Dawn of War: Strongholds mod

In general, the non stronghold missions you have to cheese, most have soft kill timers (Eres, Vandea, Pavonis sometimes, Aceria). By cheese, you need to get RNG lucky with faction rolls, and with who the AI attack first. If you get attacked by more then one AI, immediately restart, you will be too far behind before the soft kill timers finish you (all the alternate "victory" conditions are just faster lose conditions, need to avoid them). Let me emphasize, do NOT even THINK of trying to win with the secondary win conditions, they will just cause you to lose faster. Vandea is the worst, it has a soft 10 minute kill timer since everyone but you starts with a thermo gen in their main base. Either cheese the thermos or somehow magically win inside 10 minutes (some factions simply can't do it, not against 3 AI's)

In general, for most strongholds, you need to have an ultra solid defense, and focus on killing off buildings, ignore the armies as much as you can, they are infinite spawned, there's no clearing them. Most again have soft kill timers, where the spawns become overwhelming (basically, nearly every stronghold has a enrage timer of about 45 minutes, at which point you are facing 3-5x a normal army, on the order of multiple relic units, and any unit that might be restricted for you, they will get 3-5 of them). To give you an idea, by the end of Deimos, I was facing 4-6 obliterator squads, and 3-5 possessed squads, 2 bloodthirsters, and a daemon prince, on top of massed cultists and chaos marines.

Basically, play normally, do lots of restarts to dodge the RNG losses, and let that AI's kill each other, then alpha strike the last one standing. For regular strongholds, semi rush, and you will have to learn which race combinations are impossible (IG vs Tau Stronghold for instance, the infinite spawning stealth teams and IG's horrible detection means you really can't win)

Biggest thing you have to accept is the baseline difficulty is about 2 steps above Hard from campaign, and the out of box AI for non stronghold missions directly cheats by focusing you down on multiple maps (I define this as cheating simply because out of the box, you have a butil in RNG autoloss)

To be clear, I've also done some tweaks to the mod myself to make it (in my eyes) playable, the out of the box is functionally impossible for all factions, you simply get overwhelmed since the AI doesn't respect any form of supply cap or restricted unit cap, all units are directly spawned in, not trained at all, and there's basically 4-5 complete AI armies to fight.

I just wanted to skip the boring skirmish maps and play the stongholds. I'm glad this modder took it upon himself to make them hard for no reason and not even let you have access to the bonuses unless I play all those boring missions I downloaded this mod to skip in the first place one at a time with every single race. THANKS

That is REALLY disappointing. What is the reason for it not working? Any ways around it?

I used to be super big into the nids mod, was a tester and bug catcher YEARS ago. I linda fell off due to life getting busy. Do they have any new forums or anything?

for some reason I didn't get logged in. This "guest" message was still me lol