Throw out your Total War Warhammer Mods - its getting done proper

[undercovergeek]

Blood Bowl is set in the Warhammer universe??

aw c'mon Gus!!!!!  ::)

:P :P

[Gusington]

I've openly admittedly my n00bile ways in Warhammer!

[bob48]

Talking of Blood Bowl, Geek.....(nudge, nudge)  :)

[undercovergeek]

youre right sir - how you fixed this weekend?

[Nefaro]

Well, there are only three. Retribution is the latest, and since THQ is now releasing "Complete" sets of DoW2 packaged similarly to their (truly) "Complete" set of DoW1, I'm guessing they're done with major expansions. There's a fairly linear campaign for all six factions but it's the same campaign for everyone with minor deviations. (To be fair that's true of Dark Crusade and Soulstorm, too, except their campaigns aren't nearly so linear. The first two DoW2 games have strong story-based campaigns like the original DoW1 and the first expansion Winter Assault.) The skirmish/mp mode by all accounts still doesn't really play with base-building and expansions like DoW1 (I own the first two DoW2 games but have never been able to feasibly play them--which I expect to soon change now that my new Falcon is on the way. So I'm going by hearsay here.)

But none of the games have ever been about sandboxing really. The campaigns in DC and SS come closest, and despite lacking two interesting factions the DC game is overall more polished than SS (which was farmed out to a third party developer).

So I'd recommend Dark Crusade for the closest to a polished sandbox experience, but the real meat of any of the DoW1 games is their skirmish and multiplayer (despite interesting story campaigns for DoW1 and WH) and for that I guess I recommend Soulstorm, maybe with the latest DowPRO mod if you can find it. (Or a couple of iterations back before the mod dev disabled the Sisters of Battle until he could polish them better, which is probably never going to happen now.)

DoW1 is one of the games I would gift to someone who wants to learn RTS but needs easing into it, along with Battle for Middle Earth and Kohan2, all three of which were released at about the same time, are nicely polished with bling, and feature details making management and operation easier. (That's true about Kohan1, too, but it doesn't look as nice. Also it quickly gets punishingly hard.)

Thanks for the rundown on the Dawn Of War series.  I suppose that I'd probably ease into it with some of the first ones, although it'd probably just be a short foray with Dark Crusade, if I do at all.  I'd much rather see the Total War style thing happen but I may get an itch, despite my general avoidance of the "classic" RTS gameplay.  I've not played WH40K since about 1999-2000 so I may give in.

[bob48]

youre right sir - how you fixed this weekend?

I may be able to fit you in somewhere with my Warlock schedule. :D
I need to make sure MetalDog keeps the creatures from the underworld running wild - in other words, away from me (great job so far MD!)

[bob48]

youre right sir - how you fixed this weekend?

I may be able to fit you in somewhere with my Warlock schedule. :D
I need to make sure MetalDog keeps the creatures from the underworld running wild - in other words, away from me (great job so far MD!)

[MetalDog]

Thanks, bob.  I'll keep doing my best.

[bob48]

Sorry - I double posted there. Twitchy mouse finger!