The mod update is out! So you can download it over on ModDB using the link in the description. That version has had a few more polish passes I'm told. Great seeing this old RTS getting some new mods!
The Thallax are old heresy-era combat cyborgs, basically a human brain encased in armor. Unlike servitors, the brain controlling the Lorica Thallax is fully conscious and isn't lobotomised, so their manufacture was considered a bit of a warcrime.
Uh. The Mechanicus would prefer using robots, but manufacturing AI is a crime, so they use a chopped up pilot instead, which is actually legal and used very often in 40k, from servitors to flying skulls and turrets and whatnot. If there was a warcrime about using mauled humans as brains for machines, it would be the lack of painkillers. Nobody cares about your feelings in 40k. So sad.
@@Anttown123 none, other than remotely disable your mechanical body and leave your perpetually suffering brain trapped in an immobile prison of iron and plasteel
@@Anttown123 whatever the case, the Adeptus Mechanicus of the 41st millennium no longer use the Lorica Thallax, and I doubt they do so out of humanitarian reasons
In the lore the Imperial knight do have repair crews that travel in Baneblade sized repair trucks, behind the mechs and the trucks also launch cherubs as scouts. But, yeah geting some peasants to throw at the enemy or distinct house troops would be fun to have. Also a minor thing, that trigger the inner knight player in me, the knight shown is the Warden, gatling cannon arm, not the Paladin, fast firing tank gun arm. :P
I just looked up the Index and that's crazy, the Imp Knights are just a little baby subfaction with a handful of model types. At this point, with 40k being as old as it is, I assumed that every subfaction had been fleshed out, but apparently not...
The Thalax Lorica suit is a cyborg in power armor, quite similar to a Space Marine Dreadnought but using advanced AdMech weapons instead of silly bolters or missiles. Also, the Mechanicus do not wait for the pilot to get crippled before chopping him up and stuffing him inside a walking suit of armor.
Fun fact shack, mechanicus Knights do get infantry, and some do run around and repair! Normal knights also have infantry but there just knights.. like fantasy knights, it’s sir raloth the 5th charging at a space marine with his trusty razor pik and a shield
Go into the army painter and change the chapter etc for marines / chaos / imp guard and some others. It changes the unit models to fit. Which is very cool little detail.
They need to mod in all the Leader Characters into the Last Stand, An Ork Warboss deserves to be facing the Horde or have the Inquisitor in there as well.
In DoW Retribution you can right click the green reinforce button and the squad will automatically reinforce themselves when they can. Just makes it one less thing to worry about during a match.
That song wasn't from Darktide, it was Noosphere from Mechanicus. Easy mix-up though, both games have killer soundtracks. I only know this because it's one of my favorites.
Mouses over a dunecralwer: “we know what a dreadnought looks like” And I mean ok … the driver is installed permanently into the vehicle, so not all that wrong
Worse - it was a combination of the two! Thing i hated about DoW3 - and i really tried to like it, the time to kill on units was ridiculous. You'd take in squads of space marines that would get carved like butter instantaneously, so any tactics became engage and as soon as they took fire, retreat to base to replace the units or lose the entire squad. This combined with the extra emphasis on heroes and hero micro just became a pain in the ass. With time they tweaked it to reduce the time to kill but the moba style of gameplay meant it just became continual chokepoint gameplay - massive armies in laneways then pushing or being pushed. The other thing was - the factions were super detailed (which is great) but this meant it would require considerable resources to create new factions, and it ONLY had 3 ffs - space marines, orks and eldar - not even chaos. Had they at least gone with four or five factions I reckon it'd have already made it a better game. Such a bloody shame. I hope a DOW4 is cooking somewhere.
Currently the only way to have infantry in an Imperial knights army is to either use agents of the imperium and add them in. Trouble is you only get 2 squads and 2 heroes, or add a single knight to an imperial army.
looks at the elite mod thats been out for a while. to be fair seems like this one adds more. it also seems like it has less as in hero choices.. only lord general for guard?
The one skitsri to run the katalans is due to how uatomita work in warhammer their not ai but more remote control some people have somthing called a cortex controler it lets them control a team of robots
Does anyone know how to properly install this mod? I downloaded it today and I followed the instructions in the read me text file but, nothing is working currently.
Hey shack I’ve been a huge fan of your channel for years and I just recently got into 40k yeah that being said which is your favorite space marine legion/ chapter. For me it’s either the death guard, black templars or the imperial fists.
