Thread 535168565

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Previous thread: >>534986593

Thanquol soon, friends!

>>535168565 (OP)
40k waiting room

>>535168729
fbbp

Impperial Knights and Harlequins soon, friends!

For me? Eurocentric historical titles

>>535171261
>For me? Eurocentric historical titties

Bretonnia rework soon?

>>535173424
Yeah right after geomantic web rework.

>turn 40
Minor power buffs can be crazy.

>>535173893
That's coming soon, right anon?

>>535174996
Haha, yeah, any time now...

TURN ON THE NEWS! Tides of Torment just flew over my house!

Late to the part, saw the posts in the previous thread about easy factions and doomstacking. Are there any factions/lords that are generally harder than the others?

Which factions are going to be orphaned and forgotten without ever getting a rework? My money is on brets, no one cares for them.

>>535175289
This keeps getting asked and was asked in the past couple of days. You always get AR-spamming shitters saying N'Kari and Khalida every time.

>>535175379
Dwarfs, ever forgotten about by CA

>>535175435
Tomb Kings are objectively more difficult to doomstack with, because they have a hard limit on how many units they can spam
taking ~13-15 major settlements just so you can support one doomstack would just be silly, and it's much easier to recruit balanced armies

>>535175484
Based

>0-4 Vampire Counts
>5-9 Tzeentch

>>535169298
SQUIRE CONSORTING WITH FOUL XENOS!??
I should have heeded commissars warnings...

It's over

>>535176703
you can't call them xenos, that racist
the correct term is first-generation imperials

Total War Fire Emblem

If 40k is coming then CA better let me play as the lamenters.

>>535173424
bretonnia doesnt need chosen peasant mobs

>>535177606
The only lamenters are going to be the histfags

Lords for severely fucked up allergies? I can barely open my eyes.

>>535177606
40k fags are all blood ravens
don't have anything original just steal shit from others

>>535178493
>I can barely open my eyes.
Zhao ming

>>535178493
play a static gunline faction so you can as much time and you want to set up a formation and then you can let the battle play itself

Something tells me Legend pre-plays all the disaster battles before recording

>>535178493
Skarbrand or arbaal, then just charge ahead.

>yet another orgy of chaosmanii vs chaosmanii
yep, home...

>>535177606
Lame who?
It would be much easier if they allowed you to customize generic marines to be whatever the fuck you want and sell cosmetics for them along with dlc

>>535177046
Total War Trench Crusade

Between Grom and Skarsnik, which one has the more powerful faction come lategame?

>shit(ish) stack vs fresh settlement (most of them weren't fully replenished, it's an altar defense) vs aggro Khorne pricks that march turn after turn past other faction's settlements just to attack an altar
Good battle. For some reason seducing a unit bugs the post-battle screen (left pane is small).

There was the free the nipple mod on Steam for TWW2, why is it not for TWW3?

>>535180781
obviously grom, skarsnik sucks in combat and boosts fucking night goblins and squigs

>>535181447
>3 heroes
Oh hell.

>>535180781
Grom has a stronger lategame once you can cook all the recipes, skarsnik is pretty equal throughout the campaign since tour bonuses to night goblins are so huge, but you also don't boost any late game units so it's a tradeoff

>>535181596
steam workshop has been censored due to some hole talking shit on reddit. Now any sort of adult mods can only be found on nexus or loverslab.

>>535168779
not happening, start preparing for disappointment

>>535181801
Yeah, they were of course the main problem. Aspirings and lord were exclusively on them as much as possible. Lord had to eventually leave as of course Khorne lords and heroes just fuck up Slaaneshi twigs easily.

>>535173424
Only if you have faith.

>>535181447
Sigvald have access to Daemonette Lord ? Or is it your mod ?

>>535182723
Trying >>535087494
Seems alright. And of course the AI uses this, too, which is thematic, fair, and a nice bit of a boost to the AI too.

>>535175768
>Tomb Kings are objectively more difficult to doomstack with
Stop misusing that word, stop it stop it stop it. You are not 'doomstacking', you are spamming a single unit. A DOOMSTACK IS ANY ARMY THAT IS CONSIDERED ELITE AND UNBEATABLE and legend cannot redefine this decades-old definition just so he can make spamming one and the same unit sound better.

>Sayl never pledged to any Chaos god, he just used them to his own end
>not even a Norscan, hes Kurgan
>specifically considered Chaos Undivided
Would we be in a better place if Norsca was just fully integrated into WoC instead

>>535183627
Norsca = the boring guys in loincloths
WoC = the cool armored guys and humanoid monsters

>>535183627
we would be in a better place if Norsca was a fully realized faction and not rushed obligatory preorder DLC consisting of another factions T1 units, a ghetto version of that same faction's T3 units, and some (cool) monsters

>>535183160
>Any good army is a doomstack

It's been like two years since I played chorfs,did I want to stack outposts and factories so same settlement types are in the same provinces?

>>535185649
Yes. Stick to one or the other per province. Have every province capital as a tower.

I'll give a shit about 40k once Bretonnia gets added
>but medieval worlds
>but muh grey knight gay space marines
nope give me knights on horse back no gay mechs or gay robots

>>535186361
Who even uses a lot of cavalry in 40k for military purpose? Only one I recall is Krieg. Actual cavalry, not mechanised like bikes.

>>535168565 (OP)
Haven't been here in ages, since around Troy's final update and Warhammer 3 launch. Surprised Pharoah is not in the OP at all? I heard it was a good game and came to lurk to see if people were talking about it.

>>535186606
Imperial guard has not-huns called the riders of attila or some shit

Encountered an ai feedback loop in Pharaoh, it's caught in an endless cycle of forming and reforming because it keeps gaining and losing line of sight to my units, combined with being on the defensive and reforming based off where it thinks I am
>>535186906
Just in time friend, I have been spamming Pharaoh screenshots all week and just booted up my game
it's not so popular though it's true

>>535186606
Cavalry in 40k translates to fast attack units: bikes, horses, jetbikes, squigs and other fast shit.

>>535186906
It's good but not very popular because the bronze age is one of the most niche periods they could've chosen short of a game set in the americas pre-european arrival or subsaharan africa or some other ridiculous locale and time period. The game is good and the technology at work is a marvel, for example it's the first game in the series where your units can fight while retreating, such a small thing makes the battles SO much better, the lethality system is great now that they've tweaked the numbers, the outposts are a great change, Dynasties are great. Overall I hope most of these changes will be part of Total War from now on but considering Pharaoh's engine is a fork of Troy which itself is a fork of Warhammer which itself is a fork of Attila I think the next big Total War is going to be another rough around the edges funmaxxing spectacle game like Warhammer instead of the slower more focused Pharaoh.

>>535187740
Good thing I specified just for that purpose, anon! I even included a picture for people such as yourself.
>>535187269
Ah yeah, and the name of their world is Attila.

>>535188036
Hungarians got their own planet?

the cultist of tzeentch walking on his metalic platform makes a very annoying noise

>>535188036
Good thing I included horses in my post then.

40k is coming, choose your main army NOW (and why)
Tau, I want to railgun fuckers from 20 miles away.

any characters like archaon but without the savior complex?

>>535188701
AdMech. I like cyborgs

>>535188701
skaven

>>535188701
Tyranids. It's the last and only faction yet to be gayified in GW fashion. At least, the last major faction. Necrons were similar to Tyranids but they've been destroyed and turned bland.

>>535188701
Tau, they have mecha and aren't just a fantasy race in space.

>>535169298
loec soon bros

>>535187962
Kind of surprising its so niche. I know the bronze age isn't as popular as rome/samurai/knights but I thought there'd be enough /hist/autsits to be interested. I mean its the bronze age collapse and seems to have the damn sea people as a doomsday clock which seems incredibly based to me. Age of Empires 1 was mostly the bronze age in its campaigns iirc and that was big. I remember there were a fair few Troy posters here who were bronze age fags as well.

Maybe it was never about the history and juat the aesthetics, knights legionairres and samurai are recognisable to anyone.

>>535187492
Cool, may continue to lurk. I'm curious about how they've put in the troy factions.

>>535189265
i wish there was a good runequest rpg

ladies and gents....


we lost legend


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

>>535188701
there was never any choice

>>535189453
>6 hours
Insane for the YT algorithm

>see what's new in cheatshop
>"Most Popular Items in the past week"
> https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3546109894
>comments are additionally bad
Cheatfags...

>>535188701
>HUNGER
>Far beyond the fringes of the galaxy there was naught but endless black. Past the last few stray stars plying their lonely track through the cold night, past the dead worlds and the fragments of galactic collisions billions of years gone, past the probes sent out by extinct races recorded in no history…
>past all that and beyond, there was a night sea studded with the diamond islands of distant, lonely galaxies.
>Though incomprehensibly vast, this sea was not empty. Great behemoths of the deep lurked there.
>Into the eternal blackness, a flash of quantum energy shone out at many times the speed of light; a brief flare, milliseconds in duration, projecting from an unremarkable spiral of stars.
>It was not missed.
>In the darkness, something of limitless hunger stirred in a slumber that had lasted for aeons. A million frozen and unblinking eyes saw the flash, tripping cascades of stimuli.
>Their purpose served, the eyes died. The entity processed the message the eyes provided without ever truly awakening.
>Automatically, instinctively, its gargantuan, dreaming mind analysed the signal, comparing it against all parameters for the one thing it sought.
>PREY
>Slowly, glacially, the Great Devourer shifted its course.

>sitting at computer
>home alone
>naked
>watching legend
>all of a sudden
>light turns off on its own

LL for this feel?

>>535189453
every time he plays a paradox game he's sponsored by them he probably just idles his hours so he can say "look guys i play game alot" lets see his achievements

>>535189734
What? That sounds cool to me. Do you have a problem with it?

>>535190094
t. poster in comment section

>>535189734
should be basegame really, immortality is babby tier shit

>>535188701
tau will end up shit and ruined just like the current tableslop edition of them
>no railgun submunitions
>crisis suits won't have 360 shooting and will be locked to specific loadouts
>mpfags will make kroot the only good infantry
the whole faction will be like skaven x100 where r*dditors with their 19 riptide stacks swear it's the most op thing ever, but actually playing it for real will feel like shit. fuck 40k gw has poisoned every faction I liked in it. even orks are ruined with fucking sniggers.

>>535190262
oh man

for the first time ever I finally thought about how MPfags are going to ruin this game like WH3

any tips for playing skaven?

