Thread 532548138

Siege Beta Edition

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Previous thread: >>532410008

Thanquol soon, friends!

Be a good person

>>532548223
fuck off

Be an elf person

Stop living in filth. If your home is infested with ants clean it before you spend any time playing video games.

>>532548223
Fuck off

>>532548138 (OP)
You should also link to the forums for the siege rework so beta testers can give feedback, I doubt they get any good advice from the stupid poll.

https://community.creative-assembly.com/total-war/total-war-warhammer/forums/77-siege-beta

CA should reveal Dechala's stats.

>>532548223
BASED

>>532548624
Stop telling me to clean my room mom!

Great units that are tier 0 (built from settlement):
Kossars
Kislevite Warriors
High Elf Spearmen
High Elf Archers
Chaos Warriors of Khorne

>>532549061
Black Orc Big Boss

>>532548624
Joyous children are most welcome

Peasant bowmen and trebs really putting in the work

>>532548624
I do, I just don't live in a hermetically sealed cleanroom so it's impossible to keep something that small out. there's nothing in here for them to eat but every afternoon the migration begins again

>>532549061
One of these stands out
(modded to show gold damage value)

>>532549790
Is the game more fun at tiny unit scale?

>>532549061
Dreadspears!

Is Medieval 3 out yet?

>archer
>archer with slightly more armor
Why do I need to disband and recruit all my units again for such a small bonus? Why can't I just press a button to upgrade?

>>532549939
Who on earth were those guys fighting?

>>532550060
They are definitely decent. If only Darkshards were also tier 0.

I think TCAL picked a perfect timeframe to launch TW:40K. Space Marine 2 and Rogue Trader revitalized 40K in the gaming sphere after so much 40K shovelware. Dark Heresy will release around that time too and most likely mog Rogue Trader and have wider appeal since it has full voice acting and more polished. Those games brought over people who weren't 40kfags and that might get them interested in TCAL's game in the process, since it will claim to eventually feature all the factions they love.

What do you anons think; Will TW:40K be the most successful Total War game and will the recent success and audience pull of the other 40K titles help it?

I also have ant problems, I've killed so many I'm pretty sure I accelerated their evolution. Once they cordinated like british commandos to distract me while the team lead made it's way to my eye, as soon as it rendered that mounstruos little head it bit me and put me out of commission for the day. There was also that ant that stopped me from squashing it, bet the little fucker felt like Raiden in the first Metal Gear Rising mission, I was so flabbergasted I let it go.

Holy shit AI is completely broken and doesnt know what to do without buttladders. I just played first defensive fort battle as reikland and 2 full stack old man vampire armies just sit there infront of my walls while being completely whiped out by tier 2 garisson.

>>532550397
It is going to be Total War: Star Wars.
The leaks already revealed this over a year ago.

Big bad meanies in cage!

>>532550218
There is a cheat for that...

Does it make sense to go for a full fields economy in Araby or is it bad roleplay?

>>532550397
Top picture: adventure party
Bottom picture: death squad

>>532550461
there's less than 10 different potential unit types in star wars
no they're not going to ship a game where the only units are generic blasterguys, droidekas, and jedis

>>532549979
It feels very different. I haven't hit a point where it becomes unfun yet, but I also haven't run into Skarsbrand

>>532549061
>Bretonnia still can't recruit Peasant Mob from settlement

>>532550397
TCAL?

they should rework the difficulty system so that instead of giving cheats to the ai it takes cheats away from the player
>hide exact results of auto resolve and only show the balance of power bar (on legendary hide the bar too)
>cap stat cheats for units at 50% of base value for hard and completely nullify them for legendary
>cap wom and recharge bonuses
>significantly lower ai valuation of settlements with military buildings
>introduce anti-camping zone to all maps where if a unit remains within 100m of the map edge for 60 seconds without being in combat it starts to quickly lose morale like if you only had flying units
>change ai response to hidden units so instead of acting like they don't exist anymore it remembers their last known location
basically make it so instead of encouraging players to get better at cheating it forces them to stop relying on cheating and get better at playing the game

>>532550218
archer (elite)
description: archer born to be an archer from birth, knows only archery, cant even talk just archery, adorned in the finest garments and armor, trained by yoda
450 upkeep per turn

>>532550278
I was just including a few in any late game army and sicking them on anything big that dove my kossars or streltsi
There is nothing more cost effective against some big chaos cunt besides ranged units
Frost Wyrms are also cracked if you take a pair, they're cheaper than the big monsters they have to hunt but as a pair they absolutely fuck them now they've been buffed

Lor~d Skrolk!

In the Year of the Cope, in the reign of the sixth Delay, by Reddit reckoning, the never-ending tempest of incompetence that is known to Men as Creative Assembly waxed greedy and grasping.

All across the internet the digital fabric shifted and moaned as if it were a sleeper beset by nightmares; influencers vomited forth their worthless takes, and /twg/ and r/totalwar alike were greatly afflicted with the taint of shills and drones in their postings.

All Anons knew that a time of great portents was at hand, and rumours spread like jeet curry stench, of leaks and franchises, of greedy japanese businessemen bestirred from their island, and of woke freaks leaping eager into the development teams of those foolish enough to hire them.

Games were coming, as they had countless times before and would do so countless times again -- games the likes of which every Anon, be they Amerilard, Eurocuck or Chinkoid, feels the calling of in their bones and cannot resist.

New Total War games.

Challenge: Play Zhao Ming and only use Peasant Spearmen and Peasant Archers.

Between frost and tempest, which is better for a melee-based army and which is better for a range-based army?

Challenge: Play Kostaltyn and only use Kislevite Warriors.

Can the any of the 50xx cards run WH3 maxed out? What cpu should I buy?

>>532551019
>hide exact results of auto resolve and only show the balance of power bar (on legendary hide the bar too)
i almost miss the chaos of auto resolve in wh2
like those times you would auto resolve a t1 settlement with like 0 garrison and it would just delete your artillery for some reason

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3530840236
Dookie are fixed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwchO_lYwhA
So, did they have more news on the DLC or the Kangs and Lizards update?

>>532552434
lol

>>532551854
Blizzard spam tends to clear infantry better than Heart of Winter but the rest of the lore is ass, Frost is much more fun and useful

>>532552104
My 4060 Ti can run WH3 maxed, it sounds like a leaf blower but it runs well for 3-4 hours then usually the game will close out.

>>532552104
https://www.logicalincrements.com/
https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/

>>532552958
>the rest of the lore is ass
Bro your speed and range buffs? Your no friendly fire hawks?

Stinky Elves!

>>532550673
I wonder what'd be scarier to face in close quarters, the space marine or the ogryn.

>>532553668
definitely ogres they are ubermensch race where even the lowly ogre bull has siege attacker

>>532553668
Ogryn, because muhreen would kill you before your brain would even consider getting afraid.

>>532549979
>>532550810
For example look at this. The ogres bullcharged my line and I thought I was going to lose in 30 seconds, but then their tyrant died and my cavalry hit their backline causing a chain rout. I can't currently think of what I could've done to lower the casualties and every battle may as well be a coin flip. Crazy.

>>532553456
mid

If you replaced Karl Franz with Malekith and replaced Crossbowmen with Darkshards then I bet the campaign would be a lot easier.

>>532551854
your question is confusing because it implies that you take magic based on what your own army has. the real question is do you want a bombardment and a vortex or do you want wind blast and spirit leech which is more a question of what you are facing than what your own army has.

>>532555293
I like to use aoe spells and buffs for melee armies, and debuffs and direct damage for ranged

>>532555246
Franz is easy

I love snow

>>532555606
... For Festus to wipe out.

>>532550060
Dreadspears? More like DEADspears.
Amiright, fellas?

>>532555785
Handgunners and Outriders fuck everything he brings
Stop being bad Empireshitter

>>532555431
why? for the most part damage is damage no matter what your army composition is. if you want to get technical direct damage is probably more useful for a mostly melee army since it gives you more tools for lord sniping.

>>532550397
>Those games brought over people who weren't 40kfags
And that's the problem. Nu-40k sucks balls and the TW version would be more of the same shit cause they just want to appeal to the normies
I hope TW 40k won't be a thing, cause that just accelerate the entire fandom into new-trilogy level cringe

>>532555606
Relative to what? There's like 5 factions harder than him on legendary/ very hard.

>>532556251
Tw40k can be good if they focus on some old edition instead of current nu40k faggotry.

>>532556645
Name 'em. I want to re/play some of the harder LL.

>>532556731
I agree, but that isn't going to happen. The new (and shit) SM2 is a good example.

>>532556743
Teclis
Kairos
Boris
Khalida
IDK, maybe tretch?

>>532557032
>Kairos
>can't even confidently or correctly name 5, at best 3
twg...

>>532557032
Imrik and Belegar are easy factions but both are harder than Franz
Just fucking go north then kill vlad that's all you have to do

>>532557208
yea we know while everyone else struggles with him it's too easy for you champ

>>532556251
I'm not up to speed with the latest 40k things, what's the issue of the current version? I initially really liked it, since the imperial agents army list looks fun and the inquisition is probably my favorite part of the imperium.

If Vlad ever pissed you off then I recommend playing as Drycha and crushing his 80 stacks with your supercharged Dryads.
Coeddil can probably solo most fights.

as far as I care the 40k universe story finished with Gabriel Angelos becoming chapter master of the blood ravens, Merrick getting his commendation, Sexdeer having babies with the Vindicare Assassin, Bluddflag nicking Adrastia's hat and Eliphas getting fucked in the ass for all eternity.

>>532555913
>Asur joke

>>532557449
>what's the issue of the current version?
you might as well ask what isn't wrong with it. on the lore side everything is retarded now because they shifted away from lore primarily being in the army books to black library shit and the success of the horus heresy series made them turn everything into space marine capeshit. on the model side they have been shitting out garbage for a while like power armor wearing bigger power armor and sniper units with stilts and they have been forcing ugly women into every range they can. then on the game side it's almost completely turned into a deckbuilding game instead of a war game. every unit now has a defining ability and every faction has "gotcha" abilities you have to look out for. building strong synergy into your list and then busting out your wombo combo is way more important than tactical play which barely matters now because of retarded terrain and scenario rules.

basically everything that your casual fan that knows about 40k but doesn't actually play the game or read the shitty books they put out is from the 4th edition/dawn of war era. the franchise has only gotten worse and worse since then thanks to the combined assault of catering gameplay to tourneyfags, lore to marvelfags, and general gw being fucking retarded with how they run the business.

