*Enjoy the Livestream Recordings of my Dark Crusade Necron Campaign! Streaming this Series LIVE Every Friday on my Twitch Channel: **www.twitch.tv/lionheartx10** Enjoy this RTS Warhammer Classic!*
@@Uzzgub haha just really enjoyed fighting them at the end of Winter Assault so decided to play as them next :) Yep steam versions run fine. You’ll likely want the 1080p mod for DoW and Winter Assault as only Dark Crusade onwards properly supports 16:9 resolutions!
Maaajor nostalgia coming in from this, remember discovering this back when you still found out about games at the game store, I was so blown away by it I played all campaigns. Necrons of course were always my favorite, I actually collected a small army after the game, still have the monolith at home somewhere!
One of the best Necron Artifacts is the Lightning one You build a charge and then can call a lightning bombardment It technically doesn't have a charge cap, and the more charge the higher the damage
Dark Crusade is the best Dawn of War expansion. The Necrons and Tau are a lot of fun to play and the campaign is arguably the best DoW campaign to date. Soulstorm just couldn't match this gem.
It's a bit of a Nostalgic trip hearing the old Necron lore, back when they were mindless slaves of the C'tan, rather than those who turned on and enslaved their own gods.
Yessss dark crusade time! As always when I can, a few tips: you can uncapture enemy strategic points, relics and critical with the wraiths, not capture them because only the scarabs can but its useful to reduce enemy requisition points and avoid them to just reconstruct a building on them! And on the other hand, you can queue various things holding control or shift, I don't remember, but like in other games, for being more efficient, like queue various plasma generators and then other building or capture various strategic points automatically when they finish capturing one. Saves A LOT of time. Oh, and you can set the rallie point on your necron lord! Can't wait for the next one! Ggs!
Man, this game brings back memories for me. This was the first Warhammer game I ever played. Def one of my all time favorites. The Orks were always my fav to play in this game tho the Necrons were def a close 2nd. So much fun. 😊 so glad to see this game being played again. 😊 cant wait to see you conquer the world Lionheart. 😊
I just started watching the streams recently and saw this as one of the past streams and was wondering when it would be posted, really enjoying the content on TH-cam and Twitch. I only remember playing Soulstorm on my brothers computer, but seeing this campaign style gives me nostalgia, excited for the new campaign👍
Lionheart in my experience the Phylactery Rez orb and Lightning storm are the best combo the Phylactery heals the lord, the lightning storm augments melee damage and the rez orb is self explanatory and of course the Night Shroud which allows you to become the Nightlord itself
It's still great. I will always have a place in my hard drive for DoW. One thing that makes me smile. I'm a chef and our establishment has a dish called "Wings of Fire". There'a something about the idea of a gang of literally warped killing machines getting high on spicy chicken before a fight that makes me chuckle. Cheers and congrats sir!
War gear reminder war gear awarded for each of the following 3-1 KDR 1 5 15 Conquests 2000 and 5000 kills 3 defeated enemies (Enemy stronghold taken) 1 3 5 defenses (defensive battles fought not auto resolved)
The plot really makes my inner great battles loving child scream with excitement. Its a super cool idea, seven armies free for all? you got my attention
Build flayed ones. Max the squads, place them back inside the monolith. Then when you find the enemy base, unleash the horde!! Also, each monolith allows you to build 4 gauss turrets.
Yep, Necrons are unbalanced, least exciting to watch being played, especially on normal difficulty. Still good content though I don't want to sound too critical lol.
15:00 The enemy base is always spawn at the same location on a map, unless the map has a strength >5 meaning there could be 2 enemy bases! e.g 2 Chaos lords-> Daemon Princes
Not sure if you know this but the buildings you place in a battle actually stay in DC so if you build up a strong base it will still be there if you have to defend it, minus any upgrades you researched
Haven't played Dark Crusade in a real good bit. Played Soulstorm recently though, and didn't finish the campaign this time around though. Had a good three to four of time wasted because the game crashed. That coupled with how I play, very slow buildup until I've built at least one of each unit. Followed by consistently being attacked in the same area over and over again. Did get me to add in a mod that keeps bases as I built them on maps I'd played. Younger me surprisingly had the patience to deal with completing both Dark Crusade and Soulstorm on his own, while playing like I do now. Just don't have the willpower to do a whole campaign that way anymore appareantly. I really need to get to sleep. It's causing me to go on rants about things that I don't normally care enough to talk about, and are only barely related to the video.
