Thread 531633884

siege rework edition

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Thanquol soon, friends!

What’s the best total war with the best sieges?

oh shit totally forgot
Siege Rework: https://community.creative-assembly.com/total-war/total-war-warhammer/blogs/76
and anon went through the trouble so read this too while you're at it >>531628842

>made a ladder shitpost a few days ago
>retards still talking about
It's that easy

>>531634243
Thrones of Britannia

>>531634319
we're talking about ladders because they showed off buildable ladders in the stream delusional attention whore-kun

>>531634243
3K

>>531633884 (OP)
You just know she's nagging him...

>>>531500192
>from what I can tell, the fantasy people are looking for
>grueling grindy chokepoint fights

I've been doing that since I was Ten back when Shogun1 released.
>custom game
>bridge battle
>as many spears+archers as I can fit
>start game

>>531635246
https://youtu.be/qTNcs3NSYWI?t=21
Thank you based retard AI...

>>531634243
I'm not sure there's a best, I generally like all of them and they all have something to bring to the table except for Empire's and Warhammer and the latter is objectively the worst.

>>531634418
>>531634808
Please kill each other so I can play the victor’s recommendation

>>531634941
Probably because she wanted to hire a professional but the guy refused to cough up a 100€

>auto resolve says I lose the ambush I'm laying
>I play it
>I lose like a 100 guys and the enemy barely stands a chance
Auto resolve hates beastmen, huh?

>>531636445
Autoresolve assumes their artillery/backline will spend half their ammo before you even get close

Nightmaw status:

>>531636445
A campaign's fun is directly tied to the autoresolve
Beastmen have to actually fight most of their battles and therefore get to use the silly stuff and ambush everyone so it's a fun campaign

how does autoresolve actually work? I think it should basically just pair units up and calculate who would win if they walked towards each other and attacked until one was routing or dead.

>download mod that moves skrag to the northern mountains of mourn
>he now dominates the east in every playthrough without fail
why are chaos warriors and chaos dwarfs so much weaker than empire chads?

40k waiting room

i will eat your face

>>531637017
Probably compares melee unit counts, armor vs weapon damage, leadership and tier of the units.

>>531633884 (OP)
The Motherland requires your service.

>>531638325
tier means absolutely nothing besides what building you get it from

>>531638892
Kislev.

>>531638325
>Tier of the units
That's an artificial construct

>>531638892
You have my sword

>>531639668
Could you stop killing Kostaltyn? I am trying to confederate that hobo.

>>531639873
I think he can be revived at the very least, tho that can be a pain in the ass

>>531639315
Karl Franz, master tier tard wrangler.

>>531639873
You think I would abuse my +80 relationship with humans just to kill you off one by one? I’m offended. It almost makes me not want to vassalise you

>go rooting around for the sword of khaine early
>grom has already invaded and beaten eltharion
>turn 16
holy fuck

>>531640125
It's easier than ever now that abandoning settlements is a base game mechanic, you can just inspect the ruins and revive their faction.

>>531641309
wait what?

>>531641309
>you can just inspect the ruins and revive their faction.
Oh wow I did not know that, ~800 hours later...

>>531636921
the people are restive

>>531641485
>3k guy
based

which armies have the most interesting methods of war... i dont care for big clump of guys charging into another clump... were along way from being bacteria now

It is turn 8 and I have:
1 Ice Witch
6 Armoured Kossars
13 Kossars

How do you defeat me?

>>531643252
with my turn 8 T5 settlement

>>531643252
i break into your house and rape you before you can click your gay little mouse

>>531634796
I did that

>>531641134
what the fuck is that number of building slots
i assume the building garrisons are also much larger?
mod link?

>>531643252
With my turn 6
>2 masters
>9 darkshards with shields
>2 witch elves
>1 deamonette
>1 Khainite assassin
>2 dreadspears
>2 shades
Now i throw your question back to you;
How do you defeat me?

>>531644051
19 winged hussars

>>531643776
>give me your cheats so i can cheat more

>>531644239
and?

>>531643776
It's BSE but I edited it in RPFM to push it to its limit
I can't seem to go above 19 slots for major and 7 slots for minor

>>531644239
you forgot to attach the chad image

when

>>531644665
me on the right

>>531643252
>no ap
>no cavalry
>even if the kossars are the spear version they're still only t0
basically any heavy cav or chariot hard counters this army

i fucking hate my life; im so useless and stupid, i wish i could be more than what i am now.

>>531645540
LL for this feel?

>>531645540
>>531645610
Arbaal the Unaccomplished

>>531645540
calm down malekith

>>531645540
that just means you need to play more total war

>>531645610
kairos or changer... tzeentch is hope, change and ambition...

>>531645540
>>531645610
Manfred von cuckstein

uh oh looks like it's time for poopie

On the thought of more defensive buildings for your settlements, among them should be some sort of anti magic walls you build on the settlement or at least defensive totems you can build during the siege that add a wide range miscast base chance. No matter what happens during this siege rework, a decently leveled flying wizard will still make quick work of the defender's garrison.

I finally played nkari and I love it
Didnt know I needed to play a gotta go fast army until now
What are some other speedy gonzales armies?

>>531646154
>act of dominance
>bodily functions
>human toilet
>beastiality
>anthro
>male on male
>ncs

>>531646581
ogres are quick because everybody has 50+ speed

>>531641134
orcs always win unless they're fighting dwarfs because just like vampires shitting out free full stack armies whenever they want makes the AI unable to beat them

>>531646581
>by default
Beastmen
Wood Elves
Bretonnia
>can be played that way
Dark Elves
Skaven

>>531646581
khorne

i fucking love killing orcs

On one hand, Very Hard can often be very fun.
On the other hand, sometimes on very hard it feels like the AI cheats twice as hard and I don't understand how you can have three armies on one settlement.

>>531647597
because they are cheating twice as hard, ai gets a discount on units

i am luthor harkon

>>531647997
I AM LUTHER HARKON!

>>531647597
Very Hard is bullshit tier
Wish they gave us sliders for campaign cheats (upkeep, control, etc) instead of the item rework that didnt change at all how people play

i am a massive flaming faggot

can you stop posting this image
i dont like you

>>531648276
you dont stack any paper and you dont get any bitches, get fucked timmy.

you're the troy reskin not me

schizo hours

faggot hours

your lord uses a shield
hang yourself

your lord has no scales and looks like a jew

I can feel the warp overtaking me! it is a good pain...

>>531648112
Impregnated by mutant fishgirl cock

A FUCKING SHIELD

>>531645540
Maley, its okay. Mommy is here.

>>531645540
ok villitch

My lord deepthroats your lord as a last resort.

My lord deepthroats your lord as a first resort.

hi guys new player here, why is luther harkon so bad?

>>531649807
i hate fat chicks

people only want to play on vh/legendary because they feel like it's more prestigious. they should rename the difficulties to very bald/retarded so people's egos will stop forcing them to play on it.

which race builds the most? i want to play tall ig

>>531650236
beastmen

i too, am shocked.

>>531649935
This lord is Tamurkhan.

>>531650029
This lord is Morathi.

>>531650236
I don't think imperial guard are going to be able to play tall, all those bodies have to come from somewhere

>>531650236
dawi

>not sigvald
homosexual detected

>A level 40 hero can be wounded at all
Shameful.

>>531650236
Dorfs with their self-undercities

I feel for lubbers exploring treasure islands for the first time and getting slapped with the dreaded triple leviathan stack.

>>531633884 (OP)
SUMMON THE ELECTOR COUNTS!

>>531651341
I fear for those not smart enough to put some cannons in their army and target the large unit, too.

>>531651618
Empire is getting a DLC and FLC in 2026.

>ambushing a beastman army
Doesn't that just mean you'll start close to them like how they want?

>>531650236
Dwarfs, Wood Elves and Warriors of Chaos.

bros... roasted walnuts with olive oil and salt

>>531651625
Cannons are for sieges and pirate lounging only.
All other uses lower testosterone.

>>531651848
If you're quick enough they won't get their charges off which is what they want. They'll also be the ones surrounded. Or alternatively, hide all your ranged on one side of the battle field and all your melee charging from the other. Or just simply sandwich them with your ranged shooting from the flank. Or just do it simply because ambushes give a global penalty to their stats for the first moments of the battle.

