Fucking shuriken platforms, omg with any sort of support these things just keep you on one place
The only time I win are in unranked games =\
Anyway… I tried out the nids and they just seem to get eaten up by any kind of SM. Not nearly as numerous as I thought they would be. (Then again I was playing as Lictor… should’ve used a Tyrant)
I’ve just been sticking to SM Apothecary and it seems to do alright.
Latest issue of PC Gamer gave Dawn of War 2 89% I think…fuckin awesome.
I haven’t read the entire review, but I saw that SP is not short, but very fun and informative.
Oh yay…!!
dude nids are fucking awesome for killing bunkered units.
just burrow and pop right behind the farthest HB squad and all of a sudden they SM squad will be eating shit.
ive learned some new strats with space marines so im going to see if i can try to adapt them smoother.
I feel that Eldar are too powerful atm, it seems like they got the best suppression units and they can easily kill commanders with their fire prisms. I don’t see many people playing with orcs.
man ever play against a mass sticky ork player
jesus it was disgusting how fucking crazy those bombs can be chucked out.
really neat play them orks.
The trade off is that Eldar die WAAAAAYYYY too fast. You spend a lot of time as Eldar running to fight another day which gives your foe a nice time to set up and entrench down on the point. A single ASM squad puts a huge damper on their plants.
The only flaw I can find in SM however is that they are just TOO power dependent. Which leads to late t2 teching, and late walkers. Since you always want those scouts to pack those imba shotguns.
ASM seems to put a huge damper on anyone’s plants.
Does sniper rifle work? I got it once but I didn’t notice any major changes in my scout squad, they don’t look like they’re 1 shotting anyone or have extended range.
I’m still pretty noobish at the game but I’m liking the Ravener Alpha and not liking the Hive Tyrant. He’s so slow that he gets surpressed so easily early in the game which makes him a liability.
I had no idea shotguns were broken…and here I was using snipers the whole time.
Right now I’m failing hard in this game…this game really does take a bit more strategy.
Infiltrated Scouts + Shotgun = support Busters in T1
Later T1 you can go ASM but yeah if you cant afford to go ASM scouts with Dev support is godly.
My build order is
Force Commander + Scouts
Scout
Dev
Dev
Upgrade Tier 2
Hammer Wargear + Artificers
Scout Shotties
ASM
Plasmas Ultimate VP guards.
If Walkers / Vehicles appear i upgrade my Commander with Teleporter + Power Fist
He makes short work of walkers in a 1 v 1
My general strat is to take dual Devs and stack them so that 1 supports the other scouts with shotties will keep folks off my devs in case they are flanked. then have my scouts take points while the devs cover them. scouts make excellent bait so i kite people into my devs.
what you also want to do is take points in the following order.
VP
Power Node
RS
in that order. making VP absolute priority and powernodes a close second.
not familiar with the term, what’s VP and RS?
VS = Victory Points = Stars on Minimap
RS = Resource Node = Flat Little Sewer Looking Disk
Victory points are far more important in your game and even if you had the whole map you dont generate a ton of points like you think you would.
Hence having a Power Node is more important then just a RS node.
I usually get scout shotties as I’m teching to tier 2. So when I hit tier two I build either a walker or an ASM squad. Though the game now is starting to become who can think more outside the box. Since everyone knows that you’re going to a VP they will now just opt to swing behind you and catch you with your pants down.
Though the apothecary+scout with a single tac squad works out really good too. Most people don’t expect it. If you can keep a Tac Squad alive so it gets one level they will hardly ever miss with missiles. I find the FC is just too versitile though. They got alot of inf? Release the great thunder hammer from the armory. Having trouble with walkers? Get a power fist, immobilize it and TWO shot it.
Yessir.
FC is very versitile, but i feel like heads up with an apoth its almost tough to see, either single unit huge firepower vs excellent support and unit longevity.
ive seen 3 tack squads with an apoc and none go down in a game once. shit was pretty interesting
i love how many different strats you can come up with and it actually be valid.
very hard to come up with a complete cookie cutter style.
not sure if you guys noticed but they implemented a patch recently and now the battles seem to be pretty balanced.
lots of good seesaw wars.
Y’all hype for dat Dawn of War II!?
YEEAAHHHHH BIIIITTTCCHHHH
(I’m fairly hype myself)
edit: yeah… haven’t read the requirements but uh. e8500 oc’ed to 4 GHz + P45 board + 4870 + 4GB 1066…I should be good.
I’m running an old rig and it runs just fine.
64x2 5000+ to 2.8ghz
DFI mobo
8800 GTS 512
2gb g.skill 800
fuckin beast
we are a couple weeks away folks im getting hype
Seriously guys…get hype!
DoW2 comes out this Thrusday!
I’m getting mine from Best Buy…but it does require Steam to play.
YEAH!HH!!
and steam aint a big deal to me.
its fucking on PANTS fucking Onnnnnn!!
this might be the first RTS with a Co-Op mode too. sweeeet.
im building a new rig next month an i7 setup.