The morale system in dawn o war isn't that basic The_Emperor. The flamer upgrades that most armies get are specifically intended to lower morale and the AI always buys it first.

IMO Dawn of war is a good conventional RTS game. Well worth the $60 I paid for it. Great graphics (especially the death animations), good sound design. If your not familiar with the Gameworkshop warhammer 40k universe you can still enjoy it. But you will get the nagging felling that the game is very similar to the Blizzard craft games (war and star). There is a reason for that, Blizzard was trying to get the 40k license but the deal fell threw. One of my favorite things about Dawn of war has to be the Eldar avatar, the chaos bloodthirster and the Orks cockney accents.