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Previous: >>526919645

Thanquol in 2026, most likely.

So the according to the ca discord 'leak' from April. Deleted by CA themselves on the CA discord. User was banned.

Slaanesh
>Dechala/Sayl the Faithless/Neferata
Styrkaar is the FLC lord.

Dogs of War FLC
>Borgio/Lucrezzia
Egrimm is the FLC lord for this FLC. Bonus FLC lord for Empire is Lumpin Croop.

Elves DLC
>Caradryan/Tullaris
Araloth is FLC.

Cathay vs Skaven DLC
>Li Dao/Thanquol
Yin-Yin is FLC. Monkey King is a hero for Grand Cathay.

Character Packs
>Ghark Ironskin/Glotkin/Moonclaw/Joseph Bugman/Naeith the Prophetess/Zacharias the Everliving/Lorenzo Lupo/Lord Mortkin
'Leaker' claims they are dividing into separate packs and has no idea who is going in what pack. Claims Red Duke FLC LL with Abhorash as a LH. Each character pack has no units at all and no legendary heroes. Hardly believable because it consists of eight lords and and one FLC LH and LL.

End Times themed DLC
>Valten/Vardek Crom/Nagash
Boris Todbringer is the FLC. Nagash is for Tomb Kings not his own race. There is narrative stuff being added to either do End Times path OR Storms of Chaos path.

>>527085335 (OP)
RICHARD ALDRIDGE BINDA DRAZH KAZAD!

>>527085530
Too good to be real.

>>527085530
CA deletes all posts that claim to be "leaks" on their discord, that means nothing.

>>527085335 (OP)
Be an elf person

BIG FUCKING CREATIVE ASSEMBLY LEAKED INFO (about the past)
Great Book of Grudges, Costin, Volound, any fucking shilltuber, I want you to squeeze some drama out of this because it's big - I WILL repost this in future threads if I don't see it discussed.

Rob reads a Warhammer Community article:
>if you've never done an article read with us before, we take this in turns and then we kind of talk about it, so (...):
>"It all started in 2018, when Creative Assembly [the video game studio behind the epic Total War: Warhammer trilogy] approached Games Workshop because they wanted to add more factions to the third title in the Total War series. They asked about Kislev first – which already had a fair amount of units described, and even designed – but a few of us got together and had fun concepting some new units. They came back to us in 2019 and asked if they could tackle Grand Cathay. With something so embedded in the background of the Old World, and yet so mysterious, we told them we’d need to design the whole thing ourselves to ensure it was accurate to the setting."
>Little bit that's left out of here: some Rob knowledge from inside the company: Creative Assembly came back for TW:WH3, Games Workshop said "no!" (now this is a story I heard very directly from a firsthand source) which is why Creative Assembly pivoted and went and made (hilariously) "Three Kingdoms" (...)
>so I think this timeline is a lie, and I think whatever it was... they did Three Kingdoms that did very well in China: Games Workshop obsessed with being bid in China, population 1.4 b people, burgeoning middle class (...).
>when they came back then Games Workshop were like: "WE need to design everything"
and CA was like "cool thanks for doing our work for us!"

Creative Assembly's decision to do Warhammer Cathay predates Three Kingdoms, which was only made because GW refused the Cathay project, and which was interrupted because GW later changed their mind.

>>527085530
>Neferata
Not likely. But we'll find out soon, right? Although the CA silence has been disturbing.

Thanquol soon, friends!

>>527086128

In summation:

- After Total War: Warhammer 2 Creative Assembly asked GW to do Cathay or there wouldn't be enough juice for a game 3
- Games Workshop said "no you can't do Cathay we forbid it"
- Creative Assembly sees no way to make a Warhammer 3, they need a new cash cow though
- Creative Assembly develops and releases Total War: Three Kingdoms
- Huge success in China
- Games Workshop is notoriously obsessed with penetrating the East Asian market
- Games Workshop change their mind and tell CA that old Cathay idea is now allowed
- Creative Assembly goes back to their original project of a Total War: Warhammer 3 with Cathay
- Cretaive Assembly makes Warhammer 3 and kills Total War: Three Kingdoms

(this is also noteworthy on the Warhammer tabletop side because 2019, the year of release of Three Kingdoms is when GW kills the Warhammer Legends compendium project for the Old World and begins officially the Old World tabletop project - right after the success of Total War: Three Kingdoms)

>>527085530
Apart from DoW being FLC(That will certainly be a low price dlc.) and Monkey King being a hero this is pretty believable.
>Aldridge himself said Norscan and Vampire fans will be very happy soon.
>DoW appeared on files a lot. And Engrimm will be tied to a dlc.
>CA pivoting back to "VS" dlcs makes sense for both time and costs for the smaller team.
>Character packs are guaranteed ez money.

>>527086258
CA being quiet so long is because they are setting up a massive surprise!

So what would neferata be? Where does she live? Is she a tomb king?

>>527086128
GW sounds like a shit partner to work with ngl

>>527086886
Neferata lives in the Silver Pinnacle, that ai vampire faction near Astragoth. She would definitely be a Vampure Counts lord, maybe with access to some tomb king units though - kind of like an inverse Arkhan.
She would get some kind of intrigue/manipulation type mechanic, likely remixed from mechanics we already have, such as changing of the ways, gifts of slaanesh, and shadowy dealings.
it has been forseen.

>>527087184
They've been infamous for that for a while, they will give out licenses easily but god forbid you want to do anything fun with that license because they have tons of conditions for doing anything,

Ev'ryone in this thread is jealous of Bretonnia and our most wondrous cavalry. Thy empires shall beest did crush und'rneath our boots.

>>527086886
>Vcount LL but probably will have access to TK units when you recapture Lahmia.
>She should be extremely fast on foot. She is faster than most elves in the lore.
>Catlady. So expect cat followes/anchillary.
>Has ties to Cathay and Cathayan vampires. She actually should have a unique Cathayan vampire LH. (Khalida also should have improved reletaions with Cathay btw, they were importing early gunpowder from there)
>Faction is heavily focused on heroes. You are supposed to send vampire ladies to human (and some elf) factions to manipulate them.

>>527087241
It does track with me since it follows the rework system they have of one heavy, one light, and one mostly untouched because slaanesh doesn't need a heavy rework and they already said norsca isn't changing much.

>>527089190
>they already said norsca isn't changing much.
lmao what? they desperately need a rework

>>527088782
Grail guardians/knights are still losing to Empire Gryphons btw.

>>527089396
Yond is empire propaganda.
Only idiots and daws wouldst believeth such sland'r.

>>527089357
>they desperately need a rework
No they dont. You capture Norsca -> capture any port you see -> capture some unique/resoruce settlements -> raze everything else for favor. Not every race needs billions of buttons to feel unique. Its the unga-bunga viking race.

CA said they will be adding more hunts and probably more rewards attached to them. Which is fine.

>>527089357
Ignore that anon. Norsca is getting changes. One big one is that each faction is getting their own mechanics to make them feel unique to each other.

best chorf lord? best hero combos?

>>527089981
that's good, i figured he was full of shit

legendary lords with ranged attacks who are good:
orion
sisters of twilight
ikit
malakai
markus
luthor harkon

legendary lords with ranged attacks who are shit:
alith anar
oxyotl

why does everyone say ranged lords are bad when the majority of them are good?

>>527090136
They usually aren't very good at the "ranged" part.

>>527090075
I like astragoth +2 bull centaurs and a castellan.

>>527090136
Orion: mid
Sisters of Twilight: actually pretty good
Ikit: not a ranged character, good at everything
Malakai: shit for a dwarf
Markus: shit
Luthor: mid
The real issue and what people are complaining about is generic characters though, Legendary lords are OP by design, so they are still good regardless. Generic ranged characters are (generally) trash unless they have some other abilities or something like that to compensate for their lack of damage or any real utility in battle.

>>527090092
I'm not. CA have never implied that norsca is getting anything major. Greenskins got new mechanics too and look how that turned out.

>>527090575
ogre hunters are good. waystalkers are good. engineers are good.

>>527090136
Markus is dogshit. Aleaf at least is fast and have that clone. Oxy is extremely deadly when you get his items.

>>527091694
markus has a net which is one of the strongest skills a character can have

>>527091680
Ogre Hunters are only good when they get a stonehorn
Waystalkers are shit
Engineers are only good for the army buffs, except for the imperial one when they get a steamtank

>>527091950
>markus has a net
Aranessa and fucking Elven maidens also has net ability, Not to mention light wizards. Its fucking nothing.

>>527092049
What a bunch of bullshit. Ogre hunters are the best early game SE sniper. Their javelin basically never miss.

Waystalkers fire homing arrows like all WE heroes.

Enginners are the most bullshit OP hero in the game, especially the hero version. They can get 2K missile strenght, while 360 shooting on a fast horse.

Death to those below 5'8

>>527092570
Ogre Hunters are mid at sniping, plus ogres don't really struggle with single entities to begin with. And by the time the ai fields a lot of single entities, you should have better ranged options by then anyways.
Waystalkers and engineers can't do anything that a ranged unit can't, there's only one of them shooting and having high missile strength doesn't really change that.

We have plenty of units with ramp-ups in the Warhammer trilogy, but where are the units with installs like Painted Ones in the historical titles? A few RORs have them but that's it.

>>527092183
aranessa is arguably a worse lord than markus and the net is the only thing good about her

>>527093983
Her perk that creates a faction-wide pirate economy is the best thing about her

>>527086886
pic

>>527089981
>>527090092
do you really need some flashy overpowered buff button to press every 5 turns to feel "unique"?

>>527094695
unironically yes

Rumor is the Canaanites will be declaring war on Elam shortly.
Or that Naggarond is going to bomb the chaos dwarves.

>>527086128
>>527086391
if true that'd check out what an anon suggested. I think. I forget the exact chain of things. Either way, it's interesting that this would suggest WH3 was in trouble without Cathay. I've started to suspect the inclusion of fantasy china was a major reason for it doubling (or more) sales over WH2/Wh1. Since otherwise it's Kislev (lol) and the daemons whose playstyles are much less easy to get into as Cathay and Empire are.

>>527086886
There's old lore that said that she never used uggo VC units. So no zombies, just skeletons

>>527094695
why are you playing warhammer if you don't want that? that and the flashy overpowered monsters are why people play these games

>>527095332
i play it because its the biggest total war game ever made with the most variety
overpowered shit just ruins the game because it removes any bit of challenge this game has

>>527085530
I thought the leak was "Slaanesh / Norsca / Helves" ?

Decided to do Belegars campaign
>semi rush K8P
>doing fine, had to pay off Sartosa to fuck off a bit
>turn 11
>Crooked Moon confederated Mutinous Gits
>crash course into Gorbad as I try and rush Akendorf
I feel like rushing didnt help

>>527086886
>Where does she live?
Silver Pinacle.
> Is she a tomb king?
More like a Vampire Count (but she will probably have access to some Tkings units, like Arkhan have access to some Vcounts units).

>>527095681
yeah, its variety is what faction with a button that you press every 5 turns to get a buff and overpowered monsters do you want to play. it has been that way since warhammer 2, anon.

that was a lot of fun using regening mortis units against zombie spams

>Alternative timeline
>GW said "no, no, NO" to Cathay
>TWW3 base (human) races are Kislev and Araby

>>527096381
it really hasnt until they had to start making more and more overpowered dlc units to sell

>>527096659
every faction having rites is straight from the base game of wh2, and each faction getting increasing flavors of op missile units or monsters is straight from wh2's dlcs.

>>527096474
Why did you spare 1?

>>527096861
somehow the battle was ended before ghorst fully died to army losses

>>527096598
Thank God I don't live in this alternate timeline.

>>527096792
>wh2
>press button to get a small discount on units or a shitty ancillary maybe even bonus loot from battle
>wh3
>press button to turn your artillery into double damage magic artillery or summon more and more overpowered heroes into your stack to make sure timmy cannot possibly lose
these are not the same and ikit claw who was the most overpowered bullshit put into the game back then is now middling at best

>>527097552
But it would means instead of Dragons siblings we got Djinns siblings with a brown Miao called "Yasmin".