I remember when necrons were up there with tyranids and chaos as THE most threatening enemies of all galactic life. Now they're just metal pharaohs.

All I care about in 40K is for us to eventually get the novel where Ciaphas Cain fucks his way off of a Dark Eldar battleship

>>532556997
Yeah, probably. My interest in Mechanicus 2 dropped instantly when I learned it gonna feature votann cringe as well.

All I care about is Custodes. They should add them to Total War: Warhammer 3.

>>532559773
So you don't remember the "Chaos robots", zoomer.

What will be the "pandering to China market" faction of TWW40K ?

>>532561819
The Tau

>>532561819
Tau

They're already been Chinkified since they were introduced

>>532556743
Everyone surrounding Skulltaker, he single handedly warped Lustria into his playground.

>>532562073
>>532562262
who knows, east asians like Chinks and japs love melee and only farsight really uses it

>>532557407
He wasn't hard whatsoever before the recent rework and though I haven't bothered to play him since I can't imagine it's anything but easier.
Of all the factions in the game to complain about facing early Oxyotl doesn't really register to me. I feel like it's a meme people parrot even though they have never played as him.
His quest battles are a little annoying thoughbeitsoever.

Meanwhile in Talabheim...

>>532563363
If teclis didnt attack you at the same time as oxyotl, you got lucky

Be'lakor getting buck broken by Azazel and crew

STOP BULLYING BELAKOR
LEAVE HIM ALONE

>>532565442
He invaded me (Azazel) while also fighting Bretonnia, the fool. Now he's a pleasure slave

>>532563363
In the time it took me to destroy the chaos factions to my side he managed to get to level 20 and attack me with like 5 big dinos and his high level oracle before I even managed to walk back to my capital and defend it.

Helstorm rockets or volley guns?

???

>>532566284
Helstorm: Obliterate swarms
Volley gun: Obliterate elite / heavily armored units
damn now I want to play Empire

>>532566506
norsca can recruit the monke man but no other WoC legendary hero, it's really bizarre

Holy fuck playing dwarfs without quarrelers really makes you miss them and appreciate them

>>532563363
if he calls an early rite of primeval glory army you are going to have a miserable time
>>532567220
bro your slayers

>>532567051
wierd, Valkia is the only WoC who can recruit the new infantry units too
must be the new trend

Should I be attacking middenheim turn 2 as festus?
I mainly just don't want khazrak stealing it from me. I'd rather have beastmen frens.

>>532566712
Nothing wrong with wanting to play the coolest faction

Should I play another Morghur campaign for the siege beta?
>Can't give feedback on defensive sieges
>Cheese offensive sieges are per usual
It's what he would want after all.

>block army
>fail
>block army
>fail
why do I even have these fucking fags fuck this

time to get stinky

>>532568992
Why don't nurgle have plague rat units?

>>532569202
he thinks rats are icky

>>532569202
Pestilens being Nurgle-worshippers is nu-lore and thankfully CA hasn't bothered to update them to reflect that. You can have horrific disease-worshiping zealots without le epic poop jokes and the other stuff that makes Nurgle lame

>>532568992
It's a nice honest campaign, a true vermintide not gun/monster spam

>>532568992
enjoy running into fucking annoying ass lizardman meme stacks of like 10 fucking bastilidons by turn 10

>>532569595
Pestilens is my favorite clan but honestly Tretch does it better especially now that you have to deal with Khorne as Skrolk.

Kanker Flett as a legendary hero for skaven.

Just how fucked is this general now that all Britbongs have been banned?

>>532571180
I'm still here
I may not be here when I get back from work

>>532571432
sad

>>532569202
Nurgle plagues and disease are all about bringing new forms of life from death.
Skaven plagues are all about purely death and destruction.

>>532571432
Goodbye Anon.

the school of light magic is good actually btw desu
>>532571180
what did I miss?

Bulgarian Anons... we pass the torch to you. Take care of /twg/ for us.

>>532571746
>what did I miss?
I.E. most of the histchad population I imagine

>CA employees can't defend their shit decisions anymore
I'll miss them.

>>532571746
it's good against daemons now that it gives the entire army magical attacks

>>532571180
wait what happened with brits?

>>532571842
>deddicated

>>532572217
I pray it is all a hoax. /twg/ needs every able-bodied man that it can get it's hands on to hold the line and keep the forces of evil (French) at bay

>>532549061
>High Elf Spearmen
Lol
Lmao even

>>532571842
No more brits? That's a bummer. Im sure the ones here know what a VPN is tho

>>532571842
>starting in 2025
>new Online Safety Act 2023
lol
lmao

>>532573849
I think it's because they dragged their feet getting it fully implemented

>try beta with festus
>start with a fort, go to middenhiem turn 2
>attack immediately with shatterstone blessing
What?
Did you really think?
AHAHAHHAHAHA

Maybe the internet was a mistake. It's all part of the globohomo agenda, people shouldn't be able to communicate outside of their Godly designated national fiefdoms. Thus unto the tower of Babel.

>>532573932
shatterstone is cheating

>>532571842
is this 4chan's fearsome reputation as the dangerous hacker man at work or are a bunch of other sites off limits for bongs too?

>>532574513
A bunch of other sites have as well

>>532574594
well I look forward to seeing the trajectory of bongland's virgin demographic going forward

the spartans were also virgins until age 30

How are the Empires cavalry units, including state troops? Im tempted to try a meme all cavalry army complete with outriders and wagon mortars

>>532574957
Outriders with grenade launchers are breddy gud

>>532574957
If you do, pick Elspeth so she can make the outriders purple and buff the wagons

empire spearmanii (shields) only cost 350 and have 2k more hp, 12 more md, 15 more armor, and 35% more missile block than a kossar spear. a high elf spearmanii has 8 more md and a better shield, but 720 less hp while costing 43% more. why do people keep saying empire melee units are bad when they are actually one of the most cost effective ones?

>>532574957
empire is a top 3 cavalry faction. there's no reason to meme just use them in your normal army.

>>532574957
You can get armoured spearmen state troops which will be stout enough to do whatever it is you want to do with your cavalry and skirmishers

>>532575337
>>532575330
>>532575124
>>532575057
Appreciate it fellas. Are non-shock cavalry worth using? I don't think i've tried in warhammer, I usually just cycle charge.

I just tried Pharoh Dynasties for the first time, ramesses start

Lethality is a stat that needs to be carried over into med3, this shit is fuckin great
even if the setting is all Nakedmanii, lethality makes this massive difference between garbage chaff and chaff destroyers, and the no-cav setting makes these guys fuckin bonkers
armored units tanking militias like they're goblins is pretty dope too

>>532575854
lethality also makes javelin units actually worthwhile for once

>khazrak died to the npc welfs turn 1
Well, fan-fucking-tastic

>>532575512
Knights of the Black Rose are pretty good against non anti-large infantry in sustained combat, you could use them as your front line even

>>532576332
can't you bring him back with enough money

>>532576332
Nevermind, he was ambush baiting franz, who force marched up to him and in my range. Even fooled me.
Fucking genius.

>>532576595
Khazrak is the cunningest of all beastmen! Ra-roo!

>>532575981
I definitely felt that, the shezar javelins with the armor in ramses faction are insane, its like chawi blunderbuss
just add some shitbird militias on the side to go bog down important targets/archers and it feels great

I have something in my brain that doesn't really let me focus and need a somewhat relaxing campaign. Currently willing to play Dark Elves, Eltharion, Teclis, that Khorne guy who isn't a demon, Archaon, maybe some lizardmen or any of the tree focused wood evles. I'm pretty out of it and haven't really kept up with the changes so I'm not all too willing to jump in blind into a campaign that might leave me feeling worse.

>>532576380
Frontline you say?

>>532576595
>>532576819
KINO

>>532576870
the new badlands makes eltharion much less painful, Skarbrand usually goes south to fight settra for eternity so you can safely wipe out malagor and eat ekrund too if you want

>>532576870
Gor-Rok is a braindead and fun campaign since you get lord kroak right at the start, you just have to watch out for Skulltaker

>>532575854
>armored units tanking militias like they're goblins is pretty dope too
I've said before that while you can't capture the visual variety of Warhammer, you can capture some of the vibes that distinguish units. Since functionally an orc, a dwarf, a skaven, a dark elf T1 shield and weapon unit are all the same 'type' of unit - no crumbling/dissolving, no weird magical ability. So you can easily make it so in a Medieval 3 game four faction's T2 semi-professional spearmanii behave like one of those four.

It's also something that was an issue for me in R2 where, maybe because my memory is DEI-ified, but every kind of unit could hold the line generally speaking long enough to flank and spank. Whereas in Warhammer chaff will get torn open and rout before you can resolve the flank cavalry action.

And frankly you can look to the accounts of someone like Anna Komena about the Latin knights that suggest certain cavalry could feasibly play off as sturdy as lower end monstrous cavalry. Like Cataphracts/Agulani/some special Latin Knight unit could be exceptionally sturdy and smaller in numbers with pikes or specialty anti-large and anti-armor halberds necessary.

Another example I want to try and mod into Pharaoh is 360 degree fire-while-moving archers for one of the guerilla types, be it Elamite or Babylon's Chaldeans (They're a bit too early but fuck it). I know from firsthand accounts I've read that Floridian Indians or thereabouts were real nimble bowmen - hug a tree for cover versus bullets and shoot behind it, second you stopped chasing them turn around and shoot. That's another Warhammery unit that could be transferred over.

