Man yea, i wanted to get into warhammer 40k some way, so tried to find good warhammer 40k games Found dawn of war franchise (dawn of war 3 is my favourite, i invite to discussion), found space marine, and got inspired to go into tabletop, its just fucking expensive but i already found my local community for tabletop games like warhammer 40k :D
Ah yes. The game that dragged me into WH40k universe. Bought golden edition and Winter assault in like 2011 as part of strategy pack together with Supreme commander 2 and Company of heroes for a nice discount. At the time I just wanted Supreme commander, but for just double it's price I got 3 more games so why not. Well I got addicted to DoW and basically ignored the other 2. Got Dark crusade and Soulstorm soon after. And DoW2 with retribution and chaos rising in 2015. Also madness that was Space marine.
Pro-tip: teleport new units next to the relay, build them to full capacity, "embark" them into the rely. Congratulations you can now teleport a full squad of terminators. You can also shove dreadnoughts and regular marines into the relay and have them drop-pod in :D
In skirmish, I *rush* terminators and march them towards the enemy base, dropping new squads along their path, only reinforcing them when in combat otherwise prioritizing maxxing the infantry cap. And since it's not a 1v1, having your force commander as goalie (+scouts/cappers)
@@GenJuhru I have a feeling you might be an ancestor of Indrick Boreale, because that sounds suspiciously like his "Steel Rain" tactic he kept screaming about.
I played the original and all the expansions, Dark Crusade is my favorite out of all of them. "Awwww . . . you killed all of my Necron Warriors?" *RESURRECTION ORB* "And now you didn't."
DC/SS give me mixed feelings. The campaign overall suffers slightly because of the unstructured nature of it. But on the plus side, you don't spend that much time on missions that are less important because of the bonuses you build up over the course of the campaign.
This is such a great game. Sure, a lot has happened in RTS gaming since then, including it's basically dead now mostly, but this is great. With all the remakes going on, really, i want a remake of this, better models, better textures, better lighting, better terrain, with quality of life stuff, extra units, nids race, bigger single player campaigns map, that would make me play this much more again, every now and then i do.
I hade a great time with it for sure. Yeah its to bad that they dont make them anymore, but we do still have the good old ones, this one, C&C, Warcraft, empire at war, age of empires. Oh god yes, i would not say no to a remake
If you want a upgraded remake of DOW 1 sir, look no further than the legendary trio of mega mods for Soulstorm. Namely; Ultimate Apocalypse, Crucible, & Unification. Granted, you can only have one such mod attached to each copy; and yes, given the sheer scope of changes made, anyone using one of these will need a beastly gaming rig to run them. Especially since the original game engine was never intended to run such detailed simulations on the scale these alterations can achieve. But trust me; as someone who has played Ultimate Apocalypse, these aren't just mere amateurish tweaks, no... Quite simply, they are sublime works of Art. Well worth the trouble indeed. It would take way too long to fully explain exactly what each one alters, but if you want to know more; there are good videos by ThunderPsyker, MandaloreGaming, & Poncha. The videos made by these three youtubers explain pretty well; but one can also see the mods in action too, on TheXPGamers channel, by CaptainShack. Hope you like what you find sir, and have a great day!
another gem is Rise & Fall Civilizations at War it has a hero mode where you can go 3rd person Dow and Age of mythology/age of empires missed this opportunity Also remember Empires dawn of the modern world that was my childhood and didn't know they made rise and fall until ages after...
2:22 heavy bolters are actually better for medium range, so some of the space marines can actually shoot their normal bolters, since the squad will only engage enemies up until the longest range weapoin in the squad if not engaged closer. Also, plasma guns are mostly meant for firing on the run, and dealing with heavy infantry, like chaos space marines, and armored nobs.
Another epic video - I have come to call these Tobbe Days and they are always magnificent. Had to work late so saw the notification hours before I could watch the vid, it was torture but well worth the wait. You never fail to deliver and I always have a great laugh. Thanks buddy. Already looking forward to the next one.
Glad it was worth the wait Mando!. I’m already hard at work......watching the damned thing update....yaaaay. Haha thanks as always for watching my friend!.
What stood out to me the most as a kid when I played this was that this was and still is the only RTS I've ever played where the flame thrower doesn't do anything to building.
Technically, representative government and free trade are perfectly fine with the Imperium so long as you make your tithe on time. Equal treatment of psykers might be an issue though as psykers can be gateways for chaotic incursion. There's a reason the Imperium is very strict with its use and employment of psykers. Most will become food for Big E and a handful will become sanctioned psykers serving various Imperial officios and adepta. Some even end up becoming astartes and serve as librarians. At least in those chapters who embrace such things.
The Imperium can't effectively manage itself. They can't be bothered to "correct" your planet's government if it's a representative democracy as long as you're not falling to Chaos. An exception might be if an Inquisitor lands on your planet for some unrelated reason and happens to not like the smell of your administration, but that would be a coincidence.
You also forget about the rather large amount of non sanctioned psykers utilized by special judicial powers within the imperium as well as the untold hoards of undiscovered psykers
There's a mod i love that changes a few minor things and rebalances things to fit the lore better. You could only reinforce at friendly structures too so the whole flow of combat changes. Overall the mods really make this game shine.
The linear campaign of DOW was amazing, especially the loading screens between missions, that gradually shows just how big and serious the Waaagghhh! Is and how dire the situation on Tartarus was. It’s a shame we lost that in Dark crusade and Soulstorm.
