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Previous thread: >>536513343

I'm gay and it's gonna make the news LL for this feel?

>>536695883
golman fageater

Shamelessly reposting from the last thread with some minor corrections:

chillin in the badlands on a hot summer's day
just me and my Waagh and MCA
lotta shrooms lotta fightin' and a lot of cursin'
got a choppa and an greataxe on my person

got my hand on my crossbow and my finger on the trigger
my waagh is getting big, and my waagh is getting bigger
some armies have style, some armies have grace
we got the kinda armies that are in your face!

>try (f)maggot lord because you told me it's a good option for a first nurg campaign
>going well with a few hickups
>after a tough battle I am hit with random fucking attrition out of nowhere
>sitting in my own fucking settlement still makes me have attrition
>my best fucking units including the lord and heroes die
>campaign fucking bricked for no reason
remind me to never play this piece of shit faction

>>536696327
No I didn't.
>hickups

Anyone here still play Rome 2 ?

I havent played total war in YEARS and just got back into it. When the HECK did CA remove chat from the games ? It makes multi-player matches with random unplayable. I can't even be a shitter and
> :^)
in chat when match starts and all I brought was 13 eastern spears, 4 elephants and 3 chariots.

>>536697059
oi m8 it's 2025 you need a wanking loicense now ya bloody nazi

>>536696327
skill issue

40k TW will never have a kino opening like this

>>536697556
Uhh no, I had every regen skill but attrition negates those.

>>536697649
why would some space marines not wear helmets? all that armour and training could be easily wasted by some shitter getting a lucky headshot

>>536697736
Why were you taking attrition?

>>536697649
wait so these the guys that die in a single hit and you lose all of them to take a random bombed out hill are the army that other anon was saying couldn't be a TW faction because there's only a thousand of them in the setting?
why are lorefags always such liars?

>>536697998
How should I know? I was garrisoned in my own settlement with my own corruption and it still blocked my regen

>>536697895
Something about a face and a shield.

>>536698114
Tzeentch ability.

there is as many elves as the plot demands

the west has fallen...

>>536698114
if you hover your mouse over the attrition icon you can see what's causing it

>>536698338
It said 3 turns remaining and those 3 turns fucked my ass raw with no lube

>>536698395
damn that's rough

hehe- Thanqoul never, sucka.

>>536698635
>spelling mistake

BREAKING NEWS
BREAKING NEWS
BREAKING NEWS
Clio will be playing Rome Remastered for the first time tomorrow! Don't miss your chance histbros!
SPQR

>>536699035
Who's that? Is he important? Does it mean something?

>>536699314
she is our queen

>>536699035
cute girl(male)!

/total waifu general/

>>536700038
sorry, forgot the pic

>>536697895
So you can see their face
How would someone show emotion with a helmet?

>>536698064
There aren't only a thousand, there's a thousand per subtraction, but yeah you're right that its stupid how often and easily they die when the lore keeps insisting they're rare and powerful

>>536699035
Rome Remastered could've been so good if they just kept the old UI

>>536700260
cute tummy

>>536698064
Orkz can 1:1 or 20:1 Spess Mehreens depending on the scenario.

Spess Mehreens also have neophytes and new recruits all the time, handwaving the complex and dangerous process of becoming just a generic Spess Mehreen.

By the way you are retarded and will never improve if on your first campaign, you don't understand you aren't supposed to build a large army and are supposed to rely on your lords.

By the way you are retarded and will never improve if on your first campaign, you don't understand you are supposed to build a large army and aren't supposed to rely on your lords.

>>536702082
>>536701595
What...

>>536701595
>>536702082

WHERES THE FUCKING PAAAATCH *STEAM BLOWS OUT OF EARS*

Patience, friends. Thanquol soon, Friends!

When do patch notes drop

>>536701595
>>536702082

>>536704756
Where is the chair
Is the chair supposed to be the stool they just kicked off from? That's awful

why doesn't Warhammer have a photo mode?
seems like a mixed opportunity, especially now that Sofia is in charge of it they like photomodes

What LL has the best Faction Name.

