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New race - The Sisters of Battle

Soulstorm introduces two new races, one of which is the Sisters of Battle, a bunch of female-only religious fanatics hell-bent on exterminating the filth currently populating the Kaurava system all in the name of the God-Emperor. The Sisters feel very similar to the Space Marines, and have familiar troop types, buildings and tech trees. While they're slightly less durable than their male counterparts, they're more mobile and good all-rounders, excelling in close-quarters combat and ranged.

Unique to the Sisters is their Faith system. You need to add Holy Icons to Listening Posts in order to build up your Faith. In the game Faith acts as a sort of supplementary tier, granting Act of Faith special abilities and access to the Sisters' most powerful units, but in the Dawn of War lore it is the "metaphysical measure of their devotion to the Emperor".

The Sisters' commander unit is the Canoness, a fast, relatively powerful melee-based marine which you'll find can last a decent amount of time against the other races' equivalent units. Her Act of Faith, the Purifying Light attack, which calls forth a flash of divine light from the heavens, blinds enemy units, inspires fellow units and pretty much reduces enemy weapon accuracy to nothing. The catch is that Purifying Light, and the Sisters of Battle's other special abilities cost Faith to use, so you need to keep those Listening Posts as holy as you can for as long as you can.

The Sisters are a pretty cool addition to the Dawn of War race list. Because they're the most religiously devoted race their buildings look a lot like churches and cathedrals, and their units have halos and bright light all over the place. Their art style is one we like here at VideoGamer.com, and they should prove useful in multiplayer when the game is finally released. But, we reckon they've got nothing on Soulstorm's other new race, the Dark Eldar...

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