Dawn Of War

[UncleWolf]

Dawn of War has to be one of my favorite real-time strategy games there is.
it's even up there with Starcraft. Does anyone have a favorite battle that they had or one that will forever stay in the Hall of Shame?

[hanzo66]

I remember a moment in the single player campaign of Soulstorm. I was playing the Dark Eldar assaulting the Chaos base. I wanted to delete-kill some of my Mandrakes to make room for more Warriors. I accidentally also hit Home as well, thus destroying my Kabal HQ. Luckily that was not the end so I had one of my Slaves rebuild it.

[Xefas]

Well, a match that will always live in my mind was a 3on3 match on the...I forget the map's name...Crossroads maybe? Bah, I'll have to look it up later. This was in the original Dawn of War maybe a little before Winter Assault came out.

(Me) Eldar, (Friend) Eldar, Computer Eldar VS Computer Marines, Computer Marines, Computer Marines.

The match began at 5pm. In the first 5 minutes, they wiped out our Computer ally, who was closest to them.

At about 5:30pm, my base was wiped out. Luckily a Bonesinger made it away to begin building in my friend's base. His base was on slightly raised ground with 3 entrances into it. A narrow alleyway coming from the south, a wide open plain to the east, and a rocky round-about entrance coming from the west with a Relic a ways away.

At 7pm, we had hammered out an effective routine. My bonesingers would constantly build turrets (this is back when there was no build limit on turrets) on the plain to the east along with Webways for cloaking, even as they were being destroyed. This area was constantly being hammered by Marine Squads with full rocket launchers and deep striking Dreadnaughts.

My friend would build a constant stream of infantry and send them to defend the narrow breach to the South, which was under fire from predators and Marine Squads with Launchers, Flamers, and Heavy Bolters. Occasionally a Land Raider would show up and whoever had control of the Relic to the west would send out their Avatar of Khaine with whatever reserves we had to take it out.

Each of us would contribute a few resources to make a Grav Tank or two in case of the few incursions we would get from the west trying to steal our Relic.

At roughly 1am, we finally broke their ranks. Those few inches we hedged out over hours finally payed off, as we acquired a couple choice locations on the map.

It was over by 1:10. We saved the replay, that we named "Khaine's Deep".

I don't think I truly loved the 40k universe until that moment.

[Blayze]

To be honest, I liked the franchise up until Soulstorm. Dark Crusade was a good game, and I loved playing the campaign, despite several issues.

Then came Soulstorm, and it looked like a mod. It was thrown together and spat out. It's a good thing Relic are working on patching the damn thing, but I still want persistent bases.

[Revlid]

To be honest, I liked the franchise up until Soulstorm. Dark Crusade was a good game, and I loved playing the campaign, despite several issues.

Then came Soulstorm, and it looked like a mod. It was thrown together and spat out. It's a good thing Relic are working on patching the damn thing, but I still want persistent bases.

It wasn't made by Relic, so I stil have hope for DoW2.

My most memorable battle was beating my insanely good friend (playing Necrons) with Tau. Using only (or almost only, anyway) Kroot Units.

I'm so proud of my birdies. Especially when the Greater Knarloc took out the Monolith he'd just raised out of the ground in a shower of sparks and Necrodermis.

[Danin]

Having taken Kaurava 2 and 3 on the campaign, I'm enjoying it quite a bit. I've had DoW since the Winter Assault and I must admit I miss the campaign mode with the storyline behind it. Don't get me wrong, it is intensely gratifying wiping out the Space Marines but I do enjoy missions strung together. Soulstorm has proven itself enjoyable but with too few changes from Dark Crusade.

Still, I remember fighting as Tau against 2 Necrons in Dark crusade on medium and I had built up 3 or 4 missile gunships. My troops were getting slaughtered, my Kroot dying in droves as they marched their combined forces towards my base. At one choke point they all gathered together and I unleashed a hell storm of missiles onto them, destroying almost everything. Twas good.

[Hoggy]

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Space Marines (Me) and two IG armies vs three Ork armies, on the Gates of Macragge map. It was -intense-. Lost the third player within a couple mins which is to be expected (the third player start point on that map gets murdered by AI very early), and then the battle raged on for another three and a half hours of me desperately trying to hold the breaches while my ally ran around trying to capture control points. Eventually we managed to push the orks away from the wall enough to form an outpost outside the city boundary, and then a combined push got us just enough control points to win the game. The last 8 mins holding the breach we'd created, whilst holding the rest of the city as well, is possibly the funnest fun I've ever had on a computer game. It was manic.

