Right so, here be a weird one.
Dawn of War Soulstorm stories ho!...Can I be a cringey sonofagun and call this City of Death? 'Cause it fits. Then again WH40K is everything death related so
tare:
[spoiler]
Dawn of War Soulstorm is an RTS set in the WH40K universe. Base building is there, heavy vehicles, infantry and a little side of WH40K-themed maps. It also has strategic points, which help you gain requisition (think money/resources) and produce more units. It has varying factions that are in the WH40K universe, for this story, all you need to know is that i played the Imperial Guard (lore wise, they just spam infantry waves WW1 style and use heavy vehicles) and the Space Marines (elite demi-god-like dudes who wear giant shoulder-pad power armor.) and the chaos space marines, the evil twin of space marines.
I played vanilla Dawn of War Soulstorm a TON years back- especially as the Imperial Guard. I'd spam infantry squads and win through infantry just for fun against AI, 4 v 4 with both friendly and hostile AI being set on expert/hard. With my stubbornness to keep using infantry squads, I ended up in a very true-to-the-lore situation I've never forgotten.
I'm not familiar with the map, but it was a 4 v 4 map taking place in a ruined city, with the critical point in the center inside a ruined cathedral. So, I start out typical (spam guardsmen and max their squad out) and them bum rush for all the "safe" points where the expert friendly AI go. I get shot at once or twice by the Chaos forces creeping near my base, but with a steady stream of Requisition I'm able to spam some guardsmen and counter the early offensive. Shit goes pretty standard as the AI escalate in tech, big guns come out (Dreadnaughts, IG tanks, Chaos Defilers and fully armed squads of tactical marines/Chaos space marines) and I make for an offensive on the enemy base.
But somehow, even with late AI intervention, it absolutely gets crushed- defilers tore apart guardsman morale and killed my own commissar, and the AI just bum rushed and died in droves due to turrets. I go into panic mode and do the one thing I know how to:
DEFEND THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF MY BASE
However, I decide something different this time instead of turtling/setting up around my base. I rush to set up heavy turrets/guardsmen machine gun squads to the cathedral. I just up on the staircase, getting ready for the sudden wave of troops trying to take the middle. That way I'd be able to eliminate the enemy squads and then make another offensive once ready. The enemy then attacks- we exchange fire, a squad loses morale only to be shot my a local commissar, I send reinforcements after the heavy machine gun gets decimated, and the casualties are slowly restored. But then another wave comes, so I repeat the process- defend the staircase, fire on the enemy, set up a HMG position...
And then another wave comes.
And then another.
And then the whole warp decided "FUCK YOU I HAD ENOUGH" and they kept sending more. Defilers, chaos marines, cultists, daemons. You name it, it was there. The space marine and IG allies I had also fought over the map against light skirmishes, but eventually they'd send heavies to counter any heavy units that were wrecking havoc. And every time I lost someone, I'd just send another squad.
Basically? It never ended. Me/the 3 AI couldn't push up due to the need to replace all our casualties, and the same applied to the hostile AI. It went on for a hour straight before I quit, and I couldn't help but feel like it was a metaphor for WH40K in general. It looked great tho', and if there is anything I believe deserves a short novel, its that battle right there.[/spoiler]
Dawn of War Soulstorm stories ho!...Can I be a cringey sonofagun and call this City of Death? 'Cause it fits. Then again WH40K is everything death related so
tare:[spoiler]
Dawn of War Soulstorm is an RTS set in the WH40K universe. Base building is there, heavy vehicles, infantry and a little side of WH40K-themed maps. It also has strategic points, which help you gain requisition (think money/resources) and produce more units. It has varying factions that are in the WH40K universe, for this story, all you need to know is that i played the Imperial Guard (lore wise, they just spam infantry waves WW1 style and use heavy vehicles) and the Space Marines (elite demi-god-like dudes who wear giant shoulder-pad power armor.) and the chaos space marines, the evil twin of space marines.
I played vanilla Dawn of War Soulstorm a TON years back- especially as the Imperial Guard. I'd spam infantry squads and win through infantry just for fun against AI, 4 v 4 with both friendly and hostile AI being set on expert/hard. With my stubbornness to keep using infantry squads, I ended up in a very true-to-the-lore situation I've never forgotten.
I'm not familiar with the map, but it was a 4 v 4 map taking place in a ruined city, with the critical point in the center inside a ruined cathedral. So, I start out typical (spam guardsmen and max their squad out) and them bum rush for all the "safe" points where the expert friendly AI go. I get shot at once or twice by the Chaos forces creeping near my base, but with a steady stream of Requisition I'm able to spam some guardsmen and counter the early offensive. Shit goes pretty standard as the AI escalate in tech, big guns come out (Dreadnaughts, IG tanks, Chaos Defilers and fully armed squads of tactical marines/Chaos space marines) and I make for an offensive on the enemy base.
But somehow, even with late AI intervention, it absolutely gets crushed- defilers tore apart guardsman morale and killed my own commissar, and the AI just bum rushed and died in droves due to turrets. I go into panic mode and do the one thing I know how to:
DEFEND THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF MY BASE
However, I decide something different this time instead of turtling/setting up around my base. I rush to set up heavy turrets/guardsmen machine gun squads to the cathedral. I just up on the staircase, getting ready for the sudden wave of troops trying to take the middle. That way I'd be able to eliminate the enemy squads and then make another offensive once ready. The enemy then attacks- we exchange fire, a squad loses morale only to be shot my a local commissar, I send reinforcements after the heavy machine gun gets decimated, and the casualties are slowly restored. But then another wave comes, so I repeat the process- defend the staircase, fire on the enemy, set up a HMG position...
And then another wave comes.
And then another.
And then the whole warp decided "FUCK YOU I HAD ENOUGH" and they kept sending more. Defilers, chaos marines, cultists, daemons. You name it, it was there. The space marine and IG allies I had also fought over the map against light skirmishes, but eventually they'd send heavies to counter any heavy units that were wrecking havoc. And every time I lost someone, I'd just send another squad.
Basically? It never ended. Me/the 3 AI couldn't push up due to the need to replace all our casualties, and the same applied to the hostile AI. It went on for a hour straight before I quit, and I couldn't help but feel like it was a metaphor for WH40K in general. It looked great tho', and if there is anything I believe deserves a short novel, its that battle right there.[/spoiler]