Units behind cover (indicated by green/yellow dots on the ground when giving a move order, and green/yellow lights around the health bar) will gain defensive bonuses against ranged fire, making them both harder to hit and lowering the damage of the shots that find a target. Using cover is essential to surviving a shootout. The Tactical squads are in cover, while the Scouts and Guardsmen are not in this situation, the units on the left will take barely any damage, while the units on the right will be massacred This example shows a player making a panicked Fall Back decision and actually causing his squad to run into a grenade thrown behind the squad – not on it – obviously in the hope of just such a reaction. While a good Fall Back decision will save your unit, a badly timed retreat may result in losing the unit – it might run straight into an enemy melee unit, or a grenade tossed on the retreat path. Note that vehicles and the most powerful infantry units – such as Terminators – cannot retreat. The unit is marked with a yellow exclamation mark icon and cannot be controlled while retreating.
Some abilities – notably grenades – also do full damage to retreating units. The unit becomes immune to weapon knockback, but is still affected by ability knockback. Units that are told to Fall Back will make a bee-line to their HQ building while breaking suppression, gaining more speed (Which kicks in after a few seconds) and greatly reduced (-80%) ranged damage, but also increased (+30%) melee damage. In Dawn of War II, you can issue the "Fall Back" command to heroes and most infantry units. Likewise, both these aforementioned units are stronger at ranged shooting, but also have decent melee capabilites, which means they can approach to close combat to overpower pure ranged specialists.Īnother use for force melee is using it to kill retreating units (see Fall Back below), as a unit that is retreating has increased resistance to ranged damage, but suffers extra damage from melee attacks. For example, Tactical Marines are slightly stronger at range than Chaos Space Marines, but the Chaos Space Marines have higher melee damage.
You may also want to force melee if you know your unit to be stronger at close combat. Even though your squad may specialize at ranged attacks, though it may cause less damage output, you may wish to order your squad to melee a dangerous enemy ranged unit (a suppression or artillery squad) to prevent the enemy from using its weapons, for instance. In general, an infantry unit (not including vehicles) that is attacked in melee combat cannot shoot their ranged weapons they must defend themselves by responding to their attackers with melee.Įven if a unit has been set to the Ranged Stance, you give them the Melee Attack command – commonly called "force melee" – to order it to melee a target.
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