Getting ambushed is NEVER a good thing, doesn't matter that you're a melee centric army.

>>531651848
You don't have a choice. If you don't ambush them and can't wipe them on the defense they'll just encamp again and pop up somewhere random with 12 new minotaurs.

>>531651618
FOR FRENS

>>531652472
don't forget riding on

This dudes smart, he's making a run for it.

the chinese ai cheat has proven to be a tough nut to crack, even with gelts cataclysmic goofiness, but mainland china will soon become imperial land

>>531652987
Shantae really was made for porn.

>>531653474
I really need to try Gelt and Franz. I haven't played Empire at all since the Thrones of Decay DLC.

>>531653784
i've only ever played gelt and eslpeth
is it worth trying a karl franz campaign

How the fuck do you boost research rate as khorne

>>531654009
Karl is cool if you want to feel like an underdog for the first 20 or so turns.

>>531651618
THE BEACONS ARE LIT! KISLEV CALLS FOR AID!

>>531641485
What is a Nightmaw? Why does it matter if it's an ability or an uncontrollable Chaos Spawn?

>>531654009
Karl is probably the most challenging after Wulfhart, and he has a lot of abilities to make himself or his territory better. But he doesn't have a minigame like Elspeth or Gelt, and unlike Volkmar he doesn't really get rewards for holding the Empire together until/unless you start confederating Electors and getting their positions. But that's a hell of a lot easier than Volkmar chasing books and Wulfhart not being able to recruit top-tier units.

>>531654161
Arise! Arise riders of Louen! Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered! A sword day, a red day, ere the sun rises!

>>531650236
lizardmen for geomantic web
too bad it's shit
rework maybe

What happened to you man? You used to be cool.

Why cant The Empire have Genoese Crossbowmen

>>531654026
I don't think you can

>>531654009
Hes the most fun imo, I only ever pick Franz when The Empire, Elspeth and Gelt are too easy to the point of boredom, Volkmar idc for the area hes in and Markus is unfun and difficult. I enjoy how fucked his start is compared to the rest tooz especially with AI potential on the greenskins to his North become a worrisome threat.

Why can't vampire counts teach zombies/skeletons to use bows but the vampire pirates can teach theirs to use fucking guns?

>>531655415
powercreeped
I find rouge demon price factions way more anoying and dangerous now since they can just pull tonns of max level RoRs out of their ass at an instant

>>531650236
Chorf
>>531654997
Geomentic web require you to conquer wide to make use of it.

>>531655415
wh3 rogue factions don't get settled any more so it's kinda sad
there is one exception tho, if you play as g*lgfag and you get a contract from a rogue faction, you can actually gift them settlements just like wh2
idk if they expand from there tho

>>531656039
Ocean magic, bro. You wouldn't get it.

>>531656686
>Ocean magic
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

>>531656039
Why don't Druchii use guns?

>>531656975
they're european

>>531656975
Elf.

>>531656039
The pirates were gunners in life and died with their guns, they also seem way more intelligent than a zombie. Also having sailor training disciplined into them helps.

>>531656039
Vampire counts zombie are puppeteers by magic. vampire pirates zombie are soul bounded corpse.

>>531657347
You're right. None of the factions Vlad fights use guns after all.

>>531656039
It's very much a thematic choice. You have to understand 2 things here:
1. The original dracula by bram stoker depicted dracula as an oriental tyrant, and the heroes who faced him as figures of western enlightenment and rationality, and that's a huge part of the book. So dracula and vampires are reactionary, they're not progressive. And that's why jade blooded vampires are pretty sensible as well.
2. The west identifies the piratical tradition with progressive forces. The ancient greeks were pirates. In ancient greece they would ask “Are you a trader or a pirate?" because piracy was very common. All of their heroes were pirates at some point, jason, odysseus. We have forgotten this but pirates used to be part of the western tradition and therefore on the side of progress.

>>531657776
NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERD

>>531657776
>reactionary
Modern leftist propaganda detected, opinion disregarded.

>>531658072
Here I'm using it as the opposite of progressive, leftists aren't the only ones capable of being "progressive" on an issue, and it's not like the french revolutionaries that coined were particularly leftist themselves. They're credited with creating modern nationalism.

>>531658389
Yeah the French Revolution was hilarious once the wannabe commies got in charge.

>>531657638
You could probably raise them and have them shoot but you'd have to put in way more effort keeping them animated and supplied if you wanted them to fight for more than one battle.

>>531657776
I kinda doubt GW, the company of "orcs are football hooligans lmao red goes fasta" and "Imma name my viking raider stand in Gorefuck Killsmasher, worshipper of the god of blood and war" went for references that deep, anon.

Vampire Counts are just based on horror movie cliches and in those the monsters don't have guns. The heroes sometimes do. Whereas Vampire Pirates are based on Pirates of the Caribbean.

>>531657347
They're basically still human. The building descs in game say they like hanging out in taverns after work drinking, singing shanties, playing cards, and orchestrating dog fights. In battle they'll insult their admiral calling her a pussy for using magic and are generally rebellious. The human pirate loading screen description says that if you pay them enough they'll be okay with fighting for you even after they die so death is a career path for them. It's all right there.

>>531656039
Because Luthor Harkon was the greatest mage of our time, better than Teclis, Kairos and Mazdamundi combined.

>>531659453
Isn't he also the greatest manslut of all time?

>>531658847
Well that's my interpretation of it. It probably was ripping off potc but so what? We can read into things whatever we please. Also, it's not like they were completely ignorant of these sorts of influences. Pat Mills who was pretty significant in the creation of warhammer because he created judge dredd which was a huge influence, and also did a comic for warhammer monthly, was very much into history and celtic mythology for his own comics. Warhammer is downstream of history and mythology and a lot of decisions were made deliberately or unconsciously of that.

why do skellingtons have higher stats than zombies when a zombie is also a skellington (flesh armour)

>>531660051
Zombie is more weighed down by his flesh armor than a skellington.

No unit has the right to look this good.

does the random start pos mod work with IEE?

>>531660492
Why have leg armor but no shirts?

>>531659865
I have no doubt that some writer at GW that's a history buff probably must have put in small details based on deeper references like that into books, probably a few into actual army books by writers that succeed so much they're allowed leeway, most into Black Library "only the most dedicated of nerds will find out about this" material.

But the kind of decisions that are stuff like "Don't give the Vampire Counts any ranged weapons" or "Make me a new faction based off of Vampire Counts but as pirates" is not based off that writer's passion for the origins of the vampire mythos, it's based off of CEOs and shareholders chasing trends and going for KISS principle at all times. Those guys didn't decide on standards like those because that's what Bram Stoker used as inspiration, they decide it because that's what looks cool at that moment, and then it's the actual writer's job to work around it and find excuses.

Like, even now there's literally no reason given why Luthor Harkon can raise the dead so much fucking better than every other necromancer in the setting short of Nagash that they come back with their full personality and quirks. It's even more unexplainable that he still manages to do it despite being severed from the winds of magic. All of it just leads to the same reasoning: Some big fish at GW was watching Pirates of the Caribbean's numbers at the box-office and said "I want me some of that money, write an article into White Dwarf".

>>531660867
the slaanesh one is cute

>>531659865
You can of course make up whatever imaginary connections you like but none of them are relevant to a conversation about actual reasons and not justifications long after the fact.

Its like a star wars fan trying to recontextualize stuff from the original trilogy using things invented for the prequels, or the sequels, or some licensed comic.

>>531660867
is that sloppa? looks pretty good if so

>>531660867
Well I like most of those choices and I think they came out well and are reasonably defensible even if they weren't made intelligently, at least until they started hiring total hacks that make the modern crap. The black library is the complete opposite of that sort of thing because all of those books are written by completely derivative hack authors who have only other fiction for a source and not even the original fiction stuff like moorcock but garbage so they can only write incestuous crap that smashes together already existing ideas for age of sigmar.

>tfw made it through the torturous early campaign but aren't quite to the torturous late campaign

Just sailing the coasts looting treasure islands and collecting magic trinkets. It's a cozy time.

>>531661504
I, as the player and the individual actor and mover of the universe, can do whatever I want.

>>531662183
lol, you should lose some weight then

God dammit, playing Pharaoh with the air conditioning on keeps on tripping my breaker!!!

