Draw them in, and have them spend ridiculous sums of money on the figures and "official" paints etc. It would have been nice if they could have come up with better AI, but hey, it is a Games Workshop device to draw more players to the table-top version of the game. As mentioned, the enemies aren't very smart, throwing themselves against your impenetrable wall of lead and plasma time and again. Beef up your turrets and have a few squads of men behind them, then send out a squad to lure the level boss in to your killing zone. This is also the best way to deal with the occasional "Big Boss" that appears. Keep a couple of mechanic units around to make running repairs and little will trouble you. Start building those around the edge of your base as soon as you can and you can sit happily inside and build men and dreadnoughts to your hearts content as the enemy throw themselves inanely at your automatic defences.
The most useful unit in the game are undoubtedly the defence turrets. When it came to the fights the enemy was slaughtered by overwhelming numbers. If anything my only fault was building too many units. Although only about a dozen levels in length, each one will take a few hours to complete. That said, the game is enjoyable, if prolonged. A couple of levels require you to accomplish goals before a set time limit, but there really isn't anything remotely challenging here. For example, building up your base and slowly massing your forces before breaking out to massacre the enemy is often the only tactic you need. In fact, the simplest tactics often work for all the levels. The learning curve isn't hard and you don't have to be a tactical genius to progress through the game.
Harking back to the good old days of Command and Conquer, it takes resource management and troop building and maneuvering to accomplish each level successfully. DOW is a good enough game for RTS fans out there.
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