How many reinstalls I made, since my hard disk ain't that big. The OG was on cd and DC came in dvd, didn't get to play winter assault. Skipped SS and went ham on DoW2(CR,R), and with mods for SS ..yeah
It's one of those old-as-hell games I still regularly fire up and play to this day. It's a timeless classic, it was fantastic when I bought it on release in 2004, and it's still fantastic playing it 20 years later in 2024. It is genuinely one of the best PC games of all time.
@@PatrickStar-tr9dz Assembly's Total War series has mostly done Medieval Melee and Blackpowder era forms of warfare. They haven't done anything mobile and modern with automatic weaponry. The system of the Total War games are limited to such. There was a WW1 mod using the Total War Napoleon base game. It was janky as fuck. Don't put too much hope on Dawn of War. They made a Dawn of War 3 and Relic fucked that up.
Not so called..It is the best. Ending also has one of the most badass quotes ever... "...Then come and find your judgment waiting. You have escaped captivity only to face annihilation. I know you now..."
@@tobbe2363 It is really legendary. I loved the Winter assault too. Dawn of war 2 was quite the change and i did end up playing it quite a bit. DOW 3 was a very bad game though..
@@tobbe2363 Im sure you will, the mechanic is a bit more layered, nothing too fancy but a nice step up from DOW 1. It was a title that made me "fall in love" with the Orks haha I love your videos, keep em coming.
Nice I loved this Game... and I'll admit... I spent waaaaaaay to much time in the Army Painter. While the Campaigns of Dark Crusade and Soulstorm take a more Risk-esque Territory Capture Style but they are still amazing. Dark Crusade also introduced me into the Faction I play... TAU... FOR THE GREATOR GOOD.
I can see that haha. Yeah i heard that was a thign they did, I look forward to trying them out in the future. Well thats the good thing about Warhammer, there is something for everyone.
I was a huge warcraft 3 player and when this came out I could not stop playing. I had reached top 25 as IG during winter assault and this will live deep in my memory as best Warhammer title. Currently deep in to SM 2 and now I've gotta go rvisit this.
Daym my Guy i cant even begin to know what that is like, i cant multi task to,save my own life. What do you think about SM2 i have heard a lot of good things, but unfortunetly my PC aint up to snuff haha. You def should i had a great time with it
Pro tip: If you want much higher difficulty, follow the instructions to sit and wait in mission 3. Eventually they start sending lots of looted tanks and blasting your troops to oblivion making the mission almost impossible. Or ignore the instructions to sit tight and push aggressively forwards, which is a far more effective strategy…
That cut scene was one of the first as-good-as-any-movie intros. Set a very high bar for animations thereafter, and credit to WH40K and Warhammer in general - their follow up games all had excellent intro videos that put everything before them to shame. The game itself was also great, although like yourself I often found I was a bit of a completionist, so by killing absolutely everybody second phases often didn't happen. I seem to recall the follow up games fixing that a bit.
@@HardcoreK1llar DoW 2 is not a bad game. But the 40k games started to fall off pretty hard at that point and they abandoned the RTS aspects and focus of the game that the community has been wanting to see return for YEARS now.
The expansions for this game are great. Dark Crusade and Soul Storm are both a lot of fun, and the Necron are one of my favorite armies due to how dang simplistic they are.
Awesome video bro. DOW is amazing. Idk if you have ever heard of or played the unification mod. But it greatly expands upon the original 9 races/factions from DOW and it's expansions. And get ready for this. Brings a total of 36 fully fleshed out and playable factions/races. Its absolutely incredible. It is still being developed and updated. Check it out. Great video bro, subbed.
Thanks man! I have heard about it and it sounds waaaay to much for my monkey brain haha, i have a hard enough time as it is. Thanks again fort he kind words and the sub
@tobbe2363 omg bro. Ive been an rts fanatic since 9 years old. I'm 36 now. The total annihilation inspired games are literally the best rts out there. Total annihilation with the escalation mod, Supreme Commander, beyond all reason, zero k. Those will get you started. Total annihilation is like 5 bucks on steam. The escalation mod is free. The level of strategic depth in it is unparalleled.
Dawn of War was the first reason I got into wh40k! I actually had a chance to play actual tabletop game before but it was Dawn of War which truly showed me the real awesomeness of 40k! The tabletop game was.... Ok. But it's missing the screams, badass voice work, and real grimdark!
Yeah i have never played the tabletop game myself and it was Total Biscuits review of Space Marine that got me into the universe. And now i have a shelf full of books, but thankfully i have managed to stay away from the plastic crack.
Im so proud that I have the original discs of DOW 1 It's probably one of the best intros to the 40k lore Best thing about the game is the class customization and I remember my brother and I being absolute nerds creating lore behind our custom skins. I also love how most rts games have build animations where the building would just pop up out of nowhere, meanwhile DOW would do the most violent dropshipping of an IKEA furniture Def one of my top 10 most favorite videogame with infinite replayability (especially with mods)
You lucky BASTERD! Well played. Yeah it has many things integral to warhammer without being too much . I can see that being a thing, i just had a Quick look at it, and it was impressive how much you can customize. God yes, the pods crashing into the earth and unpacking was awesome.
I think the description of what Cyrene was probably comes from the novel by C.S. Goto, whose stuff is considered some of the worst officially licensed 40k content there is, regularly breaking canon. So not sure would I count it as canon.
My two favorite 40K games are both recent. Rogue Trader and Chaos Gate Daemonhuntrers. Each of them are some of my favorite games in their respective genres.
