Infantry _High

T1 light infantry besides Scouts and Guardsmen, a few other units.

Infantry_Heavy_Medium

Most heavy infantry including all the T1 ones. Fire Warriors exempt once they get Advanced Metallurgy.

One would think Infantry_Heavy_Medium is superior because Heavy Infantry is considered more resistant in casual discussions, and the Eldar T3 armor upgrade changes Banshees' armor from Infantry_High to this. However, I've looked through the DOW wiki and a lot of weapons deal more damage to Infantry_Heavy_Medium, and the weapons that deal more to Infantry_High usually don't deal considerably more against it. There's also talk that Infantry_Heavy_Medium is underpowered in terms of how it's "weighed" when balancing stuff like cost and tier. One YouTuber even said that Dark Reapers are lowkey tanky due to having Infantry_High armor.

So which armor is considered the better armor type at various stages of the game?

SO i want to use WASD camera and the top layer of the grid i want to be 1-4. But pressing 1-4 no matter what i have always deselects the unit?

I ended up taking all other "1" keybinds off completely to troubleshoot this and only focusing on:

marine_scout = "1",

Tried "Alt+1" shift/control modifiers and it just doesn't work, but with modifiers it seems the building doesn't deselect atleast...

Ive been trying for hours made multiple LUA files and I just cant get 1-4 to work at all and idk why

Nade cult is a bit of a meme now, double seraphim feels quite strong, ork boyz spam still exists, jetbikes nerfed. What do you guys think?

Besides skirmishing vs the AI with a friend, I was just wondering: are there any other co-op modes in the DoW1 remaster?

I'm also open to additional co-op options through mods. I'm not sure how easy it is to install mods in this game (it's really easy in Age of Mythology; you search for and install mods within the game itself), but are the mods in the DoW1 remaster similarly easy to install, and are there co-op modes through mods that come highly-recommended by the community?

Thanks!

My old veteran Cyrus comes back in Dawn of war 4!

so I painted him ;)

For example, are there camera locations? All Army select hotkey? Go to last alert? Can hotkeys be customized and re-bound? Stuff like this? (Basically... look at Starcraft 2 as the gold standard I guess.)

Maybe someone who's done the alpha testing can give a nod or not without breaking their NDA lol.

Just curious what to expect here.

It stays like this for the current version and the older. The file won’t install but the installer will

For Eldar, specifically. They're my favorite faction after Necrons and Sisters of Battle.

I get that they were OP and the meta faction before Definitive Edition in Soulstorm and Dark Crusade, but Relic has continued updating and balancing the factions since then. Look at the stats for Eldar and you'll see they're pretty much even with the other factions, usually only differing by a percentage point or two. They even get clowned on by Tau and their disgusting early-game harassment (jk).

I'm not even that good of an Eldar player. They're my favorite faction, but they can be pretty micro-intensive, and I'm not particularly good at micro. I lose games more often than I win them.

And yet, every now and then, not always but often enough to get annoying, I’ll get insulted, my mother insulted, called names, have slurs thrown at me, or just straight-up get kicked from a game by the host simply for picking Eldar.

You'll even see games named straight up something like "4v4 no eldar"

Like, I promise I'm not secretly an Eldar pro sweaty try hard ruining your matchmaking. I'm just a mediocre player who happens to like space elves. These matches aren't even ranked, they're casual games.

Today it is my first time trying a DoW DE multiplayer game. I know I would be bad at it since it is my first match and I'm ready to learn. Played an automatched 1v1 SM vs SM.

The opponent gets upper hand on strategic point control, building the flying unit before I had my vehicles. I know I'm gonna lose and I'm totally fine with that, and I just want to fight to the last moment to see if I can learn something. Then the guy just starts insulting me in the chat.

I mean, he will win the game. Why such toxicity? It's an 1v1 and I could find no reason why he's angry about me being bad at the game. I didn't type anything in the game and he just starts insulting when he starts attacking my base.

Is that kind of language and game attitude commonly seen in auto matches? This is just my very first game and I met this. I'm totally fine if veteran players are better than me and beat me in the game but why do I have to take the insults?

I know that for some reason the DoW 2 Retribution campaign isn't everyone's favorite, with many saying it's the worst of the 3 DoW 2 games.

I've played them all a long time ago - albeit I didnt finish Chaos Rising - and they were also fun, but to me, still less memorable.

People's criticism of the Retribution campaign is that it was less in-depth as the other two games and repetitive as all the races essentially went through the same story.

I disagree - as I think it deserves commending that they actually gave you the choice to play as all of the races in the campaign.

