Mandalore did a shoutout to Thunderpsyker. Thunderpsyker shoutouts to Mandalore. The cycle has been completed.

When you covered Soulstorm, I was in 11th grade. By the time you covered Soulstorm mods, I had already obtained my bachelor's degree.

Pouring one for FileFront / Game Front and all those game mods lost there...

Another thing UA has going for it is that if you fuck up the installation in whatever way I did, the Imperator Titan becomes the fastest unit in the game and runs like Sonic, glassing whatever you throw it at at the speed of FAEST. Neither balanced, immersive or fitting with the game’s design as a whole, but by god is it good for a laugh.

5:13 6'0 MAN vs 5'9 Marinelet.

Damn it Thunder, you know that now you've asked someone to put Goku in DoW, the Unification mod team are gonna sneak him in somewhere lmao

Well, here it is! And it won't be the last! There were way too many big mods for Dawn of War that I wanted to cover, and there's even more I want to discover and shed some light onto, so please send any suggestions for dawn of war mods I should cover next time. Big thanks to Dr White for lending his voice to this video, and for donating £1 to keep my skittles fund going. If you'd like to support me doing more, I've got my channel membership or Patreon to visit, as well as KoFi if you prefer one time donations, which I'll link below: Www.patreon.com/ThunderPsyker Www.ko-fi.com/thunderpsyker

Legend says that one day the Sororitas will reactivate Norwich Castle, breaking it free from its earthly ramparts to bring the fire of the Emperor to the unenlightened, helpfully destroying Prince of Wales Road in the process.

Oh don't you worry about low quality game characters imported into Dawn of War, Unification has you covered!

A Battletech mod?! Maaaan i wish that was finished. That setting never gets the attention it truely deserves.

20:05 just wait until you play Unification mod my guy, there's enough -anime- non warhammer content to declare exterminatus on us

You're right, I never understood why mods that pull from different settings and IPs never took off in the Dawn of War scene. Other RTS games had loads of mods that drew from other games.

One thing that you haven't mentioned is that Firestorm over Kronus' team have laid foundations for the ones you covered afterwards in terms of assets. Space Marines you see in Titanium Wars? FoK. Striking Scorpions? FoK, etc etc. The community is old and many people have come and gone yet some veterans who were there from the beginning remain (like thudmizer aka thudo). Many names have, however, been lost to history with the relicnews forums being gone, which was the hub where mods grew, including FoK itself.

Finally some deserved critique for Ultimate Apocalypse. Personally I like the Cinematic Battles mod for huge hog eyecandy gameplay. Runs and plays much better.

I love that MandaloreGaming gave you the shout out for Dawn of War Soulstorm and you’ve now returned that shout out with his UA review 🙌

I’d love to see the history of mods as well. How the nid, iron warrior, and death guard mods go back to winter assault. With the last two being purely in French.

UA’s unit choice was so massive that you could stick to army theme and almost never deviate and still win games. I wish triple A strategy games had that

Fire Storm over Kronus and Titanium wars are goated for making the space marine and imperial guard heroes Gabriel Angelos and General Sturn respectevely. Two of the best dawn of war characters!

Units reinforce near special vehicles, they retreat to the nearest friendly building, they gain experi... Wait a second - that just Dawn of War 2, but with base building.

I would like to throw in the fall of cyrene mod as a suggestion its a pretty neat fan made prequel to dawn of war 1's campaign and it has little coverage to so hope this will make it to part 2 Oh and theres also the galaxy on fire reloaded mod to which is also compatible with all the dow 1 games including dow 1 and winter assualts campaigns they basically give new units for all of them and back port units introduced in dark crusade and soulstorm into dow 1 and winter assualts campaigns as well

One small mod I always liked was The Fall of Cyrene, a small, 8 mission campaign for the original game. Might be worth a look, you glorious reviewer!

