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Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II Retribution was announced a little while ago but we are still learning things about the upcoming RTS stand alone expansion pack from developer Relic and publisher THQ. Today it was revealed that the game will feature the Tyranids in the game's single player campaign.

As PC Gamer's web site reveals, the spiky-looking alien race will actually be depicted as a hero unit, the Swarmlord, in the game's single player campaign. However that one hero will be able to generate other smaller Tyranids like Hormagaunts and Termagants. In fact with this set up you could control as many as 140 units with the Swarmlord which is a significant departure from Dawn of War II's typical small squad-based unit set-up. Even more single player content has yet to be revealed for the game which is due out in March 2011.

This trailer for Dawn of War II provides some more in-depth information about the Tyranids, the newest alien faction to be included in the series. It provides background on what they are, their capabilities and what players can expect in battle. Dawn of War II is scheduled to release next week in retail stores and via Steam.

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This new trailer for Dawn of War II puts focus on the Tyranid faction, a deadly alien race with the ability to burrow underground and take enemies by surprise. They also have ability to rush with large armies, making for epic scale battles. Dawn of War II is expected to release next month.

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One of the biggest problems for real-time strategy (RTS) games has been the detached and disinterested attitude many players exhibit when faced with playing them. More often than not, a lot of people who consistently play RTS games are doing so out of their love for the strategy element. That's all well and good, but there's a caveat: The problem continues. Why? It does so because the cache of players who're highly dedicated to RTS games don't count for much of the PC gaming contingent.

I've considered Relic Entertainment a top-drawer developer ever since I casually sat down to play Homeworld 2, only to discover a game that would absorb several tens of hours of my life. So when initial previews revealed that Dawn of War 2 (DoW2) wouldn't focus on player-built structures, I was intrigued. I continued to read up on the game and subsequently found even more provocative information. Players will only control five or so squads in any one battle? These squads are to stay with you over the course of the game? This was a glaringly unprecedented change, and I loved it.

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The newest wave of news about Dawn of War II is coming out of Relic and 1up.com has not only a three page interview with the game designers up, but a podcast discussing the game and even a short gameplay video. One of the biggest pieces of new information is that the strategy game will not feature base building. Instead players will control up to about five squads that stick with them throughout the singleplayer campaign. Of course Relic is keeping their lips sealed about whether or not a similar structure exists in the online mode.

Another subject that they're not speaking on is additional races beyond Space Marines and the Orks. Relic has said in the past that they would consider doing Tyranids Zerg Tyranids for DoW2. We're sure that by this point fans of the "Great Devourer" have become an extremely vocal crowd considering their race was the only one never to be officially featured in the original Dawn of War, even after numerous expansions. Maybe we'll see a new playable race revealed at this year's E3 and if fans are lucky they'll finally get .