Can we take a moment to appreciate just how amazing this game sounds? Everything from the OST, to unit speeches, to even the research, add-on alerts and so on. I often listen to playthroughs as background noise while doing something else, it's just that mesmerizing. Thanks for the uploads!
Loving the talent behind these videos. I myself am not a very good player but enjoy these games regardless and you are showing me a multitude of strategies that I had not considered before. Thank you for your time and effort on these videos and double thank you for the lack of commentary. Commentary works for certain games but I do not think it has a place in ones such as this.
Turned the Necrons into scrap! I'm struggling at a normal IG campaign, but watching this may have helped me figure out how I should play them. Great video!
The imperial guard, or any army, are easy to set up. Grab a few strategic points at the beginning and use the turtle method to build up your army. Once you have a large enough force, then move against the enemy.
There is an addon for Ultimate Apocalypse mod, which makes it available for Single Player campaign. Tried it myself yesterday, it was pretty fun, but somehow it felt easier than vanilla DoW.
THANK YOU for using right click reinforcement. I can't explain it, but it drives me crazy to see other players continually highlighting squads and manually clicking the reinforce button. I guess I can kinda see how that would be good if you only want to spend resources you have at the time, but when you have thousands, there's no point not to have it automatic.
I can tell that you played IG a lot. I'd wager they might even be your main in DC, because I'm seeing ladder tactics, executed to perfection. I also love how you picked the Targeting Optics as first wargear piece -- people think it's redundant if play Guard, due to how much detection they already possess, but the extra range, damage + synergy you later get from the Plasma Gun (wargear) and Kasrkin bodyguards (wargear also), can't be underestimated! Also, picking the "utility items" next, as opposed to armor or weapons is a sign of tactical brilliance as well.
I find Eldar the hardest despite how strong they are. My apm and unit management is too poor. I am not good at utilizing the speed and stealth and end up dying since eldar units are wet paper. But it's the only race I don't play lol
The imperial guard is effective with the officers attached to each of the groups and with heavy tanks backing them up. Or if you like, start off using only six imperial guard units then add officers to them.
Fast economy and early mass. It requires a lot of macro attention against AI because it plays so sporadically and can always macro and micro way better than you ever could. Fast economy because that means fast squad replenishment even if guardsmen are dying in droves, but since they and their commander type units are dirt cheap compared to other races, you just mass them from the early and spread them to take over parts of the map. You BADLY need req at the start. More than any other race exactly BECAUSE you constantly have to replenish troops AND tech up because without Tech IG are so bad it's not even funny. Next, use the tunnel/fast travel system IG have between their production buildings and listening posts. That means that you can quickly send in the entire regiment across the map at any time. IG's scariest potential, like Necrons, is being able to instantly get troops to travel the entire map in mere seconds. Which means any strategic point and production building can potentially dump out up to 3 squads of guardsmen at any moment. Plus staying inside these buildings allows you to fire from them, kinda like bunkers from starcraft, and any unit that goes in provides firepower, even engiseers. Use heavy weapons teams to further entrench and fortify positions and provide further fire support when you're holding the line. Guard are pretty defensive until they can tech up, so Heavy weapon teams help with that immensely. Karskins and Ogryns are incredibly tough and work extremely well combined together as flankers. And Ogryns can get melee heat off the rest of the infantry. Lastly. Tanks. Tanks are your men's best friend. Without tanks you cannot hope to stand against later game units of other races. It takes you 3 squads of Guardsmen just to push back upgraded Marines and other Heavy infantry, and if they get engaged on in melee they will immediately break. This is why you need tanks and artillery. The baneblade itself can hold the line for quite a while. If supported by the rest of your forces, nothing can stop a push like that. If you reach that point, you've won
Murdering that SM captain at 1:07:34 was very lore accurate considering in one novel a regular joe killed a SM Captain by skewering him through his eye socket into his brain so that fix bayonets takedown was truly a whiff of nostalgia
Hello i do not know if someone will see that but I always have the problem that defending a province is impossible if not fortified to all hell. The ai immediatly gets like 3 dreadnoughts and 7 landspeeders and a ton of elite infantry. maybe its just my version of the game but i want to know if its a bug or intended that way PS: Rushing the ai base seems to be the only good strategy
That would be the game as intended. AI is very limited, especially in strategy games, and so to compensate on high (or even just average) difficulties they'll cheat. Higher starting resources, increased resource gain, faster production, always aware of player units, buffed unit stats, and AI alliances are common methods of AI cheating. DoW is no different.
