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Dawn of War Planet has been around for a year. Pop by and say hi!

Any other sites out there been around as long?

Raphael has posted that a problem has been encountered with the Stats Reporting system. They hope to have it fixed by the end of the day.

Druidika has reported that the recently released issue of Gamestar Magazine has some Dawn of War Tidbits in it. Including a lot of info on the SP campaign. Heck, I’ll just let him do the talking.

Seems like the may issue of Gamestar (major games magazine in Germany) has some new info about Winter Assault, as well as some screenies. I don’t have access to a scanner at the moment, so I’ll see what I can do about that later.
[UPDATE] Made some photos of the screenies with my digital cam, but one can’t recognize anything at all. I’m also not sure about the legal problems that might exist.

Here are the facts:

• Units in squads look varied now, have slightly different height, faces and so on
• There’s a new feature called ‘Kill-Cam’ which shows a close-up of those spectacular finishing moves
• Commissar is included, and boosts the morale by executing soldiers. He’ll be the secondary hero.
• Sanctioned Psycher is in
• Techpriest Engineer is in. He repairs vehicles, and one of the screenies shows him carrying an axe for close combat
• The Sentinel is in, the IG’s walker unit
• The Baneblade will have awesome firepower, but a rather weak armor
• The Chimera troop transporter allows units to fire from the inside
• The main hero will be the Imperial Captain, which is just a bit weaker than the Force Commander. Games Workshop will bring the unit to the tabletop soon.
• The 4 older races will get new units, but the article doesn’t mention which
• There will be a ‘good’ campaign which will let you play the Space Marines, Eldar and the Imperial Guard, and an ‘evil’ campaign which will allow you to play with the Chaos Space Marines and Orks. Each of them will consist of about half a dozen missions.

Please note that this is from an early version and might change until the retail hits.

So head on over to to discuss. Even if they don’t get all of those features added, I’m still excited about the enhancements. Kill cam, that should be fun :-)

The winner’s of Relic’s Dawn of War mapping contest have been revealed, and here’s the verdict:

drumroll please!

Abandoned Faith (2)
vs322

Desiderata Highlands (6)
kap

Sand Storm (2)
monorail

The successful map creators will receive a prize pack consisting of:

Dawn of War Poster signed by the Dev Team
Limited Edition Dawn of War T-Shirt
Dawn of War Dog Tag

A special map pack with the winning maps will be available from relicnews for download very shortly! Be sure to check them out, they are great quality and worthy winners.

We will be contacting the winners and organizing delivery of their prizes shortly. Thankyou once more to everyone who submitted a map for the contest. We really enjoyed playing every single one of them!

Congrats to all the winners, to check out the original post click here. If you want to grab the maps you can do so here or here.

Chavez has posted this:

Hey all!

So I know youve all been waiting patiently for us to review all of the contest entries and announce the winners of the Mapping Contest. Due to the wonderful (and overwhelming!) number of entries it took us longer than we had hoped, but the time has finally arrived. This Friday at around 5pm PST, I will post the final in a series of posts that I will be making every day this week around this time.

Each post will have a number of maps covered in it, seperated by the size of the maps, with links to the entry, and some internal comments and thoughts that we’ve collected as we’ve reviewed the entries.

All of these will build up to the final post where we will announce the successful entrants!

Id like to personally thank everyone for their entries, I’ve played every map and had a fun time doing it, it’s fantastic to see where you the community can take Dawn of War with your own efforts.

… in the DoW Maproom.

As he mentions, here’s the first post in his series of reviews. It covers the 2p and 3p maps.

Wow, sounds good! I can’t wait to try some of these maps out!

Update: Andrew’s review of the 4P maps is posted.
Update2: Andrew reviews the handful of 5P and 6P maps here.
Update3: Mr. Chavez’s review of the 8P maps is here.

THQ has confirmed that Winter Assault will be shown at E3.

Well it seems those scum sucking mut….. erm clever men, over at GameSpy have gotten a look at the specs for the next Xbox (codenamed Xenon) they seem impressed…found out more. Thanks to Novaburn for pointing that out on IRC.

In other news it appears i forgot how to write html…

And in even more news, you can discuss this news IN THIS THREAD

First off, when I say Warhammer, I mean Warhammer proper, not Warhammer 40,000.

It seems Namco has gained the rights from Games Workshop to create PC and console games based on the Warhammer Intellectual Property.

This likely means that we won’t be seeing Relic and THQ involved in making any Warhammer based games using the Impossible Creatures/Dawn of War game engine.

Thanks to Evilavatar.com for the heads up.