Whee Winter Assault is here!

SylasGaunt · Post by **SylasGaunt** » 2005-09-22 03:41pm

Got my copy of the Winter Assault expansion for Dawn of War. Anybody else manage to snag it? Anywho I'll give opinions later after I get a chance to play it. Can't wait to try out the guard.

*scampers off to play*

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2005-09-22 03:54pm

Amazon is a piece of shit; 3-5 day shipping apparantly means 3-5 weeks.

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2005-09-22 06:02pm

Damn you sir, damn your eyes! I'm getting it first thing tomorrow, I plan to be up and into town to pick-up my copy asap. Then spend the rest of the day crushing heretics with my Baneblade.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2005-09-22 07:40pm

I'll be at the local ebgames store 10 minutes after I get off the train from work; good opertunity to pre-order civ4 too

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2005-09-22 09:02pm

I played the Beta when they were showing it off. Even unfinished, the Guard's giganto-tank is... fun. Let's just say that. Or their arty peice that fires shells that cost more than your infantry squads.

SylasGaunt · Post by **SylasGaunt** » 2005-09-22 09:12pm

Well, well, well.. look who puts in an appearance.

MAJOR spoilers

Star-Blighter · Post by **Star-Blighter** » 2005-09-22 09:18pm

Nephtys wrote:I played the Beta when they were showing it off. Even unfinished, the Guard's giganto-tank is... fun. Let's just say that. Or their arty peice that fires shells that cost more than your infantry squads.

Earth-Shaker shells foh teh WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm also looking forward to the changes/new units the other races are getting. It seems Relic completly overhauled the tech-trees of the other races.

SylasGaunt · Post by **SylasGaunt** » 2005-09-22 10:25pm

Some definite changes. For instance the Bloodthirster needs the 'chaos projectiles' tech now to use.

I'm also pretty sure everything's got new build icons though I haven't played with the Eldar, Orks, or Marines yet.. chaos has scads of new icons anyway.

The guard are wicked awesome to play as. Lots of big kabooms and scads of troops.. plus I can execute cowards for my own amusement MWAHAHAHA!

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2005-09-23 12:24am

SylasGaunt wrote:Well, well, well.. look who puts in an appearance.

MAJOR spoilers

The cup, she is full.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2005-09-23 12:24am

I got it earlier today, baby. So fucking awesome. The Baneblade is just pure and utter kicking.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2005-09-23 12:50am

Foolish Mon-Keigh, your gigantic tanks are no match or Superior Eldar mobility!

I won't be owning/playing this for another 18 hours...
So how long do WankBl.. I mean Baneblades take to build?

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2005-09-23 01:22am

Not very long, actually.

Also, I've noticed that the Avatar now has 15k HP. I just played a skirmish in which I probably lost 300 squads to one.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-09-23 02:09am

It's out? HUZZAH! *Dances the happy dance*

Getting it tomorrow, then.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-09-23 02:11am

SylasGaunt wrote:Well, well, well.. look who puts in an appearance.

MAJOR spoilers

Hey, that's a...um, thing, isn't it?

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2005-09-23 05:17am

SirNitram wrote:
SylasGaunt wrote:Well, well, well.. look who puts in an appearance.

MAJOR spoilers
The cup, she is full.

The cup, she is fucking overflowing.

SylasGaunt · Post by **SylasGaunt** » 2005-09-23 08:18am

There's a video floating around somewhere that shows that thing landing and deploying its troops in the last campaign mission.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2005-09-23 12:42pm

SylasGaunt wrote:There's a video floating around somewhere that shows that thing landing and deploying its troops in the last campaign mission.

Yes. I got serious HUGE SPOILERS[size=0]'A Balrog is come!' when the Eldar chick said 'The necrons are here.[/size]

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2005-09-23 12:56pm

I bought it today with a Game voucher, not installed it yet, though, and I'm afraid to since my hard drive seems to be rather fucked. The stuff on the back looks cool, though.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-09-23 05:50pm

Brother-Captain Gaius wrote:Amazon is a piece of shit; 3-5 day shipping apparantly means 3-5 weeks.

at least you didn't order an airconditionaire from them in July.

yeah 3-5 days (sorry were sold out), August 27th Oh we just shipped your AC unit, Sep 1 erm we lost your AC during the hurricane)

Post by **weemadando** » 2005-09-23 11:09pm

Wheee! That screenshot broke my mind!

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2005-09-23 11:26pm

weemadando wrote:Wheee! That screenshot broke my mind!

..and ruined the game for me! DAAAUGGH!

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2005-09-24 12:27am

Yes [size=0]Necrons[/size], suck on Titan weapons!

[Spoilerization Initiated. - SirNitram]

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-09-24 08:01pm

Ford Prefect wrote:
SirNitram wrote:
SylasGaunt wrote:Well, well, well.. look who puts in an appearance.

MAJOR spoilers
The cup, she is full.
The cup, she is fucking overflowing.

The Rogue, he is disappointed at how easily they went down.

Anywho: The Imperial Guard is officially my new favorite race. Combined arms baby, YEAH!

Just got done killing off a shit ton of Chaos Marines that had destroyed my base. I had built a Machine Command or whatever the hell you call it in one of my allies' bases, with it built three Hellhounds, and with those and the two Guard squads that had survived the base's destruction, killed them all despite being grossly outnumbered by superior infantry.

Such is the superiority of combined arms over one-unit spamming.

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2005-09-24 08:37pm

Yeah, Hellhound = the Morale Breaker.

I've a fondness for the Ogryns, you just want to take them home and feed them cake.

Kasrkin, they rock. A couple of squads of them with a Priest or Commissar and you're sorted.

My only real sole complaint is that I feel that the Guard buildings are too weak. For example, I garrisoned 3 squads in an infantry command bunker and some regular, vanilla Orks attacked. I beat them back but the bunker was nearly totalled.

now i'm not asking that IG bunkers are impregnible. BUT, it would be nice if they could take an assualt by basic troops without me needing to rush an Enginseer over to fix it. And don't even ask me about how i feel about the lack of decent anti-vehicle...

But other than that I love the add-on and enjoy crushing the xenos under the relentless wheels of the imperial war machine.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-09-24 08:44pm

Yeah, with Space Marines, I wouldn't have been able to retake my base. Not a chance in Hell. Especially in the original version, when you couldn't build in allied control zones.