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blood reaper wrote:Goons crash through blood reapers windows

He'll be missed.

Melissia wrote:Not really. After the patches, SS is definitely better than DC.


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As a more on topic note, patch 2.6 is announced, Relic is attempting to fix the bugs caused by Games For Windows Live's most recent release. Yeah, screw you too Microsoft.

I just thought DC was smaller and the campaign made more sense, so I liked it more. And if we can top using fething windows live. (That program disconnect my headphones, they are plugged in but it dosent pick them up, or dose and just continues to play through my laptops crappy speakers) So when in 2011 do we get the DoW2: Retribution beta?

Around new years, IE, late this month early next month.

Sweet. Hey Melissia, you play DoW2? Wanna have a game some time?

Yes, but it's not installed right now. I'm kinda waiting for retribution. Logging in to windows live is annoying as all hell.

By the way, the battlewagon is confirmed for Orks. It's a combination heavy transport, artillery unit, and heavy tank, with a deff rolla ability which allows them to decimate things which get in their path while the deff rolla is activated (I imagine it costs tertiary resource to activate). Dunno about Marines-- their new unit will be released this upcoming thursday/friday (either them or chaos at any rate).

My guess is that after the marines and chaos get their new units / campaign characters announced (it's been confirmed that all factions have a new campaign), they'll announce the new faction, and begin a rundown of its units, leading up to the public beta.

Just a guess though.

Steam may or may not have screwed up on revealing the new race. I added Retribution to my wishlist and I'm staring at a witchhunter right now for it's game picture under my wishlist.

For those curious or not wanting to accept it:

Well, I know what I am adding on steam now...

I hope no one posted this already



Enemies of the Emperor take heed, the Space Marine Land Raider will be taking the field in Dawn of War II: Retribution. One of the most powerful battle tanks in the Imperium’s arsenal, the Land Raider carries a number of different types of weapons to deal with enemy threats, laying down a tremendous amount of fire. Capable of transporting troops and shrugging off attacks from all but the most destructive weaponry, the Land Raider is a major force on the battlefield whether it is supporting or spearheading an attack.

Unit: Land Raider Redeemer

Availability: Tier 3

Abilities:
Frag Assault – Launch a volley of grenades, knocking back and dealing heavy damage to most infantry units.

Retreat Beacon – When activated, all squads will retreat to the Land Raider beacon.

A late game behemoth, the Land Raider Redeemer is expensive and powerful. Although it is not particularly agile or quick, it’s dual Flamestorm Cannons spew enough fire to melt any infantry to get near. The Land Raider can serve as a base of operations for Space Marine players. With the Retreat Beacon activated, squads can quickly retreat to the Land Raider instead of the Space Marine base. Squads near the Land Raider can be reinforced, replacing lost squad members, and get back in the fight much more quickly than having to make the run to and from their base.

A Land Raider Redeemer parked near a strategically important sector, be it a power generator farm or Victory Point, can be a strong deterrent to enemy attack. Anything that comes close will have to be set to deal with a wall of fire, bolts, and frags.

BrookM wrote:For those curious or not wanting to accept it:

This is not the image on STEAM. Leads me to the conclusion that this is fakery.

Medium of Death wrote:

BrookM wrote:For those curious or not wanting to accept it:

This is not the image on STEAM. Leads me to the conclusion that this is fakery.

Ah yes, ignorance at its best.

edit.

Put the game on your wishlist and check that, you should be seeing this:

BrookM wrote:Ah yes, ignorance at its best.

Just did the Wishlist thing and all I have to say is...

I'll just shut my whore mouth.

I swear to God, if the bloody fething Witchhunters are added before Guard I am going to be mightily angered with THQ.

Why?

A small Inquisitorial band is easier to implement in a far more small-scale skirmish game like DoWII than the Imperial Guard.

Besides who's to say if we get sisters or simly an inquisition led guard. The guard option gives a cool campaing base and fancervice for mutiplayer, while the sister otion gives THQ a chance to implement a tabletop race just before GW are supposed to redesign it. Need i remind how much gripe DoW 1 got for having ugly wraithlords in it.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Why?

