RelicNews is a big epicentre for all things Dawn of War - not to mention anything else to do with Relic Entertainment's games, such as the Homeworld series and Impossible Creatures.

The RelicNews Dawn of War Forums are easily the best around for this game, maintained by some excellent moderators, with reams of interesting and useful info. It acts as the "official" forums of the game, although its not part of Relic and relies on user donations to get by.

A simple, easy to read and download list of all the essential patches for Dawn of War and its expansions. You can patch the game by logging Online to Gamespy, but it takes absolutely forever. Start here for any game patches!

Dawn of War Unit Stats, Tactics and Strategy: a sizeable, but completely plain web site with all kinds of interesting data, tables, strategies and other goodies for the game. In particular, you can find:

all the DPS values (Damage Per Second) that each and every weapon in Winter Assault can inflict on each and every unit.

A Replay download list.

New Players in DoW Guide: a how-to for absolute beginners.

The streamlined "Grid" hotkey configuration for the really serious online players.

A video streaming site that specialised in VOD's (Video playback of actual games) for Dawn of War. Thne idea is to illustrate battles and strategies interactively, and watch the actual players in action. There's only a few videos, and each seemed to take forever to watch, but its early days yet. This is hosted out of the Eagle Federation, a large clan site for Battle for Middle Earth, Rise of Legends and Battlefield 2. It'll be interesting to see where this one ends up.

A very modest discussion forum on the Dawn of War series with a sprinkling of aging game replays. It seems free of the knuckleheads that seem attracted to the larger fora out there. You will need to register in order to download any replays, though.

A personal fan site for Warhammer and MechWarrior: Mercenaries. There's a simple unit statistics table and some banners and artwork here. However, this site last updated late 2004.

Without any doubt this is the best description of Warhammer 40,000 I've found on the Internet. An utterly neutral, no-nonsense encyclopedic description and summary of the whole game/hobby. If you had no idea what it was all about - or any real interest in it either - this will inform without the need to wander in the maze of W40K fan sites or the commercial labyrinths of Games Workshop web sites.

See also: Wikipedia entries for Dawn of War and its expansions.

This is an unofficial leader board site by and for the fans devoted to the online game Ladders for Dawn of War and its expansions. Its main attraction is its interactive banner generator which you can use as a signature in any fora. This banner constantly updates itself to show your current score on the DoW Ladder. Here's an example for Dark Crusade using my own online account:

European Strategy Gamers League (EGSL): A big bilingual (Deutsche/English) European games league that hosts PC strategy game tournaments. Dawn of War has a prominent presence here, as does the DowPro mod. This is a very competitive "pro" circuit, involving clans. You'll probably find a lot of them (and the replays) at DoWSanctuary.

Electronic Sports League (ESL): A large international gaming league, mostly centred in Europe, that I think has been running since the late 90's. It covers mostly the big 3D shooters (Counter-Strike, F.E.A.R., Battlefield, Quake, etc.), football games (FIFA, Football Manager, etc.) and includes a few RTS's (Dawn of War, StarCraft, WarCraft III). There's already a growing number of replays and competitions in the new Dark Crusade league.

Its no secret that logging Online to GameSpy is much like accidentally falling into one of the upper levels of Dante's Inferno. Being subjected to the howling wind, smell of sulphur, the endless gnashing of milk teeth, and the dreadful keening sound of unending spam and eternal torment is a more than just a little exasperating to most normal human beings.

Try the Friendly Gamers Channel instead. This was a reaction to the Gamespy zoo, and all about enjoying yourself playing the game; not desperately trying to win or lose. You'll need an IRC chat client, like mIRC, and a little patience. Check that ego and your baggage at the door. But it can be worth it once you've added some players you can actually trust in a multiplayer game.

A (very) flash heavy gallery site devoted to screengrabs of Dawn of War. Most of these images have been messed around with with Photoshop filters and the like. Navigation can be a bit tricky at first, and the background soundtrack can get a bit intrusive too, especially when the volume controls in-page go walkabout. There are also some tutorials on how to produce your own spiffy screenshots. This site only really works properly in Internet Explorer.

Luckily, they thought to include an html version.

Battlefield 40K: A total conversion that transforms Battlefield 1942 into the Warhammer 40,000 universe. You get to play either the Space Marines and Imperial Guard against the skeletal Necrons and the ancient, high-tech Eldar. There's nothing to see yet, but this mod looks detailed and accurate. Also: modDATABASE entry.

Another total conversion, this time converting Battlefield 2 into the Warhammer 40,000 universe. At present there are no downloads and only a few choice images of untextured models of units, armour and vehicles.

A Homeworld 2 total conversion based on Battleship Gothic, the tabletop game by Games Workshop's subsidary, Specialist Games. More details.

A Warhammer 40,000 total conversion development thread for the turn based strategy game, Civilisation IV. There was also a W40K mod for Civilisation III, but it looks like it might have crashed and burned.