I say “gimmicks” but the bonuses, or “specialties” if you will, truly make the gameplay of each faction distinct in the long run. Scrap is formed on piles around the battlefield and the WAAARGH towers (no, that’s their name, seriously) and the player can use it to either reinforce their current units, or spend it to create vehichle units much cheaper than their actual production cost. The humans can orbit their troops on the battlefield, making for good surprise attacks, the elves can relocate their buildings anywhere they have vision, allowing them to escape base wipes easily and the orks have the scrap. The main buildings and playstyle of each race are pretty much the same (unlike Starcraft 2 for example that felt like it needed to create brand new gameplay for each of its races) and what makes the difference for the factions is their gimmicks. Otherwise the main menu of Dawn of War 3 is pretty standard though, so lets get to the juicy parts: The only original part is the war paint menu, I imagine inspired from the figure painting irl, where you can equip each of your units with each own tabard, colors, etc. The menus are pretty much you’d expect from a strategy game: single player, multiplayer, army management (more on that later), settings, etc. It almost felt like two completely different teams were handling the campaigns.
During an epic confrontation between Macha and Angelos later in the story, when the tension should be high, I caught myself laughing at the ork’s idea of “hacking” a console from an earlier mission (it’s exactly what you imagine). The greenskins are so… Carefree, that the player can’t take seriously the rest of the story and the galactic threats. If I have one complaint about Dawn of War 3, it’s the extreme change of tone when switching from eldars and humans to orks. The second one is by far the deadliest hero in the game.
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