It must be hard to be a Guardsman. You're standing around staring at an uncaptured control point and a box full of something called Requisition, and suddenly an Ork appears three inches from your face.

His name is Spookums, he is wearing a pirate hat, and now he has exploded. Canon lbp 810 rukovodstvo po razborke form. You're killed instantly – that's one of the worst parts of the job – but Spookums is merely flung by his own explosion into a bush. Luckily, Dawn of War 2: Retribution lets you be the Ork. If you'd asked me before I played it, I would have told you Retribution was all about making Dawn of War 2 closer to a proper strategy game. It's standalone, and where Dawn of War 2 was all about micromanaging just a handful of units, Retribution allows you to build up your force from the headquarters you capture midbattle.

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In theory, the big change is that you're now commanding an army instead of leading a squad. As it turns out, that's not at all what Retribution is about.

And thank God. You can build up an army, certainly, but almost every unit in it would have several manually activated abilities to deal with.

Quickly and accurately ordering that number of units to use cover and activate their abilities is the kind of manual and mental torture test you could use to find out if you have a heart condition. Dawn of War's interface, zoom level and controls just weren't built for battles of that scale. Yet Retribution is startlingly good – it's the best Warhammer 40K game I've ever played. Because it's not really about numbers, it's about diversity. If you played Dawn of War 2 and its first expansion Chaos Rising, you've spent upwards of 30 hours controlling some combination of the same seven units. Retribution lets you choose between six different factions, with a total of around 70 squads, vehicles and heroes to play with.

It's a massive breath of fresh air. Joy of six There are six campaigns of around eight hours each, all playable in singleplayer or co-op. One of the six races is largely new to the game, the Imperial Guard, and they're also playable in competitive multiplayer. Then there's a new map and a new hero for Last Stand, the superb three-player cooperative survival mode Relic added to Dawn of War 2 in a free update. And if you're interested in any of these ways to play it online, there's the enormously welcome news that it now uses Steam for matchmaking and friends lists, instead of the horrific Games for Windows Live. Frankly, the last time anyone went this nuts with an expansion was, well, Relic – with Dawn of War: Dark Crusade.

These aren't six completely unique campaigns, admittedly. Play two and you'll find they have about ten of their twelve missions in common, just slightly repurposed to fit a different plot. That only really hurts the early missions: the first three are overly long and overly scripted tutorials, and replaying them as each new race gets painful. But once you do fight through them, you have enough experience points to start customising your heroes, and that's where Retribution suddenly turns around. Dawn of War 2 was one great fight, repeated.