>>527097625
>>wh2
>>press button to get doomstack of SEM dinosaurs on turn 15
perfectly balanced as all things should be

>>527098365
i somehow doubt you got 10k on turn 15 as lizards

Total War vs A Total War Saga

Latest Legend Lore?

>>527096598
The Araby Merchant-Empire aesthetic is immaculate. I really hope we see them one day. We need more morally neutral factions who put gold before everything. Even the ogres don't feel like this with their maw obsession.

25th Anniversary = ???

All they had to do was expand the map out east a bit, add Ogres, add Chorfs, revamp Chaos, add Demons and call it a day. wtf.

>>527100102
bald

>>527100553
>east
you mean southeast right?

I think that it is really cool that Creative Assembly is redoing Throgg's voice lines.

25 years to the day...
there better be news...

>>527101235
Publishers: Electronic Arts
That would be one hell of a timeline.

>>527101193
No, they are meaning skipping Cathay and the east entirely

I can't wait for my:
Blood Knights (Swords and Shields)
Bolt Thrower (Hobgoblin)

>>527102254
Swordsmen (No Shields)

>>527102254
absolute game changers

I find it funny how some argue if Nagash is too strong when Archaon was in the first game and Slaan are in the second, and they're vastly more powerful than most of the LLs.

>>527102463
it's just CA cope, no one actually believes that

>>527102356
>Jade Warriors (No Shields)

>>527102254
Genuinely, yeah. All the vamp units they've added have been asked for since WH1, I don't get this level of bitching that they're adding units people have wanted in the patches between DLC releases.

>>527102463
Given how Archaon is supposed to be the strongest Everchosen and the guy who succeeds in blowing up everything, adding previous Everchosens via flashback missions, non-canon multiplayer-only or some excuse just like how many TW LLs are canonically dead in WHFB wouldn't upset any power balance. Same for big name living backstory characters like Grimnir too.

>>527102789
it's great that they're adding more sidegrades, for me personally the issue is that:
It's too late for anything like this and they should have started a long time ago (this also applies to other game updates and flc content), but, better late than never
They also market it like they're whole new units, or otherwise make a big deal out of it but that's just CA they do that for everything
I just find it more annoying than anything, it's still a good thing overall

>Enter a couple minor diplomatic arrangements with Arkhan because he's stomping west africa
>CA hits him with the lobotomy ray
>Local minor factions team up to eat him alive
Sorry, old man. Should have known better than to ally with the player.

>>527103181
In all fairness, they didn't market them at all. They just mentioned offhand in a blog that they were adding them
Once we get some actual 6.2 news they'll probably "market" it though

>>527103181
They are new units, unless you're willing to say Empire spearmen and swordsmen are the exact same unit. I have no problem with them not creating new assets for the new units in the interim patches. Also I don't get the complaint with "marketing" them as new units. The patches they release are free, they're not trying to entice you into buying anything, they're just trying to point out the main new things in each new patch.

>>527103321
When I have a trusted friend with tons of positive attitude towards me, I always refuse all treaties - that way they remain strong healthy and friendly.
Unless I need an outpost

https://youtu.be/-wN0zM9gp-s?si=d4q259Zu7EWQTqOR&t=499
>2 kinds of rework for Norsca; racial rework and factions rework
>Racial rework: reworked Monstrous Arcanum; updated the way Chaos God allegiance work; expanding Confederation dilemmas; new Hunts in Monstrous Arcanum
>Factions rework: port to port transport for Wulfrik with his ship; something not clear about Throgg and gaining Troll and monster power; voice lines reworked for Wulfrik and Throgg

>>527103738
they're not new units but they're not the same either, that's what makes them sidegrades. which again isn't a bad thing it's just something that CA sucked their own dick about the last time they did it and this kind of thing should not be encouraged with them, they get complacent way to easily

>>527103854
Kind of crazy that they're not renaming the faction, and by the end of this game we'll still have factions like the Mung, Yusak and Sayl's tribe classified as "Norscan" yelling "NORSCA!" by the end turn.

I mean when they spoke about doing new voice acting for the faction, I thought that'd be the first thing to re-do.

>>527104181
I don't think they can't change the name of a DLC in store since at least 10 years.

>>527085530
>no Cathay content until 2028 at this rate
guess I got time to play Miao again

>>527105078
Maybe that's it, even though the DLC at the store sells you Throgg and Wulfric, aka truly it'd still be the "Norsca" DLC that unlocks some Northern tribes but not others like Sayl's tribe.

>>527085530
i thought the guy said it was araloth vs tullaris dreadbringer with caradryan flc with skycutters?

>>527093006
>the fucking bats killed no one

>>527106976
The only dwarf units bats can kill is artillery crew.

what's the best skaven legendary lord for starters? im going with Lord Skrolk since magic is op in warhammer

>>527107280
Ikit or throt, skrolk sucks.

>>527107280
Queek notoriously has an easy start because he's next to Karak Eight Peaks and gets many bonuses for it

>>527107280
Skrolk is a good spellcaster and is also good at spreading plagues, but the problem is that he starts in fucking Lustria and has to deal with Skulltaker and Gor'Rok early on, it can be difficult if you don't know what you're doing
Tretch also has a difficult start but is also the weakest Skaven lord
Eshin is the easiest Skaven campaign but also punishes you for using non-eshin units so not the best if you want to try out the roster
Throt is very strong but also faces strong enemies, it has a monster lab mechanic which can be fun
Ikit is the most broken lord, because he buffs the best Skaven units and also gets nukes
Queek is the most vanilla Skaven campaign

>decide to start another Epirus campaign in EB2
>send spy into Sparta to try and get open gates
>spy dies
>quit campaign

>>527107280
I'd unironically say the Eshins are the best. They have some of the most skaveny skaven in the game, and are busted.

so tamurkhan is a fucking maggot

>>527109124
He's one letter away from becoming a notorious Ogre Maneater

what a mag

>>527096598
>>527097552
>they release kislev and araby and start filling in everything in between since the map went vertical instead of horizontal
>southern realms DLC with estalia, border princes, and tilea
>dogs of war DLC
>neferata/vampire/tomb king DLC combo
>still get chorfs in the wastes
Sounds like we got fucked over. I'd take that over the retarded high fantasy mulan shit we got with WH3's kislev and cathay. God forbid they would have kept it gritty and grounded like other human factions.

>>527109868
Muslims would never let Araby be gritty anon, if they'd even let it exist at all, China enforcing sensitivity teams is nothing compared to Muslims likely firebombing CA for including an Arabic faction at all. At the least they'd be cutting Allah and at that point they're doing as much whitewashing as Cathay.

think not about what could have been, think instead about what we now have

>>527110308
They're not *that* gritty is the thing.
Yeah they're slavers, yeah they worship Tzeench, but they're technically order aligned. They're basically human druchii but instead of Slaanesh it's Tzeench

https://community.creative-assembly.com/total-war/total-war-warhammer/forums/8-general-discussion/threads/6189-stop-chaos-content-for-two-years-and-half-we-have-too-much-chaos-ca?page=1

>>527111116
What a complete fucking moron that guy is.

>>527110308
just make them based on pre-islamic arabs with djinns and aladdin shit.

>>527111441
>Ind, Kush, and Amazons: I think this race should come in a 3 in one race pack. 1 LL for Amazons, 1 LL for Ind, and 1 LL for Kush. This would bring very interesting choices to play.
He makes a good point, i too am sick of chaos and would rather a triple race pack with unique rosters that ca would need to make from scratch. Just think of what a kino dlc we'd get 5 years from now instead of more chaos shite.

Do you guys think Morathi will get a pity update or no for Slaanesh?

>>527112286
no they're saving Morathi's update for the Dark Elves rework

>>527112228
>3 new races with that require 15+ units like the other races sold in one pack together;.
You are the retard that made that post aren't you? Are you 12? Like CA said Legendary lords barely take any time at all. It is units that take up almost all their time.

Everyone is expecting them to at least open up Ind with the DLC patch right? It is the correct lore place for Dechala and opens up the area for Li Dao's DLC since he directly borders Ind with his capital.

>>527114331
I could see them doing Li Dao for the 3rd. Later we get Monkey King in Kurresh with Yinyin as FLC.

>>527086453
>Monkey King being a hero this is pretty believable.
I don't think Monkey King being a LL is believable. Especially since it would require them to move Balthazar Gelt and Helman Ghorst otherwise he would be able to attack both on turn 1.

>>527114331
If they don't do it now, they're never going to do it

>>527114558
Monkey king would start in Kurresh, with the beastmen down there, and would march north.
At the same time, Li Dao is in Ind dealing with that shit.

>>527114331
They kinda hint towards that, but it could be just a coincidence.

I think Monkey King is too big to be a LH, especially since he fucked every dragon in the ass and took control of Cathay, he even had Eshin clan rat advisor.

>>527115064
>specially since he fucked every dragon in the ass and took control of Cathay
Not how it happened at all. The siblings were having a civil war trying to kill each other. Monkey King literally just walked into the capital and took over and ran it without a fight. It took the siblings hundreds of years to even notice he was there. When they did notice they stopped fighting and then Li Dao beat him in a one on one fight and Monkey King fled back to his mountains. Right after that father returned pissed at the siblings.

>>527115064
The Monkey king will not be forced to work under some random cathay general when he has waged war on Cathay aganist the dragon kids with his own race of apemen. He'll be a LL and may bring a single apeman generic lord choice with him but he may be solo

CA needs to go back to the 1 vs 1 format of Warhammer II when things were much quicker.

Format of Warhammer II DLC:
>2 races
>no legendary hero
>Either generic lord or hero(not both)
>3 units

Warhammer III formula
>3 races
>3 legendary heroes
>Generic lord AND hero
>5 units each

You can see why it takes significantly longer for DLC. The 5 unit thing is also preventing certain races like High Elves from getting other DLC because they don't have 5 units left. Need to go back to the old formula so Lizardmen and High Elves can each get one last DLC. This would also make it possible for monogods to get another DLC as well. Dwarves too.

Or maybe they can do a new formula. One race gets the Warhammer II formula while the other one gets the Warhammer III formula. That way you could get a DLC with Cathay getting 5 units vs High Elves getting 3 to finish their roster.

>>527116696
they already tried to do the warhammer ii way with shadows of change 1.0. everyone got pissed because of the price increase because they added 3rd races to it. like originally it was only going to be a 4-5 month wait between dlcs with that but everything got messed up afterward.

>>527116128
No, that anon was much closer, you just wrote that fanfiction to defend Cathay's honor for some reason. Here is the actual sequence of events according to CA themselves: https://web.archive.org/web/20211026073015/https://www.totalwar.com/blog/total-war-warhammer-3-grand-cathay-lore/

>The most tumultuous time in Grand Cathay’s history came when a combination of invasions of Chaos from the North and the Monkey King from the South, alongside a four-century disappearance of the Dragon Emperor and the Moon Empress, nearly led the Empire to ruin. Then, more than any other time, the natural competition between the Emperor’s children reached its peak, and Grand Cathay was essentially divided into warring states. This allowed the Monkey King to take power and claim dominion over the Empire, an act heinous enough to galvanize the warring siblings into once again putting aside their differences to fight for their father’s throne. At the key moment, the Emperor and Empress returned and helped to defeat the Monkey King, who fled South. Little is known of him or his fate.

So the Monkey King did conquer his actual section of Cathay and it was enough to claim dominion over all of Cathay, the siblings had to unite to defeat him, and even then it was only the return of the Emperor and Empress that pushed them over the edge to defeating the Monkey King.

