I learned warhammer 40k through a old high school classmate. At first I didn't took interest until I was expose to the dawn of war series. Now definitely enjoy the warhammer 40k franchise
I play this game knowing 40k lore. I saw the battle suit of the Tau cool so I like them. Years later I now have been enlightened and the only good thing about these blue berries are popped blue berries.
Great video as allways. I may have some good tips for you. 1. Capture the space port( 8 strenght at the top, SM territory), it will allow you to attack anywhere on the map exept main base. 2. Capture territory between Necrons and Imperial Guard( 7 strenght, surrounded by walls, Necrons territory), it will allow you to attack twice prer turn. 3. Get flamer for your comander( very good against light infantry), also get stealth field( easy scout, free killing unless enemy has detection).
you make a good point, I'll be sure to check out the other faction lore in greater detail. But for the time being, I'll be doing things for the greater good. I don't doubt that not ALL of the imperium is just a bunch of assholes, I just get that impression that they are so far.
Indeed. To be honest I really like ALL the factions in this game (and I learned a lot of each of them). But for many reasons, and by far, I prefer the Tau.
Because even video games have to be made by blue haired females and leftists good old diversity. No more white male programmers only and the occasional Asian guys on the game development squads like the age of empires and DOW I-II days it's the current year. Even your video games are not safe. Battlefield Vagina amirite. Waman won WWII German Man Bad. Donate To Israel. Diversity is our strength, The Warp Is Overtaking Me It Is Not A Good Pain Please Stop. Why did they have to ruin DOW III. Why. Thank God some of the old Warhammer community isn't even alive to see this cringe at this point it will be a century before the games are back up and running. Yet alone animations/movies. Shame it'd be making far more money than (((Star Wars.)))
It's really a shame they had everything they needed to bake everything fans loved into a single game but they went with "devs know best" attitude not the first time I've seen that happen either. You really need to listen and work together with the fans to create the best game possible.
Chilliam Ace 40K is a literal fascist simulator, no leftie garbage can ever afflict it.Your /pol/tardation would be spot on for any other game tho. Relic fucked DoW3 because they wanted the Starcraft and MOBA money from kiddies, no other reason
Hi Surreal, a great tip for checking for upgrades is "ctrl+r" it cycles through every building that has an upgrade available to it. Awesome for managing listening posts.
Hi there, you want to capture whole map and upgrade everything to max... it will stay if you get atacked. Enemy have fixed spawn locations. You can build defences around them and defeat them easy if they atack your province. It is good to build second base close to enemy spawn location.. faster responce time.
Also set you range troops to stay ground...from yelow icon to blue.. they are more efective that way... they dont chase enemy and need to set up each time again.. they just sit and shoot crap out of everything that come close
You'll save a lot of time by using the hotkeys, B and L is a listening post, and you can queue up orders (both build, and move orders) as well with Shift, so you're not continually checking back with your Builders, if you're wondering if you have Idle builders, use the period (or comma, one or the other is military, the other is construction) to find things; stacking builders = faster build time, but if you're building multiple, it's quicker to have the build on two seperate structures. Making sure you don't miss clicks when registering your build orders helps also! Typical build for me is 1B, 1SS, 1B, 1SS, then you're free to choose as the AI kinda sucks As others have said, there are permanent buildings during the campaign, so once you've won a map, all of your buildings built during a single mission will return the next. This helps when the AI makes an attack, and you can just easy mode it, by placing turrets at the points where the enemy build zones are; although of course Tau don't have turrets (these are replaced by Heavy Anti-Tank LP's and Entrenched Broadsides. Broadsides don't get Jetpacks. Against Necrons and Space Marines, they struggle against a Fusion Blaster Stealth build spam; you can stack 20 squads, all equipped with Jetpacks and Fusion Blasters without decreasing accuracy for movement, as well as needing a character/squad to reveal stealthed units. Build Jetpacks ASAP and you get Stealth Squads with Jetpacks, bouncing around. Skyrays are broken for their knockback. The Hero is kinda broken as well, thanks to his Jetpack and Stealth Field early game. Lastly, the Critical Objectives (the orange hexagonal capture points) have a high return and good FOW reveal, but cannot be captured. A Relic is only really useful for claiming a Relic unit, prevent
You don't need to up the unit count of Geist-Kampfanzug troops. They get uncovered by the ork boss anyways - use them instead to rapidly capture points on the map. As scouts use kroot troops while firewarriors should flank the spotted enemy. Thats the easy way to play. Don't fight the boss but their expansions without a tower early on. Upgrading towers not only gives them a weapon but pays back if you have enough plasma generators.