I was under the impression you were gonna do The order campaign in winter assault first but this is better and the necrons are an amazing choice for fighting chaos and the space marines since the necrons have loads of armor penetration….. or at least it feels like it, I could be and probably am wrong about that though XD
I was so happy to see you pick up this game! :D But I wish the difficulty was higher! Just like football you want to watch a game where the score is close. I want to watch you actually challenged! Otherwise it can be boring. But thank-you anyway for producing the content! I appreciate all the hard work you do! :D
I tried playing on hard however the AI then forces you to play super defensive every single battle and can only ever just turtle up forever which didn’t seem like much fun to me to only be able to play super defensive all the time.
@@lionheartx10 That makes sense! thanks for letting me know! :) That was really nice of you! Been a fan for years and it has been a pleasure watching and enjoying your content! Thank-you so much for all the wonderful videos! You made me smile on numerous occasions! Especially when dealing with the stress of Uni! , p.s. I am really enjoying the series! I really hope for a 40 k total war!!
Boltgun is my favourite game in this series, personally!! But I had absolutely 0 fuckin' knowledge on this series. Now, I'm gonna take my time to see if it's something I like. There's gotta be another contender for my favourite WH: 4k game. Hey, I'm just starting my research on this series, so if there's another one that plays similar to it in any nature, let me know.😮I want to appreciate ea. game for everything, but I especially wanna see another fPS, Cuz it's beyond great.
What were the balance issues you were seeing with Hard? I do remember it being brutal on Hard :) still a wonderful game and I'm very excited for the series.
@@MH-hu5pi well this game seems to use the necrons who are basically just terminators in space, whereas I've gotten used to the having named characters with at least some personality, as well as different dynasties with different goals and conflicts
@@MH-hu5pi coexes, mostly starting around 5th Ed in 2011 which I know is not super new but, relative to the rest of warhammer 40k, they also have a good book called the infinite and the divine, staring two major named necron characters that came out this year I think. All of which due a fair job making the necrons seem interesting, flawed, and fun.
I love the necrons and their campaign for this game, but i personally think it's the easiest, so maybe do a second campaign as the another race, I'd suggest space marines but only because that is the cannon ending especially if you play Dawn of war 2
same sort of system in Emperor: battle for Dune works great if you dont have a super refined story that you need to follow, more games should proably do this instead of writing a very very meeh story
I was playing this as the Orks and never fought the Tau or Blood Ravens. Here is who beat who… Necrons beat Tau (I am certain) Orks beat Chaos Orks beat Necrons Orks beat Imperial Guard Eldar beat Blood Ravens So it was just me vs Eldar but my laptop needed to be reset and so lost all my save data. I am annoyed since this means I have to fight the Sisters of Battle in Soulstorm again (the Living Saint is annoying) and for Company of Heroes I have to deal with two annoying levels side missions (one is timed basically, and the other is literally beating the level before a certain time)
*Enjoy the Livestream Recordings of my Dark Crusade Necron Campaign! Streaming this Series LIVE Every Friday on my Twitch Channel: **www.twitch.tv/lionheartx10** Enjoy this RTS Warhammer Classic!*
So playing on easy mode with Necrons. Do's the steam version work with modern computers?
@@Uzzgub haha just really enjoyed fighting them at the end of Winter Assault so decided to play as them next :) Yep steam versions run fine. You’ll likely want the 1080p mod for DoW and Winter Assault as only Dark Crusade onwards properly supports 16:9 resolutions!
@@lionheartx10 awesome thanks, any idea if the multiplayer still works
@@Uzzgub not a clue I’m afraid
@@lionheartx10 p.s. i know its to late but just min sized Necrons Warriors with you boss are all you need.
