Warhammer expansion announced

[LA_MERC_Onji]

Winter Assault

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/02/14/news_6118560.html


The critically acclaimed, Relic Entertainment-developed strategy game Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War is set to expand later this year.
Publisher THQ and developer Relic Entertainment have announced a new expansion pack for its popular 2004 strategy game, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War. The expansion, titled Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Winter Assault, will add an all-new playable race to the original game's set of four, called the Imperial Guard. Both the original game and its expansion are based on hobby company Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 tabletop game universe, where space marines wearing power armor do battle with hordes of orks and eldar in a grim and violent far-flung future torn by war.

Relic general manager Ron Moravek states, "The response to Dawn of War has been overwhelming. Combining the enthusiasm we're seeing from the fans with the ability to draw from the seemingly endless, rich content from the Warhammer 40,000 universe made the decision to create an expansion easy. We look forward to building on the Dawn of War franchise with even more visceral combat action throughout both the single and multi-player experiences."

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Winter Assault is scheduled for release in fall of 2005. Stay tuned to GameSpot for more updates on Winter Assault. For more information on the original Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, consult our previous coverage, including our full review of the game.

[LA_MERC_Diesel]

man that is a sweet game.

[JohnXDoeX]

You know I can't say that I didn't see this coming after the way that the first single player game ended. I hope we get some new units with the expansion.

[LA_MERC_Drax]

If you've ever played the tabletop version, you'd know that imperial guard is a massive tank power. Now im just wondering if they will hold true to this in the game. Space marines always had nice tanks, but the imperial guard had monster tanks, with like 20 guns on em. I have another warhammer game, its a bit older and its turned based. Also its based on epic 40k(mini models). Focus is more on titans and such. They could easily open another race up, the tyrannid. This is more like your aliens, which they kind of gave to chaos with those possessed marines, but they are a whole race. If you've ever wondered how many races there are, go look on GW website and everything they have a codec for, is pretty much a race.

[Daedelus]

oh yeah this looks good cant wait. i had that older based space marine game where you had command points to spen at begining of map and chose how to spend the point i prefered atleast one titan that whent up middle of the map just causing alot of chaos.
yeah it was old and graphics were way old but it was fun. i saw they had put out a servey on ea web site to see what race the people had whanted for the next add-on i was almost sure the tyranid was going to get it but then this news owell.
i did also down load a mod some one made for the demon hunters clan/race it was fun but could only be used in skirmish mode they were nice. oh thanks for keeping us up to date on this iam looki ng forward to it.

[LA_MERC_M@lACHi]

OMG! Can't wait!