If I remember correctly the Tau got endless turrets which is obscenely useful for base defense. Build a bunch around every important point on a map and some infantry garrisons and it will defend itself really well.
With a second headquarter you can build additional plasma generators. You need 4 Barracks and 3 Fahrzeuglandezone buildings (or more if you can manage these) if under siege and want to spend all points quickly on new units. The real game is if you and your enemy both maxed out units and vehicles and need stationary to kill the enemy faster that they can build new units. Vespid-Stachelflügel are good at point-transformation into combat power and replace stationary turrets from other races. The tau commander should never die or go close combat. If the battlefield is crowded, TAU gain advantgage in flanking through their long range. ELITE units dont count to unit limits and can guard the commander so that they also never really die.
Against Necrons you can get away with just spamming fire warriors and using the leader to use traps to slow them down. Eventually you get to critical mass (around 3 fw squads with upgraded rifles and a spotter team) that the necrons die before they get in their short range.
***** It was bad because it was shoehorned by THQ because they wanted more shekels. DoW3 has it's own artistic design, a game in it's own right (as much as that's worth) and doesn't piggyback on previous success(vie used models and such). If it's trash it's trash. Long text because i'm bored.
***** I'm just implying that it wasn't the original studio that made it. . I do like it for the inclusion of major mods and the like, but that's solely because it is the latest version.
From what I see Soulstorm is a nice addition. It is nice to see some less used Factions or Sub factions like the Dark Eldar or the Sisters of Battle, which, in my opinion, should get more equipment in the future. Tanks, Titans, Battleships, everything in their feminine Fanatic style. But...perhaps without Organ Artillery! And...perhaps a bit more realistic? Like actual Cover for the Drivers of a Tank....
KazeKoichi it’s explained, albeit poorly, so the space marines basically tell the guard to fuck off the planet and that the Space Marines got it. The guard then proceed to tell the SM to fuck off. Then they fight.
That battle took far to long I'm not saying your doing it wrong but when I played I the tau it only took me about 10 minutes to takeout the orks but you do what you wanna SB
Can anyone help me? i have owned several copies of this game,on the original copy i was able to zoom in to a view so close i could zoom in to under the players or so close their face would fit whole screen,on other copies i can not do this,wish i had the original version
Anyone else get reminded of Starcraft 1&2 when watching this in fact the tau are like the Protoss with the blue and gold and the drone things that build stuff
That's because Starcraft was going to originally be a Warhammer 40k game, then Game Workshops pulled support from it near completion. So Blizzard took their mostly finished game, made some changes to it, and gave GW the finger.
Not gonna lie, the commander of the tau faction from dark cursade game was my most favorite unit. Appearance wise I prefer his fully upgraded style especially his fully upgraded helmet cause I dislike his default un-upgraded appearance at the same time when he his fully upgraded I founded the best versatile range hero with very good survivability, mobility, fire power, and utility along with stealth. Recently I discovered he is cannon according to the warhammer 40k lore and sadly there isn't a tabletop for sale. 😕 if G.W. does start selling shas okias i want his appearance to be the same as the dawn of war dark cursade fully upgraded. 🤠
Hey Surreal, DoW is a little weird in that normal difficulty actually buffs you a little, whereas hard is the setting at which both sides are evenly matched. It's nonsensical but that's what they decided on. Not sure if that would inform your decision on what difficulty setting to play on. I usually play on normal in strategy games myself.
