DoW gets another expansion pack - Soulstorm

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2007-09-26 10:36pm

white_rabbit wrote:Given their description in Xenology, I bet they could jazz up the Thyrr or the Q'orl into a new army.

Hell, if the Ass-end of Nowhere Tau can be furiously fumbled into forcing the Imperium into fortification rather than offensive reprisals, as they have done so with the most recent Tau wank, the Squiddies or the Nu-Bugs can.

hell, the Q'orl have already thieved Navigator brainz and proper warp drives.

I can't wait for GW to accidentally write the Imperium into an imminent defeat. Seriously, it'll be hilarious, and I bet it'll eventually happen.

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2007-09-26 11:36pm

Uraniun235 wrote:
white_rabbit wrote:Given their description in Xenology, I bet they could jazz up the Thyrr or the Q'orl into a new army.

Hell, if the Ass-end of Nowhere Tau can be furiously fumbled into forcing the Imperium into fortification rather than offensive reprisals, as they have done so with the most recent Tau wank, the Squiddies or the Nu-Bugs can.

hell, the Q'orl have already thieved Navigator brainz and proper warp drives.
I can't wait for GW to accidentally write the Imperium into an imminent defeat. Seriously, it'll be hilarious, and I bet it'll eventually happen.

Likely, there will be a Heraclius type character who will turn up.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2007-09-26 11:36pm

Who cares what the other new race is? Valkyries. Thunderhawks. Lightnings. Marauders. Fighta-bommerz!

EDIT: And, of course, deth-koptaz.

RazorOutlaw · Post by **RazorOutlaw** » 2007-09-27 12:03am

I'm giggling with glee at the idea of another standalone Xpac. I'm wondering though - new engine? Updated engine? I'm pretty sure the Dark Crusade engine had a few graphical upgrades, but I'm hoping they rewrite the AI path finding. 'Twas a little crudy irrc.

Feil · Post by **Feil** » 2007-09-27 01:23am

Meh. There's a low-quality video of an in-game trailer up on youtube. It's Dawn of War with a slightly tweaked engine and a bunch of new races. And most likely THQ will follow their previously established pattern and make the ninth race Daemonhunters or Witch Hunters, since fans have already neared completion of work on those races.... I will not be buying this one.

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2007-09-27 01:44am

Uraniun235 wrote:I can't wait for GW to accidentally write the Imperium into an imminent defeat. Seriously, it'll be hilarious, and I bet it'll eventually happen.

The Imperium has been on the brink of defeat for the past ten years or so. It would just be writing another 'imminent defeat'.

RazorOutlaw · Post by **RazorOutlaw** » 2007-09-27 02:44am

Feil wrote:Meh. There's a low-quality video of an in-game trailer up on youtube. It's Dawn of War with a slightly tweaked engine and a bunch of new races. And most likely THQ will follow their previously established pattern and make the ninth race Daemonhunters or Witch Hunters, since fans have already neared completion of work on those races.... I will not be buying this one.

I'm disappointed that they didn't use the CoH engine like I had been hoping so badly for.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2007-09-27 03:05am

oh god dow in the coh engine would make me cream my pants

But seriously, I always knew that would be too much to hope for. CoH is just so much better than its predecessor it isn't even funny (especially with OF now). DoW was like the RTS proof-of-concept for the real deal, CoH.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2007-09-27 05:45am

Waiting for them to licence the CA total war engine....

Joviwan · Post by **Joviwan** » 2007-09-27 10:39am

Wow. Sisters of battle have been the entire reason I started buying GW crap for 40k, and i learn here that absolutely no one but me, apparantly, wants to see them in a DoW game.

I feel so alone.

*cuddles his Saint Celestine*

Siege · Post by **Siege** » 2007-09-27 11:33am

It's not so much that I don't want to see them in-game, it's that there are other factions within the Imperium that I'd rather see in their stead

. Sisters of Battle strike as a bit of a Space Marines Lite, with boobs, more silly decorations and impractical vehicles. Could be my interpretation is wrong of course, but if it's between hovering thrones and Penitent Engines or Combat Servitors and the Legio Cybernetica, I'd have the latter.

Joviwan · Post by **Joviwan** » 2007-09-27 12:18pm

Sisters Repentia, man. I'd die of joy to see them swathing through a DoW battlefield.