>>527116895
The problem with shadows of change 1.0 was the absurd price increase compared to wh2. 1 more race doesn't warrant a more than a 100% price increase, no one would have had a problem if it was 15 bucks instead

>>527096598
pröööö :D

I told AI to make final DLCs for Warhammer Total War III. With the following conditions. Pick a 3rd race that makes sense for Tides of Torment. Dogs of War plus either 3-4 DLCs afterwards. Legendary hero for all races in all dlcs. FLC LL with all DLC releases. Neferata and Nagash must be paid DLC. Red Duke, Egrimm, and Boris Todbringer must all be FLC LLs. At least 2 of the Elvish races must get DLC and the other at least a FLC. Thanquol must either be FLC or paid DLC. Empire must get at least more DLC. Cathay must get at least 1 DLC and Li Dao and Yin-Yin must be playable LLs and Monkey King either a lord or hero. No more monogod DLCs after Tides of Torment, Chaos Dwarves, Greenskins, Ogres, Kislev, Bretonnia, or Vampire Coast DLC. This is what it came up with.


"Tides of Torment":
Slaanesh: Dechala (LL), Masque of Slaanesh (LH)
Norsca: Sayl the Faithless (LL), Beorg Bearstruck (LH)
Vampire Counts: Neferata (LL), Abhorash (LH)
FLC: Styrkaar (Slaanesh)

"Dogs of War":
Dogs of War: Borgio the Besieger (LL), Lucrezzia Belladonna (LL), Marco Colombo (LL), Mydas the Mean (LH)
FLC: Red Duke (Vampire Counts)

"Elven Enmity":
Wood Elves: Araloth (LL), Scarloc (LH)
High Elves: Caradryan (LL), Korhil (LH)
Dark Elves: Tullaris Dreadbringer (LL), Kouran Darkhand (LH)
FLC: Naieth the Prophetess (Wood Elves)

"Eastern Empires and Vermin":
Grand Cathay: Li Dao (LL), Monkey King (LH)
Empire: Valten (LL), Luthor Huss (LH)
Skaven: Thanquol (LL), Skweel Gnawtooth (LH)
FLC: Boris Todbringer (Empire)

"Legends of the End Times":
Warriors of Chaos: Vardek Crom (LL), Kordel Shorgaar (LH)
Tomb Kings: Nagash (LL), Prince Apophas (LH)
Grand Cathay: Yin-Yin (LL), Shi-Hong (LH)
FLC: Egrimm van Horstmann (Tzeentch)

whats longma

>>527125774
celestial dragon deez nuts across yo face

>>527125707
What's the point of this post?

Huh, looks like Mice has finished his mod.

>Bretonnia and Tomb King factions are allies for some reason

>>527131812
They both really hated Repantsu?

>>527085530
>Araloth is FLC.
it doesnt make sense to release a FLC lord for a DLC faction

>>527085530
>Dogs of War FLC
Too based to be true

>>527131291
I did.
It fucking sucked.

If Aslinn is the third lord, what mechanics would he have? I wouldn't mind a lord focused on taking control of the elven colonies and collecting resources like a spice trade.

>>527133701
>Aislinn
>what mechanics would he have
Racism.

>>527133701
Yohohoho an elgi's pirate life for me

>>527085530
Actually, that Discord Leak is flimsier than the other:

>>524774059
>>524776648
>>524778264

Also noteworthy that nobody took a screenshot and people are going off of memory

>>527133821
ah ffs here are the archived links

https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/524743758/#q524774059

https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/524743758/#q524776648

https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/524743758/#q524778264

Today's the day!

>>527134524
the day that what

>>527134838
Yin-Yin reveal.

>>527134838
Medieval 2 remaster.

>rimworld releases unstable version, DLC in a month
>bannerlord releases shokuho, DLC in autumn
Comon CA, step it up.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BwXw7a9gchA

>>527135559
Did the Rome Remaster change/fix much from the original game?

>>527132137
Drycha was FLC.

>>527136115
In toggleable options, yeah. Made the AI less schizophrenic in diplomacy, lets them disband units, adds merchants from Medieval 2, adds night battles and fire arrows from Barbarian Invasion, etc.

>>527136402
I have neither the first nor the second game, which do you recommend getting in the steam sale? I've heard Rome 2 has more depth than the original, but I've also heard it's still a bit buggy in places.

>>527133701
Pretty sure he got disconfirmed in the Sayl video when the guy said they won't make any legendary lord that has no tabletop miniature to base a model on.

>>527136115
It made Thrace playable without editing the .ini file and Parthia playable from the get-go, thus fixing the greatest flaw of the original game

>>527136469
The opposite is true, the original Rome is actually deeper than the original in some ways. However you probably should get Rome 2 because it's a lot more familiar to fans of the newer games and less janky overall, plus it just has much more content with all the DLC Rome 2 got. If you do want a lot of depth there's always the Divide et Impera mod as well.

>>527136093
>Shane GIllis plays total war
I knew he was based.

>>527136332
don't you need one of the WE DLCs to play her?

>>527136572
*deeper than Rome 2 in some ways

>>527136614
Yes, kinda like how you needed to own Warhammer 1 in Warhammer 2 to play Thorek who was FLC in Warhammer 2.

>>527136093
Why do zoomer videos have giant subtitles on them?

>>527136572
Alright cheers, I haven't really found a consensus on which one is 'better', it sounds like they're both good but just different.

>>527136973
ADHD

>>527136973
Zoomer videos are clips from podcasts, where people talk over each other, cough, laugh, and slur their words because they speak for 6 hours straight at 4 am.
Subtitles are needed.
They're big because phone screens.

>>527137189
Very different, yes, and both have glaring flaws and strengths. Rome 2 just has so many culture and campaign DLCs that the likelihood of finding something that clicks with you is higher.

https://news.totalwar.com/wh3-620-dev-blog

>>527138618

have any of you completed a Teclis campaign on vh/legend?
the initial enemy i kill in two turns then recruit until turn 4 when the fateweaver flips one of my towns, if it flips to fateweaver i restart if it goes to nurgle i continue. if i dont restart i have to declare on fateweaver early and he just keeps teleporting armies over to me or just sailing, while i deal with that the skaven declare on me and it takes too long to remove them from the game while defending agaisnt the fateweaver with one army.
if it goes to nurgle i take it back and kill the skaven, their province is huge taking at least 20 turns to take it all compleatly. the skaven armies will be in underway stance and you cannot catch them so they will retake the settlements you have to work your way back through the province after taking the last settlement as they will have recaptured some.
by this point fateweaver will have declared war on you and will take one or two of your starter towns, there may also be a rebellion in your capital with skaven and fateweaver shagging everything. once you deal with this and kick them all out the next logical step would be to take out fateweaver however its chaos wastes and high elves have no anti attrition stance nor can you reliably replenish units in the wastes. you can take out the town with a port but anything else seems unreasonable as you have a depleted army and the ai will field more armies than you can, the slanesh faction will also declare on you. what ends up happening is that one of the lizardmen factions wipes fateweaver out for you and the next enemy is the savage orcs.
wurzag will have at least 6 armies all with waaahgs against your two.
the diplomacy mechanic does nothing on vh/ledge am i supposed to be using sealanes to go find people who will trade so i can support more armies?

>>527138618
IT'S REAL HOLY SHIT!
HAPPENING! 6.2 IS HAPPENING!!!!!!!

>>527138750
That one dude responsible for placeholders really needs to make easteregg unit card pack at some point.

>>527138874
Next week

Finally, Obsidian Lodestone isn't absolute shit anymore.

>>527138618
The item reworks do seem pretty good, I'm glad they're doing something about it because it's a big part of the game that most people seem to either ignore because of dogshit half the items in the game are or basically auto-pilot their way through.

6.2 is underwhelming, it's shit, SHIT! I DECREE THIS PATCH AS ABSOLUTE SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!

Blood Knights (weaker)

>>527139365
I'm not sure how useful they'll be

patch 6.2 is gonna be lit. Itty bitty litty patch committee.

>>527139159
I hope some of the banners get a bit fancier.

>>527139365
>>527139497
>basically Grail Knights with hunger + can be Nehek'd
>(weaker)

>>527103181
>It's too late for anything like this
how in the fuck is it ever "too late" to add free shit?

>>527139365
when they first mentioned them, i thought it would have been blood knights on foot

>>527140179
Thanks anon, now I can comfortably read all of it without leaving this thread

>>527140276
i aim to serve

Chorfs ALREADY can field very early artillery, how easy will it be to have these bolt throwers on turn 10?
They also seem a buff to Zhatan because he's both the hobgob guy and the artillery guy and this unit is both

>>527140254
Blood Knights (Sword & Shield)
not
Blood Knights (Dismounted) (Sword & Shield)

>>527140378
I'm kidding anon, I can not comfortably read all of it.

>>527140429
Tier 2 unit from hobgobbo chain. I think it will be usefull against Greenskins and Chaos shitters cavalry.

FLC blood knights is a confirmation that vampire counts are NOT getting an update any time soon.
Otherwise they would have added the unit to the update.
They even repeated multiple times after SoC that from now on they will try to stuff more updates into DLC instead of scattering it across time.

Blood Knights here means that there is no nearby DLC in sight to even consider adding the unit there.

>>527140715
Sad but probably true, al;though it is just a variant of an existing unit rather than a brand new one.

where my Blood Knights with Greatbows???

So no DLC news this week and probably not next week either.

>>527140715
Wrong, it simply means that the VC dlc isn't focused around Blood Dragon bloodline.

>>527140950
Nah, 2 weeks from now I'll be harvesting my crops, imagine where you will be, and it will be so.
THERE WILL BE BIG NEWS IN THE LAST WEEK OF JUNE!

>>527140715
goblins(swords)
orcs(spears)
nefertatas soon

>>527140715
You talk like Ogres didnt get slingers. Or Greenskins didnt get bunch of weapon variants before and after their dlc.

Actually, we getting free Blood Knights makes it more likely that 3rd race in ToT is Vcunts.

>>527133562
the mod or the process of making it?

>>527085530
>Lumpin Croop

>>527141301
>neffy pic
RELEASE HER

You can also let her have her fucktoy as well since Cathay is now in the game and fully fleshed out.

>>527133701
>If Aslinn is the third lord, what mechanics would he have?
A dragonship. Like the Vampire Coast have with their ships.

Krumpin Goon

>>527142964I think it turned out pretty well.
The latter half of making it was a slog; endless screenshot > crop > label and create masks.w
Plus doing anything in db just sucks the life out of me.
Hence the return to creating smut.; I'm rewarding myself after the drudgery.

>just a small town patch
>livin' in a lonely dlc interim

>not wanting Halflings

>>527144630
And let's not forget the rest of the stuff
>Halfling Foragers get fucking blunderbusses

Dis iz da greenest an bestest chant in da world...
Tribute.
Long time ago me and me mate Skarnsik here,
We was waaghing down a long and bloody road.
All of a sudden,
Therez shined a shiny daemon,
In da middle of da road,
An he sayz!
Play da bestest song in da world, or I'll eat your souls...
Well me an Skarsnsik,
We'z looked a each other,
And we each said,
Zog.
And we played da first thing dat came to our headz,
Just so happen ta be
The bestest chant in da world,
Itz waz da greenest chant in da world.
Look into ma mask and it's easy to see
Gork and Mork means waagh, Mork and gork also means waagh,
Itz waz destiny.
Once every hundred thousand years or zog
When da sun duz shine
And da bad moon duz glow and da mushroom duz grow.
Needless ta say,
The slaaneshi was stunned.
Whip-crack wen iz whippy tail,
And the daemon was done.
He asked us,
Be you tzeentchian?
And we said nah,
We'z just greenskins,
waagh!
Ah, ah, ah, oh, wo, a-yo!
Dis is not da greatest chant in da world, no.
Dis is just a tribute!
Couldn't remember da greenest chant in da world, yeah - no!
Dis is a tribute!
To da greatest song in da world,
Zoggit!
Itz waz da greatest song in da world,
Zoggit!
Dis is the bestest zoggin' chant, da greenest chant in da world oh!
And da weird thing is this me mates,
Da chant we chant on dat fateful night,
It didn't actually sound anything like dis chant!
Dis iz just a tribute!
You'z gotta believe me,
And I wish you wuz there,
Just a matter of opinion.
Ah, ah, oh!
Good Mork(or Gork),
Gotta waagh for dem,
I'm not so surprised to find ya can't stop dem!
Zoggit!
Zoggit!

