Crusade mode returns in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of IV!
Hi everyone, If you’ve been following all the announcements from this year’s Warhammer Skulls showcase, you’ll know that the mighty Crusade mode is set to return in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV! This fan-favourite mode had its origins in the first game’s Dark Crusade expansion nearly 20 years ago, and we just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to include it in our own game!For the unfamiliar, you can think of Crusade mode as Dawn of War IV’s endless mode. You’ll be able to play these extended campaigns again and again, and they’ll always play out differently each time you jump in. They add a huge amount of extra gameplay variety to the base game, and make use of a tactical twist to the classic Dawn of War experience that we think veterans and newcomers alike are going to love. That twist takes the form of a turn-based world map, featuring numerous territories spread all across Kronus. On each of your turns you’ll be able to spend a limited number of Action Points to manoeuvre your Strike Force of combat units into neutral and enemy territories, and fight mercilessly in pursuit of your overall Crusade objective. The key to success during this strategic phase is to optimise your turn as best you can. It’s crucial that you plan ahead and think about how you can wring every last drop of value from your limited moves, before the enemy can respond with their own. Each territory comes with its own set of rewards and challenges too, with plenty of high risk / high reward decisions to make as you plan out your conquest. Here’s a very simple example. Attacking a territory costs two Action Points, but one particular target might reward you with a pair of Action Points - if you can overcome the challenge at hand, that is. If you’re confident you can win the fight, doing so will not only extend your strategic reach on the world map, but also stretch out the potential of your current turn. Sometimes the outcome of these assaults are determined automatically, but oftentimes you’ll be required to fight the traditional way. Behind the scenes, Dawn of War IV tracks the relative strengths and weaknesses of both your Strike Forces and their targets to determine the difficulty of the encounter. If you’re so powerful - relatively speaking - that a slam dunk looks all but assured, the encounter will play out automatically. This stops the game from slowing down too much, and allows you to focus your skills on the really meaty encounters, where the stakes are higher and your combat prowess needs to shine! Those tougher encounters play out just like traditional Dawn of War skirmishes, but in Crusades the status of your units persists between rounds of combat. They’ll continue earning XP and levelling up as they take part in battles, and they retain all of the skills and Wargear they’ve accrued for the duration of the Crusade. On top of this meta-progression, the rewards you receive from combat are adapted based on your performance. Perhaps the enemy was favoured but you dominated regardless, in which case you’ll be suitably rewarded. We want to motivate you to overcome significant challenges, and push as hard as you can for total strategic dominance in every fight. As you successfully conquer regions of the world map you’ll also earn a resource known as Requisition. This resource is essential for improving the defences and economies of the territories you’ve captured, which makes them harder for your opponent to seize. Requisition also plays a key role in healing and improving your increasingly powerful Strike Forces between battles. Five of our Commanders will have their own dedicated Crusade when the game launches, and we’ll be releasing additional Crusades - free of charge - after launch too. Each Commander will have their own goals and starting conditions, as well as a host of combat advantages and disadvantages to keep things fresh. Rather than just playing Skirmish missions alone, we hope Crusades will provide the extra context and motivation that keeps you coming back for more. We want you to feel like coming home and booting up the game right away, just because you have that one continent you really want to conquer! It’s a more open-ended kind of gameplay that provides the perfect companion to our epic story-based campaign. With a typical Crusade taking around eight to ten hours to complete, we think you’re going to love sinking your teeth into this side of the game! Make sure you follow us for more updates on everything we’ve got in store for Dawn of War IV, and don’t forget to wishlist the game if you haven’t done so already. Until next time,Everyone @ KING Art Games
Hi everyone,
If you’ve been following all the announcements from this year’s Warhammer Skulls showcase, you’ll know that the mighty Crusade mode is set to return in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV! This fan-favourite mode had its origins in the first game’s Dark Crusade expansion nearly 20 years ago, and we just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to include it in our own game!
For the unfamiliar, you can think of Crusade mode as Dawn of War IV’s endless mode. You’ll be able to play these extended campaigns again and again, and they’ll always play out differently each time you jump in. They add a huge amount of extra gameplay variety to the base game, and make use of a tactical twist to the classic Dawn of War experience that we think veterans and newcomers alike are going to love.
That twist takes the form of a turn-based world map, featuring numerous territories spread all across Kronus. On each of your turns you’ll be able to spend a limited number of Action Points to manoeuvre your Strike Force of combat units into neutral and enemy territories, and fight mercilessly in pursuit of your overall Crusade objective.
The key to success during this strategic phase is to optimise your turn as best you can. It’s crucial that you plan ahead and think about how you can wring every last drop of value from your limited moves, before the enemy can respond with their own. Each territory comes with its own set of rewards and challenges too, with plenty of high risk / high reward decisions to make as you plan out your conquest.
Here’s a very simple example. Attacking a territory costs two Action Points, but one particular target might reward you with a pair of Action Points - if you can overcome the challenge at hand, that is. If you’re confident you can win the fight, doing so will not only extend your strategic reach on the world map, but also stretch out the potential of your current turn.
Sometimes the outcome of these assaults are determined automatically, but oftentimes you’ll be required to fight the traditional way. Behind the scenes, Dawn of War IV tracks the relative strengths and weaknesses of both your Strike Forces and their targets to determine the difficulty of the encounter.
If you’re so powerful - relatively speaking - that a slam dunk looks all but assured, the encounter will play out automatically. This stops the game from slowing down too much, and allows you to focus your skills on the really meaty encounters, where the stakes are higher and your combat prowess needs to shine!
Those tougher encounters play out just like traditional Dawn of War skirmishes, but in Crusades the status of your units persists between rounds of combat. They’ll continue earning XP and levelling up as they take part in battles, and they retain all of the skills and Wargear they’ve accrued for the duration of the Crusade.
On top of this meta-progression, the rewards you receive from combat are adapted based on your performance. Perhaps the enemy was favoured but you dominated regardless, in which case you’ll be suitably rewarded. We want to motivate you to overcome significant challenges, and push as hard as you can for total strategic dominance in every fight.
As you successfully conquer regions of the world map you’ll also earn a resource known as Requisition. This resource is essential for improving the defences and economies of the territories you’ve captured, which makes them harder for your opponent to seize. Requisition also plays a key role in healing and improving your increasingly powerful Strike Forces between battles.
Five of our Commanders will have their own dedicated Crusade when the game launches, and we’ll be releasing additional Crusades - free of charge - after launch too. Each Commander will have their own goals and starting conditions, as well as a host of combat advantages and disadvantages to keep things fresh.
Rather than just playing Skirmish missions alone, we hope Crusades will provide the extra context and motivation that keeps you coming back for more. We want you to feel like coming home and booting up the game right away, just because you have that one continent you really want to conquer! It’s a more open-ended kind of gameplay that provides the perfect companion to our epic story-based campaign.
With a typical Crusade taking around eight to ten hours to complete, we think you’re going to love sinking your teeth into this side of the game! Make sure you follow us for more updates on everything we’ve got in store for Dawn of War IV, and don’t forget to wishlist the game if you haven’t done so already.
Until next time,
Everyone @ KING Art Games
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