It’s time brother Send in the 64 pixel bandicoot division

Steel Legion, WA Necrons, Inquisition Daenonhunters and the SoB mod are all big cornerstones that should be covered

I remember Dawn of Steel being the first 'big' mod I've ever really tried in any game, playing as the Steel Legion before ever playing Winter Assault was so awesome, and it just made the game feel so fresh

Little Kitten: Praises 40k modding community for making fantastic stuff all for free. Games Workshop: "THEY CAN'T DO THAT, THAT'S ILLEGAL!"

Firestorm *was* good, but I remember the whole scene devolving into triangles, flips and sri-mechs over time. Really took the WAR out of ROBOT WARS. This isn't conflict, it's a traffic collision, etc etc grumble grumble. Looking forward to the Bloodlines video.

DoW - Bloodline is a pretty cool mod, it tries to balance things out, adds units that make sense and doesn't bloat the roster, but I don't know if its latest version has a translation into English, as it is in Russian. If there is one - definitely check it out.

I still remember that i was watching a Tribiute type videos for Warhammer many years ago (10+ i think) and i saw Firestorm over Kronus trailer (this one with white text on black background with chaos space marine laugh) a i was in LOVE

This channel is a refuge for the old days. I hope you have a fulfilling and prosperous life full of joy and love!

Not sure if it's necessarily worth covering, but I think you should check out the Redux mod. Rather than just piling on as many new factions as the engine can possibly handle it instead tries to polish and rebalance the base game, and only add small amounts of new units to fill some of the gaps in the vanilla rosters. It's also trying to remaster the Tartarus campaign in the engine of Soulstorm, which is pretty interesting.

I remember downloading a mod for DC called dowkingdom that replaced the campaign with it's own unique map and it was completely wild. Even on easy the enemy could easily get 5 bases, but you got 3 of each retinue instead of 1. Which helped me use them more in combat and for initial fights

The issue of DoW mods sticking to just using Warhammer as a setting is a common thing with RTS mods. A lot of C&C mods just do Nod and GDI or Allies and Soviets again, instead of trying to RTS-ify other settings.

firestorm over kronus was such a fun mod, it is pretty much my childhood it makes me remember 40k fifth edition

I remember the old XV15 Tau Mod days back in ‘03. Some dude had begun making Tau models before the game was even released and built this entire community around it. He would come out with just screenshots of Tau Fire Warriors for years and everyone would shower him with praise. They didn’t deliver anything before Dark Crusade was released, and the whole community collapsed. What a strange cult of personality it was.

ZERO K MENTIONED, you should cover that one when your schedule clears next in 2029

In regards to non-warhammer character mods in Dawn of war, Unification mod has Yorha 2B for the Emperor's Children, Yuriko from Red Alert 3 for the Tau and the Marshmallow man statue for the Imperial fists as easter eggs! Unification mod is chuckfull of easter eggs!

Firestorm mentioned. Yay. Was my first mod, and it remains my favorite. Shame it was abandoned

I'm only 10 minutes in the video, and I just remembered ho much I love your editing. It's just so fun to watch ! I never liked how Firestorm replaced the Sisters with the Inquistion. I always loved how Titanium Wars replaced the awful IG Heavy Weapons Team (1 guy turns into 2 guys with the push of a button, exept it only turns one unit at a time, so if you have several, you have to cycle) with the actual heavy weapons team from the tabletop. I too didn't like the big mods because of unit bloat. I personally don't like Titans and Knights, I think the biggest units should be the ones from the base game.

There was one mod idea for this game that I wish some one tried to do which is a DOOM mod seeing as some one did try it in C&C but it never got off the ground sadly. A Doom rts would be neat seeing as it could do like at least a four army type thing or even more.

