Take command of two new playable races: Tau and Necron to unleash massive carnage across the frontlines of battle.ĭominate opponents online across 12 new multiplayer maps – with up to 8 players battling it out for supremacy.Ĭonquer the planet of Kronus any way you choose – leading any one of seven races on an epic crusade through an all-new, non-linear single player campaign where you can experience unique storylines from each race’s perspective.Ĭustomize your hero’s weapons, items and abilities as he grows in power and influence. While the second expansion, Dark Crusade, introduces support for more wide aspect ratios, Dawn of War can only handle 1920x1440, which creates borders on the left and right of the screen and. Take other races’ strongholds by winning challenging battles on various maps individually associated with the respective strongholds. Play any of seven races, striving for control over Kronus. Over millions of years, sand and rock had covered it all until ill-fated excavations awoke the deathless. Eons ago, these were the boulevards and squares of a great necropolis built to house the bones of the races who had fallen to the Necrons, and ultimately were where the Necrons themselves retire to spend eternity. When the player starts the campaign, his faction will only control the section they start (the homebase) on whereas the AI leaders will each have 3-4 sections under their control.
The new title for the new series wouldn’t even need to be anything fancy, just call it Company of Heroes: 40K and make it an official spinoff of the main series like Total War did for. Each province provides different bonuses or Honor Guards when conquered. This would allow Sega to make the next Dawn of War game in the style of the first one, but have a separate game for people who liked the second one. Deep under the central desert of Kronus, a vast honeycomb of skull-lined tunnels and funeral chambers house the awakening Necron menace. The strategic map in Dawn of War: Dark Crusade has 25 different sections in total.