>>527144630
>halflings on piggyback vs demons from hell
Seems a bit unfair

>another patch about magic items
Just remove them from the game already, I literally like do not care and I don't want to manage them

>>527144798
not reading all that
summarize your post into 1 word for me

>no reworks
>no FLCLL
>no FLCLH
CA please, put more than 3 people to work on TWW3

>>527144838
I like them and don't like them, managing them is a pain in the arse

>>527144151
>Plus doing anything in db just sucks the life out of me.
i spend more time making db edits than playing the game because its actually more enjoyable than the game itself

Anyone played a Wood Elf campaign with a focus on (non-dryad) melee infantry - eternal guard, wardancers, wildwood rangers, bladesingers?
How challenging is it? What's the best lord to do this with?
Unless I'm overlooking something there is no Wood Elf LL that buffs these units in particular.

40k waiting room

>muh technology
the absolute state of the Empire

>>527144957
Well, you're a stronger, or at any rate, more capable man than I.

>>527144151
What's the smut?

Reworking 800 items is a huge task. Not to mention new ones and I’m guessing mp balancing. 6.2 looks fine.
I’m playing a Kat campaign today, but then I’ll wait for 6.2 for my next.
So here’s a question. What LL has the best post-battle item % chance potential? The blog said they nerfed item chance baseline, but you can still minmax your chance to farm em’ if you want.

>>527146229
Vlad has +item drops as skill relatively early if I remember correctly.

The books of khorne look like a way for order factions to dedicate to the blood god. Which is interesting.

>>527144861
WAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>527145653
I'm quite far in with the Vampire Counts and taking on the empire and still using loads of skelly warriors, they don't seem to die and are doing alright, should I be replacing them with grave guard over time?

>>527103321
Does Aranessa have fish bones ?

>>527146704
A way to get marks of khorne for any mortal faction ?

>>527146858
Actually I say I'm quite far in, I'm not but I'm not at the beginning.

>>527146154
Digging out my old titty mod from the TWH2 days.
Some absolute madlad at Sofia left an entirely rendered naked female body in the release build.
People have been using it for nsfw stuff ever since.

>>527145653
>that many landships
Why isn't there a unit cap on them?

>>527147472
Empfags/redditors would spaz the fuck out if the empire actually had any kind of restrictions

>>527140715
Orc & Goblins get free units like 5 or 4 months before OoD.

>>527148058
CHADmpire living rent free inside your head

>>527148058

>>527146229
Zhao has a guaranteed item drop drom battles.

>You can now stack the same banners on a army
I don't know how i feel about this.

>>527144151
No Dreadfu ?

>>527149396
Some Dreadfu. I didn't make as many, snce the existing ones are already pretty strong designs.

>>527149396
you cannot improve perfection

>>527149882
Increasing her height and muscle mass.

>>527149882
She looks like she pegs Ostlander Sergeants.

>>527149714
>black haired dreadfu
it was your mod back in TWW2?

>>527149882
You cannot suffer in Naggaroth

>>527148058
Like Ratfags wouldn't piss and shid everywhere if their war machines randomly exploded like they are supposed to.

>>527149882
You can, by making her more annoying and tsundere.

>>527150231
Nope. I just had the texture lying around from kitbashing High Elves ealier this year.

Thoughts on merging two rare items into a unique item?

>>527150771
rare items are usually better

>>527150303
pretty sure they would take that as an offense

>>527150771
I like the gambling aspect of it. Plus by the time endgame rolls around, you're usually swimming in magical crap anyway.

Little question: Were they not interested in reworking ancillaries/followers? I had actually thought that was the purpose of patch 6.2.

>>527146858
Idk I'm playing Kemmler so I've varely used Grave Guard. My main stacks is mostly hexwraiths and Cairn Wraiths since Kemmler buffs them to insanity. My other stacks are quite random with a few GG thrown in to hold the line. if you can afford it sure go for the upgrade otherwise chaff works fine. Vamp Counts main damage dealers are spells and their lords anyway.

>>527086128
>I WILL repost this in future threads if I don't see it discussed.

parasocial beheavior

>>527151248
nothing wrong with parasocial behavior

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/zscdwwzf/old-world-almanack-a-short-history-of-cathay/

Article on chink lore for the upcoming army book if someone wants to skim for anything noteworthy
Nicer version of the Celestial Dragon Daddy artpiece at least

CATHAY
A
T
H
A
Y
https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/zscdwwzf/old-world-almanack-a-short-history-of-cathay/

>>527152043
Cathay is more fantasy Imperium than the Empire.

Yin-Yin sis ...

>>527152319
so she really is dead huh

>>527151213
They were also interested in reworking;
>Geomantic Web
>Corruption
>Bretonnia
>Sieges
They only managed to rework Kislev out of the blue. They were probably working on that since SoC 2.0 i think.

>>527152319
She's being hosted in Lothern. You know how the High Elves revere her.

>>527149882
Depends on if she has a fat musky and dripping futa cock under the armor or not. If not, she's not perfect yet.

>>527152319
So,I assume one of the orange ones is the fire dragon. What's the other guy's gimmick?

>>527152476
>Corruption
So what, no public order rework, no corruption rework? Just stupid fucking DLC?

Why not Nippon? Everyone loves Ninjas and Samurais..

>>527152803
With how wide CA is spreading their cheeks for China, you're never ever getting the notJapanese faction.

>>527152319
she's literally mentioned to be active in the article

>>527152803
Wouldn't be anywhere near different enough from Cathay to bother with, and they have even less to go on than they did for them

Do you think I'd have a chance with a benevolent dragon-blooded mommy?

>>527152319
Her province is to the East of Yuan Bo's.

>>527153183
You're getting vored

Drawchads, draw some kino!

>>527153027
I don't read, I just look at the pictures

Please draw more of Yin-Yin.

Draw Yin-Yin voring anon

>>527152319
The blog says she's active during that timeline and her province isn't being shown. Who knows maybe she's invading a race/faction that doesn't have an army book or something. If GW showed that she's in Nippon for example the fanbase would sperg out that NIPPON CONFIRMED!!!!111ONEONEONE.

>Together they have nine children, and Cathay begins to grow into a proper empire. This number is deliberate, as it reflects certain Chinese myths. We know of five of the children who are currently active in the world: Miao Ying, the Storm Dragon; Zhao Ming, the Iron Dragon; Yuan Bo, the Jade Dragon; Yin-Yin, the Sea Dragon; and Li Dao, the Fire Dragon. Two more are named yet dead or missing: Shiyama, the Spirit Dragon, who guards the underworld, and Shen-Zoo, who is lost in the Chaos Wastes.
CathayCHADS win again.

A content creator said that he was optimistic about the future of Total War.

>>527152043
Lots of chinawank going on in TOW apparently. What little dark bits of Cathay we get in TWWH3 seem to be whitewashed completely

>>527153742
they teased the return of playable lizardmen in a previous article so might be a yin-yin presence in lustria again

>>527153949
As it should be. Praise China!

>gorbad 28 turns in
>strength rank #1 elapath with 12 settlements dows me
>i'm her only enemy
Uh oh

>>527138874
nooo my cheats

>Yes the Jade-Blooded Vampire existed in Cathay
>No we can't show them becaus CCP don't allow "body horror"

>>527154189
You’re fucking gorbad. It should be impossible to do poorly.
Shame I really hate the black crag start position.

>>527150608
does she do the dreadfu voice or the kerillian voice for that?

Two questions:
1. What will the eight book of Khorne provide when merged?
2. Can followers of Khorne even read?

>>527153183
I guess dragon-blooded gun-lady is our next Cathay Lord or Hero.

>>527155717
It's their favorite pastime activity between murdering sessions.

>>527155717
Books of Khorne actually only have pictures.

>>527154732

https://news.totalwar.com/total-war-25-years

>>527156536
>Total War: 25th Anniversary Showcase, the first video presentation of its kind in our history. Taking place in early December, this show will unveil the new games that you can expect to play in the near and distant future

>>527156536
>Patch 6.2 arrives next week with a focus on Magical Items, the forthcoming Tides of Torment DLC will reveal its final playable faction in July, and some long-awaited content will be unveiled at the anniversary showcase.
No trailer this month confirmed

>From August, we'll look back at our rich history of releases, before ending the year with some exciting new project announcements.

>>527156536
>Roger Collum, Vice President of Total War
That's a hell of a title

>>527156656
>near
- remaster?
>distant future
- next trilogy?

>>527156898
Medieval 2
40k

Are you optimistic about the future of Total War?

>>527157103
If they hurry up and ditch fantasy and make something else

TW 40k announcement in december bros

>>527157164
But you already have Pharaoh

>No TWW40K reveal before December

Do you think that they will release additional FLC content this year for Warhammer 3?

Is flanking immunity as good as I think it is (for non single entity units)

>>527157436
The most common theory is that they'll release DoW FLC faction since lots of their units and mechanics are already in the game one way or another which would be fine by me.

>>527156536
They laid off hundreds of employees for this?

>long awaited warhammer 3 content announced in december
What we thinking?
My money is on red duke/todbringer if flc or thanquol/nagash if dlc

>>527157103
Probably not gonna buy 40k, but it's gonna make a fucking mint, which in turn will hopefully get Sofia the chance to create something within an actually reasonable time frame.

>>527157738
Leaning towards them releasing Todbringer and/or Red Duke.
Announcing the End Times is definitely another possibility.

>>527157738
End Times super dlc.

>>527156738
> and some long-awaited content will be unveiled at the anniversary showcase.
NAGASHGODS??

>>527157738
whatever is the most underwhelming garbage that no one cares about, it's going to be that

>>527156738

>>527157738
Horse armour

>>527156536
>July just for the reveal of the 3rd faction
Jesus.....

>>527157436
Like the free units or you are hoping for some characters ?
or are you delusional about a free race ?

>>527157308
I want another history game and maybe 40k

Turn 51, ANOTHER 5th GEN!?!?!?
Is it weighted against me since I am playing Tehen?

>>527157103
I find myself burning out in a true sense of WH3.
If the next really is 40k, I doubt it’ll hold me captive for a decade the same way fantasy did. I also care little for 40k as a whole compared to fantasy.
How do I ‘feel’ about the future tho?
Fine, I suppose. w/e the next game is, its gonna launch like shit because that’s the only way CA launches games, but I think WH3 pre-IE/post-SoC + Hyenas was the bottom of CA’s low, and they sorta realize they gotta take this shit seriously.

>>527157860
Probably.
Is that guy who cosplayed Toddy still a thing or did he get caught doing Youtuber crimes?

>>527158096
I didn’t even know it went past 4th gen.

Do we even trust modern day CA to make a good Medieval 3?

>>527157613
He is in!

>>527158348
I don't trust modern day CA to make a good game, period.

>>527158348
I don't trust any modern developer to make a game that isn't a massive pile of shit on launch at least.

>tides of torment only in July
>next TW reveal only in December

>>527156839
>roger collum announcing the next total war title

I thought that the video dev blog would be in late June.
Did CA lie to us?

>>527158238
I have seen it go to third, not sure if 2nd is possible though - since I am pretty sure they are all mythic Slann like Mazda.

>>527158720
Blogs of Delay. Nagash would clap.

>>527158838
2nd is possible

>lord kroak
>is a frog
>frogs croak
>is dead
>because to croak is slang for dying
>GET IT??!?!
I fucking hate liggers so fucking much fucking reddit faction

>>527158096
they should let you pick traits for special lords like that
SFO does it with bloodline vampires and its very easy to implement, the lord starts at level 2 and you can pick one out of four skills

>promise to pick up the pace
>actually down to 1 lord pack in a year

>>527159362
I don't get it

>>527156536
Nothingburger
Idk why can't CA communicate more
At least give more info about DLC, I'm not even asking for FLC or anything for anniversary. Just stop being so slow communiaction was never this bad not even during the initial WH3 drought.

>>527159512
Croak = die
Lord Kroak = dead

>>527159530
Yeah the fuck it was nigga.
They’re still slow as fuck but nothing will ever be worse than the pre-wh3 droughts.