>>532576870
whats in your brain anon

>>532578629
i agree with your assertion about rome 2 anon but in all honesty warhammer is even worse about units just sitting there and having absurd morale. not on the trash units certainly but a lot of units tier 2 and up just have absurd leadership and chain routs aren't nearly effective enough. whatever they end up doing in medieval 3, we desperately need actual full morale shocks and chain routs back. luckily pharaoh has pretty good chain routs so i have hope.

just bought wood elves and damn this nigga mel gibson can run

>>532578050
>>532578337
Thanks guys, I'll flip a coin and see how it goes.
>>532578905
Don't know, results from the magnetic machine aren't in yet, but it's been a rough couple of weeks.

I'm guessing my mods will break if I play the siege beta thing

>

>>532571842
deboonked

>>532579728
best of luck anon
also I don't care if this is retarded it's gonna be fun as fuck

>>532580510
not unless you are using something that affects sieges or maybe lord abilities

>>532579115
morale shocking with all the army abilities and summonable units would be insane, you wouldn't even fight battles as vcunts you'd just spam the -leadership spells with flying flanks and chain route everyone with terror
sadly another failure of the base team the dlc devs will have to patch *somehow*

>>532581814
I've done that one before, as long as you can deal with the auto resolve attrition it's incredibly effective.

Are people really able to dodge artillery like the AI?

>>532582228
autoresolve attrition?

>>532575854
Dynasties combat is actually so fucking good. I can't believe Lethality it wasn't even in the base game.

Man snikch campaign is fucked, he is surrounded by enemies that have like 100 aversion to you but love each other.
The only "friend" you have in the area is lokhir who will declare war on you as soon as one the cathay fucks do it.

>>532582825
While not awful the auto resolve isn't really kind to the horses (both outriders and the Black Rose Knights), auto resolve quite often will perform worse than a player would but I find it specially bad when using an army comp similar to this one. If auto resolve is off by 25% for a normal army I feel it's off by around 50% when it comes to the horse one.

>>532575854
>>532582883
I've just started playing it recently too, keep getting my ass handed to me trying to get used to infantry-based combat but it is a lot of fun, and the violence especially is really well-done
not just the gore, but things like limping soldiers and blood staining the rivers
combined with smooth controls and the battle mechanics, every battle feels life or death

>>532579115
Chain routing has become 'worse' in terms of being harder to pull off. I remember in WH2 that vampire/TK were crumbly cookies after killing the leader, now I feel like they actually are MORE resilient to a dead general than living units.

>>532579115
Stack leadership debuffs.

>>532585737
>just cheat

What's a good LL to test new siege rework with?

>>532586582
Kislev

>>532583362
Ahhh gotcha appreciate the explanation.
Either way next up is an army of volley gun steam tanks

cheaters, tell me
is there a cheat that gives Druchii every lore like they've needed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwchO_lYwhA&t=6606s
Next Unusual Locations will be more available for more factions, but not all (11:40)
Mention "Convenant of the Crimson Plague" - give growth but have risk of plague outbreaks (12:17)
Mention "Purple Hand Cult" - give research but spread cult around the world (12:32)
Talk about the idea of unit caps, can't say if they are going to add it or not, but if they do it will be with a toggle option (23:07)
Confirm taht rework of unique items and banners is still coming (33:08)
About Lizardmen Rework, mentions for Sacred Kroxigors, Chameleon Stalkers, Ripperdactyl Riders among the coming new Blessed Spawning (01:01:12)
The way Blessed Spawning grants units will probably be reworked to be a bit less random (01:02:58)
No other new units in 6.3 beside the Blessed Spawning ones (01:17:36)
No change to Climate Preference for TK and Lizardmen in 6.3 but may change the climates in the land-bridge between Lustria and Naggaroth to make campaign easier (01:18:48)
No new campaign mechanics for TK and Lizardmen LL who don't have one in 6.3, rework focus on changes to tech-tree, skills, buildings (01:22:35)
Some incoming Unusual Location may trigger battle (01:26:05)
Armored Cossars with spear never ever (01:35:15)
If they want to add Blood Vulturs to Rakarth roster they first have to ask GW (01:39:45)
TK 6.3 rework includes adjustments to units Tiers, tech-tree updated, units caps from tech tree, (01:43:16)
Heroes from TK, Lizardmen and Orcs & Goblin will have their skills reworked in 6.3 (01:49:18)

I didn't know this could happen to the AI

>>532588304
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2853846104

>>532588457
now click him and find out what """"""""attrition"""""" means for him and his units

>>532576332
>Snu-Snued to death

>>532588608
I mean it's not nothing

>>532588727
for ran out of money attrition? its tickling him

>>532588337
thx!

>>532588337
thx for the recap bro

Please make Thanquol poster a Brit.
Please make Thanquol poster a Brit.
Please make Thanquol poster a Brit.
Please make Thanquol poster a Brit.

Is the Luminark of Hysh worth using?

>>532542287
>>532542732
retard

>>532571842
That shit is scary, my own country could totally asks things similar to the UK government anyday
I don't want to be banned of 4chan.

>>532589353
well it's fine if you can afford a vpn subscription, until they ban vpns that is

Trying the siege beta with Grom since pump wagons fuck so hard and I haven't played him in a while. Anybody got opinions on the siege beta? I imagine it doesn't actually change anything and you'll still get gatebugged anyway.

>>532583387
Playing Suppiluliuma and having thunderstorms on battles is so kino, it makes going back to Kholek feel like shit.

This isn't easy or relaxing, some guy called Skulltaker just kicked everyone's ass.

>>532590541
he did say to watch out for skulltaker tbf

Also considering Franz's lord effect buffing state troops, is it really worth it to have handgunners over ironsides or long rifles? I kinda want to mix it up but I don't know if I want to give up the damage bonus

>>532532408
>>532532784
aint touching cathay, gay ass pandering to china and have to make them shiny and safe as fuck.. Fucking gw cant even make them interesting just glazing them and turned into some high chinese fantasy shit. Hong Kong and Taiwan is way cooler. Fuck me when you are waiting in the loading screen you find that one fucking quote that takes about cathy having better than the Empire and Dwarfs, the Fucking Empire that has the famous " Faith, Steel and Gunpowder" and the Dawi that made the stuff first and their guns and only outclassed by the Chaos dwarfs.

>>532591170
Not really if you're going for basic handgunners, definitely worth it if you're going for Gunderman's Surefires.

>>532591658
I menat to say surefires, yeah. Already disbanded them in favor of ironsides though, the missile strength was higher

>>532571842
fuck me

Do you guys actually bother assigning every single piece of magical gear and ancillary you get? is that why I'm shit at this game?

>>532550946
The moment you see someone use it understand immediately that they are a shitposter to be disregarded

>>532591901
Shame, they are somewhat weaker in the beginning but completely outclass Ironsides once they reach higher ranks and are buffed, the extra models really make a difference.

>>532592174
Oh they were max rank. I didn't notice the unit count though. Is there a way to calculate how much damage they even out to? multiply missile strength by model count?

>>532592025
It helps but it's not a game-changer. I usually only bother decking out my lords
I'm too lazy to give my heroes nice things unless it can actually help them on the campaign map

>>532592025
Early game i assign everything, then every like 20 turns after i fuse stuff and assign it all out.

>>532592319
I remember someone doing so once but it's not only about the missile strength, there was a whole thing about ironsides being sidegrades to even basic handgunners due to missile strength being off thanks to the reload time which inflated the value even though it had it's limit caps unlike the other stats directly tied to damage.

Any way to get the cool white trees from Averlon while playing wood elves?

>>532557032
>not daniel

HE YI SEES THE MANDATE OF HEAVEN PASSING FROM THE HAN

>>532592861
Military alliance, build an outpost up to get access to their global recruit pool. I think Gaean Vale starts with the relevant buildings, but it gets nuked by script for that mission to reclaim the territory, so it might take a while before Avelorn builds those buildings, if they do at all. I think they're identical to regular tree units so not really worth it, malevolent tree units are better

>>532571842
Nigel I dont feel so good...

Hammermanii or Ironbreakers?
For Thorgrim and generic lords

>>532549061
Aint no way a chaos warrior is tier 0.

>>532594039
Khorn sneeds it

>>532588337
>Climate Preference
this is a pointless mechanic and should not even exist

>>532593907
hammerers are not a lineholder unit, they're AP dmg dealers and are used in the same way as monstrous infantry - mix them in with the lineholders after the former have absorbed the enemy charge or flank with them

>>532591285
not playing content you paid for because of your "real life china bad" programming is retarded

>>532594724
>mix them in
nta but i've been wondering how well that works; charging in a back up damage dealer through my own lines instead of flanking with them to save time

>>532549061
GOBBOS

How is TCALUK gonna explain to Sega Daddy that they only produce 1 dlc in a year

Oh this is goinna be fucking neat

>>532553668
Ogryns are stronger and tougher but marines (in lore) move unbelievably quick for their size so likely the marine.

>>532596204
>3 heroes in an army
you fucking fagtron

>>532594639
It's a holdover from WH1 where humans/vamps couldn't take mountains, and orcs/dorfs couldn't take plains, as they were adapting to include more factions and make the system more granular. IMO the yellow/red categories should be merged with penalties closer to yellow, and some yellows moved up to green. Tzeentch for example having yellow for mountains is nuts, slopes are beyond their comprehension. +1 recruit turns is pure cancer, and the economic maluses are bad too, I get that restricting based on climate has some conceptual backing but it can feel really shitty as there's really nothing worthwhile to do with red settlements, other than sell (sometimes in exchange for vassalage lmao). Feels too like it's a semi-hidden huge buff or nerf to factions, like Gelt getting to settle in mountains or Nagarythe just permanently fucked out of the insane cash generation of holding all of Ulthuan, or Khatep surrounded by yellow and red in a race where growth and expansion are so crucial, Zhao and Miao getting kinda boned by the desert around Shang-Yang. I also think Wasteland and Savannah should just be merged, it's a pointless distinction and Savannahs are kinda rare anyway.

>>532596330
I like the buffs and being able to cast spells

>>532553668
Marines are/were so fast it puts you in a dreadful stupor to see them in action. Ogryns have gorilla strength but Marines are called angels of death for a reason.

