Full Noob to Intermediate Player Dawn of War 1 DE

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Warhammer 40.000: Dawn of War is a pretty unique strategy game compared to the others. - You have 9 completely different races: Space Marines, Orks, Eldar, Chaos, Imperial Guards, Tau, Necrons, Dark Eldar, Sisters of Battle - Two types of resources: Requisition, Power. With 4 notable exceptions: Orks also have Population Cap too, Necrons have only Power, Dark Eldar has Soul Essence too, Sisters of Battle have Faith too. While it may seem simple it's easy to run out of either kind within a matter of seconds. You cannot play a defensive game only, the only way to really win at Dawn of War is to be on the offensive. Dawn of War is not a game that you can learn in a day, while you may be able to finish the campaign and win a standard skirmish on easy with no problems, the very hard mode and the multiplayer will stump you. It's an extremely complicated game and with this guide I will make things easier to understand offering tactics, build orders, explanations and more. This guide is dedicated to everyone who's looking to learn to play with a new race, from new players to already experienced players, but mostly written from the new player's perspective. To understand this guide, all you are required to, is to have played the in-game tutorial of the race you want to learn. In this guide I've mostly used general names such as "Troop structure" or "Armory structure" instead of each building's dedicated name, as they are different for every race. There's one thing see how the race works because you actually have played it at least once and then read a guide about it online, and another thing to read a guide about it online and only after that try the race for the first time. In the former case, you will have a better idea on how the guide applies to the race because you've already experienced it before, you get a visual perspective. Also, I recommend using SHIFT+TAB in-game and follow this guide as you play a skirmish game. First thing you need to learn about are the resources because you have to know how to manage them. The first resource in the game is requisition. In skirmish games you start with 1000 Requisition and your HQ building generates a decent amount. Everything costs some amount of requisition so this is a little bit more important than power. You can increase the rate at which you gain requisition by capturing strategic points, critical locations, relics, building listening posts on either strategic points or relics, and then by researching upgrades at these posts. Capture strategic points before you capture relics because they are faster to capture, capture relics before critical locations because you can put listening posts on them, and they unlock your super-unit (aka relic unit, we'll talk about them in tier 3) . The second resource is Power that isn't generated automatically. You need to create generators to bring this one in. In a skirmish game you only start with 100 power, and pretty much everything critical you need to start with will cost at least 50-75. Generators aren't exactly cheap at the start either and they provide little amount of power until you get to upgrade them, so you will need to build several. You can increase the power generated by researching at constructed generators. Whatever you do in the game, make sure that you capture more than two stragegic points, in fact you should all be holding the same amount of strategic points. If you are on a team game share with you teammates. If it's a free for all take every strategic point as you come by. Also, put your listening post on them and upgrade them, this is vital for your survival in the game. Unlike other games, it isn't absolutely critical that you supply defensive units to protect your resourcing operation, supplying any troops to them is a waste of their use and can often make the difference in a battle. If you're smart, you'll upgraded all of your listening posts to at least the first defensive upgrade, providing some light defense for your base. They're only ever effective against infantry, but the second level upgrade offers some pretty heavy punch, as well as increasing their ability to survive enemy fire. Just remember when you are being invaded that no matter what level upgrades you have, generators and listening posts are extremely popular targets. There are 9 races, all with pros and cons, and different playstyles. SPACE MARINES - Balance, Counter, Air Drop Army. The "Jack of all trades" best beginner race. They have high HP and morale. Slower than others to tech up but stronger if they are left alone to do so due to superior basic units. T1 Space Marine infantry is useful from start to end with upgrades, T2 Dreadnought is a power spike and T3 you have Terminators and the air drop strategy. In tier 1, rather than having specialized anti-something units you can upgrade the Space Marines with: Flamers for anti-infantry, Plasma for anti-heavy infantry while mobile, Heavy Bolter for anti-heavy infantry while stationary with extra range, Rocket Launcher for anti-vehicle. Only use the Assault Space Marine if you face a heavy ranged army like Tau, they are jumper melee specialists but not as strong as other dedicated jumper melee specialists. While the Scouts can optionally be turned invisible with Snipers which good against single targets since they can almost instantly break morale, but they are hopeless if caught melee. Do not neglect your heroes as Space Marines have some of the best heroes in the game: Force Commander is a tank easily above average when compared to other heroes of his level. While Librarian mage and Chaplain extra tank are even better than him. For tier 2 Dreadnoughts are the stars, they are the 2nd best walker vehicles in the game but the ones who are no.1 Penitent Engine from Sisters of Battle are tier 3 and have max build limit 2, Dreadnoughts on the other hand are tier 2 and you can build as many as you want. If the enemy runs, you can build Skull Probe from Listening Posts which can stun enemy vehicles so the Dreadnought can kill them. Grey Knights are good melee units and you can attach either Force Commander or Chaplain to them, especially good if you're facing Chaos with their Daemons. From Sacred Artifact building you can get Apothecary healers have a limit of 4 but cost 0 population so free units, they have AoE healing extra healing in attached squad and their passive extra healing stacks. In tier 3, you do the same Space Marines + Dreadnoughts combo but this time the spamming of attacks right in the enemy base with some Terminators and optional Predators. You get the Drop Pod where you can send Dreadnoughts, Space Marines and the 2 types of Terminators anywhere on the map. It's the deep strike of Boreale from the Soulstrom campaign. You can keep pumping units on the frontline right away or in the enemy base. The Terminators, one is melee one is range, are above-average tier 3 units but not one of the best, clearly better than your default Space Marines anyway. The Predator tank is if you want backline support instead of Dreadnoughts, by default is anti-infantry but with the Twin Lascannon upgrade can become anti-vehicle, after the Tau Hammerhead, Imperial Guards Leman Russ and Orks Looted Tank this is the 4th best Tank in the game, arguably at the same level with Dark Eldar Ravager and Eldar Fire Prism. Late-game you can simultaneously deploy 6 units (2 Terminators from the barracks, 3 platoons, and a queued Dreadnought from the orbital relay) at close range to the enemy, as well as the Librarian's ability to grant AOE immortality. It's a good race late game. Also, Space Marines and Eldar love it when the enemy stacks their units in one big blob, because the Force Commander has Orbital Bombardment ability and Eldar have Eldritch Storm. Their relic unit is one of the best, not at the same level as Imperial Guard Baneblade or Necron Restored Monolith that dominate, but at the same level as Orks, Eldar a