The Eldar have moveable buildings, gates that buff any allied Eldar in range of them and something called the Webway, which can be used to link buildings across the map for retreat or reinforcement. The Space Marines can build drop-pods full of troops that can be instantly deployed to the battlefield for rapid strikes or emergency reinforcements. Each of the races plays rather differently from the others and has a range of strengths and weaknesses as well as a central mechanic that really makes them stand apart.

There are three playable races, the advanced human Space Marines, the brutal yet utterly brilliant Orks and the Eldar… which is short-hand for Space Elves. It’s easily up there with the most tactically-minded RTS games, with micro-management of certain squads’ special abilities a must, even more so when you throw in the incredibly powerful elite units which, also, have plenty of customisation options that lets you change them up a bit between games. Okay, perhaps that’s not entirely fair. There’s absolutely no indication anywhere that Relic are switching things up on us that drastically for any future instalments (there are, as far as we’re aware, no plans for future Dawn of War games, anyway) and Dawn of War 3 is, while certainly something of a departure from what most of us think of when we say ‘Real Time Strategy’, still very much an RTS game with RTS roots, RTS mechanics and a whole heck of a lot of eye-wateringly brilliant RTS combat.īeing an RTS, obviously you build bases, you train troops, you engage in fighting, the size of which range from single-squad skirmishes up to all out, army-vs-army battles, complete with dreadnoughts, deffkoptas and massive bloody wraithlords and, yes, Titans.

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