If you're not into multiplayer, Soul Storm is the best bang for your buck with a whopping nine races. If not, you can only use those expansions' races. The way the standalone expansions work (Dark Crusade and Soul Storm) is that they ask for / check for CD keys from previous games if you have them, you can use those races in multiplayer. Soul Storm, which adds Sisters of Battle and Dark Eldar, and has a similar campaign to Dark Crusade. The campaign is moved from classic story missions, to a risk-style map where you capture territories and knock races out by assaulting their stronghold (which has unique gameplay elements). Two campaigns, a "light" campaign with Eldar and Imperial Guard, and a "chaos" campaign with Chaos and Orks.ĭawn of War and Winter Assault are commonly bundled as "Dawn of War Gold." Winter Assault is the only non-standalone expansion for the series.ĭark Crusade, which adds Tau and Necrons. Winter Assault, which adds Imperial Guard. There are areas of light and heavy cover, but by and large you will not notice or need them morale comes into play for most infantry, which is built by the squad, and losing moral drastically reduces their effectiveness in combat.ĭawn of War, which includes Space Marines, Chaos, Orks and Eldar. You can also build base defenses, both at your base and at captured requisition points. You can make buildings that upgrade your troops, that tech you up to the next level, and that increase your population cap. This means a strong economy in DOW1 is by default aggressive and demands map control. Requisition is gathered from your HQ and various "requisition points" which need to be captured on the map. You have Power and Requisition power is gathered from generators you build, and is considered the secondary resource. Buildings are built with builder units that only build building - they do not collect resources.ĭOW1's resource model is unique. When you say "what it can be compared to" I assume you mean in terms of gameplay, because in the Grim Darkness of the 41st millennium, there can be no comparison.ĭOW1 is more like Starcraft, in that you build a base with what you might call traditional buildings (barracks-type structure for infantry, armory-type structure for vehicles). The simplest terms to put DOW1 vs DOW2 is that DOW1 is very much a traditional build-your-base-and-army RTS, while DOW2 is more real-time-tactics with no base building at all.
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