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HOW TO INSTALL
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-PART 1-

Copy everything except the patch notes and the readme into your Dawn of War 2 directory.

It should be located at "..\Steam\steamapps\common\dawn of war 2"


-PART 2-

If you do not run the game in English or German you will have to move the_first_stand.ucs found in:

"..\Steam\steamapps\common\dawn of war 2\GameAssets\Locale\English"

To the folder with the name of your language. For example, if you run the game in French you will have to move it to:

"..\Steam\steamapps\common\dawn of war 2\GameAssets\Locale\French"

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HOW TO PLAY
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-PART 1-

Open Steam and go to "My Games".

Right-click on Dawn of War 2 and select "Properties".

Select "Set launch options..."

Write the following in the box that appears:

-modname the_first_stand

NOTE: in order to play with people without the mod, you will have to remove this later on.


-PART 2-

Start Dawn of War 2 and create a game lobby.

Set "The First Stand" as the victory condition.

Pick any map you would like to play on.

The lowest slot on the player list MUST be a computer player. It doesn't matter which slots the human players are in as long as the computer player is in a lowest slot relative to everyone else.

For example, in a 3v3 lobby:

-The following is GOOD-

Human
Empty
Empty

Computer
Empty
Empty


-The following is GOOD-

Human
Empty
Human

Empty
Computer
Empty


-The following is GOOD-

Human
Empty
Human

Human
Empty
Computer


-The following is BAD-

Human
Empty
Empty

Computer
Human
Empty


-PART 3-

The player that was in the top slot gets some spore mines.
Place the spore mines where you would like the enemies to spawn.
You may detonate spore mines to reduce the number of spawn locations.
Do NOT detonate all the spore mines of the game will end.
The same number of enemies spawn regardless of the number of spawn locations.

Everyone gets a ripper.
Use the ripper's ability to call down a drop pod.
Choose 2 heroes.
When everyone has chosen their heroes the enemies will start to spawn.

The host gets 2 additional rippers.
These rippers can be used to customize the difficulty.

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ABOUT THE GAME
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Wargear is free.
Wargear takes 3 seconds to equip.
The hotkeys for abilities are QWER.
Q is for weapon abilities.
W is for armor abilities.
E is for accessory abilities.
R is for the hero's default ability.

Heroes' wargear upgrade box is generally a 3x3 box.
The hotkeys for wargear are Shift + one of the letters from the 3x3 box from Q to C.
For example, the top left wargear is Shift+Q and the bottom right wargear is Shift+C.
Heroes with a 4th item in a single row use Shift+Space.

The hotkey for Retreat is F.
I chose this because you won't hit it by mistake on the first row and F has a bump on the keyboard.

Global ability hotkeys are F1 to F4.
You will always have the same global abilities regardless of the hero you picked in the lobby.

When a hero levels up it gets a 10% bonus to HP, HP regen, EP and EP regen.
When a hero levels up it gets a 5% bonus to damage.

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GENERAL TACTICS
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Use the right wargear for the right job!
You should probably have at least 1 apothecary for a healer.
Defend an area that has chokepoints.

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THANKS TO:
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Copernicus of "Cope's Defense Mod" for inspiration and for his SCAR work. I didn't know SCAR before I made this and Cope's SCAR files helped me figure things out much faster.

Sturmtruppen for putting up DoWCodex which was useful as a quick reference.

bobbo8u, MysticSheep, TheAvatar3055 and my brother for alpha testing and for ideas.