This video just isn't for you then, which is fair and fine. I don't even know how to quantify what you said into actual, tangible advice. I'm okay with constructive criticism but there isn't any element of that here.
Don't forget to build a good base on each location, if i remember well, a lot of it stays when you're attacked ! FOR THE GREATER GOOD !
The fire Warrior Bodyguards have some really sick range. They can even outrange some of the artillerie units of the other factions...
Ah, yes... This game was my introduction to Warhammer altogether... Perhaps not the best game to start with - but a pretty damn good one either way.
yeah this was how i got in the universe
You didn't start with dawn of war :o for shame for shame
Ditto
I started with DoW 2, but this one is still pretty impressive. Especially since it's seemingly the only one where you can play as the Tau and Necrons.
I learned warhammer 40k through a old high school classmate. At first I didn't took interest until I was expose to the dawn of war series. Now definitely enjoy the warhammer 40k franchise
First mission. Gorgutz charges into base alone and starts bashing. True Ork. He is one aggressive bastard.
Da's why 'es da boss!
I play this game knowing 40k lore. I saw the battle suit of the Tau cool so I like them. Years later I now have been enlightened and the only good thing about these blue berries are popped blue berries.
By playing Dawn of War, I've learned that humanoids can receive *many* flares of shots, before actually dying or becoming unable to run.
Great video as allways. I may have some good tips for you.
1. Capture the space port( 8 strenght at the top, SM territory), it will allow you to attack anywhere on the map exept main base.
2. Capture territory between Necrons and Imperial Guard( 7 strenght, surrounded by walls, Necrons territory), it will allow you to attack twice prer turn.
3. Get flamer for your comander( very good against light infantry), also get stealth field( easy scout, free killing unless enemy has detection).
I don't like playing as the Necrons neither do i like playing against them.
Good luck taking their base.
For the greater good.
strange bitchy commander The TAU is the best race in the campaign, once you get the honour guard you win
Once i played against necrons as Tau...My ass hurts even to this day from that exprience.
Sean Baker Ikr..
Pathfinders+ Honour guard= Sniping
Only down side is that in melee combat you'll get raped.. but that chance is slim.
strange bitchy commander how can u not like playing as necron their so good and fun to play with
Well their not for beginner player and its what i like about them u need to learn to play them and in the right hand their are soooo strong
Spent whole summer in 2007 playing this... the good old days :)
Cant wait until we get to Indrick Boreale's infamous "Spess Mahreens" speech.
wrong game, that speech as to my knowledge is from Soulstorm
Ross Mabon My mistake, as soon as I realized that the Kaurava system wasnt mentioned once I knew this was a different game xD
I'm just learning about the warhammer franchise, but already I'm liking this faction. They seem pretty cool to hang out with.
They are probably the only faction that could be considered "good" in W40k. Hell, the Emperor would probably be cool with them if he was not a corpse.
I just did, they seem like really nice guys. I don't understand why people say otherwise.
you make a good point, I'll be sure to check out the other faction lore in greater detail. But for the time being, I'll be doing things for the greater good. I don't doubt that not ALL of the imperium is just a bunch of assholes, I just get that impression that they are so far.
Evan Sweettooth SPACE COMMIE REEEEEEEEEE
Indeed. To be honest I really like ALL the factions in this game (and I learned a lot of each of them). But for many reasons, and by far, I prefer the Tau.
FOR THE GREATER GOOD.
such a successful game, why cant they just make dow 3 like this.
Because even video games have to be made by blue haired females and leftists good old diversity. No more white male programmers only and the occasional Asian guys on the game development squads like the age of empires and DOW I-II days it's the current year. Even your video games are not safe. Battlefield Vagina amirite. Waman won WWII German Man Bad. Donate To Israel. Diversity is our strength, The Warp Is Overtaking Me It Is Not A Good Pain Please Stop.
Why did they have to ruin DOW III. Why. Thank God some of the old Warhammer community isn't even alive to see this cringe at this point it will be a century before the games are back up and running. Yet alone animations/movies. Shame it'd be making far more money than (((Star Wars.)))
