Dawn of War II: Elite is a multiplayer mod for Dawn of War II: Retribution. Originally envisioned by Caeltos (a competitive player with a wealth of experience spanning through vanilla to Retribution) as an experimental balance mod for high-level players, Elite evolved into making bolder changes as THQ cut the official support of DOW 2 in their dive toward bankruptcy. The addition of new abilities and units became commonplace, from Space Marine Sternguard Veterans, Eldar Fire Dragons, Chaos Raptors to the Ork Flash Gitz, finalising in the introduction of an entirely new faction - the Grey Knights, based on Bloodravage’s Destroyer 40k mod – all designed from a competitive PvP angle. Coupled with continuous development and an active community dedicated to casts, coverage and regular events, the Elite mod continues to preserve and enrich the de facto Warhammer 40K RTS to this day.
just the best
DoW 2 +, thats how it feels, but i believe that the Imperial Guard and the Eldar (the 2 most op factions in vanilla) are even more op in the mod, but that just me.
It is wild to see this classic being fully realised so many years on, I wish I'd joined the party sooner. So many elements have been refined; the balance, the new units, the new VA and portraits, the maps. You can tell a hell of a lot of work has been poured into this over the years, and it's still going strong. The community have also been great in helping a micro-phobic player like me get a hang of the mechanics too. Cannot recommend higher!
more thoughtful than Relic Entertainment
WOW!
This is a genuinely impressive piece of work, its abundantly clear how much love and attention has gone into this and the general communications around its development.
Chapeau Team, this is some next level stuff!
nice mod
Keeps a more than 10 year old multiplayer game fresh with balance and bug fixes while also adding new content. There's even a new campaign.
Neplob was to transfer all buildings, Turks from dawn of war soulstorm, all abilities, gates, disguise. The units are already there.
To be more precise, the first part, on the engine of the second
Incredibly boring mod, adds nothing to the game, just focused on tournament play for long time pro players. Average players will get nothing out of this. Mary sue gray knights faction is really boring, overpowered, and uninteresting.
Understandably, theres not a whole lot you can do with DoW 2 in terms of modding, but man, this is really dull.