The motivation varies depending on the player's faction, for example the Space Marines, Imperial Guard and Eldar wish to oppose Chaos, their ancient evil enemy the warlike Orks simply want a good fight and to thump the strongest foes they can find the Tyranid splinter wishes to overrun the sector and summon a new hive fleet to consume all the biomass the Chaos faction are Kyras' rivals and wish to surpass him. Later, the faction leader is given the objective to eliminate Azariah Kyras who intends to use the impending Exterminatus as a sacrifice to Khorne and ascend to daemonhood.
It is learned that the Imperial Inquisition has deemed the sector beyond redemption, and will be arriving soon to perform Exterminatus on all the inhabitable worlds in the area. The player's character arrives on Typhon Primaris engaging and battling an opposing faction and defeating their leader. These events may have been caused by Gabriel Angelos' actions (from the original Dawn of War game) when he destroyed the Maledictum, a Chaos stone containing the bound essence of a daemon of Khorne, with the hammer 'God-Splitter'. Sub-sector Aurelia is now suffering from conflict between Ork pirates called the Freebootaz led by Kaptin Bluddflagg to pillage the sub-sector, the arrival of the Eldar of the Craftworld Alaitoc led by Autarch Kayleth to seek about a prophecy and recovering an ancient artifact, a Tyranid Hive Lord restoring the remnants of the Hive Fleet Leviathan and to the link of the Hive Mind, the Blood Ravens defending the sub-sector led by Captain Apollo Diomedes to hunt down Chaos as well as investigating their Chapter Master, Azariah Kyras, for being corrupted by Chaos, the return of Chaos Space Marines of the Black Legion led by Eliphas the Inheritor to fulfill his promise to Abaddon the Despoiler to annihilate the Blood Ravens, and the newly arriving Imperial Guard of the 8th Cadian Regiment led by Lord General Castor, performing an Exterminatus under Inquisitor Adrastia to investigate for corruption within Sub-sector Aurelia as well as the Blood Ravens' Chapter Master Azariah Kyras. I didn't have any problems running Dawn of War: Dark Crusade at all!Įverything worked fine right out of the box.Dawn of War II: Retribution takes place ten years after events of Chaos Rising. If the test displays without any artifacts and a good frame rate. If the frame rate is too low, decrease the resolution and try again. Select your resolution and click Test to see if you get a decent frame rate with your video card. Select your video card on the drop-down menu This configuration should be the first thing you see when you launch the game the first time. When PlayOnLinux is done configuring, Select Warhammer DOW and click RUN Select "I don't wan to make another shortcut" You won't need Xfire to play Dawn of War.Ĭreate a Shortcut to Dawn of War: Dark Crusade
Note: "Select another file" is a way to install your downloaded games where you don't have to use a CD or DVD
If you followed my previous tutorials, this step will be very quick!
These are Windows compatible files that help your games to run properly. Libraries (also known as DLLs and Components or Packages). Also, if you want a Virtual Desktop that appears when you launch a game, Click on Desktop Integration tab and set a resolution for the virtual desktop.
I don't normally set anything here, but if you want the Windows 7 structure, select Windows Version to Windows 7.
Note: If you are running a 64-bit system, PlayOnLinux will prompt if you want to use a 64-bit or 32-bit virtual drive. Wait while Virtual Drive is being created. Note: You can check "Use another version of wine" but Dawn of War worked fine in my current version of Wine 1.5.16 Select Install a program in a new virtual drive You can search for Warhammer but my version of PlayOnLinux only came up with "Space Marine" To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual:
Steam versions and download versions may require extra steps Note: This tutorial applies to the retail version only.