Maaajor nostalgia coming in from this, remember discovering this back when you still found out about games at the game store, I was so blown away by it I played all campaigns. Necrons of course were always my favorite, I actually collected a small army after the game, still have the monolith at home somewhere!
I found and bought it from toys r us for 9€ back in 2010 I think.
One of the best Necron Artifacts is the Lightning one
You build a charge and then can call a lightning bombardment
It technically doesn't have a charge cap, and the more charge the higher the damage
Dark Crusade is the best Dawn of War expansion. The Necrons and Tau are a lot of fun to play and the campaign is arguably the best DoW campaign to date. Soulstorm just couldn't match this gem.
issue i had with soul storm was the removal of asymmetry making all factions feel the same
Soulstorm was a dodgy 3rd party number. The flying units didn't fly haha
I did like the sisters though from soulstorm but I would agree with this statement
@@Amsasamoto1 Yeah, the Sister of Battle are pretty fun but quite weak. The Unification mod buffs them up to be pretty strong.
@@Agentcoolguy1 I never did unification mod but I played the shit out of UA though
I'm watching this in September 2024, and can't get enough. I love this game.
Enjoy!
I just discovered the game in Nov 24. Love watching the strats used.
High Tech Tomb Kings
It's a bit of a Nostalgic trip hearing the old Necron lore, back when they were mindless slaves of the C'tan, rather than those who turned on and enslaved their own gods.
Yessss dark crusade time!
As always when I can, a few tips: you can uncapture enemy strategic points, relics and critical with the wraiths, not capture them because only the scarabs can but its useful to reduce enemy requisition points and avoid them to just reconstruct a building on them! And on the other hand, you can queue various things holding control or shift, I don't remember, but like in other games, for being more efficient, like queue various plasma generators and then other building or capture various strategic points automatically when they finish capturing one. Saves A LOT of time. Oh, and you can set the rallie point on your necron lord!
Can't wait for the next one! Ggs!
Dwarfs and Necrons????? They are my favorite races!!!! thanks Lion :) :) :)
Man, this game brings back memories for me. This was the first Warhammer game I ever played. Def one of my all time favorites. The Orks were always my fav to play in this game tho the Necrons were def a close 2nd. So much fun. 😊 so glad to see this game being played again. 😊 cant wait to see you conquer the world Lionheart. 😊
I just started watching the streams recently and saw this as one of the past streams and was wondering when it would be posted, really enjoying the content on TH-cam and Twitch. I only remember playing Soulstorm on my brothers computer, but seeing this campaign style gives me nostalgia, excited for the new campaign👍
Dawn of war need to start making this type of game again
Dark Crusade is a classic.
Necrons are my favorite.
Lionheart in my experience the Phylactery Rez orb and Lightning storm are the best combo the Phylactery heals the lord, the lightning storm augments melee damage and the rez orb is self explanatory
and of course the Night Shroud which allows you to become the Nightlord itself
It's still great. I will always have a place in my hard drive for DoW.
One thing that makes me smile. I'm a chef and our establishment has a dish called "Wings of Fire".
There'a something about the idea of a gang of literally warped killing machines getting high on spicy chicken before a fight that makes me chuckle.
Cheers and congrats sir!
yes! yes! yes! this is so nostalgic for me. to the point I have even installed the game again! xD
Ahh, another Tomb Kin- ah i mean Necron playthrough. I cant wait my friend!
I have finished dark crusade when I was 7-8 years old I was to dumb it took me 3-4 months to figure it out I used tao empire.
War gear reminder war gear awarded for each of the following
3-1 KDR
1 5 15 Conquests
2000 and 5000 kills
3 defeated enemies (Enemy stronghold taken)
1 3 5 defenses (defensive battles fought not auto resolved)
Best RTS ever can’t change my mind
let the spooky scary skeleton crusade begin
I’m so glad people still play this gym
Dude tbh Necrons have a LOT of health and do a LOT of damage.
Thryre free and their reinforcements are cheap af.
Yay necrons
The plot really makes my inner great battles loving child scream with excitement. Its a super cool idea, seven armies free for all? you got my attention
This type of campaign always makes me want to play BFME 2's war of the ring mode!