[MeklorIlavator]

My best moment:
I was doing a 8 person free-for-all with all Eldar, on very hard. So I set up a base, explore a bit, and ran into opposition on both sides. On one side a built turrets with 1 or 2 squads as backup. Then I build an attack force and hit the computer to my right, destroying their base relatively quickly. So I start to consolidate my holdings and reinforce my army to make up for casualties, when a swarm of red engulfs that base. Turns out, I destroyed them just in time for a computer to begin his attack, and my forces were pretty weak, and were spread out in order to capture SP and the like, so they steamrolled my outer units, though I got some back into my base. Now, I had a pretty good economy and I hadn't been spending it fast(I should have been, but I was new), so I queued up an a large force and set up a holding force. Luckily, the computer paused its attack in order to consolidate its gains, so I had some breathing room. I checked the Diplomacy setting, just to see if I could figure out which computers were still in. Well, it turns out that there were only 2 left. For a second I wondered where the other one was, and then I saw the attackers. Yes, both computers descended on my base at the same time, which likely saved my butt, as they ended up fighting each other as much as me. I tell you, there is nothing more glorious than seeing 3 avatars duking it out while surrounded by howling Banshees(and there corpses). I got lucky, and while the effort left me penniless, I was able to hold out long enough for their forces to become so tangled that they weren't a threat(they ended up both coming from the same side, so that delayed any of their reinforcements as they fought amongst themselves). After this, I create a strike force of prism tanks, warp spiders, and falcons, with howling banshees/wraithlords providing forces to tie up the enemy. Using this force, I deepstrike one of the computer's command posts(that victory condition was in play), and by destroying it was able to knock him out of the game. I do the same to the other computer, but he had wisely built 2, so I had to hunt it down. In the end, my last prism tank destroyed the command post after everything else had been destroyed.

Also, I'd say the Tau fortress in Dark Crusade is the most annoying battle for me. Even with maxed out armies I can't penetrate the upper platform where the Ethereal Caste is. Usually what I end up doing is use deepstrike units to walk my way up to the corner. Does anyone have a better way?


Oh, and would anyone like to play a game from about 4pm est time midnight est(for reference's sake, its about 10 am est right now)?

[PhallicWarrior]

My favorite battle of all time. Hmm. Oh, I know!

I can't remember what map it was, but I remember that it was a ruined city.

I was playing three (or four, i can't recall) to a side, SM vs. Orks. I barely got my base going when a massive tide of greenskins charged me. My marines opened fire and vaped them. (Heavy bolters FTW!) Then vehicles came, and I had to scramble before my entire army was wiped out, which it very nearly was. Various artillery pieces drove them back and almost destroyed them, although some got away. I'm thinking by this point, "I don't think I'll be able to hold against another attack like that." Guess what happens next. That's right, a combined force of infantry and vehicles smashes my base and drives me all the way back to my rearmost requisition point, but I kept a servitor and my auxilary barracks back there, so a full second base was waiting for them. They all died. At this point the ground is literally covered in ork and marine corpses. My resources were almost spent and all of my squads were underarmed and understrength. The Com player right next to me took the next round of assaults and I had to throw my entire army into the breech his (stupidly) unreenforced squads couldn't handle. (I knew that if he went down, his opposite number would gang up on me.) Those last few seconds as my guys held the breech were the tensest 30 seconds in my gaming life. We eventually rallied and I timed my attacks with theirs and crushed their bases in apocalyptic bombardments with Force commanders and Whirlwinds. I had a blast. By the way did I mention that this was just on normal? I only just won against a trio of normal enemies. I sure do suck, don't I?

[warty goblin]

Dark Crusade is one of my all time favorite games. My best memory is probably when I was playing the Tau against orks on one of those small 1v1 maps with a hill in the middle, so your base was totally exposed. Well, I didn't play agressively enough, so the orcs pushed me back to something like the corner three points, the outermost two of which I had upgraded to be turrets. The next 20 minutes consisted of my two Fire Warrior squads shooting the crap out of anything green as they all lined up to attack my turret, while I slowly (oh so slowly) managed to tech up to Kauyonon for the range upgrade. Finally I managed to actually throw them back. I think the final kill count was something like 300 to 100 my favor.

Either that or playing as Guard with a Marine allies against mixed orks and chaos, particularly the bit where once I was forced to actually push my Basilisk up far enough for its hull mounted bolter to actually be used...