I am playing rogue trader right now on my free time and i am having a real good time with it. Though the leveling system and stuff is a bit much for my taste If im honest haha
@@tobbe2363 Yes the leveling...normally one of my favorite systems in CRPGs. Here though, it's a lot. I feel ill equipped to make a good decision during a 'dungeon' crawl and it can really break up the game flow figuring out what to take for everyone.
I feel the same way, it wouldn’t be so bad If half of the skills didn’t just buff existing skills by like 4%, right now it feels like im just picking random stuff just to get on with it.
@@tobbe2363 Yeah there are so many choices its easy to gimp characters at higher difficulties. Luckily it is fairly forgiving to respec, at least initially.
I really liked Dawn of War 2; yeah it was different from Warcraft/Starcraft because there were no buildings but it was ahead of its time really, like playing a MOBA with multiple characters at once. All the negative reviews I saw were "RTS has buildings!!" but I had played that AvP RTS that I think was made by these same devs and it was the same way and wasn't just looking for another Blizzard clone. It was my first foray into the 40k franchise and it was good enough to really pull me in.
One of the reasons why the marines being the focus of the first game is... suboptimal, is that the orbital relay is a garrisonable structure - you can deduce it from the rhino mechanics (let's be real here, gamers and deduction rarely mix), or you can stumble upon having a different cursor icon with a compatible squad selected (but for that you have to pay attention - again, a relatively rare ability in the gamer population), but otherwise you'd have no idea that you're not actually supposed to just train and deploy fresh squads with it. The guard would've beeen a significantly better introductory faction, because most of their buildings can be filled with dozens of angry men with all sorts of guns, so the mechanic would be familiar instead of this odd thing in one structure.
Problem is a Games Workshop executive would have left an upper decker in the Relic bathroom when he found out they didn't make Space Marines the headline faction for the main campaign.
I only played this for the multiplayer back then. Could you also do the expanstion pack (if they have campaign mission), and as well the other 2 series....
@@tobbe2363 It is fine if you have to bait monkeys to run through a minefield, but are you willing to sit with them and discuss military strategy in their monkey language, yawling and grunting and wildly gesticulating with a banana? Have some empathy and spare us, mon'keigh. ^^
I have never played any warhammer videogames and i don't know anything about it's story or lore. i am really wanted to play the new space marine 2 so i googled for warhammer games and it's too complicated for me. can anyone suggest me my first warhammer game to start with?
Just getting into to warhammer tbh but this game could do with a remaster and with todays technology not only looking awesome with modern graphics but could fit way more npcs on the screen meaning that in theory they could have missions where you deploy small squads and on the flip side you could large scale assaults like almost full on planetary invasions... just imagine looking at your screen and seeing like upto 1000 marines Dreadnoughts and tanks and titans just absolutely taking the fight to those tyranids/ orks/ Chaos enemies/ entities/necrons meanwhile having like starship bombard settlements and bases from orbit...
It was made with greatest care and love. Tonns of unnecessary things like idle animations often being different for different units, many unique melee finishers. Even for units who arent mainly melee, even specific dueling animations for some units. All that and voiceover created unique atmosphere. And most beloved of all, and somehow missing feature even from nerdy wargames now - ability to customise unit composition by adding different specialist and weapons. So yo ucan make totally differently specialised units from same type of unit. While every army had so many different units anyway.
Dawn of War is what introduced me to 40k, it had memorable characters, gameplay, and also the control scheme that more or less similiar to Command and Conquer. *As per 2024, I still play this game and never get bored (Soulstorm is kinda sucky tho)
@tobbe2363 From my experience at least, the Soulstorm expansion undo what makes Dark Crusade great, enjoyable, and make things unecessarily long and harder. *(e.g n Dark Crusade, you just need to destroy enemy HQ and mission complete, but in Soulstorm you literally need to literally destroy anything before completing a mission)
@tobbe2363 Sorry I forgot to mention that Dawn of War 1 had 3 expansion, first is Winter Assault, then Dark Crusade, and last is Soulstorm. While the other 2 is enjoyable on their own, Soulstorm is the "worst" because of odd choices and also kinda lack of polish.
I played this game in 15 fps and it was the best game ever. The best feeling I got is when I upgraded my PC so it can actually run it and noticed how better everything it
bruh you can see the chaos sorcerer teleport to the right side of the screen at 16:50 why didn't they stop him? are they stupid? also this game is a banger. for the emperor!!!
It was the early 2000s and running after people handtag been invented yet, it was different times back then. Yeah it is really good, looking forward to trying out the expansions.
That is a very common problem when you play games created for 4:3 monitors on 16:9 monitors - you can see what you (as player) should not suppose to see ;-)
I hope we understood you correctly that your heart is green, because it has been replaced by a guard issue augmetic. Because you wouldn’t want to get the Emperors most holy Inquisition involved, would you?
13:28 - Yes very unfortunately. And totally not suspicions at all ;-) 16:05 - untill you realise that you can build a unit, reinforce and upgrade it and after that place it into an Orbital Relay.
Sometimes these things happen, for even in the grim darkness of the far future people ”forget” to service their vehicles. SHIT! There is no way that is a thing! There is absolutely no president set that i miss the most obvious things!.
@@tobbe2363 Another random info: download DoW Mod Manager and place it near game executable and you would be able to push graphics further that Ultra (including resolution) ;-)
@@tobbe2363 Want some more knowledge? Of course you (maybe) do! You can right click on reinforcement button (two crosses) or on heavy weapons to automatically keep reinforcing/buying until it's full.
It still kills me to this day that all the Farseer had to say was "Hey don't destroy the stone, too many people died and now destroying it will be bad." LIke FFS, can't Eldar just be direct on one fucking thing?
