Dawn of War II

[pevergreen]

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>_>

[Meneldil]

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

[Papewaio]

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.

[drone]

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.

[naut]

It is definitely designed towards small scale, fast paced tactical combat. Use of cover and special abilities is critical. If you simply do move-attacks like in other games, you will die quickly.

Thanks for that snippet. That alone has saved me the hassle of buying it only to find out I don't like it.

[Major Robert Dump]

I dunno, the small scale-use-cover tactics is all good in the campaign and multiplayer until you get to the large campaign battles and the 3v3 MP, at that point it just becomes a zerg-fest in its own right. Cover can be blown away, entrenchments can be bypassed and in the strategic point games it really boils down to who can make the most cheap and fast troops to take and hold points.

I guess thats why I like to use subterfuge in the campaign, although there have been a couple missions where an all-out blitz kill blitz was the only way to win. as far as the MP goes, its just zerging but on a smaller scale, and the games end up with all your squads at different points and different places and all it takes is a few seconds to wipe one out with even the cheesiest of units, and yes the attack-move vs regular move commands is still why i hate most RTS games to this day.

Sorry, i guess I'm not much of a micromanager

[pevergreen]

Ah bugger.

I went out and bought it, but only because I got it for $70 instead of $100.

Anyone interested in doing some Co-op campaign in a few weeks?

[pevergreen]

Got it today, played four missions so far.

Bother, its good. Apart from the freezes, but once it works, it works nice.

Why did they have to play to my one weakness? Leveling up characters with customisable equipment!

[Hooahguy]

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]

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.

[Beskar]

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.

Why not just update it?

[Veho Nex]

6 gigs of updates on my slow connection was a horrid idea for a game that only one of my friends played.

[Drunk Clown]

Do know that DoW2 is a lot different than DoW1.

[Hooahguy]

Well I know that there is no base building at all in DoW2, and you only have like 4-5 units total. Thats what I heard. Anything else major?

[Veho Nex]

There is a cover system like CoH

[Hooahguy]

Well hopefully unlike CoH guns are even halfway accurate.
Thats one thing that I liked about DoW1. Machine guns actually seem to do something.
I hated how inaccurate guns seemed to be in CoH, especially MGs.