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.
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!
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.
Dawn of war <3
What? There is no point to include something to justify rating of 10 out of 10.
The amout of work put in to this mod speaks for itself. Like you know, whole new faction, rebalance, new units, etc., sigh.
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.