>>535190583
All of the units that are okay/decent in SP but are somehow magically deemed BROKEN OVERPOWERED for MP shittery so naturally said unit has to be totally gutted in an ugly fashion.
>>535190631
Have main army (e.g. LL) in ambush next to bait army (empty or slaves) in march stance. Win.
>>535190245
Strongest and single-most change that'd make the game a total joke. That change alone would make players significantly stronger.

>>535189265
>Kind of surprising its so niche.
The game got counter-signaled hard by the Warhammer YouTubers. The worst betrayal was Legend refusing to even review it despite being the only "mainstream" Total War content creator that still regularly plays the older hist games, when all the CA partners refuse to review or stream the game it's much harder for the game to get any traction, the only good news is that in the end Pharaoh managed to make its money back eventually due to Dynasties and Sofia having a far lower overhead than Horsham do but yeah the game completely flopped on release despite being a really good game.

>>535189265
I've mostly been playing as Nubia, although my first campaign was as Mycenae because of Troy familiarity
Most of the historical units from that game have been refitted into being native units in Pharaoh, but with the fantasy units being gone it can feel a little depressing at first until you start to expand and get access to more types of native units
there's a civil war mechanic that all races can get and it ended early when I attacked Troy when I wasn't ready, you can't just beeline for Troy like you can in that game

>>535190764
So the usual total war fan base autism? Surprised it went that far though. Why did legend refuse to review it?
>>535190823
Are there any sort of "homeric" quests pointing you toward troy? Or is it basically just the giant total war sandbox?

>>535191328
not really, It's mostly a sandbox
any race can start a civil war if I'm not mistaken and what happens is pretenders to the throne can challenge the king, so in the case of the Aegean culture Priam of Troy starts out as the king
there is a mod that adds helen and a few other things but I didn't try it
>>535191328
>total war fan base autism
The game was unfinished on release so it was reasonable then, but refusing to cover it after the dynasties update is just total war autism

>>535177606
They are going going to be a minor faction that gets wiped out by orcs turn 1.

i think im going to try age of wonders 4

>>535192768
be good and play tomb kings instead

bloodpill me on khorne

>>535193182
1. Select units.
2. Right-click enemies.
3. ???
4. Profit.

>>535193182
90iq reddit faction

>>535193364
what are the high iq factions in your opinion

>>535192768
Its really good and unlike Troonhammer every DLC besides the Reaver culture is worth getting which is crazy since its under Paradox Interactive, new DLC just came out too iirc

>>535193504
kislev, hardest human faction to play

>>535193504
Chorfs, their resource system is top tier.
HE, influence and traits remain important and useful all game

>>535194371
traits?

>>535186606
Kroot
Mechanicus have horses (mechanical) which I think should count

>>535192768
Minus Legend its actually really good I played it a lot when I got burnt out from Total War Warhammer although besides both of them being fantasy Age of Wonders is nothing like Total War Warhammer

>>535193762
thanks legend

>>535194414
HE have really powerful lord and hero traits that cost influence both campaign and battle

>>535190262
>will be locked to specific loadouts
That's a given in total war, unless they create a new system for wargear.

Why do you like evil women?

>>535195519
they give head. good girls dont give head.

>>535193504
any one that doesn't have heavy infantry or archers since those are the only units retards know how to play with

>>535195701
name some

>>535195519
They abuse shotas

>>535195519
I can fix them.

>>535195701
Coasts fit that. Does anybody else?
>inb4 depth guard are "heavy" infantry

>>535194371
>Chorfs
Their presentation made them seem infinitely cooler than they ended up being. Not to mention the focus on goblins. Malakai was closer to what I was lead to believe chorfs will be. Instead of more hierarchical skaven more focused on demonsmithing fancy machines and exoskeletons. They have a few tanks and the mecha dog from metal gear rising I guess but I got tricked into thinking they are much cooler
Why were people so hyped about them in the first place?

been playing the Hittites and I gotta say chariots are so absurdly good in Pharaoh its insane, and they mog all other unit types hard
honestly if it wasn't for them getting stuck in mud, sand, forest and basically anything that isn't completely flat open terrain they'd be unstoppable
and they can take a hit or two unlike cavalry, cav is overhyped trash

pic unrelated, I was just thinking about the Lizardmen
Lizards are cute :D

>>535195519
the natural masculine urge to have a mean-spirited woman slap you and ride your cock or something

>>535194668
>legend
What? I just really like the game

>>535195947
What's a good shotacon faction for Warhammer? Can be either 40k or Fantasy.

>>535196550
if we keep helping these lazy bastards shed their own skin, they're gonna end up like the dairy cows that can't give birth without our help

>>535196827
Lorewise, WoC. Sigvald specifically.

>>535196868
fucking bastards

Time for yet another doot doot campaign. Difficulty grossly overblown but fun understated.

>>535196550
This really isn't a safe way to get your gecko to shed.

>>535198705
tf do you know about anything

Is there a tabletop cap mod but only for the AI? Because I am so done with fighting stacks of giants and black orcs, landships and demigryphs, and just cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry in every other faction.

>>535196868
yeah or that one type of monkey that can't go outside now without protection on their little feet

>>535195519
Men like confident women who can take care of their offspring. Basically a Karen that's attractive.

>>535199367
and people say epigenetics is fake news

>>535199516
Genetics in general isn't allowed to be real for another 50 years yet because a Hitler happened

me and the boys lying in wait

God, I love goblins

>me when someone loses a unit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpSrCSkP1Eo

>>535195519
I just do

>>535197264
I forgot how fucking SHIT Ushatabi bows are. They make gunpowder infantry look very consistent and reliable. Such dogshit AI on these. Even if you order them to attack a specific target, they will say "firing" but never ever actually shoot. Such a long fight and they had majority of their ammo.

the levitation cheat for teclis is not a cheat it updates the character and is loreful; even tasteful.

>>535202573
Your micro?

>>535195519
High risk, high reward.

>>535202573
small entity count ranged units are always shit

>>535202710
...anon did you even read (rhetorical).
>>535202812
Yeah I can't immediately think of any exception that isn't artillery.

>>535202923
The game is shit for bugging out but you also should have noticed

>>535202573
Strange, I remember them being pretty good in wh2. Did they rape them in wh3 or something?

>>535203261
Anon your reading comprehension is woeful.

>>535195519
I love pale skinned black haired elves.

>>535203278
They are good he just got hit by a bug then blamed the unit not the game

>>535203423
why are elves from nagarythe literally the only elves with brown or black hair

They are good (bugged aka not good)

>click research tree or lord upgrade tree
>game freezes for 15 seconds
I have an x3d wtf is happening?

TURN ON THE TV
THE TIDES JUST HIT THE TORMENTAGON

>>535203378
Wrong

>>535203696
>x3d
we dont use emotes anymore

>>535203557
Any ranged unit can be retarded, it's not unique

>>535204269
Some more than others. Much like some posters here.

>>535195519
I blame Morrigan and Viconia, turning them into tradwives is perfect

>>535204493
wonder why they allowed male sorcerers in this game. the witch elf is female only and coomer friendly but the sorcerer would have been better as the only female option. shade could have fulfilled the witch elfs role but maybe they felt it was too similar to the shadow warrior

>>535203278
Like a lot of ported ranged units they refuse to fire a lot of the time

>>535204803
Renegade sorcerers would surely exist

Lore of vamps kicks ass
>can summon several melee or ranged units
>magic missile that can snipe or shotgun infantry
>Strong buff
>Strong debuff
>Healing spell that resurrects
>Healing passive
>Genocidal wind spell
It's just good.

>>535204997
You'd think if anything they wouldn't be worse, as they're taller.

>>535206019
Only an idiot doesn't consider it S tier

It's a mace, but it's also a heckin' axe!
Is there actually a reason to do this other than just forging a bigger axe blade?

>>535206161
2 metal units makes big axe
2 metal units makes axemace + axemace
Assuming the lump is some other material as maces don't need to be sharpened
I dunno though

>>535186606
>>535194587
Space Wolves
Orks

>>535206410
an axe is just one metal unit though no? I guess I can see the argument if it's a different material like a rock or something

>>535207476
Yeah but not a "bigger axe"
It was probably a dumb idea or more people would have done it

>>535204064
No idea what you're referring to but I believe you'll find that nothing ever happens.

>>535206161
probably adds heft to the axe without using more expensive metal material

>>535206161
>>535207476
>>535207692
Probably to put some additional weight behind the cutting head.

>>535208138
Well yeah obviously

>try out Mixu's as it has been mentioned here a couple of times recently
>check the settings
But why? Franz on average does very well without this anyway.

>>535208345
Maybe it's a separate piece than the blade because it's full of lead?

>>535208525
No you're thinking of Streltsi

>>535207692
it seems like it would break easily

>>535203696
>>535204235
>tfw trying to use my vodoo3 to run TWW3

>>535204493
The fucking trailer for the warhammer mmo was so good
that and the one intro for that forgotten game about a sigmarite priest leading a patrol and getting ambushed by chaos are peak warhammer meida and have yet to be surpassed.

>>535208382
I assume it's a legacy setting.

>>535210363
Probably right actually. Also has minor faction power there too still.
>>535210208
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iO9cGopQq0
That start where the Chaos warriors suddenly show up and each are spaced away from eachother. B a s e d.

>>535208382
some men just want to watch the vampire counts burn

>>535205934
theyre witchfire warlocks

>>535210584
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iO9cGopQq0
Hell yeah.
Shame the game was meh.

>>535210702
Not me, I never get to use Harry for his intended purpose which is a bit of a shame. Is there any mod that lets you buff AI factions? Fighting a lot of vampires for a change sounds like fun.

>>535193504
>low IQ
Kislev
Cathay
Khorne
Nurgle
Dwarfs
Chaos Dwarfs
Ogres
Norsca
>mid IQ
Empire
Bretonnia
Greenskins
Dark Elves
Slaanesh
Vampire Counts
Beastmen
Lizardmen
>high IQ
Tzeentch
Vampire Coast
Tomb Kings
High Elves
Wood Elves
Skaven

>>535211108
When it comes to something that appears to be a shitpost, read the last line first and save yourself time. The worthless xitter post was a good indicator, thanks, anon.

>>535211027
>Is there any mod that lets you buff AI factions?
Unnatural selection.

>>535211326
Skaven are unironically a high IQ faction. High value low health units + front line that folds like paper makes it tough for brainlets to play. It's not their fault gay furries latched onto them.

>>535211438
Cool, thanks.

Hehehe!
Look who just fell into my trap!

>>535213282
Looks like a mouse and not a rat.

