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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Dawn of War Chaos Strategies: Space Marines

I've found that Chaos v.s. Good guys is complex but simple.
All you need to do is counter their mix.
If they're stocking in vehicles then use Horrors and Predators.
If they whip out waves of infantry use two cups sugar and a ****load of Berzerkers and a few Defilers.
So it's mostly just doing the opposite.

Dawn of War Chaos Strategies: Necron

Now were on to the Necrons these guys are just tough, they don't have many if at all normal infantry units.
So we need to stock up on Plasma Guns.
Marines are preferred but, early game Cultists are understandable.
Berzerkers we need just to hold enemies in place since things like Pariahs and Flayed Ones are bad for your health.
Obliterators are very useful when they break out heavier and heavier units.
DO NOT CHARGE IN WITH DEFILERS MID-GAME.
I have tried and seen this but Immortals are incredible and a large melee based vehicle is toast.
Possessed Marines are very useful because they can break morale for the few units that have it.
Predators are very useful when upgraded with only the Twin Lascannon.
Also watch your base Wraiths and Dead Units are always dangerous.
Remember that only Scarabs can capture points so fast expansion is easy when they're needed for construction.
Hell Talons I found very useful for quick raids, but again only in Soulstorm.
So this is your army OR ELSE!
Marines with Plasma Guns
Optional Cultists with Plasma Guns
Berzerkers
Predators
Defilers if you can't read

Monday, August 1, 2011

Dawn of War Chaos Strategies: Eldar

Hey, now i'm going to talk about the Eldar.
Eldar do use cloaking technology a lot so either Cultists with detection or in campaign Commander with Helm of Alpharius.
Eldar have fast destructive melee units so you will need Berzerkers to counteract this.
Get Possessed Marines because weak units like Guardians are easily disposed by them and warp fire will break Council morale fast.
I don't recommend Defilers because they always seem to be easily killed.
I recommend replacing Defilers with Hell Talons if you are playing Soulstorm otherwise it doesn't matter vehicles aren't a big strength here.
Predators outfitted with Lascannons are very useful for taking down building and tanks.
Obliterators are a must have they mow down infantry like gods and since Eldar pride themselves on specialized infantry this is very important.
So. your team will look like this.
Berzerkers
Possessed
Hell Talons if in Soulstorm
Lascannon Predators
Obliterators
Detection Unit

Dawn of War Chaos Strategies: Dark Eldar

Dawn of War Chaos Strategy Against The Dark Eldar.
For many of you newbies this is your thought process against these guys.
Chaos SMASH!
But the reason this doesn't work well is because Dark Eldar break morale very easily.
So if all your guys get scared really fast what can you do you think?
Well your in luck because daemonic possession helps a lot!
The trick is to use fearless units, ones that don't use morale.
So Khorne Berzerkers are your basic force, use these like you would Marines.
Possessed Marines can be used to help take down stronger units like the Archon and Haemonculus
Obliterators can help take down infantry killers like Scourges and Warp Beasts.
Horrors can be used to take down vehicles but they do use morale but it is a lot more than average.
If the enemy is targeting your Horrors you can use Chaos Rhinos to deploy smoke that halves morale damage, but it shouldn't be that big a worry there is a swarm of axe wielding fantatics in the way.
And of course Defilers or Chaos Predators can be used to take down structures but I prefer Defilers due to the fact that they can be used to break waves of guys.
An alternate style is also to do a normal wave but deploy Chaos Rhinos for smoke to slow morale loss.
So lineup is..
Berzerkers
Possesed
Obliterators
Horrors
Rhinos are Optional
Defilers or Predators
 or
Rhinos
Whatever