>>532589665
probably somehow still illegal

Im going to make a marienburg landship doomstack and noone can stop me

>>532597369
boredom will stop you

>>532597369
Daring today, aren't we?

>>532591170
stop thinking in terms of "this unit doesn't get cheats so I shouldn't make it." you should be thinking "cool this unit I was going to make already gets a bonus."

>>532597901
okay squidward

>>532596335
i simply set all the climates to green for every race and it improves the shit experience atleast somewhat

>>532575854
med 3 isn't in development

>>532594639
it should be made even more strict to make map painters suffer.

>>532595527
it doesn't units will obstruct each other and not attack.

sheesh are ANY of the elector count state troop cav units worth it? not having good experiences so far

>>532598534
nobody plays this shit series without mods bruv

>>532598793
Maybe if you're playing volkmar and have the money to spare, They're still a very meagre upgrade at best.

>>532599010
I just remembered that volkmar doesn't even get to unlock them with money so no.

>>532596330
What's the problem?

>>532598793
the bordermen have ap grenades

>>532598793
No, I tried, time and time again with different lords, factions, stacking buffs, there's no point. They're useful for the first 20 turns, after that they're there to fill an emergency garrison with as much bullshit as you can fit.

>>532598534
>it should be made even more strict to make map painters suffer.
BASED. SO tired of seeing Bretonnians and Kislevites colonizing Norsca and the chaos wastes. Fucking ridicuous.

If anything, settlements in red climates should be little more than small outposts with tiny garrisons. Sort of like what wood elves or Warriors of Chaos set up when they capture a normal settlement.

AI doesn't care about climate, population, economy, public order, corruption, raiding, or anything. So it's currently just screwing the player over.

>look up what elector troop cav units actually do because I never played karl
>knights of morr have terror and itp aura
>this is considered useless by people itt
what game are you even playing because it's not total soihammer?

>>532599709
Retards here literally play on VH/Legendary KEK

>>532599709
>terror
>does anything

>>532599709
I spent entirely too many turns making a knights of morr volkmar doomstack and it sucked

>>532600474
nta but how are those units supposed to synergize

One more empire question: am I wasting time with halberdiers late game instead of demigryph halberds?

>>532573546
Most VPNs are blocked on 4chan

>>532600671
volkmar buffs knights of morr

Da Badlands... home.

my chivalrous skaven cant be this cute

>>532601690
at least it wuz till I zogged everyfing up...

>>532600474
>hmmm this unit has abilities that make it a very powerful support unit
>I will now make a 19 stack of it and complain when it doesn't work
seriously how do you people have so many hours in the game yet have zero ability to look at a unit card and tell what it's good for and how to use it in an army?

>>532600973
>hmm how does this infantry unit that costs 550 compare to a monstrous cavalry that costs 1500
same question as before. can you niggers seriously not read the stats and use your brains?

>>532589205
>get btfo
>wait to retry next thread

>>532600994
They should lynch whoever decided you needed to get 5 fucking books before even getting your knights.
>>532600973
Completely different roles, halberds are for line holding while demi-gryphs are intercepting and damage dealing. I ususally have both.

>>532580553
they're an excellent faction actually

Streltsi are so cool I wish they had a more heavily armoured elite T5 variant that could shoot over your frontline like Fireglaives.

oh shit it turns out steam tank doom stacks arent that great

bretonnia is shit gameplay its just spamming heroes and lords

You don't need more than 5 melee units at max to hold your frontline in the corner. Anymore is a waste when you could be using more ranged units for more DPS.

>>532602295
>gets charged through by a treeman

>>532551019
>introduce anti-camping zone to all maps where if a unit remains within 100m of the map edge for 60 seconds without being in combat it starts to quickly lose morale like if you only had flying units

This would obliterate wood elves tree buff. Almost every map ive ever seen has 98% of the trees around the edges of the map

>>532602340
You can snipe those way before they charge through

>>532602295
>corner
thats cheating

Whats /twg/'s opinion on sisters of thorn. I think im going to make like 5 of them for Ariel's army since she makes them so easy to recruit

>>532602295
That seems very cowardly.

>>532601825
it's not a powerful support unit and most support units in this game are rubbish anyway

>>532602585
i recruit them and send them to charge stormvermin halberds

Is 6 Stormvermin (3 of each) too much for Ikit Claw? I feel like he needs something to bog them down or enemies who may end up too close.

>>532601825
>it a very powerful support unit
Witch hunters give itp in a bigger aura and no-one runs them because it's not that good
Terror could be alright if they weren't shit on the charge but they are, it also diminishes in usefulness the higher the difficulty.
Add to that they're either very expensive or hard to get and and at tier 3 you can get way better cavalry, they just suck and aren't worth ever recruiting other than flavour.

>>532603074
>I feel like he needs something to bog them down or enemies who may end up too close.

Plague priest and vermintide

>>532601828
nobody uses the meme tiers ca introduced in game 3
tier of building needed for recruitment has always and will always be the tier for the unit

So, what's the first impression on the Siege rework?

>>532602295
>in the corner
stop cheating

>>532602621
>unit with terror and itp aura isn't a powerful support tool
ok retard

>very hard / very hard
god damn, the ai is spawning in armies after armies. do all my guys have to walk around in groups of 2-3 stacks?

>>532604350
It was kinda fun, in my first battle one of my siege towers got blown up and the battering ram almost instantly destroyed the gate which was nice, the real battle actually took place a bit further in than just inside the walls. However I quickly just went back to auto-resolving as soon as it was possible, fuck this game.

>>532604664
you simply get lightning strike

>>532604592
correct, 35m aura is basically worthless, cavalry are naturally separated from the rest of your units, immune to psychology is rubbish, terror isn't particularly special either

pretty much the only support units worth using are ones with mass regen, mass mortis, infinite wom, outside of those you may as well just get the biggest, baddest damage disher-outerer.

>>532604350
I've only done one battle so far in my poo'gath campaign.
Thoughts so far:
>manpower change = good
>battle AI actually put most of its forces up front to fight me instead of leaving 30% of its army on the last point = good
>battle AI still didn't actually send anyone on the walls to capture the towers until I was already on the walls = bad
Battering ram still needs to be faster but that's not a dealbreaker. Gates should otherwise be buffed by some other means, whatever tcal isn't too lazy to do I guess.

>>532604592
>everyone that uses them says they're shit
>umm akshully i read the stat card and they're good
Unironically kill yourself, retard.

>>532605074
>cavalry are naturally separated from the rest of your units
not empire cavalry

>immune to psychology is rubbish, terror isn't particularly special either
extremely wrong

>pretty much the only support units worth using are ones with mass regen, mass mortis, infinite wom, outside of those you may as well just get the biggest, baddest damage disher-outerer.
your grail reliquae? your war drum?

>>532605347
oh you're trolling, have fun champ

>>532605074
nta but i've never fucked with mortis engines or much with vampires in general, might do a ghorst campaign. do vcoast ger mortis engines or just counts?

I'LL HAVE THIS WORLD

>>532594724
Thorgrim buffs them a ton though...
Ans with his other buffs you can build his army to be really agrressive

>>532601789
kek

>>532605530
She should go see a doctor.
Skeletons and Humans dont mix

>>532602295
>>532602434
I run a mod to make battles last longer and ranged units less accurate

i don't know how anyone can play this shitshow of a game with vanilla balance

>>532605513
Just counts, you could allied recruit them i guess but it doesn't fit the vcount playstyle as much.

>>532605513
dont think so, vampire coast are pretty shit right now as a faction, ghorst is fun but if you go zombie/mortis spam you'll have to manually fight every battle because your army will be so low balance of power

if you have an older computer you will sit there lagging on 4x speed while your zombies sit in a corner of the map in a giant fuzzy ball

>>532605482
not an argument

>>532605808
funny that you think you need to install cheats because "vanilla balance" is bad when the balance is fucked up because both you and the ai were cheating in the first place.

>>532605863
fair enough

>>532605974
I've got a decent computer. What is it about it that makes them low balance of power? Doesn't apply buffs?

>just got a prompt to verify my age or I'll have my site access restricted to /b/
It's over UKbros.......

>>532606214
why did it have to be britbongs and not indians

Why is TW voice-acting so boring (Chaos, primarily) compared to Mark of Chaos? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLEjouZ8CzE
>captcha: GWRAG

>>532606201
ghorst buffs zombies to hell and back but i guess balance of power doesn't properly factor all of them in

>>532606320
It SHOULD have been the AUSTRALIANS!

>>532606451
oh hey moot good to see you

>>532606026
vanilla balance is dumb and you're dumb. It's not even a strategy game. It's just a power fantasy where you stack abilities and upgrades and steamroll the map. My game is probably 20 times harder and strategic than yours, because I've made it that way with my so called "cheats." Keep coping.

>>532606523
>where you stack abilities and upgrades and steamroll the map
so just don't do it? the only upgrades you are forced to collect are defeat traits.

>532606664
>just play suboptimally and handicap yourself bro
>while the AI continues to take advantage of all the game's broken systems
the eternal vanillafag.. No thanks I'll just mod my game to actually be strategic and challenging

>I want the game to be harder
>-ack not like that
cheater literally can't control his cheating and then claims that he's making the game harder by cheating even more

>>532606405
Makes sense. I wonder if that's why I could never get a ku'gath campaign off the ground because I could never get favorable autoresolve results

>>532607141
quality fucking screenshot

>>532607125
You or some other vanillafag were talking about corner camping and sniping a treeman with ranged weapons before it even reaches your lines

there is nothing strategic or difficult about the vanilla game. The AI is dumb, you can doomstack, and collect buffs like candy. You know I'm right but you're just doubling down and trolling. I have been playing since 2017 and have over 3000 hours played across these games. Don't take me for a fool, just kys instead

>>532607253
Thanks. Those giants beat the crap out of every landship, it was pretty awesome.

mmmmmm I think MODGODs won

Didn't read, still gonna corner camp

>modCHADS post hours
yep it's over for vanillaggers....