Some of those mechanicum robots are horus haresy units basicly most the robots are only playable in haresy the reason they cant build is not that they just cant but after the horus haresy they stoped deploying automatons much of the mechanicums haresy robots were just banned from use post civil war
Still hoping this mod actually does support the GOG version at some point though, cause the vanilla gameplay puts me to sleep & it'd be legit good to not be gated hard from a mod just cause i typically stick to buying older games on the storefront that's made for them
Is this game locked to 60 FPS? My 144hz monitor is sad now. I went into the config for DOW2 and DOW2 Retribution and changed vsync=1 to 0 and back and forth and nothing. There is no option in the game settings menu, I also went into the nvidia control panel and overridden it as well and still nothing. Why is it locked at 60FPS???
Try lowering your graphics or resolution, make sure you have sufficient RAM and if you installed the game through steam or any platform like that then try verifying your files
This is what it should had been from the start, for DoW 2 and 3. Tons of factions... even if they had added small add-ons... but on a reasonable price... 🤔like max 5$... and fixed the soundbug 😅🤦🏻 A workshop on Steam whould be nice too, for the DoW titles 😊 Modders are AMAZING 👍🏻
I downloade him, follow the steps, but the mod just dont work and now a cant even play de normal game, i already try to uninstall and reinstall my DoW2 retribution but continuing dont working, anyone can helpme ?
The mod update is out! So you can download it over on ModDB using the link in the description.
That version has had a few more polish passes I'm told.
Great seeing this old RTS getting some new mods!
ahoy captin has your agaris sunday survival series been canceled or forgotten about cause really liked that Chinook you built
I still want to see an irl tabletop throw down between you and W4sted. Make it happen Cap.
Imperial knight infantry is basically Armigers and Dreadnoughts
Awesome!
Author here - appreciate the coverage, Omnissiah bless you!
Very cool mod bro!
And we appreciate your work, great stuff.
Cool mod, any chance DE are in the works?
Great mod!! 🙌🙌🙌
Awesome work!
Rule of Thumb: If the music is good in a 40k mod, It's from Mechanicus
I was about to say this, but you beat me to it 🎉
Or Darktide
or Rogue Trader
or dawn of war if its for a different game
There is other great 40k music out there. Fantastic stuff….
Mechanicus makes it all look like wiggles music.
The Thallax are old heresy-era combat cyborgs, basically a human brain encased in armor. Unlike servitors, the brain controlling the Lorica Thallax is fully conscious and isn't lobotomised, so their manufacture was considered a bit of a warcrime.
Uh. The Mechanicus would prefer using robots, but manufacturing AI is a crime, so they use a chopped up pilot instead, which is actually legal and used very often in 40k, from servitors to flying skulls and turrets and whatnot. If there was a warcrime about using mauled humans as brains for machines, it would be the lack of painkillers. Nobody cares about your feelings in 40k. So sad.
It’s warhammer… what ISNT a warcrime?
No failsafe for rebellion?
@@Anttown123 none, other than remotely disable your mechanical body and leave your perpetually suffering brain trapped in an immobile prison of iron and plasteel
@@Anttown123 whatever the case, the Adeptus Mechanicus of the 41st millennium no longer use the Lorica Thallax, and I doubt they do so out of humanitarian reasons
13:30 the music is "Noosphere" from Mechanicus 🙂
Serotonin injected directly into cortex
In the lore the Imperial knight do have repair crews that travel in Baneblade sized repair trucks, behind the mechs and the trucks also launch cherubs as scouts. But, yeah geting some peasants to throw at the enemy or distinct house troops would be fun to have. Also a minor thing, that trigger the inner knight player in me, the knight shown is the Warden, gatling cannon arm, not the Paladin, fast firing tank gun arm. :P
I just looked up the Index and that's crazy, the Imp Knights are just a little baby subfaction with a handful of model types. At this point, with 40k being as old as it is, I assumed that every subfaction had been fleshed out, but apparently not...
You can find this music on UA-cam if you search for 'Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus | Mastered Original Soundtrack'
13:30 is Mechanicus music
Holy crap, the gameplay of DoW 1 in the DoW 2 game?! I died and went to heaven, PRAISE THE OMNISSIAH FOR DEDICATED MODDERS!
The Thalax Lorica suit is a cyborg in power armor, quite similar to a Space Marine Dreadnought but using advanced AdMech weapons instead of silly bolters or missiles. Also, the Mechanicus do not wait for the pilot to get crippled before chopping him up and stuffing him inside a walking suit of armor.
Fun fact shack, mechanicus Knights do get infantry, and some do run around and repair!
