My favorite race by far are the Orks.Â They’re crazy and offer a lot of options in battle.Â I find it best to always have a healthy mix of melee and ranged troops and work my way to tankbustas (anti-vehicle) troops to reinforce.Â Using the Mekboy hero allows me to throw proximity mines and really control the enemy’s movement. The gameplay in DoW2 is pretty solid.Â As I said, you’re going to need to be good at micromanaging your squads as you use them on the battlefield.Â Squads can each be upgraded with different types of weapons and given squad leaders on top of your hero being able to upgrade and use different items from a selection of items unique to your hero.Â Â Additionally, it feels like each squad has special abilities to use including your hero unit which has spells and abilities as well.Â Â There are also racial abilities that can be used as you build up points for killing enemies (similar to the Command and Conquer games) that change slightly with which hero you’re using.Â Each hero for each races alters the feel of gameplay which gives the game a lot of diversity – 4 races – 3 heroes each. I’ve been in a very pickup-and-play mood lately.Â My mouth has been hurting a bit and that’s made my attention span pretty much zilch when it comes to focusing and doing anything specific for a long period of time.Â It’s been the perfect opportunity to play a lot of Dawn of War 2 Multiplayer Beta which has been available to the public on Steam.Â I played the first Dawn of War and the expansion packs (all but this most recent one) and enjoyed the game’s campaign and dabbled in the multiplayer.Â I never thought that the game held much against Warcraft3, Starcraft, or their ilk but it was a decent game nonetheless.ĭawn of War 2 changes things up a bit by removing the building aspects of the game and having players focus solely on creating squads from a main building and then using them to capture nodes and fight your enemies.Â Â There are two types of nodes on the map – to simplify it it’s basically money and power.Â You spend these to make squads of troops, which is as simple as it sounds.Â You can upgrade your main base twice to level three and unlock higher tiers of troops/vehicles.Â It’s rather simplistic and makes me miss the control I had of making buildings and such bu the simple nature of it works because of how intense the micromanagement is with squads.

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