@@chilliamace7427 no this game is just bad development.
No agendas just bad.
It happens very often.
It's really a shame they had everything they needed to bake everything fans loved into a single game but they went with "devs know best" attitude not the first time I've seen that happen either. You really need to listen and work together with the fans to create the best game possible.
They thought they could get some nice Esports money lol.
Chilliam Ace 40K is a literal fascist simulator, no leftie garbage can ever afflict it.Your /pol/tardation would be spot on for any other game tho.
Relic fucked DoW3 because they wanted the Starcraft and MOBA money from kiddies, no other reason
Hi Surreal, a great tip for checking for upgrades is "ctrl+r" it cycles through every building that has an upgrade available to it. Awesome for managing listening posts.
Thanks!
your playing dark crusade! this is the greatest day
Hi there, you want to capture whole map and upgrade everything to max... it will stay if you get atacked. Enemy have fixed spawn locations. You can build defences around them and defeat them easy if they atack your province. It is good to build second base close to enemy spawn location.. faster responce time.
Also set you range troops to stay ground...from yelow icon to blue.. they are more efective that way... they dont chase enemy and need to set up each time again.. they just sit and shoot crap out of everything that come close
A commissar siding with Tau? HERESY!!!
Really love playing orks
You'll save a lot of time by using the hotkeys, B and L is a listening post, and you can queue up orders (both build, and move orders) as well with Shift, so you're not continually checking back with your Builders, if you're wondering if you have Idle builders, use the period (or comma, one or the other is military, the other is construction) to find things; stacking builders = faster build time, but if you're building multiple, it's quicker to have the build on two seperate structures. Making sure you don't miss clicks when registering your build orders helps also! Typical build for me is 1B, 1SS, 1B, 1SS, then you're free to choose as the AI kinda sucks
As others have said, there are permanent buildings during the campaign, so once you've won a map, all of your buildings built during a single mission will return the next. This helps when the AI makes an attack, and you can just easy mode it, by placing turrets at the points where the enemy build zones are; although of course Tau don't have turrets (these are replaced by Heavy Anti-Tank LP's and Entrenched Broadsides.
Broadsides don't get Jetpacks. Against Necrons and Space Marines, they struggle against a Fusion Blaster Stealth build spam; you can stack 20 squads, all equipped with Jetpacks and Fusion Blasters without decreasing accuracy for movement, as well as needing a character/squad to reveal stealthed units. Build Jetpacks ASAP and you get Stealth Squads with Jetpacks, bouncing around. Skyrays are broken for their knockback.
The Hero is kinda broken as well, thanks to his Jetpack and Stealth Field early game. Lastly, the Critical Objectives (the orange hexagonal capture points) have a high return and good FOW reveal, but cannot be captured. A Relic is only really useful for claiming a Relic unit, prevent
Hahaha had a giggle when you went to the orks for your first battle. Complete pain in the arse that map without some honour guard. Great video.
It really is. Thanks Mark!
What, the Tau? Not the glorious SPESS MEHRENS? Or the heroic guardsmen? Ah well, I suppose it's good to see something different....
FOR THE GREATER GOOD !!!!!
another great video on another great game Surreal. 👍
Tau empire and imperial guard are two best factions in this game. They have best lore, fire power and are the most "GOOD" in this foever war world.
Those are some nice battles. Really like this faction and their units.
Yes! I played all the time when I was young!
Tau were always my favorite
The ultimate apacolypse mod has spoiled me with the bigger zoom out
You don't need to up the unit count of Geist-Kampfanzug troops. They get uncovered by the ork boss anyways - use them instead to rapidly capture points on the map. As scouts use kroot troops while firewarriors should flank the spotted enemy. Thats the easy way to play.
Don't fight the boss but their expansions without a tower early on. Upgrading towers not only gives them a weapon but pays back if you have enough plasma generators.
If I remember correctly the Tau got endless turrets which is obscenely useful for base defense. Build a bunch around every important point on a map and some infantry garrisons and it will defend itself really well.
