

Regardless of which set of factions you choose, you’ll be greeted with a fairly complex single-player experience which assumes you’ve played and beaten the original game’s campaign, and are also familiar with the workings of the Orks, Chaos Space Marines, and Eldar.

) Winter Assault gives you the option of playing as one of two doomed alliances: the Eldar and the Imperial Guard, or the Orks and the Chaos Space Marines. (It’s so similar, in fact, that the Winter Assault entry on your steam list is a 70-some KB “installation” that basically just checks to make sure you paid for the content and then passes you back to Dawn of War – Game of the Year Edition. This week we’ll actually talk about those games, and we might be a bit less laudatory.īut not entirely so! We begin with 2005’s Winter Assault, which is frankly a pretty good spiritual successor to the original Dawn of War campaign, both in structure and content. Last week we covered the base Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War game, which made a massive impression on the RTS genre in the early Aughts and inspired three expansion games from 2005 to 2008.