>>531662692
Turn that AC off and experience the desert heat.

>>531660509
just tested, it does

>>531662012
are there any races that have a comfy early, mid and late campaign?

>>531664045
Comfy is subjective. Some people find the Wood Elves or the Dwarfs to be the comfiest factions, while others get stressed out by their mechanics.

Gelt and his magical mint button are fairly comfy, I suppose.

>>531662451
Sorry I didn't realize having a rich inner life would upset anyone here but I suppose this website is going to the dogs nowadays.

Just realized not a single rogue army has spawned all campaign.

>>531664045
Any faction if you set everything to easy. But then what is there to prepare for?

>>531660492
is this a cheat? I thought glade riders rode horseys and only wild riders had deer.

>>531664045
>>531664385
for me it's Warriors of Chaos, you can pretty much go anywhere at your own pace from turn 1 regardless of who you play

>>531660867
>Some big fish at GW was watching Pirates of the Caribbean's numbers at the box-office and said "I want me some of that money, write an article into White Dwarf".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI6CfKcMhjY&list=RDGI6CfKcMhjY

>Room feels like a volcano
>Turn off TWW3
>it gets cold and I have to put socks on
Wtf is up with this game?

>>531664045
Khorne

>>531666315
i have to run the ac when im playing

>>531667115
Only if you pick Arbaal or Skulltaker

>>531667479
I disagree. Skarbrand is broken as well and you can use cults to transport him around them map.

>AR gives pyhrric victory with high casualties for a siege
>fight it manually, decisive victory with 330 losses out of 1800
The AR really hates slaanesh huh

>>531667619
im so ass with skarbrand i can't handle not having a passive income

>>531665541
Wildriders. Whatever.

>>531667986
I get how that's tough but you just need to be hyper aggressive. Skarbrand survives on post battle loot and sacking.

I need to get a better PC so I can properly render how cute Aranessa is

>>531668421
You enjoy exploring cozy islands while the vampire admirals wade through the endless doomstack cancer. You earned it.

>>531665790
Always puts a smile on my face.

>start helf campaign, havent played em since wh2
>build growth building
>+18
Wh-why?
I can't think of any other (non-landmark) building in the game that has such a specific number.

>>531668715
>cheating with undead units
>cheating with *lf units
you earned nothing but ridicule

Ogre pirates being able to shoot over the heads of the human pirates is a great synergy

>>531660492
>>531668050
>>531668421
I want to pinch and lick their nipples.

>>531669752
For it to be bait it has to be something I care about or that appeals to me in some way. Bait 101.

>they fixed CAI
I see..

>>531670560
it's not bait, it's public shaming

>>531670860
For it to be "Public" there has to be more than 3 people in this thread, which will never happen.

>>531671098
there has to be at least 4

>>531670775
>conveniently cropped so you can't see the bottom left corner

>>531672167
>also cropped the top and sides
Suspicious!

>>531672167
I actually just didn't want to reveal my activate windows watermark

>Slaanesh having to fight every siege manually because AR is fucked
Will they fix this?

Vāhi, šārtū!

>>531672563
>will they make my strong faction even more hand-held and yet also gate-kept from retards?
I sincerely hope not and personally would like for more LL/factions to be similar. Having some easy mode factions like Dawi are good, and having some that strongly discourage AR spam like Slaanesh is also good.

>>531672786
Nobody wants to play every single siege manually are you retarded? Its not about being hard or easy, its about being absolutely boring

>Be desert peasant
>Get hit by a tidal wave of flesh
Simple as

>>531673045
I thought you only used humans aranessa fag

>>531673323
I have no idea why you'd think that

>>531672786
Yeah anon, for sure its a good thing that you have a faction that is forced to manually play every single one of the hundreds of the worst battle type a campaign has.

Rats offer copious volumes of blood and skulls.
>>531672884
>playing the game is boring
Yeah, this faction and arguably this game by extension isn't for you. Stick to Kislev/Cathay/Dwarf etc, anon. Good luck.

>>531673608
Deserves a (you)

Ogre maneaters are a great unit but each one having the upkeep of a terrorgheist is insane.

>have monstrous infantry attack a target
>kinda hit or miss
>have monstrous infantry inside a unit of normal size faggots
>Fucks everyone who touches that miniblob
explain????

*hides Bloodcrushers behind hill that the Ratlings go to use*
For the Blood God, rats.
>>531674983
This is my common trick, too. I learned it way back when I started stacking Spawn inside of regular troops (e.g. Beastmen and as WoC). With how goofy AI is in this game (as in, in manuals), perhaps the smaller troops help slow down or tie-up the enemy to keep them still more often and therefore get attacked by your larger units without them having to restart the animation repeatedly (which is common if you watch closely).

>>531675279
that screenshot is so fucking apocalyptic with the dark skybox and the pyramids in the background

>>531672357
Why are you black

oh no! aranessa had a little accident! but don't worry, she has new "appendages"...

>>531675473
The deserts in Lustriabowl can look very nice, especially under corruption. Silly number of battles in this one area in one turn. U'Zhul really gets stupid with the constant movement refreshment. Replenishment can suffer, but manuals help greatly with such.

Convoy battles are not actually bugged for the Chorfs like I first thought, they're just much less regular but more demanding. I lost one against Khorne, but it was only cause my busses deployed weird and got obstructed.

>>531675717
people will recruit armies like this and then cry that they need dlc to give more variety

>>531677103
Some do, sure, I don't. There's quite a bit of bloat in the game as it is. I specifically often play a campaign where I do shit like no duplicate units (which can be difficult). I do demon-only for U'Zhul and when I have some breathing room/can be fucked to; get a Soul Grinder and perhaps another Bloodcrusher.

>>531675612
aranugget

Battle result screen with only Sartosa melee units being recruited.

>>531656039
Von Carstein are too dumbs for that.
Only Blood Dragon CHADS can teach skeletons how to use bows.

>>531675717
Thumbnail looks like ROME

Just started Arbaal. Which is better, 5% physical resistance or +5 armor?

>>531633884 (OP)
dude got insanely lucky his entire leg was stuck between the steps but came out cleanly

DAHKBLLLADE!

Thank you for supporting me when I came out as gay bros. I feel so supported and understood /here/.

>>531680317
it's nice that you took a moment for yourself there but DRUKEE, BLOODY SLAUGHTER!

>"1st daughter of the Celestial Emperor."
Why is she such a lier ?

>>531679923
neither, go for the melee attack and melee defense
but between the two, armor is better because physical resistance only takes you so far as a duelist

>>531680489
>This after it being revealed she's the one who killed the actual first.

>>531680489
>tryhard cool guy armor and sword
>showing up in regular clothes, unarmed and uncaring
>wow look at me I have lightning powers
there is one clear winner here

>>531637017
it uses "ranged potential" and "melee potential" which are just values in unit stat tables
mages get higher potential for every single spell they know even if they dont have the winds to use them so learning every spell is useful even if you never use them
in wh2 atleast all ammo was dumped before melee which is why some retarded stuff like the drakegun dwarf could wipe a whole stack of sisters of avelorn because of fire and magic resistance

>>531680489
It's just a way to dab on Yin-Yin

every wh3 race needs 1 more dlc minimum after ToT
currently, WITH dlc cathay and kislev feel like base game races from the previous games, and chaos is a little better but only because they have 2 dlcs each.

bros men without cocks are laughing at me

>>531662692
do you have an electric grid from 100 years ago or something

>>531682247
why don't they have cocks? I don't know anything about the romance

>>531683470
Preventive measure to keep the "Evil Vizier taking over" trope from happening, still sometimes happened anyway.

Lizardman rework in August! I can't wait to be disappointed and complain again.

Bro, what is that face? Why is he smiling like that?

>>531684104
>In the time it takes him to set up, load, fire and hit something with this thing I have the time to put 50 arrows in his eye socket (or cast like 10 fireballs).

>>531684104
Damn that old guy is jacked af

>annexing vassals tanks your diplomacy
Ok so how do I increase trustworthiness in 3K?

>>531684104
>so THIS is what superior weaponry looks like

>>531682247
none of those men are eunuchs anon

Anyone interested in the CRPG for Rogue Trader just started a general:

>>>/vg/rtg/

>>531686581
Total...War...?

>>531687980
What, this general is not about Warhammer ?

