=59
Read that if you are confused on whether or not you can play with us.

You MUST own Dark Crusade in order to play with us.
You may optionally own Dawn of War or Winter Assault to play with us, but you MUST own Dawn of War to play Winter Assault. You cannot own Dark Crusade and Winter Assault only. Either:
  • You own only Dark Crusade and play Tau or Necron.
  • You own Dawn of War and Dark Crusade and play any of those six races.

or
  • You own Dawn of War, Dark Crusade AND Winter Assault and play any of the seven races.


We are NOT doing Soulstorm.
« Last Edit: April 06, 2010, 10:25:38 PM by General Nick »

I have DOW, winter assult and dark crusade.

I have all expansions.
Dibs on either chaos or necrons.

Disregard that.

My only hope to play this weekend is to buy Dawn of War Platinum with all Dawn of Wars but Soulstorm on Steam to play with you guys. That being said I have no ability to purchase it since apparently nobody in the house has money on their credit cards or is willing to pay for the game even with two $20 bills.
« Last Edit: April 08, 2010, 07:16:27 PM by General Nick »

I have all expansions.
Dibs on either chaos or necrons.
You'll need this.