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Very good expansion pack

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: October 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a great expansion to a great game. The addition of the Imperial Guard as the focus, when they were a small part of the original game really makes this a lot of fun. Playing a relatively weak army against the Orcs and Chaos forces you to take advantage of the abilities open to the Imperials. There are far more armored units, and every structure functions as a bunker from which your soldiers can attack. The Imperials can also move between structures to avoid enemy fire. Winter assault also allows you to play as Chaos and Orc forces in a "negative" game where your missions involve destroying the forces of order. Persistent bodies and terrain scarring push the realism a little higher. I did not have any problems with loading it, and the pack will install any patches you may have forgotten to install over time. Be prepared to neglect your family and lose sleep once this is installed.

Dawn of War = Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This viedo game series is awesome, however, it is always interesting and challanging. The On-line mode pits you against other players accross teh globe. What a crazy ride. This is the best strategy game i have ever played and will continue to play for a long time. Once the latest edition comes out with Necron and Tau, I will finally be able to play my favorite race, the necrons. Anyway, highlighy recommend this game if you liked the following:

Warcraft 1/2/3
Starcraft
Command And Conquer
Age of Empires
Lord of the rings: Battle for middle earth
Star wars galactic empire

Expansion Pack?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 14
Date: October 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Dawn of War was a great game. Winter Assault detracts from the gameplay in every respect besides the addition of the Imperial Guard.

I wish I hadn't purchased this game, as the existing armies had multiple unit types, upgrades, and research removed from them. more was removed in fact, then was added.

Avoid!

There could have been a few more units.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: September 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I think they could have had a few more units to all the other races but then again the requirments would have gotten bigger. I have payed many skermishes and to be hounest the eldar got the best bosst because of the fire dragons. Though the sm chapilon is good he is only a commander and not to much for tanks defence hes for melle against infantry the relic made a big mistake giving the chaos korne beserkers they already had possesed i would think the deamon prince would be a good addition though it may be to powerful and last but not least the mega armoured nobs are my favorite out of the 4 new units just 1 can anniolate a intire possesed squad.I will talk abou the imperial guard now they do have some good infantry but bessides the orgerons its all about the tanks they have balisks which can fire earth shaker ammo at the cost of resoures they have the hellhound my persanal favorite it can burn troops with its flamer the chimara it can have infantry garrison and fire out of its sides so awsome!Oh yeah sry about the spelling not the best speller anyway they dont have a giant moster like say the orks but they do have the baneblade it said to be the most powerful unit in the game I think it is but anyway relic did great job on this game and i cant wait for the next expansion.Rock on relic!!

Stinks and stinks some more.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 15
Date: October 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

What a way to ruin the vaunted memory to the first Dawn of War. I guess it's true...the sequel is never as good as the original. As far as gameplay, WA works pretty much like DOW. However, the new units S T I N K! The Imperial guard....S T I N K! The missions....well, you get the idea. The plotline is more poorly developed than in DOW. Even the voice responses (and the voices) aren't very good. In the end, I wondered why I wasted my money.
Part of its problem is that it will always be held up against Dawn of War, a game that, aside from some cheesy cut-scene graphics, was an absolute masterpiece. From its awesome intro movie to the characters to the cooooool voices, it rocked! Dawn of War even excelled at subtle nuances like varying the voice responses to your commands. WA doesn't do this AT ALL and you'll grow more annoyed by the minute every time you have to hear those whiny Imperial Guard answer your commands.
Winter Assault falls WAAAAAY way short. Quite frankly, it's a dreadful piece of software and should be avoided.

Too ambitious, fails to deliver

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge fan of the originial Dawn of War, and have played the table-top Warhammer 40K miniatures game for a while now. What I loved about the original game, was the sheer fun of playing. Unlike most recent RTS games that tend towards the zoomed-out, over-economized style of Age of Empires, Warhammer delivered something closer to StarCraft, where squads move quickly enough to respond to things and do actual lightning attacks in and out, rather than spend most of their time slowly trecking over tiny terrain features to get to an enemy city, then die from attrition before getting there.
I'll admit, I never played the original multiplayer, but the single-player campaign and a skirmish every now and then were wonderful.
When I first heard about the expansion, I was very excited, hoping for more of the same Warhammer fun that the first game delivered. Expecially a new race, I am not a big fan of Imperial Guard, but hey, a new race to stop if they're that bad, right? So I got a copy, and was even more excited at first by the new style of the single-player campaign, and then almost fell asleep.
While it is an ok story, it doesn't compare at all with the original. Bad premise, ok levels and missions, some good characters, where the original had all of these traits above average. The new units don't add very much, and as much as I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the imperial guard, they weren't worth it. The new and prettier levels are new and prettier, but there are clipping issues where units, masses of orc units in particular, either can't find their way up hills or around obstacles, or multiple squads get all mixed together until none of them can move. At all. With imperial guard you have to start executing units with the comissar to get the force moving again, with the others just have attack forces wail away on themselves. Not sure if that's the map, or some tweak in AI, or what, but I never had that problem in the original. The story, like I said, is weak, as is the character and script writing (in some cases). Some of the new ways of giving open-ended options in single-player were cool, like switching between the two armies of good or evil in the middle of a mission to decide which you would bring on to the next mission.
I'll come to a close soon here, my biggest problems were things like emphasizing the femininity of the Eldar in the plot, making it seem like more than half of the Eldar soldiers were women (not so) and completely unnescessary changes, such as some unit art and upgrade options were altered for all of the old races just for the hell of it, or to make it more "authentically Warhammer" while less balanced. Such as the "chaos projectiles" upgrade for Chaos marines. Also, the new Fire Dragon eldar units have god-awful AI, and never seem to work quite right in combat.
My overall opinion was that there weren't too many glaring flaws, but some little thing was wrong with every single part of the game after the expansion.
This is a case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" and if you liked the original single-player campaign, stick with the original.

great expansion to an even greater game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Now for those of you out there that like stategyu games listen up this game is a combination of fun and difficulty it con ytains several different races with there own pros and cons.Also if you haven't tried the first game then you don't know what ur missing.

Remember this is an expansion pack so u need to buy the first game before this one. :)

Dawn of War 40,000 Winter Assault

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Best Strategy game ever. Graphics for this kind of game best w/a zoom and pan function. AI is real good.

The Imperial Guard

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Probably the most appealing feature of this expansion is the fact you get to play as a race originally controlled by the AI and only seen through the campaign of the first DOW. I never really cared much for the Imperium of Man so the Imperial Guard were not too appealing to me. However, the new Eldar units and tech tree's were something that was greatly liked. The Space Marine and Chaos additions were also excellent. I recommend this game to anyone who is a follower of the previous DOW game. You need to have the original DOW disk in order to install this game. The new campaign missions are definitely something worth playing through.

Got it only for the CD-Key

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this with Dark crusade, mainly for the CD-Key. The case is cardboard, CDs come in paper envelopes. Get this with DC and it will be ok though, as DC comes with a plastic dVD case that has room for both its DVD and the original game CDs and this expansion's CDs as well as the manuals.

Also, this expansion kinda screws up the game, making it too simplistic, even though it adds a new race and a unit to each old race. However, that is al lfixed in Dark Crusade.

You should only get this expansion if you already bought the original game and you thus only need the separate expanion packs. Otherwise get the Anthology pack that has them all included.

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