For DoW 2, if I am only interested in singleplayer for now, what DLC do I need? New to franchise.

[h4rry^ - merkava]

Title. Am completely new to the series and the amount of DLC is overwhelming and its clearly what only applies to my singleplayer experience. I was expecting it to be like starcraft where the base game is the main campaign and then some DLC after-campaigns, but I'm not sure if that's accurate. As of right now, I just own DoW II, but want to know what DLC I need for just singleplayer--and how they work. Thank you!

[h4rry^ - merkava]

It's unclear*

[Clockwork]

- Dawn of War II is the base game.

- Chaos Rising is an expansion for Dawn of War II which can work as a standalone (i.e. you can run it without the base game). It adds a tiny extra campaign and extra content for the online game mode "The Last Stand". If you have both on Steam, Chaos Rising will be automatically applied whenever you boot the base game, so you don't need to bother installing both (and if you try, they'll both point towards the same installation folder, which is very convenient).

- Retribution is another game altogether which uses the same engine as the base game. It has a lot of DLCs but none of them are for campaign.
=> There's also The Last Standalone which is 1/3 of the price of Retribution but only 1/3 of the game (you can play The Last Stand online but you can't play campaign nor Multiplayer with it).

Basically, you don't need any DLC which is sold as such on Steam.