Warhost of the Apocalypse goes super hard, but I'm open to hear others

>>536705818
Tong.

Why does the AI think I want there?

>>536705996
600 gold

>>536704906
Improper back support would push any woman over the edge

>>536705818
I like 'The Thousand Maws'

>>536705818
not LL but
>Varg

DRUCHII!

>>536707283
What do dark elves smell like?

>>536707514
syphilis

>>536707514
Morathi smells like every Druchii from Naggarond to Quintex

>>536705818
I'm fond of
>Last Defenders
>The Legion of Azgorh
>The Thousand Maws

>>536707283
>even dark elves have the phenomenon where the women are manlier than their men
So it isn't just high elves.

>>536708290
Why are they called last defenders when Kroq-Gar's faction is in fact on the offensive?

>>536703492
Thanks for covering for me, friend.

>>536707283
cool art, but the corsair's armor is too heavy looking

>>536701595
By the way you are retarded and will never improve if you keep relying on corner camping and hero stacking to win battles. Also your hair will fall out.

>>536707514
wonderful, like all elves.

>Asur
sweet and flowery, it is hard to tell where the perfume ends and the body smells begin
>druchii
tangy and spicy, and exuding pheromones. overwhelming and exotic to the nose of a human
>asur
earthy and musky, with a hint of corruption. contrary to popular belief they do bathe, just not with any soap

that one anon with shit taste might have been right about one thing, I started an Archaon campaign and this is really fun, I just confederated Tamurkhan and he's essentially become my best friend vassal

>>536710267
>confederated
meant vassalized, really weird that the Everchosen can confederate the monogods however, feels like he should be able to

>>536710473
Archaon is best when you rush a dark fortress or two, clap Arbaal/Boris, and then go down to wage nonstop war against the southerners. Gotta do it real fast because Kislev becomes a clusterfuck of chaostide factions and its not as fun.

>>536708514
the best defense is a good offense

>>536710473
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3389207080
recommend mod, not sure if it's save game compatible or not

>raiding on border to replenish
>they go to fight
>get three (3) WAAAGHs off in one battle
Git sum, stunties!

Are the Swords of Chaos supposed to be this bad? Ive been using my Chaos Knights of Tzeentch and them, comparing both and deepite the obvious barrier, the Tzeentch ones still manage to survive better once their barrier is depleted and get more kills, these feel really lackluster for being Archaon's special cavalry

>>536709605
>Asur twice

>>536698114
Likely you encountered a Tzeentch faction. These are one of the most bullshit factions in the game: they can cause your armies to take heavy unavoidable attrition for 3 turns, they can steal your settlements without going to war with you and do all sorts of retarded stuff. They should be your #1 target the moment you meet them. Its likely you met a minor Tzeentch faction that usually gets wiped out in a turn, but this time you got unlucky and they managed to put the Attrition curse on you.

>The campaign map is actually hex-based tiles
>You cant see them though so good luck trying to trigger bridge battles on misaligned tiles kekekeke
The perfidious TCALUKBG at it again

bruh

>>536713205
SoC are WH1 addition and as such they've been powercrept pretty hard. They used to be your anti cav/large unit trailing Archaon: their low model count and low splash means they overkill infantry models and wont deal as much damage.

They should keep up with base Chaos Knights of Tzeentch though. The difference was likely caused by terrain: unit fighting uphill loses up to 20% MA while enemy gets up to 20% MD buff. This is enough to make even 50 MA cavalry fighting lowly 30 MD chaff lose half of its DPS. The low performance could be explained if you didnt notice your SoC were fighting uphill and CKoTs were fighting downhill.

>>536705818
I like a lot of the chaos faction names. They would make perfect metal band names like:
>Legion of the Gorequeen
>Warhost of Zharr
>Warhost of the Apocalypse
>Puppets of Misrule
>Ecstatic Legion

>You can only offer one settlement at a time to an AI
??? Why?

