IG Infantry Doctrine not working Thread - Ultimate Apocalypse Mod (DOW SS) for Dawn of War

While the updates say the Infantry doctrine now gives buffs to Guard infantry I'm not noticing any difference. If anything, my soldiers seemed to be doing less damage after I chose it. It's also a little disappointing that Overcharged Lasguns still aren't an upgrade or research.

Edited by: Bmary55

It increases their morale by 150 i think, amd also increases their health by like 25% iirc. Not sure if it buffs their damage, since the numbers dont change on a units DPS indicator.

Be glad it even increases their health; it used to only add 100 morale.

Either way, IMO they dont really need the damage buff since once they get the range research, just throw plasma guns on them and they wreck everything that isnt space marine.

The description of the research says it increases damage, though. I think Guardsmen could use it too, since nearly every other faction gets some kind of base ranged damage increase research for their basic ranged units. It's why Guardsmen become obsolete but a unit like the Shoota Boy or Slugga Boy remain viable in the late game. The melee research is good, special weapons damage increase is good, but both of those are researches other factions already get, while the Guard lacks the basic ranged damage researches. I suggested an "Overcharged Lasguns" upgrade a while back to remedy this. Still, it may be too powerful, since I have noticed that Guardsmen can outshoot nearly every other basic ranged squad pretty easily early on, and with plasma guns and the special weapons damage increase they can cut through SMs like butter.

Edited by: Bmary55