Retrospective Review - Dawn of War: Winter Assault 

Why do Kasrkin make bad bus drivers? They stop for no-one.

"WITNESS YOUR DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!"

YOU DID IT DUNDER. With this kind of quality, you are going places.

I remember the computer having a lot of psykers. And it wouldn't stop screaming "WITNESS YOUR DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMAH!" constantly. It was fun.

The Imperial Guard is definitely one of the more difficult but satisfying factions to play as. You spend a lot of your time just holding a few points as the enemy constantly batters you with their numbers, but eventually you start pushing them back with your fuckawesome tanks and Kasrkin squads. Their more familiar military aesthetic certainly gives them a more grounded feel than the others as well.

"IT IS MY DUTY TO SERVE!" Guard 4 life. General Sturnn made me into a 412th fanboy. Great video btw.

The 5 stages of Winter Assault -Oh so the Titan is a weapon -Sending a Landraider and a Baneblade? Hell of a weapon. -The Titan is in this Cathedral fortress? -It has a face. A good chunk of the map is the Titan....you'retellingmethiswalkson**legs** -This thing just beat 4 relic unit sized vehicles called Monoliths with it's side weapons. What's the main gun like *Dark Crusade intensifies*

You ever wonder why they sent Cadians rather than a cold environment based regiment like the Valhallans?

8.5 out of 10 "Too much Snow"

Gotta say, i think the snow fits pretty good, with the guard, corpses tend to pile up a bit, which stand out pretty good in contrast to the white. 2:03 MULTILASERS? MULTILASERS!

I always found it funny they called it Winter Assault, and the game never mentions anything about the winter. There is no blizzard level or anything else you normally see in a game that takes place in a snow environment (like keep your troops inside when its to cold, low sight range because its snowing)which is fairly surprising they stayed focused on the fighting.

I always loved how despite the lack of backstory the dialogue makes me love the characters. Especially Gorgutz. That plan stupid bit especially

This time last year I was saying Thank You for 500 subscribers; Now i've got to say thank you for well over 1500! I'm sorry about the wait for this kind of stuff: on top of being pretty lazy, I started University in September and that's put a lot of my attention elsewhere. Dark Crusade's video is already in production however!...ish...I've got a lot of footage for it and vague script ideas. Progress!

I love the Imperial Guard!

Boy I can't wait for thunder to continue reviewing. It'll be like The Price is Right, he'll get up to the top and go over with soulstorm and we'll get the Price is Right meme horn.

Back when developers actually TRIED to make engaging games. Nice work bibi

Man, had to rewatch your DoW reviews, just because you nail your "storytelling" tone perfectly when you give us the story of the games

Your reviews are among the most entertaining I've seen. You have a future as a prominent RU-vidr!

When I transitioned for DoW to DoW: Winter Assault, I was really taken back. The difficulty got cranked up to 11 and every mission was really hard to complete. But then, isn't that WH40k is all about? Spending 30 mins maintaining a defense so that you could muster enough forces to make the final push? Damn, DoW 2 should've followed this formula

You need to come back and review all the other ones RETURN TO US!

Needing to destroy the convoy during the Disorder campaign is the hardest damn thing I've had to do in like forever. Makes me feel like I'm actually earning my victory.

2:52 I GOT THE REFERENCE !!! Hurrah for the genocidal cyborg from the future who is not from 40k!

Still one of my favorite games of all time. So much fun.

I used to love replaying the defense mission where you had to set up defenses and build up your forces in order to protect the eldar from the orks and hold out until the baneblade arrives for backup. My old computer used to overheat quite often because of it too ^^;

02:53 FUKIN ELVES!!!

I love these reviews! You're the first one I've seen to use so many and so good blink-and-you'll-miss messages and moments in your videos. They all make me laugh.

Just finished DOW1 last night, and WA tonight, as the Imperial Guard. I thought the last two missions were… absolutely ridiculous. Mission 4 wasn’t AS bad if you just spam Ogryn squads and stick by the convoy, but I had to basically rely on the Baneblade for all of Mission 5, first to destroy all the Ork and Chaos bases, then to almost solo the monoliths. I didn’t even realize you had to click and manually fire the Titan Weapons, but that certainly made things better

The Imperial Guard were definitely my favourite faction, especially the tanks.

Great video, man. Hard to believe this is only your second review of this kind. Can't wait till Dark Crusade.

Loved the video. Just seeing winter assault again fills me with an amazing feeling of nostalgia.

Just a friendly reminder: you could actually BUILD Imperator-class Titan in Ultimate Apocalypse mod! Just enable "Legio Titanicus" win condition

2:53 that Pelinal Whitestrake killed me of laughter. Well played, good sir.

One of my favorite memories is wrapping up in my blanket on a snow day and playing winter assault

Honestly, the kaskin's audio of screaming "Stop for No-one" is basically how i played these games. Commander tells me to hold the line, but i'm already out of there and gone blowing up the enemy base XD

2:46 Let me add a little something: "And Taldeer would later starr one of the most beloved fanfics of the 40K fandom"

I rewatch this whole series every day because quarantine gives me WAAAAAAAAAY too much time. Yeah you earned a sub.

I personally LOVE the Space Marines, but for some reason, I just adore to play as the Imperial Guard!

You deserve so many more subscribers than you got right now man. Hope you'll get regonized way more soon.

The reason i never surrendered a multiplayer match in WA: MUSIC...it's just screaming DIE FOR THE EMPEROR OR DIE TRYING!

Another great game that's admittedly in my "very hard RTS campaigns" list, alongside C&C: Tiberium Wars (though that's mostly the faulty of wonky patches) and Company of Heroes 2.