I never liked the idea of dreadnoughts being considered just dead bodys in a machine of war well some dreadnought are just dead bodys in machines some of them are wounded space marines
I'll tell you why this game was considered "the best" 40k game
It brought me and a lot of people into the tabletop 40k
That combined with being a really solid game makes it a True gem
Well I think you should play Warhammer 40K Space Marine also another really good Warhammer game
Man yea, i wanted to get into warhammer 40k some way, so tried to find good warhammer 40k games
Found dawn of war franchise (dawn of war 3 is my favourite, i invite to discussion), found space marine, and got inspired to go into tabletop, its just fucking expensive but i already found my local community for tabletop games like warhammer 40k
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Same here. This was my first exposure to the universe. And I fell in love with it.
@@Olowik.Personally no strong opinions on dawn of war 3 but curious why it's your favourite:)
Ah yes. The game that dragged me into WH40k universe.
Bought golden edition and Winter assault in like 2011 as part of strategy pack together with Supreme commander 2 and Company of heroes for a nice discount.
At the time I just wanted Supreme commander, but for just double it's price I got 3 more games so why not.
Well I got addicted to DoW and basically ignored the other 2.
Got Dark crusade and Soulstorm soon after. And DoW2 with retribution and chaos rising in 2015. Also madness that was Space marine.
That is so good, i did the same with a star wars box, bought it for Empire at war and played the shit out of KotR instead haha.
I absolutely LOVED the voice acting!
This vid really takes me back. Thanks.
I was really suprised myself and you are welcome.
Lmao which is kinda crazy because I think it was only a couple of people
Pro-tip: teleport new units next to the relay, build them to full capacity, "embark" them into the rely. Congratulations you can now teleport a full squad of terminators. You can also shove dreadnoughts and regular marines into the relay and have them drop-pod in :D
That sounds like heresy to me! And not totaly badass!
In skirmish, I *rush* terminators and march them towards the enemy base, dropping new squads along their path, only reinforcing them when in combat otherwise prioritizing maxxing the infantry cap.
And since it's not a 1v1, having your force commander as goalie (+scouts/cappers)
you can also embark terminators in chaper-barracks and teleport them - it saves relay transport capacity
Damn.. you learn something new every day :D
@@GenJuhru I have a feeling you might be an ancestor of Indrick Boreale, because that sounds suspiciously like his "Steel Rain" tactic he kept screaming about.
Most of the voices were from one guy. You really notice it at the end part, talking to himself.
It’s what gives it it’s charm
Never noticed that
Well Paul Dobson everywhere, but cuz the acting is so good that I don't mind about it.
Scott McNeil. On his wiki page it says for Dawn of War he voiced “Basically everyone” lmao
@@nalegs Dawn of War is basically Paul Dobson or Scott McNeil ranting with each other, or at times themselves......but in a good way
26:39
It seems the Emperor has granted him the amazing ability to transform his plasma gun into a bolter momentarily for dramatic effect lmao
Haha yeah brother Gabriel is truly blessed by Him on Terra
He did it for the vine
Nice! I never played the original. Played the Dark Crusade version and I liked how the campaign played out through that. Cool video as always!
Thats good to hear, i’m planning to give the expansions a go in the future.
And thanks as always for watching!
The Orioginal is great, Winter Assault is fantastic.
Original + all expansion is best.
I played the original and all the expansions, Dark Crusade is my favorite out of all of them.
"Awwww . . . you killed all of my Necron Warriors?"
*RESURRECTION ORB*
"And now you didn't."
DC/SS give me mixed feelings. The campaign overall suffers slightly because of the unstructured nature of it. But on the plus side, you don't spend that much time on missions that are less important because of the bonuses you build up over the course of the campaign.
I loved this game so much, that I painted my space marines as blood ravens
I cant say that i blame you for that one
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we all did, this game got me to the 40k world when i was at 6th grade.
This is such a great game.
Sure, a lot has happened in RTS gaming since then, including it's basically dead now mostly, but this is great.
With all the remakes going on, really, i want a remake of this, better models, better textures, better lighting, better terrain, with quality of life stuff, extra units, nids race, bigger single player campaigns map, that would make me play this much more again, every now and then i do.
I hade a great time with it for sure. Yeah its to bad that they dont make them anymore, but we do still have the good old ones, this one, C&C, Warcraft, empire at war, age of empires.
Oh god yes, i would not say no to a remake
And better pathfinding
If you want a upgraded remake of DOW 1 sir, look no further than the legendary trio of mega mods for Soulstorm. Namely; Ultimate Apocalypse, Crucible, & Unification. Granted, you can only have one such mod attached to each copy; and yes, given the sheer scope of changes made, anyone using one of these will need a beastly gaming rig to run them. Especially since the original game engine was never intended to run such detailed simulations on the scale these alterations can achieve. But trust me; as someone who has played Ultimate Apocalypse, these aren't just mere amateurish tweaks, no... Quite simply, they are sublime works of Art. Well worth the trouble indeed. It would take way too long to fully explain exactly what each one alters, but if you want to know more; there are good videos by ThunderPsyker, MandaloreGaming, & Poncha. The videos made by these three youtubers explain pretty well; but one can also see the mods in action too, on TheXPGamers channel, by CaptainShack. Hope you like what you find sir, and have a great day!
another gem is Rise & Fall Civilizations at War it has a hero mode where you can go 3rd person Dow and Age of mythology/age of empires missed this opportunity Also remember Empires dawn of the modern world that was my childhood and didn't know they made rise and fall until ages after...
Unification Mod for Dawn of War
" so called" ? You couldn't believe your eyes as a 40K fan when it got released. That intro alone was worth it.
