Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Winter Assault is the first expansion to Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War for the PC developed by Relic Entertainment and published by THQ. A new faction was included, the Imperial Guard, with some units previously available in certain single player missions of Dawn of War. The Imperial Guard specialises in defence and attrition warfare, and therefore has the strongest defensive structures of all the factions in the game, as well as garrisonable production structures and a tunnel network between them, allowing stealthy transfer of troops. Their infantry tends to be of lower quality than that of their opponents in terms of weapons, armour, and morale, due to Guardsmen being regular humans. However, the Imperial Guard makes up for this with a range of powerful armoured vehicles, such as the Leman Russ and the Baneblade, as well as the Sentinel walkers, which until the Dark Crusade expansion were the only vehicular unit in the game which could uncapture strategic points. Also, uniquely, the Imperial Guard features not a single primary hero but a Command Squad staffed by a General and up to four secondary heroes, as well as up to 13 stand-alone secondary heroes, 8 out of which are Commissars or Priests that are much more effective when attached to squads (e.g. a Commissar helps to combat morale problems).

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Winter Assault System Requirements

Minimum:

• OS: Windows 2000/XP
• Processor: 1.8 Ghz Intel Pentium III or equivalent
• RAM: 256 MB RAM
• Graphics: 32 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible AGP video card with Hardware Transformation and Lighting
• Storage: 4.5 GB free hard drive space

Recommended:

• OS: Windows XP
• Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent
• RAM: 512 MB RAM
• Graphics: nVidia GeForce 3 or ATI Radeon 8500 or equivalent with 64 MB of Video RAM
• Storage: 4.5 GB free hard drive space