I am personally fond of the new faction mods. I was always on the forums, looking at the individual mods that are being pt out or worked on, though i believe, even to this day, only 3 or 4 got to an 1.0 status. Many things that were put out, were mostly beta or alpha, that later got absorbed into the bigger mods you covered allready in this video. So I wouldn't midn if you go more into detail of them and how they might reflect the factions. I am thinking of Inquistion Demonhunt, Steel Legion, Dark Angels and Black Templars, which were even made vanilla compatible (with some little QoL stuff), later we got the 0.9 Witch Hunters, which was made for dark Crusade, but alter ported.

I made my own mods back in the day. I was mad the Guard didn't have jump infantry so I gave them one.

Even though it's been like a year of consistentish uploads i still get the "HE'S BACK" hype every time i see a new vid

Ah, I remember mods like Inquisition Deamonhunt and Tabletop Round Up mostly cos I discovered them by the trailers that got made for them. Probably some of the first mods I tried. Always had a soft spot for the No Limit mod to make absolutely huge artillery batteries. Also it made Eldar/Tau silly broken - Avatar of Khaine increases production speed and that would stack, meaning you could instant spawn units and Ethereal's bonus to HP/Morale also stacked so you could have fire warriors with 10x the health of a baneblade. Good times.

Honestly I'm with you on UA. It's cool, but there's just too much going on. I'd say of UA, FoK, and TW, TW is my favorite. FoK is a very close second though. I remember an older version that somehow actually worked with the campaign...sort of. The gate in the Chaos Stronghold and the Vindicare Assassin in the IG Stronghold were outright invincible (the latter had armor class: immortal), the Tau stronghold would always crash the game, but damn if it wasn't just so much fun.

14:30 I MISS YOU TOO GENERAL STURNN

I wish Firestorm was still developed. UltApoc and Uni are great, but ... the gameplay of Firestorm just can't be matched. Imo. Titanium Wars are great too.

5:12 I cried. It was such a pity that the Brothers in Arms mod (the one adding several ignored Imperial Guard regiments) didn´t come into reality :((((

Thanks for briefly touching the subject of non Warhammer 40k mods for Dawn of War, because making something like Age of Sigmar, or even something in Warcraft universe in this game's engine would be a great idea but... I don't see anything cool like that and I'd love to play something like this

Innocence Proves Nothing mod was probably the first biggest mod for vanilla, adding the Daemonhunters Ordo Malleus, Witch Hunters Ordo Hereticus and Alien Hunters Ordo Xenos as new playable armies from the tabletop.

Shoutout to ruckuz88 for introducing me to DoW modding with his cinematic mod trailers more than 16 years ago.

As a fellow nerd who lived in Norfolk (North Walsham), your references hit so close to home. Hypnodisc was one of my favorites, and I even got to see a robot wars episode filmed live. Nothing will ever compare to the freakout at the first ever self-righting mechanism, though.

I hope to see crucible, it such a underrated mod, and surprisingly well optimized for even huge battles

I think Inquisition Daemonhunt is worth pointing out, if only for its _badass_ trailer.

I'll never not be salty over the fact the Iron Kingdoms mod got C&D'd after, like, three concept renders. Like, fuck, DoW was all about that grungy atmosphere, it would've gone fantastically with the pulpy dieselpunk of Warmachine.

I really, really, hope you take a little bit of time to cover the OG Dawn of war mod "Fall of Cyrene". It's a fan made campaign mod that tried to explain the events of Cyrene that had been referenced by Gabriel in the first game, and you command only four space marines. It kinda predicted the style shift dawn of war would have for DoW 2.

take a shot every time avitus appears :)

This is more exciting than State of Play

I finally found somebody else who doesn't like Ultimate Apocalypse. My goto mod is Advanced Campaign really.

17:00 Zero-k mention i am actually gonna have a heart attack

I'd love to see you cover the Soulstorm Redux mod by Eranthis in part two. It's kind of like a modernised firestorm mod. It also includes a playable Tartarus campaign!

I miss your adventures with the chicken man.

Firestorm over Kronus was also the first big mod I played. I absolutely LOVED it.