>>535211108
Why put Beastmen out of low?

>>535213519
Their focus on speed and rush tactics with light infantry and monsters puts them slightly above the heavily armored pile of violence factions to me.

>>535213753
That also describes Norsca though

>>535214028
Their units and monsters eventually get very heavily armored. They devolve from medium IQ to low IQ as they tech up.

>>535211108
>high elves
>high iq
lmfao

>>535208382
anon, by default reikland starts with the entire province if you aren't playing as franz. that allows you to turn it off so he DOESN'T control it all if you aren't playing as him

>>535215215
What a cheater!

>>535208382
I remember someone somewhere saying that Reikland having secessionists at the start makes them do better later on for some AI fuckery reason.

>>535216896
I'm mildly curious to test this. Apparently you can use commands to disable FOW so just play some defensive faction or so and just skip turn after turn doing nothing but watching Franz with and without that option.

WE WUZ

>>535168779
Odds of the Minotaurs being in the base game?

>>535216896
The more fights the AI gets into the faster they level up and seemingly the faster they expand/raise armies

>>535217951
0%. You'll be lucky if the iconic divergent chapters(BA, DA, SW, BT) get in via DLC by game 2.

Custodes, I just need some Custodes to get through the day.

>bret-themed counts
Yep it's kino time.

>>535220005
But GW can only give you femstodes.

Love me Grave Guard.

>>535221214
Grim Guard, even

>>535221204
While it'd be suboptimal as I have trouble understanding what women say and I find their voices generally annoying it wouldn't really matter to me. Not like I can tell the sex of my units through tons of auramite.

Restarted my campaign, went tall, didn't take anything besides brass keep and only one camp. Way better.. now I have a good army by turn 17 to go explore the world.

>>535221214
love finding these in a stack of 35 zombies realizing they are the reason my lord is at half hp

>>535220005
>>535221204
>>535221693
can't wait for the lorefags to whine about how one custodian should be able to solo entire armies

>>535221838
>realize my captain is getting his shit pushed in
>pan over to him
>archaon and the swords of chaos surrounding him
>send in karl and the altdorf gryphites
>swords of chaos deleted, archaon routing with a barely visible sliver of hp
>focus on something else
>get the unit wiped out notice
>pan over to see that archaon rallied, locked on to the captain and killed him without him even getting a chance to rally
I wish there was a more visible notice for when something is getting raped that badly

>>535222892
BEYOND YOUR COMPREHENSION
But yes honestly the rare times it happens it can be pretty surprising.

>>535222892
without him even getting a chance to rout*

>>535222892
Even worse if you use a daemon or an undead character because they can't be routed.

>>535222892
Your first mistake was not making sure Archaon was either dead or completely routed, thats like a high priority kill no matter what, your second mistake was not getting the Empire Captain out of there because Im guessing you used it as basically an escort to get Archaon off the battlefield or finish the job when Franz should have been the one doing that.

Maybe the AI improvements just kicked in or something but the AI is being such an uncooperative little bitch

Why is bohemond in the dark lands?

>>535224670
because you're using OVN

>>535222892
Losses are kino however

>lose a battle
>recruit a back to full stack with RoR units next turn
>wipe out enemy armies that attacked last turn

Why are RoR units instant recruitment again?

AR said decisive victory but manual'd anyways. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at how quickly they folded.

>>535220005
I genuinely don't see the appeal
>space marines but all gold, have no interesting diverse sub-factions/chapters and even more mary sue because timmy needs his faction to be super special and the best at literally everything
lame and cringe
>muh power armour mommies
sisters of battle already do that coomer appeal much better and without looking like roided out trannies

>>535226962
I could just stop being a chud and not consider this kind of stuff to be a deal breaker
But... I simply don't want to?
I know, I know
It's just, I really don't feel like it is all

>>535226543
because they're mercenary recruitment from medieval 2. don't you guys love that game?

>>535226962
I always thought the sisters of silence were the cooler characters, but w*men don't want to be in what is essentially a support role even if it's as a badass warrior that shuts down psykers

>>535227828
>SoS
ma nigga
They're great, a shame they're seldom mentioned. Great aesthetic, great role, great theme/idea etc.

>>535226962
>design entire universe to jerk off space marines and how they're the most special and strongest and best and can beat everyone else without trying
>this attracts all of the little timmys to the point where like 80% of your players own a marine army and 1 in 3 matchups is a marines mirror
>everyone who bought marines because they wanted to be special is disappointed because they're actually the baseline that everyone builds their army to beat
>make even more special gold marines so weenie hut jr can feel like a real man

>>535227828
sos are gay because of the stupid haircut. someone must have thought "wow the helmet hair for sob wasn't off putting enough for people and many players actually find them attractive. how can we make them even more repulsive?"

Is this a joke? This isn't my best army but ungrim is literally just melting my army with hammerers and a few slayers. I don't even stand a chance. Are dwarfs completely broken?

>>535229327
ur gay

Biggest homosexual of the general award goes to: >>535229327

>>535229492
>Dw*rfs
>Ungrim
>They have levels
You need a solid plan going in or you're completely cooked vs that combination. It's definitely a LL army job.

>>535229975
Oh shit that anon wasn't kidding, what a retarded hairstyle. Are they wannabe eldar or something

>>535188701
bretonnia

>>535202812
well hochland rifles, crane gunners and jezzails all have their uses as essentially being your ranged anti large/single entity killer
haven't played kangs yet tho

Is there a working version/alternative for this?

>>535232769
Works on my machine.

>>535230217
they're called the sisters of silence because you see them and are so shocked that someone okayed the design that you can't speak

which wh3 faction do i play if i want to simulate alpha legion
changeling?
g*lgfag?

>>535235668
Vlad and simp for the Empire.

>>535235668
None, anon. What is your interpretation of Alpha Legion anyway?

>>535235872
idk, just false flags?
schemes?
schizophrenia?

>>535235668
Oxyotl but attack order factions from time to time.

>>535236281
ah, sounds good

>>535235668
You want schemes?

>>535237960
I gots schemes!

Spears/Shields - Lineholding
Longspears - Anti-chariot
Axes/Shields: High lethality frontline
Greataxes: High lethality flanking
Clubs: Anti-armor
Greatclubs: Anti-armor flanking
Khopesh/Shields: Anti-shield
Swords/Shields: Balanced melee stats
Slings: Chip damage
Bows: Balanced ranged stats
Javelins: Anti-everything, low range, ammo, and accuracy
Chariots are just fucking chariots

>>535239002
>Axes/Shields: High lethality frontline
if you're fighting chaff, otherwise Dwarf/Chorf/WoC shielded infantry is not meant to chew through the enemy lines by itself.

>>535239460
I'm pretty sure the "lethality" thing indicates he's talking about Pharaoh.

>>535239539
it's funny cause all of those unit types exist in WH3 except for greatclubs, though you could count Ogre bulls as that unofficially.

>>535239745
clubs are like hammers in warhammer, if they did less damage but had innate armor sundering

>start battle
>units in trees
>ai instantly knows where they are and attacks them anyway
>close game
>enable god mode cheat
>start battle again
Yep, zero losses kino, if you're gonna cheat so am I but I'm better at it

>>535239745
Not sure Khopesh units have an anti-shield effect in WH3 though, is the two handed spear unit in Wood Elves? I vaguely remember them having a unit like that but I don't play them much.

>>535240686
>Not sure Khopesh units have an anti-shield effect
Khopesh didn't even have any additional effect, not even anti-inf.

>>535240405
>Start battle
>Half my army is missing
>AI assumes (correctly) they must be in the only hidden area on the map
You should be a military leader in real life.

>>535241517
You're stupid and should understand how videogames work before replying

The majority of Egypt has been returned to the black man. The ai Egyptian factions are all too weak to challenge my legitimacy to the throne, and if one of them tries anything funny I can just send my vassals after them. I'm keeping them around for now until the Sea Peoples are dealt with, next order of buisiness is to sail no less than 6 elite armies up the Nile to take them out.
Progress was slow at first, but now that I have the crown and a bunch of resources, it's basically a steam roll.
>>535240686
the bladedancer with a spear is basically like the longspears in Pharaoh, I never used them much but the next time I play Wood Elves I might give them a try

>>535241739
While they do "know" where your units are, it's not egregious. They won't beeline the entire army directly towards you if you're in the trees, they spread out and check a bunch of options first, with faster units going far away first. If you have any units outside of the trees (and in vision) they will prioritize them.
What do you want the AI to do? Look randomly in every corner of the map for 30 minutes?

Any reason other than upkeep to use dual weapon shades instead of great sword shades?

>>535244246
upkeep? only thing i can think of

>>535244246
>>535244392
>Any reason other than upkeep?
>upkeep?
Based retard

>>535243235
>What do you want the AI to do? Look randomly in every corner of the map for 30 minutes?
Yes, they should have to look for the units instead of just beelining right for them (which they do do, idk why you said they dont), probably with a weighting to look for closer things first

>>535244246
pretty much, the only thing preventing that before was recruitment time.

>>535244569
>noooooooo how do they know?!?!?

>>535244246
probably upkeek I'm thinking

>>535244246
probably upqueek I'm thinking

>>535241872
Kemet has fallen...
billions mus we wuz...

>>535244246
probably updog I'm thinking

>>535245208
whats updog?

>>535245302
ligma balls

>>535245363
Who's Steve Jobs?

>>535245152
does the nile river shift in pharoah

>>535245363
not much what's up with you?

>>535224239
You're right about Archaon. I think he was about 90% of the enemy kills that battle. The captain had a helm of discord and the Hochland runefang (the Hochland army was supporting Franz), he was there to help hold the line. The only reason I didn't take him out was because after Archaon and the swords of chaos routed there wasn't much left.

>>535245483
no
does the yellow river shift in three kingdoms?

>>535246468
it should but it doesn't

>>535239745
I've said that the right move for a historical in the future is to imitate some of the specialization in Warhammer. Since functionally a run of the mill skaven/dwarf/orc/human/lizardmen 'melee weapon and shield' unit are almost all possible to replicate in a non fantasy thing excluding skaven underground spawning. So Pharaoh has been a step in the right direction. Like lizardmen's whole berserker status is a dream setup for barbarian type units, skaven shit morale would have worked for Pajamamanii in Rome 2, Romans could have worked with the Dark elven murderous prowess given their whole endurance routine while a Greek hoplite feels very High elf 'better stats until wounded, then worse'.