2:22 heavy bolters are actually better for medium range, so some of the space marines can actually shoot their normal bolters, since the squad will only engage enemies up until the longest range weapoin in the squad if not engaged closer. Also, plasma guns are mostly meant for firing on the run, and dealing with heavy infantry, like chaos space marines, and armored nobs.
Pro tip: deep strike in your own base, upgrade your terminators, then load them back into the orbital relay.
That takes the challange right out of it tho! And i totaly knew that was a thing you could do!
Another epic video - I have come to call these Tobbe Days and they are always magnificent. Had to work late so saw the notification hours before I could watch the vid, it was torture but well worth the wait. You never fail to deliver and I always have a great laugh. Thanks buddy. Already looking forward to the next one.
Glad it was worth the wait Mando!. I’m already hard at work......watching the damned thing update....yaaaay.
Haha thanks as always for watching my friend!.
What stood out to me the most as a kid when I played this was that this was and still is the only RTS I've ever played where the flame thrower doesn't do anything to building.
Yeah i was kinda missing the whole building instantly exploding the moment flames come close like in C&C
the flame thrower is more for moral break and anti infentry
Yeah in CnC they're anti building but here they're more along the lines of crowd control.
@@alephkasai9384 gotta control those crows!
@@Mathos93Control. Basically another way to say that they used terror tactics to demoralize people.
My uncle playing this explaining the lore to me was my introduction to the universe
My older brother playing the game against my other older brother and explaining the eldar is what got me playing the game
Slight correction, the human soldiers in this campaign are local PDF soldiers rather than official IG
Thats is it! I’m turning to chaos!. Yeah you are right, the Cadian armour made me forget that they were actually Tartarus pdf troops haha.
Winter assault was the best DoW expansion because the guard are always fun
The guard are always fun indeed. Its Easy to be brave in a 2 ton suite of power armour. Try being brave in a flack coat with a lasrifle in your hands
I didn't remember the voice actors were this good. I especially liked the chaos purple "Jeremy Irons" guy
Technically, representative government and free trade are perfectly fine with the Imperium so long as you make your tithe on time. Equal treatment of psykers might be an issue though as psykers can be gateways for chaotic incursion. There's a reason the Imperium is very strict with its use and employment of psykers. Most will become food for Big E and a handful will become sanctioned psykers serving various Imperial officios and adepta. Some even end up becoming astartes and serve as librarians. At least in those chapters who embrace such things.
The Imperium can't effectively manage itself. They can't be bothered to "correct" your planet's government if it's a representative democracy as long as you're not falling to Chaos. An exception might be if an Inquisitor lands on your planet for some unrelated reason and happens to not like the smell of your administration, but that would be a coincidence.
You also forget about the rather large amount of non sanctioned psykers utilized by special judicial powers within the imperium as well as the untold hoards of undiscovered psykers
16:11 thats why i teleport them down, upgrade them and then load them back into the relais
The codex astartes does not support this action!
@@tobbe2363oh shut up, Leandros!
Clearly... the best RTS game ever made, I strongly recommend Soulstorm expac.😅😅
There's a mod i love that changes a few minor things and rebalances things to fit the lore better. You could only reinforce at friendly structures too so the whole flow of combat changes. Overall the mods really make this game shine.
Ooo that does sound pretty good, it felt kinda wierd to just spawn in marines during combat, great game tho.
The linear campaign of DOW was amazing, especially the loading screens between missions, that gradually shows just how big and serious the Waaagghhh! Is and how dire the situation on Tartarus was.
It’s a shame we lost that in Dark crusade and Soulstorm.
Yeah it was really good and im kinda sad that they didn’t follow the theme in winter assault to the same externt.
I put so many hours on the disk versions of this game!
I can see why, with the Skirmish i bet you can get a lot of hours out of this baby.
Try DoW Soulstorm + Unification mod!
Thank me later ;-)
How many reinstalls I made, since my hard disk ain't that big. The OG was on cd and DC came in dvd, didn't get to play winter assault. Skipped SS and went ham on DoW2(CR,R), and with mods for SS ..yeah
It's one of those old-as-hell games I still regularly fire up and play to this day. It's a timeless classic, it was fantastic when I bought it on release in 2004, and it's still fantastic playing it 20 years later in 2024. It is genuinely one of the best PC games of all time.
Damn this game holds up surprisingly well
Oh yeah, the only thing i would change is the pathfinding which is terrible, everything else very good.
Totalwar 40k is gonna go so hard
If they can pull it off it Will be one for the ages for sure!
If this will ever see the light of day, it will for sure blow every other RTS out of the water!!!
@@GaiasWunderkind I’m pretty sure it’s all but confirmed 🤷🏻♂️ I mean why wouldn’t they after the success of total war warhammer
@@PatrickStar-tr9dz Assembly's Total War series has mostly done Medieval Melee and Blackpowder era forms of warfare.
They haven't done anything mobile and modern with automatic weaponry. The system of the Total War games are limited to such.
There was a WW1 mod using the Total War Napoleon base game. It was janky as fuck.
Don't put too much hope on Dawn of War. They made a Dawn of War 3 and Relic fucked that up.
@@cronialpalertotal war star wars is in development, at least that's what the rumors say
I've allways liked Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka, which is Ork for "Metal Skull, Big Ork Leader."
“I am slaughter”
Dat boi iz krumpin dem humie gitz.
Not so called..It is the best. Ending also has one of the most badass quotes ever... "...Then come and find your judgment waiting. You have escaped captivity only to face annihilation. I know you now..."
