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The Steel Legion mod team announced the release of their modification for Dawn of War: Dark Crusade called Steel Legion DC. Their feature list sounds very cool indeed:

Features:

- Diverse new race including over 30 units and 9 buildings.
- All units are army paintable.
- Many upgrades for units.
- Most units have a random displayed look.
- New scale for tank units, to be more equal to tabletop.
- Extended AI that let’s you play against steel legion.

New Features specific to DC:

- Pick between 2 unique doctrines Mechanised Infantry and Armoured Company from the HQ building.
- New tanks.
- New upgrades
- New FX, new fixes, Sounds, etc.

Dawn of War: Dark Crusade version 1.2 is required to play this mod. Check out their thread for more info, screenshots and download links.

Fennec, the balance manager at Relic, is scouting for a game balancer to fulfill a future position at Relic.

I work for Relic Entertainment as the Balance Manager. I’m currently scouting for new talent to fill the Game Balancer role. While there are no slots available at this time, that will change in the New Year. If working in the gaming industry has ever interested you (as it interested me when I was young), this may be the position for you. Balance is an excellent opportunity to explore the gaming industry; you are introduced to and a part of the video game production process, you get to work closely with Multiplayer Systems designers, and are given the opportunity to explore other fields within the industry.

If you have the guts or experience, please go to this thread for more information.

As many of you know, the 2.201 patch has been released. This should resolve the issues with the last patch.

See Worth Playing for a mirror and release notes.

You can of course download it in game. Steam (and other users of game download services) users are reminded to NOT install or download the patch. Hopefully Relic and Valve (and the other such providers) can work together to release a patch that prevents their users from downloading until the digital download updates, or hopefully release updates at the same time :-)

Today, Relic kicked off their new newsletter, Reliquary. Included in this issue is some info and screenshots from the upcoming Soulstorm expansion. They also feature some fanarts, maps/mods, and fan writings.

Check it out:

ps. I think they need an e-mail format.

pss. People that are interested in advertising their maps/mod/art/fiction should e-mail here.

It’s been a while since the last community map pack has been released. This time the folks from the mapping forums tried something new: Nine prominent members from the DoW mapping community came together to create nine very different islands forming one single map.

Each mapper did an island of his own, having a week time to do it, and then passed the map on to the next in line. So every island is designed in a different style, with a different theme.

Check out the thread for more information or download the map right away at dowfiles.