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[Waaagh! On] Why Doesn't Everybody Play Dawn of War (WH40k)?

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  • GoombaGoomba __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2007
    I want an Autarch. Just give me one and make all of those units better.

    Or, you know, Striking Scorpions. Either one works for me.

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  • UtsanomikoUtsanomiko Bros before Does Rollin' in the thlayRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    This nick-pick was supposed to be more timely and sound less emoteng1010hb.gif, but that was before Goomba and friends nerd raged'd for several pages while I was at work:
    As far as 40k canon goes the squats pretty much don't exist anymore. Almost completely destroyed by the tyranids. I don't believe they're even considered usable units anymore in the tabletop, although the could be incorrect.


    As far as canon goes, The Squats haven't been mentioned since 1993. And that includes the scrapped idea of hinting in the Tyranid Codex that their core worlds were devoured by hive fleets.

    Sure, the notion of their decimation as a major power interests me, but it's nothing more than a false meme, and if I can either keep it from getting repeated in places I like to hang out or pull an actual cited source out of someone I'll point it out as such.

    They definitely haven't been usable for the last 10 years. Hell, the 2nd Ed book doesn't even show any of their minis in its gallery.

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    Oh yeah, I just bought the platinum edition recently, I need to get back into playing DoW online.

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  • LeumasWhiteLeumasWhite New ZealandRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Ugh, wikipedia syndrome get. I keep forgetting how awesome all the background fluff for 40k is.

    My ISP remains shit. I can't use vent, and thus I can't play. :(

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  • Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    I don't use vent and I play.

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  • LeumasWhiteLeumasWhite New ZealandRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Clearly you are some sort of psychic mutant freak. Or just better at organizing games than me.

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  • GoombaGoomba __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2007
    He is in vent. Here, it's PADoWDC for the hamachi, the password is the usual.

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  • LeumasWhiteLeumasWhite New ZealandRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    I can't play now, I'm stuck in class for the next five or six hours. Also a contributing factor to gamelessness. I'll see if anyone's around tonight.

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  • ACSISACSIS Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Maybe i can shorten that time by trowing another video in *g*
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gQdRwjYZ1U

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  • GoombaGoomba __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2007
    What, was that against normal necrons?

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  • ACSISACSIS Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Hard. Not that its a challenge, but its good for making videos ^^

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  • GoombaGoomba __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2007
    Well, it's ok. Tau sucks either way.

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  • doug_grammardoug_grammar Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Goomba wrote: »
    Well, it's ok. Tau sucks either way.

    Boosh.

    We up for some games?

    I don't think we are.

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  • GoombaGoomba __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2007
    I could go for a game or so.

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  • doug_grammardoug_grammar Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Well there were people going around saying they would play around this time...

    So maybe we can score a couple of games if we're lucky.

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  • LeumasWhiteLeumasWhite New ZealandRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Here I am, to save the day. I'll be up for some games in about 15 mins, but I think my flatmate is tying up the net. Might as well try, though.

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  • GoombaGoomba __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2007
    Ok well woo game woo let's play woo

    woo

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  • LeumasWhiteLeumasWhite New ZealandRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Cool. If it gets too laggy, I'll, I dunno, shoot my flatmate or something.

    Edit: assuming someone makes a game, that is.

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  • GoombaGoomba __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2007
    I should go do that, I guess.

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  • doug_grammardoug_grammar Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Good game.

    *final fantasy victory music*

    I'm heading off to bed.

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  • DeadOnArrivalDeadOnArrival Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Just thought I'd mention I have a growing disdain for IG and their forward bases and long range grenades and baiting tactics.

    Rushing the enemy base has never been so annoying/costly.

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  • GoombaGoomba __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2007
    If only Eldar had grenades.

    I guess Vypers and DRs are sorta the same.

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  • bongibongi regular
    edited September 2007
    Goomba wrote: »
    If only Eldar had grenades.

    I guess Vypers and DRs are sorta the same.

    you mean like plasma grenades?

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  • DeadOnArrivalDeadOnArrival Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    bongi wrote: »
    Goomba wrote: »
    If only Eldar had grenades.

    I guess Vypers and DRs are sorta the same.

    you mean like plasma grenades?

    He means like grenade launchers. That Guardsmen use. And Cultists.

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  • GoombaGoomba __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2007
    bongi wrote: »
    Goomba wrote: »
    If only Eldar had grenades.