>>536698064
The point is that the normal human (i.e. an imperial guardsman) is physically inferior to the equivalent grunt of every main enemy faction, except maybe the Tau, therefore to go 1v1 something, you need a Space Marine. Which is why the millions of Space Marines (divided into ~1000 man chapters) are used as an emergency Hammer of some engagements, while the trillions of guardsmen are the default Anvil of *all* engagements.
The "standard" mentality of imperial commanders is "give me a 100 space marines, or a 1000 guardsmen, and I can do it" for a good reason, because 10 guardsmen (default loadout) have a very good chance of killing 1 space marine (default loadout), if they all start out at "standard engagement range"

>>536720787
>normal human (i.e. an imperial guardsman) is physically inferior to the equivalent grunt of every main enemy faction
Termagant

>>536708712
thats an executioner t. sword analysis pro

Doesn't anyone play with the southern realms mod? I tried it once but realized it turned both Ikit Claw and Arenessa's AI really passive, like nothing happened there for 50+ turns so I turned it off. Anyone had similar experiences?

I hope CA make a small check on Wood Elfs before jumping the ship. Not that much numberfixing needed, but the Spellweavers have nothing but there spellschool to skill up. Like the orc heroes they will update, there last 10 or soo level ups are dead levels until you can skill your third and final mentor skill.

>>536708712
The less armor there is the better it is.

>>536702345
He cute

>>536721218
Dude those things are the size of a fucking utah raptor. They're man-sized. A regular man man can overpower a gretchin and a tau in hand-to-hand. That's about it.

>>536725735
A salmon couldn't overpower me yet 100 yards under the ocean it is physically superior to me.
Physically stronger=/= Physically superior.

>>536726904
And in this context, which is the fish, the IG or the 'nid?

>>536727734
The Guard, as he has two hands in an environment where weapons that use two hands, are common.

>>536728086
Yet gaunts have "hands" and also use very similar ranged weaponry. I think your analogy is mega-bad here, anon.

>>536728174
Nobody would make a tyranid model with two hands why wouldn't it pick up lasgun. That would be lore destroying, all Tyranid moddels have their inferior weapons fused to thw wrist you can't trick me.

Will you try out updated Lizardmen/TK first in 6.3?

>>536728356
>inferior
Pretty sure their standard parasite gun organisms they're grown connected to is as effective or better than a lasgun

>>536728368
Yeah for I play all races.

Wasn't the update supposed to come out the previous week?

>>536728492
According to?

>>536728465
Not in THE game, or any game featuring both I'm aware of, and the lore is a shitty mess, it's stepping on the toes of the point of the IG and Tyranids in THE game.
Tyranids are the melee horde and IG are the shooty horde or the balanced horde since the T'au exist.

>>536728725
...HIM

>>536728465
There's different morphs of Termagants. They can have either bladed claws or grasping hands to wield two-handed weapons. They weigh around 200kg while being noticeably smaller than Guardsmen though, so it can be surmised they're denser (better armored; its not like Guard's flak vest offers much protection anyways) and stronger (to be able to move that quickly while weighing 200kg)

(You) there!
Draw something sovlful!

>>536729838
Did the anon drawing all the LL from each game ever finish them?

Play the Ogres as an order faction, get belly rubs from Katarin and Elspeth.

Anons, does a Skaven faction having an undercity somewhere count as a settlement for them?
I'm fighting a Skaven clan that has 6 or 7 settlements left but I can only see 4 places that I know they are definitely in.

>>536731114
no
they are probably somewhere in the fog of war or made of confederated someone

>>536715387
@grok is this real?

>>536731202
Shit. Looks like I have to go to Nagashizzar to finally stamp them out then. Fuck's sake.

>>536708250
More like everything with a penis from Lustria to the northern chaos realm.

