New Dawn of War expansion

By Robert Purchese Published 27 September, 2007

Soulstorm flashes credentials.

Soulstorm will be the third expansion in the acclaimed Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War series.

The standalone pack is co-developed by Relic and Iron Lore Entertainment (of Titan Quest fame), and is due to release sometime next spring.

It will add two new factions to the real-time strategy mix - one has been named as the Dark Eldar - and well introduce air units, multiplayer medal achievements, and wars that span across different planets. All that from a little lead figure and fiddly pot of paint. Well I never.

"In Dawn of War - Soulstorm, we've taken Games Workshop's epic war from one planet to an entire star system," said Tarrnie Williams, big dreadnought-like chief at Relic.

"Allowing gamers to play nine unique races, introducing air units and providing multiplayer achievements for the first time creates a tremendous amount of new and challenging strategic gameplay for all players."

Dawn of War originally launched in 2004. Relic followed it up a year later with first expansion Winter Assault, before adding Dark Crusade to the series in 2006.

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Comments (18) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Der_tolle_Emil #1 4 years ago

    That game will be huge with yet another addon. I'm definetly interested!

  • UncleLou #2 4 years ago

    The standalone pack is co-developed by Relic and Iron Lore Entertainment (of Titan Quest fame), and is due to release sometime next spring.

    Meh, I'd rather want Iron Lore to develop another addon (or a sequel) for Titan Quest. :-/

  • Laserbream #3 4 years ago

    Nice to see Iron Lore are still open for business!

    But where's the proper sequel to DoW, the one with good AI and a smarter way to manage unit reinforcement?

  • Dizzy #4 4 years ago

    Loved the whole series... I hope we will have genestealers this time.

  • zuljin #5 4 years ago

    Awesome! Only thing that game missed was air and sea units...

  • FladgeMangle #6 4 years ago

    Glad to hear this, love DOW and all it's spawn.

    Completed Dark Crusade with the Eldar (as per) so new races just means more baddies, which is of course nice.

    Air units are good, presumably with anti-air wotsits to spoil the party. Relic have been stars with this franchise, one day maybe they'll even get around to Titans.

  • MightyPenguin #7 4 years ago

    The other race'll be Tyranids. They've covered everything else already. Everything worth covering. Surely.

  • rowsdower #8 4 years ago

    They already said they couldn't do the Tyranids justice in the DoW engine so they will never be in. DoW2 is supposedly based on the Essence engine so it should have them then. It's more likely we'll get Daemonhunters or a more specific Chaos army in this one.

  • Rirekon #9 4 years ago

    I'll be buying this regardless, but if it doesn't have Tyranids as a playable race I'll kill someone.

  • Hunam #10 4 years ago

    How the hell can they balance 9 sides?

    Crazy foo's!

  • Schiraman #11 4 years ago

    Fantastic, I love DoW so more is always welcome - just hope the new races have a bit more depth than the Necrons and Tau. Must admit I'm disappointed that it's just another expansion pack rather than a proper sequel though... oh well.

  • CouldntResist #12 4 years ago

    9 unique races. Awesome :). I usually play LAN games with a couple of mates vs. computers so i'm not really too bothered about balance, but for people playing online it might be a pain. I remember how the Tau and Necrons were ridiculously overpowered when Dark Crusade was first released.

  • Orange #13 4 years ago

    Dark Crusade was great for me, so definitely looking forward to this.

  • Gurrah #14 4 years ago

    The cat's out of the bag! With Iron Lore doing the 'co' part of development I have no doubts this will be yet another AWESOME expansion to DoW. I had a few worries when I first read about it and it only said that it is being developed by someone else than Relic. Dark Eldar aren't my cup of tea though, I'm just hoping the 2nd race will be the oh so wonderful Tyranids.

  • Lin #15 4 years ago

    will it have a sandbox campaign generator? now that would be awesome

  • agparrot #16 4 years ago

    ooh nice.

    Wonder if many of the CoH improvements will make their way through here?

    it's all good.

  • neuroniky #17 4 years ago

    Awesome. Doing a sequel to a game with 9 different races will be a very difficult thing...

  • frazzle #18 4 years ago

    If you watch the Dark Archon video near the end a sisters of battle imolater is destroyed so i think thats the second army
    Edited by 1 at 27/11/07 @ 17:14