>>531688094
Warhammer fantasy.

Holy shit Thoreks campaign is an ass kicker

>>531633884 (OP)
>not holding onto the ladder
>using retarded shoes while on a ladder.
Deserved would not take Antioch with that performance

>>531680864
Dont forget greenwho wears clownshoes.

>>531639315
>gets wiped out the moment chaos doesnt just send Vikangs
Kyislevbros...

>>531656975
Because they are retarded.

>"my son will learn I am not a doll that can be cast aside when he tires of me"
So Malekith canonically treats her like a fuckdoll in the TW games like the old canon? Based

How do I get the event so spawn Sun Ce and his bud's wives from the 200 start? It's 200 and they're not spawning despite Sun Ce and his friend being unmarried.

>>531685674
i know im not saying those guys are eunuchs but the eunuchs are definitely laughing at my emperor ass

>>531690876
I dont think their incest was ever retconned though

>>531690712
desu so does half of the empire in lore, and if you are not playing as them in game

>>531647997
>>531648209
>>531648276
>>531648525
>>531648607
>>531648672
>>531648749
>>531649030
/gsg/ lost

t. alex

>>531633884 (OP)
Predictions on 'nids for TWW40k
Campaign:
>Hivefleets
Your giant horde armies that can build up to t5 (mobile ogre camps)
>Biomass
Global resource you get for killing units (higher tier units = more, excluding daemons and necrons kind of like soul system for chaos) and unlocks shit daemonic glory style ala daemon prince for your Tyranid parts (works exactly like daniel with your own oc swarm lord or whatever you want, and use it to pay for units, buildings, hive fleets, etc and you unlock new units and buildings (again like daemonic glory) when you reach certain thresholds
>Genestealer cults
undercities from skaven and can either do one of two things: Have a vassal genestealer cult faction spawn vassalized to you that lasts for [x] turns (can be increased with technology) or have it like a normal cult where it has support buildings and teleports the nearest hive fleet towards it
>Taking a planet / settlement
Planets will only go up to T3 like ogre camps or Norsca, and after [x] turns will be consumed and permanently razed, technology and buildings can slow this process down but your goal is to min max the biomass you get from the planet before it's completely eaten, but you spend biomass to make those buildings so you see the strategy
>Recruiting
Hivefleets each have a biomass cap on them per their tier (so like lets say a gaunt takes 150 biomass to make, a t1 hive ship will have a cap of 2500 biomass that regenerates per turn by like 50, but eating planets and other units helps fill it up per turn more, while a t5 ship has a cap of 30,000 biomass so you can spam out units) You COULD also have a cycle mechanic for a certain support building you can build to automate the process and have gaunts in reserve but those must have unit caps

(1/2 battle mechanics next post)

>>531691723
>implied incest

>>531692826
In battle:
>Synapse
literally cathay harmony, if they're within range of a synapse creature get leadership buffs and stop rampage
>Unit passive
Adaptation: Gain up to +5% wardsave for your units the longer the battle goes on and as your units are engaged in melee
>Global Battle Mechanic
Shadow in the warp, basically huge leadership bomb map wide and puts enemy abilities on cooldown and charges up like orc waaagh depending on how many creatures are in synapse range, so longer you got people in synapse the better it recharges and the more you can use it (could also silence spellcasters?)
(2/2)

Thoughts anons? I don't know where to even post this on the official CA forum or if it'll get taken down for "offtopic" bs

>>531692978
>Synapse
It needs to be more binary than Harmony, units need to be much much weaker without a synapse creature nearby
It is "offtopic bs" btw

nu tyranids don't even turn retarded when their brain bugs die anymore. the most depressing thing about a 40k tw is that every time I think about a cool mechanic or a cool unit I remember that it doesn't work that way any more because it was dumbed down or nerfed.

>>531693296
Why care about tableslop mechanics?

>>531692826
>units are big single entities to smash into other big single entities for more brainless retard gameplay

we need another lizardman dlc so we can FINALLY get
>random fucking dinosaur #39 (doomstackable)
>random fucking dinosaur #40 (doomstackable)
>useless skink unit
truly this is what the game is missing

>>531687980
>>531688094
Sorry, it's a general for the CRPG "Rogue Trader"
Just thought some might be interested

>>531693296
The direction and changes of 40k in the past however many years now (hard to pin-point when) have been sad.

I hope Slaanesh can seduce Ogres factions after the rework.

>>531694338
Yes

>>531693296
>Necrons now talk and are just your average power-hungry lords with egypytian skin
>Marines dont have (few exceptions notwithstanding) negative traits, they are just Good Boiscout Ultramarines (red) or (green)
>Tau arent uncaring mindcontrollers giving a fake shiny veneer, now they are just good bois :)
>Greenskin field effect is being slowly phased out
The entire setting has become flanderized.

Lategame AI is actually making rational and logical decisions when it comes to declaring war. In my campaign, Queek become a fucking manace so everyone around him declaring war on him instead of dogpiling on me.

And i'm chosing my wars to help my buffer states, which in turn AI is actually begrudgingly helping me. Might be the best lategame experience i have had in all Warhammer.

>>531693553
because gw will force ca to follow them just like how they shoahed nuln ironsides (repeater handguns)

>Sir still thinks 40kek is going to happen
Two mo-re Weeks

Why do the Order Factions have literally infinite leadership?

>>531693296
because that shit is not fun
>>531697067
they never had repeater handguns, ironsides were literally just handgunners with heavy armor, this isnt to stay theres no precedent they couldve done marksmen units with repeater handguns like with hochland longrifles, because you have trollhammer torpedos, outrider grenade launchers, death globes, and etc, which is weird because you have free company militia with pistols, which is not something theyre supposed to have, and technically graveguard halberds, but that one is more a "might as well thing"

Who said 6.3 will have more unusual locations and it wont just be for order factions?

>>531695120
Slaneesh ogres always made more sense than Nurgle ogres

yuan bo is op as fuckkkk

matter of state makes the other two obsolete

Is Fall of the Samurai a fun game?

>>531697978
like you pointed out why would ca be allowed to make hochland longrifles a unit when it was never one in the tabletop game, but they specifically shut down nuln ironsides even though it's not any different? or why did gw force ca to pay extra to make vampire coast and then forbid them from ever updating it? gw is fucking retarded and would absolutely force ca to follow the current tableslop rules if they thought it would somehow affect sales of their overpriced toys.

>>531694338
>random fucking dinosaur #39 (feral)
>random fucking dinosaur #39 (doomstackable)
>random fucking dinosaur #40 (feral)
>random fucking dinosaur #40 (doomstackable)
FTFY

>>531698351
the battle gameplay is fucking awesome but unfortunately has some major issues that it inherited from the base game, which is boat spam and agent spam. after a certain point every time you hit end turn there will be like 20 fucking shitty boat stacks all beelining to shell your ports and 20 different agents all spamming assassinate on your characters or sabotaging your resources. if you can put up with that it's the last good tw game before rome 2 fucked up all the mechanics and it has cool stuff like trains to quickly move reinforcements around.

>>531638892
Idk why but Katarin and I just can never have a good run.

>>531639315
>fights for Ursun, Tzarina and the Motherland
Kek they do it for free, this is why Katarin, Ulrika and the Golden Knight want Franz's superior Reiklander seed https://files.catbox.moe/nwbc58.jpeg

>>531697846
Cause ORDER.
Duh.

>>531697979
>Who said 6.3 will have more unusual locations
Josh Williams.
>it wont just be for order factions
None, but he said "I think for a wide variety of factions as well"
>Source
Here at 22:45
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2514916135

>>531698352
yeah, but they dont still do weird stuff, like they gave counts mournghouls for some reason or why leadbelchers dont have shotguns, gw is just schizophrenic with what they want when its comes to logical consistency and theyve always been kinda like this

>its another Dark Elf campaign where I dont even have time to recruit their endgame units because of how recruitment for Druchii works and now all of Ulthuan is trying to kill me
Many such cases

>>531699986
What do you mean? Recruit via BArk and just ship them off to your main armies. Dookie are one of the better factions for recruitment.