Normal knights also have infantry but there just knights.. like fantasy knights, it’s sir raloth the 5th charging at a space marine with his trusty razor pik and a shield
Go into the army painter and change the chapter etc for marines / chaos / imp guard and some others. It changes the unit models to fit. Which is very cool little detail.
"the organ music" - noosphere' by guillaume david
Seeing Admech get some love warms my cold mechanical heart. Praise the Omnissiah!
Another way to see them - Dawn of War: Soulstorm + Unification mod (or just + Adeptus Mechanicus: Explorators mods but it's less fleshed out).
the music is from mechanicus, possibly the coolest xcom-like game with necrons and mechanicus, really atmospheric music.
Chaos Gate Daemonhunters is pretty cool too
They need to mod in all the Leader Characters into the Last Stand, An Ork Warboss deserves to be facing the Horde or have the Inquisitor in there as well.
In DoW Retribution you can right click the green reinforce button and the squad will automatically reinforce themselves when they can. Just makes it one less thing to worry about during a match.
This looks like the real Dawn of War sequel that we wanted :D
Admechs and ost from Mechanicus, truly glorious. Omnissiach bless.
That song wasn't from Darktide, it was Noosphere from Mechanicus. Easy mix-up though, both games have killer soundtracks. I only know this because it's one of my favorites.
All of the images and soundtrack for the adeptus mars boys is actually from the game Adeptus Mechanicus. An amazing game as well.
Not all of the images. Some are from the covers of Skitarius and Tech-Priest.
This models are Stellar! Just... *chefs kiss*
Awesome mod Shack, thanks for the showcase. Would love to see more factions.
Love the model work in this mod! Definitely need more vids of this 🙌🏼
Mouses over a dunecralwer: “we know what a dreadnought looks like”
And I mean ok … the driver is installed permanently into the vehicle, so not all that wrong
Sad thing is that, unless I'm mistaken, Dawn of War 3 wasn't even an RTS: It was a MOBA.
Worse - it was a combination of the two!
Thing i hated about DoW3 - and i really tried to like it, the time to kill on units was ridiculous. You'd take in squads of space marines that would get carved like butter instantaneously, so any tactics became engage and as soon as they took fire, retreat to base to replace the units or lose the entire squad. This combined with the extra emphasis on heroes and hero micro just became a pain in the ass.
With time they tweaked it to reduce the time to kill but the moba style of gameplay meant it just became continual chokepoint gameplay - massive armies in laneways then pushing or being pushed.
The other thing was - the factions were super detailed (which is great) but this meant it would require considerable resources to create new factions, and it ONLY had 3 ffs - space marines, orks and eldar - not even chaos. Had they at least gone with four or five factions I reckon it'd have already made it a better game.
Such a bloody shame. I hope a DOW4 is cooking somewhere.
@@decado7dont forget no cover mechanics except those dumb bubble shield whatever it’s called .
That comment about Tabby struggling to pick a colour scheme is a big mood
Based
Thanks for covering this mod the ipdate deserves every praise
So a skirmish/MP focused mod? Looks cool.
Kinda wish people would make more mods for the campaigns. Brothers of the 4th comes to mind.
Currently the only way to have infantry in an Imperial knights army is to either use agents of the imperium and add them in. Trouble is you only get 2 squads and 2 heroes, or add a single knight to an imperial army.
Needs Dark Eldar!
14:48 Fun fact, Tau can one shot Space Marines with a single punch.
The Knight model is made by the Developer. Absolut awesome work, for the model and the mod at all.
I LOVE that they have custom voice lines! Hope they add chaos corrupted traitor guard and genestealer cults as playable factions!
Are there any mods that change/add things to the main campaign?
id like to know this too
my mates and i still play retribution elite mod sometimes, we will check this out.
2:31 - why is the Necron lord so short?
The mechanicus had the music that came with warhammer Mechanicus.
11:25 how good is the AI in this game? That Tau saw your units and just booked it.. isn't that wierdly smart for an AI?
the kastellan are supposed to be quite a bit bigger but they still look great
Oh the mechanicus Music 👌
looks at the elite mod thats been out for a while. to be fair seems like this one adds more. it also seems like it has less as in hero choices.. only lord general for guard?
Friendly tip: Right click on green Reinforce button to always autoreinforce ;-)
Very good for casual play!
I request help, I downloaded the game but when I start it an error screen appears
all that is left is now adding the dwarvs to this, what are they called again? Votaan? They need to be here now
Praise the Ommissiah for this video! Please do show off the other factions Captain!
