Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® – Winter Assault

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Winter Assault (2006) Steam gave this game away for free. The first expansion for Dawn of War. They added a new faction, the Imperial Guard, and they are pretty busted with the strongest defensive structures of all the races in the game. All good expansions should add a broken faction to its game, it's basically tradition at this point. They added two new single player campaigns to keep you in the action. It's a good dlc for an amazing game. 8/10 "Walk softly, and carry a big gun."

Play the unification mod, the base game is good but the unification adds replayability.

Started the campaign thinking it would be a simple war between a few factions. It wasn't. There are Space Marines, Imperial Guard, Orks, Chaos and a giant Imperial Titan. So naturally, the solution to every problem is to build more units and hope the Titan doesn't notice you. The campaign does a good job of making every battle feel important. You capture a position. Lose it. Capture it again. Then discover the enemy has been quietly building an army somewhere behind you. Excellent. The Imperial Guard are especially fun. They have tanks, artillery and enough soldiers to make casualties look like a population statistic. The Space Marines are tougher. Chaos has terrifying units. The Orks have enthusiasm. I have a strategic plan. It stopped working approximately three minutes into the mission. The gameplay is still classic Dawn of War: fast, aggressive and wonderfully destructive. The battles feel large without becoming completely unmanageable, and every victory feels earned. Gameplay verdict: Great classic RTS gameplay with a strong campaign and satisfying large-scale battles. It's old-school, straightforward and occasionally brutal, but that's part of the charm. 10/10…

Fun dual campaign structure, some parts aren't really my vibe personally but overall a lot of fun

[h1]Snow Siege[/h1] First addon to DoW after the year from its original release. 1 new faction was added - Normal Ahh human army - Imperial Guard. Some balance tweaks and new units for old factions. (new heroes for Space Marines and Orks, strong melee unit for Chaos and actual anti vehicle unit for Eldar). Also snow layout for new maps. Plot - Emperor forgotten very cold planet is in constant state of war between Chaos and Orks. Imperium forces came here to reclaim a fallen giant robot. There's also Eldar who keep yapping about Nekrons but no one cares. And you guessed it - they were right in the end. The campaign allows to play as each of the factions in the game meaning this game have multiple endings. There are 6 missions for good guys and 6 missions for bad guys. Most of them are quite boring and not exactly challenging. Except for 4-th mission for each side which is just painful to play each time you get back to this game. (Double timer And the requirement to play both factions at once, ugh) Music is meh this time. So is the storytelling. New characters are either way too into pathos or just plain hillarious. Well, at least Skirmish got more fun. Also it installs in a …

It's a great game until the escort mission which is just so tedious and overwhelming with micromanagement against constant spawning waves of enemies that I just gave up. So most of the campaign is decent, the last(?) mission is not fun.