When morale drops to zero, the squad "breaks", which significantly reduces the squad's ranged accuracy, damage dealt in mêlée, and defensive capability. In addition to health, the morale of a squad heavily influences its combat ability. However, morale applies to a squad as a whole. When in combat, squads take morale damage as well as health damage. In addition to a typical hitpoint system, infantry units also have morale. Walkers are a type of vehicle often armed with powerful heavy melee weapons, causing devastating damage in close combat. Vehicles can also be upgraded with multiple weapon systems, usually forcing a choice between either anti-infantry or anti-vehicle armaments. Vehicles are highly resistant to most standard infantry weaponry, so they must be targeted with specific heavy weapons (e.g. More powerful units, such as Heroes, Walkers, and monstrous Super Units, may have personalized Sync Kills against each other. When one combatant defeats the other, a Finishing move known in Dawn of War as Sync Kill plays out as the victorious fighter finishes his opponent off in a dramatic and violent manner.
Hand-to-hand combat is played out as a series of synchronized attack animations between combatants. Infantry units can fight in both ranged and hand-to-hand combat, and many units will have weapons for both types of combat, and if attacked in close combat will have to respond accordingly. Additionally, all races have commander units, which are general leaders or other units that can be attached to most squads, but are produced separately. Squads can produce and replace their own units and weaponry anywhere in the field, but the player must wait a short period of time before new individuals, weapons, and leaders appear in the squad. They can usually be equipped with special weapons and a specific leader, depending on the squad type. Most fully reinforced squads consist of about 10 individuals, although when they are first requisitioned, they usually have less. Infantry units are not given orders as individuals they move and attack as squads. The number of banners and the size of the Ork population determines the Ork's Waaagh! level which in turn determines the technology level the player has access to. Ork resource is generated continuously by Waaagh! banners and is used up when creating Ork troops and vehicles. In addition to these primary resources, the Orks also have Ork resource. As the player progresses up the tech tree, reliance on power increases. Additionally, some maps have "slag deposits", upon which more powerful generators can be constructed to produce power faster. But like requisition sources, generators will decay over time and consequentially produce less power. Power is gathered by building generators with each headquarters supporting up to six generators. Though resources are unlimited, all sources of requisition will eventually decay, dramatically decreasing their supply rate. These points, with the exception of the "Critical Location", can be reinforced with defensive structures called Listening Posts that also increase the rate of requisition accumulation. The player can increase the rate at which requisition is acquired by using infantry squads to capture and control "Strategic Points", "Critical Locations" and "Relics" on the battlefield. Instead, requisition is generated constantly by the army headquarters. These resources are not harvested or otherwise gathered by the player's units.
Two primary resources exist: requisition and power. More recently, in March 2008, all three expansions along with Dawn of War have been released as The Complete Collection.Ī squad of Space Marines engage a group of Orks next to a Strategic Point. In November 2006, Dawn of War and its first two expansions were released together as The Platinum Collection in the USA or as the Dawn of War Anthology in the PAL regions. Later, the Game of the Year edition and Winter Assault were bundled in the Gold Edition in the USA, released in March 2006. The Game of the Year edition was released on Septemin the USA and on September 23 in Europe, containing 4 exclusive maps. The sequel, Dawn of War II was released in February 2009. Since its release, three expansion packs have been released: Winter Assault in 2005, Dark Crusade in 2006, and Soulstorm in 2008. It was released by THQ on Septemin North America and on September 24 in Europe. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Relic Entertainment based on Games Workshop's popular tabletop wargame Warhammer 40,000.
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