[Wraith]

Killing a Baneblade in the 4 seconds between it appearing within sight and it trundling not quite close enough to kill anything is always really funny, and all the sweeter because it usually only works in Dark Crusade. :smallsmile:

Having said that, the process is something of a textbook case as to why Haywire Grenades are ridiculously powerful when given to Warp Spiders, let alone 5 Squads of them.... :smallbiggrin:

[Warshrike]

Favourite battle??
3v3 on some map or another... It was a city tile one, with a large raised square in the middle, walkways around it and two ramps(one for top team, one for bottom) and a little island for each player.
Teams;
Sisters of Battle(me), Necron(dropped after aboot an hour, leaving us weak...) and Tau.
Vs
Ork, Chaos and Eldar.
Multiplayer!!

That battle had some TENSE moments. The start was fairly simple, with my team rushing the centre platform, capturing and dividing the points, while uilding up and researching. Eventually my allies ventured north, down the ramp, and ran into a combined army of our enemies, with all their available fortifications, AND each races Relic unit!! The battle raged 2v3, a I was content to sit atop the hill and it seemed rather balanced that way, just firing my Organs of Death(tm) from atop the height, and using Seraphim with Hit and Run tactics. Eventually, The Enemy forces pushed my guys back to the hill, where I finally joined the fray. Suffice to say, the Bloodthirster was still there, along with a Daemon prince, my allies having taken out the Squiggoth and Avatar. My forces, full and rested with the exception of some wounded Seraphs, countercharged. I knew that infantry and Pentient Engines couldn't handle the Bloodthirster, so the Pentients charged the Demon Prince, the Living Saint the Bloodthirster, and my fanatical Sisters Repentia hacked apart everything nearby while the Necrons slowly brought their active Monolith to help, and the Tau flanked them with their few scattered forces. Eventually we pushed them back, just in time for me to discover an Eldar builder in my base, constructing a portal to the webway to bring his men straight in!! Luckily, I had three or four spare Seraphim squads from replacing during the fight for the hill... I think the battle went for a total of 2 hours before the Necrons dropped, then the Tau and I held out for an hour before being overrun.

HEy, Anyone want to play online sometime?? Add me on Xfire(Fleshshrike) or MSN([email protected]) and we can organise something. Aussie times, probably :P

[MeklorIlavator]

Warshrike, can you play right now? I'm afraid I don't have X-fire or MSN messenger, though. Oh, and I'm not that great(plus I haven't been playing often), so a pure vs might be a bit one sided.

[Jibar]

Best match... best match...
Well, best would be on... uh... thet ruined city map, where all 8 of your are pressed up along the north west sides, and then all the command posts are spread throughout the ruins.
I was playing Space Marines, with three Marine allies versus four Ork foes.
The match started with me building up resources while my other allies were pressing forward and taking the battle to them.
I dunno how long it took for me to notice that Take and Hold was on, but by the time I did I was being told I had ten minutes before they won. I then saw my allies were pressed in at their own bases, only just holding back the green tide. Wondering just how I would win, I realised that I had a fully upgraded army.
Within ten minutes, the entire map was coverd in guerilla warfare. I had captured three command posts to stop them short in their plans, and the heavy bolter squads were now trying to build a defensive line down the map while I started work building defenses for my allies, despite the ork's constant attempts to break through.
I then moved vehicles in, using them and my rocket squads to start ripping apart their encampments. In a short time I controlled most the map and had the Critical Locations. As the squads were manouvered into position to wait it, it all went to pot.
I had graciously allowed my allies to capture some of the posts so that they had more of a prescence in the battle. This was a mistake it seemed. They were overtaken and the Orks again held a controlling percentage.
It was now a battle of attrition. We were each trying to push the other off their spots before the timer ran out for either victory. But the Space Marines are feared for a reason. Though they had been lost previously, new Predators came rolling out and began plowing into the encampments. Just as we destroyed the last of them and took the posts, the Critical Locations timer hit 0 and we won.

I don't understand why any Marines player ever uses anything other than a basic Marines Squad and a Scout troop. A couple specialised squads and then some general ones and every tide is pushed back through superior firepower.

[Destro_Yersul]

Because, Jibar, Dreadnoughts are win. And I like my assault squads.

this does not, however, stop me from fielding mass numbers of marine quads with plasma guns and/or heavy bolters and/or rocket launchers.

One of the ones I did was in the DC campaign mode, as marines. It was against Eldar, on the large map with all the hills and valleys I am, of course, getting pummeled, because they started with more stuff. I managed to hold on to both of my bases through a combination of a whirlwind, some dreadnoughts and a whack of marine squads, all backed up by as many turrets as I could build. I pushed those pointy-eared buggers back, an inch at a time, by leapfrogging the marine squads whenever there was a lull in the madness. Eventually I got close enough to start dropping dreaddies on their base, and blow the crap out of all their unit producing buildings. once those were gone, I was free to concentrate on wiping them out. It took so very long to do, but it was so very, very epic.