I think DOW1 is better, simply because I like the whole, build up a massive army then just roflstop bitches. DOW2 is good, I love it, its just too slow in comparison.
Wat... And for the record DoW1 was the best and always will be.. How my post triggered DoW in you is beyond me.
Dark Crusade was the best part of DoW one or two. Great SP campaign, great multiplayer experience, great modding community. Dawn of War II (vanilla) was a good game on its own merits, but the lack of mod support really undercut the long term value.
I would make melee a quicker version of that for honor game that came out. Like you can kill quicker but you still get the telegraph things and the pacing if that makes sense. I'd also love maps with more flavor like a map where you have to get a bomb or something up a elevator on the side of the cliff, but the elevator stops at each floor because the enemies did something to it's power and you have to guard the bomb and restore power by capture stuff on each level, then the final part is a big fight to get it where it needs to go. Stuff like that seems better than capture points to me!
I wouldn't really change anything outside of some re-balancing. But I would have held back the release of this fucking game until it was good and full of Content™.