How to install and then keep up-to-date with ELITE.

Overview

A guide on how to install and then keep up to date with the Dawn of War II: Retribution ELITE mod.

A brief overview of what Elite is

[/previewimg] Dawn of War II: Elite is a multiplayer modification (mod) for Dawn of War II: Retribution, which is the de facto Warhammer 40,000 RTS adaptation at this time. “Mod” means that we – the players – have changed, added and removed aspects of the retail game to make it more interesting.

Elite was envisioned by Caeltos as an experimental balance mod for high-level players to test certain tweaks to gameplay balance. However, as THQ cut the official support of DoW2 in their dive toward bankruptcy, Elite evolved into making bolder changes – up to new abilities and units – and ended up introducing an entire new faction; the Grey Knights[www.dawnofwar.info], based on Bloodravage’s Destroyer 40k mod but designed from a competitive PvP angle.

For a full list of changes make sure to visit our Changelog[www.dawnofwar.info]!

Downloading and Installing

The ELITE mod is a very easy mod to download and install. Once you go to [link] on the top of the page will be a drop-down menu named Elite. Inside that there will be a button named Download. After clicking download you will come to the page pictured above. To download Elite, first click the first link named [Google Drive #1] which will bring you to a google docs page. Click the “download” button in the center of the page. That will take you to another page where it says the file is too large to scan for viruses. You have our word that we have not put any viruses on this file! Only goodness! Click “download anyway” to begin downloading the installer.

After it finishes open the new installer you just downloaded and click Run. It will bring up a snazzy Space Marine picture as it loads the installation wizard. Once that’s all up and running the installation is pretty self-explanitory: just click Next a bunch of times and choose where you would like it to install. Since you are reading this on Steam I’m going to assume you want it installed on your Steam version of DoW which it will already have selected. Just click install and wait for it to be finished!