How to play Dawn of War in 2023 - A Guide for New and Old Players

Make Dawn of War great again.

TIME STAMPS:
0:00 Intro
00:58 Mods
03:39 Quality of life addons
18:04 Youtubers
19:59 Discords
20:24 Outro

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#dawnofwar #warhammer40k

[theblastfurnace]

One important thing; the LAA patch will make you sync out with players who dont play with it. So if you want to play vanilla, dont enable / disable it since every vanilla players play without it.

[sentrysapper]

Good DoW primer, hopefully it will encourage folks to try out/reconnect with the game.

If I may suggest another DoW YouTuber to add to the list, I recommend DoW Stronghold. He has a firm grasp on Soulstorm matchups and brings an infectious excitement to his casts.

[kronnusalpha]

Another great video... Entertaining and informative... I love DoW 1 and 2 and I'm really glad of this community... I hope people like you will keep these games alive for years to come... Thank you and keep the excellent work... Kudos from Brazil...

[willianjohnam]

Played all DoW this year (yeah... including DoW3) and I can say without a single trace of doubt that Dawn of War 1 is the best!

[jagusart]

Thanks again for the shoutout! And what a great video, heck even I learnt a few things. I'm going to use this for reference when I get around to playing those mods. Also, almost at 4K!! Woop woop!

[thepowerflow]

God i still get goosebumps today 20 years later watching the Dawn of war intro

[TK-kqpg]

"Tread lightly and carry a big modpack!" Thanks a million!

[RegularDude]

I mean it is old but im a new player that has no nostalgia attached to it and i think it doesnt feel old. It feels super responsive and the graphics allthough dated still look great in my eyes.

[itness]

afaik LAA stands for Large Address Awareness and allows to use more than 2GB of RAM
downside is people with LAA enabled can't play with people who have this disabled so probably rare used for vanilla and mods that don't use dow mod manager by default

[WordEaters-grhv]

3:13 Inquistor Karamazov from If the Emperor have a Text-to-speech. You know the truly care when they put this little detail in.

[mingyuhuang]

Let's go legend love your work. Succinct, clear voice. Big charisma man. You should begin reviewing games and branch out from just dawn of war content.

[edgein]

Thanks so much for this video. It was really useful. I played DoW Dark Crusade a lot when it came out, I remeber having it on CD, I have susequently returned to it several times for the nostalgia but had never been able to get into Soul Storm having not played it when I was younger and not being overly enthusiastic about the two new races. Not being a big 40k fanboy (my main engagement with the IP was through this game), so I don't really know the factions tbh. But I have wanted to look into the modding scene and it seems like SS is the game that has all of the mods. This was a useful starting off point for that. I will be sure to check out some of your other videos and the other creators you referenced. Thanks again.

[TheLaughingMax]

"hey, I have a problem with my game. it alsways crashes when..." joke! nice video and big thanks for the shoutout.

[AWildDragoniteAppears]

Ive been playing this game since it was released. DoW (unmodded) is the best rts of all time. It is shameful that it is not a top esport. Would highly recommend any DoW expansion over any rts any day.

[zernix]

You neglected to mention El furretos shadow mod, which gives realistic shadows to all units, specular textures, force high poly, fullresteamcolor, persistent bodies, the bug fix mod, fixed models, etc...

As a side note, some things that I'm surprised were never modded is that health and mana bars are huge (unlike the thin lines of supreme commander) and sit below the unit (unlike StarCraft 2), which means that if you have units selected and move the camera, the health bars of units further back will obscure view of units in the front. Likewise, setup bars shouldn't be necessary at all given the excellent animations. But that is for someone more talented than I to address.

[DouglasMeloche]

thanks for doing this
loved ChaosGate Daemonhunters, and a friend recommended this

[liamobrien]

Crucible is basically a replacement for ultimate apocalypse. The UA team hasn’t updated the game in a long time for what I understand. Crucible in my experience is the best way to play dawn of war if you want large battles.

[Arke]

Hooooly shit this is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thank you so much for this.

[КонстантинГоломозов]

Интересное и полезное видео. Большое спасибо, что поделились с нами этой информацией.

[FunkiestChickenlawl]

It's funny, I had never really played a 40k game before, but I did watch things like Boreale Cast and had no idea what they were referencing lmao. I just bought all of the Dawn of War games for the first time on steam this week and it's already topped my favorite RTS games I've ever played. The game is so damn smooth and responsive and it's really refreshing especially for an RTS game, where every other RTS I had played before this had some kind of AI or pathing issues.

I fucking love the reinforcement and morale system and how it encourages you to keep smaller groups of units and upgrade them, rewarding you for not just spamming the shit out of random goons. It makes me wonder why no other RTS game really did this afterwards. Phenomenal game, I'm just sad I never tried it out sooner.