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Melissia wrote:Sorry, I'm so used to people constantly bashing DoW2 for no apparent reason that snark becomes a default response.

Regardless, I'm looking forward to hearing what exactly their "ork sharpshooters" are next week.

Quite alright, snark is usually a great response to this kind of thing. But, yeah, I enjoy DoW2, and I'm looking forward to Retribution. Right now I'm just very upset my uni's internet doesn't let me get on Steam to RUN DoW2....

I'm wondering what those are too....sharpshooting doesn't really sound like the kind of thing Ork's are likely to do.

Same with Kommandos to many people, so I'm willing to wait and see.

oooh more last stand I love it. I really hope they fix the boundry line cheating crap. It's annoying.

Any guesses on what the new units might be? Maybe fire dragons for eldar. Daemonettes would make great T1 cc units and finally represent slaanesh, on that note the sorcerer should summon flamers/horrors instead of bloodletters.

I also wish chaos had a defiler instead of a predator as its T3 vehicle.

[edit: References to fake blog post removed.]

Actually hive guard could be interesting to see, I also would like to see some sternguard but I'm not sure how they could make them anything more interesting than better tacs.

asimo77 wrote:Actually hive guard could be interesting to see, I also would like to see some sternguard but I'm not sure how they could make them anything more interesting than better tacs.

Do what they do in the game, and just have them switch ammo, and you have to pay for each upgrade? Possibly make their weapons more damaging to enemy units in exchange for slightly weaker close combat skills....I'm thinking a mix between a Devastator and a Tactical.

I know tacs already have kraken bolts and can now switch their weapons as much as they like, which is pretty similar. Plus with rank unlocks your tacs end up having enough bling to look like vets.

asimo77 wrote:I know tacs already have kraken bolts and can now switch their weapons as much as they like, which is pretty similar. Plus with rank unlocks your tacs end up having enough bling to look like vets.

Actually, they do turn into Sternguard veterans.

PLEASE NOTE: The previous "blog post" was revealed by the DoW2 site's mods to be a fake. How, exactly, someone created a Relic account on the Dawn of War 2 forums in order to pull off said prank I'm still not sure about. For this reason, I've edited out all references to it until I see further proof of anything contained within.

Just great, all that stuff sounded really awesome :( Maybe relic will get some ideas from this prankster...

Melissia wrote:PLEASE NOTE: The previous "blog post" was revealed by the DoW2 site's mods to be a fake. How, exactly, someone created a Relic account on the Dawn of War 2 forums in order to pull off said prank I'm still not sure about. For this reason, I've edited out all references to it until I see further proof of anything contained within.

Well then...that's just lovely. At least we know now, and hopefully Relic shows us what they're really up to soon. A lot of that stuff in the blog post sounded quite intriguing with a lot of potential.

Yes, it's just... great. Makes me feel like a fool, but the DoW2 forum was kinda fooled by it for a while too until Gorb posted and locked the thread.

Before CR came out someone made up a fake expansion pack for the tau, I wonder if it's the same people.

Yeah, well we dont blame yah Mellisia. Thanks for the news updates anyway.

Hmmm, it could be Asimo...could be. I wonder if Relic will just ban their IP Address all together if its the same people.

Well the tau joke was actually pretty good, I wouldn't ban someone for being clever like that.

I'm hoping there's more than one new army... It's pretty half-assed to release one at a time in a 40k game. There are just too many armies equally worthy of representation.

There is only one new army. This has been confirmed by Relic staff on the official DoW2 forum.

And we're not sure we'll get any more expansions. They're currently testing out a sort of free-to-play MMORTS style for Company of Heroes, and if that succeeds they have plans to use it for DoW3.

Oh lame. In that case it's gonna be IG... Which really should have been the army to accompany Chaos in the last expansion.

By the way, ChrisWWII, your signature should read "смерть к противникам человечествa". What you have means "Death to the enemies of a person." человек means man as in a singular person. человечество means man as in mankind/humanity.
Sorry to be a grammar Nazi, but that's been driving me nuts...

As I've said earlier, currently it's believed to be IG, IG+Inquisition, or Sisters+Inquisition.

Relic has not released any real information on the subject, but this is just going off of what we IS known by fans about it. Namely, the =][= symbol is used for the I in retribution, leading many people (not me) to speculate that it will be Inquisition of some sort. Personally, I don't believe the Inquisition will be in in any fashion other than single player, but meh.

Archonate wrote:Oh lame. In that case it's gonna be IG... Which really should have been the army to accompany Chaos in the last expansion.

By the way, ChrisWWII, your signature should read "смерть к противникам человечествa". What you have means "Death to the enemies of a person." человек means man as in a singular person. человечество means man as in mankind/humanity.

Oh trust me, I know. I've had like 3 Russian speaking friends correct me on that...I'm currently putting my sig in line to be edited to say what I actually wanted it to say.

Curse you google translate!!!!

But yeah....I'm hoping for IG, it seems to most logical thing to have next.

Well hats off to your Russian IG. I lived in Russia for a couple years. The WWII museum in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) is amazing...

Archonate wrote:Well hats off to your Russian IG. I lived in Russia for a couple years. The WWII museum in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) is amazing...

Thanks. Yeah, I've taken a couple tours of Russia, never gotten the chance to go to Volgograd. But yeah...haveing Russian speaking friends when making a Russian themed army is quite awesome.

But yes....I'm wondering, I don't think DoW2 had the Army Painter, right? I wonder if they'll be able to put that back in. I liked the concept, but I really wish there was more flexibility in it. It would have been utter awesomness if you were able to actually customize the LOOK of your units instead of just the color scheme.

DoW 2 has an army painter.

Indeed. And more textures than standard DoW does (having metallic and fleshy textures as well as standard textures), albeit with slightly less color choice (more than enough for most people though).

D'oh! I apparently am an idiot who needs to play the game more...

Not your fault. Oddly, you have to click on 'Multiplayer' to get the Army Painter button. (?!)

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

The first trailer is here.

Any guesses on other races?

Chaos.
Sorry couldn't resist

Don't blame you

Came across this too: Preview of the Tyranid campaign.