Dawn of War XL is a simple mod that scales up the size of vehicles but leaves unchanged the gameplay, and brings in few among the best models from all other mods.

-Vehicle size upscaled up to 60% (with some exceptions)
-Infantry size, depending on the unit, has been either downscaled, upscaled and/or randomized, ranging from 90% to 120%
-Several models (but not all) imported from mods such as Firestorm Over Kronus, Titanium Wars, Unification Mod. You can find most of the changes in the Space Marine, Chaos and Eldar Factions. Full credits and sincere thanks to the respective authors, if you liked the new models, i encourage you to check out the original mods cited above.
-Imported various soundtracks strictly from Warhammer 40k franchises, namely Dawn of War 2, Dawn of War 3, Warhammer 40k: Space Marine, Warhammer 40k: Gladius.
-No balance changes
-No gameplay changes
-Dawn of War AI Extended SS included, once again, thanks to the original authors.

Credits:
For the models:
Unification Mod Team: Thudmeizer Mod Team
Titanium Wars Team: Grumbling Orc Game Development
Firestorm Over Kaurava Team: FoK.devteam

For the FX:
While all the FXs have been taken from the Unification Mod, i believe that much of the work has been originally done by Eranthis, so if you liked them, go check his amazing work and mods.

For the experimental upscaled texture:
Big thanks to Wright_oh for the textures and tools. If you would like to have an even more close-to-the-original experience with just fully upscaled textures and nothing else, please, go check his mods.

For the enhanced AI:
Dawn Of War AI Extended SS Team: Aliaska Prog

## FAQs ##

-How do i install the mod?
Just extract the folder and module with 7zip and place them into the main game folder, where "DarkCrusade.exe" is located. Next, start the game, select from the main menu "Game Manager" and activate the XL mod.

-The campaign movies are not working!
copy-past the folder "DXP2\Movies" into "DoW-XL\Movies". I could have added it myself but i wanted to keep the archive as light as possible.

-Some of the campaign units are not scaled / do not reflect skirmish changes
If something is missing, just tell me specifically which unit from the campaign has not been updated, and i will try to fix it.

-I'm not satisfied with the units size, can i change the scaling myself?
Yes, and it's pretty easy too. Just go over your game folder and enter the DoW_XL/Data/art/ebps/races
Say for example, that you want to increase the size of the space marines' Rhino, enter the space_marines/troops folder and open with a text editor "rhino.lua"
Edit the "vis_scale_min" and "vis_scale_max", and increase them from 1.35 to whatever you want, save and close the file, and you're done.
If "vis_scale_min" and "vis_scale_max" have not the same value, the size of the unit will be randomized. This can be useful if you want to flavor up the infantry size, for example.

-I've found a graphic or audio bug, like a missing texture or sound, what to do?
Just let me know which unit or element is bugged and i will try to fix it. If you want to be more helpful, you can also post the "warnings.log" which is found in the game folder.

-Is this compatible with other mods?
No. If you know how to edit the .module files, some basic mods may be safe to merge together.

-Can i use the DoW Mod Manager for it?
Yes.

-Why did you change the name of the mod?
M42 was a cool name but most probably misleading, sooner or later someone was bound to ask me "Where are the primaris?"

-Are future updates planned?
Aside from some minor fixes if necessary, no, no updates planned.

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darktemplar2403
darktemplar2403 - - 151 comments

Hi HNVR, the Farseer model still have the vanilla look despite the main menu on have new model.

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HNVR Creator
HNVR - - 20 comments

Hi, if the farseer you're talking about is in the campaign, it's on purpose, the new model isn't compatible with the wargear (or rather i wasn't able to get it working).
On the other hand, if it is in the skirmish, it may be a problem that needs a fix.

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gigiilmatto
gigiilmatto - - 615 comments

Good work. Good mod.

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Mr.-D
Mr.-D - - 727 comments

if i may be so bold,is it possible to convert this mod Moddb.com into a dark crusade mod?i do apreciate a lot of the aditions this mod made

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HNVR Creator
HNVR - - 20 comments

Negative, the focus of "my" mod is to be just a visual update and nothing else.

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Mr.-D
Mr.-D - - 727 comments

YES

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Guest
Guest - - 689,536 comments

Love this mod but is there any way to fix the chaos raptor champion? The model for him doesn't show but a purple box that says "Bad Model Check the Log"

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HNVR Creator
HNVR - - 20 comments

Hi, i'll check it right away as i'm back working on it, shouldn't be too hard to fix. Worst case scenario i'll revert to the vanilla model.

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darktemplar2403
darktemplar2403 - - 151 comments

Hi HNVR, there is a bug with Space Marine Sergeant with Power Sword and Power Fist Upgrade. They only held Power Sword as Assault Squad Sergeant and held Chain Sword (instead of Power Sword) as Tactical Squad Sergeant.

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HNVR - - 20 comments

Hi, sorry for the long delay, will look into it.

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