>>535244753
Making up scenarios in your own head to be mad about, sad

i had dong zhuo unlock last time i opened three kingdoms and now he's gone, wtf. is there some easy file to edit to get him back, this is bullshit

>>535241872
Historians will cover this up and say Cleopatra had blonde hair and blue eyes baka

>>535245483
Nile food output changes with the seasons (the number of turns depends on how many turns/year you set the game to)
unless you mean the river physically shifting, then no it doesn't

also I'm pretty sure the Nile is way more consistent than the yellow river over the centuries

>>535246608
>No rebuttal
>No map screenshot
Guess I nailed it shitlord. Might as well keep the godmode cheat on for every battle

>>535246843
Cleopatra was a Greek, so she was probably swarthy, fat, and also had down syndrome because she was inbred. All the talk about her being beautiful is just par for the course for queens

>>535244246
Wouldn't dual weapon shades be better against other anti-infantry units like rangers, marauder berserkers, wardancers, etc.?
>just shoot them
also applies to the armored units that greatsword shades counter in melee

>>535247010
Libu hands

>>535247010
Please stop bro I'm trying not to jerk off this month

>>535247010
Nice try but everyone knows that all the important men in history were super hot guys and all the important women in history were super hot babes and art or records that claim otherwise were just left behind by their haters.

>>535246843
>>535247010
Cleopatra looked like this

>>535189265
There's a few reasons for that. Wall of text as I am procrastinating from other shit right now.
>1) Unit Variety: There's no cavalry beyond tacked on for Assyria and Cimmeria (Who exist ~500 years before they ever appeared).
Cavalry are always a popular asset and I sympathize with this absence. S'why I really want(ed) to do a 8th century conversion but I feel like that's going to be too much work before I lose heart. I think there's a bit of wiggle room to possibly justify cavalry because of evidence I've come across. But it goes against what +150 years of popular comprehension that "No cavalry in the bronze age". Think about similar historical inertia cases that took so long to overcome. Like shit man I like Pharaoh and the bronze age but this one really sandbags me sometimes.
>2) European preference of players. Both regionally and factionally.
This is both legionary and knight preference and just the area itself.
>3) Aformentioned release snafus anon touched on
>4) The Bronze Age is popular for people more in an abstraction than in actual application.
People love Egypt - for catgirls, for jackal girls, for music, aesthetics, city builders hey hey people, pyramids, catgirls, did I say catgirls? I've never heard anyone really fawn over their military history. Even among grognards. Mesopotamia is similar - at best people understand it being Neo-Assyria. When you say Gilgamesh they imagine some cool orientalist (I don't mean that pejoratively, I like orientalism) fantasy. Not a guy wearing wool with a studded leather cloak and that's the heaveist dude you have. Put simply the mythology is liked more than the practical reality.

Continuing

>>535248320
Assyria did exist at the time Pharaoh is set, this was the Middle Assyrian period. Cimmerians are definitely iffy though. Assyrians potentially dominating Mesopotamia is definitely early but hey the point of these games is changing history.

>>535247856
No like this

>>535248906
imagine the royal paizuri

>>535248906
ERM this is very male gaze coded

>>535249064
That's a good thing

>>535248906
No way, fag

>>535248320
>5) Armor porn
"Naked spearmanii" situation. Heavy armor is cool and fashionable to people. It's not an accident the most popular motifs we can rattle off are heavily (often plate) clad legionaries, heavily (often plate) clad Hoplites, heavily (often plate) clad knights, heavily (sometimes plate) clad Samurai, heavily (often plate) clad Landsknechts. They dramatically up-scaled the amount of armor in Pharaoh, but you still have a lot of factions that appear naked spearmanii.

>6) warhammer, both unnecessary animosity and reasonable disappointment at lack of magic and the like
The animosity is just the retarded histoid fantasoid faggotry that's fucking boring. But the issues others have are valid. Warhammer has greater complexity on the battlefield in theory (in practice players often doomstack or just hero-hammer mob or magic spam). But there's no denying even if we were restrictive it'd have infantry, cavalry, chariots, 'elephants', gunpowder, and then all the wilder magical shit. So if you don't have the buy in because of the setting or because of historicals or liking total war no matter the setting you've got no reason to jump to Pharaoh. Also I neglected to say for #4 that setting can make or break. I did not buy and will never buy Thrones of Britannia. Northern Europe stuff does nothing for me, yet for someone else they bought it while Middle-East stuff does nothing for them so they never will buy Pharaoh. And I didn't buy Pharaoh until Dynasties so that shows you how precise the setting issue can be

>>535248673
Middle Assyria did but they blatantly lean hard on the neo-assyria motif. Babylonia even uses crested helmets associated with Neo-Hittites/Urartu. It's a fair choice because -

>>535246964
>>535246608

>>535249297
>Historical and Fantasy players infighting constantly and neither notice the third party in the distance coming to bring them both into Imperial Compliance
SOON

>>535249297
Without doing that all you are left with is Assyria being a vaguely Mitanni-ized state. Which would just have them rook same as Canaan and Hittites. What's agonizing is the Nuzi Tablets and similar correspondences are fucking amazing as bureaucratic documents but devoid of any ideas of what it looked like. As they attest to logistics of panoplies to where we know they had a variety of armor and even long sleeve scale armor. Got dick all visuals. Imagine if we had extensive documentation of what linothoraxes were made of and the exact names of various Greek helmets but we had no period Greek depictions or full surviving relics, that's the situation there.

So I don't blame them for going anachronistic with Assyria compared to the alternative. Frankly what I'd have leaned on for Dynasties in 20/20 hindsight is really done that - Dynasties. Make it a ~400 year game span of 1200 to 800, which was what M2 was give or take. Focus less on personalities as they did with the initial release and more on the dynasty being your faction/character. Which they kind of did in dynasties, and what I think/hope they do in M3. I'd rather we get to play as Angevins or Capets than England or France. It'd be dope as shit to be able to get involved in various wars of succession or end up fucking off and being Angevins in Catalonia where aside of your household troops (Including a longbowmen) everything you have to use is local.

>>535248906
BUILT FOR ROMAN MEN

>>535249627
>>535246964

>>535249627
>>535250173
>>535229690

>>535250285
>>535250173

>>535248320
>>535249297
the armor thing is no joke, it's probably because of the lightly armored desert factions but in my 100 turns as Nubia, I haven't found a single heavy armor set for my generals, and the only heavy infantry I've come across is either tier 6 elite troops (and that even might be medium don't remember) or random foreign units from outposts
another thing is that generals from any given region all look exactly the same, with the only difference being what type of armor they're wearing, your armies end up being led by clones

>>535250061
>is that a pugio under your tunic or are you just happy to see me?

>>535250782
Egypt specifically has very little heavy units because it impedes desert mobility, so the idea is that they can just outrun and tire out any heavily armed enemy that invades their territory. If you play in the Aegean every other unit will be a heavy unit and there's quite a few in Hittite lands too.

>>535241872
>khory the conqueror

>>535250782
With all the reskin work I am doing I wanted to touch up the generals but the way they do portraits is agonizing. It was always bad in Attila where I had to do a lot of photoshopping after cropping the guy in tweak, but here I'd have to render them then create a version for each of those egyptian headdresses. And I think I'd have to do it for each of those bodyguard units potentially. And each of those different bodies. Like in theory I should prioritize working on them because you look at your unit cards more than the troops but fuck that shit. When I release my reskin I'm just going to if I edit any cards going to be the Egyptian fresco style 2d ones because it is very low-definition details I can easily tweak to get a point across. The alternative is boot it up in tweak, pose them, then have to manually crop out the sky behind them unless I can greenscreen it to magic wand. A real chore. Pic being a WIP of the Anatolian Spears, haven't given them helmets as I usually go through the roster and retexture the armor and shields then come back and do helmets when I know how everything lies.

The armor thing can be a taste situation. For me I like a greater variance in the armor so the heavier guys feel more distinct. I'm very excited for the Moops in a Medieval 3 because it's a non horse-archer Islamic army and one where you can get that rich variety between unarmored Abid, robe clad berbers, light-medium Andalusians and heavy Christian mercenaries. When everyone is heavily armored nobody really is, which is something I am trying to do visually with the Aegean and Hittites. CA really gave very little rawhide armor when it would be a majority, such that when you're Troy and your -first- native spearmen are head-to-toe bronze clad it makes it so your super elite spearmen feel the same but a bit more colorful.

>>535253151
damn that reskin is good

>>535253151
another thing that could make the generals hard to do is the aging effect they have, not sure how all that works
And I get what you mean about making armored units feel more distinct, that was one thing I appreciated about the elite first commander units as Egypt compared to the native units in the area
are you going to release it on steam? Looks really good
>>535251968

>>535248906
>HAVING REJECTED HIS LOVING TOMBOY BEST GIRL JULIA THIS ANON HAS COUPLED HIMSELF TO THE SORCERESS CLEOPATRA PROMISING HER DOMINION OF ALL ROME!
>HE WORSHIPS DOGS AND REPTILES!
>HE BLACKENS HIS EYES WITH SOOT, LIKE A PROSTITUTE!
>HE DANCES AND PLAYS THE CYMBALS IN VILE NILOTIC RITES!

Expeditions was such a fun series, real shame the studio got fucked over by layoffs

>>535254114
Yeah. I'll announce when I do. I am not sure if I will try and do the sea people and then release or release as is, which is right now Canaanites/Hittites/Greeks/Trojans with the Trojans being WIP. I had not done the bodyguard units yet, and I haven't done thorough bug checking yet. I saw earlier that there's mystery niggas for one of the Mycenaean units having no bodies.I'll hop in and try and take one of the Hittites and Mycenaeans, although I was struck by how the mycenaeans feel a bit 'samey'. Or just not as distinct I had expected. But it may be the prevalence of bronze.

\I'm a real bootleg-ass frankenstein eastern european garage mechanic kinda texturer. If I was smart I would have watched tutorials on how to do stuff from scratch but my eye is on factory mass production rather than bespoke. So I'll piggyback off CA's existing stuff, find stuff they forgot or abandoned or kitbash into unique usage. So for example the quilted vests are the 'cowhide runner' aegean armor with bits trimmed off. Then a belt stolen from another model to cover up the middle gap, and a rather shitty quilting I put on it but which looks nice. The 'aketon' like gear is actually one of those blue and gold Paris archer armors with the shoulderpad removed, the cloth blankified to allow for simple geometric patterns for decoration and the bronze chestpiece and scales replaced with quilted stuff.

Another thing with the heavy armor is my thinking of "You see the cheap, shitty rank and file guys more often than the elites - so they should look more varied/detailed". Which is why I did an ass load of wicker and hide shields. Because when every single levy unit has the exact same 3 shields it takes you out of that immersion.