>>531700290
I currently cant switch any units out lest I get jumped by Eltharion, Tyrion and Alarielle and constantly spending money on settlements/black ark buildings, I blame my approach desu but at least im on the donut

THE THRONG IS MUSTARD

>>531700471
Ah yeah fair enough then. If you're under constant threat then yeah recruitment can become too stressed. Had the same on my U'Zhul campaign too as the book of khorne early on makes things harder, and then when you start to get the lead on any faction, the neutrals nearby (e.g. Harkon and Yuan Bo declared war on me at the same turn while I was still finishing off both Pestilens and minor rats). Hard to get a breather.

Post a screenshot of your map, anon. Curious what you have and don't have–your approach.

>>531700662
_____ in motion!

Does TWW3 have AI Agent Spam?

>>531700807
yes

>>531700670
first time playing Morathi after the AI rework, I feel like all the AI around her is now more aggro in general, specifically the Sisters, so I havent had a chance to even make it on the donut even if I wanted to (which I didnt when having to face the Sisters) which has allowed the Asur to mostly take the entire donut minus 2 settlements that N'kari is still holding
>inb4 why so many Shades
I do not want to be using this many Shades in one army but as you can see, I am essentially surrounded rn and I need good units that I can recruit in a turn or 2. Luckily I got Lokhir on one side, Morathi on the other and waiting for Hellebron to get respec'd before putting her in too, my finances are looking up but again I cant really spend time to recruit for longer than a turn right now.

>>531682247
His campaign AI is so fucking bad. This nigga NEVER deals with the YT right on his border even though he starts with a full stack of imperial units

>>531701079
You were supposed to kill the granny and immediately lauch invasion of Donut. Take advantage of N'kari and Noctilus fucking shit up in Ulthuan. Going north is a mistake.

>>531682247
He and Empress He are playable for me despite the game saying they're not supposed to be, not sure what mod is doing it.

>>531701408
Just realized gelt doesn't have eyes never thought about it before

>>531701531
like I said, not my choice, Sisters immediately declared war on me so I was stuck in a war with them that kept me tied up and since they had their dragon, it meant I had no other option but to deal with them first, I guess my other issue was doubling down on taking them out completely since they took the Skaven out but I live with my mistakes now

>>531701408
>"Who is that masked man?" - Gold Apprentice still making baneposts years past the meme's shelf date

Best first time Skaven campaign?

>>531673323
he is faggot with no taste, obviously he would use some flesh horrors

>>531702219
Queek.

>>531701879
>"When Gelt looks upon me he stares..."

>>531702850
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvz50JJU2j8

Is Ulthuan suppose to be the British Isles?

>>531703836
High Elves are inspired by a combination of the British Empire, Atlantis and ancient Athens

>>531704021
Bulgarians rework will fix that.

>>531703969
No wonder they're the most despicable thing of this setting.

Fuck the atlanteans.

>>531704149
Why are bongistans so useless? More than a decade and 2 sequels and they couldn't fix sieges or at least minor fixes like that?

>>531702172
Baneposting will never die.

First lunch than another nurgle campaign. Today is a good day.

>>531633884 (OP)
The Dark Lady of Nuln..

>>531703836
No. That's the island Belkor.. Belakor? Uh.. that demon guy starts on

>>531705679
albion

Bretonnia rework soon anons.

>>531705893
That is an alternative name for GB too.

I find it funny how throughout the rumour/leakmills, DoW have gone from the next race pack into being cancelled into being FLC into now being the biggest pack released for TWW

>>531633884 (OP)
>Play as any chaos faction
>fail
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

>>531701489
im playing the emperor so yellow niggas are dead on like turn 30
on the other hand cao cao pulled a record this campaign
>>531701571
anon....

>>531706117
because for some reason Order Factions don't know what fear is despite you being fear itself

>>531706143
Yesterday I made Vlad watch as I had Elspeth's gunners focus fire Isabella to death

Will the siege beta be save-game compatible?

>>531707238
Probably not.

>>531707646
If that's the case it might not even be worth it then

i HATE playing big battle like that, but the auto resolve is destroying almost all my army so the game force me ... Hopefully Sofia will fix that.

Does your LL smile upon the murder of enemy LLs too, anons?
>>531708030
What's there to fix? Also that looks like a fun fight, anon. Their reinforcements will be mostly trash and should quickly route (bonus if you get them near the reinforcement point so they immediately disappear for good). Hope you have fun, it looks good.

I think siege problem have deeper roots than actual sieges being bad. Don't get me wrong sieges are bad
>pathfiding
>walls being more or less useless
>gate bugs
>retreat points bugs
The problem is deeper - its combination of the pace of the campaign, loot coin, free garrisons, stat inflation and general only armies

>>531708030
What's the problem here?

>>531707994
Its a beta. You dont have to participate. But if you do CA needs clean saves for best feedback.

>>531708176
>>531708518
>option 1: play an unfun battle for half an hour
>option 2: auto resolve but spend 5 turns recruiting back your army
Dumb Parravon army in my back only comes in 2m30s (because i moved the point slighty) and they are almost all on foot, Orc on my flank have 2 minutes delay, those far away in Grom's back are the ones with 6s delay.
I'm not sure how to deal with the Snotling CHariots ...

>>531709006
>wtf i have to do battles in total war I DONT WANNA DO THAT!!!!
this is the fanbase now

>>531709006
wegh

>BATTLES?
>IN MY TOTAL WAR?!!!
Maybe Froggy was right about "cuckpaign singlecel shitters"

>>531709006
>unfun battle
why is it unfun? maybe this isnt the right series for you

>>531709006
>>option 1: play an unfun battle
Why is it unfun?

>>531709335
he is right tho
the biggest problem with warhammer now is that most battles arent fun
too many fight to the last units, cant shock or chain shock enemy, killing routers is still pain in the ass, too many single entities or units that are not fun to fight

What is the highest profile person Beastmen have raped lore wise?

>>531710074
>too many fight to the last units, cant shock or chain shock enemy
half of his enemies are fucking goblins and going by the units he has Grom hasnt had a chance to mega buff them yet you can absolutely chain rout enemies i've done it plenty of times AS bretonnia

Siege battles in TWW3 blow
The maps are way too huge and the AI doesn't know what to do for both yours and the CPU's pathfinding

I was playing FotS earlier and I found Siege battles there felt fun because if I'm attacking I can just blow up the place and every settlement wasn't the size of Texas

>>531710192
Boris Todbringer.

3 Legendary Lords that I most want to see:
Nagash
Glottkin
Boris Todbringer

>>531710201
killing routers is still pain

>>531709006
>wedge formation
Is that useful at all? You just make yourself more vulnerable for a bit of penetration ie more random lone knight stuck in blob so you can't cycle charge

Reasons dogs are good at chasing down routing units:
1. Dogs are incredibly fast
2. Dogs have attack animations where they both jump and attack at the same time

>>531710346
Ghark Ironskin
Ghorth the Cruel
Vardek Crom

>>531710240
Is it true?

>>531710632
I suppose Ghark became a real possibility since the smaller DLC announcement.

>>531710192
me.. >w<

>>531710346
ok reddit

>>531674983
the monstrous infantry can attack at the same time as the normal infantry
furthermore the normal infantry can soak hits that would otherwise go to the monstrous infantry

>>531706139
oh sit, who eliminated him? In vanilla he usually just fucks off and starts blobbing the south lands and ends up cucking Sun Jian

>>531711123
Make your list. 3 Legendary Lords that you wish to see before Warhammer 3 is dropped.

Why do Khorne Factions occupy settlements?

>>531711265
Last time I played as Gongsun Zan he got btfo by Liu Bei/Kong Rong/Tao Qin coalition around turn 40

>>531711387
Based lorelet.

Meng Huo backstabbed me again...

>>531710632
>Ghark Ironskin
Yeah I want him too.
An ogre wearing a suit of armour riding on a massive mechanical steed. He's such an interesting option that it'd be a shame not to have him in game.

>>531711281
Yin-Yin
Li Dao
Monkey King

EXODIA, OBLITERATE!

>>531711265
yellow turbans of all things

>>531710346
The Red Duke

>>531710192
Grace

>>531711387
Same as the other Daemon factions.
They're not occupying in the traditional sense, except for maybe Slaanesh because they like wordly things.
When Daemons occupy territory, think of it more like corrupting the area and spreading the influence of chaos rather than building cities

>fight big battle manually
>it goes on a long time before I win, take huge losses
>just load a save and autoresolve because the results are better
I hate this.

