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To preface, I have a passing interest in the lore of the Warhammer 40K universe. While I don't play the boardgame or read the novels I'd like to consider myself well versed enough to participate in /r/whowouldwin discussions involving spacemarines and such.

Now a game that peaked my interest some time ago was the original Dawn of War RTS. While many warhammer fans are familiar with the game. Many board game players were underwhelmed by the mechanics. And fans of the lore and literature found the game to be a fun tactical RTS but found it lacking in a certain area.

Scale

I felt the same. And apparently some mod authors did too. They went and made the [Ultimate Apocolypse] (http://www.moddb.com/mods/ultimate-apocalypse-mod) mod. Which basically just makes everything bigger and epicer.

With:

unit caps higher across the board.

Bigger squads, most notable with the Imperial Guard and Orks

Allows zooming out fully to see the whole map(provides fog free versions of maps as well)

New units everywhere

!Tyranids!

and a bunch of other stuff

This is a good video on the changes

Oh yeah, they added Titans too.

If you've never heard of Warhammer. The jist of it is in the grim-dark future humanity has ventured into the galaxy and forged THE IMPERIUM OF MAN over thousands and thousands of years. United through worship of and protection by the 'living' GOD EMPEROR but slowly crumbling under the weight of innumerable idealistic and/or horrifying xenos along with the forces of chaos that threaten the galaxy as a whole. This empire is barely held together by the plentiful infantry of the Imperial Guard and bolstered by the religious zeal of the superhuman Space Marines Wielding the largest shoulder pads in the universe. The tabletop game has a whole bunch of factions(including the two named above) many of which are included in the game.

Edit: here's a gameplay video if youve got an hour to kill

Ultimate Apocalypse Mod For Dow Soulstorm Download

Dawn Of War Soulstorm Apocalypse Mod Steam

I would love to froth at you about the new release of an ultromod for the original Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Soulstorm, which transforms it into a simalcrum of Epic / Apocalypse 40K. Genuinely would love to. Epic was my first Games Workshop game, and because the first things we’re exposed to are always the ones we believe to be the best, its grand-scale, massed army, enormous Titan-centric battles remain the only way I think 40K should be played. Unfortunately I’ve had more luck trying to elicit empathy in cats than I have trying to download ‘grand release’ of Ultimate Apocalypse at a sensible speed, so can’t tell you much for at least another three hours. But I am going to point at it and say ‘look! Look! Wouldn’t it be amazing if this was as good as it sounded?’
TITANS
ENORMOUS EXPLOSIONS
MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY DEATHS
TITANS

That is Epic, or Apocalypse as Games Workshop now call it. Maybe that’s just as well – the word ‘epic’ just makes me think of insurance adverts now.

The 1.8 ‘grand release’ of Ultimate Apocalypse, which came out on Sunday, is referred to as The Hunt Begins and adds two new factions and an overhauled skirmish mode, and focuses on mod-made factions Inquisition versus Chaos Daemons. This means there’s support for 11 different armies. I guess the original Dawn of War remains the go-to RTS if you want a maximalist adaptation of 40K. This is all multiplayer and skirmish stuff, mind. Singleplayer is further down the line, theoretically, in case that’s your main interest.

TITANS

The mod’s been around for several years, and is popular enough to even have its own mods.

TITANS

This is quite an old trailer, but gives a sense of what Ultimate Apocalypse is going for:

TITANS TITANS TITANS

I’ll try and lob in some hands-on thoughts if and when this accursedly slow 1.1GB download finally finishes crawling down its tiny tube, but in the meantime you can grab it from here. You’ll need the Dawn of War 1 expandalone Soulstorm, but don’t need any other DoW games.

TITANS

Dawn Of War Apocalypse Mod Campaign

Thanks for the titan tip, James.