Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II

Along the way you may have noticed supply drops and supply boxes. The supply boxes have supply drops on the inside which are very important to any mission. These supply drops increase the number of accessories, items that you have like a stimulant kit. The stimulant kits fully heal all ally units within range of the user. The range is huge so you don’t have to worry about not getting anyone. The beginning three commanders have different accessories as defaults. The Force Commander has a stimulant kit, Tarkus has frag grenade packs, and Cyrus has a demolition charge pack. You can change them at any time when choosing a mission.

The disciplines are stats that you can increase every level. One level will give you two points to allocate into the disciplines. There are four disciplines that the commanders have. They are stamina, ranged, strength, and will. Stamina increases the commander’s health and health regeneration; ranged increases the average damage done with a ranged weapon; strength increases average damage done with melee weapons and the chance to perform special attacks that knock down opponents; and will increases the amount of energy a commander has and the regeneration. Energy is important for the use of skills that every commander has. The force commander has a skill called Battle Cry that makes him use a special attack every hit and become immune to knock backs, and nearby allies will gain additional damage temporarily. Battle Cry costs 110 energy and is quite costly at the beginning, but it’s the most used skill and it helps on the bosses and bigger enemies.

Davian Thule is a dreadnought that is capable of just about anything. Davian is a huge asset to the team, he can blast your opponents away with his assault cannon barrage (if equipped) or in melee range. He can use his might of the ancient ability to knock down and kill most foes in range. He is the only vehicle of the team, so you can’t heal him with stimulant kits, but he can be healed with the rites of repair accessory or his own ancient defender ability that allows him to repair himself while being immobile.

Dawn of War II also has the option of doing multiplayer online and offline. If you want, you can also fight the computer. You can play as all four of the races portrayed in the campaign: Space Marine, Ork, Eldar, and Tyranid. All races have three commanders to choose from. The Space Marines have the offensive force commander, the healing apothecary, and the defensive techmarine. The Orks have the offensive warboss, the stealthy kommando nob, and the supporting mekboy. The Eldar have the offensive warlock, the teleporting warp spider exarch, and the supporting farseer. The Tyranids have the offensive hive tyrant, the tunneling ravener alpha, and the ambushing lictor alpha.

A cool feature for the multiplayer is that you can customize the appearance of the different races’ commanders. There are already predefined color schemes that you can choose from for each race, but you can create a new color scheme where you can choose from many colors. There are four different colors for the materials or parts on the commander. You can also change the badge that each commander has. The Tyranids don’t have any badges, though. There are four different patterns that only the Space Marines can choose from.