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I've been playing some 1v1s and so far the patch feels pretty good but it has some issues. i am by no means good at the game so id love to hear what others think

- CSM vs sisters feels impossible now. Your only option is tac marines and even then all your builders insta pop to seraphims and you lose vs seraphims or sisters until you get bolters. Raptors and cultists are insta lose.

- cultist opener is kind of dead in general. even vs ig i feel better going raptors

- sisters are being played a lot more, either mass sisters or mass seraphims. both are really hard to deal with due to the constant healing and other act of faith spam. playing against them is rough early but thankfully their vehicles are still ass so once i get through t1 (playing orks mostly) its gg

- orks still feel very good to me

- the guard nerfs were deserved imo, faction still seems pretty balanced. their worst matchups got nerfed too.

the patch made me switch from CSM to orks but i was probably going to do that anyway. CSM definitely feels like the big loser here. openings nerfed and vehicles nerfed. not much reason to play them over space marines now imo. orks still krumpin good though

Like, are fellas playing in just a couple of maps and hate everything else or they dont mind? Im very new to the game so i dont know :p

I've just installed Unification and omg, it's too hard. I need some help please.

Background: Been playing DOW for years on INSANE difficulty and on large maps, me+1xAI 'vs' 4xAI and I usually win. I prefer to play space marines. My tactics are to quickly get 1 or 2 power gens going; LPs for the nearest places and barracks, followed by armory. 1 set of space marines early on is usually enough to protect whilst my base and resources build. Scouts go as far as they can until they meet resistance where i'll usually just let them die.

Now, for Unification. I got battered on insane level, so thought - i'll go down to EASY and then i'll be able to easily take my time and work out what new units the space marines have to counter the enemy (usually orcs).

Unless i'm mistaken, space marines don't get many new units? Within a very short period of time, the orcs are chucking some huge things against me and even with 5 or 6 fully armed space marines, i get my ass kicked within no time at all.

I've gone from winning on insane (against more AI) to losing a 1v1 on easy.

Whilst i do like to base build and turtle, i know this game isn't designed to promote that game play - so i even tried focusing on all our attack as soon as possible. Got battered as soon as i got near AI base. AI had alsorts of high level stuff and i'd only just got armory built and the marines upgraded to rocket launchers.

Help pls ... how do you play space marines on Unification?

I recently bought the game and just finished the first campaign. I don't know much about Warhammer but enjoy RTS games. I really enjoyed this game a lot more than I thought I would.

I am wondering if there are any mods you recommend for single player?

I was wondering if anybody has ever considered doing this, but I wanted to do a campaign where I would only use Chaos cultists on Dark Crusade as a funny challenge set upon myself just to see if it was possible to win the campaign using nothing but meatshields. For the run itself, I would forbid the use of my own honor guard (Chaos honor guard sucks anyway) and any other unit in the army, including the use of Chaos Space Marines. The Lord I guess has an exception? But I'd be willing to discuss that in the comments, same with the use of vehicles.

I was not too sure whether adding champions to lead them was going to be rule-breaking for my self-made challenge, but I'm always open to the idea since all it does is add someone slightly more powerful to a bunch of fragile fighters. But I thought about doing this for my next campaign. Has anyone ever thought about doing a unit-only challenge for other factions or am I the only one who's thought about this?

Hello everyone,

I have already beaten Definitive Edition Soulstorm on Hard with the IG faction. However I want to now replay it with other factions and I remembered - unlike Dark Crusade where Hard mode puts your forces and the enemy forces on equal footing, 100% HP vs 100% HP, Soulstorm Hard actually buffs the enemy HP. So it ends up being your forces at normal 100% HP versus an enemy with increased health (120% I think).

I dont like this. It worked for my fantasy as the squishy IG Faction but if I want to do Necrons or Space Marines and such, it will ruin the feel for me a bit. Doing normal sucks because then my units have 200% health...

Is there a mod that can let you and the enemy both be at 100% Health points while allowing me to get achievements?

Any chance of this happening? I would think it pretty unlikely, but I’m getting absolutely bombarded with ads for this game. Every other ad I see is for it. Assuming that the rate at which I am seeing ads is reflected in the general target audience, I have to think this represents a significant marketing push. But what are they pushing for if the game isn’t coming out until late 2026?

I’d also note that I’ve been seeing ads with this level of frequency since the beginning of this year.

I was obsessed with this game as a teenager. Picked up Definitive Edition and WOW my cheeky little commissar rush is not cutting it anymore. I feel totally overwhelmed by what's happening in multiplayer. Can anyone suggest some basic strats for an old dog getting back into the game? I played a lot of Guard and Tau back in the day, but am open to trying out all of the factions again. Any advice is greatly appreciated!

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I want to mess with my friend and want someone to play soul storm for me and beat him fair warning he is actually good I am willing to Cash App 50 bucks if you win to anyone who is down he plays tau and has complained about getting orcs blitzed a lot I always loose think it would be funny to win catch him off gaurd

Recently I decided to dedicate myself to learning a lot about the first Dawn of War, and I really enjoyed the game (watching my friend lose playing Necron against my Orks is hilarious, but equally frustrating when I lose lol). Do you guys think that certain concepts from the first game could be used in the 4th one, since they're going to be quite similar?

Why does the world always revolve around money and power? And how is it that we don´t seem to learn from our history? Why is it that there has been a major war once every hundred years since the past 500 years(research in the Fourth Turning)

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