>>531710594
No, you get better damage for less risk without wedge

>>531712415
t. Empire player

>>531709335
>>531709830
>>531709965
The last 10/15 minutes of the battle was waiting for his last units to pop on the map one by one while chasing the routing ones.
Whatever, back to campaign map :)
>>531710594
I use it to charge then turn it off.

>>531712415
Have you tried not sucking?

>>531712502
you're not allowed to use wedge formation, Legend said it's bad

How do people have the characters as the portraits in the bottom left instead of the animated normal version

>>531712142
KWAB

>>531633884 (OP)
>Playing as Imrik
>somehow Grimgor becomes my bff
any of you ever have shit like that happen

>>531713253
video settings > advanced > portrait quality > 2d

>>531713383
I played as Drycha and accidentally allied the entire Order-tide.

>>531713470
Much obliged

>>531713383
As a racist I'd never let this happen

>>531713383
I accidentally vassalized Ungrim Ironfist and Talabecland as Vlad recently

>>531710626
3. Dogs are small so multiple of them can gang up on one routing enemy without getting in each other's way and bogging the whole formation down

total peasant death

>>531713802
4. Dogs absolutely destroy gates, faster than any artillery or monster siege attacker

>>531713802
>>531710626
It's not a waste to send them after routing units when there are other duties, where as with 90% of your cav they can be doing something better.

>>531712712
No.
SLUUUUUURRRRPPP GLUCK GLUCK GLUCK ACK GLUCK GLUCK SLUURPP GLACK

>>531713842
Youxia are such obnoxious units to fight against
I hate YT

>>531714140
>Youxia
who?

>>531714307
YT unit that fight to the death

Cathay is le big.

>>531712472
nah thats 100% dwarf player mentality
>do box formation
>rare RARE moment it doesnt work
>AIEEEEEEE BULLSHIT
>reloads and clicks auto resolve only losing one miner against 9 stacks of end game crisis armies
>goes on reddit posts the screenshot and goes "LE GRUUUDGGE LE BOOOK"

>>531714367
Oh, the Bringers of Peace. Yeah they are fucking annoying. They don't spawn on rebellions though, and I'm pretty sure they only spawn on the three brother's garrisons, not in regular YT settlements.

>>531714668
Korea soon, friends!

>>531714668
>Take over the entirety of eastern Cathay as Nakai the Wanderer
>End up teaming up with the Storm Dragon to fight back chaos for a bit

>>531714735
Ok RRAT

>>531714668
>Korean elves
Oh no, Lineage 2 made its way over here.

>>531714735
obsessed

The AI knows where you are even if you're hidden, don't they?

>>531714740
bringers of peace are the axe variant unbreakable dudes and definitely show up in rebellion faction aswell
youxia are the unbreakable sword dudes with small unit size

Based hag. Don't recall the last time I've seen her strength #1 and kicking well in the late game.
>>531715284
On campaign map or in manuals? Former, mostly no, as they do run into ambushes, but once a while I do see them stand like a pixel outside of an ambush stance army too–and still undetected the following turn, this is rare in my experience but I have seen this a handful of times where it looks suspicious). Latter, I think only if everything you have fielded is hidden.

>>531715798
Oh gotcha the Chosen Immortals. Somehow I find those less annoying. I guess because small unit size means you need to kill less to be done with them while the Bringers don't do shit but take forever to get rid of because of their numbers. But unbreakable units in general are fucked. I think the worst offenders are really the melee cav dudes, the messengers of heaven or whatever, those cunts are also practically unbreakable (80 morale or something retarded like that) and they keep coming back to fight every single time you manage to break them....

>>531656094
>rouge
ROGUE YOU FUCK
R O G U E
It's the 4th fucking /twg/ in a row someone doesn't know how to spell that word, I really hope you're not the same retard as last week

>>531715942
Campaign map. I checked to make sure they don't have any 'armies hidden in this region are revealed' buildings.

>>531716868
Maybe he meant the red Daemon Prince?

>>531715284
yes

>At war with the vampires
>they're not at war with Wissenland and Nuln even though they have like a -100 diplomacy with them when I play as Wissenland and Nuln
>they have massive stacks of like seven armies sitting near the two last human cities I need to destroy
Anti-player bias, ai ya...

>>531716868
Maybe he's talking about the upcoming Sonic crossover.

>>531656975
Their crossbows are better.

>>531717927
They are not. Guns can outrange them and there is no scarcity of gunpowder in setting.

>>531718003
>Guns can outrange them
Just walk forward a few feet while blocking the bullets with your shield, then put 10 bolts into them in the time it takes them to reload.

>>531656975
i read something once about how they use serrated bolts just to increase the pain but at that point they could just use hollow point rounds, it might be a pride thing like the high elvs

How do you have fun as Vampire Counts? This game is built around ranged combat for the most part.

>goes to lightning strike my blood host
>AR isn't in their favour
Just as planned etc. Also doesn't Kairos have that silly teleport ambush? We were in range of him for sure for it.
>>531719519
I never recruit as VCounts, regardless of which LL I play. I only use raise dead. So that's a nice way to induce some challenge/restriction and fun. For battle specifically you just play a mix of hammer+anvil and attrition with the mass bodies and healing.

>>531702172
They also take part in Robot Wars in their spare time

>>531719519
WH3 is melee city. Your fodder dying does not matter, just heal up your heavy hitters with Invocation of Nehek, keep summoning skeletons/zombies on dangerous enemies to keep them bogged down. You will not "hard-recruit“ stuff, just use Raise Dead. Enjoy your Heroic Victories.

>>531716868
Dont you just hate it when you're calvary gets countered by halbreds? Especially if your using demogryphs.

I laffed.

>>531716868
>ROGUE YOU FUCK
>R O G U E
>It's the 4th fucking /twg/ in a row someone doesn't know how to spell that word
Based spellchecker.

>>531719519
always have two armies near each other. One that contains your heroes and high tier units, the other which only contains zombies. Throw the zombies in first to soak up all the damage

I'm gonna go back to Mortal Empires, which druchii and lizards are the most fun to play there?

Siege rework by buffing the toughness of everything siege related?

Are they out of their minds?

>>531722458
Rakarth is kind of unique because he starts next to the Empire.

>>531716868
Hes talking bout that cutie from Xmen

>play a very long turn with tons of battles
>equip newly acquired ancillaries/items (from the tons of battles)
>game crashes
It's only happened twice but that's already too many

Is there some kind of bug with the walls at the moment? I'm playing as Kugath, and my fort should have an upgraded wall and shooting nurglings apparently, but for some fucking reason the walls have only piercing towers on them.

I never chase down routing units, seems like it makes more sense to focus on enemies that are currently a threat than ones that aren't.

>>531723772
I save before every fight purely for this reason.

>>531724118
Some units like wolves and bats are, at least partially, built around the fact they are good to chase routers
Maybe your army has no such units but if you do, it's part of the game to chase Broken units so they don't come back and for easy xp

>>531723772
does anyone even care about age of smegma lore?
I know tabletopfags like it, but I can see them just putting helmets/using one skintone set for paint then ever using diverseheads

>Auto resolve prediction: Pyrrhic Victory
>*click*
>"Vaillant Defeat"

>entire donut is now Slaanesh corrupted
Morathi has over 40 settlements and still strength rank #1. N'Kari is still alive but Morathi done most of the work. The volume of armies and BArks around is impressive–typical AI upkeep cheat galore.

>>531725016
You just reminded me that Malekith can achieve about 60% upkeep reduction for Dreadspears and Darkshards.

>>531725016
Imagine what's going on there now.
>tags: all

FUCK this was a really fun battle and I forgot to save the replay, so I will dump here instead
I had this small army and Grimgor raiding on their territory and got attacked, bot of my armies had waaghs but Grimgor's is still building up
I wouldn't be able to beat them on a head on fight had to surround them from every angle all at once while using trees and squigs to get them where I wanted to, while waiting for everyone else to show up

>>531723303
>>531717767
>>531717258

>>531714668
cool map

Are hybrid units actually bad?

>>531726692
Some are just a straight upgrade
Maneaters with pistols, for example - same stats as the regular Maneaters plus they can do ranged stuff in a faction that doesn't have much access to it

>>531726692
it depends

>>531726692
Kislev and Maneaters (Pistols) are based

>>531726692
Legend of Total War said hybrid units bad.