>>536731859
>OI

I AM LUTHOR HARKON

>>536734014
grok is gork

Where is the update I want to play as my boi Nakai. Remember when CA made it he couldnt recruit Kroxigors? fucking hell lizardmen have had it rough

>>536713205
>>536715762
They should be aspiring champions on horses, single entity killers who have mobility.

>>536737775
>fucking hell lizardmen have had it rough
lizardfags actually believe this

>>536737797
This + they get the aspiring buffs from tech :^)

>>536715387
is this how every total war has worked though?

>>536711847
this is a nice color for the Chorfs, I wish Astragoth's faction had it because then I'd play him more.

Pootch noots?

>>536735285
>You Gork?

>>536739929
patch notes are for winners

>>536695824 (OP)
Yin Yin soon, r-retards.

When's the video about the new DLC coming?

>>536741656
never lose hope

>>536742205
This month, trust

>>536742205
It's been delayed

>>536742205
discussing Attila takes priority
it's an attilan franchise, you just don't know it yet

So how will all the 40kiddies cope when TW40k is finally deconfirmed?

AAAAAAAA give the fucking patch NOOOWWWW

>>536743548
thats not you

Patch is out

>>536742728
Grim. Grave, even.

>>536743710
you cant prove that

Ursun during the campaign:

ALL FEAR THE PIRATE KING

Today or thursday for patch?

does this general still like empire total war?

>>536745946
>game so completely broken even mods can't fix it
I WANT to like Empire because it's by far the best setting.

>>536745946
I do
it's still kino

>>536745946
I'd argue it has the best campaign layer in the series but it's let down by the fact that its land battles are absolute ass. I exclusively play naval empires like United Provinces and Britain since the naval combat is peak and you can just play out the whole campaign from the seas and autoresolve land battles like an inverse Rome.

If only there was a way to backport Napoleon's land combat to Empire.

Orcs or goblins, /twg/?

>>536746557
I'm playing redcoats too!

>>536746890
Poles.

>>536746840
Is it really that much better? I don't remember them being better when I played both back in the day. I guess I'll replay that next.
But I really don't think the campaign layer is that good. I was allied with Austria as Poland and they just attacked my Saxon protectorate, breaking the alliance and forcing me to go to war. Now I can't even bring Saxony back to life because "release country" is apparently not a diplomatic option.
Guess I'm spoiled by Vicky 2.

>>536746890
Orcs are more fun in game and satisfying to use, gobbos are funnier

It has never been more over
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/08/25/ukrainian-morale-troop-favourite-warhammer-translations-end/

>>536747352
You guys have no idea to what fucking level I despise news websites.

>>536747528
I hate them too, the title got me in this case

>>536747213
>But I really don't think the campaign layer is that good
Probably because you're landlocked in shitholistan. The campaign map spans Europe, India and the Americas with sea zones for the African coast and Indonesia and it comes into its own fighting across multiple theatres to monopolize trade resources and lanes. Instead you're going to be stuck bashing rocks with the teutonoids for the next 50 years.

>>536747352
>3 years into the 3 day special chaotic operation
yeah yeah I'm sure a lack of Albionic slop books is what will get Kyislev to finally surrender to the warriors of chaoz

>>536746890
Night Goblins

35 mins.

>>536747892
>Instead you're going to be stuck bashing rocks with the teutonoids for the next 50 years.
And I'm gonna like it.
Next stop, Varna crusade 2.0

>go to /tg/ fantasy thread
>one of first images is cropped Miao getting raped by a Fimir
On second thought /twg/ is less coom-infested

>>536747352
I remember seeing a video a year or so back where some ukrainian war vets were interviewed. They were showing off their combat kits and talking about how they had to source a lot of their equipment from civilian providers. The one guy had a bunch of 40k-themed patches and the other had a photo of some popular anime girl in his chest pouch

>>536747893
How could games workshop do this?

I was expecting patch notes...
Was I asking for too much?

>>536748221
There's been an image posted here of a Ukrainian tank decorated with ork glyphs too, not sure if it was from that or not

>>536748475
Tzeentch promised me patch notes for today. Just be patient.

