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Saw what looked like an Authauch(sp) with the eldar in that vid. Some guy with wings.

THQInsider wrote:The Tyranids have been revealed as the third playable campaign after Orks and Eldar.

This made my day.

Thank you.



100% chance I will be getting this one ASAP.

It's peculiar they haven't updated their blog with this yet.

Melissia wrote:It's peculiar they haven't updated their blog with this yet.

Yea especially since the nid trailer is all over the web already.

This expansion would be the greatest ever if there is no SM campaign. I'll be getting it in any case.
I'm curious to see just how customized the campaigns are. Is it going to be the same campaign for every race, like Soul Storm and Dark Crusade? Or will each campaign have a completely different direction, goal and focus?

I honestly can't tell...most of the campaign trailers have just been the faction in question killing all the other guys for a few minutes while some meaningful words appear on the screen. Awesome? Yes. Informative about the nature of the campaign? Not really.

I'm hoping for a personalized campaign....I never really liked the Dark Crusade or Soulstorm campaigns. Felt too much like a series of skirmish games. The only parts that really made feel it was like a campaign were the Stronghold Assault missions. On that note, watching the trailers the best evidence I can find for a personalized campaign would be that the Ork trailer seems to feature some kind of Ork Loota Pirate Captain, so I'm hoping he'll be some kind of player character like the Force Commander was in vanilla DoW2. Of course, he could just be the general character like you had in Dark Crusade and Soulstorm, but I'm hoping that won't be the case.

Go read the article.

Orkfantic wrote:Saw what looked like an Authauch(sp) with the eldar in that vid. Some guy with wings.

Good Call. Definitely what appears to be an Autarch...
I see Dire Avenger Helm, Wings and a cloak, standing apart from 2-3 squads of Guardians. If you pause the video around 3/4's through then you should be able to notice it around there somewhere. Quite Noticeable. If someone could get a picture as proof, that'd be dandy.

I think I can safely say for now that: Eldar Autarch Is In DOW2: Retribution

I am hoping that we wouldn't get another female farseer again

or at least let us choose gender, this DOW farseer deal seem to peg every seer as female

I think most farseers will be female in DOW just because people get sick of the same hard toned manly voices in 6 different characters and the Farseer seems to be the best fluffwise to get away with a female.

There is no token black guy though. What is this?! I thought we had equal rights and all that

syanticraven wrote:I think most farseers will be female in DOW just because people get sick of the same hard toned manly voices in 6 different characters and the Farseer seems to be the best fluffwise to get away with a female.

There is no token black guy though. What is this?! I thought we had equal rights and all that

The Inquisitor guy in DoW1 was black.

Inquisitor Toth was black correct.

Who knows maybe in Retribution they'll have the Farseer as a man and then a female commander for Army X.

I kind of liked the female farseer...and honestly it does make the most sense. There are no female Space Marines, but hey a female Inquisitor could work I guess? Or a female Guard general? But I'm thinking the female farseer is almost a running gag for the DoW games at this point.

I found it strange how the Tyranids could narrate I really want a good Chaos campain , and a good lord. Maybay a DP or anothere greater Daemon.

I think the nid narration will either be a genestealer, or the swarm lord and hivemind. Other than those I haven't a clue what could even have individual thoughts from the nids.

ChrisWWII wrote:I kind of liked the female farseer...and honestly it does make the most sense. There are no female Space Marines, but hey a female Inquisitor could work I guess? Or a female Guard general? But I'm thinking the female farseer is almost a running gag for the DoW games at this point.

I'm hoping for a Lady Commissar.

What, wouldn't it be awsome?

Toth was a badass...

Melissia wrote:I'm hoping for a Lady Commissar.

What, wouldn't it be awsome?

Lady Commissar WOULD be awesome. We already know they exist, and there's no reason why one couldn't be in a game as the IG narrator, but not as the 'leader' of the IG army, unfortunately. Well..actually, I never quite figured out how Commissar-Generals work. Oktar seemed to be in command of the regiment, while Balshin seemed to be a Commissar for the Commissars, so who knows?

D.P. Gumby wrote:Toth was a badass...

Orkfantic wrote:I think the nid narration will either be a genestealer, or the swarm lord and hivemind. Other than those I haven't a clue what could even have individual thoughts from the nids.

I noticed the Tyranid narration and did not like it. I rather prefer the Tyranid Hive Mind voice when playing the Tyranids in Last Stand or Multiplayer. It's a passive, emotionless voice, neither male nor female, which states things simply and matter-of-factly. It's perfect the way it is and I hope it doesn't change.

Seconded for that, I didn't like the Tyranid voice in their trailer. If it is THE Hive Mind narrating, then it should be as it already is. Why in the God-Emperor's Holy Realm would the Hive Mind be particularly excited about anything occurring on a DoW2 scale battlefield?

ChrisWWII wrote:

Melissia wrote:I'm hoping for a Lady Commissar.

What, wouldn't it be awsome?

Lady Commissar WOULD be awesome. We already know they exist, and there's no reason why one couldn't be in a game as the IG narrator, but not as the 'leader' of the IG army, unfortunately. Well..actually, I never quite figured out how Commissar-Generals work. Oktar seemed to be in command of the regiment, while Balshin seemed to be a Commissar for the Commissars, so who knows?

A "Lord Commissar" can take command of units for missions I think. Cain was given such a command in the first Cain book fo rexample.

Hmmm, yeah. That's true. It could definitely work, and it'd be a nice addition if Relic did so. Somehow, I doubt they will though....

Swarm lord is in Retubution! must buy!

Yep, and not only is he in retribution, he is the hero of the Tyranid campaign. Which actually gives the campaign some chance, as you can develop your swarmlord's "personality" (as it were) and style yourself.

Asherian Command wrote:

D.P. Gumby wrote:Toth was a badass...

Spoiler:

HE WAS A FREAKING DAEMON PRINCE! He was a jerk! He screwed over an entire planet!

Toth was the Inquisitor, Bale the Chaos Lord and Sindri the Sorcerer who became a Daemon Prince. I think you are thinking of Sindri.

I thought Toth was revealed to be part of the planets disguise in order to provide sacrifice to Chaos? Haven't played that one in a while and never read the books so I always thought that.

I don't know about the books (they aren't canon), but in-game that never happened....

As far as I could tell, Toth was merely a misguided Inquisitor who suspected the wrong Blood Raven of heresy. He's also renown for being a bit of an idiot for not sensing Chaos on Tartarus despite AMPLE evidence to the contrary.

Anyone have any ideas what the next race will be?

Also, will there be a SM campaign, I quite like my squad leaders.