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.
Does not work, perhaps only original game by steam, I do not steam and will not spend 50real to test this mod, please launch version for everyone to play, much will have more players, see example FA community forever, Edain Mod, Command Conquer General among others ....
Edit. I Buy game :)
Steam only
Make nosteam version
The Elite mod creates a balanced experience throughout the multiplayer, catering for more fair plays in all game modes, but originally centred around 1v1. It contains new units, such as the Chosen Plague Marines, the Vanguard and Sternguard Veterans, and more which I forget at the moment. A new faction was even birthed in the form of the Grey Knights, a dynamic but different faction that operate outside of many of the norms of the game, yet remain a strong faction at heart.
Because the map pool was small, various contributors have made maps for the multiplayer, such as Max Power's Meridian High City, Indrid's Estia Province and many others.
The mod frequently hosts tournaments, the Monthly Rumble Tournament being the most frequent but the Elite Mod Championship being the msot prestigous, with a grand top prize of two hundred euro for the winner and diminished amounts for all fo the runners up, having taken place in September 2014.
the man in charge is the veteran himself, Caeltos our lord and saviour who (along with his team) leads the design and balance of the mod and ensures that no patch is ever stale.
Finally, all of the casters who were big on the retail version of the game have come over to Elite mod in order to show off the mod, and then even stayed to cast it over retail, names such as Indrid, Red Rupee and Maestro Cretella being popular on the casting scene.
Why wait? It's full of goodies and a playerbase eager to get you interested. Youc an find the mod's website here: Dawnofwar.info and the forum here: Dawnofwar.info
Great mod! its a bit weird that the Storm Troopers have been retextured for each regiment though, they are a separate organisation in the lore. Really strange seeing Catachan Storm Troopers when they have the Devils lol.
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!