Build flayed ones. Max the squads, place them back inside the monolith. Then when you find the enemy base, unleash the horde!!
Also, each monolith allows you to build 4 gauss turrets.
I finally found my childhood game Omgg i missed this
Ah I'm delighted to see you playing this. Great game if flawed. Always felt normal was too easy but hard was ridiculous!
He had to look away from the chaos intro to avoid catching the one thing worse than ligma, heresy.
I have this on Steam. Still play it now and then. Great to see a playthrough.
Love this game and the earlier Crons. Would love to see a Chaos playthrough too, Eliphas was the best for commentary at strongholds 😂😂😂
Would love to see a Tau playthrough.
T'au va!
Yep, Necrons are unbalanced, least exciting to watch being played, especially on normal difficulty. Still good content though I don't want to sound too critical lol.
i love the cronomancy thing because its essentially saying the necrons would rather slow down time rather than move faster
love necrons, they look slow but you can just teleport your entire infantry army to anywhere on the map in seconds
I used to play Dark Angels way back about 20 years ago.
People still play this? THAT'S AWESOME! I miss this game seeing as there hasn't been a good DoW since the first one.
Certain Necrons units can also teleport to wherever a Necronic building is
"You must construct additional generators."
I'm actually working my way through a Necron campaign currently as well. A good start as far as I can tell.
what difficulty you played for it
He says "never have enough power"
I hear "construct additional pylons"
narrator is still MVP
Ooh my favorite expansion and my favorite faction!
15:00 The enemy base is always spawn at the same location on a map, unless the map has a strength >5 meaning there could be 2 enemy bases! e.g 2 Chaos lords-> Daemon Princes
Necron's are going to save the Galaxy.
Best campaign of DoW1
I found personnaly the tau commander is the best.
top!
I absolutely love these games. Really wish that dawn of war 3 was just dawn of war 2 but better visuals, animations and super cool execrations.
We all do
Not sure if you know this but the buildings you place in a battle actually stay in DC so if you build up a strong base it will still be there if you have to defend it, minus any upgrades you researched
I miss pariahs... pariahs got me into 40k, man!
I want to buy a laptop just to download this game. It's my childhood game. Want to play it back
I have almost finish this game using Chaos Marines but the last faction is humans, they are so OP in late game that they overwhelm me with numbers
Good, old necrons, just before story retcon.
Haven't played Dark Crusade in a real good bit. Played Soulstorm recently though, and didn't finish the campaign this time around though. Had a good three to four of time wasted because the game crashed. That coupled with how I play, very slow buildup until I've built at least one of each unit. Followed by consistently being attacked in the same area over and over again. Did get me to add in a mod that keeps bases as I built them on maps I'd played. Younger me surprisingly had the patience to deal with completing both Dark Crusade and Soulstorm on his own, while playing like I do now. Just don't have the willpower to do a whole campaign that way anymore appareantly.
I really need to get to sleep. It's causing me to go on rants about things that I don't normally care enough to talk about, and are only barely related to the video.
Just a quick note to say your necron warriors are much more effective in meele mode
I don't recall ever playing as them, but i do remember getting my arse handed to me by them.
I was under the impression you were gonna do
The order campaign in winter assault first but this is better and the necrons are an amazing choice for fighting chaos and the space marines since the necrons have loads of armor penetration….. or at least it feels like it, I could be and probably am wrong about that though XD
Man I love necrons wish the dlc in Dawn of war 2 added more then just the last stand character
I was so happy to see you pick up this game! :D But I wish the difficulty was higher! Just like football you want to watch a game where the score is close. I want to watch you actually challenged! Otherwise it can be boring. But thank-you anyway for producing the content! I appreciate all the hard work you do! :D
I tried playing on hard however the AI then forces you to play super defensive every single battle and can only ever just turtle up forever which didn’t seem like much fun to me to only be able to play super defensive all the time.
@@lionheartx10 That makes sense! thanks for letting me know! :) That was really nice of you! Been a fan for years and it has been a pleasure watching and enjoying your content! Thank-you so much for all the wonderful videos! You made me smile on numerous occasions! Especially when dealing with the stress of Uni! , p.s. I am really enjoying the series! I really hope for a 40 k total war!!