I always just have a completely finished complete base tech wise with at least 6 power generators, but usually more like 12 (build a second command center and you unlock the ability to build 6 more generators.) I do that and then set up a choke point and it basically doesn't matter how much crap they have, my economy/defensive setup is going to be to crazy for them to deal with. Or go Necrons... lol
I want to make this playthrough better than the previous one (with camera zoom mod, and I'm playing better since then). Plus, several subscribers asked to play the IG campaign again.
I hate these kind of Campaign. They are NOT campaign i thought it would be. Dawn of war original Space Marine is masterpiece. Full and exicting story. This dlc feels like an offline battle with AI, lol.
Can we take a moment to appreciate just how amazing this game sounds? Everything from the OST, to unit speeches, to even the research, add-on alerts and so on. I often listen to playthroughs as background noise while doing something else, it's just that mesmerizing. Thanks for the uploads!
Yeah, everyone who was involved in the sound knocked it out of the park.
Loving the talent behind these videos. I myself am not a very good player but enjoy these games regardless and you are showing me a multitude of strategies that I had not considered before. Thank you for your time and effort on these videos and double thank you for the lack of commentary. Commentary works for certain games but I do not think it has a place in ones such as this.
Glad you liked it!
Turned the Necrons into scrap! I'm struggling at a normal IG campaign, but watching this may have helped me figure out how I should play them. Great video!
The imperial guard, or any army, are easy to set up. Grab a few strategic points at the beginning and use the turtle method to build up your army. Once you have a large enough force, then move against the enemy.
There is an addon for Ultimate Apocalypse mod, which makes it available for Single Player campaign.
Tried it myself yesterday, it was pretty fun, but somehow it felt easier than vanilla DoW.
Ultimate apocalypse is soul storm only, this is dark crusade
43:19 He's just, standing there, menacingly
THANK YOU for using right click reinforcement. I can't explain it, but it drives me crazy to see other players continually highlighting squads and manually clicking the reinforce button. I guess I can kinda see how that would be good if you only want to spend resources you have at the time, but when you have thousands, there's no point not to have it automatic.
2:21 "Omg! How long has it been since I've heard that?"
8 seconds later" "I need me to kill me somethn' boiz..!"
Thanks for the upload. I still love Dawn of War.
I can tell that you played IG a lot. I'd wager they might even be your main in DC, because I'm seeing ladder tactics, executed to perfection.
I also love how you picked the Targeting Optics as first wargear piece -- people think it's redundant if play Guard, due to how much detection they already possess, but the extra range, damage + synergy you later get from the Plasma Gun (wargear) and Kasrkin bodyguards (wargear also), can't be underestimated! Also, picking the "utility items" next, as opposed to armor or weapons is a sign of tactical brilliance as well.
I'd suggest doing the Titanium wars mod :) it works in campaign
I'll think about it.
45:40 yes inquisitor, this regiment right here
That bad morale makes it difficult. But bring the karskins and oregon and you're golden
Oryns**
Ogryns** jeez
I'm struggling with them on Normal because of that
The best army for for this game , after the Necrons
i study your playstyle
wow you did it! thank you thank you! this will be beutifull!
1:06:35 for cool air drop animation
Nice skills man
Ah. Great nostalgia. Insert it some more in my blood
How the heck does that demon of Khorne gain power from destroying NECRONS?
The Necrons are kicking my ass in normal difficulty, i started playing 2 days ago, but it hurts (I play as the Imperial Guard, i love the baneblade)
Ig are so difficult so play than others. Other races are easy compared to Ig
I think it’s all experience, I find them easy but then I don’t really play anyone else.
Definitely xp easy as when you're experienced
I find Eldar the hardest despite how strong they are. My apm and unit management is too poor. I am not good at utilizing the speed and stealth and end up dying since eldar units are wet paper. But it's the only race I don't play lol
Just remember never start at the chaos swamps
I always start from the chaos swamps and then continue north towards pavonis
Good Vid
But hey you could do it using mods next time :)
How can you give multiple orders to your units? I'm quite noob at this :'D
Did you already play the imperial guard before on dark crusade?
