Do you need GFWL for DOW II Singleplayer?

[ManimalR]

Dawn of War 2 and Chaos Rising both use GFWL, which screwed both of them up for me. however, retribution does not and works fine, so I would just get Retribution instead

Retribution, for whatever reason, resulted in enormous problems for those of us who play online. Matchmaking takes far, far too long and even loading is problematic. Couple that with a dramatic increase in games where steam issues cause the game to end early (or a player to be booted) and i find that, even though GFWL was a bit bad, it wasn't as bad as Steam as turned out to be.

Yes but at least the game would actually run, which I find is better than long loading times and dodgy online connections

Also, I have had very few problems when playing online, but that might just be me