>>531726692
no, only the necrofex is bad

IT'S UP!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFObUAWj4BM

>>531726692
I guess it depends on case by case basis.
Kossars
Armoured Kossars
Lothern Sea Guard (Shields)
Shades
Are all great hybrid units

If you can't get your long victory conditions but do manage to get the Domination Victory, does the 'win a campaign as faction achievement pop up'?

>>531727951
yes

>>531728514
They were too fixated on my SEM. Flamers and Changebringers often shooting at them. The Doom Knights were actually cycle and barrier charging against my Bloodcrushers but I always kept some Bloodletters near.

>>531727898
remember when your kind was missing on 8c because they ban india Israel and show IDs

So we're down to one DLC per year now, huh. Or is ToT even still coming this year?

>>531729594
Calling me a jew? That's rude anon...

>>531729836
ToT expected in October/November.

give slann gold

>>531727731
But Legends favorite units are Shades

2025: 1 DLC
2026: 4 DLCs
2027: 0 DLC

>>531730298
No.

Are Asur and Druchii actually genetically different or are they the same species?

>>531731063
Same species, just different socio-economic backgrounds.

>>531731063
As different as Prussians and Bavarians Germans.

>>531731063
Druchi = Empire
Asur = Norscans

>>531731063
They're literally the british vs americans.

Dark Elves players don't complain about fighting Tamurkhan.
Do you know why?

>>531732921
Because they're playing a braindead simple and OP faction?

this has to be the easiest campaign in the entire game
this cunt did not even reach the point where he has a stroke since i won on turn 28 and got the achievement for never losing a single battle in a campaign

>>531731028
>2026: 4 DLCs
Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

>>531733218
Because they're on the other side of the world?

>>531733712
Meant to be for >>531732921

>>531733469
>>531731028
>2026: 4 DLCs
Pre order Black Legion pre order Race pack
Blood for the blood God DLC
1st DLC: 1 Space Marine LL / 1 Ork LL / 1 Tyrannid LL
2nd DLC 1 Space Marine LL / 1 Eldar LL / 1 Guard LL

>>531733218
They require more thought than Dwarfs, WoC, Khorne, Slaanesh, Nurgle, Ogres, Greenskins, Norsca, Wood Elves, Vampire Counts and Beastmen.

>>531732476
So the Druchii are the British, right?

>>531733218
>dark elves
>braindead
Their t1 infantry competes with empire t1 infantry to see who sucks the most, their darksharts are great but have the range of a wet noodle, they are far, far from being a simple faction to play when there is shit like empire, dwarfs, high elves, kislev, khorne, nurgle, chaos warriors, lizardmen out there

>>531734070
Asur are British as they see themselves. Druchii are British as colonized people see them. Ogres are British as they actually are.

>>531733245
I mean, his victory condition is literally just winning the mandate war, which is just defeating the three brothers. It's not really meant to be a hard campaign, it's more of a role playing campaign where you usually put some restrictions or self imposed victory conditions....

>>531734186
Ogres got better teeth though?

>Arbaal takes his starting province
>spends the rest of the game just sitting there and not participating in any wars
This always happens in my games, why is the war guy playing Total Peace?

>>531734186
And Asrai?

>>531734575
can't be defeated if you don't fight!

>>531734186
Dwarfs are also British. As are Orcs.

>>531734646
Mennonites

>>531734070
>western colonial land of slave owners where there's women in bikini everywhere and the men marry their crossbows.
...Yeah, sure.

>>531734575
Really? Whenever I play anyone near, he starts shit. In 2/3 Astragoth campaigns he started war at me before declaring war on Malakai/Kislev, and in the one where he didn't start shit with me, he attacked Katarin, Malakai and Boris Ursus.

How do teams work in MP? I was thinking of playing Golgfag and my friend as Kairos, and then act as his mercenary. Do we have to pick Team 1 or can I teleport to him?

Do you guys think the siege update will make the AI any better at attacking/defending or will it make them even more retarded?

>>531735979
if you pick the same "team" I think you got vision on him and all treaties like trade. Sadly unless the contract rng gives him as a client you'd have to fuck shit up around him then exchange settlement

>>531735626
Brazil ???

>>531735979
You have an unbreakable military alliance with people in the same team. Getting a contract for him is rng.

>>531736341
>>531736637
Thanks, anons.

>>531736279
I think the ai will spend so long besieging that you could build up a new army nearby and use it to drive them off

>>531735027
everyone in this game is british you other countries eat our cum for breakfast you cant get enough of our accents and culture warhammer is british total war is british bow the fuck down cunts

IT'S UP!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN4Poj-HfFo

>>531737736
sha'ap bruv

>>531694338
unironically yes. we need arcanodons and spearskinkii

>>531706139
>anon....
As in they're actually able to be deployed on the battlefield playable, not just being able to play a campaign as them.

>>531694338
cold one spear riders/horned ones always do more work than any dinosaur

>tfw no friends to coop campaign with
I got friends, just no warhammer frens, and I’ve tried to very limited success getting people from here. Least of all no in-game chat is crippling.

I knew I was in for a wild ride with Boris but damn it's also kinda fun
>all settlements are expendable, every unit recruited is a plus
>every freshly captured settlement is a replenishment base first and foremost
>Chaoscucks taking your settlements while you're too far away to defend them all? No problem, have 2 extra population in them and colonize for free if they razed it

So the newest "siege rework" is another
>we changed the time needed to capture victory points 0.2 seconds
>towers now fire 0.3 seconds slower allowing a dynamic a exciting siege experience!
>Also now range units can finally make use of elevated terrain (bugged right now but still working)

>enemies can lose a siege and raise dead to just come back
>Lords can be recruited at full health instantly instead of taking a turn to arrive.
God I hate Undead and the fact killing a Lord is worse than letting him run away.

>>531739431
coop campaign is more hanging out than anything so if you can't get irl friends into it just drop it

>>531739672
what else would you have expected?

>>531739679
It's literally all they have though
You're only annoyed because you want to stomp them faster, not because it's letting them win

>>531738271
rape is based and so is raping children

>>531739590
Boris campaign is the TW equivalent of doom

Guess which one Lileath rather fuck ?

>>531740260
Beastmen?

>>531740260
The taller ones

>>531739672
After the latest AI and item rework, I had no expectations for siege rework

>>531736507
big booty druchii
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIri9YLHpOg

>>531739903
No I'm annoyed because I fought a desperate defense of a settlement with a level 1 Lord and the garrison, I won, and now they're back to win with an OP mechanic, since the AI has infinite money.

>>531739672
no, the ladder and tower changes are pretty big retard

>>531736279
We shall see

>>531739431
Campaigns are so time consuming that I really don't see them working in co-op unless you can do them with someone in the same house.

>>531738832
my army was emperor + wife + random general beating up yellow turbans until i won

>>531741706
Do you have any mods like I do? Base game doesn't allow you to deploy them as generals.

>>531741805
>Do you have any cheats like I do

>>531742214
Your cheats seethe only has a chance of working against fellow Warhammer babs, us 3K chads aren't ashamed of mods.

>>531742214
You can stop doing this unfunny shit anytime.

How would you react if CA unironically released Pontus as a DLC for Total Warhammer 3?

>>531740996
It wont change much, I assure you, you will still auto resolve sieges
Because walls will pretty much still be a non factor since you can hop in and out of it as if there was nothing there and you will lose less people in AR

>>531742214
Its impressive how a single poster managed to psyops an entire general that mods are bad and that there is a right way to play the game

>>531742358
To be fair 3K's abandoned so even if mods were cheats, at this point no one who isn't a cuck could blame you.

>>531741805
just MTU and camera mod

>>531742940
Cute that you think anyone else has taken on his autism

>>531743138
I also have MTU so it must be that. Usually they can't be deployed as generals in the base game.

>The AI can't figure out that if it wants to shoot the tower it needs to move so the level geometry is out of the way
I understand a REAL AI fix would cost a lot of money, but is it really hard to put in some code that does
//if obstructed
run figure out nearest firing position.function
return (position should move to)
move to position should move to

Like I know it's more lines of code than that in reality (probably a hundred or so), but they've had years to fix this shit.

