You really don't have to think about anything save running along the railroads and yeah putting points into your characters for upgrades in battle was often more effective than buying any troops. Not only were the maps very linear and contrived and basically in a game that was pushing for more tactical play than its predecessor, actually had less tactical thinking. WA is short, but the missions are pretty good, except for the infamously frustrating Convoy or Lure Guardsmen missions, in which the Land Raider invariably tries to make a beeline for the biggest pile of Lascannons on the map it can find.

That said, DoWI and WA are both really good campaigns. I was especially disappointed to learn that there were even invisible walls or the zig-zags were just far enough apart to prevent you from trying anything clever that might indicate that this game is in fact a tactics game and not a 3rd person RPG like jumping jump troops across part of the course to flank a position. Like, why do RTS games even have a boss monster in the first place? I only ever played DoWII Ret, but almost all the SP missions in Ret can be A: beaten with your heroes, and B: entirely consist of 'walk heroes along the zigzag path to the end, fight boss at the then with your heroes.' There's like 2 that aren't: the one where you shoot the Eldar keeping the exterminatus fleet away, and the one where you get the Super Heavy on Cyrene. AnomanderRake wrote: DoW2's skirmish/multiplayer is ass, but the single player campaign and the Chaos Rising campaign are fantastic.

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