The things we do to please the algorithm.
It is a very quotable game and i loved every moment of it
@@tobbe2363 It is really legendary. I loved the Winter assault too. Dawn of war 2 was quite the change and i did end up playing it quite a bit. DOW 3 was a very bad game though..
Im going to play winter assault after i finish the video im currently working on, hopefully i’ll like it as much as you do!.
@@tobbe2363 Im sure you will, the mechanic is a bit more layered, nothing too fancy but a nice step up from DOW 1. It was a title that made me "fall in love" with the Orks haha I love your videos, keep em coming.
Excellent work playing this great game, feel free to play Ultimate Apocalypse next.
extended camera mod is a must for me, also the mods for this game go crazy
Nice I loved this Game... and I'll admit... I spent waaaaaaay to much time in the Army Painter.
While the Campaigns of Dark Crusade and Soulstorm take a more Risk-esque Territory Capture Style but they are still amazing.
Dark Crusade also introduced me into the Faction I play... TAU... FOR THE GREATOR GOOD.
I can see that haha.
Yeah i heard that was a thign they did, I look forward to trying them out in the future.
Well thats the good thing about Warhammer, there is something for everyone.
To have played cnc and aoe but not dow is actually insane... I grew up on those games
Well there were a looooot of aeo and C&C games to keep me busy haha
I was a huge warcraft 3 player and when this came out I could not stop playing. I had reached top 25 as IG during winter assault and this will live deep in my memory as best Warhammer title. Currently deep in to SM 2 and now I've gotta go rvisit this.
Daym my Guy i cant even begin to know what that is like, i cant multi task to,save my own life.
What do you think about SM2 i have heard a lot of good things, but unfortunetly my PC aint up to snuff haha.
You def should i had a great time with it
@@tobbe2363SM2 is pretty good. Good campaign and co-op with friends is superb fun.
Pro tip: If you want much higher difficulty, follow the instructions to sit and wait in mission 3. Eventually they start sending lots of looted tanks and blasting your troops to oblivion making the mission almost impossible. Or ignore the instructions to sit tight and push aggressively forwards, which is a far more effective strategy…
Paperwork is the most formidable opponent in the galaxy and is still undefeated.
That cut scene was one of the first as-good-as-any-movie intros. Set a very high bar for animations thereafter, and credit to WH40K and Warhammer in general - their follow up games all had excellent intro videos that put everything before them to shame. The game itself was also great, although like yourself I often found I was a bit of a completionist, so by killing absolutely everybody second phases often didn't happen. I seem to recall the follow up games fixing that a bit.
I would really want to see you play the expansions to this game, they are glorious!!!!
I did buy the expansions and DoW 2 on the sale so i def Will!
@@tobbe2363 FOR THE EMPEROR!!! (And maybe chaos if you do a chaos campain lol)
@@tobbe2363 You fucked up by buying DoW 2 but I wish you the best lol
@@mee091000DoW 2 ain’t even bad, it’s the fan made DoW 3 that isn’t great
@@HardcoreK1llar DoW 2 is not a bad game. But the 40k games started to fall off pretty hard at that point and they abandoned the RTS aspects and focus of the game that the community has been wanting to see return for YEARS now.
2:47 the true darkness of the 40k
The expansions for this game are great. Dark Crusade and Soul Storm are both a lot of fun, and the Necron are one of my favorite armies due to how dang simplistic they are.
I started playing dark Crusade a bit a few days ago and it’s pretty good so far, miss the narrative campaign tho.
16:17 Marine's probably thinking: Worth it for the Emperor!
Sword marine Will always be remembered in our hearts
@@tobbe2363 Just like Orkamungus.
He is krumpin in ork heaven now and forever
@@tobbe2363 Basically with Gork and Mork getting involved in Da BIGGEST WAAAAAGH in DA SKAI
It’s a truly beautiful thing
In the 40th millennium there is no facepalm, only facebolter.
4:50 the hours hersy in a nut nuted shell
Remembering the first time you loaded up that intro cinematic...💀
This is one of my top 5 favorite games ever
the squad explanation apothecary got me dying
Dawn of war 2... by far.. soulstorm added the ability to play all factions, learn the lore, abilities, and conquer in the imperors name.
I look forward trying it out when i get the time, i have heard a lot of good things about it
I honestly couldn't get into Dawn of War 2. It's basically a different genre in terms of how it plays; which isn't very appealing to me.
You have done well my son hope you like the expansions
Awesome video bro. DOW is amazing. Idk if you have ever heard of or played the unification mod. But it greatly expands upon the original 9 races/factions from DOW and it's expansions. And get ready for this. Brings a total of 36 fully fleshed out and playable factions/races. Its absolutely incredible. It is still being developed and updated. Check it out. Great video bro, subbed.
Thanks man! I have heard about it and it sounds waaaay to much for my monkey brain haha, i have a hard enough time as it is. Thanks again fort he kind words and the sub
@tobbe2363 nah you'd be fine. Have you ever played total annihilation or any of its inspired games?
I haven’t actually, are they any good?
@tobbe2363 omg bro. Ive been an rts fanatic since 9 years old. I'm 36 now. The total annihilation inspired games are literally the best rts out there. Total annihilation with the escalation mod, Supreme Commander, beyond all reason, zero k. Those will get you started. Total annihilation is like 5 bucks on steam. The escalation mod is free. The level of strategic depth in it is unparalleled.
Well then i’ll put it on the list my Guy, thanks for the hot tip!
