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"Upcoming real-time strategy game Dawn of War III will allow gamers to build their own custom armies, developer Relic has revealed.

It will also simulate the idea of a "war that rages eternal," Relic marketing manager James McDermott told Eurogamer.

"Looking at what we had real success with with Dawn of War II – Retribution, with the DLC, and with customisation and building their armies and collecting being a big part of what 40k fans really love, we want to make that a big part of DOW3," he said.

"There's going to be lots of opportunities to expand and build your own custom mega army. That's definitely an area we want to invest in. We see a good opportunity."

Last year Eurogamer broke the news that Relic was in the brainstorming stage of Dawn of War III.

THQ core games boss Danny Bilson suggested the Warhammer 40K RTS would launch between 18 months and two years after Dawn of War II - Retribution, pegging DOW3 for an August 2012 to February 2013 release window.

He also said the game "is going to have a much larger strategic component to it, more of a global battle going on with little tactical things, sort of MMO-like".

Now more gameplay details have trickled out ahead of what THQ has teased will be an announcement at German show Gamescom next month.

With Dawn of War II, Relic dropped base building – although it did feature in a reduced way in the game's multiplayer.

"We brought some base building back with Retribution," McDermott continued. "With DOW3, because it's going to be a new version, we're looking at the game as a whole, and we're really upping the intensity.

"With the 40k universe, the tagline is: there is only war. We want to give you that greater sense of the war. The battle. The war that rages eternal, and make that feel like that's really imposing and all around you, and you have your own personal, custom army in there.

"Your army and my army should feel very different. That's where we would like to get to.

"We're trying to leverage even more so on the Games Workshop tabletop game, and then combine that with the game mechanics people have said, 'If you were to make a DOW3 we would like this kind of balance of things,' and what we think would be good for strategy games as a whole.

"We're looking at all that stuff really carefully. And I'm sure you've probably heard this as well about Relic – we have a big announcement at Gamescom."

Is it Dawn of War III? Or perhaps Company of Heroes 2, the sequel to Relic's excellent World War II RTS?

"There is something cool and I think people will be really pleased to hear about it."

What do you think? I can't wait for August already

Source?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-07-12-new-dawn-of-war-iii-details-emerge

Why do people always ask for source?


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Sounds quite interesting I will definitely watch the progress of his being a fan of the first DoW and the second !

Hoping that I'll enjoy DoW III more than DoW II. A little bit of a return to the scale of DoWI would get me excited, though I wonder what they mean by building your own armies. Is there gonna be some kind of unit progression where you bring the same units into battle? Or maybe you have to make choices about what units you can and can't build? I hope they reveal more about it at Gamescon.

A return of Last Stand would be nice though. With more hero choices.

Brother Coa wrote:Why do people always ask for source?

Generally they like to read it themselves as well.

LordofHats wrote:

Brother Coa wrote:Why do people always ask for source?

Generally they like to read it themselves as well.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=dawn+of+war+3+news - just click me.

I'm loving the sound of this. Custom armies? As long as that includes Imperial Guard Cavalry, Catachan Devils and Armaggedon Mechanised I'm sold.

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Brother Coa wrote:

LordofHats wrote:

Brother Coa wrote:Why do people always ask for source?

Generally they like to read it themselves as well.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=dawn+of+war+3+news - just click me.

People just like to know the exact source so they immediately know whether your information is reliable.

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Where now?

Brother Coa wrote:

TrollPie wrote:I
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Where now?

Huh?

TrollPie wrote:

Brother Coa wrote:

TrollPie wrote:I
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Where now?

Huh?

Double post, there is no Dawn of War III news thread, I triple cheeked....

Brother Coa wrote:

TrollPie wrote:

Brother Coa wrote:

TrollPie wrote:I
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Where now?

Huh?

Double post, there is no Dawn of War III news thread, I triple cheeked....

No, I mean I clicked submit twice by accident.

sorry, my bad...

Yeah I read this article a while ago, it sounds pretty awesome. The lead guy at relic said that DoW3 would be released 18-24 months after Retribution, so that's an August 2012-February 2013 window.

If I'm not mistake Gamescom already happened and THQ didn't release any info, so who knows what happening.

Might be asking for much but going a long with the "build your own army" it would be cool to get to pick between different IG armies, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. It kind of sounds like this will be a rts where you pick the units you want before the round, kind of like making a list in the TT game.

Sounds cool although I wonder which fanbase they'll appease more, the DoW2 fans or DoW1 fans. Hopefully both but I can see one party getting shafted

And then theres the people who want DoW but playing like CoH

Although the campaign better be good! With...less canon endings

But I can already guess a few things. Cadians again eventually whether its expac or vanilla, Blood Ravens are obvious, Eldar, Orks, Chaos are granted. Good chance for Nidz. Unsure about the rest of the races for vanilla, more likely expac

*execute grumpy.exe*

Honestly, that seemed like a whole lot of nothing. I would like some concrete details from Relic. If they're still in the brainstorming phase I rather not read some long-winded jibber-jabber filled with meaningless buzzwords.