[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Surprisingly, it's a pretty good game that imo actually isn't inferior to its predecessor expansions. 1.) The campaign is rather difficult even on normal against Chaos and Imperial Guard, whereas other factions are easier to beat. I only managed to win against them by saving their fights til the end, where I had maximized Wargear, Honor Guard, Spoils of War. 2.) I was using the latest game version 1.3 of Steam but still had a persistent crash "Failed to create dump file:" (error 183)" after Chaos stronghold, Sisters of Battle stronghold, Imperial Guard stronghold and Jalaganda Lowlands, for which one just has to lower the graphics settings shortly before to prevent it or install the Soulstorm Bugfix Mod. 3.) The 2 new factions Dark Eldar and Sisters of Battle are well done, but they're the weakest of the 9 races in tier 4 late/end game, but still Dark Eldar have the 4th highest win rate and Sisters of Battle are still a bit better than Space Marines. 4.) The newly introduced air combat is not perfect imo, as some air units are only situationally useful, like Attack Scarabs purely versus other aircraft. 5.) I'm glad this expansion was made, it's the most balanced and offers a whole 2 new factions, has a great novel intro whereas Winter Assault simply reused the intro from the base game, plus there's the Unification Mod (contains Tyranid, Ultimate Apocalypse, Crucible, etc.), the Dow Stats Balance Mod still needs a lot of improvements and also the ability to easily play PvP. As graphics mods I'd recommend these: redux mod or graphics mod 3 ybivakaor or qbebab graphic mod. 6.) After you can beat each race on ai difficulty insane, you can start multiplayer: I'd then definitely get Dow Stats Client for optional gridkeys, remove fog, camera mod (or from Soulstorm Discord). Race tier list based on winrate in high rated games: 1.) Eldar: 55.7%, 2.) Necrons: 51.7%, 3.) Chaos: 51.5%, 4.) Dark Eldar: 50.7%, 5.) Orks: 49.6%; 6.) Imperial Guard: 47.3%, 7.) Tau Empire: 47.1%, 8.) Sisters of Battle: 45.7%, 9.) Space Marines: 45.6%

Soulstorm, the final expansion of the first Dawn of War, features almost identical gameplay to Dark Crusade, with a few changes. Again, it has a very shallow campaign mode that consists of capturing certain areas on the map to win. What I don't understand about the Warhammer 40K series in general is why they've spent decades writing a massive backstory lore spanning hundreds of books. Because they never had the intention of making a story-oriented game that would truly reflect these. If your goal is story, I recommend you stay away from Dark Crusade and Soulstorm DLCs. Their story content is so superficial that it barely fills even a few pages, and their gameplay is frustrating and boring. You can learn whatever story they are telling by opening it and reading it on the Wiki page.