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arfeu

So I ought HB tier 2 bundle and I got, among others, 3 games. Warhammer 40k Dawn of War II, W40kDoWII Chaos Rising, and W40kDoWII Retribution.
My question is, which one to play? I mean, are they diffent? As far as I know, the later 2 are just "expansinons" of the first, but all of them are "played together". I just want to play the game, and of course, the more complete experience I can get since I paid. So, which one should install and play?

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Nanabanana

Chaos Rising's campaign is a direct sequel to the base game's campaign. So recommendation is to play the base game first, then the expansion.

Retribution is more of a stand-alone title, that focusses more on on skirmish/multiplayer. You've got more races/armies to play, and each does have a short campaign - until you realize that every campaign is the same basic 7 missions with small tweaks to put your chosen army in the lead role.
No prior knowledge of base game and/or Chaos Rising required though.

9 years ago
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arfeu

So, if I'm getting it right, what you are saying is that they are 3 independent games? I can not play the first campaign if I don't have the first game installed, even if I have the second one. Same goes for the third.
Then, for skirmish playing, the best choice would be Retribution since it has more armies and I guess all the content (talking just abou skirmish, thats armies, maybe mechanics?) of the first two, plus some new contents (armies). Am I right?

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Nanabanana

As far as I remember, you need to install base game before you can install Chaos Rising. But it's been about a year and a half ago since I last played them, so I could be remembering wrong.

Retribution can be installed as a standalone title, that I'm sure of..

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arfeu

Thanks a lot for the info. I really really apreciate it, it was such a mess in my head when I saw it was three games instead of just one wih DLCs :/
Gonna start with the first one campaign, then go for Chaos Rising for the second campaing and I'll see if the skirmish/MP content of Retribution is more complete than those two.
Thanks a lot again :)

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Doshmaku

Retribution does pick up the story after Chaos Rising, though connection between them is not as strong as between CR and base game. If you care about story, save it for last.

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thegodoftitsandwine

From what I've been told Retribution has a worse campaign but it does include all he MP content so it depends what you want.

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Mully

start with dow 2 campaign, it's the best one imo, both story and hero progression.
chaos is ok but a bit short.
never finished retribution, super boring and all races share the same maps. also, simplified hero progression.

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arfeu

That's more or less what @Nanabanana told me, I was thinking specially about skirmish mode, which one of them three offered more content (units, armies, etc), cause when I finish the campaigns I'd like to play skirmish and obviously it would be much better to have just the one that has more content.

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