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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 639: The Past and Future Dawn of War

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Strategy, Strategy Games, War, Games & Hobbies, War Games, Games, Video Games

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Len, Ian, and Fraser are placed onto the battlefield from strategic reserves to talk about the past and future of Dawn of War. The past: the recent Dawn of War: Definitive Edition and how well it holds up for a 20-plus-year-old game. The future: Dawn of War 4, which Len and Fraser both got some hands-on time with.

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0:00.0

Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead. I'm Len. I'm your host. And I am here today with

0:06.8

3MA's own Ian Boudreau. Hello, everybody. We're just claiming you now because you don't,

0:13.7

yeah, you don't belong to any other outlet. So yeah. And PC gamers, Fraser Brown.

0:21.7

Hello.

0:27.7

And we are here to talk about, I think the title of the episode is going to be the past and future dawn of war because there has been an announcement of dawn of war four.

0:34.7

It's not relic.

0:35.9

It's being made by the Iron Harvest guys. So I don't know, Rip Relic, I guess.

0:42.6

And also the Don of War I, definitive edition just came out. And we were kind of batting around

0:51.1

the Discord about how well that game holds up.

0:55.2

So I thought we would talk a little bit about the past of the series.

0:59.0

Fraser and I have played Don of War for so we can talk a little bit about our impressions

1:02.8

with that.

1:04.4

But Ian, do you want to get us started?

1:06.3

How did you get into Don of War as a series originally?

1:11.1

Don of War was one of my first, like, exposures to Warhammer 40K at all, I think.

1:17.8

And, uh, it was my first period.

1:19.9

Like that trailer with the orcs and the Blood Ravens, that was the moment I became a Don

1:25.7

of War fan, wide-eyed watching that.

1:29.2

It was either that for me or the first, the first Chaos Gate.

1:35.3

But yeah, I think those were around the same time.

1:37.8

But Don of War was definitely the first one that really, really grabbed me.

1:42.8

And yeah, and it was at the time to kind

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