Hmm, 40k mods... There was the Codex mod which, like Unification, looked to add more factions without overbloating the existing ones. Last I played Titanium they forgot to carry a '0' and made plasma guns fire with the power of BFGs. I think you would appreciate Dawn of Halo.

UA is must have for Imperial Guard fans. It adds so much depth and variants to tank. As not a tabletop player i never knew there was other tanks than leman russ regular variant. I spent hours playing with russes then i noticed how many variants baneblades had!!! It hard must have. It is free and easy to instal give it a whirl and disable when not your tempo.

Gokus unit ability is basically an upscale krak missile modeled too look like a kamaha.

So true that *Ultimate Apocalypse* is just a rush to waaay overpowered Titans. Fun for a few games, but narrow-minded on a strategic level IMHO. *Unification Mod* handles it better, but still lower level units fall off extremely in mid- & endgame. *Crucible Mod* is handeling balancing of low level troops in endgame through upgrades the best. Disadvantage is, the mod hasn't got as many races... So, choose your own poison 😅

I knew Thunderpsyker was a fellow FoK head like me, but it feels good to hear my views vindicated.

I'm glad to hear that ThunderPsyker shares a similar (correct) opinion about 'Firestorm over Kronus'. I only play DoW with this mod. FoK IS DoW now. I just wish there was a completed version with fixed AI scripts for Dark Crusade. I tried to move on to the Soulstorm version, but it's so unstable. It crashes constantly. And I can't reliably set my CPU opponents to 'Random' because one of the factions (i think it's Dark Eldar) will either crash the game outright or cause a 'Fatal SCAR error' on start.

Robot wars spotted, obligatory "I understood that reference" post, deployed.

Great video as always. I had originally voted for a dow3 review first, but am very pleased to see the celebration of the modding community's work. As for other recommended mods, there is one soulstorm mod I feel you would enjoy based on your views of the mods described here: Dawn of War Redux mod. The creator is overhauling and manually upgrading the UI, art, and FX of the original games so as to remaster it, while also tweaking gameplay in a manner comparable with FoK's "closer to tabletop" approach. Though some dow2 FX etc are recognisable, they have been painstakingly recreated rather than backported. It's focus is less on reinventing the wheel and more polishing what made dow special.

FoK was my favorite mod back in the day.

I blame Ultimate Apocalypse for being one of 3 reasons we got THIS reality version of DoW3.

I recommend Galaxy in fire! It leans heavily into counter play (maybe a bit excessive) but certainly interesting if you like "realism"

2:27 NYYYYEEEESSSSS!!!!!!!!

While everyone has their own way they like to play, and while defences are typically either to buy one time to respond or else a thing of last resort; if whomever has the ability, and is willing to make the investment; history has shown that there can be fortifications so strong and powerful that it can be damn near if not “impossible” to compromise it\them.

The only mega mod I can think of that you didn't mention yet is 3rd Generation for Dark Crusade, which adds in (balanced) Tyranids, the Dark Eldar from Soulstorm, and also throws in mod races such as the Daemonhunters and Witch Hunters. No Sisters of Battle; the Witch Hunters take their place (which to me is a double edged sword given how I preferred the SOB stationary turret and the fact they could build minefields). Other than that, I would mention the Mod Manager which allowed you to merge mods together. I couldn't merge the World Eaters, Emperor's Children, Thousand Sons, Salamanders, and Black Templar race mods together without crashes given those mods change the UI. But I could play a combo of the Daemonhunters, Witch Hunters, Heretic Guardsmen, Night Lords, and Tyranids because those didn't. Before I got Dark Crusade, my favorite mods for Winter Assault were Lights of the Warp and the Left Out Units mod. They gave the Imperial Guard the DoW 1 PDF guard units I missed, gave Chaos the OG Daemon Prince Sindri with 15000hp (more of a Daemon Prince than the wimpy DC Daemon Prince) along with Renegade Guardsmen and Isador Akios, and they gave the Eldar the two Necron units from the WA campaign. In fact, I recall both the Tau and Necrons got fully-made race mods before Dark Crusade came out. And highly unpopular opinion here; I _much_ preferred the look of the Winter Assault Necron Monolith over the Dark Crusade look.

