Was it Good? - Warhammer 40'000: Dawn of War
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Published 2024-02-01
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Walk softly, and carry a big gun.
Dawn of War released back in 2004, that's 20 years ago, and yet it is still sen as one of the best warhammer games, why? What did it do so well? Let's replay the whole thing and find out.
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All Comments (21)
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Spoilers: Yes.
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"I will call them the Astra Militarum when I'm dead, you are in the Imperial Guard" the correct take.
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Honestly this game is what got me into 40k as much as I am today. Already had the models and had friends who played the tabletop game, but Dawn of War is what really cemented It with me.
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"I will call them the Astra Militarum when I am dead. You are in the Imperial Guard" Aaaaaaand subscribed.
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My dad bought me Dawn of war for my 8th birthday(A dubious parental decision). 17 Years, dozens of books and thousands of miniatures later I still love Warhammer as much now as I did back then.
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30:36 Basically all of WH40K can be described saying "The situation on the planet is grim"
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When the mood strikes, I’ve been known to bellow Commisar lines at the guys at work I manage. “Fear me, but FOLLOW!” is a real crowd pleaser
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That intro cinematic had no business going that hard. I was stunned the first time I booted up this game.
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It's been 2 decades since I first played this game, and the opening cinematic still gives me goosebumps when the flag is raised.
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I like that an apothecary quote has become the go-to comment of condolence among 40k fans "The fallen shall be forever remembered as the Emperor's finest"
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I actually played this game a few months ago still totally holds up. I am looking forward to Space Marine 2 but if they just bought out a new updated graphical version of classic DOW with more factions, that game would be outrageously popular.
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Slight correction: Dawn of War 1 actually lets you make your own symbols and flags. You "just needed" to make any design you like in a graphic program of the correct pixel size and let you throw rhem down in a local folder for "flags and symbols" as PNG files.
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This game gave is the ultimate Space Marine tactic...STEEHL REEHN!
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A few key notes: Orbital Relay - You can put troops inside of it and deep strike them anywhere (with vision) on the map Remove Active Units - By pressing the DELETE button, you can kill an entire squad/unit.
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2 man game, 6 man map. goes for days
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The tutorial guy sounds like someone teaching excel on windows 95
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You don’t play Chaos because you want to be good, you play Chaos because the Crab 🦀 god compelled you. I remember being in college after Dark Crusade came out and 8 of us being crammed in a room doing a big LAN match.
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The voice acting holds up so well, Sindri in particular always stood out to me, what a perfect casting.
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The Dawn of War tutorial is actually a weirdly formative piece of my childhood. Got some mild shivers when you demonstrated out of pure nostalgia.
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As a StarCraft guy I never was into Warhammer but this game was played on every LAN Party in the mid-2000s and it was dope.