>nooooo you cant just sit in a part of the map i dont like
Where have I heard this before? Oh right
>MPnigger tries the actual difficult game mode and can't hang with SPgods so he has to cheat
lmfao

>>532607396
corner cheating is cheating obviously. no one forces you to do it. anyone that does is choosing to make the game easier by doing it.
>you can doomstack, and collect buffs like candy
you can but you don't have to. if you acknowledge that these things make the game easier than you can make the game harder just by not doing it. the reason that you won't stop is because you are a cheater. you have 3000 hours in the game but you never learned how to do anything but cheat. not cheating is "playing suboptimally" to you because you are so committed to cheating that you have confused it with skill. meanwhile you lack the simple ability to recognize how useful something like itp is or how empire cavalry is meant to be used.

>I WON by FLEEING from you in TERROR as I PISSED my PANTIES, OKAY?
>now excuse me as I masterfully shoot this robotic fish in a barrel
What do singlecels gain by saying such things? Is it a humiliation fetish?

>532608007
>the reason that you won't stop is because you are a cheater.
No, the reason I won't stop is because I dislike the dogshit vanilla experience. My game is objectively tougher than yours. I can't blitzkrieg across the whole map because I have a mod that nerfs replenishment. I can't snipe units in 5 seconds or stack buffs to insane degrees. My game is closer to the older Total Wars than the vanilla trash you play.
>you never learned how to do anything but cheat.
Do you seriously think I've learned nothing after 3000 hours of play? Nice cope, vanillafag. Cheating implies gaining an advantage dishonestly and unfairly. The whole game is about stacking buffs and traits so you can become invincibile and autoresolve through a dozen battles and achieve campaign victory. You admitted to doing this. My campaigns get rid of all that nonsense, so my game is objectively more fair and balanced than the dogshit you play.
>meanwhile you lack the simple ability
I lack nothing. I have 3000 hours played. I got sick of that vanilla dogshit that you play ages ago.

KYS and quit wasting my time, low IQ vanillafag.

Witness the POWER of VILITCH!
Yep, it's time for yet another Vilitch run.

>>532596330
Three is a reasonable number if they all bring something different to the table
In this instance the captain has some overlap with the general but still valid for the unit buffs
You're the fag here

https://youtu.be/sbELXBK7nnw?t=407
behold.... the real time "strategy" experience of the vanillafag

>>532609251
>poisoning your brain with content parasites and grifters
Behold...

Why is it that when Legend played mp he completely obliterated everyone but when these supposed mpgods play sp they get completely wiped in manual battles that would've been decisive victories in AR?

Personally for me in games, the term cheating is exclusive only to when a player goes outside of what is programmed into the game to give yourself an advantage. The trick to get people to break alliances because of the bug that makes them agree more if they hate you? That's a cheat because it's clear you're not meant to be able do that. Spamming doomstacks and corner camping, I don't consider these cheating because you can totally do that within the intended boundaries the game mechanics made. It's "cheesing" sure, but not cheating.

>Why is [insane legend babble fanfic]
Is this the best SPups can offer? Mere excuses?

Bum-rushing a Chorf at the start of the game is great as they don't have the means to recruit anything other than not-slaves. It's all starting army + slaves, and extra lord + all slaves.

>>532610453
Are tzeentigors that good or just good vs chaff? Never used them.

>insane legend babble fanfic
https://youtu.be/jElk_g1Rtxo

>Grimgor's waaagh target was Zhatan's capital
>his army is next to it
>I siege and take it from them
>next up he's laying siege on Kholek's capital
>I kill Grimgor's army with help of the settlement and small army that was Kholek's
>then take Kholek's capital, wipe him out, take the Norsca tribe
For Tchar.
>>532610553
They're decent and worth using, even just one unit of them. That battle I had them exclusively attack Orc Slaves as they had two units of them isolated then just run around covering my army's rear from routing then returning enemies. Most of their damage is armour piercing which is nice, and of course, cavalry with barrier is extra juicy.

>>532608995
Can u post mods that do this?

>>532608995
I kneel...

>>532549061
skinks

The empire ai truly learned from legend how to build proper stacks. Also, I noticed there are wagons that are basically hellstorms? Hopefully this battle is not too aids.

>>532610924
Nice to see another based Tzeentch enjoyer, even though you're using the woc. Also, are you using any visual mods? your game looks so much cleaner than mine, just got a new gpu but with everything on ultra I still feel it looks weird.

Which faction in 3K is closest to the mongols?

Has anyone made a mod to remove all the singleplay leader skills that stack a billion buffs onto leader armies?

The game feels way more fun in the early turns when every unit doesn't have +10000 hp and +10000 armor piercing and +10000 damage

Do NOT Estimate me. I am playing Elspeth right now on N/VH

>>532612273
Ma Teng for slower but tireless cav or Gongsun Zan for fast horse archers

>take settlement with first army
>second army is in reinforcement range to help them out if the ai attacks
>ai sieges the settlement with one army preventing the army inside from reinforcing and attacks the second army turning it into a 3v1
>retreat with the second army
>ai attacks the other army stuck inside the settlement afterwards
im genuinely impressed by the ai doing this since i cant remember the ai doing this a single time in 2k+ hours of warhammer

>>532612627
i made one that removes red line and tech buffs

>>532614380
can you link it?

I have literally waited years for this to be a mod and it feels like nobody playing this game gives a shit about challenge they're all just retarded incompetent brits who want the game to be some kind of power fantasy where they just steamroll everything without effort

>AI athens has like 2 settlements
>3 fully stacked out stacks
oh fuck off
gonna be cancer

this little nig is my client state too he just attacked me instantly but I savescummed to better prepare

>>532610553
Centigors in general are Dogs but better (ie can kill routing enemies quickly). I find them useful since they can also opportunistically pick off light cav and rallied units. They also break ranged units far faster. The Barrier is icing on the cake, as they avoid losing models to chip damage between fights.

>>532614073
not even close boys

>>532602295
Man I would love if CA would change the nature of maps to be basically infinite in size.

You still have a small area where you can deploy, reinforcements spawn at the start of the battle and march towards you and have to reach some point before you gain control of them, but no more fucking hard map edges. Maybe make it so you get debuffed for moving too far from the center of the map to prevent infinite kiting, or just have every map have some central victory point you can grab to force a rout.

we have 25 years of this franchise, and it's still completely held back by the optimal plays all being centered around immersionbreaking cheese and exploits

>>532616326
It really pisses me off that you can't rearrange unit cards in 3K
That alone makes it almost unplayable

>>532614809
https://www.mediafire.com/file/fijmg8sqh80tgob/Redline_buffs.pack/file
drop it in the game data folder
it may be missing some buffs/techs because there are thousands of them and some have autistic naming schemes that follow no logic at all

>>532617991
it's the stat card for me, who thought it was a good idea to use icons instead of words to indicate the stats

>>532590074
>I imagine it doesn't change anything and you'll still get gatebugged anyway
pretty much, sieges feel better with two small armies fighting, but any full sized battle still has all the same issues

What fertility rites do the greenskins know?

>>532618483
well the wolves and boars still reproduce normally

>>532617970
make the edges of the map retreat zones similar to ambushes so your units flee from the battle if they stay there

>>532618571
And Squigs!

>>532618827
nah squigs are the same family as the other shroomy gits

>only N'kari can siege settlements for Slaanesh
now THIS is kino

>>532618875
In 40k at least they specifically do breed. Is this different in fantasy?

ORCS ARE MUSHROOMS?

>>532618483
and you fags tried to tell me that it's not lore accurate for the big sweaty hunky orcs in the tribe to pass around a cute night goblin twink high on aphrodisiac shrooms
jokes on you

>>532618936
yeah they're fun guys here
I dunno how 40k works but I assumed that squigs came seeded with everything else to establish the orks ecosystem, that sounds fucking retarded if they just spawn out of thin air and get to fucking

>>532619126
the reason why we never see greenskin females is because they are all down in the caves getting their pussies licked by squigs all day

I think some characters in 3K should have a hidden homosexuality trait so male spies would have some actual use

I tried to corner camp against Vlad and all of my units terror routed off the battlefield.
Why is that little guy so scary?

>>532619513
He scary man. I'm just a horsie.

>>532619513
he's scary because he's a VAMPIRE and vampires are SCARY

>>532619331
you can spam the faction shit talking option as male spies just fine

>>532619513
that's the power of respecting women

>>532618272
Yeah, the UI is easily the worst part of the game

>>532618483
Punching eachother harder than usual so they spread more spores

RIP Britbongs. You never stood a chance against the "Protect the Kids" thought terminating cliché.

>>532619513
He thinks consent is sexy

>>532550517
>put greenskin in a cage
>interrogate him
>learn the secrets of greenskin strategy
>array your spearmanii in a spaghetti thin line
>bellow out an ear-splitting WAAAGH!!!! as your coneheads countercharge to meet the enemy
Eltharion is pretty wild I really wish they had his voice actor voice the WAAAGH!!!

>>532618483
Bigger pile of poo for the mushrooms.

>>532619318
There were some greenskin cheerleader models back in the day.

>>532620069
Anyone who doesn't know what a VPN is shouldn't be on 4chan.

has anyone here played rome 2 para bellum recently, where are the knossos archers? I own crete now
do the toxitai somehow turn into them or something

so tldr, removing ass ladders did jackshit and sieges are still auto autoresolve
Surprise surprise

>>532620931
They're still in bloodbowl

>>532575981
>lethality also makes javelin units actually worthwhile for once
Did you never play third age total war and use snaga skirmishers?

>>532621050
Can't post without a pass though.

>>532621050
the trouble is finding one that 4chan doesn't reject outright

>>532596335
>>532598276
the climate adaptation mod makes it a good system again

>>532621050
why would i stop some government goon having to read my shitposts on 4chan
bro is probably going mental at this point

>>532548138 (OP)
I am about to play Malekith for the first time. Any tips?

