W40K- Dawn of War

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 11 Jun 2006, 08:07

I've been playing and I've come up with this equation:

Total Annihilation + WarCraft 3 + Warhammer 40k = Dawn of War

from now on, along with all of the other things I whine about I will want features to allow Spring to be Like DoW.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 11 Jun 2006, 08:13

DOW's squad replinishment mechanic was one of the most idiotic things that I have ever seen.

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 11 Jun 2006, 08:59

you mean the part where I can build more units while in the middle of a fight? that's my favorite part!

Optimus Prime · Post by **Optimus Prime** » 11 Jun 2006, 12:45

SinbadEV wrote:you mean the part where I can build more units while in the middle of a fight? that's my favorite part!

mine too! Its something that makes it different from other games and a lot more strategicaly. You have small groups of soldiers with some kind of leader acting like one unit.. thats just cool.
I also LOVE the animations of the melee units - just awesome and that beats all other RTSs atm.
Unfortunately the lobby is just poor and a bit buggish (i want an automapdownloader).

Rayden · Post by **Rayden** » 11 Jun 2006, 14:27

TA Spring can never have the detail of Dawn of War .. thats why unit limit in Dawn of War is 20-30 points.

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 11 Jun 2006, 15:48

but that 30 points represented up to 330 ubits because of squad sizes.

Rayden · Post by **Rayden** » 11 Jun 2006, 17:40

no about 90-130 but that's still much you're right :)

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 11 Jun 2006, 19:13

If yuo have the Tyranid mod for dow, You can have upto 360 spineguants. (30 X 12)

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 11 Jun 2006, 19:31

SinbadEV wrote:you mean the part where I can build more units while in the middle of a fight? that's my favorite part!

yeah, I think it looks stupid having troops teleport into battle. If you could teleport them from the begining why the hell do you ever need to move them as a squad? Why not just teleport into the enemy base like you do with your troop replenishment?

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 11 Jun 2006, 20:27

smoth wrote:
SinbadEV wrote:you mean the part where I can build more units while in the middle of a fight? that's my favorite part!
yeah, I think it looks stupid having troops teleport into battle. If you could teleport them from the begining why the hell do you ever need to move them as a squad? Why not just teleport into the enemy base like you do with your troop replenishment?

Why do buldings drop from the skys? Why do Space Marines shoot minimissles? Cause its cool.

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 11 Jun 2006, 20:49

Zoombie wrote:
smoth wrote:
SinbadEV wrote:you mean the part where I can build more units while in the middle of a fight? that's my favorite part!
yeah, I think it looks stupid having troops teleport into battle. If you could teleport them from the begining why the hell do you ever need to move them as a squad? Why not just teleport into the enemy base like you do with your troop replenishment?
Why do buldings drop from the skys? Why do Space Marines shoot minimissles? Cause its cool.

Yeah honestly... cool is more important than realistic any day.

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 11 Jun 2006, 20:50

Unless realizem is the point. But...i mean, come on! Its Warhammer 40k!

aGorm · Post by **aGorm** » 12 Jun 2006, 00:43

Its ment to feel like warjammer 40k right??? And thats what it does! Even better is it doent use the warhammer rules (which would have suxed) it just uses the ideas behind them. I think its a good fun game. I even multi with my mates ocasionly.

aGorm

Optimus Prime · Post by **Optimus Prime** » 12 Jun 2006, 02:13

i really like tha atmosphere in all WH games. Its not such a friendly baby world but its dark and brutal with blood and splatter

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 12 Jun 2006, 18:54

And Giant demons stabbing people in the chest, Picking them up with there sword, Laughing manicly and throwing them off the map.

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 12 Jun 2006, 19:43

Or the Drednaughts grabbing and ork, crushing them in their hand, then flaming it with the under hand mounted flame thrower. Then throwing the crushed, mangled, burnt and crispy corpse off the battlefeild. Ah yes...good times...good times.

j5mello · Post by **j5mello** » 14 Jun 2006, 23:07

The 40k universe will, thankfully, always be one of the most gruesome and distubing places ever to go gaming, reading, or modeling.

DoW is quite awesome though i have had trouble with it as of late. the game slows down to a chug after it loads up. i mean ingame not on a menu. also the textures seem to off on certain units.

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 14 Jun 2006, 23:25

I still need to play DoW, though I'm sure it will be a letdown after years of losing table-top games with my scrap-heap Space Marine army.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 15 Jun 2006, 05:56

Lmao, that demo was the best I ever played, GO DREADNOUGHTS GO! RIP THOSE DAMN ORCS INTO PIECES! lmao, they were thrown everywhere, and marines with those chain-blade things, WHOP! off with one orcs head! Hehehehe, I wanna get this game and the expansion!

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 15 Jun 2006, 11:15

Zoombie wrote: Why do buldings drop from the skys? Why do Space Marines shoot minimissles? Cause its cool.

Because it is in the fluff? I don't know. Units teleporting into the squads is a very ugly looking thing. Also don't get me started on the eldar tanks shooting each other too often.

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