Advent of the Mech is a mod project for Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade. In Advent of the Mech, 4 new races have entered the traditional territory of the original 40k races. Each of the new races focuses on the interaction between their leader characters and large powerful Mech-like units. Leaders are paired with their race's Mech unit, creating a powerful center point to each army and each battle. In the other Dawn of War races, the focus of the army tends to be that race's epic unit, for example, the Eldar Avatar. I found that these epic units depersonalized and detached the player from the army they built from the ground up. Instead, I felt that if the focus of the army was the unit the player was most likely to identify with, the leader, then the player would feel more attached to the army and therefore have a greater investment in the game. At the moment, only one race is functional. The other three have been written but not implemented.