Squats are W40K's equivalent of fantasy dwarves. They're part of the storylines' "subhuman" mutations that inhabit the human colonies in the galaxy. In this mod they will appear in two major forms: the Imperial Squats and Chaos Squats. So far, its very early days with little to show for itself.

This mod is now defunct. There are however, a large selection of modding tutorials based on actual user experience still posted here, along with all the resources and files that were part of the mod, made available to the DoW modding community.

Another Space Marine chapter add-on. This one has plans for a campaign to go with it as well. You can chase up its trials and tribulations at its RelicNews forum thread. There's nothing to see, yet. Or ever. Its dead.

No idea what its about, other than it'll probably something dark and warlike and set in the 41st millennium, involve some dire chaotic threat to the Imperium (or some such) and possibly never, ever get past the stage of being a fan's wild idea. As it is, this mod launched in 2003, made one or two posts and then went completely dead. Not even stillborn, I'm afraid... You can try its own FreeWebs forum.

It seems if a fantasy universe has Elves in it, then odds are there's a "dark" version of them lurking in the mountains somewhere... This is based on the tabletop's original Dark Eldar, who are cruel packs of rogue Eldar preying on planets and shipping like pirates of old and kidnapping people to sacrifice to the Chaos Gods. They're a lot like the Eldar version of the Chaos Marines. This mod seems to have its fair share of gothic elvish chickie babes with big... swords and bare midriffs. This looks organised, but has nothing to show as yet; you can chase its RelicNews Forum thread here. Home site missing - and no activity since early 2005.

Adds an extra race based on the original W40K tabletops: the Necrons. The Necrons are cadaverous robots who have awoken from their 60 million year slumber to find the galaxy infested with the living. Naturally, they're a bit put out by this state of affairs, and feel the need to rectify things. Necrons are basically W40K's equivalent of all those skeletons you found lurking it your typical role playing dungeon crawl. See also: modDATABASE entry. This mod has started producing some impressive preview videos. This has now been cancelled.

There's a second Necron Mod that's doing quite well.

Formerly known as the Orky Fairness Mod. This began life off as a balancing mod for the underpowered Orks in Winter Assault 1.41 patch. It, like many re balancing mods before it, went off and tweaked everything! As a rough guide, to the old Fairness Mod, the Orks get their maximum population cap increased to 160; get stronger Slugga Boyz in melee; wimpier Shoota Boyz in smaller squads (but able to equip all their members with cheaper Big Shoota upgrades); the Mega Armoured Nobz, Mad Doks and the WarBoss now appear earlier in Tier 2;TankBustaz can reinforce to four; Ork Tier upgrades seem very rapid. Waaagh banners are more expensive, but seem a lot more durable.

Other races get changed as well: Space Marines have a stronger early game, and their Terminators have received a few buffs; Chaos no longer needs a Relic for its Obliterators, and its Chaos Marines and Horrors get a number of buffs that fill out their limitations as well. And they get their Demon Prince (from the original game's single player campaign climax) at long last! Eldar can no longer spam vehicles by the three minute mark; they have become lighter, faster and more hard hitting. However if they stand still and try to duke it out with a mass of Marines, they'll get cut down fast. Nevertheless, their Warp Spiders now get three jumps. Fire Prisms get nerfed. Imperial Guard gets a swag of changes, ranging from building health scaling up with Tiers to a greater emphasis on vehicles. There's much more besides. Worth a look. Last version: 0.598. This has been discontinued, replaced by the Fairness 2 Mod.

The Orks generally had a really rough time of it in the 1.3 patch, and this post 1.3 adjustment mod fiddles with the Orky Waaugh Towers and Listening Posts so that each additional tower adds to a small modifier that makes all Ork buildings gain health points as time goes by. The idea that altering this one element of the Ork's build tree will snowball through and put the Orks on a more "even" keel with the other game races. This mini-mod works fine in all versions of the original Dawn of War only. While still available, this mini-mod has been incorporated into another mod.

The Space Wolves are a popular chapter of the Space Marines in War40K tabletop circles (you can read up on them here). The big gimmick is that they have better melee abilities than just plain old ordinary Space Marines, come in Packs rather than Squads, and they all look they've transformed under the full moon. The Space Wolf Mod web site has vanished, but you can locate a downloadable version at DoWFiles.com or browse its old RelicNews forum thread. Last version: 0.9.

Space Wolf fans may want to check out the more livelier 13th Company Mod instead.