Orbital Relay

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Dawn of War Building

Orbital Relay
Race	Space Marines
Version	Dark Crusade v1.2 Soulstorm v1.0
Build Info
Hotkey O	Build Cost 150 50  Return Value 75 25  Build Time 30 s Built By Servitor Requires Fortress Monastery Limit 1
Unit Stats
Hitpoints	1500
Armour	Building Medium
Sight Radius	25 (cannot detect)

Contents 1 Orbital Relay 2 Tactics 3 Abilities 3.1 Deep Strike 4 Buildable Units 4.1 Space Marine Squad 4.2 Dreadnought 4.3 Hellfire Dreadnought 5 Researches 5.1 Wargear: Personal Teleporters 6 The Dawn of War Player's Guide

Orbital Relay

The Orbital Relay allows pinpoint communication with the orbital fleet. It coordinates Orbital Bombardment and allows you to drop pod units anywhere (Friendly Line of Sight available) on the battlefield. This structure is a requirement for the Orbital Bombardment ability.

Tactics

Probably one of the most useful non-production structures in-game. The Orbital Relay allows you to deep-strike nearly any Space Marine infantry you desire into combat, and allows you to deep-strike dreadnoughts as well. Although slots are limited, this gives a huge advantage to any Space Marine player, and allows him/her drop in units as large and powerful as a Dreadnought behind enemy lines to ravage their ranged/support or to be dropped into an enemy base with the help of a scouting unit, such as a Scout Marine Squad, an Assault Marine Squad, detached Skull Probe or a Land Speeder.

The personal teleporter upgrade alone also makes this worth building, as it allows you to quickly pull your sluggish Terminator Squads and Assault Terminator Squads out if things start going south, or to drop a bunch of those heavily armoured and armed biomechanical monsters in the rear of an enemy army to turn the tide of a battle.

Abilities

Deep Strike

	Deep Strike			Hotkey: E
	Requires	None
	Target Types	Visible Terrain
	Range	Unlimited
	Area of effect	5	Cooldown time	Passive ability
Effects	Can Deep Strike any Infantry and Dreadnoughts except Assault Marines. The Orbital Relay has 3 Slots to store units for Deep Striking, Infantry take up 1 slot, Dreadnoughts take up 2 slots. Deep Striking takes 10 seconds and it takes 30 seconds to charge a unit that enters the Orbital Relay on foot. The drop pod used to deliver the unit or squad is even a weapon in and of itself, dealing damage and knockback (10-60 force) to any units in the area of effect.
Damage Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High Morale Min Max Min.D 10 10 10 10 10 10 14-16 14-16 14-16 10 14-16 14-16 14-16 10 10 50 140 160 10

Buildable Units

Space Marine Squad

	Space Marine Squad				Hotkey: S
	Cost	190 0  2	Build Time	26.4
	Squad Size	4/8	Limit	None
	Deep Strike	Yes
	Requires	Nothing

Dreadnought

	Dreadnought				Hotkey: D
	Cost	170 305  3	Build Time	30 s
	Unit Size	1	Limit	None
	Deep Strike	Yes
	Requires	Machine Cult

Hellfire Dreadnought

	Hellfire Dreadnought				Hotkey: H
	Cost	100 250  3	Build Time	30 s
	Unit Size	1	Limit	None
	Deep Strike	Yes
	Requires	Machine Cult

Researches

Wargear: Personal Teleporters

	Wargear: Personal Teleporters			Hotkey: P
	Cost	75 125	Research Time	60 s
	Researched From	Orbital Relay
	Requires	Nothing
Effects	Allows Terminators and Assault Terminators to use their Teleport ability

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