That Robot Wars reference was a fucking flashbang of nostalgia, good job

What if there were actually a ton of non-Warhammer mods, but they were all on those long-dead websites? I'd imagine your typical, run-of-the-mill "what if Dawn of War but with Star Trek characters" type mods wouldn't get the same attention by internet archivists as stuff like Ultimate Apocalypse.

The last part made me remember Equestria at war being one of the biggest HoI4 mods.

ANYTHING before Dawn of War 3

Man playing Dark Crusade's campain in Titanium Wars is something, stronghold missions take you HOURS, I remember the necron stronghold mission taking me around 4 or 5 hours, it does make it lore accurate I guess

Dude! I've been waiting for this video forever! Glad to see it now

genuinely, a few dragon ball factions where they're so heavily focused on the hero units calling them "factions" is inaccurate would be nuts

I am excited to see Unification.

Going to be honest, when I downloaded some overhaul mods for Dawn of War Dark Crusade (I can't remember which one, I mostly got it because I wanted the graphical update), it ended up destroying my love of the game. I tend to play slow, preferring to build large scale bases with satellite fortifications around the map (because Dark Crusade let you keep your lay outs), but the mod made the enemy AI incredibly aggressive and they'd roll me within a couple of minutes. Even when I tried playing aggressive, this would only lead to me these slogs of attrition that sapped my enjoyment.

This mod showcasing video actually is here, after so long..... Amazing

I look forward to what you say about Uni. I'm in it.

Dawn of war 1 uses the Impossible creatures engine? I guess I can see it. That's neat.

Hah mods for dawn of war. i admit i always was lazy and only went ever on Ultimate apocalypse X). And i must say: i'd kill for a warhammer supreme commander. Anyway always nice to see your video thunder ! Continue the good work :D

I've always felt weird for not liking Ultimate Apocalypse. I'm blown away by the obvious love and effort put into the mod, but the scale just never felt right to me. Thank you ThunderPsyker for finally bringing me peace. Now we can burn at the stake together.

Kinda makes sense that (almost) all mods for DoW are W40K related. There are no other W40K RTS's, DoW is all we have (correct me if I'm wrong)

Im glad im not the only one who always saw that RE mod on ModDB and wanted to play it

I was not expecting a FireStorm vs Hypno-Disk reference today, but I'm very happy its here of all places

I remember playing a buggy Gundam Mod years ago. Was fun, but very basic quality. ... Would be fun to see that, or Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars/Trek/Gate, modern Armies, div. Command & Conquer, etc. ... or even LotR, GoT, SPQR Roman troops etc. on the battlefield against each other 🤯🥳🎉🫣

2:30 Ah, it’s the Salamanders chapter. *NYYYEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!!*

I would KILL for a mod that redoes Dark Eldar to our 5th edition standard

Not sure if this counts but Unification has some pretty neat game mods in the current patch including Pac-Man. In addition a ton of units are references to non Dawn of war franchises. Of the top of my head I can recall Thorn princess- vanilla chaos she is essentially the character Yor Foreger from Spy X family The Tekharn faction of renegade guard has access to commander units such as the Mandalorian, and Wolf from Sekiro: Shadows die twice, and a number of Genshin Impact Characters (mainly Inazuma). Emperor children have access to the Intoner (five from Drakenguard 3) they also have 2B when fighting admech Vanilla guard have access to Gold Eagle which is meant to be general shepherd from modern warfare.

great video as always keep it up :D

8:51 ROBOT WARS REFERENCED!!!

The command and conquer references warm my heart