me1234:

What do you think the campaign should be?  A Linear campaign like warcraft 3?  Or more like dawn of war or Rise of legends.

referring to the start ideas here they could put both in if they really wanted to. have a story based linear campaign and then have as another part of the game a Campaign planet dominance style game though the planet style function probably wouldn't be able to have the storyline worked into it. the linear storyline going from level to level would probably work best i reckon, it allows for a lot of detail in the story which so far has been really good for the Halo games and will most likely be good for Halo Wars. where as the Dawn of War campaign lacked a lot of detail and got rather boring as not enough special events happened (well i got bored). it was good as another function of the game as past battles had some influence over new ones but it was not very good for telling a story.