This installment introduces the Sisters of Battle and the Dark Eldar (WTF are the Tyranids already?!). Both factions get a unique resource that relies on soul siphoning, be it divine faith or twisted harvesting. The Dark Eldar commander can use these souls to release powers upon the battlefield from the comfort of the command interface whereas the Sisters of Battle player unleashes their abilities with units such as missionaries spreading the word of the Emperor.

The single player campaign spans four worlds now as opposed to the one planet you fought on last time. For all intents and purposes you are still fighting on one map, but now use must portals to reach other areas as opposed to directly marching over to them. I was slightly disappointed that the worlds were merely 2D plots of terrains to fight over.

Introducing flying units was a nice touch. Though saying that, “Every map, battle and strategy in Dawn of War has just been reinvented!” is quite the stretch. Air units were definitely missing, but they can still use some tweaking and variety.

The stand-alone model of expansion has been great in this series. There are two races in this expansion, if you do not have any of the previous titles you can only play with the two new factions introduced in this release. If you have all of them, you can play with all of the factions. This gives you just enough of a taste to want to go out and get the rest of them if you haven’t been religiously buying each title when they were released, which you should have been.

Overall, its not going to be the best real-time strategy (RTS) game you will ever play. It will give you that rich Warhammer 40k atmosphere. The lack of long set ups and few opponents will have you considering Ebay for the dusty miniatures stored away in your closet.

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