I don't know why the Sisters of battle struck such a chord with me, but it did. The flavor of the group just makes me writhe in joy. I had no interest in touching the 40k universe until a friend of mine handed me the witch hunters codex. I've since read Faith and Fire and built a bare-bones (though I haven't painted) sisters of battle army (i have to borrow paints).

Feil · Post by **Feil** » 2007-09-27 01:08pm

Joviwan wrote:Sisters Repentia, man. I'd die of joy to see them swathing through a DoW battlefield.

I don't know why the Sisters of battle struck such a chord with me, but it did. The flavor of the group just makes me writhe in joy. I had no interest in touching the 40k universe until a friend of mine handed me the witch hunters codex. I've since read Faith and Fire and built a bare-bones (though I haven't painted) sisters of battle army (i have to borrow paints).

http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=54671
http://dofw.free.fr/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1027

Have fun.

Joviwan · Post by **Joviwan** » 2007-09-27 01:12pm

You'd think that being the LAN admin at this school would let me circumvent the web filter they have installed. Alas, it shall be several hours before I can peruse whatever snippets of delightful information are contained in that link.

*cry*

Feil · Post by **Feil** » 2007-09-27 01:18pm

Well, does imageshack work for you? Image from the Adepta Sororitas mod for DC expected in around November 2007

Joviwan · Post by **Joviwan** » 2007-09-27 01:24pm

I think I just creamed myself.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2007-09-27 02:05pm

those are nice, though I kind of dislike the chest armor and fact that Sisters repentia seem to break in that those pics (acording the codex should they ever loose a moral check they run towards the enemy (basically go berserk)).

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2007-09-27 02:13pm

Apprently, via those mystical things known as "leaks" it's unofficially known that the 2nd faction will be the Sisters Of Bitches.

Ah well, the Cockney fellows need someone new to go shout at, I suppose

Joviwan · Post by **Joviwan** » 2007-09-27 02:17pm

So for me, at least, it looks like a case of who does it better, the modders or the developer.

Knowing me, i'll end up using both versions.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2007-09-27 02:29pm

Joviwan wrote:So for me, at least, it looks like a case of who does it better, the modders or the developer.

Knowing me, i'll end up using both versions.

hopefully we don't get "ooh I found a way to a show boobies" Repentia in the in developers version (it's kind of funny as none of the actual Renpentia miniatures show nipples as far as I can tell and it's not like Games Workshot would afraid to do so (just look at the Daemonets) if they wanted to.

EDIT:fixed a typo

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2007-09-27 03:06pm

SiegeTank wrote: What's the other faction going to be? Tyranids?

Squats!

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2007-09-27 03:14pm

Sharp-kun wrote:
SiegeTank wrote: What's the other faction going to be? Tyranids?
Squats!

Well, if we go via the Canon, that means we get the Tyranids, technically speaking

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2007-09-27 04:12pm

The Yosemite Bear wrote:Waiting for them to licence the CA total war engine....

The Total War engine is kind of limited for very mobile warfare. Also, the scale will be a bit messed up.

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » 2007-09-27 05:58pm

Brother-Captain Gaius wrote:oh god dow in the coh engine would make me cream my pants

4 Words:

Sabbat Worlds Crusade Mod

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2007-09-27 07:51pm

Lonestar wrote:4 Words:

Sabbat Worlds Crusade Mod

I try not to get my hopes up, especially where 40K mods are concerned. 90% of the time they never see fruition and just waste away in the dismal nether-planes of Abandonware and Dead Mods because the developers try to be too ambitious and cram too many things into a v0.001 beta release, which of course is never actually released as everyone loses interest in the two years it takes to announce that work on the mod has run into a temporary delay because the only texture artist was swallowed whole by the interwebs, never to be seen again.

Anyways, more on-topic: Don't worry Joviwan, I <3 the Adepta Sororitas, and if this rumor is true I welcome their lovely witch-burning, heretic-chainswording ways.

For the record, they are so not Space Marines-lite with Boobs. 'Nuns with Guns' is the popular phrase used to describe them. They're the ultra-Catholic facet of WH40K (along with the Ordo Hereticus in general).

EDIT: In fact, I'm going to change my avatar, just to spite you Sister-haters. what it is now, dawgz