Skirmish Reports

[Liliana]

Tell us interesting stories about what happened to you in a skirmish match in Dawn of War! Epic victories or hilarious failures acceptable!
I've got one.

After reading a bunch of Space Marine books, I play DoW with my brother. First round, he's Imperials, I'm Chaos, enemy is, I think, Tau on hard. Of course hard is ridiculous in DoW. Even though hard is ridiculous, I manage to launch an assault so amazingly powerful that I wipe them out by myself. My brother worked on defense, and was in the process of building a Baneblade because my relic had been captured by the enemy when I won.

So, then I choose Space Marines. My army can wait for the tech to upgrade, I DO have 5 squads and the enemy IS just the Imperial Guard. I should be able to defend, according to the W40k universe, right? ABSOLUTELY WRONG! Apparently, my power armor had been downgraded to match the terrible armor that is standard issue IG, and my bolters became autoguns. The IG continues to destroy my base with their lasrifles, which SHOULDN'T have been doing something, but didn't.

 

[Carmine]

On a 4v4 compstomp against hard imperial guard comps I was playing against eldar on I think the map name is death jungle or something like that, but there are narrow entrances into every base, the imperial guard wiped out my three allies and all went for me, problem for them was there was so much infantry that they couldnt get through as I sent wraithlords to attack them, it was like a waiting line for the infantry with four baneblades and other tanks behind them. While I was defending wtih wraithlord spam I teleported bone singers into the enemy bases to build warpgates and filled them full of warp spiders and fire dragons, I systematically destroyed each base one after another as the singular forces returned to defend their bases. I won 1 vs 4, I was really proud of myself.

Another time on a 8 player free for all on the same map I was playing as orks and felt like biding my time after taking one player out, so I had two bases and I filled the entire space left in the bases heading out to the very entrance with Waaagh! banners, half with big shootas half with rokkit launchas, needless to say everyone else surrendered as they found out what I had done and I won.