>>527156536
>dlc info in july
alright release is confirmed for august 7th to compete with endless legend 2 launch
sega probably told them to delay the release until then

>>527159362
>Ratfags larping as oldfags once again...
Meanwhile the pride painted skaven have their own subreddit.
We have seen it posted here during failed raids. Now, fuck off.

>>527159375
>he doesn't know

Sofia is working on two DLCs at the same time.

I would really like for sofia to spend their time to fix this fucking game.

>>527159901
>someone shits on reddits favorite race le heckin wholesome dinorinos?
>RATFAG RATFAG RATFAG WAAAHHH
Get new material.

>>527160024
3, actually

>>527160107
Touched a wee nerve eh, Ratfag?

>>527155675
I mean it's the same voice actress.
Kerillian uses her standard Shade voice lines with the Dreadlady costume.

>>527160303
3 dlcs?
At this time of holiday seasons?
Localised in a tiny company?

May I see them?

>>527160471
Stay tuned!

>>527160024
>>527160303
Now that faction DLCs can be bought separately by Lord, technically them working on Tides of Torment is working on 3 DLCs

>>527160471
Dechala the Denied
Sayl the Faithless
_____ the _____

>>527161006
Aislinn the Sealord

I'll say this again
Next Historical: Total War Renaissance period
Next Fantasy: 40k
Both of these with plans to expand them massively for years to come just like Warhammer fantasy.

>>527160107
this is a ligger thread. go back falseflagging furry

>>527161135
>Total War Renaissance
That'd be kino

>>527161006
Neferata the Slut
Yin-Yin the Retarded

>only one DLC this year
ALL IS LOST
At least the ancilliary rework looks nice, but where in the warp are the unusual locations? They're only for order factions right now, and not even all of them.

>>527161323
Plans have changed.
We were promised Nagash as 100th lord and look what we got. Some literally who lord instead.

>>527161282
They have plans to expand it towards medieval times and towards empire times as well,

>>527161481

BIG NEWS FOR THE 25 YEAR ANNIVERSARY:

>We hope you’re excited for the future.
>Happy anniversary to you all

IM SO EXCITED, LOOK AT ALL THIS NEW INFO

>>527161481
>We were promised Nagash as 100th lord
No we weren't

>eight books of khorne
I hope we get more special items like that on the future, the sword of khaine and nemesis crown are cool

https://community.creative-assembly.com/total-war/total-war/blogs/73
>Happy anniversary!
>silence
So CA is about to be laid off and the IPs sold off, right

>>527161970
It is cool but they didn't really detail what exactly the books would provide.

>>527157376
wait until all warhammer 3 dlc is out, then they will work full time on 40k

They are announcing total warhammer 4, it will be named Total War Warhammer Fantasy

>>527161747

>>527162142
Nah, we have 4 more years of TWW3, after which we get Total War: Warhammer - The Old World.

khorne books are full of evil pictures

>>527162229
>back to white guy studios
Did SEGA just show up, fire all the women, and leave?

Are the Infernal Ironsworn that much better than the Infernal Guard that they warrant their own seperate recruit cap?

>>527162512
Nah they de-transitioned

>>527162586
They are what Ironbreakers are to Longbeards. Have you checked their stats?

>>527162512
That is Sofia CA. Not enough indians and fat chicks to be UK CA

>>527162229
When is this anniversary?

>>527162860
Next year.

>>527162860
December

>>527162423
>>527161970
>Implying Khorne can read

>>527162052
I have a reliable leak. Stat bonuses only apply to the equipper of course. Legend said:
>1st book - +5 melee defense, +5 armour, -5 public order (Factionwide)
>2nd book - +3 armour, +5% spell resist, also -10% income (all provinces)
>3rd book - +8 charge bonus, also -10% post battle loot (all armies)
>4th book - +8% spell resist, also -10 growth (all provinces)
>5th book - provides flaming attacks, +1 melee attack, -15% magic drop chance
>6th book - causes fear, -10 melee defense (all armies)
>7th book - causes terror, -10 armour (all armies)
>8th book - poison attacks, -8 winds of magic per turn (all armies)
IF you get them all, you get a single (one) item that provides +8 leadership , spell resistance, melee attack AND causes terror!

There is a deceiver in our midst.

>>527162423
>>527161970
>Implying Khorne can read

>Legend said

>Legend said

>>527163105
>"I have a reliable leak"
>8 separate items
>when we already know it's 4 items of 2 books each
Tzeenchian begone

>"And What’s Next will return at the end of June with a look at our third and final faction for Tides of Torment. "
https://community.creative-assembly.com/total-war/total-war-warhammer/blogs/70-total-war-warhammer-iii-dev-chat-on-norsca-and-tides-of-torment-design-what-s-next
>the forthcoming Tides of Torment DLC will reveal its final playable faction in July,
https://community.creative-assembly.com/total-war/total-war/blogs/73

>>527163653
So release isn't until August at the earliest?

>>527163653
We have been betrayed.

>>527162229
the lack of diversity is troubling, this picture is clearly a Nazi dogwhistle
I'm contacting reddit as we speak, we'll replace those chud incels with diverse women and indians of color soon

>>527163653
There's a clear contradiction in this territory! You should remember to PRESS the witness whenever you need their testimony expanded, and if you find a contradiction, PRESENT evidence. But really what the fuck, you're right, we were meant to get a vid this month

Legend said Total War has some fun games

>faction reveal every two months
>don't show anything in-game
>don't even show in-game models for all the roster reveals
>don't even reveal the full rosters
Future of CA soon?

Volound said "toehul wah is billshit", what that means

>>527163582
They pivoted from 4 to 8, and back to 4 and then to 8, and back to 4 again. Poetic, like that Hobbit book from JRR Tolkien. The leak was completely correct, by the time we get them next week it may be back to 8, who knows?

>mod adds ridiculously overblown amounts of smoke
Guess I'm playing another Sartosa campaign.

>>527164097
Unrelated but reminds me when I used to use the muzzleloader in theHunter, a hunting sim
>shoot deer
>huge cloud of smoke
>no idea where the fuckers gone because you couldn't see it run away

>>527158087
GRIM.

>>527164097
Early guns did that but I don't think just 4 gunnermanii are enough to do that

>>527164303
There were slightly more.

At this point I feel that the support for TWW3 and TW as a whole is so poor out of spite.

>>527164363
Ok that's plenty enough

>>527158087
>DLC wont be released until after I get back from a convention in September

Are they going to announce a new Total War game this month also could it be Total War Three Kingdoms 2?

>ancillary AND magic item rework is actually just the magic items and its minor shit and only 5 new one added
pivotbros???

>>527164495
>a new Total War game this month
Lol
Lmao

>>527164389
They're clearly just scaling back because they've moved most of the devs to new projects.

>>527164601
Pretty sure that the guy on the right is a card game streamer. I am guessing that the other 2 are Total War content creators.

>C.A
>ending TWW3
>before any other TW title being released to make cash

>>527164495
Yes, they'll also announce Medieval 3, Empire 2, Shogun 3, Rome 3 and remasters of all TWs older than 10 years.

>>527164853
They're kept afloat by the UK government, not sales

>>527164601
>Listen kid, I don't have much time
>The third DLC race i-

6 more months :)

>>527158348
no but i can make enough mods for it to be decent atleast

>>527164495
The only likely new thing is 40k. After that it could be anything.

>>527164853
CA went back to Rome 2 DLC after Attila underperformed, they absolutely will not abandon WH3 if they need it for revenue no matter how much they may want to

Your reaction when Thanquol and Warhammer 40K are revealed on the same day?

>>527165408
He really was the herald of the end times.

>>527165408

>>527165285
that was sofia

>>527152319
>they actually squatted Yin-Yin
not like this...

>>527164601
Yeah I’m not crazy then where were the ancillary changes? The item changes were by no means minor though and the new book hunting sounds fun.

>>527165408

Isn't it crazy that CA is having its own gaming show?
Warhammer 3 DLC
New Fantasy Total War game
New Historical Total War game

It all seems too good to be true

>>527152319
Who the fuck is Xen'Yang?

>>527165583
Read the article

>>527165256
If it's 40K I want to do either the Imperial fist the Wolves of Space Wolves planet ramble planet or the chaos option I am Alpharius Legion and if alien the Farsight Enclaves.

>>527165647
The Dragon Emperor

>>527165847
Well if he is so great why isn't he in the game?

>>527165992
he's old and tired, just let the old man sit down for a while

>>527164097
>Overblown
>Anon discovers blackpowder firearms
People REALLY do not understand how big of a deal smokeless powder is. Imagine the clusterfuck WW1 would have been without it. Entire battalions surrounding each other, firing and killing their own troops due to confusion.
Like the Austrians did when they thought the Turks were attacking and wiped themselves out overnight.

Then again I am pretty sure blackpowder lacks the gas and explosive power to make automatic and semi autos function. We might have been stuck on bolt actions indefinitely...

>>527165992
He's napping.
Like all ancient dragons he has to sleep more and more as he ages.

>>527165408
d

>>527164097
Mod name?

>>527165647
Big E (slanted eyes)

i will manage to fix my mods just in time for the patch to break them again
anyways
1-2 karl
3-4 katarin
5-6 meow
7-8 drazhoath
9-0 morathi

>>527166252
>daemon prince
The best lord they absolutely ruined. Fixing him would require a huge amount of effort in changing his crappy sidegrade gear in terms of both stats and making it more unique, which won't even happen.

>>527166442
If they're doing an item rework and adding stuff like +350 barrier to even trashiest of uncommons like obsidian amulets why wouldn't they also rework the daemon prince parts?

>>527166442
This.
Daniel deserves a rework more than norscan chimps, liggers, or frenchfaggots

>lost a game of chess against myself
am i to stupid for total war

>>527167183
Because half the problem is stats and half the problem is them being visually identical. Too many of his items both act and look like other bits of his gear. Look at the godslayer mod and how much effort they put into making him visually unique.

>>527166442
daemon prince should have a 40% ward save
also unbreakable

>>527166442
You'd really think that an army painter and create-a-lord/general system would be commonplace in these games by now.

>>527167329
no in this game your queen has infinite moves so you can just cheese everything

>>527167390
That mod is shit because lots of his new body parts make him look like he's from Age of Sigmar and not WH fantasy. He becomes visually overbloated which is also a bad thing when designing a unit.

Why has CA forsaken the historical fanbase?

>>527167889
Medieval 3 is coming. Trust the plan

>>527167889
Historical fanbase can't be milked with endless dlcs because they only care about maybe 3 time periods which narrows down the potential game content massively.

>>527167889
histcels are all broke neets

I would go hard on historical if they used that lack of variety to make combat look amazing
But shit like reactive animations and convincing mob surges are beyond CA's capabilities

Imagine if they randomly release an FLC lord between August and November!

>>527167889
Because whenver they release a historical game it sells like shit or they insist it isn't historical.
>tob, pharaoh
The periods are boring. Flop. Doesn't count.
>3k
There are characters who are really good at fighting. Not historical. Doesn't count.
Why would they keep trying to appeal to that market if warhammer fans will hoover up different colored space marines at 20 pounds each?

>>527166256
Extreme Smoke & Flash

The Danaans have the world's densest hugbox in the red circle.
The Trojans have heroes split up around the rest of the map.

Total War: Troy is the epitome of tall vs wide.

>>527168802
Are all the factions Trojans and Greeks?

>>527167889
CA is actively refusing to make games in any of the time periods/locations that people have been asking for.

>>527169027
6 Greeks
6 Trojans
2 Amazons

The Trojans also consist of an Ethiopian and a Thracian.

>>527168802
I wish I liked Troy more.
It unironically seems like a secret gem of a game, but warhammer ruined me, and even mythology mode feels tame compared to minigun rats and cool edgy chaos shit.
I AM A FANTASOY AND I AM PROUD

>>527169316
You're all probably asking for the wrong thing then. Instead of asking for the "next historical title" you should try asking for the "next time_period title" instead. When you say you want a historical game, CA will take some creative liberty and try and expand their game portfolio.
Same with that anon you're replying to. He claims to belong to "historical fanbase" but is probably "time_period fanbase" instead because he'd know that Pharaoh was released quite recently.

