Legion of the Damned is a mod for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Soulstorm, created by Team Thudmeizer.
Description (in authors’ own words):
Welcome to the Legion of the Damned Modification for Soulstorm!
Team Thudmeiser proudly presents to you this mod which adds a new playable race, the Legion of the Damned to your skirmish games of Soulstorm. To install extract the contents to your Soulstorm root directory - note that you will require the Objective Points Modification for this to work. Although currently the Objective Points Modification does not support the Legion,iIt is hoped in time that their banners will be added to the mod.
Although loyalist Space Marines, the legion are VERY different to codex chapters - this is the third mod I know of to attempt this force and my second attempt to portray this unusual bunch, who are nowadays represented by a codex containing one single squad entry! I've tried to keep to the spirit of this, but have had to expand beyond the one squad concept by using units appropriate to lore and history and have even invented a couple of my own.
The Legion are small in number, do not require land, territory or conquest...indeed no-one knows who they are or why they fight. They appear from nowhere, say nothing and leave, surviving horrendous injuries. So how do you do justice to such a mob? Well I've tried something different, a bit experimental as we've been doing this a while now, but still work hard to come up with new game styles.
Have I succeeded? Time will tell.
The most important thing to understand is that your portal building is unstable and requires LP's to maintain itself. Initially it needs two to stop the health degeneration, any more than this will heal. However every time you progress a tier you will require an extra lp, so
Tier 1 = 3 LP's
Tier 2 = 4 LP's
Tier 3 = 5 LP's
Having any more than this at any time will cause the portal building to gain in health, but having insufficient will cause the portal to dissolve and you to fail.
The legion are largely invulnerable unless they have no morale, however once broken they will start to take heavy damage from pyromortis, which will likely lead to the soldier dying a fiery death - there is not a lot that can be done once you have entered pryomortis. If you happen to be near the portal that may help, but otherwise just know that you are a lot more efficient at fighting whilst on fire and sell yourself dearly.
Whilst Thudmeiser and gambit have done an amazing job on the AI, they have been met with heavy challenges owing to my semi-ridiculous design. Owing to their unique play style then the AI tends to be weaker than other races in team games, but note that they have been primarily tested in 1 V 1 against Hard AI. This has often lead to a position where the player has a clearly OP race, whilst the AI has a UP race as I've made a probably unsolvable balance nightmare. Thud has also show willing to assist with patching in voices at a later date - perhaps a slight deviation from the lore, but will certainly add to the experience - plus if it's a patch we can avoid any further arguments over voice acting!
Credits
Thanks to:
Radical Rad - Original LOTD textures
Gambit - Testing, AI help, SCAR coding.
Arzgul - Testing
Odyssus - Testing
ghobot - Testing
Roderick - Testing, team colours
jones - testing, OP support
Mel_Danes - LOTD textures, dreadnought and original tacticals.
Thudmeiser and other LOTD team; Danimator and Grimnar 42 for access to their work (I have no idea who made all of their stuff, but thank you)
C2C team for their tactical models
Anyone else lost to time alongside the Legion who made this mod possible.
As ever, the following for flavour text:
Warhammer40k.wikia.com<br>Wh40k.lexicanum.com
The Dawn of War community for their ongoing support.
Relic for making such a damn fine game.
Iron Lore, because whatever you think, they gave us soulstorm.
Me! Thanks, me:
fuggles - Concept, AE, AI, 2D, 3D.
Instructions:
Just extract into game’s main folder. This mod requires you to own other modifictations: Objective Points, FreeUI and Unification Mod.
- Last update: Sunday, April 15, 2018
- Genre: Strategy
- File size: 185.8 MB
