Dawn of War 2 is 19.99 on Steam, but I've never played an RTS.

I really would like a new game -- on the cheap -- and I noticed that Dawn of War 2 is only 19.99 on Steam. However, I've never played an RTS before; I must say though, I am an old Diablo 2 guy, so loot-whoring interests me. What do you guys think, should I pick this up?

The complete Civ 4 collection is available for $20 through Friday, October 16th.  That includes Civ 4 and the 3 expansions for $20 bones.  I bought the single Civ 4 game from Direct2Drive for $5 because I kept waiting for this deal, but was running out of time on the D2D sale so I grabbed it in the last two days of the sale.  If you are interested in a strategy game, this is a great one to get.  I don't know much about Dawn of War 2 other than it is supposed to be more friendly than Dawn of War 1, which is more traditional in it's gameplay.

I started with Starcraft and it was a wise choice, but RTS is a lot different now a days.

" The complete Civ 4 collection is available for $20 through Friday, October 16th.  That includes Civ 4 and the 3 expansions for $20 bones.  I bought the single Civ 4 game from Direct2Drive for $5 because I kept waiting for this deal, but was running out of time on the D2D sale so I grabbed it in the last two days of the sale.  If you are interested in a strategy game, this is a great one to get.  I don't know much about Dawn of War 2 other than it is supposed to be more friendly than Dawn of War 1, which is more traditional in it's gameplay. "

I wouldn't call it an RTS really. It leans pretty close to DOTA clone territory, but even then not quite.

If you are interested in some RTS gaming, you should start way back with titles like Age of the Empires 2 and Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness,and Warcraft 3 : Reign of Chaos. Warcraft is more like an RPG+ RTS style of a game,and they are cheap now.

" Whatever you do, don't buy company of heroes "

I would hesitate to call the SP campaign an RTS at all, there are some small unit tactics (cover, arcs of fire, unit abilities), but no real strategy to worry about.  It would be an excellent introduction the the RTS genre though; you can't possibly be overwhelmed by it and it might make you willing to check out something a little more involved.
 
Edit:  To say that Company of Heroes is a phenomenal RTS and the obvious natural progression from DoW2 if you enjoy it.

Company of Heroes is a fantastic RTS, and it's pretty easy to get into even for a non-RTS player.
 
Company of Heroes was made by the same people as Dawn of War 2, but it's far, far superior.
 

TL;DR - BUY COMPANY OF HEROES IMMEDIATELY.

Here's Dawn of War II in a nutshell, Bruce: 
 
Take an RTS with all the base-building and tons of unit types to build 
 
Take out all the base-building 
 
Add in control points and tickets ala Battlefield 2 (it's actually more like Company of Heroes' main gameplay mode, which was inspired by Battlefield 2's Conquest mode) 
 
You have Dawn of War II. 
 
By the way, I proudly say this with my Dawn of War II shirt on.  = D  For $20, it's a fucking steal, man.

The single player campaign doesn't really involve much strategy, and for me it got kinda boring after awhile, the multiplayer is great though and extremely fast paced, I've had matches last just over 10 minutes. It's definitely worth $20 and if you enjoy it you should also check out company of heroes, which plays a lot like DoW2, personally I think CoH is the better game.

Hm, good points.

its a great game, the multiplayer is fantastic and exciting and the new game mode "the last stand" is reallly fun, the campaign is also pretty good, its not a regular rts but its no rpg either