Volound could have prevented this.

>>527169927
V*lound would have made everything worse

>>527169927
How? By running over someone’s toes with his wheelchair?

>>527168285
>Shogun launches the studio into into a full time single game company instead of a secondary licensed one for other game series.
>Mongol Invasion shows the base game was not a fluke and CA has successfully found an untapped niche
>Med 1 sells even better due to the audience of strategy games and white people having a direct overlap
>Viking Invasion well received
>Rome releases to huge fanfare due to new engine and massive advances in tech it allows and is required
>Buzz carried on from Gladiator massively boosts interest.
>Barbarian Invasion sells like hotcakes
>Alexander is an obvious quick cash grab and does ok but is mostly kept buoyant due to the movie.
>Med 2 is announced
>LotR and then Kingdom of Heaven boosts popularity
>Base game does not go out of its way to moralise the crusades or use modern talking points.
>Kingdoms is amazing and cements the game in most peoples minds as one of the best
>Empire is teased
>Naval combat is shown in the trailer
>People are hyped as shit
>New, custom and purpose built engine just like Rome
>Games for Windows
>Runs like dogshit
>AI doesn't work, not is bad, it literally is non functional 90% of the game.
>World is tiny, smaller than Shogun
>Units cannot do their most basic tactics
>Forget sieges, half your men are blind to ropes and ladders and cannot navigate ramps and fortifications a semi truck could drive on.
>Naval combat is good though
>Napoleon is an apology re release
>Still rushed, no world map. Obvious converted DLC
>Shogun 2 announced
>Return to form
>CA guts almost any terrain or feature that requires scripting to function.
>Troops just scale walls in full kit
>Game is functional though even with realm divide, even fun.
>RotS meh
>FotS is top tier and it is clear they may have actually learned something from Napoleon/Empire
>Rome 2 announced
>Bullshit and lies abound
>Criminal false advertising everywhere
>Launches in the worst state any Total War has, ever, even compared to Empire --

>>527169823
Maybe give Dynasty a try.
A bit more variety and lethality brings back some of the oomph rearcharges and short ranged shooting used to have.

>>527167609
she had infinite moves in my homebrew chess to

HATE PERSIANS

>>527170487
>he says wearing armour his dad bought with Persian bribe money

>>527167889
You should have bought the DLCs.
i already pre ordered ToT

>>527170694
all greek buddy

>>527158124
I am the same as you, but I infinitely like 40k more than fantasy, all my friends do
Imagine having to wait 15 years until the series you like drop the series you dont like

The Anniversary Sale is on.

>Pharaoh already 75% off
Big Oof.

>>527170139
>>527168285
--
>CA retreats from all communication to the public
>Obvious marketeers attempt to damage control by gaslighting people in places like TWcenter
>TWcenter implodes
>The largest online community that had the devs posting with their full names and was lightly moderated at best - where dev's could cop it and took it on the chin when deserved -- was abandoned and then cut off from CA and left to infighting.
>Massive repositories of AAR's/Mods/Modding teams and technical discussion starts to haemorrhage
>The moral fags and CA cocksuckers leave for plebbit
>The edgy fags start crossposting from here en mass for shits and giggles
>The normies and dad gamers leave
>Historical Total War takes a mortal blow
>The Med 2 heyday of modding historical into autistic perfection all the way to Anime Total War fades forever
>Atilla is NOT Napoleon tier
>Despite it being superior in mechanics and spectacle
>It barely runs and even worse is so poorly made it runs worse on future, advanced hardware
>CA abandons it
>Retards in suits decide to distance themselves and chase new customers and fads.
>Vikings - there is a popular TV show out for a while now right?
>Chinks - billion player market guise!
>Wait we never made Troy, the movie rip off right? Don't they have named 'heroes' like Warhammer?
>We Wuz Kangz! Look how diverse we are!
STOP ASKING FOR MED 3! THE CRUSADES WERE RASCIST!
STOP ASKING FOR EUROPEAN COLONISATION, THE GAME! YOU BIGOTS!
>Clearly, no one likes historical setting anymore.
>Doesn't matter, our half billion dollar looter shooter will allow us to let the series die and move on.
>Plus we get to own the chuds with trannies and niggers and ugly cunts!

Newfags:
>"Historical has no fans anyway - why do you guys not slurp up the shit CA has pinched out since 2013?"
>"Clearly Historical is dead due to lack of fans"

Insufferable faggots the lot of you.

>>527171647
>seething for 12 years
That's pretty sad.

>>527171374
40k will feel like shit at the start coming from wh3 though, imagine going back to only 4 races only

>>527171605
I already purchased all of the Total War games and DLC :(

>>527171862
WH1 was scuffed as fuck even ignoring the limited races
The people having the most fun will be the ones playing 40k3 not suffering through 1 and 2

>>527171861
No, seething since 2007.
Total War has no real competitor and even in the mid 2000's the rip offs were fucking awful tech demos by comparison.

>>527171862
Nigger all I want is a better campaign than the absolute shit loop that is tww campaign, and eldar
I could not give less of a fuck if cyan marines, ww1 germany helmets or dwarves in space are not in the game at release

>>527171965
Just looking through what's on offer.
Anyone here play the Fury of the Wild DLC for 3K?

>>527172173
yeah
do you like tomboy queens, tigers and/or elephants?

>>527171862
It could compensate with actually new mechanics.

>>527171647
Oh we know historical titles have fans ok? It's just that histoid fanbase is so fractured by all the time periods and retro vs modernity mechanics that it is literally impossible to make a historical title that will capture the entire historical fanbase - that's why CA tried to make smaller sagas instead for specific fanbases but even those were rejected completely. It's simply impossible to find middle ground with you lot, that's all.

>>527172312
As a matter of fact, I do.

>>527171862
WH3 had 8 starting races. Daemons can be literally copy/pasted into 40k.

>>527172405
>We want a mainline historical title with a big campaign!
>take this miniscule campaign with a gimmicky instead
Yeah histoids are ungrateful fr

>>527172581
>Daemons can be literally copy/pasted into 40k.
Huh, didn't even consider that.

40k will be a shitshow because the way battles work in that setting is completely different from historical of warhammer fantasy and CA won't handle it well. Remember the seethe about kislev hybrid roster? Imagine all factions being like that
>>527172073
>The people having the most fun will be the ones playing 40k3 not suffering through 1 and 2
This anon speaks truth

I really hope there is at least 1 or 2 more cute LLs in Warhammers future

>>527172591
>>We want a mainline historical title with a big campaign!
Yeah, which time period?
- Medieval?
- Rome?
- Empire?
- Japan?
- China?

Oh all of the above at the same time? Good luck.

>>527172845
Who/what the fuck is this you faggot

>>527172845
This is a sex free zone take it elsewhere

>>527172845
Sexo

>>527167889
>Why has CA forsaken the historical fanbase?

CA fell too hard for the Spearmanii meme and forgot that the old games were actually quite asymmetrical. Also there are about 3 settings that people actually want and they dont do them

>>527172958
Bring her back, you fucking cowards.

>>527172405
No its fucking is not.
People want;
>Rome in the 2nd century BC fighting Carthage and Greek remnants
>Rome as it formed into the Empire
>Rome when it was under siege on all sides and about to fall
Time Skip
>Early medieval Europe around the time of the first Crusades or just before
>Muslim's vs Christian knights
>Later medieval period with early gunpowder and Mongols showing up as a crisis period
>New world invasions to larp as conquistadors
Time Skip
>Pike and shot and colonisation in full swing
>All the way to age of sail, Napoleon
>US Civil War
>Stop around rorke's drift
Time and Space skip
>Sengoku Japan because it was a interesting civil war

That is it. Could be condensed into 4 rotating games, that before you restart the Roman era, 10+ years would have passed. Those are the most interesting era's and except Japan, they all have one thing in common - White Men are the protagonists and everyone else is window dressing. That doesn't mean non playable Muslims etc. Its just means 5 European nations/tribes to each no Euro playable faction because that is the widest net you can cast.

No one wanted the Bronze Age its fucking niche and barely understood irl anyway.
No one wanted JUST vikings, we wanted Kingdoms Expansion 2.0
No one wanted to play chinks except chinks and CA royally fucked that up to the point non chinks with an interest in the 3K myth dropped it too.

The last 15 years has been nothing but major companies paid externally and filled internally by people who are activist fuckwits who hate White people and Europeans and see their interference as an act of rebellion against some nebulous status quo. Hyena's was the culmination of that arrogant retardation.

>>527171605
>only sale for Historical title

>>527172918
Not that anon but I hope it's the Cathayan kung-fu monk

omnomnomnom
Pre-seasoned dwarf. Delicious.

Bring me tendies

>>527172405
>it is literally impossible to make a historical title that will capture the entire historical fanbase

Doesnt need to. Rome, Medieval, Empire games all sold millions. Three Kingdoms sold the most out of all Total War by some measurements and it always had a subsection of people asking for it. Just make the shit that people actually ask for, its not rocket science

>>527172845
It was not even lewd ...

>>527174373
If they made medieval 3 and it didn't have mythic mode with big titty vampires and Robin Hood and shiet it would barely outsell ToB

>>527174054
>People want;
>US Civil War
Only fat americano want the stupid civil war, no one care outside the usa.

>>527174527
I don't know what the image was but they've been banning a lot of slightly suggestive sfw art recently

>>527174708
CA's old core, middle aged English men, are interested in the ACW

consider the following:

>>527172760
It just needs to be something that actually exists in popular culture; Romans, Knights, Samurai.
Things to avoid:
40 bronze age factions that no one has ever heard of

>>527174842
It was a fully clothed anime girl with an exposed midriff. She wasn't even in a suggestive pose

Mods are worse than Hitler (PBUH)

>>527174054
So you just want the exact same 4 games remade every 10 years? You basically want TW to be as repetitive as Call of Duty?

>>527174373
The problem is that people ask for "next historical title" instead of specific time period. People endlessly talk about 4-5 time periods, if you're CA how do you choose which one to make game in without alienating the other parts of the fanbase with time period they couldn't care less about? And that's beside the retro vs modern game mechanics debate which is also highly debatable topic.

>>527174918
Bernard Cornwell did a series on the American Civil War in which Sharpes son makes an extended cameo.
It's a pretty good read.

>>527171647
You kind of proved my point there. Historical is the no true scotsman of total war and CA will never release one you like.

>>527175183
>It's one schizo anon arguing against a dozen histchads
Touch grass o algo

>>527175243
Cornwell is the goat, I loved his The Last Kingdom in middle school

>>527175295
Trying to understand the problems of the community == being a schizo.
Now I fully understand why CA no longer makes historical games. I can't blame them, I wouldn't either.

The obvious solution is Empire 2 its old enough to be history different and varied enough from Spearman Vs Spearman and people will actually know at least most of the countries

It's all gone to shit lads, fighting with the Empire as the vampires and now the dwarves have declared war, I only have two armies, I'm fucked.

>>527175183
>if you're CA how do you choose which one to make game in without alienating the other parts of the fanbase with time period they couldn't care less about?

I would simply do this
>three game trilogy like WH
>starts as essentially Medieval with Europe and ME
>do the new world like Warhammer2, expand the map to US and south America
>make it basically renaissance / early Empire TW
>third game even more map and change it to late Empire TW time period pushing into FOTS period with railroads and naval artillery
>capture 3/4 of the fanbase
>sell various faction and time period variation DLC forever

>>527175467
His best books are the Grail Quest books.
Thomas of Hookton comes across as less of a Gary Stu than Uhtred or Sharpe.

>>527175751
Vlad? Yeah you have to kill Zhufbar

>>527175787
Then its not a trilogy like WH if you're changing periods mid series -_- if you go from Medieval game 1 and then Shooty game 3 then people that like Medieval arent gonna wanna play game 3 but will then feel left out that they arent getting content

>>527175183
>>So you just want the exact same 4 games remade every 10 years? You basically want TW to be as repetitive as Call of Duty?

