Dawn of War II

[pevergreen]

I have only played the MP beta, but there is no building part to the game. It has been stated multiple times pre release.

Perhaps you should try an AI skirmish and see if there is or not?

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In the skirmish mode, you can participate in 1 versus 1 or 3 versus 3 matches online

Guess thats it. There were two modes, annihilation (kill HQ's) and Victory Points, both teams start at 500 and first to 0 loses, make the other team lose points by holding victory points. VP was the only ranked type.

There is nowhere near the level of customisation in MP as in the SP campaign.

In skirmishes you do have one base structure, but that's pretty much it and it exists right from a match's beginning. A few of the units can erect defensive or reinforcement structures of their own, but the majority of your success in battle is being able to quickly move out into maps and capture resource points to fuel unit production. It's a system that encourages combat and makes turtling, the process of building up base defenses in order to tech up and raise an army, essentially impossible, so that even within a minute or two of a match starting you can expect to be in combat. And with the low population cap and smaller number of unit groups moving around, it makes every troop on the field that much more valuable.

Combat starts very fast, if you play, make good use of 'x' the retreat button. You take a lot less damage and move a lot faster back to your HQ.

IGN review: http://au.pc.ign.com/articles/954/954749p1.html