It feels like we aren't even allowed to be optimistic about the future of Total War.

>>536748152
you are just trying to bait people into your dead thread anon

>>536749065
ToT delay was the final straw for me. CA is just too pathologically incompetent to give me any hope.

>>536749512
this but immortal empires launch

>>536749065
>The Future of Total War
Oh no!

Its up https://youtu.be/YMY-ti1Oa2Y?feature=shared
It seems instead of releasing patch notes, they are having their 100 or so literally who streamers reveal bits and pieces in random videos.

>>536745946
given all the updates to the game engine since that game, it's really hard to go back to.

>>536749839
A streamer with two viewers is worth a million unwashed plebs in the eyes of CA.

>>536749981
Honestly the only QoL I really notice when going back to is the limited diplomacy options.
The core formula hasn't really changed much but splittable armies and optional generals make moving and managing armies easier. For some reason I don't know how to articulate, the economy and settlement management of old games just works much better for me. That's the #1 part that bores me to tears in Pharaoh, Troy and Warhammer.

curse you reddit

Well?

>No patch today
>I wont be able to play on thursday either
Fucking e-shills.

>>536751052
>go on reddit in the off-chance it's not bait
>tab header
This is so exciting bros!

LET :CLAP: THEM :CLAP: COOK

>>536750685
I should have specified that I was mostly talking about the tactical map. The lag between telling a unit to do something, and them actually doing it is really noticeable now after all the improvements made. Not to mention all the times the AI just completely bugs out and does nothing.

But I do agree that the campaign side of the game is much better than what we have now.

>>536747352
KiZlev won
Ukraos lost

this was a fun battle somehow, despite having a really really shit starting position at the bottom of a hill and forests every fucking where

Trying out a few mods and checking settings to combat the AI issues in Pharaoh
Has anyone tried this setting before? I feel like it could potentially make the game easy because the AI won't understand what's going on, but the way Pharaoh works is you usually take out their armies and outposts before the city anyways so it might not actually matter
My main intention with this would be to get rid of those stupid generals larping as agents that sack your outposts until they die of attrition

Dwarfs or chaos dwarfs?

Trust CA. Believe in CA.

>>536753430
My leadership is wavering.

>>536753389
Dwarfs are a unique faction with lots of distinct units and mechanics, and all their LLs have different campaigns
Chaos Dwarfs are mainly reskins of units and mechanics from other races, and all their LLs feel the same

I fully expect patch to be released on friday. Or maybe delayed till next week because why the fuck not. More time for shills to do their thing.

>>536753389
Both are very good and fun, but ultimately I give it to Dwarfs.

>>536753494
Good thing I'm unbreakable!

what pisses me off about them not mentioning just when the patch comes out is that you cant play the game in fear of your save file being bunk just fucking say its Friday or something so I can start a campaign and finish it or something

>>536753219
theres a mod by that alex zhao dude which makes it so sacking outposts removes almost all movement
i would not play without that mod since all of your outposts will burn if a single shit army gets into your lands

>be on land
>click on a land location you can reach in one turn by crossing via water
>the game plots a land-based detour that will take 9 turns to complete
Will they ever fix this?
How many fucking games has it been now with this shit?

States should have a slayer option irl

If you don't want to give views.

Daniel>WoC

said no one ever.

>>536753389
Belegar

>>536754249
Shit like this is why I never ever play Legendary

>>536754775
Yuri...

>>536753891
are you Crazy?

This week we were meant to get:
>livestream schedule (promised today)
>patch notes
>patch
>What's Next (Aislinn)
CA... Where is it? At least give us the promised schedule, it's bound to have an explanation of when to expect the patch or notes.