Yes. Every 4 years new release would have meant;
>Med 3 2017
>Pike and Shot 2021
>Rome 3 2025
>Shogun 3 2029
Repeat. Just new tech new visuals and new mechanics while maintaining what worked.
That is nothing like CoD, you disingenuous faggot. 12 fucking years between releases is almost unreasonable. We are coming up on 20 - TWENTY - years since Med 2.

>>527175856
I left them alone and went with Wissenland first, and then Reikland declared war once I killed them. It's ogre.

>>527175291
No you just read what you want.
We want;
Roman Legions
European Christendom during the Crusades
Pike and Shot with colonialism
Napoleonic Wars
Japan circa 1600 and since they proved themselves, Meiji Restoration.

6 options with the last 4 able to be bundled into 2. So 4 options to rotate that are different, yet popular enough to sustain the company indefinitely.

>>527176029
if you go straight north and leave the empire alone you can get the vlad skill and lamian bloodline to make empire frens
they don't really care if you kill kislev lol

>>527157103
>Are you optimistic about the future of Total War?

I have to say when I was a young boy playing these games I kind of assumed that in the future it would have advanced so we would be playing gigantic battles with like 40 vs 40 units and the AI would be super smart and you could delegate units to like a lieutenant or something.
Instead it's like basically nothing has advanced and they just license different settings now

>Books of Khorne
I think collecting all and deciding to keep them will legit turn your faction into a Khornate one.
>All armies gain raze&advance
>Settlement income -100%
>Huge melee buffs
>Nerfs and penalties to ranged units
>Disables spellcasting heroes and lords
>All your armies shit out Khornate corruption
Holy shit this could be absolutely amazing if i'm correct. Imagine Kislev with Khorne buffs, or Vampires.
>Also, pic related; Meow reading the first volume.
Also,also, if i'm guessing correctly, this could be a 40K mechanic.

>>527176409
Next time, I'll see how long I'll last

I don't understand people making the argument that TW fans only have ONE period they're interested in and will purchase games from.
Obviously there are some I like a lot more than others, but I can't be the only historical enjoyer here that genuinely enjoys every time period from Rome to FOTS.

Why doesnt CA just start a global war and then like a couple of years from now make a total war game based on that?

>>527176635
16th to 17th century Europe would be nice.

>>527175973
Ok, how do you improve/change the gameplay knowing that the fanbase is also split between liking retro/modern mechanics? After 10 years completely new modernity will arrive that might alienate the previous fanbase further. If you say that's irrelevant argument then we'd have to agree to disagree because I constantly see people posting videos or msgs how they prefer older mechanics over new ones and vice versa. How do you find the middle ground here?

>>527172581
lets not pretend like chaosmanii being split into 4 was really 4 races

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4JdQKU2QG0
Sad

>>527174373
Yeah Three Kingdsom did alright, but it won't count cuz it's "not historical" despite the fact that it is, even if we use the Song Dynasty Epic.

Abelard, give me hopium for TW:40K

>>527177272
You could say that about human factions too. Let's not pretend Bretonnia, Empire, Cathay and Kislev are 4 different races.

I remember that we used to meme about having only 3 DLCs left but now it really does seem like we might just have 2 DLCs remaining.

>>527178506
And then what? How does CA make money?

>>527177653
The TGA milord

>>527178602
Historical dating sim

>>527179178
I doubt it will sell unless it has tall futa elves.

>>527177653
It won't use the warscape engine, but will maintain the turn based gran campaign/real time tactics hybrid approach. Squads will move organically and take cover when appropriate similar to Dawn of War 2 or RTS games like Company of Heores and Iron Harvest. The turn-based campaign will take place over multiple planets/systems spanning a subsector, think a map similar to Soulstorm but with more complex gameplay with each planet having corruption/public order to manage and buildings to build up.
Is this hopium sufficient, Lord-Captain?

>>527167889
>Attila
>financial failure
>Thrones of Britannia
>financial failure
>Troy
>financial failure
>Pharaoh
>financial failure
vs
>Warhammer
>overwhelming financial success
History doesn't sell, fantasy does. CA goes where the market is.

>>527179992
We are missing out Three Kingdoms which was massively successful at launch.

>>527180109
Three Kingdoms is fantasy, not historical. It's based off a novel.

>>527167889
histoids all moved onto more mainstream stuff like Paradox Games

>>527179391
That would be the Fantasy Fating Sim, it will be released 4 years later after the Historical Dating Sim is a failure because

>>527181076
whoops wrong thread don't tell anyone

Jesus Christ, FINE. I will join you on your celebration...

>>527179605
Yes my faithful seneschal

A source in CA tells me they will reveal Total War: Four Kingdoms, a sequel to Three Kingdoms in December.

>>527181076
useless skank, we have a better vtumour to simp for now and she actually plays Lizardmen well

>>527182341
No we don't, fuck off

>>527182341
I can enjoy both
would Clio ever come up with something like THIS?

>>527181846
lmao just noticed that
CA really making sure we're paying attention

>>527170139
>Base game does not go out of its way to moralise the crusades or use modern talking points.
Blatantly false. Med2 fails to address the fascism driving the crusades and doesn't punish you for partaking in them, which is a full endorsement

>>527183279
>>527181846
They're dangling keys in front of the histfans with the December presentation. New historical TW title announcement in December confirmed.

>>527172760
>Oh all of the above at the same time?
>Rome 2 expanded and blended with 3k to include the rise of the Han Dynasty
>Med 2 and Shogun 2 slammed into one game where you can play England, ally the Shogunate, and rape the world between you
>FotS expanded into a Victoria Total War, with Japan being able to modernize rapidly at the end of the game

>dwarf slayer attacks after being beheaded
based

niggers

>>527172760
Total War civilization

>>527179605
>but will maintain the turn based gran campaign/real time tactics hybrid approach
Total War should finally upgrade to real time in Campaign map as well. I'm so fucking tired of turns and their inherent limitations

>>527172760
Medieval or Reformation are the only real answers if they want something that actually sells against a 40k title.

>>527174054
US Civil War should just be part of a Victorian Total War
The ending should have all of the weapons of WW1 invalidating line infantry tactics but you're forced to use line infantry anyway, and after multiple killing fields it just fades out to [your faction] WILL RETURN IN TOTAL WAR: WWI

>>527174104
TW:Warhammer is more of a Warhammer title than Total War one. It always gets bundled on a sale with other Warhammer games and not Total War ones

>>527167889
because in warhammer you can ride cool dragons and hippogryphs instead of the same boring horse, you can hire monsters and undead giants in your army, you can have an entire army of undead beings, so therefore the warhammer game is much cooler

>>527184807
Unique and creative but seems like a big gamble. CA might not be in a gambling mood anymore.

>>527186547
this is correct

Volound: New thing bad old thing good
How is this considered a profound TW content creator with 100K+ subs

>>527181076
fucking whore, at least she could suck fan cock and post it on the internet

>>527176605
Khorne progression mod when?

>>527188090
Anon it's some fat girl pretending to be an anime character

>>527174054
>No one wanted the Bronze Age its fucking niche and barely understood irl anyway.
I wanted it, it's a great time period. Should have bought the game where they did something interesting faggot, instead you proved you just want the same slop fantasois want over and over.

>>527187806
Because he makes autistic hour-long videos detailing differences in the mechanics to demonstrate/explain why the old games did things better than the new ones. People who are actually willing to understand where he and like-minded people are coming from find them informative.

>>527188514
>Lumi
>fat

>>527153873
>Nine dragon children
>Five exist: Storm (Life), Jade (Heavens), Iron (Metal), Burning (Fire), Sea (???)
>Two are lost: Spirit (Death), Shen-Zoo (Light?)
we're still missing two more, given they seem to be all basic lores of magic + 1 ??? (possibly Yin-Yin if it's a water-type lore like Deeps?) it'd stand to reason there's lost Shadow and Beasts dragons as well

>CA says late June is 3rd race reveal.
>New blog today says it is delayed to July
WHY!?

>>527188720
Then he calls Shogun 2 the best game in the series and ignores that it has nearly all those problems he spends an autistic number of hours complaining about.

>>527188838
Why else would they hide behind an anime character?

>>527188880
yin-yin is beasts

>>527163653
>final faction REVEAL in July
man I figured it'd be out by July last christmas, how are they this slow

THE OGRES ARE COMMIN TO GECHA!

>>527189089
>Then he calls Shogun 2 the best game in the series
No, he doesn't. It's just the game he's most associated with.
>ignores that it has nearly all those problems he spends an autistic number of hours complaining about
He has literally done the opposite.

>>527189040
30th of June vs 1st of July makes no difference.

>>527176635
I only play games with cannons. I shant be playing any spearmanii bowmanii slop.

>>527189208
I don't recall them ever coming out and saying what lore Yin-Yin was

>>527188880
Yuan Bo has a unqiue magic line with Light, Heavens and Yin. He is actually one of the most OP spellcaster in the game. He even gets greater arcane conduit.

Yin-Yin might be a beasts and deeps caster. I think Chinks associate the sea with monsters.

Li Dao probably be a Yang and Fire caster.

>>527189320
Post a video of his where he lays into Shogun 2 for being the beginning of half the problems of nu-Total War: no population, auto-replenishment, skill trees largely usurping natural traits, ancillaries being limited and functional stat items, extreme one on one animation based fighting (even more than empire/napoleon) that moved away from the weight based system he praises so much, full removal of buildings being on the battle map and needing to buy DLC for any of the factions to be distinguished from each other.

>>527189119
sorry to disappoint you anon
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2465678996?t=02h40m28s

>>527189119
You can't think of any other reason? Damn you dumb

>>527153183
>halberds
>guns
nice
very nice indeed

>>527189863
>human hands but with the avatar up
Doesn't that kill the immersion?
>>527190234
The only other reason is that she's hideously ugly or disfigured

>>527153183
That's not a Cathayan or High Elf dragon.
What the hell is it?

>>527189849
No, I'm not digging through his many feature-length videos on the matter to find the specific moment where he mentions that. You're free to check out his earlier videos on Medieval 1, which is where I think he may have done so. His position is that the series has regressed in a lot of ways since the first two games, but really started getting bad around Rome 2 to the point where it became unforgivable; more was taken away than was added.

>>527190473
longma balls

>>527190473
longma balls lmfao

>>527110308
the virgin british arcade "strategy" game company
>w-we can't do araby or there will be c-c-c-consequences..... *gulp*
the CHAD swedish strategy ludokino studio
>here's the islamic version of a fucking demon, you can summon them by sacrificing 73 virgin women

>>527190548
>>527190553

>>527190473
Jade Longma. Its the bigger and more draconic version of regular longmas.

We might get those in the next Cathay dlc.

>>527190298
>Doesn't that kill the immersion?
depends on how much their hands match their character, sometimes yeah

damn this map looks really nice

>>527176635
I'm good with most eras like yourself, but they're going to need to spice things up on a fundamental level.
Why is the 20(19) unit max still hardcoded. Can we get some hero-led armies that max out at 2/3 of a Lord's army? Maybe even moveable and adjustable garrison setups? Replace this god-awful slot system for settlements, it kills early-game variety. Speaking of which, why is tech no longer holding back elite units and we just skip midgame entirely?
>and that's just campaign things
Where's the properly 360 degree settlements. We still have no climate and weather effects. Some proper battle map building would be nice. So many terrain features are frankly unusable - can't pass too close to 'obstacles', can't stand far enough on cliffs to shoot down, the list goes on and on.

>>527190732
Jade Ligma

>>527190528
Of course you're not, I accept your concession as a result. He has outright said Shogun 2 is his favorite game in the series and even more hilariously he posted a video ~4 years ago where he said "oh I hear Attila might actually be underrated gameplay wise according to some guy I talked to, but how was I supposed to know after Rome 2, it's not like I could play it for myself???" He has criticized this series for ages and yet hasn't played half of the new ones beyond like a fucking hour. He still has hangups from Rome 2's launch and that has caused him to go on this autistic crusade for years, but all the while he likes Shogun 2 and has to downplay its cuts even from Empire which already had tons of cuts. There is no consistency or actual rigorous thought behind any of this criticisms and I don't think he has ever once given credit for any of the things the new games have actually introduced.

