Dawn of War: Definitive Edition may be a sparing remaster, but it's still the best way to revisit one of the greatest RTS series ever created

The year is 2005 and I'm an impressionable 12 year old looking for my next gaming fix on our family PC. I slot in one of our many PC Gamer demo discs for a game called Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War and boom (quite literally), the opening cutscene hits. I can tell you the exact moment I became a lifelong 40k fan: when that Dreadnought rumbles out of the fog and carves a path of bullets up the hill with its assault cannon.

It's hard to express how formative discovering Dreadnoughts was for 12 year old me...