Dawn of War 2: Retribution CO-OP ft. Shar Dundred - Part 1 

Dawn of War 2 with Shar is back, nature is healing

Merrick is full of wonderful snark. He's the best. He's also not afraid to speak his mind - a VANISHINGLY rare trait among Imperial Guardsmen in the company of a General and an Inquisitor. An important thing to keep in mind about Dawn of War 2: Retribution, is that it _was_ released as a stand-alone game. It's got the Dawn of War 2 label, but you don't actually need the base game to play Retribution, and so there's a fair amount of divergence from the original campaign in both playstyle and story. It does continue the same overall story, but the ten-year timeskip since the end of Chaos Rising means they can do quick summaries for any really important information that comes up that people need to know about what happened before to make sure people starting here aren't _too_ lost.

Ah yes, Retribution. The one where they tried, but the budget was more felt than ever. Retribution was (apparently?) made during Relic's decline, and was meant to be a way to wrap up the story before the end, and the fact that one of your four characters (in almost every campaign; in the Chaos campaign, only *two* characters talk, probably because they had to voice Abaddon as well) doesn't talk is just one example of how the budget is being stretched to its limits. The cutscenes are worse (except *that* cutscene. Everyone knows *that* one) and every campaign has the exact same missions. Still, Retribution is really fun if you approach it right. The Guard are a little more reliant on their army than most factions; with the exception of Bernn, they're all made out of wet tissue paper. With the right build on Adrastia's Stormtrooper upgrades, you can actually create one of the most game-breaking armies in the game by making your Stormtroopers do mroe damage, have more health, stun infantry with attacks, and delete vehicles with meltas. You can also make free infinite money with Castor's big box, and you can create the permanently invincible army with Bernn's execution if you get the right perks, so the Guard really have some tools to break the game. Oh, and of course, air-dropping Leman Russes with Castor is always fun in a more conventional, less game-breaking playthrough.

So happy to see more Dawn of War 2 with Shar! Imperial Guard is a great choice, I picked them on my first playthrough too. The dialogue in the Ork campaign is hilarious though - when you fight the final boss of the campaign they basically go "wtf I am being defeated by Orks of all things?". But otherwise apart from the dialogue the campaign is more or less the same for all races. You play the same missions and you fight the same enemies. The story is pretty much the same, except the motivations of each faction are different.

Ohhhh more Dawn of War 2! Great to see. I don't actually have a lot of weird build advice or wargear opinions this time, buuuut I will just point out one implication of that thing Shar said about getting refunds when your troops die. See, you don't need the whole squad to die, you actually get partial refunds if individual models die, so that you can reinforce them. But the Lord General can reinforce squads for free with Valkyrie Support (which, yes, you drop on your own dudes). So if some of your guys die, and then Caster calls in reinforcements, you actually net money. Oh, and in case you haven't figured it out by the time you read this, the flag on Caster at the end is your rally point.

If anyone is wondering what the big crate ability that Castor has is for, if you drop it on one of your squads that is missing a guy, they will be reinforced without needing to rebuild them from one of the teleport things

393 players online playing the unofficial patch for multiplayer and Indrid Cast does cast the matches. They are super fucking interesting and awesome to watch.

Imperial Guard! Let's go! Pirate Ork is cool, but I prefer the Guard over them. Castor and Merrick are such amazing characters and I'm happy to see them in this campaign.

edit: just remembered the series is already fully recorded :face-palm: reinforcing cost resources, valkery support reinforces FOR FREE, ie you can GAIN resources from you infantry dieing if you use that ability buildings have limited firing ports so even if you put 21 guardsmen in a building no more the 6 or 8 can shoot you didn't pick the orks you already got the bad ending 😜

The blue flag on your commander is the rally point for your troop bunker.

If I recall, the canon ending for Retribution is the combination of Space Marine, Imperial Guards, and Eldar. Orks ending is questionable canon, cause Orks, while Chaos and Tyranid endings are non canon.

A pleasant surprise. This is going to be good. A bit disappointing that you didn't choose Kaptin Bluddflag and his ladz but Guards is good too.

*weeps in Ork pirate*

you can right click the reinforce button to allow them auto reinforce with needing to manually click it everytime, found that to be quite handy

the dream team is back

Hm, guard. Sure, it works. You'll love the general vs merrick banter (especially at the very end), I think the Bern guy was the inspiration behind "drive me closer, I want to hit them with my sword" meme. I don't remember much of their abilities tho. Reason why general uses sniper rifle one handed - a. it's a bionic arm, b. possible reference to cnc1 commando unit(that was left-handed! line specifically). If at all possible, get those autocannons, they were awesome back then and should be today as well. One lore correction, them catachan devils(jay nailed the pronounciation, the other reads with a kuh sound), while they are a guard regiment in their own right(think a whole army of rambos from vietnam war, gung-ho attitude resourcefulness and all), they don't have any penal legions. Yeah, get the stormtroopers too and their upgrades (ignore the goofy looking helmets). As for other races here, of funny note is orks(when your warboss(voiced by same guy as wow arthas, sc2 artanis and mkx scorpion among others) recruits those orks at ship, he tells them if they want to complain to go to the complaint department(his gun btw :P), and blood ravens(the cover section, after you save tarkus, your main guy diomedes(yes, thst one sans helmet) says perhaps the best line regarding power armor in general "take cover brothers. Our armor is formidable, but not infallible!"). I'll drop more of those as episodes progress so stay tuned.

The boys are back nice les go GG M8

both shar and jay have forged the hammer for the emperor

Even good ending chose blood reven

No Funni Orks Laaaaaaaame~ But hope you had fun with IG.

Men i love warhammer 40k :D

New DoW videos !!

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Cadia stands

Oh no Shar is back 😂😂😂 /s

reinforce ship is a funny ability that if used right, could net you resources, each model in a squad cost a portion of the resources the squad cost. reward screen, is either a gear item, unlock a unit for the army, or unlock an upgrade to an army unit available wich you could upgrade in missions.