>>532622076
Darkshards are the best unit in the game

>>532622076
Kill Grombrindal before he decides to kill you

They should change how the edge of the battle maps work.
Instead of an impenetrable invisible wall it should be a grey zone, like in FPS game.
You can exist the combat area of the map for few seconds but can't stay outside or you die.
It will allow cavalry and fast units to flank units trying to corner.

>>532622076
Kill Alith Anar before he decides to kill you (he's already decided to kill you, its lore accurate)

Just had my most frustrating defeat in a long time. >Fight with elspeth very early against Vampires.
>Easily wipe more than 50% of their army on approach
>my entire army instantly starts terror route conga once lines are touched
>entire army literally breaks like a sand castle
I hate Empire early game, garbage stats and garbage leadership guarantees they will instantly break and run against skellies they would win otherwise every time.

>>532622076
Alith Anar and Batman are hunting you down the moment you make your first turn

>>532622569
Again, why someone corner campaigns bothers you?
Its a single player game and the AI dont corner camp

>>532622076
Like others said, Darkshards with shields will last all the way to lategame. And take care of Grombi or befriend him asap. Otherwise just keep an eye on Valkia and Alithanar in case they get uppity and consolidate. Once you have warleader you can start expanding aggressively.

>>532622916
Empire early game infantry gotta be the shittiest in the entire game per gold cost
It folds to anything, I swear they fold to skavenslaves if left alone

>>532622916
I recommend bring 2 armies when you invade Sylvania. All is good once Elspeth gets her dragon but before that you are relying on Empire Swordsmen and Spearmen.

Are the GCCM mods good?

>>532622916
Meanwhile t0 kossar with spears can fight toe to toe against chosen

Which warhammer character can be played by a Pedro Pascal? For me its Wegh.

>>532623201
Oh I know. This is REALLY early. As in fucker squatting at Pheildorf. These swordmen make me wish I disbanded them and just took Free companies to kite skellies.

>>532623420
Kislev gets great frontline units but at the cost of lesser artillery, fewer spell lores and no flying entities.
Empire will never feel the relief of having a frontline of Tzar Guard but Kislev will never get to enjoy watching their enemies be obliterated by Helstorm Rocket Batteries.

>>532623017
1) with CA's current trend you will be able to turn it on/off
2) sometime AI put his units near the edge on the map on MY campaign and i can't flank them

>>532623017
>AI dont (!) corner camp
They do sometimes though. For example I had it yesterday when their reinforcements arrive from that corner, they deploy and camp the corner.

>>532622076
Do not sleep with your mother

Is Golgfag the only LL with RoR-specific buffs?

>>532623758
This is why I always turn on timers for battles
If I got attacked and the AI is sitting on the corner I will not fucking move
If I was the one attacking then im fucked, but I never got corner camped by the AI

>>532624289
How low is that timer, then? I have a timer on 60 minutes (never even gets close to that). In my experience they will eventually move anyway. Also you can have something long ranged to poke at them and they will eventually assault, e.g. long range spell, a ranged hero, artillery etc.

>>532624390
60 minutes, which I just put 3x speed and wait while using my second monitor
But I think I only ever had to do that like, one time a very long time ago, its very easy to bait the AI

>>532623440
King Louen

>>532623017
>me: "i want more options in my campaign, to be able to flank from outside the map"
>you: "WHY DO YOU WANT TO GENOCIDE ME !!!"

Some rather strange and rare defeat traits out there.

>>532621347
I wasn't referring to the older pre-Warscape games in that post, velites in RTW are pretty great.

How come my gunpowder units in Warhammer 3 don't seem to shoot? Ever? Playing Elspeth

>>532626850
>>532627036
>Still no "Black on Black violence" defeat trait for Arkhan and Zhatan

Who is the meain protagonist of Warhammer 3?
Also who is the maint antagonist?

>>532627659
The AI on ranged units in general is poor. Even when LOS can not be an issue, such as shooting a ranged target, it's a coin-flip whether they will shoot at all. As much as gunpowder factions can be fun, mixing cavalry with infantry, gunpowder troops with artillery, it can be dizzyingly frustrating–often is. Only advice I can give outside of the obvious "do they actually have clear and direct LOS" is to ensure they have some space around them. Another great example is ranged units trying to shoot a target going from one side to another, holy shit it's annoying watching them just shift about and never shooting.

>>532627968
>shooting at a ranged target
A flying target. Extra annoying when said flying target is clearly going for them.

>>532626850
>>532627036
>he doesnt know

>>532626850
>>532627036
wait it's real???? Based if true.

>>532628417
>t.

>Halt army
>Army still moves
???????????????

>>532628738
Beyond

TOT is going to add Ogres of Slaanesh so Slaanesh will have 1 siege unit.

>>532588337
>rework of unique items and banners is still coming
I'd also add that the way they are talking is inconclusive. They don't know if they want a change to ancilliary movement time (so you can't move ancilliaries around instantly), but if they decide they want this change, it will likely be together with the unique item/banner rework. The way they talked about the whole unique item changes seemed at first as if it's almost done and was only barely cut out from the previous rework, but later on it seems like they've only started on these. Either way the anons who said Sofia are the only ones working on Warhammer 3 are fucking wrong, these Bongs are still on it, partially or otherwise.

Did all towns usually give you a city battle map a few years ago? I'm just watching some playthroughs and towns that usually is just a field has their own town map

Space Marines will bow to the OGRE GUT OF THE MAW

>>532629382
>Did all towns usually give you a city battle map a few years ago?
They used to give you the same map that they now only give you if you have tier 3 walls.

>>532629516
Woah, Guardsmen are built like THAT?!

>>532588337
Am I going to finally have a reason to use any lizardman units that aren't one of the giant dinosaurs?

Kroxigor and Skinks especially feel fucking terrible to use. Like I'm purposefully handicapping myself.

>>532627861
>Protagonist
Tzarina Katarin of Kislev
>Antagonist
Belakor the Lord of Shadows

I THINK CIVILIZATION SUCKS

>>532630975
t. aurox

I like the siege updates so far. Not perfect yet, but def. better than live and they have the right ideas.
Am I a based epic 4channer or a s0yb0y reddit gooner?

>>532631576
The sieges the game launched with are so bad it's hard for them to come up with anything worse.

And their improvements are barebones. Just about the minimum you could possibly do to fix sieges.

>>532630617
what is this mod for chaos realm?

>prepare to deal with azazel before he decided to kill me
>the savage blow
Alright, fuck you too game

>>532627861
Warhammer 1:
Protagonist: Karl Franz
Antagonist: Archaon

Warhammer 2:
Protagonist: Tyrion
Antagonist: Malekith actually, it is the Skaven

Warhammer 3:
Protagonist: Yuri
Antagonist: Ursun

It's over

'ow many waaaghz cud a waaaghboss waaagh if a waaaghboss cud waaagh waaaghs?

>>532631576
Literally anything would be a step in the right direction but there are so many things that would need to change to make sieges interesting and not brainless slogs and I just don't see that happening. Most of the things that would materially improve sieges probably aren't even possible on the WH engine fork anymore.

Give me siege escalation.
Give me fire propagation and destructible city environs.
Give me wall-mounted artillery and deployables
Give me siege maps that don't suck absolute ass

All they really did is remove ass-ladders (good) and make it so that towers don't spawncamp you. There are so many good ideas and concepts from previous TW sieges that could be put to work here but aren't because CA is inept and Sophia doesn't have the resources to re-implement derelict code.

>>532633178
>Give me siege maps that don't suck absolute ass
Im gonna say what everyone already knows but maybe dont want to admit
The community will have to make better siege maps.
CAs is never doing that, they're all hands on 40k now and have handed the game to the bulgarians. End Times cant be that far off now.

Good news is the AI in WH3, even with the overly complex MP focused GCCM maps seems to be able to handle it alright.
Its never gonna be great, and Im not suggesting people copy those maps outright, but something better than the vanilla maps is feasible.
I mean, they managed to navigate this monstrosity about as well as could be expected of a total war AI.

>>532633746
I actually wonder how much codebase the warscape games share. You could, for example, port maps between Attila and ToB. I wonder if you could port old siege maps into WH3 and just reskin them.

How is the new AI? Does it work?

Imagine if the next Total War game has a new engine.

>>532634294
From what I hear on the CAs Glassdoor reviews, there is a LOT of technical debt and outdated tools, so I can fully believe that you could probably port them. Probably an immense amount of work tho, making your own is probably easier.
And again, I fully admit even modded maps will be imperfect. For example, in this map, they had no problem using a ram to smash the gate or using towers, but even when they controlled the intact gates they didnt use em.
But they got inside and all the way to that ridicilous castle. Half the army didnt sit outside the map and did nothing.
If I have to accept that to get something fresh to play, I'll fucking take it.
The vanilla AI is hardly perfect either, it constantly leaves sections of the wall unmanned.
We're never gonna get GOOD siege AI, at least in this game.
Best we can hope for is acceptable.

>>532632651
I agree. Killing myself soon

>>532634558
In practice there's no reason to make a new engine because the software/hardware environment hasn't changed enough to make that necessary. New engines really only come about in order to maintain compatibility or functionality as the standard tools and tech in the market change, like when operating systems transitioned from 32 to 64 bit.

But I think there's a very high chance they secured funding from SEGA to pay off some of their backlogged technical debt. They're probably going unreavel some of the spaghetti code and expand some features of their main engine, maybe even backtrack to an older fork like 3K's and build up from there in order to sidestep some more recent technical failures.

I think the whole idea behind cancelling all of their in-progress projects and going a year with 0 releases or announcements really indicates that the technical environment they were developing on has been all but abandoned and they were taking significant pre-production time to redevelop that environment.

>>532635215
I am a complete techlet, so I'll take your word for it.
If you were to guess, when do you think their new titles are releasing?

August will see the release of the June video blog.

>>532635858
Cant wait for the November (31st) release!

>>532548783
any more centurii art?

>>532635358
They've claimed they're making announcements in the fall (end of their fiscal year) so my guess is that from announcement to release will be 3-6 months, maybe delayed to 9 months if the unforeseen happens.