Weird, I seem to remember playing Tau and heavily fortifying every single map to ridicolus levels. Hm.
I guess my memory is faulty then. Got little advice on the matter of Tau. The firepower of the humble fire warriors is impressive though.
THIS IS HERESY!!!!!!!!
meh heresy pays the bills.
your face is heresy
Commander Carfreight is the only honorable Tau.
With a second headquarter you can build additional plasma generators.
You need 4 Barracks and 3 Fahrzeuglandezone buildings (or more if you can manage these) if under siege and want to spend all points quickly on new units.
The real game is if you and your enemy both maxed out units and vehicles and need stationary to kill the enemy faster that they can build new units.
Vespid-Stachelflügel are good at point-transformation into combat power and replace stationary turrets from other races. The tau commander should never die or go close combat. If the battlefield is crowded, TAU gain advantgage in flanking through their long range. ELITE units dont count to unit limits and can guard the commander so that they also never really die.
Against Necrons you can get away with just spamming fire warriors and using the leader to use traps to slow them down. Eventually you get to critical mass (around 3 fw squads with upgraded rifles and a spotter team) that the necrons die before they get in their short range.
I wonder if Surreal will ever come back to this game, even in his free time.
heritic? HERESY??? HEREEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!
Great game, best Dawn of War in my opinion. (we don't talk about the pile of garbage that is Soulstorm).
***** It was bad because it was shoehorned by THQ because they wanted more shekels. DoW3 has it's own artistic design, a game in it's own right (as much as that's worth) and doesn't piggyback on previous success(vie used models and such). If it's trash it's trash. Long text because i'm bored.
***** I'm just implying that it wasn't the original studio that made it. . I do like it for the inclusion of major mods and the like, but that's solely because it is the latest version.
I like soulstorm simply because it adds in the dark eldar.
From what I see Soulstorm is a nice addition. It is nice to see some less used Factions or Sub factions like the Dark Eldar or the Sisters of Battle, which, in my opinion, should get more equipment in the future. Tanks, Titans, Battleships, everything in their feminine Fanatic style.
But...perhaps without Organ Artillery! And...perhaps a bit more realistic? Like actual Cover for the Drivers of a Tank....
soulstorm принадлежит россиянам
Nooooo you should do the Space marines!
If I remember correctly if you build a second base you can have the option to build generators again
REMINDER - Space Marines canonically won. That is all.
REMINDER- Space Marines canonically lost Soultstorm, to the Imperial Guard. That is all
Somehow somewhere Stubbs lost 100 Baneblades. That is painful.
paleface171
And somewhere the Forces of Chaos are using said 100 Baneblades to attack an Imperial World
don't care. Yu lost SS and this video is much cooler.
they actually canonically lost to the orks, yeah i know
I would go for the flamer and the missile pods first, just in case early vehicles and the flamer for moral damage against melee.
A vast slew of RTS-based scifi franchises are flashing before my eyes right now. Who copied who I wonder?
No one knows it goes back to the dawn of the GREATER GOOD
@@isaiahdavis2232 We're still over 30k years ahead of meeting the Tau ;P
Good ol kroot congo line
@SurrealBeliefs you should play the Dawn of War Ultimate Apocalypse mod with some of your subs! its the biggest Dawn of war mod out there!
you should've gotten kroot, they're melee
Hi surreal !
Will you play with the Ultimate Apocalypse mod ?
tau empire is the best
emperor be damned its the space commies
@HelpI'mObsessedWithTheBosnianWar When commies get to space.
Also, they're not communist.
Hey Surreal, any chance you'll be doing a Souls Storm play-through as the Sisters of Battle in the future?
Do space marines fight against imperial guards in this free-for-all campaign? Aren't they both the servants of the emperor?
KazeKoichi it’s explained, albeit poorly, so the space marines basically tell the guard to fuck off the planet and that the Space Marines got it. The guard then proceed to tell the SM to fuck off. Then they fight.