>>535253151
Looks good. I've been trying to fix the Tausret bug and give it over to the guy who did the bug fix mod for Pharaoh but I just cannot for the life of me figure it out. There is nothing more excruciating and mindnumbing than working in the TW tools and RPFM. I know how the Bethesda modders feel now after getting into TW modding the last few years.

>>535255623
>I had the chef prepare these testicles for you Octavian, they'll make you more manly and lately you've had a feminine aura.

I remember when they kickstarted their first game Conquistador

>>535254114
finished it
>>535255915
luckily, with a game like total war there is so much going on at once that the variety is what's going to stand out the most, and kitbashing is barely noticeable unless it's super egregious

>>535257232
Atia was such a top-tier milf, goddamn

>>535255915
Now one risk is that due to how the asset editor (fan made thing, how people warhammer kitbash too) works is it generates lods. And sometimes it just doesn't generate them to the lower # that it was beforehand. Coupled with me kitbashing parts together - helmet and hair and such, I am mildly concerned framerate might be an issue but I've been more vigilant on lods since realizing that. I know more items to load = longer to load a battle but SSD, 32GB ram and it was about 20 seconds to load a custom battle of a 80% full stack vs 5 enemy units. One of the more sizable changes I did is I didn't like CA's Hobo Kaskians. In their defense we have legit 0 idea of how they'd look. But I ran with the wargaming 'zagros/anatolian highlanders wear half fur cloaks' motif.

Also I've done double backups on two external HDs. Knock on wood that it'd ever be necessary but I've heard the horror stories.

>>535257094
What's the Tausret bug? Something visual or gameplay?

>>535257969
Yeah. The big danger for a modder i find is the tree for the forest issue. I'll spend so much time in substance or tweak I forget that most of the time my view is at a distance. It was a bigger issue before substance painter as I'd have to manually adjust decorative patterns. Now in substance painter you paint nodes and can just transplant patterns in. What might take me an entire hour or so for one of the Hittite robes will be like 5 minutes.

>>535258721
If you have immortal leaders on and Tausret is wounded in battle she's replaced with a random guy who has her voice on the diplomacy screen. This would normally just be a funny thing but it has the unfortunate additional effect of causing her to never be recruitable again if you confederate her faction after this has occured, she appears on the general list and it says that she's ready to recruit but she doesn't appear on the actual recruitment screen.

>>535259084
Now I've heard of Pharaoh women pretending to be men but that's a whole nudda deal nyuck yuk yuk. Shame that's a bug though, I got no idea how to go about fixing that.

Only wild idea I'd have would be to just make it so every general of hers is Tausret, since it'd only be able to draw on additional Tausrets.

>>535260607
Unfortunately I'm pretty sure that not only would that cause you to get a bunch of Tausrets when you confederate her faction but they would all still be unrecruitable because I think it more has something to do with how the immortality flag affects her, it seems the game both thinks she's dead and not dead since she's supposed to be immortal.

>>535226962
Its quite literally powerlevel fagging
>You know who is a real badass? SPACE MARINES
>oh but...but did you know they have an even more badass level? GREY KNIGHTS
>oh oh oh but you wanna know who is truly city level threats??? CUSTODES
I kid you fucking not, this is literally made for manchildren

>>535260967
Schrodinger's Pharaoh. That's a shame.

>>535226962
A problem with them is the inevitably that something better is going to come along due to the power-level treadmill. If the emperor ever resurrects he'll most certainly have some kind of ascended saintly bi-gender marines. Or if they bring back Sangy he'll have those skellyman marines who will now become a new marine line.

I'll have fun at least with eldar and tau and crons and admech if they do it. They might not get all the gucci DLC but at least they'll have a bit more novelty and challenge to play than being high elf chorf easymode I Like chorfs but let's be honest they're easy to play as

>>535261789
City level is nothing, just wait until they fight my KNIGHTS
that's cool sweetie, but your little trinkets are nothing compared to my TITANS!!!
*laughs in Tyranid hive fleet xDDD*

>>535261789
it's dragon ball but for white men instead of blacks and spics

>>535262885
It's funny you say that as I was going to make the comparison when I said they'll power treadmill. Like once upon a time in the boomer age the most powerful fuck was buu. Then it was broly, then it was someone else then it's beerus and I assume it's someone else now.

Where are you Pharaoh anon? Finally caved and bough the game, Dynasties seemed to come along with it. What is this?

>>535264354
They're packaged as different games, so you can go back and play the old version if you want
Just install the Dynasties version

Bored. What's something stupid I could draw?

>>535264918
luthor harkon doing the trust no one meme

>>535264918
I love Dwarfs so you could draw my favorite dwarf Malakai

>>535265046
Good idea Luthor.

>>535264354
just install dynasties and completely ignore the other version

>>535264918
Naestra wearing a beanie cap and holding a lolipop

Yo' momma is so fat even my monstrous cavalry with strider get stuck in her unit mass kek

Yo' momma is so ugly she can terror rout Unbreakable units kek

>>535266732
too far man

>>535266926
Yo' momma is so fat she meets the "strong vs 25 or more men" requirement on spell effectiveness kek

>>535267080
yeah well yo' momma so stupid she upgraded her T1 economy building

>>535267242
Well yo' momma is so fat, even when she has 200% ambush chance it fails because they can still see her coming kek

>>535267442
kek

yo momma so fat she makes kugath look like a nurgling

>>535262314
>They might not get all the gucci DLC
Those 4 will certainly get a ton of DLC.
Now Drukhari, Sisters and Votanns are another thing... Maybe a game 3 thing.

>>535267676
Yo' momma is so fat, the Ogres think she's The Maw kek

>>535211108
>Lizardmen
>Mid-iq
Ratfag hands typed this

Yo' momma is so dumb, she made her Chorf's province capital into an outpost kek

>>535268317
>Select Dinosaur
>Right click on enemy
Riveting gameplay

>>535268615
>Hurr durr, Dinosaurs are bad
faggot

>>535268317
Lizards are actually low iq

Yo' momma is so dumb, she keeps her Yari Ashigaru in Spear Wall while running towards the enemy kek

>>535269012
I never said bad, they're just simple. Not much IQ needed.

>>535269012
Anon, Lizards have one of the easiest structures in the game. Your biggest issue is the economy.

Yo' momma is so ugly, even Slaanesh cannot find pleasure in her existence kek

Yo' momma is so ugly, even Attila's framerate is smoother to look at kek

Yo' momma is so ugly, she causes terror in Jabberslythes kek

Yo' momma is so poor, she can't afford to recruit units when she plays the Tomb Kings kek

Yo' momma is so ugly, even kugath thinks she'd spoil his brews kek

Yo' momma so fat her grocery bill upkeep put your faction in the red kek

>>535269012
>lizardmen player doesn't understand post and in fact proves he's mid iq
the irony

Yo' momma is so dumb, when she played England, she had no idea how to get her armies off the island to the mainland kek

Yo' momma so ugly she made Alarielle take a vow of chastity kek

Yo' momma so fat she can trigger night battles just by being nearby kek

Yo' momma is so fat, when she enters a new province in Attila, they immediately enter a famine kek

Yo momma so fat she a regiment of renown for Nurgle

>at war with Markus Wulfhart
>AI Wulfhart offer Grom to join war
>3 fullstack armies come straight from Ulthuan
>the entire campaign got derailed into fighting hordes of greenskins
It's not even turn 60 yet, and Grom already got 32 settlements because I messed up the setting of unnatural selection. Fuck it, I'm gonna start a new dwarf campaign instead.

>>535226596
Is there a cheat to play as Mousillon?

>>535274668
Mixu

no, mix (you)

>>535274976
They should make a Hagsune Mixu mod for Ostankya

Has anyone doing campaigns in the badlands/cathay noticed that lately Archaeon seems to be solely devoted to going directly for you, regardless of who you're playing?
I know anti player bias has always been a thing but I pretty clearly remember in the past he would fuck around near his starting area for a while until he finally killed Boris, then he'd typically head south and only come after you if you happened to find him at that point

>Notice says I discovered an ambusher
>Little icon points to exactly where they're hiding
>Move to expose them
>Still get ambushed

>>535278293
imagine not picking a faction that can run around encamped
couldn't be me

I'm playing Malakai for the first time and I have no idea of what I'm doing, I don't know if I should go east or west or how much territory I should hold on to. Doesn't help that I haven't played dwarfs since before their first rework back in 2.

>>535278443
It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure I went west

They'll announce they will rework Atilla soon I just know it thread.

>>535280464
I believe you

What kind of Advisor will we have in 40K?

>>535281120
The current advisor, converted into a servitor

>>535281120
the gw approved narrators for 40k will most definitely include sexy grandma tech priest from darktide

>>535281120
LORD ABADDON
LORD CALGAR
GREAT AUTARCH
WARBOSS GHAZGUL

I really love WoC aesthetic but fuck me they are boring to play it's just way too easy even on legendary
You're way too strong you can just steamroll the map without losing any battles
Khorne is also way too fucking easy
Don't like Tzeentch range gameplay i want to play melee armored heavy metal dudes
Slaanesh is barebones without dlc
Nurgle i only played Tamurkhan and that was also faceroll, are the others challenging at all?
Or just archaon with all max end game crises turn 1+declare war on everyone immediately idk

>>535261789
And incase space marine players didn't fall for the bait to either of those, there are now primaris marines.

>>535281120
We should have a different advisor for each race

What WILL have is the same guy for all of them just give me a fucking bitchy Eldar woman that tells me im a piece of shit after I lose a battle and calls me worthless DAMMIT

mad gay the advisor doesn't change his shape depending on your race

>>535283417
small family company

>>535281120
>Current advisor approaching a Hive Fleet
>"I hate this job"

>>535283417
>advisor's accent and voicelines both out and in battle changed with your faction in the older games
>now it just doesnt and theres no battle commander
man it would've been so kino for your goblin slave to cheer you on when you're winning or to try and cheer you up when you're losing why does Rimworld get all the cool mods? Why does CA make it impossible to have mods like that at least Fucking thing sucks man

No advisor for Tyranids as it'll not be a beginner-friendly race. Not having an advisor or anything like it will remove the immersive barrier between you and the fleet. It'd be much more fitting I think.

>>535284530
>Click on Tyranid
>5 different bug sounds

he thinks tyrannids will be playable everyone point and laugh. you will get ig spess mehreens orks and eldar IF you're lucky and you will thank GW for every scrap

>>535284671
>can only think in terms of the now/release
Sad that increasingly so in people they have zero confidence or even awareness of future.