Assuming they have at least 2 parallel TW projects underway, which is what their communication seems to suggest, I would expect at least a 6 month release gap between them, but they may also avoid releasing them both in the same year, in which case I'd expect the first to come out between spring and summer, and the 2nd to come out in winter 2027.

Release plans are as much about marketing and financials as they are about production so it's hard to predict when exactly they'll choose to release things, but there's also a limit to how long they can just sit on WH3.

What the fuck, do some Skaven lords say "Channel Five Chaos?" on the campaign map?

>>532636441
Yeah, makes sense. Then there's that Alien Isolation 2 they're making. I wonder how many resources that one is getting right now. I recall game 1 selling alright and getting good reviews, but it wasnt like a huge hit.

>>532636752
It sold a lot over time, becoming kind of a cult classic but it wasn't a giga-seller at launch, no. It's one of those steady but low income games for CA, on top of the heaps of praise it mostly got.

Combine that with Mandalore's videos and having the smarts to take a step back and at least try to fix TWarhammer and CA should be thankful Hyenas didn't fucking kill them.

>>532635925
It will release on the 1 year anniversary of Omens of Destructions.

>>532636590
What did it do?

Daily reminder if you doomstack you haven't beaten the game.

>>532637509
Does solo Tamurkhan count as a doomstack?

>>532638062
lol you got me. It's the intendet way of playing the game. So I would say no. There are lots of 1 LL doomstack armies in the game.

>>532595908
What should I do after uniting the Donut as Alarielle?

>>532637490
Rune of farting.

>>532636590
I wonder at which point in history people came up with womb tattoos

One great use for a Geomantic Web Rework would be to include a commandment that would give all your dread saurians +1% missile resist per province enacting that commandment, up to +5% scaling with web strength.

>>532609069
where should I go as vilitch

>>532594991
I don't like the chinks, but i might have played them if they weren't so gay and was much closer to their original design with one dragon emperor than this dragon family bullshit.

How the fuck are fucking ghouls his most dangerous troops, what the shit they never do this much damage when I lead them

Aranessa Sexspite

>>532640492
They buffed the mid infantry a while back

>>532602295
Even if you are corner camping, what are you gonna do when the enemy doesn't come to you?

>>532640492
he gets bonuses for the vamp units no?

Is it just me or have Ogres fallen victim to MPfagging and are sort of a joke on the field now? I'm surprised at how well my Chorfs and even hobgobs can handle elite Ogre armies.

>>532642506
>>532641872
But they're ghouls! Pathetic tier

Imagine if Vampire Count Ghouls came with cocks and could mindbreak NTR female units

>>532640492
>>532641872
ghouls carried my early Arkhan campaign back in 2. They are the lowest tier monstrous infantry unit and have always really good for mulching chaff when flanking.

Haven't played in ages, is Cavalry still fucked in Warhammer 3? I'll never get over them not porting over the Warhammer 2 fix after we waited YEARS to get it there.

>>532643525
its pretty shit, they get stuck inside other units and then if even one model is in combat the rest will run back in like retards ignoring every command you make

>>532638497
>>532636590
>>532642374
cute

>>532644024
Do they still lose horribly to countercharging infantry though?

>>532643525
>>532644024
it's somewhere in between wh2 and wh3 launch, it's fine if you spam click but not everyone wants to do that understandably

>>532644529
its not, it doesnt matter how much you spam click if one entity is stuck inside the rest will ignore your move order and charge back in and die

>>532644459
If you think that makes them bad you're shit at the game

>>532644643
unironic skill issue

>>532644958
>charge focused units instantly shredding on a mutual charge with non-charge focused units isn't a problem
I'm not sure if you either don't understand the problem they had at one point, or you're so stockholm syndromed you don't see why it's a problem.

>WoC fans are pushing back on the siege rework
Oh nonono, Chaos sissies cant handle the lack of assladders

>>532645286
it's a retarded MPtard that plays on N/N and thinks doing anything he saw legendoftotalwar do is cheating

>>532645430
>>WoC fans are pushing back on the siege rework
Why?

>>532645286
Cav gets fantastic gold value as is, they don't need to win against counter-charging blocks of infantry too
>>532645481
You're bad

>>532645430
Same turn sieges are my hill to die on. If they remove that I'll just cheat it back in.

>>532645430
nice diversion from the real issue at hand

>>532643379
The flower of Bretonnia has been blighted...

>>532645639
Do you never want to save a settlement?

>>532645481
Okay but is it still broken? Idc about convincing a retard that bad things are bad.
>>532645637
I don't care about their gold value, I care about the game functioning properly.

>>532645813
Defensive sieges are far away the least played battle type

>>532645813
my last campaign was like 250 wins 15 losses of which 7 were minor settlements and 8 were some combination of ambushes, intentional losses, solo lords etc.

so no, i dont know what i would gain from this trash idea

>>532645630
Sieging for 1 turn is hard.
>>532645639
Just toggle ON the ass ladders.

Prima Noctis in the Empire, but the instead of the Elector Count a Beastman would fuck the wife.
You rike this tradition?

>>532646593
hello r/AsianMasculinity

>>532643420
crypt ghouls, not crypt horrors. They're not monstrous infantry, they're stalker infantry.

>>532642970
AI is retarded at using monstrous infantry. When have you last played Ogres?

>People complain Siege battles are not fun
>CA lobotomize AI to try to not siege and seek Land battle
>people sill complain
>CA start working on fixing Siege battles
>Retards sperg out about how there is barely any Sieges battle anyway

>>532646571
Sqvire is like early 20s or something

BVILT for Big Beastman Cock

>>532646419
i dont use assladders, /twg/ told me they were removing siege attacker from most units

>>532647346
*Big Beastfuta Cock

>>532647056
am I a retard for wanting non bugged doors?

>>532648363
yes

>>532648692
am I entitled to ask for an AI who doesn't get lost in its pathing while it's getting pounded by towers? Or ennemies shooting you through the walls ground

>>532648796
Stop being anti-semitic

>>532648894
ALL I WANT IS A FUN EXPERIENCE CA

>>532646593
>but the instead
hello ranjeesh

>>532645813
If you aren't a complete scrub you should almost never be getting sieged.

>>532647056
CA is just doing retarded faggoty half measures and its going to kill this game.
>improve AI somewhat in the beta
>revert 90% of the changes because of crybabies
>include toggleable options for the AI and siege changes meaning all changes have to work without changing anything, ergo the changes will be minor
>siege rework feedback will include 10,000 N/N players angry they can't capture a settlement every turn anymore thus reverting 90% of the changes of the siege beta and CA just cancels doing betas for doing the exact wrong thing from good data

>>532649443
>>improve AI somewhat in the beta
how

>>532649013
no fun allowed, you are caught in this hell for all eternity
you will learn to love siege battles, and praise TCALUK daily for delivering us deployable ladders while ignoring the pain deep inside

>>532649612
but the assladders were the least of the problems...

Total War gamers would autoresolve Helm's Deep...

>>532571842
>be british
>pay 4chan license
>still don’t get 4chan
the jokes write themselves

It’s been 20 years and I’m still annoyed that bronze shield pikemen are better than silver shield pikemen. Silver is supposed to be better than bronze. They do look cooler tho, and I understand that it’s a balancing thing so that macedon has something strong since the seleucids get elephants and cataphracts. Silver shields only have 10 attack and 14 defense for a 2-turn recruitment unit which is not that good, producing two phalanx pikemen in the same amount of time seems better strategically, since they’re 8/13 and only 3 points weaker overall
thank you for reading my blog have a nice day

>kill Akhan
>meanwhile Volkmar the Atheist takes over the Cracked Land
Should I fucking kill him for ze Lady? I have no settlements that I would trade him

>>532651180
wait until all your other enemies are dead then kill him later

>>532651452
But I want to build up that territory the way I want to not let him fucking shit up the place with his unholy crap

>>532650252
I would hold Helm's Deep with 1 unit of Cohors, 2 units of Comitatensis Spears and 1 unit of Scout Equites.

>>532642216
Move an artillery to shoot their units until they are forced to move

>plagues spawned by cults don't count towards epidemius' faction mechanic
for FUCK's sake CA

>>532651804
What if they have more artillery?

>>532651615
do it then

>>532602295
Disgusting that people actually play like this

the book helms deep was better, they pump themselves up with speeches and the horn and actually win the melee and push the attackers out of the fortress just in time for the reinforcements and huorns to complete the encirclement :) the books are all about how men have way more power than they realize and can accomplish great feats when they conquer their fear :)
thanks for reading! <3

>>532652421
>banned from the worldroots because the phoenix king issued a worldroots safety law
asur """superiority"""

>>532652421
And now Asur beg forgiveness and feel shame and guilt constantly, with completely disarmed survival instincts allowing Lothern to be inhabited by a constantly growing number of humans

>>532639568
I typically go NW but it's consistently harder than farming Cathay. Kholek can be tough, Tamurkhan is always difficult. This run I had my army mostly wiped out two times due to him.

I love how the nerds start passive aggressively talking warhammer lore whenever other lore is discussed as a way of burying the posts they don’t like. I notice this tribal monkey behavior everywhere I go. The unspoken passive aggressive ignoring of a poster that the tribe has an unspoken agreement to ignore. My favorite thing is psychoanalyzing this as it happens and watching them continue to do it despite the obvious embarrassment that should be commonly associated with being predicted like a fucking animal. They just happily do what you predict they will do, because they are automatons who only ever open their mouth to increase their status. Networking culture is a pathetic vestigial organ of tribal politics that I will hopefully eliminate when I finally assume my throne and take over the world. You may now proceed to passive aggressively bury my post after the traditional few minutes of silence to really let the target know that they are not welcome

>>532646841
>AI is retarded at using monstrous infantry. When have you last played Ogres?
that's beside the point, hobgobs have no charge defence and their stats aren't great, an ogre charge should break their frontline without the Gorduz buffs and even with some redline buffs, but it does not.