I did. Several subscribers asked to play the IG campaign again.
oh ok, love your videos
11:43 psyker witness your doom😀
Tell me how the imperial can be so effective honestly
They gave it down to a science really. Throw enough bodies and use enough laser pointers that eventually the problem goes away.
The imperial guard is effective with the officers attached to each of the groups and with heavy tanks backing them up. Or if you like, start off using only six imperial guard units then add officers to them.
Fast economy and early mass. It requires a lot of macro attention against AI because it plays so sporadically and can always macro and micro way better than you ever could. Fast economy because that means fast squad replenishment even if guardsmen are dying in droves, but since they and their commander type units are dirt cheap compared to other races, you just mass them from the early and spread them to take over parts of the map. You BADLY need req at the start. More than any other race exactly BECAUSE you constantly have to replenish troops AND tech up because without Tech IG are so bad it's not even funny.
Next, use the tunnel/fast travel system IG have between their production buildings and listening posts. That means that you can quickly send in the entire regiment across the map at any time. IG's scariest potential, like Necrons, is being able to instantly get troops to travel the entire map in mere seconds. Which means any strategic point and production building can potentially dump out up to 3 squads of guardsmen at any moment. Plus staying inside these buildings allows you to fire from them, kinda like bunkers from starcraft, and any unit that goes in provides firepower, even engiseers. Use heavy weapons teams to further entrench and fortify positions and provide further fire support when you're holding the line. Guard are pretty defensive until they can tech up, so Heavy weapon teams help with that immensely. Karskins and Ogryns are incredibly tough and work extremely well combined together as flankers. And Ogryns can get melee heat off the rest of the infantry.
Lastly. Tanks. Tanks are your men's best friend. Without tanks you cannot hope to stand against later game units of other races. It takes you 3 squads of Guardsmen just to push back upgraded Marines and other Heavy infantry, and if they get engaged on in melee they will immediately break. This is why you need tanks and artillery. The baneblade itself can hold the line for quite a while. If supported by the rest of your forces, nothing can stop a push like that. If you reach that point, you've won
@@stankobarabata2406 you dont know how you helpd me right now man your comment for me was like lessons so thx man you helpd me so much
It's the power of, as russian localisation of Dark Crusade said, "The power of eleven barrels"
what button did you press when capturing strategic point in sequence?
Holding shift allows you to select multiple points and they will follow the order also works for movement
+ can you try to do all objectives on enemy strongholds?
OK
42:24 Nice man 🤣
What key he used to make soldiers make multiple things
Hold shift and left click
Murdering that SM captain at 1:07:34 was very lore accurate considering in one novel a regular joe killed a SM Captain by skewering him through his eye socket into his brain so that fix bayonets takedown was truly a whiff of nostalgia
Why do you not use the bunkers very much?
2:30 anyone knows wthat track this is ?
Hello i do not know if someone will see that but I always have the problem that defending a province is impossible if not fortified to all hell. The ai immediatly gets like 3 dreadnoughts and 7 landspeeders and a ton of elite infantry. maybe its just my version of the game but i want to know if its a bug or intended that way
PS: Rushing the ai base seems to be the only good strategy
That would be the game as intended. AI is very limited, especially in strategy games, and so to compensate on high (or even just average) difficulties they'll cheat. Higher starting resources, increased resource gain, faster production, always aware of player units, buffed unit stats, and AI alliances are common methods of AI cheating. DoW is no different.
I always just have a completely finished complete base tech wise with at least 6 power generators, but usually more like 12 (build a second command center and you unlock the ability to build 6 more generators.)
I do that and then set up a choke point and it basically doesn't matter how much crap they have, my economy/defensive setup is going to be to crazy for them to deal with.
Or go Necrons... lol
I wonder why You backtrack for Commissar instead of taking Kasrkin's.
I wonder why are you playing it all over again.
I want to make this playthrough better than the previous one (with camera zoom mod, and I'm playing better since then). Plus, several subscribers asked to play the IG campaign again.
You could try to play titanium wars mod as well
Necrons are hard to kill
The lighting in this game isn’t very good... all the infantry just look like dark silhouettes
I hate these kind of Campaign. They are NOT campaign i thought it would be. Dawn of war original Space Marine is masterpiece. Full and exicting story. This dlc feels like an offline battle with AI, lol.
Imperial Guardsman > Space Marines.
The weakest of them all lol
Weakest infantry but best vehicles
Necrons are hard to kill