I mostly play IG and I am content with Rocket run as a nuke; however, having been on the receiving end of each races nuke many times, I do feel like certain ones are way more dangerous than others. This is how I would categorize them: Amazing Tier: Eldritch Storm Good Tier: Rocket Run Roks Empyreal ...

Hi all After 900 hours of playing 3v3 I want to play some 1v1. I played maybe 30 games of 1v1 in 2009 and then maybe 30 or so against a complete newb since I started Elite mod - so I don't have the knowledge of each race and its standard tactics that I do for 3v3. Could anyone fill me in on the majo...

I made the mistake of playing Retail out of desperation and I have to say this mod is pretty well balanced.

Revive your allied heroes when you can. If I had a blacklist of players, it would be populated by those who idle their hero a screen's distance away from your downed hero. Use the chat to relay important information, and read the damn chat yourself. On long, thin maps like argus, don't respond to a ...

Tarre wrote:While we are at it rename Imperial Guard to Astra Militarum

GW plz leave

Thanks. One more reason to never buy one.

According to the codex the baneblade demo cannon does psychic damage (because a "demolisher" cannon shouldn't be effective against armour); however I remember hearing that after 2.5 it was changed to explosive. Is this the case or did that change end up being reverted?

The game isn't here to represent tabletop. Tabletop doesnt even represent the lore that well, the space marines would be annihilated in the lore if they were only as good as they are in tabletop. As far as lore goes, doesn't every catachan have super deadly knife that he treats as his most important...

Hi all, Why don't plasma devs cost power? Their close equivalent, noise marines, cost power (the upgrade itself doesn't, but the base unit does). It seems like a unit that has anti-all damage should cost some power. I understand that it isn't a hard vehicle counter, but a well-landed plasma shot can...

IG are definitely not weak - they have some serious weaknesses as a result of being the worst melee race, but they make up for it with lots of other strengths: GM are one of the best scaling T1 units in the game (+ cheap reinforce); versatile support units in the form of catachans and the elite-only...

I understand why people point bring up regular PM as a balance issue... I think that as well. I've just found that adding CPM to a nurgle blob takes them to a new level of OP. A PM blob has good ranged damage output and can deter low hp melee units with their death explosion, but aside from the PC t...

Catachans aren't good in close combat the way a dedicated melee unit is. They are a counter melee unit - if you just move them into melee they will be horribly inefficient because they are slow, have no charge, and don't have the raw DPS of a dedicated melee unit. However, if your opponent has melee...

Herohammer (as I know it) is a reference to the days of WHFB when it was a balance nightmare focused on souped up hero units and fodder infantry. Seems like a good term to use, since standard infantry are becoming more like fodder, while heroes and Lords of War are becoming bigger and stronger. Look...

Also I heard somewhere that their damage over time is heavy melee. Can someone confirm or deny? I don't see it in the codex.. If it is heavy melee that can be taken away for sure. There is no need for them to be any sort of anti-vehicle (even soft). I think that may be the case, I've seen them peel...

I like this idea. I've always wished this game could do more to encourage race wars, since there is no reason for nids to ally with anyone, or for chaos and SM to be on the same team...etc.

Here is a longer video in english, that was posted in the DOW forums. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93Wn7YUGaWI One of the guys talking actually mentioned that Relic was aiming for the simple, bright-coloured MOBA feel as opposed to "photo-realism" :/ I notice the same things as I did wi...

Let alone all the shenanigans concerning the lore. It is exactly the lore that has brought Warhammer 40k where it is now. Yes, gameplay is more important than lore in practice, but the lore should shape the design , and the most marginal amount of concessions should really be made when it comes to ...

There is some wasted DPS against low HP targets, but scout snipers are still amazing at peeling off tacs/csm in a firefight (their sniper rifles do +27 bonus damage against HI armour). Even against infantry armour races, snipers are great for putting pressure on your opponent - if you are in a stati...

DoW: Elite has a very small community. The people who think their shit don’t smell help make it smaller and the community which doesn’t condone that kind of behavior (just because they are afraid of losing “a good player”) pisses me off even more.

*cough cough* Angry Bird * cough cough*

-Gabriel was scaled up about 5X compared to the other models around him -No cover, and very plain battlefield terrain in general -Lots of over-the-top visual effects -Abilities that shred entire units -Lots of bouncy-castle knockback effects It looks like the MOBA/MMORPG cancer has spread to the 40K...

Before patch 2.5.1 I used to be fully on the "Fuck-OM" bandwagon, but after facing Torpid's GK in 1v1 I see completely where Cyris is coming from. It took me only 2 games to figure out the major weaknesses in the OM roster and beat him. I like to think I'm not bad as an IG player, but I de...

Hi all, I've noticed CPMs showing up in chaos builds a lot more, often in conjunction with PMs and the PC with the powersword and one of his armour upgrades. I find these nurgle blobs extremely frustrating to face - they have a huge amount of HP, amazing regen, they have amazing anti-infantry melee/...

There was a time shortly after patch 2.5 was released where it seemed like the standard GK build was to get 2x purgs and wreck your opponent with early aggressive play, but since then I haven't found them to be as much of a problem (most likely due to the 2.5.1 fixes). If you get caught with your un...

Swiftsabre wrote:

Oddnerd wrote:I don't blame you for being pissed off at the cliquey nature of DOWII players, you do have a legitimate grievance

Lel

http://i.imgur.com/DKzETvg.png

Maybe you missed the brilliant thread about Torpid that was deleted recently, but I'm clearly not just being needlessly salty.

I don't blame you for being pissed off at the cliquey nature of DOWII players, you do have a legitimate grievance (even if showing up to a forum and calling everyone in the community cunts isn't the most graceful way to express it). I feel that getting good at Elite is like trying to get a job nowad...

Your Tics are meant to act as a force multiplier for these units rather than do the job on their own. This feels like the central point of the debate. People miss their tics being a DMU who could defeat and even wipe more expensive units in the early game. There was even someone who complained that...

It is just how the game is designed. The game does not have separate rolls to hit, rolls to wound, armour saves and so on like tabletop. The damage value should not be interpreted literally as the sole product of how hard a particular round of ammunition hits, it is a function of several things - we...

firatwithin wrote:
Don't tell me IG has the best req economy

They do have the best req economy.... for the first 5 minutes of the game.