>>532608995
lmao absolute cheatsfag melty.
>The whole game is about stacking buffs and traits so you can become invincibile and autoresolve through a dozen battles and achieve campaign victory.
no one is forcing you to do that. you can play the campaign without doing any of that without having to install any cheats. you claim to be tired of vanilla but you obviously never once played a campaign without corner cheating or cheatstacking because you consider it part of "vanilla" gameplay and refuse to simply not do it. now you add even more cheats on top of the cheat pile and pretend that it's making the game harder when actually you are just cheating even more.

IT'S UP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH5eC4ZV7aU

>>532652421
This is lovecraft, right?

>>532653782
you lost faggot, no need to reply this late to try to salvage your ego

>>532650252
I downloaded the beta and still AR 99% of my sieges

suffering through vanilla builds character
modding of any kind makes you happier and therefore is cheating

>>532651887
Then I move one quick lord or hero on a mount to run around and deplete their ammo

Did they forget to add AI to allied armies reinforcing your army? They're literally branded and just charge forward with everything disorganized

>>532653839
qrd?

>>532654729
allied armies have always been braindead, they exist only to soak up enemy fire before you go in

>>532654729
They were overtaken by the will of Khorne, many such cases.

>>532654907
>qrd
gbog is a utilitarian tranny hating jew who doesn't even get pussy and I'm better than him at total war

>>532655062
>>532655064
But why hasn't it been fixed then? This game has a decade of development and support

>>532655538
it's how allied armies have always worked in the series, apparently CA just thinks that's how they should act

>>532655538
My little anon cannot be this adorably naive!

Fastest speedrun Ive done on Festus, I probably should have waited one more turn for him to respawn but Vlad is being a massive faggot rn and declared war and I see Kemmler creeping on my side

>Finally get a chance to try siege beta
>In a Chorf phase so go for Astragoth ZOOLAHOO
>Finally get to first siege battle against Silver Pinnacle
>Can build all 3 types of equipment in one turn, cool
>It's a good AR result but decide to go manually anyway just to try out the changes
>The same units as before have siege attacker/wallbreaker
>Vamps put no units on the walls, not one, so I can just ignore towers, break down the gate, and blob in as usual
So the changes were just removing assladders and making the AI even more braindead? Has anyone else had this issue with the AI not manning wall towers or is this just a one off?
I'll play more this evening but man what a letdown.

Back to my Eltharion beta campaign.
Will try to storm Karaz-a-Karak just with the bolt thrower, the Ogres and Stormwings.
Still not sure about what to do with the city if I won the battle, keep it or raze it

there's no reason to actually kill all these rebel armies because they have no effect on public order or population growth. The only exceptions are if they are blocking your path, or you want to try to get a man of the hour.
these rebels armies will stand here doing nothing for the rest of time.

>>532656053
i was playing for like 12 hours yesterday on 3.5 different factions and yeah, it's a complete nothingburger

>>532654010
you didn't beat the game

>>532656053
vampires are infamously the worst faction at defending a settlement. It's their greatness tactical weakness. when you are literally the "no missile unit" faction, you have to always be on the attack or you're just get shot to death

>>532656531
You lost too

why is kislev like this?

>>532656864
you will never win, because achievements gained by cheating don't count.

>>532651064
>Silver is supposed to be better than bronze.
Umm no, if you show up with silver armor and weapons to fight someone with bronze ones you're gonna have a bad time.

>>532657135
>that one in the background where a rock is floating
K*slev.......most powerful human faction.......

>>532657135
BEYOND YOUR COMPREHENSION

>>532657221
the game has no acheivements, retard
theres no win condition either, you can only lose the game

>>532657286
silver shield pikemen don't have literal silver weapons and armors you dumb faggot, it was ornamental in the same way you can gild armor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyraspides

>>532656053
>Why is the ai braindead
>Siege against Undead
Are you serious?

>>532658241
erm, you weren't supposed to point that out, sweetie

>>532656784
AI needs a sally out mode in the same way an outranged faction will rush you on the field

>Continuing the Elspeth campaign
>Finally have to deal with Vlad
>Half his army is gold chev dogs
Oh well FUCK ME IN PARTICULAR I GUESS

>>532656191
Easy peasy.

>>532658674
>helstorms have nearly un-matched range
>foreign recruit one into a stack of saurus and dinos
>AI rushes into a wall of death because they're outranged

>>532658674
AI actually does this, but only when a ranged unit is close to the walls without support

>>532659075
>>532659264
>out of roster recruitment
cheaters out in full force today, hiding their shame, too

Does anyone actually use the special handgunners you get in the vamp campaign? I’ve found that they don’t mesh well with the playstyle unless you build an entire army around them. It’s been a while since I played vamps. I was thinking it would be fun to build a missile army as vamps utilizing their mechanics and alliances, but then why not just play empire at that point, idk

So I've found that going after Festus and reviving the Elector Counts
>le summon le Elector Counts maymay
Is actually the ideal way to play Franz now with the AI potential, I went after Festus to save Talabecland and Hochland and they've been my greatest support so far, its allowed me to expand and take Sylvania out pretty easily and the best part is Kemmler is easier to deal with when I decide to capture Marienburg and the Bretonnian settlements. Surprisingly saving Toddy has left him pretty capable of keeping both the Norscans and Kemmler rwrapped up, however I might need to go save him soon but not before finishing Vlad off once and for all

>>532659264
Ranged advantage leading to blind charges from the AI one of the best things about Ku'gath, until you start facing cathay/Gelt with lots of artillery.
Also, Lizards and dawi are such a kino pair for allied recruitment, particularly eaay for Kroqgar and Thorek.
>thunderers in front of stegadons, irondrakes on the flanks of saurus walls
>dawi getting some kroxigors and dinosaurs

>just gambled on a fart and lost
I don't need an LL for this feel because I was already playing nurgle

>>532659883
If you want to use shootmen as vamps just play as Vlad and get his diplomacy skills along with Lahmian bloodline
You can get it to like +70 to counter whatever the aversion is and they're all asking to team up as you kill Ungrim and Katarina so you can then spook the fuck out of Chaos

>>532659883
Basically never and I play a lot of VCounts. I did once recently and they're great, I wouldn't dismiss them. It's actually what you'd like to get when you play such a faction; some ranged. Both the crossbowmen and handgunners are great.

>>532659883
even Legend doesn't recommend them in his VC tier list and he was all about range spam in WH2

>>532657434
nope sorry it still doesn't count. stop corner camping. stop doomstacking. stop abusing settlement trading. stop taking skills or researching techs that buff units. finish one campaign without using any of these cheats and then you can say that you beat the game and that "vanilla" is too easy.

>>532660887
none of that has anything to do with the game

>zuch relentless 'eat... zuch opressiònne
post sweaty repanse

>>532661083
legendstsunwife.jpg

>>532661093
i'll draw that eventually

>>532653635
Works on my machine when playing Ogres.

>>532660324
Were you at home at least?

>>532661441
make sure she is only wearing her re pantsu

>Valrak the man who says to never really fully trust any rumor he says (despite being right all the time)
>Is absolutely certain TW40K is happening.
Man can't wait for december.

>>532662360
nah, she should be wearing full armor

how is the siege beta? could i get a tldr?

>>532663216
I mean they said fantasy and historical, so theres gonna be something for the histfags regardless if its 40k or not.
I hope for pike and shot, but I know thats hopium.

>>532663435
Better but still not good

>>532653569
does vilitch have the thing like belakor where he can teleport to portals on the map?

I wish all the chaos guys could use that
its so fun to just start in a different location and poopoopeepee all over the place

>>532662662
>>532663216
solum duae hebdomades restant

>>532664047
Nope, that's Be'lakor-exclusive. Arbaal and U'zhul have their own teleports but not using fixed portals. Vilitch has Tzeentch's ambush teleport which is insanely fucked-up in terms of strength. I very rarely use it but it can be amazing in a pinch.

>>532663435
all of the same issues are still there, the only difference is now you have to build siege equipment sometimes
nothingburger

Been shitting green lately, am I becoming a Nurglite?

Shogun 3 but with 3K legendary generals and without the stupid unit restriction would be great, Or Med3 doing that, either or.

Elf Gate battle, I don't know why AR is so in my favor as I don't really have anything to break the gate.

>>532664642
the gods mock you for your avarice by making you literally shit green. I agree with the decision because it’s poetic and funny. what ultimately matters, most of all, is that the gods are entertained. Just accept, like I have, that we are toys for their amusement

>>532664824
Yeah, court and characters in 3K is a cool thing, should be in all future games.

>>532665218
is this my sign to play Repanse?

>>532661093
I need BUFF Repanse.

>turn 42
>1 t3 settlement, 2 1t
>norsca is sending multiple armies every turn and keep recruiting more armies
is this salvageable?

>>532664969
Ok Lions (both the axemen and the beasts) did a pretty well job opening the gates.

>>532666290
forgot image

>>532664969
missing HP is exponentially bad in AR. 10% missing health it treats like half a unit, and with those at half HP it expects them to rout immediately.

Reminder it is NOT unchivalrous to attack Volkmar's territories from behind while he's busy somewhere else because all of Araby is rightful Clay of the Lady and nobody fucking asked him to get involved

Good campaign to get back into the game after a few months?

>>532666834
Bretonnia

>>532666834
any lord with an item crafting mechanic so you can try out all the new items

>>532666772
oh, the piece of shit was only one forced march away

either that or the game actually teleported him to the border of the fog of war and is being cute

Should I start my Arkhan campaign now or wait until the rework?

>>532668046
depends on how long you're willing to wait, rework won't be anything crazy

Should I start a new campaign or play that new half life survival crafting game? Thinking about doing Oxyotl on Mortal Empires so I can actually kill Chaos.

What fucking DLC was announced?

>>532668554
Tides of Torment, Slaanesh-Norsca-High Elves.

>>532668506
what's the new half life survival crafting game?

>>532668554
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQNKhxbQKuM&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fboards.4chan.org%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE

>>532668720
Abiotic Factor

>>532668554
No DLC, 40K is coming.

>>532663216
>>532663469
you dont mean the tweet where they said they had one historical and one fantasy title in development and a few months later empire total war mobile came out

surely not

>>532668807
Thanks, but this tells me nothing. What new factions? Who are being reworked?