    I guess Vypers and DRs are sorta the same.

    you mean like plasma grenades?
    Yeah.

    Except longer range and more than one per minute.

    Like 20 per minute.

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  • A-PuckA-Puck Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Crap. Looks like I won't be playing until maybe Saturday this week.

    But the emperor's enemies are going unpunished. Xeno scum and traitors have a free hand across the galaxy. This is not good, not good at all.

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  • doug_grammardoug_grammar Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    A-Puck wrote: »
    Crap. Looks like I won't be playing until maybe Saturday this week.

    But the emperor's enemies are going unpunished. Xeno scum and traitors have a free hand across the galaxy. This is not good, not good at all.

    Ever since I've gone back to Space Marines, things have gone good for me, so I'll be glad to smite the heretics while you're inactive.

    Anyway, I won't be able to play for quite a while, but I'll like to see if people want to play later on in the day.

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  • A-PuckA-Puck Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    A-Puck wrote: »
    Crap. Looks like I won't be playing until maybe Saturday this week.

    But the emperor's enemies are going unpunished. Xeno scum and traitors have a free hand across the galaxy. This is not good, not good at all.

    Ever since I've gone back to Space Marines, things have gone good for me, so I'll be glad to smite the heretics while you're inactive.

    Anyway, I won't be able to play for quite a while, but I'll like to see if people want to play later on in the day.

    How do you deal with khorne berserkers? Just rush to vehicles?

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  • ZarcathZarcath Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    A-Puck wrote: »
    A-Puck wrote: »
    Crap. Looks like I won't be playing until maybe Saturday this week.

    But the emperor's enemies are going unpunished. Xeno scum and traitors have a free hand across the galaxy. This is not good, not good at all.

    Ever since I've gone back to Space Marines, things have gone good for me, so I'll be glad to smite the heretics while you're inactive.

    Anyway, I won't be able to play for quite a while, but I'll like to see if people want to play later on in the day.

    How do you deal with khorne berserkers? Just rush to vehicles?

    I laugh at them until they die.

    You hear me Rob?

    I'm laughing at you.

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  • DeadOnArrivalDeadOnArrival Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    How are you gentlemen!! I totally want to play when I get back home from work in an hour.

    If noone plays with me then I shall go automatch and become more powerful than you could ever imagine.

    You are on the way to destruction. You have no chance to survive make your time. Ha Ha Ha.

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  • Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Hush DoA.

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  • DeadOnArrivalDeadOnArrival Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    No, seriously, I used to be hella better at this game. Until I lost interest. I used to actually assign control groups to my squads and everything.

    Now I just sorta click in the general direction of the enemy (without attack-move). Works well enough.

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  • Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Hey I assign control groups to my squads and shit.

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  • DeadOnArrivalDeadOnArrival Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    So does Goomba. And he uses attack-move. And hotkeys.

    When I originally told him I play only using the mouse and left/right click with no attack-move he called me a dirty liar.

    Until he found out it was true and he wept. Wept.

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  • Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Well I use mostly the mouse because I don't care to remember hotkeys.

    And don't units attack-move if you just click?

    But not control groups? I mean, some people might not, but that's been around forever.

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  • DeadOnArrivalDeadOnArrival Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Nope, that's standard move. They'll move to where you tell them first then engage enemies afterwards. Attack-move makes them attack enemies that they see on the way to their destination.

    I've never even used attack-move, so I don't know how far your units will pursue a fleeing enemy or anything. It's not really my concern.

    Mostly I just try to keep a single eye on the minimap and direct my units accordingly.

    Edit: I used to use control groups back when I played competitively. It's something I stopped doing around the time WA came out. Played Chaos competitively in 1v1s often in vanilla, even before automatch worked right.

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  • Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Minimaps can lick my nuts.

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  • DeadOnArrivalDeadOnArrival Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Attack move is more useful for the shootier races anyway, since melee units have to move close to attack anyway. Chaos and Orks, being more melee based, makes it less of an issue for me.

    I imagine it's rather handy for Firewarriors and Guardsmen and Reapers and Rangers and blah blah blah.

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  • GoombaGoomba __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2007
    They just walk to the waypoint or whatever, if they see something, they attack until it's gone, then walk some more until they get there.

    Also, control groups? Maybe for Harlequins, but that's because they're so small because they aren't in a squad and they don't glow.

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  • Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Guardsman ugh.

    God sometimes they just seem like they wanna melee for no reason.

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  • DeadOnArrivalDeadOnArrival Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Gaem?

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