>>535284671
Oh, I have no delusion that Tyranids will be included on Release. They are way more likely for Total War 40k Part 2 or 3

>>535169298
>I'd rather keep things formal
Me when the Cothique ambassadress is starting to get way too thirsty

>>535285076
was for >>535248906

>>535281120
It going to be an Harlequin advisor but actually it's just Tzeentch

Bats and wolves, GATHER.

So who is this advisor guy

>>535285839
Deckard Cain from diablo

TWWH40K1 : SM, IG, Orks, Chaos SM
DLC races : Custodes, SoB
TWWH40K2 : Craftworld Eldar, Dark Eldar, Tyranids, Tau
DLC races : Genestealer cults, Exodites
TWWH40K2 : Necron, AdMech, Chaos Demons, Imperial Knights
DLC races : Leagues of Votann, Harlequins

>>535188701
JUST 2 MORE WEEEEEKS

>>535287529
As soon as the Russians break through

40k really doesn't have that variety, does it
Spacemanii vs bugmanii

you now remember ruin puzzles

>>535288891
>now
nigger i am literally playing wh2 now
>there are people who play in wh3 lustria
jesus christ how forrifying

>>535288573
>soldiermanii (now in WW1 axis flavor!)
>sistermanii
>cyborgmanii
>toymanii
>greenmanii
>evil toymanii
>chinamanii
>gunplanii
>elfmanii
>darkelfmanii
it's okay, you can obviously make subfactionmanii for each main manii faction

>>535284464
I mean there was the throgg voice pack, so maybe in theory its possible

>>535289017
>chinamanii
>toymanii
Who's that? Not all that familiar with 40k

>>535289101
Tyranids
Space Marines (primaris line)

>nids
>chinamanii
huh?

>>535289140
>>535289174
kek
Because bugs

>>535289210
das raycis

>>535289174
they are legit locusts
>in china there was some retarded movement by elderly to randomly squat on fields and pick harvest clean, probably some maoist PTSD
>every time china gets swathe of land either through purchase or clearing the land they manage to erode soil, due to their retarded quotas they would rather fuck up the soil than say no to the party leaders

>>535169298
Is she less crazy as a space clown than a Loec dancer? Or more

>>535289174
first day on the internet?

>>535169298
Take note Yrliet

>>535289210
Evil space bugs are stand-ins for chicoms.

>>535289609
>thing
>thing (space)
They're the same picture

>>535289609
The only difference is she is probably less hairy.

>>535291903
A downgrade.

Are any of the warhammer games worth modding if I fucking hate all the new total war games and the arcadey bullshit about them? Is it possible to make them playable with enough mods? I hated warhammer 2 with the ai spamming stacks of dragons and infantry being useless.

>>535292808
>spamming stacks of dragons
In 2 and 3 I don't get this (even played a long campaign in 1 and didn't see it). Maybe a rogue army stacks an SEM but that's it. There are TT cap mods otherwise (affects player and AI).
>infantry being useless
I can only see a very low skill player saying this. Perhaps this series isn't for you if you don't like blocks or formations of infantry.

>>535288891
I wouldnt had minded these if they werent so inconsistent in difficulty
>Upper left
Pick odd one out. Toddler-tier, solved in seconds
>Upper right
Rotate middle disc for lines to match. Trivial and solved in seconds
>Lower left
Solve a fucking sudoku, some of which are literally impossible to have 100% sure answer
>Lover right
Look at the answer right there. Trivial and solved in seconds.

>>535293138
Bad bait

THE TEMPLEHOF LUMINARK

>>535294010
One of the units I never recruit due to how dumb they are in design. Same with Land Ships. Empire is cool and all, but they really lose touch with some high-tier unit design.

>>535289459
Chinks don't plan ahead at all it's all quick bux.
Just look how they build their shit. Hell pretty sure like 90% of their groundwater is polluted to shite.

I don't think I can ever go back to spearmanii vs spearmanii again bros...

>>535294208
The Land Ship I get but luminarks and the war altar are neat imo. They're like the irl caroccio (tho obviously greatly exxagerated because this is warhammer)

>>535295080
Then recruit swordmanii tard!

>>535295080
Cant relate desu
I want medieval 3 NOW

>>535177046
Family tree rework incoming?

>no middle eastern faction in warhammer
this sucks

bait

>>535295298
>best girl is (You)
It's not fair...

luthor harkon here
today i am himmler
i sent chuds to everywhere in the map
beating up the bird bitch and the chudrage bitch
all before turn 30
and now, archaeon the everfaggot has scyla, aekold and blue scribes
i will shit on him and steal his heroes
then steal isabella
then i will shoot you

>>535295325
What did they fill the Onion with?

>>535295325
>not realizing that Dark Elves are literally the turks of warhammer with all their coastal raiding

gonna steal the hammer faggot guy too

>>535296002
This. And Sayl might bring the Kurgan units for steppe Turkic larping.

>>535296243
>Sayl
Its funny because in the Tamurkhan book his whole thing with the Dolgans, the kurgan tribe, was Mammoths. Had they been saved until now CA could have used them as a big draw for Tides, but oh well i guess.

>>535281120
Alpharius.

>>535281120
Omegon.

>>535298145
No, it's Alpharius.
Btw he'll still be a possible LL option despite being your advisor.
Because the LL will actually be Omegon.
Unless it is Alpharius and the advisor is Omegon.
Or is it?

>>535299238
Gammarius and Lambdagon please go

>>535294208
its literally an archimedies heat ray

>>535299931
the post is talking about how the UNIT looks, not about what its attack is.

>>535299978
okay, and?

>>535296002
They're Spartans and HE are Athenians
I will die on this hill

>>535295080
People get excited for eu4 battles out of sheer nationalism and ethnic hatred
As long as you put a little flag on the spearmanii we will like it, it's an evergreen niche gameplay doesn't really matter

>>535268317
It's very simple
>skinkmanii and/or mixed unit tactics
high IQ
>19 saurusmanii, 19 kroxmanii, hero spam, dino spam
low IQ
thus, it equals out to mid IQ

>>535214380
wide build where you micro a million archers to focus fire the correct target while also microing your reavers to kite and somehow keep up the rangermanii line at the same time = genius iq

alarielle dragon phoenix blob heal build = retard iq

the duality of HE players
t. mpfag

I prefer the
>just build enough armies of spearmanii to autoresolve your way to victory
tactic

>>535302936
what about wide build where you micro a million archers to focus fire nothing and get oinked by a fat goblin

>>535183627
>Sayl never pledged to any Chaos god, he just used them to his own end
lol

Quirk I've noticed with Mixu's Unlocker. It stops showing duplicate units in the starting army area on the 'select race/LL' page, but doesn't touch what you actually start with (same as without the mod, only changes what is shown at the start campaign screen). Bizarre choice that I disagree with. Dunno why you'd change it like they've done.

>>535305295
Wasn't there some weird stuff in wh2 where the starting units listed were only half of the actual starting army as there were baseline starting units each LL in the race got and the listed starting units were the unique bonus units? Reminds me of that

Is the late game really just about stacking tier V and VI units? My band of big un's and archers got completely destroyed by some big nurgle army

>>535306425
No, but it can be if you feel the need to. The game is flexible in that way. I generally like to keep some low-tier and lots of mid-tier units in my armies. Mind posting your army and the enemy army? I'm guessing you're Grimgor and had a tough time with Tamurkahn? If so, he in particular is usually a fucked up AI enemy.

>>535306425
Well yes, higher tier units usually beat lower tier units of the same type. But moreover you attacked Nurgle, who is pretty much direct counter to big uns: they hit hard but with low AP, meaning Big Uns take a lot of damage due to their middling armor. Big Un also wastes a lot of its stat budget on AP (and some on anti-large bonus), which is wasted on anyways unarmored Plaguebearers. No magic attacks either so their physical resistance lowers your damage even further. And reenskin archers are almost an empty slot against them.

for me it's axemanii versus axemanii

>>535306425
>tier VI

>>535306827
>Fighting elite infantry decked in heavy armor in Pharaoh
>Tire them out by baiting them through the mud, then backcharge them with 2h axemen
Truly one of the best feelings.

>>535307143
Beastcoomer...

>>535306817
But orcs don't have any magical attacks so what am I supposed to do?

>>535307970
nta but you can give them magical attacks with magic, aspect of the dread knight is good for this in aoe
you don't really need magical attacks though, you can always just bring more boyz

>>535295325
>no brown people in game
>complain
>brown people in game
>complain

>>535307035
Indeed, the only thing better is a point-blank javelin volley against a frontal chariot charge.

Please recommend QoL mods for WH3 that still work. Skill point queueing, high resolution UI and army carousel are all reportedly not working.

I'm on like turn 2. Do I only need one province as actual settlement and just raze the rest of the planet or what?

>>535307970
You can afford four stacks against one Nurgle stack easily.

>>535311169
Occupy it if it's land you want to keep and confident you can keep. Raze shit you don't want to keep.

>>535311169
It's a trap. You're supposed to occupy Norsca and raze the rest

>>535311835
>>535312250
ty kings

>>535311208
No, I literally can't. I'm already fighting on 3 other fronts and have a deficit of 15k

>>535248320
I guess a bunch of this explains why Troy seems more popular than pharoah

>>535312645
Meant to respond to more of your posts

>>535309873
I don't know what you're looking for but these some QoL mods I use, and they still work
>rotate lords and heroes
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2793127003
>brighter borders
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2842834772

>>535311835
Isn't occupy almost always the best option for money/army purposes unless you're blitzing a specific faction to death?

>>535313661
Thank you anon these are both great. Can't believe you cannot rotate lords in the base game, lol?

>>535312645
all that, plus Troy was free on Epic on release

>>535312645
Troy was free on Epic

>>535205934
in that game they belong to a house that is invading ulthuan

im noticing that civilizations tend to end with excessive thieving and that the culture groups of the thieves tend to have their own golden age after the previous civ has been ransacked

>>535315185
Like, generally in history? Because you just realized what a power vaccum is.

>>535315863
negroes are robbing grocery stores to the point where they close down and are then complaining about there not being a grocery store anymore

>>535295325
>no middle eastern faction in warhammer
Are we playing the same game?

>>535173424
Lily' Brettonia

>>535173424
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3431353636
CheatGODs win again.