Anytime Isador speaks, I just hear Lord Garmadon from LEGO Ninjago-
The Chaos Lord model in this game always looked really cool
Dawn of War was the first reason I got into wh40k! I actually had a chance to play actual tabletop game before but it was Dawn of War which truly showed me the real awesomeness of 40k! The tabletop game was.... Ok. But it's missing the screams, badass voice work, and real grimdark!
Yeah i have never played the tabletop game myself and it was Total Biscuits review of Space Marine that got me into the universe.
And now i have a shelf full of books, but thankfully i have managed to stay away from the plastic crack.
Is that the legendary voice actor Paul Dobson? Has to be, I need to play this game.
Im so proud that I have the original discs of DOW 1
It's probably one of the best intros to the 40k lore
Best thing about the game is the class customization and I remember my brother and I being absolute nerds creating lore behind our custom skins.
I also love how most rts games have build animations where the building would just pop up out of nowhere, meanwhile DOW would do the most violent dropshipping of an IKEA furniture
Def one of my top 10 most favorite videogame with infinite replayability (especially with mods)
You lucky BASTERD! Well played.
Yeah it has many things integral to warhammer without being too much .
I can see that being a thing, i just had a Quick look at it, and it was impressive how much you can customize.
God yes, the pods crashing into the earth and unpacking was awesome.
Class customization? You mean the Army Painter?
Classic! I would love to see a remastered version released.
I think the description of what Cyrene was probably comes from the novel by C.S. Goto, whose stuff is considered some of the worst officially licensed 40k content there is, regularly breaking canon. So not sure would I count it as canon.
gotta build a stronghold, else where would you hold your strongs?
My two favorite 40K games are both recent. Rogue Trader and Chaos Gate Daemonhuntrers. Each of them are some of my favorite games in their respective genres.
I am playing rogue trader right now on my free time and i am having a real good time with it. Though the leveling system and stuff is a bit much for my taste If im honest haha
@@tobbe2363 Yes the leveling...normally one of my favorite systems in CRPGs. Here though, it's a lot. I feel ill equipped to make a good decision during a 'dungeon' crawl and it can really break up the game flow figuring out what to take for everyone.
I feel the same way, it wouldn’t be so bad If half of the skills didn’t just buff existing skills by like 4%, right now it feels like im just picking random stuff just to get on with it.
@@tobbe2363 Yeah there are so many choices its easy to gimp characters at higher difficulties. Luckily it is fairly forgiving to respec, at least initially.
Good thing i play on normal then haha
I really liked Dawn of War 2; yeah it was different from Warcraft/Starcraft because there were no buildings but it was ahead of its time really, like playing a MOBA with multiple characters at once. All the negative reviews I saw were "RTS has buildings!!" but I had played that AvP RTS that I think was made by these same devs and it was the same way and wasn't just looking for another Blizzard clone. It was my first foray into the 40k franchise and it was good enough to really pull me in.
One of the reasons why the marines being the focus of the first game is... suboptimal, is that the orbital relay is a garrisonable structure - you can deduce it from the rhino mechanics (let's be real here, gamers and deduction rarely mix), or you can stumble upon having a different cursor icon with a compatible squad selected (but for that you have to pay attention - again, a relatively rare ability in the gamer population), but otherwise you'd have no idea that you're not actually supposed to just train and deploy fresh squads with it. The guard would've beeen a significantly better introductory faction, because most of their buildings can be filled with dozens of angry men with all sorts of guns, so the mechanic would be familiar instead of this odd thing in one structure.
This is probably the most well formulated comment i have ever gotten, and i agree with all of it.
Also KANE LIVES IN DEATH!
Problem is a Games Workshop executive would have left an upper decker in the Relic bathroom when he found out they didn't make Space Marines the headline faction for the main campaign.
I only played this for the multiplayer back then. Could you also do the expanstion pack (if they have campaign mission), and as well the other 2 series....
Yeah since people apparently liked this one i Will def give them a try.
The entirety of dawn of war could have been avoided if the eldar weren’t so cryptic.
Sounds about everything involving the eldar ever.
@@tobbe2363 It is fine if you have to bait monkeys to run through a minefield, but are you willing to sit with them and discuss military strategy in their monkey language, yawling and grunting and wildly gesticulating with a banana? Have some empathy and spare us, mon'keigh. ^^
My first taste of W40k Universe
i remember playing this game thinking this game was a generic soldier game as a kid, i was a dumbass kid
Will you also do the expansion campaigns?
Yeah, people seems to like this one so i think i Will give them a go.
@tobbe2363 I agree. I'm seeing the views for this compared to your other videos. Looks like you struck a chord here.
I have never played any warhammer videogames and i don't know anything about it's story or lore. i am really wanted to play the new space marine 2 so i googled for warhammer games and it's too complicated for me. can anyone suggest me my first warhammer game to start with?
Pro tip. Rhinos are very very useful, cheap and can be used to body block infantry and slaughter them
Ah so they have a use after all, good to know
@7:37, but can it also deal... emotional damage?
This game started my love for 40k ❤
If the rest of the comments are anything to go by, you are not alone in that!
dawn of war unification is all you need.
“His- SPACE MARINES”
Dawn of war: dark crusade was my first 40k game
You should try the expansions. Each has its own campaign for each faction.
I Will for sure, i have heard only good things so far
Get ready for a massive diffulcty increase tho, the dlc is better then the main campain but wow its hard.
Wait is the librarian voiced by the guy who voiced dr black in slug terra
1:36 nooooo im gona be bank roobed by this thing !!!!!!!
