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Well, as per the balancing, I have to imput my two cents.

I actually disagree with what they've done. The use of a unit cap I believe was good enough to be able to limit the use of certain units or to have them make certain unit combinations effectively. If in the actual game someone is able to make an army consiting entirely of Terminators, and have nothing else, then that is their right to do so. I mean, there are plenty of ways to counter that. While powerful, they're very slow moving, and so some good artillery can effectively whipe out however many squads you can get. I believe it was only three or four. Making them more powerful does not do it for me.

Also, does anyone else think that the quality of the Dawn of War games is dropping ever so slightly with every release? Dark Crusade just seems to cookie cutter and as if they were trying to open it up more to a wider audience, which is silly. I also don't like that there is no symbalance of story whatsoever in it, and don't tell me that those little things after each race dies counts as a story!

EDIT: Page 100 FTW!

I like the freedom of the campaign, story aside. The story is good enough to keep it interesting, but you can only have great stories in single-ending campaigns.

Woot, I found my Winter Assualt CD key!

how do the Tau handle online?

So, where are you getting your two troop choices, again? wink

Apologies then, I had assumed that because this was a thread about Dark Crusade, you'd be speaking about it, and missed the comparision to the tabletop. Even so, there are game balance issues on the tabletop as well. They are chiefly handled, as has been pointed out, by the FOC. However, the FOC is specific, while the unit cap in DC is not, and hard caps on units have to be instituted instead.

THATS IT! Necrons are ******** overpowered! I was playing on some campaign map, when like this horde of necron warriors and wraiths plus the lord comes in. I have several armor units, and 10 squads of fire warriors, guess what happens? They kill have of my guys even though I have the supperior firepower, range, and man power, I killed most of the wraiths before they even got close, yet half my guys were dead, and then they mass ressied! my entire army just got ********, oh, and get this, they somehow ressied after I killed the lord, isnt that ********? So while im trying to deal with these ******** assholes, who it seems after I kill one it just gets back up EVERYTIME, the other computer decides to go straight for my base!
I started that one over before I got annihilated

something tells me it doesnt take much skill to level out a few basic infantry units with a whole ******** fleet of ranged specialists, to tell you the truth, it seemed it was going my way for the whole thing, only they just wouldnt die...

Taking out cron's requires some serious fire power and prefferably a vehicle with a knock back effect like the skyray or a basilisk so that they cant use their weapons and too keep them from tying you up in melee. I try to stay away from them in campaign and ive only fought them a couple times with space marines and barely made it everytime, I would have not made it where it not for my Hellfire dreadnought and Thule's Daemonhammer o.o.

They only way I can really beat them is to build craploads and craploads of tactical marines and cram them full of rocket launchers and plasma guns and just throw them at them.