Dawn of War - Soulstorm

[Gorion]

Dawn of War: Soul Storm Announced

THQ  today announced Warhammer® 40,000â,,¢: Dawn of War® â€" Soulstormâ,,¢,  the next standalone chapter in internal studio Relic Entertainment’s award-winning Real-Time Strategy (RTS) franchise, is scheduled for release on Windows PC in spring 2008.  Featuring an extensive interplanetary campaign spanning an entire star system in the Warhammer® 40,000â,,¢ universe, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War â€" Soulstorm introduces two all-new factions for an unprecedented total of nine playable races.
 
“In Dawn of War â€" Soulstorm, we’ve taken Games Workshop’s epic war from one planet to an entire star system,” said Tarrnie Williams, general manager, Relic Entertainment.  â€œAllowing gamers to play nine unique races, introducing air units and providing multiplayer achievements for the first time creates a tremendous amount of new and challenging strategic gameplay for all players.”
 
 
 
 
ive heard welle be having Dark Eldars as one of the races!

[Eternaluk]

Come on Tyanids! Dark Eldar should be pretty interesting as well.

[Gorion]

saw a pic, and it showed some lizard like red/orage creatures dead

[kregoron]

ive heard welle be having Dark Eldars as one of the races!

AFAIK this is the current armies in the warhammer 40k universe, so chances are, that you are right

Chaos Space Marines
Dark Eldar
Eldar
Necrons
Daemonhunters
Orks
Tau
Tyranids
Space Marines
Witch hunters
Imperial Guard

[Gorion]

saw a pic, and they are Dark Eldar!
 
 
nice, were having another expansion after this i hope

[Gorion]

THQ's and Relic's beloved RTS, sequel and new expansion Warhammer 40K: Dawn Of War - SoulStorm has been announced back in October 2007, revealing a new playable evil army known as Dark Eldar. Which are evil pirate counterparts of the nice and shiny tree hugging Eldar. While stating that two new playable races/armies will be available.

And so the theories of Warhammer 40K experts started to pool in, mostly pointing out that the vile Tyranid race will be included. A vast, Zerg-like race that devours and assimilates all living creatures in the galaxy, bound by Hive minds. Anyways, that would be pretty, however another race was chosen. Which makes sense, since we have a new evil race, we add a new good race. Good... so to speak in Imperial terms in the happy 40K universe.

The new army confirmed are the The Sisters Of Battle. To put it in simple terms, these are Space marine female counterparts, which deploy heavy power armors, big bolt guns, and tons of flamers acting as witch hunters for the 41st Millenium. Interesting to know that Sisters of Battle, although very similar to Space Marines, do not use and genetic enhancements (gene-seeds) to battle evil. Therefore everything these sweet armored fanatic nuns have on them is their's and natural... no implants... (sigh)

With regards to game play, Dark Eldar will be able to harvest soul power as one of the army's resource, while the Sister will gain Faith points which will allow Sisters to perform tasks, special abilities and "miracles".

[ChimpBoy]

Really disappointed no tyranids/genestealers.

Sisters of Mercy & Dark Eldar?  Meh - think I'll wait till they build a decent engine that can cope with Tyranids.  It's what most DoW players have been crying out for, but they seem to be holding it back for DoW II.

This is just another cash-in update, so I think I'll save my money after the disappointing Dark Crusade, where you could simply win all maps by following the same tactic :sad: