As with all good games, mods are a secondary part in keeping the life blood of a game flowing. There exists a number of high quality DOW mods that I will be discussing about, many of them having received updates that make them into something better.
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World Eaters-Melee heavy with some interesting options and upgrades. You can now split between two different branching paths that allow for the following: more daemon type upgrades or units and more tech based options. Each can be chosen for whatever army you are facing. Me personally, I prefer doing the daemon path against the likes of the Eldar and Tau since it beefs up the units considerably.
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Received its final update last year I believe. A fun swarm/horde faction that starts out a bit weak, but then get very busted late game. The Swarmlord absolutely owns anything in its path.
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Kind of boring imo, but they are a ton of fun if you go for the Deathwing Company option.
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Melee oriented Space Marine race, but with more of an emphasis on choosing different paths to best counter their enemy. Really fun to play as and are good for smashing apart faggot ass Tau.
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It's been fucking decades since this mod first saw an update, but the Steel Legion are still pretty balanced when fighting off against other races. Their plethora of different armored vehicles allows them to easily even the odds or absolutely rape stomp some enemy races.
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Witch Hunters are just Sisters of Battle, but immensely better in every way. Arbites are easily capable of rushing down enemy armies with grenade launchers and or plasma guns and their vehicle options are much more better imo.
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My fucking niggas. Being the blackest Space Marine chapter there is, they boast a higher HP per individual unit compared to other Space Marines from both the vanilla and other mods.
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Space Wolves, but even more hideously furry. The Thirteenth Company are a bit more powerful compared to other Space Marine chapters as they rely on a lot of potent abilities, but to compensate for this, they have a far smaller population cap.
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One of the high quality mods that are out there. Inquisition Daemonhunters can be chosen to focus on either armored vehicles and Stormtroopers or the Grey Knights themselves. Psycannons are hideously powerful to the point where you can mow down entire hordes of daemons with squads of them.
I'm missing some mods. Some of them like the Thousand Sons are good, but are lacking in content. While others like the Blood Angels and Space Wolves just feel like boring clones of vanilla Space Marines.
RAGE:World Eaters Warbands mod for Dawn of War
"All the units in the universe Warhammer 40K should be broken up!"
Tyranid Mod for Dawn of War
The Tyranid Mod is an ongoing additional race modification for the original Dawn of War series, based on the Tyranid army from the Warhammer 40k tabletop game.
Dark Angels mod: Repent! For tomorrow you die! for Dawn of War
The Dark Angels stand first amongst the Space Marine Chapters, as they have done since their very inception as the I Legion. They are a proud Chapter, with traditions and rituals that date back to the earliest days of the Imperium of Man.
Black Templars Mod for Dawn of War
While adding Black Templars as the separate race, this mod does not change the original gameplay style of Soulstorm and compatible with others race-mods. The mod brings Emperor's Wrath upon His Enemies, the Black Templars Chapter, whose zealous space...
Steel Legion - Armageddon mod for Dawn of War
Featuring a new playable race for the game with many new units and functions. This race is based on the 40k Background and features the imperial guard troops of Armageddon called Steel Legion. The idea behind the mod is to bring in a new strategie game...
Witch Hunters: Adepta Sororitas mod for Dawn of War
Finally, it has arrived! Permission has been granted to bring you the famous Witch Hunters: Adepta Sororitas mod to Soulstorm in the form of a standalone race! Released for Dark Crusade back in 2007 by Friedric_P (plop!) this mod brought simply astonishing...
Salamanders mod REFORGED: Unto the Anvil of War! for Dawn of War
The Sons of Vulkan join the fight! The Salamanders mod for Soulstorm adds the Salamanders Space Marine Chapter as a playable race in Skirmish mode. Salamanders are black skinned, red eyed warriors who fight with flame and hammer...oh and with Salamanders...
Thirteenth Company Mod for Dawn of War : Soulstorm
Team Thudmeizer proudly presents the 13th Company Mod for Dawn of War : Soulstorm. The 13th are a lost Space Wolf Company that plunged into the warp chasing Abaddon during the Horus Heres yonly to re-emerge in normal space 10,000 years later. With very...
Inquisition: Daemonhunt mod for Dawn of War
You can now play the Ordo Malleus, a branch of the Inquisition in charge of destroying daemons, chaos cults and all chaotic influence from the Imperium.
I'm missing some mods. Some of them like the Thousand Sons are good, but are lacking in content. While others like the Blood Angels and Space Wolves just feel like boring clones of vanilla Space Marines.