Are not the Imperial and Space Marines on the same side? So if you play with the imperial do you have to fight Space Marines?
are you going to do the soulstorm mod Ultimate Apocalypse ?
what happened about disorder campaign
...y the heck r the space marines and emperial guard in separate factions they r on the same side this is a 6 faction war not 7 what the heck
An issue with the game not you surreal
That battle took far to long I'm not saying your doing it wrong but when I played I the tau it only took me about 10 minutes to takeout the orks but you do what you wanna SB
Who needs to be able to paint real minis when you have army painter?
Try Titanium Wars mod in Dark Crusade to spice things up in campaign.
It infuriates me how little shooting he is using
I wouldn't get upset over a video game recording.
beat them early game and do more videos on outher spicies like spacemarines and imperial force
Does it irk anyone else that he builds generators one by one even though he can afford all of them
I'd hope not, that would be really petty.
when kroots eat bodeis the get more health and damage.
+SurrealBeliefs it is petty but I can't help it!
I don't think that would be petty I mean strategically you want those generators to produce sufficient amount of power
The monolith is the hq of necrons But they need to activate it
build a pathfinder team, they boost the shooting team and build more Firenze warrior
2020 anyone nah just me
who else names the armies after countries?
Can anyone help me? i have owned several copies of this game,on the original copy i was able to zoom in to a view so close i could zoom in to under the players or so close their face would fit whole screen,on other copies i can not do this,wish i had the original version
F*cking tau!!!!!!!!
HOLY SHIT YOU PLAYED MY FAVORITE GAME HOW COULD I HAVE MISSED THIS!
Orkz Orkz Orrrrkkkkkz!!!
waiting for CoK...but this is a good game also^^
what's the update schedule on this?
2:36
So who sent the distress signal? Who are they saving?
Sry for answering so late but kronus was a tau planet. Thats why they got a distress signal.
YAAAAAAAAY
Uh, how are the bodies not disappearing? Settings or mod?
Mason Williams it’s a setting
#SurrealForLive
play soulstorm as necrons
Matthew Smith AGREED
loved playing agaisnt the eldar............ frustrating with the webway portals and being able to move them everywher
Matthew Smith I quit my necrons campaign on the first mission beacuse I owned everything on the map and couldn't find the Eldar for 50 minutes
Matthew Smith heresey
Find Taldeer and Livii
Pls Play soulstorm as chaos
DoW 3 could've been a bigger, better this... could've...
Anyone else get reminded of Starcraft 1&2 when watching this in fact the tau are like the Protoss with the blue and gold and the drone things that build stuff
That's because Starcraft was going to originally be a Warhammer 40k game, then Game Workshops pulled support from it near completion. So Blizzard took their mostly finished game, made some changes to it, and gave GW the finger.
The Protoss were heavily inspired on the Eldar.
Not gonna lie, the commander of the tau faction from dark cursade game was my most favorite unit. Appearance wise I prefer his fully upgraded style especially his fully upgraded helmet cause I dislike his default un-upgraded appearance at the same time when he his fully upgraded I founded the best versatile range hero with very good survivability, mobility, fire power, and utility along with stealth. Recently I discovered he is cannon according to the warhammer 40k lore and sadly there isn't a tabletop for sale. 😕 if G.W. does start selling shas okias i want his appearance to be the same as the dawn of war dark cursade fully upgraded. 🤠
Change the difficulty to hard to make the play more interesting
How would it be more interesting? It's just buffs to the AI, I don't have time to grind through missions for 60+ minutes.
Hey Surreal, DoW is a little weird in that normal difficulty actually buffs you a little, whereas hard is the setting at which both sides are evenly matched. It's nonsensical but that's what they decided on. Not sure if that would inform your decision on what difficulty setting to play on. I usually play on normal in strategy games myself.
Is this on hard?
good video, but it would be better if you talked rather than babbled some indistinguishable gobbledygook. Thanks.
This video just isn't for you then, which is fair and fine. I don't even know how to quantify what you said into actual, tangible advice. I'm okay with constructive criticism but there isn't any element of that here.
omg it bugs me soooooooo much when people don't build their bases symmetrically XD
Yay I’m the 1000th like