I’m all for finite armies and no base building but if you’ve played the tabletop game then you’ll know there’s a bit more to it than a ‘few squads’ using cover to defeat everything they find.

40k battles, and epic battles are usually quite intense with squads, vehicles, artillery and everything that the original DoW let you command plus more.

Skinning it down to ‘ten men versus whatever opposition from the 40k universe they come across’ is dumber than a bag of hammers, I mean small squads versus tyranids? wtf is the point of that?

This game looks more like a version ’space hulk’ or ‘advanced space crusade’

They might as well make it turn based like X-com and laser squad, which seem to be the influences for this game.

Also Spessmerines could go up against a killa kan, melta bombs, krak grenades, if you out number it enough you can automatticly cause a glancing hit or something.
I don’t know for sure as I don’t play any more, fucking rules updates.

Sigh.

The way I see it, DoW 2 is just getting closer to the actual tabletop game, wherein you always have a finite number of units in any battle and there’s – shock and awe! – no base building! Really, I look forward to seeing just how much more engaging (or unengaging, as the case may hopefully not be) the single-player campaign is than the first, and particularly how they’re going to handle the multiplayer. Could it be the real-time equivalent of the tabletop game? Who knows, eh?

Dawn of War 2’s Artillery is just Company of Heroes Artlillery with extra shiny boom…

…Um… what else did you expect? I don’t see how else artillery can work, unless you just wanted it to disintegrate everything in its blast radius or something…

Because if these characters gain experience and then you lose em halfway through the campaign, that means people will just save and load a lot, and we can spend time better than waiting for the load screen to vanish.