>>531743478
Maybe MandaloreGaming can make a new video on sieges.

>>531743146
Many have

>>531744220
Nope

>>531742214
Its only cheating when its for games that are still getting updates, retard

uh oh cheatfag melty

In spite of playing since wh2, I've had my first encounter against a fully Tzarkan'd Malus
And holy shit he carved me a new one

>>531740303
How did you know ?

>This is a real name for Border Prince lords
holy based

>>531740260
>Guess which one Lileath rather fuck ?

Are we gonna watch the GW summer show ?

>>531748050
I am
Currently lots of 40k mongoloids begging for a TW game

>>531748050
What's the point? There's nothing for us there. Also, eww.

>>531699790
>like they gave counts mournghouls for some reason
mournghouls make more sense on the counts roster than the coast one. they literally have nothing to do with pirates or the ocean. even their description is about mountains.

>>531726692
usually because you're paying for melee stats on a ranged unit that is losing effectiveness for ever using them. one spearmanii and one archer is going to be more capable than one and a half sneed guard. they are a massive crutch for shitters though because shitters love to take too many ranged units which leads to their ranged units always ending up in melee.

>>531747258
top left bitch looks like that brazillian creature with the mullet running down his back

probably nothing for us but whatever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqsb35bGVZs

RETVRN

He's LIVE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XcSB8pur7M

>>531751897
>open the stream
>scraping his spoon in a bowl
>fucking slurping
disgusting, I'll stick with the regular stream

Does anyone have that old meme from TW1 times when chorfs were bitching about having 5 models or something and still wanting to be included in?

>>531747127
Why can’t I click on him?

are votann odin pilled dawi or what? they look cool

>>531751031
VGH...

>>531752997
Some people were unironically angry the first time they reveaed the Votann because (according to them) they were a big dog whistle to the far right white men fan of viking crowd.

>>531753714
I don't remember seeing any outrage

TOMB KINGS LOOK GOOD

>>531753714
Seems odd when the space wolves are right there

MOMMY!

>>531754370
Claiming my wife. No one else gets her.

>>531754370
Puta

>>531754370
GW NEEDS to represent my druggie dragon bro more.

>>531754370
y-yes mommy dragon-sama.

>>531754370
Ching chong bing bong.

welp, the shitmar chorfs look much worse than the modernized total war ones.

yeah naaaaaahhhhhhh not feeling these chorfys

Those dominators looking good though.

>>531754370
>got BLEACHED by Magnus the Pious
not like this imrikbros...

>>531756013
Wha- she's fucked Sigmar, Karl Franz AND Magnus???

Age of Smegmar loses again, CA Chorfs reign supreme

>>531753714
I never read or saw anything regarding that
People were pissed because they recreated squats as some generic scifi
starfield aesthetic which was and is, extremely lame

>>531756201
Those Chorfs look nice imho, but the ones in Warhammer 3 are just far cooler. AoS ones can't measure to the glory of ZOOLAHOO and DRATH ZHARR.

>banners
>musicians
CA... pls...

>Undefeated
lmaoing@yourdefeat my dude

>>531756776
The AoS ones being shown off have decent models but these colours are god awful
Muted metallic browns, dull purples, glowing green, off-whites

They need glorious, vibrant reds, golds and blacks

>>531756091
actual Asian woman moment

>>531756983
I think maybe you're right, if that gnarly green became a fiery red they'd be far better

>>531756983
>>531757098
The gnarly green makes it look like some warcraft fel crap

when do they show news?

>>531757323
we had those yesterday, rework beta from the 24th of July to the 7th of August

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA

>>531757682
Thats a woman isnt it

>>531757758
>assuming xir gender

>female chorfs
they just can't help themselves can they

>>531757758
did you even ask how xer identifies?
you fucking nazi bigot

Why are Chaos Dwarfs incapable of speaking English? Are they retarded?

>>531757930
>>531758074
I submit and kneel in shame, smegmasistaz...

>>531757758
Would it be better if it wasn't?

>>531758346
only intelligent races like elves, dwarfs, orcs, ogres and humans can master English

>>531758458
Yes.

>>531758346
They can but choose not to, why would they speak the language of labourers?

>>531758587
Bullshit, the French can figure it out, and they're below even Skaven.

>>531757682
Cylostra is in AoS now?

>>531758616
The only way a male dwarf wouldn't have a beard is if he was a tranny.

>>531738271
damn all those imported foreigners really going to town in engerland +25 increase in 10 years

How soon should I trigger WAAGH?

>>531761194
Do you have a target? Is a big faction bearing down on you and doubling your army size would be useful? Your first WAAGH should probably be as soon as your first stack gets to 20.

>>531753714
the stupid thing about them is that the viking shit is completely tacked on and has nothing to do with the rest of their aesthetic.

>>531761194
Yes

>>531754370
She looks like she fucks Reiklanders

Natty?

>>531650069
He isn't. He is one of the most powerful characters in the game. Once he has his magic he bodies even Mannfred.

>>531762804
I want Nakai to eat me

40k is gonna bring the better equivalent of elf fucking becaus every1 knows the webway the Emperor was creating was to have easier access to eldar pussy, all female Eldars are mon'keigh fuckers they just dont know it yet

>>531748372
>There's nothing for us there
Yet, Votann now can be a full army in a Total war game.

>>531763715
Nobody wants to play as Squats

>>531763715
Votann is cringe.

>>531754370
>40k nu-dwarf slop
>age of sigmarslop
>horus heresyslop
>marineslop
well at least tomb kangz, meow ying and kill team looked cool

>>531763901
>>531763970
Don't play as them then, I find Cathay cringe as well.

>>531764484
Because they are.

>Mazdamundi declares war on High Elves
Why?

>>531764738
Warmbloods were a mistake

>>531764738
he learned the trvth from dawi

Is there a WH2 faction whose starting position wasn't ruined?

>>531641309
Did you make this up? I’ve never seen the option to revive a faction from ruins

How do I stop Dwarfmaxxing and enjoy other races in this game?

>>531764738
Reminder that Mazdamundi used to think it was a good idea for all knife ears to be put on the donut and coexist there despite all 3 hating each other and never be allowed to leave the donut

>>531765658
Based Mazdamundi. Should've done it.

Mazdamundi should not be allowed to colonize outside Lustria

>>531754370
why is she sucha cunt

>>531765658
All elgi came from the donut

Then elgi civil war happened

Elgi stayed on the colonies because they can't leave their trees behind

All elgi are the same lying, untrustworthy, beardless wazzoks

I'm from Karaz Ankor and I'd say kill em all

>>531753714
DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE!???

A retard... in human form.

>>531753714
That's stupid, 40k already has a ton of factions that'd appeal to that crowd far more. Hell that crowd is precisely the kind of insecure fuck that'd run away from the Votanns because "I can't be identified with short manlets! The humiliation would be too much for me!".

>>531753714
The squats were basically 40k dwarves

Votann are AI clones who love Deep Rock Galactic with SC Terran vehicles

>>531766021
That would be interesting actually. A campaign that encourages you herding every race into their DESIGNATED living space, be it through force of arms, diplomacy/settlement trading, or great rituals to make settlements into uninhabitable climate.

>>531766838
>HECKRINO BEARDED BLACKSMITHS IN SPACE

As long as you dont play Reddit factions like the Squats and the T'au youre allowed to play whoever you want when 40k drops

>>531763473
>tfw you will never get captured by a heavily racist Eldar Farseer who at night comes to your cell and pins you amazon position to the bed, all the while calling you a filthy mon'keigh as she shoves your dick deeper into her womb then allows you to cum inside

>>531763473
>CA goes with TFS' canon instead of GW's.

Biggest Ls in these previews are the Grey Knights

Literally not updated for an entire decade lmao

The Deathwatch are Primaris now and have been updated

Is this /twg/ or /40kg/?

>>531770264
Its honestly not been /twg/ since Warhammer dropped, once WH3 dies and 40k comes, the fantasyfags will feel what histKINGs had to feel

Historical Total War general
Warhammer Fantasy Total War general
Warhammer 40K Total War general

Sorted!

>>531753714
why do I get the feeling that certain crowd will also expect spass marine/army recolor in TWWH40k so they can insert their snowflake idea into the setting?

>>531704181
HYPERBOREANS GET OUT