A small Inquisitorial band is easier to implement in a far more small-scale skirmish game like DoWII than the Imperial Guard.

Says you.

It's easier to implement a Guard force that uses Elysian D-99 or the Cadian Kasrkin Regiments as a base.

And also take note that they're incorporating tanks now. It'd be ludicrous not to include the tank faction


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Hell, you could even just do an all Veteran army. It's not like there isn't a tabletop or fluff precedent for it.

Kanluwen wrote:It's easier to implement a Guard force that uses Elysian D-99 or the Cadian Kasrkin Regiments as a base.

It's not an 'easier' way, it's just 'another' way.

My point is you can have 'bits' of Guard with an Inquisitorial force whilst maintaining the 'skirmish' level combat of DoWII. Guard are, by their nature, far more expansive than a skirmish force. The theme of the Guard is legions of men and tanks. That may have (almost) worked in DoWI, but not so much DoWII unless they change the scale of the game.

And yes, they could choose one of the more elite small-scale Guard forces, but why bother? Just to say they included Guard? As I said, the Inquisitorial side of things requires no work, and no fancy shenanigans with Veteran/Elysian/Kasrkin forces to shoe-horn it into DoW's style of game play. That's 'easier'.

Guard can wait, I'm happy with the inclusion of the vampire hunters. It's all about the hats you see.

Ive escaped microsofts goons but they will be back. I think the Guard may have a Inquistier as a leader or commander.

I do not know if this has been covered but they have listed the Marine campaign charters. Its Apollo, Cyrus, Martellus, and some dude named the Ancient.
On a side note who was the traitor according to the canon?

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:It's easier to implement a Guard force that uses Elysian D-99 or the Cadian Kasrkin Regiments as a base.

It's not an 'easier' way, it's just 'another' way.

My point is you can have 'bits' of Guard with an Inquisitorial force whilst maintaining the 'skirmish' level combat of DoWII. Guard are, by their nature, far more expansive than a skirmish force. The theme of the Guard is legions of men and tanks. That may have (almost) worked in DoWI, but not so much DoWII unless they change the scale of the game.

I'll agree with you on the scale of the game bit.

Hopefully they finally just buck up and use the Company of Heroes unit caps. That would solve alot of the "skirmish" issues.

And yes, they could choose one of the more elite small-scale Guard forces, but why bother? Just to say they included Guard? As I said, the Inquisitorial side of things requires no work, and no fancy shenanigans with Veteran/Elysian/Kasrkin forces to shoe-horn it into DoW's style of game play. That's 'easier'.

There's no shoehorning it in or fancy shenanigans. Those forces exist, it's not a Mary Sue like Starkiller or C.S. Goto.

Orkfantic wrote:I do not know if this has been covered but they have listed the Marine campaign charters. Its Apollo, Cyrus, Martellus, and some dude named the Ancient.
On a side note who was the traitor according to the canon?

Apollo as in Apollo Diomedes? And how is Martellus going to be in the game? That just seems odd

Btw the traitor(s):

It might seem odd but it's official.
http://community.dawnofwar2.com/blog-post/space-marine-campaign-heroes

Eliphas is back

I'm so confused about the canon now. Does that mean that there's no save importing of any kind? I have a corrupt save and a pure save. Both would be completely incompatible with the new SM roster.

I have no idea who got corrupted officially, I assumed it was Martellus. This is just baffling now. But only 2 previous members are carrying over, so take that as you will.

Eh, kinda sucks they are switching online platforms, not that I have a problem with Steam these days, but I reckon it'll be OK.

Surtur wrote:I have no idea who got corrupted officially, I assumed it was Martellus. This is just baffling now. But only 2 previous members are carrying over, so take that as you will.

I also thought Martellus was evil, and I killed him! I'm guessing this means the pure good storyline is not canon!

After compleating the game on almost all possible endings / the canon ending, How can you argue that the new army ISN'T going to be Inqisitorial?

Bah I hated the "Derp Martellus is a traitor!"

Avitus had it coming a LONG time. Or the psyker, its always the psyker