Honor Guards also have the benefit of being reinforced free-of-charge.īetween levels, rather than only obtaining wargear upgrades, you can also choose to acquire upgrades to your basic units as well. Taking an Honor Guard over a Hero unit may result in a weaker starting force, but you gain the benefit of being able to recruit a more perse force in larger numbers.
While hero units are still the focus, and the only units that can be outfitted with wargear collected during the missions, you may now choose to use an Honor Guard in their place, which range from upgraded basic squads to vehicles. The currency (requisition/energy) for all of these squads and upgrades is obtained in set amounts in each mission, and your population cap is determined by your initial squad setup. Leveling your Hero units has been streamlined, but still allows for great customization. Field upgrades make their return from the original Dawn of War games, allowing you to specialize squads depending on what challenges might crop up during the campaign. These bases also heal injured units, resurrect fallen heroes, and call in reinforcements for any squads that have suffered casualties. Gameplay itself hasn’t changed too much from the previous version, although you are now able to call in basic squads to supplement your forces by capturing bases. Rather than another romp with the Blood Ravens alone, Retribution allows you to select from an additional five races to see the story from their perspective. Unfortunately, the reason this order came through may be for false ones, so the campaign centers around trying to determine how it can be stopped. Taking place ten years after the events of Chaos Rising, the previous expansion, the Emperor decides he’s had enough with this troubled sector and orders an Exterminatus, which is basically a blanket order for glassing every planet in sight. With one successful expansion under its belt, Relic has decided to change things up slightly with the latest iteration: Retribution. When it was released in 2009, the original Dawn of War 2 was a breath of fresh air stripping out excessive micromanagement that normally plagues RTS games in favor of small squad combat, adding in a robust loot and leveling mechanic, and a glorious helping of co-op. While there are many fine PC-exclusive co-op games, they don’t come as often as they should.
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