Best Dawn Of War Mods
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Dec 18, 2016 - This is your mod. This is one of the best DOW mods. Furthermore, this mod has the better gameplay, feel, and epic features that no other mod. An active modding community may be the only thing keeping Dawn of War 3 alive. There will always be people who demonize any change to the gameplay, because for them Dawn of War 3 is superior to all its predecessors.
Giveaways or sales are allowed if verified. If you don't care about the single player campaign, (and for Soulstorm, you shouldn't) you can get Ultimate Apocalypse. It's a mod that both fundamentally changes the gameplay and gives you tons of new units to play with.It has tons of changes to the UI, such as making it so that the key bindings match the location of the button on the selected unit/building's menu. For example, top row is qwert, second is asdfg, third is zxcvb, etc. No having to remember that a turret is 'H' for Imperial Guard but 'B' for Space Marines.Mousing over a unit, either on the battlefield or on the build screen will give you its full relative stats, telling you what units it's good against and what kind of performance it will have on the battlefield.
This is standardized across races, making it much easier to make sense of all the new units.Additionally, it allows you to zoom out really far, even to the point of seeing the entire battlefield. Since the scale of battle is much larger in this mod, it's absolutely essential.The mod has all nine races from Soulstorm, plus three more, bringing the roster up to twelve:. Space Marines.
Imperial Guard. Sisters of Battle.
Inquisition Daemonhunters (contains Grey Knights). Orks. Eldar. Dark Eldar. Chaos Space Marines. Chaos Daemons.
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Tau. Necrons. TyranidsThe unit selection is much more diverse, allowing for multiple playstyles, and ensuring that every race has something to counter something an enemy pulls out. However, each race still plays very differently, and many of the distinctions between them remain the same.
However, the controls and basic concepts are similar enough that you'll know what you're doing even if you haven't played the race before.Ever reached the end of a game and found yourself with over 10,000 requisition/power and absolutely nothing that came close to costing that much? Each race now has five tiers of units and buildings, from basic infantry all the way up to superheavy units and game-ending superweapons. It's a heavy investment, but if you want to exterminatus the entire planet, or bring down the wrath of the Emperor in the form of a Titan, you can.Rare and powerful units are no longer restricted specifically by number you can deploy (except for builders, commanders, and unique units), but instead are bought (in addition to requisition and power) with a third resource, Relic. This is generated slowly at all times, but you can increase the acquisition rate by capturing Relic points. Relic is required for all superheavy vehicles/titanic units, but as the total amount is limited, it's up to you to decide whether you want two or three smaller vehicles, or one titan.The mod gives you tons of maps, both new and old, some adapted from other DOW games, but many completely original.
The ultimate challenge is an eight-player map, 'Ultimate Apocalypse'. It's extremely resource rich, has a large titan gun that prevents slow moving units from crossing the battlefield easily, and even spawns a titanic unit every ten minutes for the player who controls a specific Critical Location.However, my favorite part of Ultimate Apocalypse (the mod) is the special rules you can apply to games.
You can increase or decrease the resource rate, change the army/vehicle cap, even increase the amount of relic resource available so everyone can have as many baneblades as they want. You can make all research and construction finish instantly, or give everyone some starting units, even to the point of giving everyone a Titan at the beginning of the match. If less insanity is more your speed, you can just restrict players from progressing past certain tiers, or stop anyone from building Titans or superweapons.And of these options, some are so awesome that you wonder how you played the game without them. For instance, Automatic Reinforce lets understrength squads automatically refill, and Auto Abilities lets units with special powers cast them without you having to select them, select the ability, and select the target. They just throw the grenade when the enemy gets in range, or fire the bolt of psychic lightning. It won't automatically use abilities that cost resources, or ones that spawn units, but most combat-relevant ones will be used whenever an enemy AI would use it.
This kind of thing is what I NEED to come back for DOW III.tl;dr: Ultimate Apocalypse is a complete overhaul of DOW Soulstorm that gives you tons of new units, races, and playstyles, and allows you to customize the game to your satisfaction, as well as making it easier to manage all your new units. Hey there, I am not the OP but seeing as you wrote a very good post I thought I would pose this question to you.I actually installed UA two or three days ago and have been playing through. Have had some epic battles so far.Image of my last battle, guard vs:Only downside I have noticed is that the AI seems to like to sit in its base on certain maps, or actually managed to block itself in.Image:My question to you, however, is do you use any of the other race mods that are available? I have been interested in checking these out but am not sure how balanced they are. Well, to address your first comment, I noticed that the enemy seems to prefer to gather a large force before assaulting you, though sending an attack force to them will cause them to retaliate and attack your base. Also, depending on the level of AI difficulty, there are certain patterns. Easy AI seems to just stop doing things for a while occasionally, and slows its own progress.
Standard does things constantly, and will send out scouting parties to claim strategic points. Hard is even more efficient, and has a superhuman APM rate. There's a difficulty above that, but I get my ass handed to me.And to answer the actual question, I've played Firestorm Over Kaurava, and it does make the game closer to what the tabletop feels like. It's significantly less flashy, though, as it mainly just adds in units for the lower tiers and keeps the power level restricted to a normal game.
So you're looking at more of a 1000-1500 point army. It's fun, but requires more resource management.As for strict race mods, I don't know what you would add. Skitarii would play much like IG, and sisters of battle/Inquisition daemonhunters does the ecclesiarchy as well.
I've not seen many units in the tabletop that aren't somehow represented in Ultimate Apocalypse. I always fight Orks in UA for a few reasons: first of all they come in large numbers, and I mean LARGE, so if you fight then, bolster those defenses and get your army assembled. Second, no dangerous super weapons so I don't have to have my entire base be destroyed and spend an eternity getting it back into shape (disabling AI super weapons in the game settings doesn't work still apparently). And last, it's just freaking fun.I usually play IG, especially with the recent UA update, that Basilisk Magnus is God (just beware of its upgrade), although they did change it so super heavies can't be deep striker unless you put them in the Mars Patter Command, but that takes like 2 minute or something? Because in previous versions I've found myself mass producing all those super heavies and creating tons of those beacon things (the one for creating aircraft and calling airstrikes, someone knows) for my infantry. I'd use the scanner on the enemy base and unleash hell.Also being on the annihilate game mode, having to find and kill the last enemy unit that's invisible: capture a strategic point, don't put a listening post on it, and wait.
Then when they come to capture it, drop a nuke on it to be sure!I'm not gonna lie though, sometimes UA can be frustrating as the AI constant overwhelms you and sometimes your AI buddies are retarded as hell. I'd love to fight the AI with someone else though (preferably against Orks:P). I could go on forever really but some people already out the general gist of it, I'm just rambling at this point.
LolIt's super fun when you know what you're doing.Just beware of the AI, like I said they can be retarded, I had the Inquisition as my allies, they got wiped out in 10 minutes or so and they never got past tier 2 and had a few buildings, so I was left to fight Orks and Demons by myself (my game crashed but I had a winning plan;-;).