Probably the best entry in the Dawn of War 1 series of expansions, while Soulstorm adds more content quite a lot of it is pretty janky and the campaign leaves a bit to be desired.

THe main selling point of Dark Crusade is the campaign, a "Risk" style map where all of the factions in the game battle for territory in a free for all, gathering special bonuses and extra reinforcements from the various territories.

The game itself is pretty rough around the edges when it comes to controlling units and managing your armies, especially compared to more modern RTS games. Controlling your forces in large numbers can get frustrating as squads will tend to spread out quite wide when controlled as a group, requiring a sometimes grating amount of micro management, just to name one issue.
On top of that you'll want to get a mod to make the camera more adjustable as the default max distance is painfully close to the ground and makes it difficult to get a good view of the battlefield, and feels rather claustrophobic, especially on larger monitors.
On top of that mouse-flickering is an issue so you'll want to go into the game's data folder to enable "hardware mouse" which stops the flickering (I don't know why that isn't just a tickbox option in the game itself).

Honestly when it comes to this game you already know if you love it or not, most everyone who plays it played it when it first came out and it was revolutionary for the 40K series.

Probably the best entry in the Dawn of War 1 series of expansions, while Soulstorm adds more content quite a lot of it is pretty janky and the campaign leaves a bit to be desired. THe main selling point of Dark Crusade is the campaign, a "Risk" style map where all of the factions in the game battle for territory in a free for all, gathering special bonuses and extra reinforcements from the various territories. The game itself is pretty rough around the edges when it comes to controlling units and managing your armies, especially compared to more modern RTS games. Controlling your forces in large numbers can get frustrating as squads will tend to spread out quite wide when controlled as a group, requiring a sometimes grating amount of micro management, just to name one issue. On top of that you'll want to get a mod to make the camera more adjustable as the default max distance is painfully close to the ground and makes it difficult to get a good view of the battlefield, and feels rather claustrophobic, especially on larger monitors. On top of that mouse-flickering is an issue so you'll want to go into the game's data folder to enable "hardware mouse" which stops the flickering (I don't know why that isn't just a tickbox option in the game itself). Honestly when it comes to this game you already know if you love it or not, most everyone who plays it played it when it first came out and it was revolutionary for the 40K series.