The campaign features a warhost hailing from the craftworld Biel-Tan, led by Farseer Macha. Swift both on foot and in their hovering grav-vehicles, they are also able to move quickly around the map via webway gates. Eldar in Dawn of War are fast and agile but most of their units are more fragile. The Eldar are a sophisticated psychic race, ancient and technologically advanced, that have fought the fell powers of Chaos for millions of years before mankind's birth.The campaign features the Alpha Legion, with their leaders, Sindri Myr and Lord Bale. In addition, they employ morale-draining daemons and psykers. In Dawn of War, they use troops that are corrupted mirrors of their loyal Imperial counterparts. The Chaos Space Marines are traitors that, ten thousand years ago, chose to abandon their duties to humanity, betray the Immortal Emperor of Mankind and the Imperium, and instead worship the Gods of Chaos, accepting promises of power and immortality.The Space Marines are the only playable race in the single player section of the game, and the 11-mission campaign features the 3rd Company of the Blood Ravens chapter as the protagonists, led by Captain Gabriel Angelos and Librarian Isador Akios. Their troops and vehicles are more expensive, however, reflecting their limited numbers. Space Marines have the highest morale in the game. Inducted at a young age, each Space Marine receives biological modifications, a lifetime of rigorous training, and lives to experience centuries of endless battle in the defense of humanity. Space Marines are the elite, highly skilled and genetically modified superhuman soldiers of the Imperium.Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War features four playable armies: and don't get me started on Gabriel Angelos doing somersaults in Terminator Power Armour.Main articles: Space Marines (Warhammer 40,000) Chaos Space Marines Eldar (Warhammer 40,000) and Ork (Warhammer 40,000) Just some minor things that irk me - particularly annoyed about that taunting levelling system at the end of each level. For me to be effective I pretty much have to have a 'clensing wave of units' to be effective.

The vanilla units seem poorly balanced and slow to recruit. To that I prefer Company of Heroes where one can build defensive structures, even a sandbag wall would be good but you can't even build the force-field walls of the Eldar - once they're borked, they're borked. There are no defensive structures and the 'defensive structures' once destroyed can't be repaired or rebuilt. Setting a listening post on the capture points is pointless as the weapon is as effective as spit-balls and maybe delays the opposition from capturing the point by 10 seconds - they're a waste of resources and you'd be better to buy a squad and get them to guard the point. I also like the game play style of DoW1 (not DLC) where one can build a base. I do like the level and equipment system from DoW2 where you can equip your squads and choose their abilities.

Having the 'progression' system at the end of missions is pretty pointless as you never get enough points to level up a character and it resets the character's points so they never progress beyond level 1 - this really pissed me off, why? User interface is a bit crap, I rather prefer the Company of Heroes style of interface rather than this minimalist all units on cards along the bottom of your screen and heroes up the left hand side.

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