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Posted on August 30, 2011, CJ Miozzi Top 10 Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War Mods
As we all eagerly await the release of Space Marine, now is an opportune time to celebrate an earlier video game in the Warhammer 40k series: Dawn of War. Put on your power armor, because we’re going on an inquisition to find the top 10 mods for the RTS that raised an army of fans.
10. Steel Legion – Armageddon
This mod introduces the Steel Legion as a new playable race in DoW, balanced with the existing races. The Steel Legion has unique strategic elements with more specialized units and the ability to deploy more forces to the battlefield.
9. Killteam
Not to be confused with the similarly-named standalone release, Killteam is a 5 player co-op hero defense mod in which players must survive 40 randomly generated waves of increasing difficulty and overcome powerful bosses to survive. 18 custom heroes, new models, textures, and abilities — friends not included.
8. Wh40k Tabletop Experience
Here’s a mod that re-balances DoW based on the original tabletop version of the game. If you’re an old-school wargamer, you need to check this one out.
7. Tabletop Round-up
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Yeah. Deal with it. Respect the game’s roots.
This mod was primarily designed to increase the damage values to more ‘realistic’ levels, and includes further balance changes to reflect this increase in damage, such as a doubling of Ork population cap.
6. Tau mod
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This mod seeks to bring the Tau Empire to DoW, complete with new 3d models, textures, sounds, and coding. Some say the new units are overpowered, but we’ll let you decide for yourself.
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ltimate Apocalypse is a mod for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Soulstorm created by Ultimate Apocalypse mod team. Featuring dozens of new content, no other mod will have, this mod lets you do the unthinkable unlike any DOW mod. Do you imagine the largest Warhammer40k scale battles topped with balance for all races? Do you ever want to experience your spine throttling like crazy with good feelings over, and over, and over? Do you hate having your squads limited by Relic's balance system? Do you want to see your enemies nuked by the abilities of your own superweapon, or steamroll them with many titans fighting other titans with complete balance? This is your mod. This is one of the best DOW mods.
Furthermore, this mod has the better gameplay, feel, and epic features that no other mod can ever match. The Grand Release is available now, today! Below is the trailer of this mod, watch it, and let your mind get blown!
How to install: the mod has it’s own installer.
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There are lots of strange suns overlooking the oddball planets in the 40K universe, and on Relic’s world, dawn only comes around twice a decade. Each time it’s an event – a different vision of what a Warhammer RTS could be – and ushers in new possibilities. Just imagine what Dawn of War 3 mods could be now, in the age of Steam Workshop.
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This time, the series returns to a world where mods can reach larger audiences than ever before. Here’s what we hope to see land in our download folders, like drop pods on an alien battlefield.
A rulebook’s worth of extra Space Marine chapters
Dawn of War 3 will launch with just three factions: Space Marines, Eldar and Orks. Relic have sensibly picked the most-played races of previous games to begin with, but left the weirder and wilder corners of Games Workshop’s fiction unexplored.
While the Imperial Guard, Chaos et al will surely follow in expansions, just as they did in Dawn of Wars past, Relic are likely to leave the many and varied Space Marine chapters of the tabletop game alone (in fact they invented their own, the Blood Ravens, rather than deal with existing lore). That means modders are free to do as they wish with the likes of the ever-popular Space Wolves – basically the Imperium’s Stark family, down to the furs – and the hot pink heretical hedonists in the Angels of Ecstasy.
Skirmish-level combat in the style of Dawn of War II
Relic have re-embraced the screen-filling approach of the original Dawn of War for the new sequel. The series is once again centered on massive armies fed by the constant churn of nearby bases. But Dawn of War II offered an alternate take that was just as good: a smaller-scale game about creeping between cover that was more reminiscent of Company of Heroes than StarCraft.
It’s up to modders now to pull that version of the game into the modern world – to refocus Dawn of War around tiny squads of persistent characters. It’s far more satisfying to watch jetpacked assault marines crash-land into their enemies when they’re in close-up, after all.
A stomp back in time to Warhammer 30,000
There’s a period in the 40K universe – a long time ago, in galaxies far, far away – that’s arguably more compelling than the one the tabletop game concerns. The 31st millennium saw the birth of the Chaos marines, in a vast civil war that set man against man and claimed 2.3 trillion lives – according to the records of the Black Library, at least.
This was Warhammer’s Paradise Lost: a tragic battle between angels and an intensely personal struggle for the Emperor of Mankind, then a towering hero rather than a rotting god-king in a chair, against Horus, the Warmaster he had trusted like a son. Could you ask for more potent material to turn into a fan-made campaign?
Mad Orks: Fury Road
There are two post-apocalyptic reference points that feed into all of Games Workshop’s future fiction: Judge Dredd, and Mad Max. When the latter returned in last year’s Fury Road, the resemblance of George Miller’s frenzied speed freaks to Warhammer’s own orks was uncanny. The rolling, ramshackle convoy stirred up to chase down Furiosa was a WAAAGH! in everything but name.
Replace Relic’s greenskin warboss with patriarchal tyrant Immortan Joe, and the ork war boyz with, well, the war boys, and you’re halfway to finishing what will surely be the top skin-swap on the Dawn of War III Nexus.
