For any of you DoW fans still out there here's an update that I'm doing mostly cause I've been to lazy to do anything previously.
Single Player Campaign:
The Retribution Campaign will be akin to Chaos rising with unique missions. A new feature to Retribution will be multi-race campaigns. The missions will all be the same have unique objectives/events for each race. The story takes place 10 years after Chaos rising. Chaos is still running rampant, Eldar are being super jerks, Orks are looting the system of Imperial Technology, the remnants of the Tyranid hive-fleet are reqrouping, the space marines are trying to protect the Auralia system because the Imperium has had enough of this shit and just wants to blow the whole thing to hell.
Races include:
Space Marines
Chaos Marines
Ork Freebootaz
Eldar
Tyranids
and introducing: Imperial Guard
The campaign this time around will have some emphasis on building an army. You can choose to field all your heroes or have one sit out for an increased unit cap. As the campaign progresses you'll be able to upgrade your heroes with new wargear or upgrade your units.
Multi-Player:
As you know a new expansions comes with new units for existing races
Spaces marines get a Land Raider
Orks get a Battle Wagon
Tyranids get Swarmlord
Eldar get Autarch
Although I dont have a screenshot for it yet, in once of the Trailers in shows Chaos with noise marines which look kinda like this
The Imperial Guard:
The Imperial guard is the newest race to Dawn of War 2. According to many hands on preview articles the IG playstyle is fairly defensive and caters to players who like to turtle up. The multiplayer heroes include
-Inquisitor: offensive ranged; female witch hunter who can ignite single targets and has flame aoe
-Lord General: healer; can... well, heal, call all sorts of reinforcements and has a mustache now
-Lord Commissar: melee supporter; can cloak and has melee specials, much like lictor alpha; regular commissars still available for recruitment
As for units:
-baneblade returns yay; basilisk, too which will be strongest arty again; leman russ tanks
-first race to build vehicles in tier 1
-stormtrooper, Heavy weapons team and catachan devils
-globals include orbital bombardements and unit reinforcements
Pre-order Specials
You can get several different pre-order specials by proclaiming your allegiance to a specific race and get a unique boxart cover as well as unqiue wargear for said race
Wargear:
Orks
* Kan Opener - Your attacks have a chance to disable enemy vehicles
* Angry Armor - Attacks on the Warboss increase his damage
* Lucky Teef - When the Warboss kills enemies nearby units gain energy
* Super Flashy Boss Rack - The Warboss gains the benefits of a boss pole and a trophy rack
Space Marines
* Sanctus Mortis - Killing enemies bolster's the wielder's defense
* Plate of the Martyr - Attacks on Diomedes heal nearby allied units
* Chant of the Righteous - When attacked Diomedes' cooldowns are reduced
* Helm of the Champion - Increased health and armour
Eldar
* Spear of the Ynnead - Attacks on enemies have a chance to confuse them
* Guile of Cegorach - Allied deaths have a chance to enrage you
* Runes of Wisdom - Energy cost of abilities reduced
* Helm of the War Host - Immune to supression and knock-back
Chaos
* Skull Breaker - Hits with thei weapon have a chance to cause an aoe explosion
* Armor of the immortal - Invulnerability shield triggered when critically injured
* Herald of the Warp - Low cooldowns
* Mark of Chaos favor - Gain the benefits of worship from all gods
Imperial Guard
* The Emperor's Executioners - Instantly kill infantry with less than a fifth of their health
* Blessed Carapace of Resolve - Friendly units in the vicinity gain damage reduction
* Honorifica Imperialis - Friendly units in vicinity get reduced cooldowns
* Helm of the Distinguished Imperial Officer - Friendly units in the vicinity are healed /have energy restored when you kill enemies
Tyranids
* Venomous Talons - Attacks have a guaranteed chance to stun and poison
* Poisonous Cysts - After taking a set amount of damage the swarmlord sprays a damaging poison cloud
* Shadow in the Warp - A % of your damage is converted into energy
* Warp field - summons a shield to protect your character
Unique Box art:
Or for 10 bucks more you can get the Collectors edition which includes
*Collector's Edition box
*Six art cards
*Poster
*In-game content card containing all race pack content
In an hour of Darkness a blind man is the best guide. In an age of Insanity look to the madman to lead the way.