One of the best rts games I have ever played. Compare dow1 to the other dow games and you will shake your head.
Not sure if im gonna watch this whole series cause i wanna avoid spoliers but great vid nonetheless
Fun fact, Necrons are not evil, just the ones who lost the war eons ago. And they sold their souls to evil gods, but that is just a minor issue...
Boltgun is my favourite game in this series, personally!! But I had absolutely 0 fuckin' knowledge on this series. Now, I'm gonna take my time to see if it's something I like. There's gotta be another contender for my favourite WH: 4k game. Hey, I'm just starting my research on this series, so if there's another one that plays similar to it in any nature, let me know.😮I want to appreciate ea. game for everything, but I especially wanna see another fPS, Cuz it's beyond great.
What were the balance issues you were seeing with Hard? I do remember it being brutal on Hard :) still a wonderful game and I'm very excited for the series.
Oh these are the old necrons, I forgot how... od they were
What do you mean?
@@MH-hu5pi well this game seems to use the necrons who are basically just terminators in space, whereas I've gotten used to the having named characters with at least some personality, as well as different dynasties with different goals and conflicts
@@necroplayer97 where from? New codex? Different game?
@@MH-hu5pi coexes, mostly starting around 5th Ed in 2011 which I know is not super new but, relative to the rest of warhammer 40k, they also have a good book called the infinite and the divine, staring two major named necron characters that came out this year I think. All of which due a fair job making the necrons seem interesting, flawed, and fun.
@@necroplayer97 interesting. I must admit I'm not into the actual table game. Just video games and movies. So that's why I missed it.
I want a Remake of this, so so bad :'(
I love the necrons and their campaign for this game, but i personally think it's the easiest, so maybe do a second campaign as the another race, I'd suggest space marines but only because that is the cannon ending especially if you play Dawn of war 2
The cannon ending would be IG😉🙂
I thought you was doing an imperial guard play through on winter assault?
Nope decided to move on to Dark Crusade for now.
He always plays with the underdogs. I dont mind this.
@@danteredgrave120 talking like your his girlfriend or something 🤣
@@stinknugget6446 lol nah, just been watching his channel for years.
@@danteredgrave120 same lol
This game was soooo good... how did they give us the disaster that was DOW3...
You should do a T'au playthrough, for the Greater Good. T'au va!
I wish Dawn of war had a rematered
Guardsmen and space marines are two different factions? Same team I thought?
same sort of system in Emperor: battle for Dune works great if you dont have a super refined story that you need to follow, more games should proably do this instead of writing a very very meeh story
Why do I feel like lionheart is preparing us for a total war 40k he can't tell us about....
Haha wish I knew what else they were working on besides WH3. We shall all have to wait and see! :)
I have my fingers crossed for an empire 2 :) love the content as always dude. Congrats on the little lion 🦁
На обычной сложности😂. Ох уж эти блогеры.😏
I was playing this as the Orks and never fought the Tau or Blood Ravens.
Here is who beat who…
Necrons beat Tau (I am certain)
Orks beat Chaos
Orks beat Necrons
Orks beat Imperial Guard
Eldar beat Blood Ravens
So it was just me vs Eldar but my laptop needed to be reset and so lost all my save data. I am annoyed since this means I have to fight the Sisters of Battle in Soulstorm again (the Living Saint is annoying) and for Company of Heroes I have to deal with two annoying levels side missions (one is timed basically, and the other is literally beating the level before a certain time)
So in the 40k lore the Necrons are sentient first generation xbox's right?
Where can you get this game now? And for what system?
Steam
Are the multiplayer servers still up for this game?
LAN Party❤
Is that Brutus commentating
How did this get in my feed?
what about the online servers?
you cant keep a good necron down, or a bad necron down, or any necron down....
guys where i can free download this game
wait didnt the necrons make the ctan their bitches??
xD
Looks like a knock off of starcraft???
So is every RTS a starcraft knock off to you?
Nope, it's an R-T-S
Warhammer 40k is like ten years older than Warcraft, at least franchise wise.
Get more hair instead of beard
How shall I do that? haha