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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Dark Crusade is the second expansion to the real-time strategy video game Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War developed by Relic Entertainment and published by THQ. Based on Games Workshop 's tabletop wargame , Warhammer 40,000 , Dark Crusade was released on October 9, 2006. [ 1 ]
This forces a conflict between the three imperial factions. A Chaos warband of the Alpha Legion arrives using the warpstorm. The Tau arrive, intending to annex the system into the Tau Empire. Finally, the Dark Eldar, usually avoiding large-scale warfare, see the chaos and confusion of the conflict as an opportunity to capture prisoners and souls.
Chaos Rising is set one year after the events of Dawn of War II and the defeat of the Tyranid invasion (as well as the Eldar and Ork forces) of sub-sector Aurelia. The campaign marks the return of the Blood Raven heroes from the previous game, the Chaos Lord Eliphas from Dark Crusade, Derosa as the new governor of Meridian, and the heretical Vandis.
In Black Crusade, players take the role of Chaos-corrupted characters. Black Crusade, essentially, is the corrupted version of previously published Warhammer 40,000 roleplaying games. Characters are cast in the role of the villain, with the players actively working against the human empire and for the forces of Chaos in the sector.
There were also two DLC packs released adding new sub-races to use in multiplayer game with unique models and color schemes for units: Dark Angels Space Marine chapter [17] and Eldar Craftworld Ulthwe. [18] Similar DLC pack adding the Ultramarines Space Marine chapter was released on August 16, 2011. [19] [20]
King wrote Trollslayer (1999), the first novel published under the Games Workshop's Black Library label. [1]His most memorable characters, Gotrek and Felix, have appeared in a series of novels, beginning with Trollslayer, a collection of previously published and new short stories.
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The existence of a science fiction table top game in development by Games Workshop was made known through Citadel Journal in 1986 and Rogue Trader was officially released at Games Workshop's annual Games Day event in October 1987.