Just getting into to warhammer tbh but this game could do with a remaster and with todays technology not only looking awesome with modern graphics but could fit way more npcs on the screen meaning that in theory they could have missions where you deploy small squads and on the flip side you could large scale assaults like almost full on planetary invasions... just imagine looking at your screen and seeing like upto 1000 marines Dreadnoughts and tanks and titans just absolutely taking the fight to those tyranids/ orks/ Chaos enemies/ entities/necrons meanwhile having like starship bombard settlements and bases from orbit...
It was made with greatest care and love. Tonns of unnecessary things like idle animations often being different for different units, many unique melee finishers. Even for units who arent mainly melee, even specific dueling animations for some units. All that and voiceover created unique atmosphere.
And most beloved of all, and somehow missing feature even from nerdy wargames now - ability to customise unit composition by adding different specialist and weapons. So yo ucan make totally differently specialised units from same type of unit. While every army had so many different units anyway.
I cant do anything but agree with everything you just Said. The only thing that was subpar was the pathfinding, the rest was pure gold.
6:41 mmm i don't have any of this to words in my body lmfao
Dawn of War is what introduced me to 40k, it had memorable characters, gameplay, and also the control scheme that more or less similiar to Command and Conquer.
*As per 2024, I still play this game and never get bored (Soulstorm is kinda sucky tho)
Yeah it has been great so far i have to say.
Oh really? I have only heard positive things about it, what makes you say its kinda sucky?
@tobbe2363 From my experience at least, the Soulstorm expansion undo what makes Dark Crusade great, enjoyable, and make things unecessarily long and harder.
*(e.g n Dark Crusade, you just need to destroy enemy HQ and mission complete, but in Soulstorm you literally need to literally destroy anything before completing a mission)
Ah okey, thanks for the great answer
@tobbe2363 Sorry I forgot to mention that Dawn of War 1 had 3 expansion, first is Winter Assault, then Dark Crusade, and last is Soulstorm. While the other 2 is enjoyable on their own, Soulstorm is the "worst" because of odd choices and also kinda lack of polish.
25:00 YES! i thought you just breezed past the best part of the game.
The voice actors have to be commended.
Haha hell no i loved that shit!. Yeah they all did a great job with this one.
The Adepus Reptilius killed me, that was great
This game has story mode??I played these game for so long and nvr know about it
Thats great! Now you can get the experience watching this video!
I played this game in 15 fps and it was the best game ever. The best feeling I got is when I upgraded my PC so it can actually run it and noticed how better everything it
I had the same thing but with Oblivion and my dads laptop, that shit almost caught on fire everytime haha.
@@tobbe2363
My PC just crashed after I tried to open the first dungeon door in Oblivion.
You win this one the entire OrdoMallius, you win this one.
3:34 i think bro is ... sad? idk man im not a man who had his plant gone
I wish for a remaster of this classicer of a game
bruh you can see the chaos sorcerer teleport to the right side of the screen at 16:50 why didn't they stop him? are they stupid?
also this game is a banger. for the emperor!!!
It was the early 2000s and running after people handtag been invented yet, it was different times back then.
Yeah it is really good, looking forward to trying out the expansions.
They couldn't see him, he was hiding behind the edge of the 4:3 screen.
That is a very common problem when you play games created for 4:3 monitors on 16:9 monitors - you can see what you (as player) should not suppose to see ;-)
dawn of war 1 vs dawn of war soulstorm ? which one is better?
Well they are both Dawn of War 1, Soulstorm is an expansion pack.
i haven't played it yet, but from what i have heard people generally like it
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" Space Marine Sergeant, 2004
The nostalgia ❤
6:24 chad pose don't talk about mommy gili
Battlesector is my fave, very underrated
I’ll have to add it to my list then, thanks for the suggestion!
Agent 47, is that you?
I hope we understood you correctly that your heart is green, because it has been replaced by a guard issue augmetic. Because you wouldn’t want to get the Emperors most holy Inquisition involved, would you?
"Why is the game considered the best 40k game?"
Winter Assault, Dark Crusade, Legendary Voice Acting and Soulstorms Ultimate Apocalypse Mod
There are expansions, too.
6:01 oh yeah the fiest sex joke in 6 min nuts you did a god job buddy
0:11 never olayes both of them lmfao
13:28 - Yes very unfortunately. And totally not suspicions at all ;-)
16:05 - untill you realise that you can build a unit, reinforce and upgrade it and after that place it into an Orbital Relay.
Sometimes these things happen, for even in the grim darkness of the far future people ”forget” to service their vehicles.
SHIT! There is no way that is a thing! There is absolutely no president set that i miss the most obvious things!.
@@tobbe2363 Shit happens xD
@@tobbe2363 Another random info: download DoW Mod Manager and place it near game executable and you would be able to push graphics further that Ultra (including resolution) ;-)
Get out of here with your arcane knowledge foul deamon! *save to desktop*
@@tobbe2363 Want some more knowledge? Of course you (maybe) do! You can right click on reinforcement button (two crosses) or on heavy weapons to automatically keep reinforcing/buying until it's full.
It still kills me to this day that all the Farseer had to say was "Hey don't destroy the stone, too many people died and now destroying it will be bad."
LIke FFS, can't Eldar just be direct on one fucking thing?
That would be too Easy! Why be direct and make sense when you can be vague and mysterious
There’s a reason why Eldar have had a rough ride in 40k. Arrogance and failure to adapt seem to point their race towards ruin
im first
yay
nice videos btw
If you’re not first you’re last!.
Thanks man glad you liked it
u make great wh3 vids
I never liked the idea of dreadnoughts being considered just dead bodys in a machine of war well some dreadnought are just dead bodys in machines some of them are wounded space marines