I am pretty sure this is the voice actor for Little Kitten, am i right? :D

I am so sad I find you now, not 2y ago. You are awasome and that review was so ahead of time !

What it lacked in campaign length, it made up for with frustratingly hard missions. But it was enjoyable. The best in the series was Dark crusade though.

This game is just about trying to get a titan for your army off ebay. Change my mind.

Great work, very entertaining. also kinda funny that I commented on your first review yesterday asking for an update on when this was coming out. Anyways with these reviews you will build a sub base quickly in my opinion :) thanks for the video.

I really enjoy this guys Videos wish he still made them.

Keep em coming! These are GREAT!

Such good sound in these games and such good voice work. I will never forget the basilisk voice line. "Main gun ready! Fire!"

Nothing quite like rolling over the enemy with a giant tank. Solid and Fascinating review, Thunder.

Press F for that Space Marine video

I love dawn of war, soul storm even becomes playable with ultimate apocalypse (which is FUCKING EPIC)

Just came here from SaintJam's new video on DOW:WA. I have to thank you TP for establishing the title of my childhood's favorite hero - General "Humanity: Fuck Yeah" Stern.

Playing Darktide as a Smite Psyker I still yell “WITNESS YOUR DOOOOOOOOOOM!!!” When I cast it into a swarm.

+ThunderPsyker Great video man, you are like one of the only one who makes videos about Warhammer ( not to mention that you make good videos). Keep up the great work! :D

YES! Finally. This is some high quality stuff right here.

Wonderful :D Can't wait for your next video!

6:12 glorious blow

Whenever I have the mood for it, I'll play a dawn of war game of imperial guard vs imperial guard. Its a fun time as the bodies pile up on both sides, leaving whole fields covered in guardsman corpses. One of my favorite images I saved was a point captured, where in front of it were the bodies of fallen units that had fought for it.

Update to the thumbnail. It's a sign boys!

Enjoy your second review good insight on the campaign.

Taldeer actually spawned some of the most beloved fanfic and fanfic characters of 40k

HOLY FUCK!!! This video just triggered an honest to god flashback to this things demo, which i played when i was just a stupid kid. It was incredible, i must have tried the same mission over and over again, watching the beautiful carnage happen among the snow. I had no idea what was going on at the time, but it stuck with me as some of the best experiences in gaming i've ever had. I 100% need to purchase this game now, there's no way i'm letting myself forget about it like i've done for all these years.

I had a pretty good experience with Winter Assault. Until the final level where I nearly steam rolled the Chaos and Ork forces with a massive guard push, only to have a massive swarm of enemies big enough to literally turn a quarter of the map red appeared from equally literally no where (I saw them spawn in from the edge of the map) and completely annihilate the army

2:08 Warboss Gorgutz (who first appeared in WA) has survived WA, DC, SS and DOW 3 and according to the wiki "he is almost certain to make yet another appearance".

I want all the Baneblade and Leman Russ variants ingame for DoW3. I desperately want to try out the Stormlord and Glaive in particular.

omg it's finally here o.o it's like christmas in february! Great job Thunder Dood =)

I KNEW YOU'D SAY THAT!!!!

god i love these videos so much

8:05 you are not the only one. i dislike when a game gives you no choice in colors by forcing you to play as either one faction,one character that his colours are mostly grey and black (most games.) or (though that last one might be just me) don't allow me to chose colors of friend and foe to see them both as i want.

IT IS THE BANEBLADE!

"In a later video" that aged like dead cheese

The first game and its expansions are absolute classics and still hold up to this day

Fuck, has it been 4 years already?

And we slowly come to my personal favorite of the series, Dark Crusade. There was just something about watching your commander banter with the commander of the faction you were invading that just helped make invading an enemy stronghold worth it, you know?

It was this game that made me fall in love with the eldar. Also the fact the eldar ending is the cannon ending is b b b based. Taldeer is probs my my fav farseer in the universe simply because of her voice actor in this game and the cool lines from dark crusade like "let our enemies fight themselves". Such a cool faction.

I like your videos, make more of them.

WA will always have a special place in my heart as i was in the most watched replay of the expansion and it stayed that way all the way until the next one :)

+1 for that Quorn reference :D

oh my FUCKING GOD IT'S HERE. thunderpsyker may not be the emperor, but im gonna praise him as if he was.

"We are the IMPERIAL GUARD, and it's time we started acting like it!"

it was a step up, it looked so cold on that damn planet too and it was also more difficult than the first game

Fucking elves, picture of Pelnial Whitestrake. I love you baby, he is my favourite time travelling genocide cyborg.

1:58 C.S. Goto [beat] "AAAAAA.....!!!" That one made me burst out laughing.

6:11 WE'LL FLATTEN ANYTHIN' STANDING IN OUR WAY!

"WE NEED A NEW DRIVER! THIS ONE IS DEAD!" Gets me every fucking time

Promise delivered thunder! Thank you! :D Now please come back to the forums some time

When it zoomed in on C.S Goto with the screaming in the background I literally choked on my bagel

WITNESS YUR DOOOOMMM--AH

I was NOT expecting an Action Man reference!

Nice video !

3:52 That grin, that sinister grin...

I like winter assault as well, however I wish I could get past one of the holdout missions... and the textures on some of the things in the game weren't so screwed up. Can't wait to see what he says about Dark Crusade, that one was one of my favorites. And I want to see him talk about Tau. Cause I enjoy Tau and that'll be fun.

Absolute madman, accurate description of à w40k priest

Quality fucking work, I like it.

Guys, HE IS BACK!

9:13 awesome music

I can’t unhear kittens voice!

3:52 I played that laugh for times than I can count.

I can't believe they made a warhammer 40,000 game in Alaska

I cried at "kendathlu drop" Fuck me that was hillarious!