Caltrops - Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War - Annoying shit that needs to be fixed

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by Fortinbras 02/02/2009, 2:00am PST

Ripper Swarms should not be able to cap. If you want to look for the first faggoty strategies in this game, it's 3v3 with your team all Tyranids, nothing but reinforcing ripper swarms with synapse boosts followed around by the hero units.

In keeping with Relic's long standing tradition of making artillery so resource-intensive as to be useless, artillery units in Dawn of War 2 are crap. You can't even fire from an elevated position, and the HMG/anti-tank units do their jobs better. The only marginally useful thing I've seen is the D-Cannon's Singularity.

The Apothecary can heal itself. I don't see the problem here but I don't think this will last long.

When I hit the H hotkey to heal on my Apothecary and click on a unit portrait on the right-hand unit bar I do NOT want to fucking select that unit, I want to heal it. Instead I'm forced to try and dig my cursor into a half-dead squad of scouts currently elbow-deep in Tyranid guts. WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?

The Mekboy has two kinds of wargear weapons. The Loota's HMG, and the Loota's anti-tank railgun. Both of which force you to be stationary just like a Loota. Seriously? Is that all we could come up with?

Ranged heroes in general seem to have gotten the shaft. The Mekboy is a glorified Loota, the Warp Spider's ranged upgrade is terrible, and the Techmarine is useless.

Dreadnoughts that take the Assault Cannon upgrade turn into absolutely terrible anti-tank weapons but Eldar Wraithlords are still perfectly capable of ripping your legs off and beating you to death with them if they take the Shuriken Cannon over the anti-tank Brightlance. Considering there's no cheap anti-tank unit on the Space Marines side this is absolute bullshit.

Carnifexes are glorified APC's without the reinforcement ability.