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[WHINE ON] Dawn of War II: It takes two to commit Heresy. New gamemode! 2v2!
Zen Vulgarity
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EDIT: Anyone who is interested in playing the Tourney, send me a private message containing the following:
- Your Windows Live Name
- Your Steam Name
- What times you are often available and in which time zone you reside.
Everyone is welcome to play and have a good time.
EDIT 2: I will compile a list and generally try to keep track of things as best as possible.
I can't stress this enough that everyone can participate. No matter how good or bad you are, it's likely that you will get a good time and learn something in the process. Even if you don't like 1 vs 1 matches.
Once there are at least 8 or 10 people assembled, I will make a separate thread for the tourney for ease of discussion. I don't want to do it yet because this is still an unknown item.
DAWN OF WAR II
What is this thing. Why am I here.
Sometimes we play this game. It's quite a fun RTS. Other times we yell about everything wrong with it. Your favorite race is terrible.
Races? What kinds of weird things can I play as Zen?
You get to play as humans on steroids, space elves, green soccer hooligans or something from Alien.
Let's run them down.
Stupid Super Steroid Space Soldiers.
Space Marines
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Whiny Space Elves Who Can't See Past Their Own Pointy Noses
Eldar
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DON'T TALK 'BOUT US, YA 'UMIE GIT!
DA BEST! DA STRONGEST! DA ORKZ!
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Zerg
Tyranids
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Some stupid list of stupid people who play the game. They're generally nice. Unless you're playing as Tyranids. Then about 1/10th of them won't tell you to eat a penis.
IF YOU WANT YOUR NAME ADDED, PM ME
DO NOT POST IT IN THE THREAD, I WILL MISS IT AND THEN NOT PUT IT UP ANYWAY
Spoiler:
Do not become like this.
Spoiler:
We won't care.
And if some mod wants me to put a threat to dickitude, let me know.
Game on, folks!
IF YOU WANT TO PLAY
GET ON THE VENT SERVER
NO ONE WANTS TO PLAY WITH YOU IF WE CAN'T YELL AT YOU
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Edit: God dammit, I will get you next thread Rydiak, MARK MY WORDS!
Fortune Banshees with farseer, send them after the tac squad. Jump in warpspiders, slap guide on them.
Dead Tac marines very quickly. Repeat until all the tac swarm is dead, which is now like 2 or 3 units of them. Warp spiders do an insane amount of damage.
With the sergeant damage nerf, banshees aren't immediately shredded.
TSKNF is still annoying, but now they just act like damage soaks and don't do nearly as much damage.
All Hail the coming of the warp spider.
Oh Also, against a larget tac blob guardians throw nades at the marines in the back, if they duck them, then to cover the banhsees, the guardians get a little melee expeirence (not recomended, but prevents a shit ton of damage from hitting your banhsees).
I think I am gonna change my build order though and go Double platform to start now because I am so power hungry in the beginning with fortune armor and banshees, I can't afford the second wargear for the guardians.
And crashed 2 minutes in.
Best way to kill tanks as Eldar is to get Warp Spiders + at least one other AT unit (Wraithlords work best, but a brightlance is probably what you'll have to use against an early walker/razorback) staition the AT unit close by, warp in the spiders, use their haywire grenades, pray that they accually do use their haywire grenades, then bombard it with your AT while it is stunned and cannot move.
Ideal? Hell no, but the best you can do on your own at T2/no farseer.
STABLITY GO!
When I say throw a grenade, one guardian will sometimes break away from the pack to run up and throw the grenade himself. He dies pretty quickly. Then it's the next guy who drew the short straw's turn, he runs up to throw it all by himself. Dead. Just like ninjas in movies, when there's a pack of them, they still only attack one at a time.
It's even worse when the spiders do this with haywire, because he'll get killed, the tank will start backing away, and now it's just putting more distance between your spiders and their target.
is it as we dreamed? Are the Tac spams gone?
Unless it's a falcon or a fire prism, because even if you click to back up, it apparently takes a few seconds for the driver to put it in reverse and even then, those drivers are not lead-footed in the least.
EDIT: For guardians, though, yep. You're right.
Just bite the bullet, warp in and chuck it at the tank. Then mash X depending on what is nearby.
Or you can be like cake? last night and hide your rocks alert under you looted tank and bait by bashees and warp spiders to attack it. Well played.
Prediction, eldar gates will be invaluable in tiber outpost. But not nearly as valuable as some nid's tunnels which will allow retreats and then quick reinsertion into the battle with no biomass cost.......
Delete tac spam and insert warp spider spam... which is way more entertaining.
And More Choppy.
Etc
...there is no light vehicle... just vehicle...
Even when I warp next to a tank, it's not really moving, and wait for everyone to get comfortable haywires will fail. I think I shall try just ordering them to melee the tank after a warp. After they attack, I shall throw it.
It works for ASM, right?
Not according to the Wartrukks inability to run over cover those fuckers
Also, Haywires may be broken but I lost more vehicles to them yesterday than I have since the game came out. When people are spamming warp spiders they get an extra try or two...and that is usually all it takes. And like Sep said, he managed to hit my looted tank with three of them......how bad can they really be?
http://dowcodex.com/Info:Damage_Types begs to differ. I have no idea if any vehicle actually has the light veh armor class though.
XBox ID - therealmasume
DoW2 is running on a modified version of the CoH engine so despite the lack of information about it on DoWCodex, I'm just going to assume it works the same way.
In CoH, armor type had nothing to do with what a unit could smash through, really. Each vehicle was assigned a crush type. Light, medium, and heavy crush. Heavy crush vehicles like the larger tanks smashed through everything just like the vast majority of DoW2's vehicles do. Medium crush could smash through most heavy cover, but not some prohibilitively large obstacles. Light crush vehicles worked like the wartrukk.
According to DoWCodex, the wartrukk has the same vehicle armor that everyone else has, so relying on crush types to make it unable to destroy heavy cover would make sense.