From the
Dawn of War website:
Ten thousand years have passed since the treasonous acts of Chaos toppled the Golden Age of mankind. Fires burn brightly throughout the galaxies, illuminating carnage and slaughter as mankind defends itself from ancient enemies. Hardened forces collide with one goal in mind, the complete extermination of their opposition...
Dawn of War brings the world's most successful tabletop wargame to the PC. Control one of seven unique races in head-to-head or cooperative multiplayer action, where faith, skill, and strategy are requisites in ruling the universe.
Features
- Cinematic quality melee and ranged combat that show battle in detail never before seen in a real-time strategy game. Improved resource model that focuses action on the frontline.
- Tactical features, such as cover, squad-based gameplay, morale and hero units, which promotes unit strategy over mass assaults while still allowing for large-scale battles.
- Seven unique races from the WH40K universe, each with their own unique strategies.
- 2-8 player multiplayer via LAN or Internet.
- Three expansion have added heaps of additional content, maps and so on over the past few years.
- HUGE mod community: see http://www.dowfiles.com
Availability
Dawn of War packs that include the various expansions (Winter Assault, Dark Crusade and Soul Storm) are readily available in game shops like EB and GAME. You will also find them readily shared as ISOs via bittorrent. If you go the bittorrent route, though, you'll need hamachi (or whatever that's called now) to allow LAN gaming over the Intertoobs. Contact me if you want to know more about that option.
Firestorm mod
The excellent Firestorm mod has brought Dawn of War's gameplay much closer to the tabletop game in terms of unit availability, performance and costings. The result is awesome.
Firestorm mod (v0.31 beta)
Dawn of War 2
Dawn of War 2 is coming...! See
http://www.dawnofwar2.com/au/home and watch this space!
About Warhammer 40,000
You can learn everything you ever wanted to know and more about Warhammer 40,000 from
Wikipedia.
Dawn of War
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