How do I install this game? I bought dawn of war 2 retribution on steam, but when I download the codex edition I get an error
The music is from Mechanicus
It’s now something I can’t avoid. Power Wash Simulator did a 40K update.
Totally downloading this later
The one skitsri to run the katalans is due to how uatomita work in warhammer their not ai but more remote control some people have somthing called a cortex controler it lets them control a team of robots
When you realize the Imperial Knight is just advanced, super light scout infantry for Titans.
I want some Votann but understand we dont have the range of models to do it yet
Nice work. Have a download of only graphics? I didnt want change my game vanilla
music is from mechanicus
do you have any link for a increased army pop cap mod that can be played along with codex edition mod?
the song is from mechanicus
Adeptus Custodes and sisters of Silence would be OP absolute unit.
I hope someone makes a campaign with this.
Doesn’t work for me and installed to the directory.
Can you post a step by step installation in the comments with file names listed
would love to see some more videos on this!
Does anyone know how to properly install this mod? I downloaded it today and I followed the instructions in the read me text file but, nothing is working currently.
The sound track is form the game warhammer 40k : mechanicus
Can you play with friends running the same mods or has their been issues?.
Psychotic medical droids with knives is not a bad description of Sicarian Ruststalkers honestly.
the musik is from mechanicus not from dark tide
The music is from the game mechanicus
nice Mod and game greetings from another warhammer enthusiast :) btw. how did you integrate the QR Code for your Discord ?
dawn of war 2 “Elite mod” is where it’s at for balance plays
pretty sure they can build regular kastellen robots
I would love to see more of this!!! Plz
Hey shack I’ve been a huge fan of your channel for years and I just recently got into 40k yeah that being said which is your favorite space marine legion/ chapter. For me it’s either the death guard, black templars or the imperial fists.
Some of those mechanicum robots are horus haresy units basicly most the robots are only playable in haresy the reason they cant build is not that they just cant but after the horus haresy they stoped deploying automatons much of the mechanicums haresy robots were just banned from use post civil war
The music is pretty bumpin.
I mean we're gonna need at least one Imperial Guard one, and I'd like to see what the Necrons can do
This made me look up the other Warhammer 40k games on steam and i discoverd this: Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector - T'au
Whats the difference between codex editing and eternal mod?
Can this be Played in offline skirmish mode or is it totally impossible to do such thing?
Please do a play through of all factions.
I’m disappointed they don’t have the sister of battle yet but here’s to hoping they’ll be added soon.
They're planning to add at least 4 more factions. The Renegade Guard, Sisters of Battle, Dark Eldar, and Deathwatch.
tried to install the damn mod twice, :( the damn thing won't even start all i get is an icon
Still hoping this mod actually does support the GOG version at some point though, cause the vanilla gameplay puts me to sleep & it'd be legit good to not be gated hard from a mod just cause i typically stick to buying older games on the storefront that's made for them
Let's give it the ol' guardsman try!😂
man.
I wish Dawn Of War 2 would just load up for me
I wish these awesome mods worked with the campaign.
Is this game locked to 60 FPS? My 144hz monitor is sad now. I went into the config for DOW2 and DOW2 Retribution and changed vsync=1 to 0 and back and forth and nothing. There is no option in the game settings menu, I also went into the nvidia control panel and overridden it as well and still nothing. Why is it locked at 60FPS???
those moddles look soooo coooool
I'd love another video as the guard
if they get sisters in the mod, i might have to check it out
It’s from a mechanicus xcom game
That wasn’t a dreadnaught
Can we play skirmish on offline without internet?
Anyone know how to keep the game from crashing. I get it to start up and I've been in a couple of single player vs 1 ai, but it continuously crashes.
Try lowering your graphics or resolution, make sure you have sufficient RAM and if you installed the game through steam or any platform like that then try verifying your files
This is what it should had been from the start, for DoW 2 and 3.
Tons of factions... even if they had added small add-ons... but on a reasonable price... 🤔like max 5$... and fixed the soundbug 😅🤦🏻
A workshop on Steam whould be nice too, for the DoW titles 😊
Modders are AMAZING 👍🏻
DOW2 = one of the best games ever.
A surprise to be sure; but a welcome one.
woooo my ad mechy boys are here I'm all in!
the mod is just for skirmishs and mp right? no campaigns.
I downloade him, follow the steps, but the mod just dont work and now a cant even play de normal game, i already try to uninstall and reinstall my DoW2 retribution but continuing dont working, anyone can helpme ?
how good is the AI in skirmish when using this mod?
Does the mod affects the campaign ?