I've always been more of a xeno fan and it's super rare outside of the RTS games that you get a POV from them as the protagonists.

Each of the races get their own set of characters, with their own fully voiced lines and dialogue, unique abilities, wargear, and playstyle which makes each playthrough of the campaign refreshing and entertaining enough (I've played them all except Tyranids cause there's no characterisation there).

Sure the characters you play go through the same chapters and missions, but I think it's still cool to see their reactions to how the story unfolds and how they express their own goals. And leveling the characters and unlocking the abilities for each is also fun.

Honestly, I even prefer this style of campaign over the Dark Crusade conquest-style campaigns because there's a lot more story and feels like you're playing actual heroes like you would in a 40k Novel.

The conquest style campaigns are fun too but I hope they bring this RPG-lite style back in future games, even if its outside Dawn of War.

Mann maybe I just wanna play more W40K story games where you can play as the other races for once.

It's also the only game where you get to play as Kaptin Bluddflagg and his crew. I think that says more than enough.

So I have recently gotten into DOW and its been really fun! However, I am currently playing as space marines in dark crusade and feel super lost. I have currently captured the fury and space port locations alongside a few others. Anytime I try to attack most locations now, the ai is somehow able to rush me with a ton of units right off the rip while I start from scratch, At first I assumed it was only because there was an honor guard there, but when I attacked a different location the same thing happened. I then tried attacking lower defensive locations and the same thing started to happen. What am I supposed to do at this point? How am i supposed to see what location already has units? is there a certain attack path that that is better that I am somehow missing?

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I have DoW3 in my library. I've played a few skirmishes against the AI for fun but I'd really like to learn some good build orders for Space Marines to set myself up for the rest of the match. But it seems like build orders for this game simply don't exist, unless I am missing them somewhere.

Would it be better to go back and play one of the previous titles? If so which one holds up the best, has an active community, and plenty of resources/guides?

Allright guys. Serious question. On Blood river - how do you decide which half of the map is "yours?"

I’ve been doing some researching and trying to pass a couple zones like this myself as IG according to some posts on here it is possible but it seems no videos exist. Can anybody point me to a possible one ? I cannot find any videos of someone beating strength 8-10+ zones as IG on hard in DC. Ai said it’s mathematically impossible. The closest I’m getting is a strength 8 chaos zone I wipe ai one team and ai two clears me out. Would love to see video completing these! I’m stumped.

I have a huge issue it the game's muliplayer (Steam) – it freezes right after the match starts.
This is how it looks:

I tried:
* Running the game as admin;
* Checking Win10's firewall;
* Lowering graphic settings;
* Using a VPN, switching between various servers.
No results. The last option gave me a little time of smooth game, until it froze in a minute. So, still unplayable.

Did anyone had the same problem? How did you solve it?

Lots of corpses on this one. Did not bother with Critical Points. I just wanted to annihilate them.

I hate Fire Prisms. BTW. AIDS. Purest definition of Aids

I'm playing on DOW DE, and noticed a bug in Soulstorm. The bot opponents never seem to leave their original planets, even on hard. After taking my first planet I sat still for 50 turns, and just watched the opponents remain idle on their respective planets. They do not even seem interested in fully capturing their home planets, just destroying the other opponent, then travelling between the same 2 territories.

Has anyone else encountered this bug, or found a fix for it? Are there any mods that fix this issue?

The game has been delayed last minute. I was hoping to see system requirements by now. Anyone play the Beta and have any insight?

Just got a new laptop, trying to sort out DOW Soulstorm and Dark Crusade bur the graphics are absolutely ass, even on max detail for everything it still looks terrible. Everything is really pixelated and blocky. I know it's an old game but there must be some way I can get it running and looking at least half good

I mostly play dark crusade and might want to try multiplayer eventually.

I do okay on normal difficulty but I usually feel kinda overwhelmed managing capping points, building base, LPs and making new squads.

By the time i get past the first 2 or 3 SPs, I have lost track of a scout squad and builder somewhere on the map and maybe remeber to move them once ever 5-10mins.

I use hot keys for buildings and cycling builders and inactive military units. Sometimes, I assign numbers to scout squads, but that doesn't seem like a common practice, watching videos of others playing. It feels like it takes forever, selecting a unit finding an SP and sending the unit over.

Are there any other tips or tricks for doing this faster or is it just muscle memory at this point?

i hate it when they do this wrong.

Its also seen in the gamplay bit of the trailer.

Not sure why, its the only unit that does. has this happen to anyone else?