They have a unique resource called Faith. Morale damaging weapons seem to be a specialty of theirs as multiple units and vehicles have this ability. The Sisters of Battle have strong units, although individual units are not as strong as the Space Marines. However, the largest addition with this expansion is obviously the two new factions. These units are generally not strong enough to be your main force, but they can perform very useful precision strikes at specific targets that would otherwise be hard to reach. Each faction gains a true airborne unit, capable of moving across any terrain. Unlocking wargear happens after you complete special objectives, such as winning a certain number of battles, or eliminating a number of enemy factions.Įxcept for the new factions, there is one new change with this expansion that does change gameplay a bit. Your Force Commander will also grow more powerful through the campaign as you unlock wargear that can greatly enhance the combat abilities of your Force Commander. Each new normal province will unlock a new honor guard unit. The availability of honor guard units is determined by the provinces you own. Just as with Dark Crusade, the honor guard are special units that can be purchased in-between battles. Taking a home base will usually require a strong honor guard as you should expect early counter attacks. All warp gates have take-and-hold objective, where you simply need to hold more than half of all critical points for a set amount of time.Īs with Dark Crusade, each faction has a heavily defended home base. Conquering, or defending, each province is a skirmish battle with the simple objective of defeating your opponent. Travel between the planets is possible through warp gates, making these gates very important locations to hold.Įach planet is divided into a number of provinces. The campaign plays out in the Kaurava planetary system, and you will be fighting across four planets as well as a few moons. In short, the campaign is not played linearly. I will not cover it in as much detail for this expansion as I covered it quite extensively for Dark Crusade. The single player campaign follows the same premise as in the previous expansion, Dark Crusade. For single player skirmish and campaign, all factions are available without needing to own the previous games. By default, only the two new factions are available in multiplayer. The campaign features the Alpha Legion, with their leaders, Sindri Myr and Lord Bale. In addition, they employ morale-draining daemons and psykers. However, you will need to own the original Dawn of War, as well as the other two expansions if you want to play all factions in multiplayer. In Dawn of War, they use troops that are corrupted mirrors of their loyal Imperial counterparts.
The expansion adds another two factions, making it a total of 9 factions.
Soulstorm was not developed by Relic, the developer of all previous installments for Dawn of War. In 2008, we got the third and final expansion for Dawn of War, Soulstorm.
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