Dawn of War II

**Meneldil** · 03-05-2009, 04:05

As much as I agree with you (from my beta experience, I think I'll try the campaign just for the heck of it), it's true that releasing a basic RTS would have been suicidal with Starcraft 2 coming soon.

We all know SC2 will rock the house and pretty much destroy any concurrent. I don't really know how, as I don't think SC1 was awesome, but it will anyway.

**Spino** · 03-05-2009, 04:25

Originally Posted by Meneldil

As much as I agree with you (from my beta experience, I think I'll try the campaign just for the heck of it), it's true that releasing a basic RTS would have been suicidal with Starcraft 2 coming soon.

We all know SC2 will rock the house and pretty much destroy any concurrent. I don't really know how, as I don't think SC1 was awesome, but it will anyway.

Well you're right, a basic sci-fi RTS would be hard pressed to distract people from SC2. But what I meant is that Relic needs to return to the formula that made DoW & CoH such addictive hits. Relic took a gamble with DoW2's new design and it appears to not have gone over as well as they'd hoped. They clearly didn't test this design enough before unleashing it on millions of DoW/CoH fans. Anyway I would hate to see Relic make another old school style RTS. I'll amend my post.

**Papewaio** · 03-06-2009, 08:40

There is actually an version for WH:40K called epic... now that would be great... even with RPG elements... I for one would love to manage an entire chapter from serf to vehicle to space marine with dow2 and chaos gate levels of detail.

Love detail on the strategy level, hate micro managing on the real time level.

**Meneldil** · 03-06-2009, 19:38

I vaguely remember an Epic 40K game released quite a while ago. I think it only had Orks and the Imperial Guard, and unhappilly, only vehicles (no standard troops). It was a turn-based game, and me being an impatient teenager back then, I didn't really appreciate it.

I'm not sure I would like a real-time one either to be honest. The main appeal of DoW was zooming in and watching a dreadnought smashing a squad of Orks, or a Banshee squad cutting something to pieces. Watching two Titans shooting at each other from miles away wouldn't be nearly as interesting imo.

Now, if said game allowed to zoom in to the level of detail of DoW, I'm all for it (Basically, a mix of regular W40K and Epic40K).

**drone** · 03-06-2009, 21:51

Originally Posted by Meneldil

I vaguely remember an Epic 40K game released quite a while ago. I think it only had Orks and the Imperial Guard, and unhappilly, only vehicles (no standard troops). It was a turn-based game, and me being an impatient teenager back then, I didn't really appreciate it.

It had all the races, and there was infantry as well as vehicles and titans, but the infantry was by squad, not individuals. Decent game, but painting those miniatures was a royal pain.

**Meneldil** · 03-07-2009, 22:04

Originally Posted by drone

It had all the races, and there was infantry as well as vehicles and titans, but the infantry was by squad, not individuals. Decent game, but painting those miniatures was a royal pain.

I'm talking about a video game here, not Epic 40K itself :-P Said game only had a few races, like Orks and a variation of the Imperium (pretty sure it was the Imperial Guard, but might have been the Space Marines).

Oh yeah, found it :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_L...er_40,000_Epic

**drone** · 03-09-2009, 15:54

Originally Posted by Meneldil

I'm talking about a video game here, not Epic 40K itself :-P Said game only had a few races, like Orks and a variation of the Imperium (pretty sure it was the Imperial Guard, but might have been the Space Marines).

Oh yeah, found it :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_L...er_40,000_Epic

1997, no wonder I missed it. I went on a Warhammer hiatus about that time.

**Hooahguy** · 06-19-2011, 22:57

Im going to bump this because I dont feel like making a new thread.

Im really enjoying DoW1 + expansions, and I was thinking of getting DoW2, but the whole Steam thing is getting me worried.
I have no internet connection for my laptop, which is the only thing that can play DoW2. So does this mean I cant play DoW2?

**Veho Nex** · 06-20-2011, 02:12

You have to worry about steam and windows live. Both a pain I unistalled it after I found out i couldnt actually play it without updating it.

**pevergreen** · 03-07-2009, 09:59

Originally Posted by Meneldil

I vaguely remember an Epic 40K game released quite a while ago. I think it only had Orks and the Imperial Guard, and unhappilly, only vehicles (no standard troops). It was a turn-based game, and me being an impatient teenager back then, I didn't really appreciate it.

I remember going to a friends house and playing something like this. You could choose to entrench Guardsmen, and there was huge weapons lists for vehicles. I could never find the name of that game, its a shame, I love it. Blasted old PC games>_>

**Papewaio** · 03-09-2009, 02:16

Originally Posted by Meneldil

I vaguely remember an Epic 40K game released quite a while ago. I think it only had Orks and the Imperial Guard, and unhappilly, only vehicles (no standard troops). It was a turn-based game, and me being an impatient teenager back then, I didn't really appreciate it.

5mm or so squads, landraiders that were the size of thumbs, and titans that are ostriches to the dreadnaughts finch.

Pure luv.