>>535312442
Played Norsca ages ago, but if I recall correctly their normal settlements dont generate much money but ports are very strong. Norsca is full of ports so it serves as a great power base. Besides that, you mainly want to just take faction capitals named in your Tech Tree (like Altdorf or Couronne) and raze the rest for favor.
Also, once you dedicate yourself to one god, all favor gain and loss is locked permanently. Make sure to have at least Nurgle favor level 1 before you do that so you dont lose the tasty 20% replenishment buff

>>535316028
Those are future lawyers, doctors, and engineers you're talking about. It's just a little food, they ain't even broke though.

>>535250782
One more thing is the recruitment and general systems. There's tons of variety but it all comes off as samey for few reasons:

Its great to have generals with weapons that actually change their equipment (give Lord a Spear, now he fights with Spear and has AL), but they really needed to give each Leader unique gear on level ups. In-game lords feel very samey because they are essentially just Spearmen(lord) or Swordmen(lord) with all Spearmen(lord)s having identical stats. The regional recruitment idea also seems like a cool idea on paper (hey you can recruit Lower Egypt Spearmen if you extend to Lower Egypt), but what happens is that your early game is Lower Egypt Spearmen fighting other Lower Egypt Spearmen only, which makes earlygame rather boring mirror matches and each fight feels very samey.

Troy did this better since each Lord has unique equipment and due to regional recruitment not being a thing you bank on your faction units and unique units a lot more, leading to very different battles: for example Agamemnon's heavily-clad tanks slowly grinding through Odysseus' inferior infantry, but then suddenly getting his archers rushed by Light Sword Runners and the tanks decimated by shot to the back by Light Javelinmen that managed to sneak around through the tall grass. Also Troy had optional mythical beasts like Minotaurs, Harpies and Griffons for the more fantasy-inclined.

i just want daemons to be updated. i just want the world to blacken and die at my touch.

>>535319120
Nurgle Daemonmanii spam is good already as either Ku'gath or Epi.
I'm sure Skulltaker is fine too but I haven't played him.
If you're talking about Danny, well, you can play as him!

>>535312490
-15k is nothing, just sack it back in one turn.

imagine the sex

I want to play Lizardmen, what's a good first campaign? Big fat toadman? Or someone else?

>>535318954
I'm really liking the way the recruitment works in Pharoah, it makes the armies feel like a core of elite troops supported by the local rabble, and good for variety once you have access to multiple different cultures, supplemented by warrior's refuges. But it does feel samey especially in the early game, it would be better if there was more realms and they were all smaller. I can understand a realism argument, but the entirety of Egypt being made up of only 4 realms is a little much
I do like how the weapons and skills work though, the skills are simple enough that they don't get in the way too much, and the weapons all feel unique
I'm using the mod that gives more traits, see >>535320263 and that helps a little bit with making the generals feel unique, but it doesn't do that much aside from flavor
picrel is what my court looks like for example, and these are my most unique lords because of stacking court benefits and devoting to gods
I might give Troy another go at some point, only played as Amazons in that game

>>535320923
Mazda for casting, Tiktac for flyers, Kroq for dinos and Nakai for horde. I would skip Oxy and Tehen for a first time lizard campaign they can be a bit tricky.

>>535289174
>>535289210
>decisive tang victory
>30k civilians eaten

I got a book of Nagash and now I have sandstorms everywhere after I conquer territories and my game is lagging like crazy, yes I have a toaster pc but holy shit this game demands more resources than current triple A titles. I'd be happy with a TW title with Heroes 3 graphics, at least on the world map.

>>535323090
there really needs to be different graphic settings for battle and campaign

>>535321170
Yeah, unit diversity definitely picks up after midgame, but early game impressions are what shapes the general perception. I liked it after early game slog: pushing to new area and seeing new rabble that happens to have stats better suited to your army was fun. It could've used more regions like you said though. As for weapons, if you've played 3K you'll understand the difference: for example Lu Bu is one-man army partly due to his stats but also due to his unique spear. It felt very good to finally take him down, loot his spear and give it to one of your melee powerhouses to make him even stronger (and unique). I wish this variety existed in Pharaoh. Traits are another thing that should be expanded upon like you have done: again, in 3k personality matters much more (traits give stat buffs/debuffs and personality can either synergize or detract from other lords: a reckless lord is a good battering ram but wont mesh well with strategist if he happens to be cautious and careful planner).
I really like Pharoh but its frustrating to have a good game so close to excellent, especially when previous games have executed these things better.

>>535323090
A shame there seems to not be a way to heavily reduce campaign map weather effects like sandstorms, rain, and snow. Sometimes snow and rain fucks me up but usually on the exact same zones it's buttery smooth. I dunno why it's so inconsistent. It can be great one turn, the next turn it's like 15 FPS (roughly, I'm not using a counter, but it feels shit to move the camera).

>>535320923
gor rok

>>535293337
>Rotate middle disc for lines to match. Trivial and solved in seconds
Not trivial, you have to rotate the central disc to be right side up, then rotate the middle ring so it matches up with tiles on the outside
You need GIMP or some shit to actually solve that

>>535323090
Be careful with your words.. warhammer 3 is nowhere near being as performance heavy as AAA slop. I run this beauty on max settings on my old 1080 and the campaign map gives me 50-70fps unless I stare into the donut vortex.
Meanwhile the monster hunter wilds benchmark gave me 40fps average on lowest settings in 720p.

>>535323935
Well yeah I cut the corners a bit. Its trivial if you use gimp, which you should. The tiles should be able to be rotated or it becomes basically impossible without almost superhuman spatial and working memory. The sudoku however doesnt have any way to solve it trivially beyond manually doing it each time.

>>535323415
it's a shame they dropped support on it so early, but at the same time if perception wasn't so bad Dynasties probably wouldn't have been as good and it would have taken 3 years and 6 skin packs to get to that point

'Crons will be a base game race in the next Total War game.

>>535324619
Game 2 DLC to mirror Kangs.

>>535324619
no

>>535324741
yes

>>535324619
Use Scryfall for Magic cards.

>>535324619
Nah, more like Game 2 "neutral" faction.

>>535323090
>this game demands more resources than current triple A titles.
Not even close, my PC run this shit at 90fps average at 1440p and MHWilds struggled to maintain 40fps at 1080p, now the game just crash so I don't know how it run after patches(most people say it run worse).

>>535320263
this did happen historically tho
not the kangz conquering egypt, but the older women marrying younger guys thing

>>535323090
Were you here on launch day? because holy fucking shit the performance on launch was FUCKING TERRIBLE

>>535289017
>WW1
>axis

>>535326734
things were better back then

faith, steel and landships!

A landship would be quickerrrrrr

The boys met some Skaven.

>>535328348
for me it's Eleanor
>queen of france and mother of two princess
>meets the 18 year old heir to the kingdom of England(duke of normandy at the time) at court
>seduces him
>divorces her husband(the king of France) and marries guy 10 years younger than her
>has 8 children with him
the she-wolf of Aquitaine...

do skaven or high elves have internet

>>535331570
Of course we do-have.

>>535331570
Skaven have cellphones called farsqueaks and their own social media no im not joking

>>535312875
Troy was free. We'll never know how much it could have sold because something like 7 million downloaded it but again - that's because it was free. Personally even when it came out I had that apprehension of "Why are you just doing the Aegean?" as I agonize whenever there's an abstract end to the campaign map that really inhibits a fuller experience. You have to draw a limit somewhere but there are cases where it's reasonable (Hindu Kush in R2/Attila), cases where it's unreasonable (No Maghreb in Age of Charlemange), and cases of MISERY (No fucking Sicily in a Peloponnesian war DLC)

>>535318954
I get your point, that it's in contrast to warhammer where every area has shit-loads of diverse factions.
The trickiness of the AOR example you have is there's only so far you can sub-divide it, or ways you can mitigate it with external factions. Especially so in a less covered area like this. Like in Rise of the Republic Italy it's easy as sin to really diversify that peninsula because of the volume of info and understandings of the nations therein. But lower egypt and I got fuck all what you could do with it. Maybe have given them some Aegean mercenaries but then that'd just make the situation everybody has Aegean mercenaries so it's still same-y.

>>535332985
Old saying was they farsqueaked out into the cosmos, heard elves eldar and got scared and destroyed their machine. Not all, just the one they used.

>>535333185
Thanquol also had a cellphone but it exploded he thought it was just broken but someone tried blowing him up

At first I wanted to switch out the heavens mage faggy starts with but that MA debuff is kinda sick..

>>535333329
>doesn't want a heavens mage
>one of the few mages where every spell is viable

but why?

>>535334814
Cause Lore of Maw is S0VL
And I like big iron fist slamming down. Is satisfying

wish i was having e-sex with a mid e-girl; LL for this feel?

>>535334974
you have a rat face irl

I dont understand how you're supposed to have any frontline as empire when your spears get raped in 15 seconds by some big retarded monster. Does one of the $300+ worth of dlc fix this?

>>535335359
your frontline are actually landships or steamtanks

Nakari is regretting life choices..

>>535335214
No, I'm very german

>>535333270
Fucking isrealis giving exploding pagers to innocent rats...

>>535335359
Just shoot the monster on approach, retard. You are using a lot of artillery and ranged infantry too, right, anon?

>>535335449
So then what is the point of infantry? Empire infantry seems to just get bodied by even basic infantry from other factions. If it's to flank why wouldnt I just use cavalry?

>>535335771
Because you cant get cavalry turn 1

>>535333185
When Pharaoh was announced, I remember people were speculating about awarhammer-style combined campaign, would have been kino especially with a fully realized mythos mode

>>535335771
you simply aren't intelligent enough to adequately use empire infantry, perhaps you should stick to khorne or ogres lul

>>535335359
I was just about to complain that fighting the empire as the vampires is so easy because their infantry panics instantly.
I even saw a full health spear unit run away from a horde of zombies +1 varghulf.

>>535335654
Half my army is artillery and gunners and they just get killed a minute or two into the match because the frontline gets melted so quickly. Are you supposed to just spam a whole stack of cannons? Very engaging gameplay.

>>535335050
Gelt because like him you should also be taking a sex tour in Asia if you want easy poontang instead of paying money to e-thots.

>>535336142
by the time you're fighting vampires, your Legendary lord should have enough levels to have maxed the infantry red line, and you should have enough research to have buffed your infantry from research. That should buy you more than enough time to hold the line while your ranged (which should be crossbow and mortars if you're fighting vampires) to obliterate the enemy.
By this point you should have good enough cavalry to defeat their dog/bat spam too.

>>535335359
15 sec is all your ranged units need to focus fire a large entity. A few units of elf archers can take out a giant in several volleys.