A point system for armies
Dawn of War III multiplayer needn’t look like the MOBAs. Instead, imagine pitched fights directed by players with perfectly matched but hugely divergent forces.
Tabletop Warhammer players have long known the joy of totting up a 1,000 point army in their heads, before overpowering and outmaneuvering an equally-strong enemy. In fact, one of the chief complaints about Games Workshop’s newest ruleset, Age of Sigmar, stemmed simply from the fact that it launched without a point system.
In this dream mod, base-building would be out of the question. You’d feel the cost of a lost unit all the more keenly, knowing that you couldn’t simply barf out another.
Blood for the blood god
Relic’s final slice of Dawn of War II DLC was a gore mod that turned up the frequency and scale of blood effects, leaving nice, white Eldar uniforms covered in the claret exploding from their comrades. Such was its gratuity that the developers warned it made battles “hard to see”.
Basically, this needs to happen again in Dawn of War III. Make it so, modders. Do it for Khorne, the Chaos god of war, murder and senseless destruction. Do it for the lord of rage, sat on his skull throne. Blood mods, for the blood god! And maybe also a free camera mode. Ta.
That’s our brains emptied out onto the page – is there anything else you’d particularly like to see the Dawn of War community turn their tools to? Do tell in the comments.
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I genuinely couldn’t say whether Soulstorm was the ‘best’ version of Relic’s first 40K RTS, but it’s certainly the one that makes me feel fondest towards the series.
I can remember seeing the first screenshots of vanilla DoW and sincerely believing that it was going to be the greatest videogame ever made.
I can remember then playing it and finding it slightly… flat. Great-looking for sure, but somehow lacking quite the bombast I’d imagined. The campaign was a major let-down too. But, by the time final expansion Soulstorm rolled around, so many well-known 40K factions were in the mix that the devs had to dig relatively deep – and they struck crazy-gold.
The Sisters of Battle and the Dark Eldar aren’t factions I’d ever particularly wanted to play as, but they do bring enormous extra character to the 40K setting. Better still, with them in the mix we were up to a fully nine different factions. Suddenly Dawn of War wasn’t just a narrow slice of the 40K universe: it was the 40K universe. I remain disappointed that Dawn of War II never went anything like as far.
There was a bit of a rocky start for Relic's highly-anticipated Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War III, with only one multiplayer mode available at launch and some major bugs in single player mode that prevented many players from even being able to complete the early missions.
Fast forward a few months and we've had a host of bug fixes and new game modes added. Now, finally, the August 30th patch brings a host of multiplayer balances and what everyone has truly been waiting for -- mod tools!
Passionate fans are already flooding the Dawn Of War III Steam Workshop with maps (bringing back some of the most loved entries from the original Dawn Of War and other titles), unit tweaking mods, and of course all sorts of delicious cheats to cut down on the grind.
Below we're rounding up the best of the best in mods that are currently available and should be downloaded immediately for new twists on the revamped DoWIII gameplay.
Want to get in on the Steam Workshop modding action yourself? Check out Relic's modding guide here and upload your very own creations for everyone else to try!
Best Dawn Of War III Steam Workshop ModsElite Unit Upgrades
While you can slowly earn various Doctrines for your Elites over time and apply them in between battles, one element of the game that has been frustrating for some players is the lack of ability to directly apply different upgrades during a campaign.
With this mod, any of your basic upgrades you buy with requisition and energy for your infantry units will also apply to your Elites, giving them bonus health, damage, and so on just like they were any other unit.
Bridge Of Helios Map
This updated multiplayer map is an amazingly protracted dog fight of a slog where you'll be battling for every inch of territory in a straight line, rather than spread across any of the normal maps.
War is hell, and it's doubly so in the simple (but devastating) Bridge Of Helios map. Anytime you've got a strategic point captured, be prepared to immediately defend it, and making any headway the other direction will result in a huge battle of epic proportions if any player has been properly defending their listening posts.
Balance Of Terror Map
Of all the 1 Vs 1 Workshop maps currently available, this is easily among the best, with a nonstandard layout for the power core objectives and an awesome yin yang style that's half Necron-themed, half Chaos-themed.
Now when is Relic finally going to get on letting us play those races in single and multiplayer modes already? Bring on the Tau and Tyranid while you're at it!
No Limit Mod
It's exactly what it sounds like -- the population cost of every unit is reduced to 0, so you can just keep on calling 'em down as long as you've got the resources to spare. Careful though, as this can result in some serious slow downs if your rig can't handle a hundred vehicles on screen at a time!
Overpowered Elites
The endless grind for leveling your Elites and unlocking new abilities just got a whole lot easier thanks to this trio of overpowered mods that let you batter through anything in your path without much danger of an Elite going down in the gunfire.
Keep in mind, these are the best Workshop entries now available just after the mod tools arrived a few days ago! There will certainly be more coming down the pipe soon that let you die in ever more epic ways for the glory of the Emperor.
Have you see any awesome Dawn of War III mods that should make this list? Let us know in the comments section!
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