I said it before there is no "historical tw fan base." there are fans of certain pop culture versions of specific time periods. for example the people asking for medieval 3 can be broken down into 3 basic groups.
1) people obsessed with knights and castles and shit. they read lord of the rings/watched the movies when they were 12 and made it part of their life. they aren't too concerned with the historical aspect and will happily play fantasoi as long as it has the same aesthetics.
2) crusade larpers who just want to yell deus vult and kill saracens.
3) yuropeans who want to map paint as whatever insignificant country they're from

>>527190682
sure, but Illwinter are literally whos in the great scheme of things and the people who get butthurt over this sort of thing don't actually play video games and the few that do aren't in deep enough to care about pixelated autistic magic army simulators

>4 different youtubers said in their total war anniversary videos today that DLC is coming out through 2027.
>One guy mentioned he KNOWS Neferata, Thanquol, and Dogs of War are all releasing in less than a year. Boris Todbringer, Nagash, Yin-Yin, and Li Dao are coming later after that according to him.

>>527191658
two of us called you autistic then and i will call you autistic now. read any of the number of arguments we made at the time which made you look like a retard because i'm not typing that shit again

>>527191658
autism vult

Is anyone else excited for the Fellblade releasing in the 6.2 patch?
https://warhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Fellblade

>>527190298
Thinking being attractive means you want your face all over the internet is a tranny take
Lots of them are probably ugly but it's not going to be all of them

>>527192450
what makes you think they are adding new weapons?

>>527192554
That's the opposite of a tranny take, trannies know they look like men so don't want their face on the internet

>>527192761
Did you not read the 6.2 blog post they put out today?
https://community.creative-assembly.com/total-war/total-war-warhammer/blogs/74

They also did a second blog post recognizing today is the 25th anniversary of total war and they are doing a total war showcase in December.

>>527192761
They’ve been doing that for a while.
They added the twin Swords from tears of Isha a while ago. gave me quite the start when I stumbled across them in game.

>>527192903
Trannies are fucking insane people who think being a woman would solve all their problems
It's absolutely a tranny take

>>527177905
those factions had actual rosters unlike chaosmanii (color)

Legend of total war's video is up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evAJwgKkAQk

>the art that destroyed a faction

>>527193637
bruh...

>>527193637
I'm actually pretty excited to play Newsca, I like the ones who chuck short range spears and axes

>>527193561
buy an ad.

>>527193561
>Future of Total War
Why is this bald Aussie is incapable of letting go? His butthurt raging was funny at fisrt but ffs man its been more than 3 years.

>>527193819
>chuck short range spears and axes
"Spearchuckas", if you will

>>527188557
No, dickhead. It IS niche and not worth its own game. Total War was built off the back of Rome and Med 2. It was saved from obscurity by Shogun 2 after the Empire debacle and the historical side DIED with Rome 2 because it was such a shitshow.
>Bronze age
>Interesting to anyone
No one knows or can know enough about the period to know if it is interesting. The entire period of human history is almost all personal headcanon with some supporting physical evidence but almost no records or even commentaries.
>Inb4 the one journal they reference for 1500+ years of history
Fuck off and go masturbate to your stone tablet shopping lists.

Even 3K was only temporarily popular due to its setting being about the Chinese equivalent of King Arthur.

>>527193921
In the first minute he trigger warns his audience that he'll seethe during the video. He just is and wants to stay miserable.

>>527193921
His video is about today's blog where they announced two new total war games are being announced in December...
If I had to guess it is Medieval Total War 2 remaster and a mobile game for 2026 since the a new mainstream title isn't coming until 2027 at the earliest.

>>527191658
You also just described 90% or more of the player base and probably 80% of the potential one.

>>527194335
I bet that if Med2 remaster is announced he'll bitch that it's not to his liking and he'll ask people to boycott it.

Legenda Totalnog Rata made a video regarding the 25 years of Total War post
https://youtu.be/evAJwgKkAQk?si=sFnbjO2CBct5GPMX

When should we get a trailer for the next total war game and when should we find out who the last of the 3 factions in the next DLC is going to be? Also I remember them saying something about a surprise people have been looking forward to could that be the I can't find his name was speak it out loud but the arch enemy of the dwarf and the human poet? I think you should know who that is.

Thought you guys might want to know
>Monkey King was only allowed to believe he controlled Cathay
>Monkey King much weaker than previously thought
>Jade Vampires and Tigermen do exist but in the background and will not be explored
https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/zscdwwzf/old-world-almanack-a-short-history-of-cathay/

>>527195194
Holy shit man use some commas and periods...

>>527194002
Yeah that's why I used the word Chuck's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TqxEJNAUhY

>>527195241
Yeah they are pandering hard. I cant blame them tho, chinks love to get felleted by westerners, they love fantastical version of their history and they are 1.5billion people with emerging middleclass.

Godspeed CA and GW.

>>527195026
ITS FUCKING OVER!!!!!!!!

>>527195241
Good, no need for pajeetiggers.

Straight from Gamesworkshop today. Monkey King is not lord material. He is a minor character that is hero material.

>>527193243
no, I missed it. Thought the 8 books of Khorne was a joke, wtf
I guess I just saw the 25th anniversary blog and assumed that was it

Omfg why does stainless steel HIP crash so much?

>>527196092
>Can't even let Monkeyman be an actual threat
I hate the chinese so goddamn much

>>527195241
Love the new Cathay lore
>Strongest living mage in the Warhammer World
>Oldest and most veteran characters of any army
>Almost all of their fluff is "X faction landed in Lustria, and then we murdered them."
>BTFO's Chaos more than any other faction
>The true inheritors of the world

since when did they rename greenskins to orcs and goblins?

>>527196092
>Monkey King is not lord material.
It doesnt say that. They mean MK is very hubristic and delusional.
Chinese love Wukong. GW will definately want to sell them his huge model. But... Tigerman and Snakemen might be off the table for wh3. Which is a fucking shame.

>>527196806
It's always been orcs and goblins

>>527195241
>Jade Vampires and Tigermen do exist but in the background and will not be explored
Jade Vampires not being a local Vamp Count faction is a huge blow to Cathay itself. Basically saying it isn't allowed to have enemies outside of Chaos, Ogres, and Dark Elves.

>>527193819
I think Hunters javelins is my favorite unit in Norsca roster

>>527196092
>Not even an actual king according to gamesworkshop
>Never ruled Cathay
>Just some guy who lives in the mountain.
I guess we can put to the rest any delusional ideas of him being a legendary lord. Everything in that is like typical hero lore not lord.

>>527197042
Li Dao fights Tigermen of Ind and Snakemen of Khuresh. Yin-Yin also fights High Elves not just Dark Elves.

>>527196092
>The Monkey King is worth mentioning because he's an example of how we've managed to not retcon anything
holy cope

>>527195241
>>527196092
Uh did people not notice Monkey King is on the map with the hero type icon instead of lord icon for the Old World map? Not sure how this is news?

>>527197795
if they didn't retcon anything it still means he is an agent of tzeentch working against cathay

CA this is the third time youve shown of a magic item rework to the class

>>527198249
Wasn't it supposed to be an ancillary rework? The changes to magic items sound nice, but useless ancillaries was always the real problem. Being able to stack banners isn't going to change this.

>Whoregend of Total Whore here and today we're whoring out your disaster battle for views
>New whorepost by TCAL community whoremongers let's make a whour long video of whoring specooooolation and ruuuumors from totally legitimate sources and whores

>>527197667
>Li Dao fights Tigermen of Ind and Snakemen of Khuresh
So non-factions that won't be explored.

Which pre TWW3 factions are more fun in TWW3 than they are in TWW2 and 1?

>CA puts massive sale on all the historical games and DLC to celebrate the 25th anniversary.
>No Warhammer stuff is on sale.
WHY?

>>527192450
>be DAHKBLLLADE!
>can't even wield the Fellblade
dead game

>>527198479
Lizardmen
Dwarfs
Warriors of Chaos

Reminder that Nagash will not be in TWW3 but in the next Warhammer-related Total War.
Move a Herald of Tzeentch to a desert on the strategic map and listen to what he says.

>>527198994
There isn't a 'next warhammer total war' there is either 40k or nothing.

>>527198870
They just were on sale during skulls event? How many sales and how often do you need them? Every week?

>>527198715
In wh2 melee units were unuseable dogshit and wh3 fixed that so almost all of them play better in wh3.
But especially Norsca, WoC, Empire and Dwarfs play significantly better.

>>527199131
You forget that AoS is still Warhammer and has Nagash...

I'm upgrading my PC soon, 5700x and 9060 XT 16GB should be good enough for 60fps on battles right? I will limit world map to 30fps cause I dont want my temperatures to go to 90s

>>527199202
Becoming OP doesn't make something better to play

>>527199132
Some of us were working in a remote science lab hundreds of miles away from the nearest town during that sale with minimal internet.

>>527197007
sounds gay compared to greenskins

>>527199202
Ok thanks.
They nerfed spammable magic too right? really disliked using mages for all my heroes other than one or two for tanking.

>>527199279
That's life. Steam Summer Sale starts in 14 days so WH will probably go on sale there again. Something to look forward to.

>>527199268
I mean that is questionable. The video card is barely stronger than the Nvidia RTX 5060 TI. You might get 50ish fps.

pivot status?

Opinion (controversial): Every single future Total War faction should have at least two unique mechanics.

>>527199495
Yeah slow in early game but just as OP like in wh2 in the lategame.

>>527199858
Yeah I should get to press the heckin button after collecting the resource I get from winning battles

>>527200109
Yeah, ransom was a thing in older games too.

Strategy games are just a series of mouse clicks.

>>527200441
Almost like every genre is that or something.

>>527196092
I like how the Monkey 'King' title isn't even a title. Foreigners just assumed he was dragon emperor even though he wasn't and not even a king. LMAO.

Magic Item rework. That's it?
They are just taking the piss now

>>527200927
I'll reserve judgment till i see the bugfixes.

Monkey King is basically just King Louie but we didn't need this blog to know it, one of the loading screen blurbs already says that even though he smugly believes himself equal to any Dragon, his court is just hooting monkes throwing poop and banan at each other and visitors.

>>527200927
I'll reserve judgement till I see the Karl Franz buffs.

>>527195241
Wow this sucks these people are scum and because they're dumber and more creatively bankrupt than the original writers or influences like pat mills, they just have to rewrite everything because they simply have no idea what the original authors were referencing because they're downstream derivative morons.

>>527201243

>>527201243
i will be disappointed but unsurprised if they give karl the imperial dragon

I'm reading the Time of Legends Sigmar novels and man is Sigmar a massive knob, Gerreon/Azazel is more likeable

Absolute STATE of Uncreative ASSembly

Riddle me this, teedubyagee
is is smarter or dumber to attack a now nearby rival who is much stronger than you pre-emptively?

>>527196824
I really wanted an "evil" cathay faction led by the Monkey King, with Tiger and Snakemen.
Eastern Beastmen.

>>527202512
His Gods are smiling at him Dawi-Zharr
Can you say the same?

>>527202786
Hashut never smiles

>>527202938
The Chud God...

>>527202512
They were bored.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/zscdwwzf/old-world-almanack-a-short-history-of-cathay/
>Together they have nine children, and Grand Cathay begins to grow into a proper empire. This number is deliberate, as it reflects certain Chinese myths. We know of five of the children who are currently active in the world: Miao Ying, the Storm Dragon; Zhao Ming, the Iron Dragon; Yuan Bo, the Jade Dragon; Yin-Yin, the Sea Dragon; and Li Dao, the Fire Dragon. Two more are named yet dead or missing: Shiyama, the Spirit Dragon, who guards the underworld, and Shen-Zoo, who is lost in the Chaos Wastes.
where is the "Yin-Yin is dead" fag now?
lmao