>>535335771
spearmanii are a tier 1 unit. guns and magic, not spears and shields

>>535335771
>>535335918
Empire melee infantry are awful and you always have better options. Anyone who has done one or more L/VH Franz campaigns knows this.

>>535337778
How is Franz nowadays? Haven't played him in ages but I know they made his start a bit easier by giving him Helmgart so you don't have to lay siege so early

>>535334814
heavens is the weakest generic lore with no spells that can be considered top tier. basically all it has going for it is sniping single entity artillery with thunderbolt.

>>535336142
>the frontline gets melted so quickly
By what? Slow as shit graveguard that get annihilated by ranged are the only vamp things that want to be fighting halberdiers, it's a bad fight for pretty much everything else. Vamps are possibly the easiest faction to fight.

>>535338016
nice bait

>>535335359
>empire spearmanii are weak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBcWVGYBrHQ

>>535338000
Definitely easier, especially since Elspeth almost always does well on her own. You can make it hard by recruiting melee infantry who trade shit with everything that isn't zombies.

>>535338016
That'd be lore of metal

>>535335359
you are supposed ot have the superhero single entities as your frontline

>Don't get Red Line infantry skills
>Don't research infantry tech
>Don't support them with heroes/lords
The trifecta of Empfag shittery.
You probably only have like 4 of them in the army as well.

>>535333185
also as far as Aegean mercenaries go, not sure how the game decides what units can show up in the warrior's refuge or not, but I've seen Aegeans, Sea Peoples, and native Egyptian units in them. Good way to farm for random units if you are ok with the RNG and also potentially destroying your economy if you keep too many going at once

badlands elves campaign is complete poo poo, the only lord that has bonuses for their special units is the legendary lord, the rest have to play with normal units, the campaign is also broken if you decide to forgo Yvresse

>>535338494
Nice "strategy" game.

>>535337778
spearmanii (shields) only cost 350 and have 42 melee defense. a skeleton spearmanii costs the same and has only 30 md. a goblin spearmanii only costs 25 less and has 14 less md. empire has some of the best tier 1 infantry in the game.

>>535338340
metal is one of the best generic lores. final transmutation is great for lord sniping and blob punish, searing doom is good against anything that doesn't have a knockdown animation, and plague of rust massively increases your damage output against armored targets. how does this thread consistently have such wrong and shit takes about basic game mechanics?

>>535338985
Do you recruit many speargoblinii in your campaigns? I hope not. What comes to skeletons they serve the same purpose as zombies which is to hold down the enemy while your other units and especially characters do the actual damage. They are raise dead slop so whether they get fucked up doesnt matter, unlike with empire.
Empire infantry sucks because they are meant as a line holder but they do that poorly. Few cav units to split the enemy while your ranged units kill everything that approaches provides way better results than armies with melee infantry, especially basic low tier ones. Greatswords can be ok because they can actually deal some damage.

>>535338794
yeah its complete dogshit

>>535340090
Don't you just need 5 or 6 Spears to hold the line?

>>535335359
get the technologies and red line skills to give them 50 MA+MD
get a lord or hero with hold the line to stand nearby
get a wizard to buff their defenses
get a lord with stand your ground to buff their defenses
equip helms of discord, white cloaks of ulric, and other debuffing items on your characters to bring the enemy down to your level
then use your ranged units to blast any big boys apart before they can reach your front line because your front line will still buckle pretty easily

>>535340784
Erm NTA but they eventually rout and/or die? What the fuck? If they're meant to hold the line they should just hold it..... Empire needs buffs......

>>535340937
>Erm NTA but they eventually rout and/or die?
Are you just not supporting them?

>>535341364
What do you mean support them...? I played as the Dwarves and my line was holding just fine.... why can't they be like that??? They should be buffed IMO this is stupid....

THERE'S NO NEED TO FEEL DOWN, I SAID YONG WAN!

>>535340090
empire spearmanii are only slightly worse than high elf spearmanii while costing 30% less. they have the exact same melee stats as kossars. if empire spears are shit then so are elf and slav ones, yet the same people whining that empire frontline sucks never seems to have that problem with other factions.

>>535343093
>slightly worse
What? They are worse in almost every regard, even without taking in the massive +12MD and +2MA from martial prowess. The difference in stats is like one tier (which they technically are, according to the game)

>>535343679
>Six limbed centaur like creature
So Dragon Ogres, Bull Centaurs, Centigors, and Zoats?
What would Zoat milk taste like?

>>535335359
Don't make thin fragile frontlines

>>535343792
they have 8 less md but almost 10% more hp while only costing 70% as much. you can almost have 3 empire spearmanii for 2 high elf ones.

Damn this is gonna be one hell of a turn again

>>535344270
true
if you're fighting zombie spam you can stretch your spearmanii lines to cover more ground but if you're fighting chaos you need to squish your formations into pencils and position them strategically instead

I'm tired of fighting every easy-ass battle because the AR thinks 5 spearmanii is a fair fight against 20 monster units
what vampire cunts unit should I spam to win in autoresolve?

>>535344617
>10 less armor
>20 less missile block
>10 less leadership
>3 less speed
>2 less melee attack
>8 less melee defence
>10% more health
>25% less upkeep

There are thresholds in this game, you can get 3 skavenslaves for the price of 1 spearman, but that doesnt mean 3 skavenslaves are better. The difference between spearmanii and elfmanii is that the elfmanii reaches the threshold in which it can take units like orc boyz without routing in 20 seconds, while the spearmanii can not. Another problem is that spearmen with shields take a building slot while elf spears with shield do not.

>>535346183
3 empire spearmanii will outperform 2 elf ones against orcs.

>playing gorbad
>skaven faction in the badlands with 1 settlement declares war on me
>march my 20 stack towards them
>they scatter
>take the settlement
>his last stack suicides into gorbad
>2 turns later his actual last stack, a 20 stack of skavenslaves, finishes marching across the badlands to attack Iron Rock
>it's T1 with only a night gobbo warboss in it
>he attacks
>auto resolve says pyrrhic victory
>night gobbo warboss gets 450 kills

>>535346408
And a stack of elf spears and elf archers will outperform a stack of empire spears and archers.

TW40K 1 roster will be:
Space Marines:
>Ultramarines
>Imperial Fists
>Iron Hands (FLC)
>White Scars (FLC)
>Salamanders (DLC)
>Raven Guard (DLC)
>Black Templars (DLC)
>Dark Angels (DLC)

Chaos Space Marines:
>Black Legion
>Word Bearers
>Iron Warriors (FLC)
>Alpha Legion (DLC)

Orks:
>Goffs
>Bad Moons
>Snakebites (DLC)

Aeldari:
>Samm-Hainn
>Biel-tan
>Ulthwé (DLC)

Astra Militarum (Pre-order DLC):
>New Cadia
>Catachan
>Krieg (DLC)

Tyranids (DLC)
>Leviathan
>Behemoth

>>535346709
because the elf archers are way better, not because of the difference in spears. the point is that empire spears are objectively in the top half of tier 1 spears in the game and do exatly what is needed from them in the roster.

I think I'm getting pharoh this month just to support CA

>faction resurgence in med 1
>its huge
>french king immediately dies of an illness
>just 3 stacks of chivalry tier rebels instead
i got really fucking lucky
never seen that happen before

>>535347352
What's "pharoh"?

Sekhs with Sekhmet

>>535347316
The difference in spears is that elf ones hold the line better with less amount of troop slots, which can be then used to fill them with more archers.
>empire spears are objectively in the top half of tier 1 spears in the game and do exatly what is needed from them in the roster
You are like the only one who believes this. They have way better options for their armies which is why rarely see people recruit them on L/VH difficulty.

>>535347567
>tabletop map instead of the trash 3d map
SOVL
we need to go back
back when the world map AI was actually competent

>>535347825
>They have way better options for their armies
like what? if you say single entities you are a shitter.

>>535342101
Funny

>>535348192
Missile cav like pistoliers to peel and abuse the shitty battle ai, more crossbows and handgunners to delete enemies as they trickle in to range. Later on you switch to helstorms and war machines.

>>535348742
>suggests no frontline all ranged
shitter

>>535349103
>unironical staunch line of spears poster on /twg/
You just outed that you don't play this game very much, just crawl back to whatever other general you came from.

Can CA make AI sally out during the siege battle? Its fucking retarded that 2 full stacks of Vcunt units to just sit inside the city while i slowly bomb them. They could easily overwhelm me.

>>535348742
>>535349547
>unironically plays empire using nothing but ranged units
anon this is campaign not multiplayer

they should remake a real total war game like medieval 2 instead of more "heroes and big monsters slop" that warhammer shittery is

>>535350020
the guns and cannons for empire are second only to skaven
i wouldnt go as far as the other anon, but a half gun with swords and shields to cover them mogs most of the game if you know how to use guns properly
though i am biased as one of the few people who liked empire

they should unironically remake WH3 first

40k announcement when?

>>535350223
would a med 3 even be good if they tried to make it heroslop
though alot of stuff warhammer does right should be kept, like being able to retrain normally instead of your super elite unit only being repleneshible from the one place you can build it and costing a build slot you could have just, built a new one instead

>>535350641
no it wouldn't that's why they have to remaster the second game instead of making anything new

>>535350403
No one is saying to not use ranged, but using only ranged is multplayerfag behavior.

no whites allowed

>>535351936
like the players of that game

>>535347263
>Iron Hands
>White Scars
>Salamanders
>Raven Guard
>over the Blood Angels, Space Wolves, and Grey Knights
I don't think so.

>>535350520
Next week, it's Dawn of War 4 though.

total war: middleearth would've been a bigger hit

>>535352116
There's only been a DoW 1 and 2, though

>>535351936
how tf is merneptah still alive in your game bro?

>>535350403
>one of the few people who like empire
Anon... it's the most popular faction on VH/L and third overall.

Ok CA, the joke has gone on for a bit too long now, release Neferata already.

>>535352116
nah, they will remaster dawn of war 2 now because it's a decent game and people will buy it, and then they'll pick up dawn of war 3 again and fix
coh3 is a pretty good game, dow3 can be good too

>>535352024
They need to save some chapters for 40k 2 and 3 and those would require some amount of actual effort to implement instead of just being ultramarines but they get -20% upkeep for flamer units

>>535352516
>coh3 is a pretty good game
Haha

>>535352316
Worry not, it's basically a remake of 1 but with primaris blood ravens.

>>535352601
I think it's pretty fun, despite them barely working on it