>>536754134
yeah I'm using a lot of his mods, plus some other fixes and some things for flavor
as much as I love Pharaoh, the way the anti player bias works against the outpost system is getting harder to ignore
I'm surprised by how many good mods are on the workshop, one of the perks of being a dead game I guess
realized the setting for faction destruction is changeable mid-game so going to give it a try
>>536754638
a saint amongst men

>>536753389
Chorfs. Dwarfs are unsatisfying to play because they get OP shit from turn 1 or 5 and AI doesn't know how to counter Gyrocopters or even a regular Dwarf army, CA overdid them and their mechanics, while Chaos Dwarfs present a cool early and mid challenge before becoming overpowered at roughly the point most campaigns would be over anyway. There's also the cool technology tree and currencies. WAHITU DEMAK, Chorfs are my favourite race

>>536755415
4 minutes

>>536755415
>This week we were meant to get:
>What's Next (Aislinn)
They said it will depend on the release date of 6.3, if they release 6.3 late this week the new ToT video will be only be released the next week.

>>536755415
CA is like that one friend who always says he's gonna do something and then on the day he goes "That was today maaan i have my learner's test today maybe tomorrow maaan" and then he spends all day watching youtube

>>536754638
Very op stuff but the Cabal is just ridiculous

>>536755415
>livestream schedule
>patch notes
>patch
Will be done on Friday, the last possible day of 'next week'
>What's next
Will be on Monday

>>536756276
He then assumes you've completely forgotten about it the next time you meet and pretends it never happened. Yeah, that's CA.

>>536754775
I love him but his method of recruiting means he never really gets mixed demon armies until I am already stomping.

jesus christ high elves are fucking unstoppable

>>536758519
Um........................... No

jesus christ wood elves are fucking hot

>>536758589
take down three stacks, they come back with three more the next turn. now their pet liggers are out for blood too
really should've came here super early and crushed them

>>536758608
Squire...

The stag is COMING

>>536759272
AND SO AM I

I don't even know why you bother playing VCoast in the year of our lord 2025 then complain it's hard
Everyone knows the faction is extremely unfun and dated

Haven't played Nurgle, is Tamurkhan fun?

>>536759651
As someone who never really enjoyed Nurgle beforehand, yeah

>>536745946
Best setting and it has some sovl, but it's borderline unplayable because of the tiny ass map and the bugs/AI. Empire 2 would be indisputably the best setting for a new historical game but the faggots at CA think making garbage like Pharaoh and Troy is more important.

>>536759651
Eh. He's so overpowered that it gets boring, for me

>>536759272
I'm the Stag and I'm coming in your wadancer gf.

>>536759651
He's fun but basically once you steamroll Kholek the difficulty is over.

>>536760152
>steamroll Kholek
Steamroll? You mean theres another way other than a vicious knight fight in a telephone both on like turn 5 that kills like 60% of your army

>>536762167
I'm sorry you lost the campaign due to attrition anon

So how big of a deal is the -1% vigour per sec?

>>536762167
Nta but vicious knife fight on turn 5 sounds about right

>>536763297
No no I always win, but I thought you had to have that really hard fight, and then fighting grimgors bullshit to get the steamroll going

Actual news on R*ddit

>>536764305
>if that somehow changes
haha, he's joking, right? haha

POST TOMB KANG AND LIGGER ART/MEMES IN HONOUR OF 6.3 REWORKS

>>536763685
big. after a long fight your guys will barely be tired while your opponent will be exhausted.

I really dont understand
Why is reworking traits on such a low priority
if they knew traits were shit why not get to it earlier?
WHY IS IT IN THE SAME PATCH AS LE EPIC FANCY REDDIT RICK AND MORTY LOCATIONS WOW IT AFFECTS FUTURE CAMPAIGNS WOW SO UNIQUE AND UNIQUE = GOOD WOW
is it a british thing? because I will be very happy to hate the brits even more now

>>536763685
It is essentially perfect vigor, especially for Dwarfs with the runesmith's rune of hearth and home, they actually removed it in multiplayer.

>>536748616
>>536764305
No. It can't be. How is this possible!?

>>536764898
Hating the Brits isn't fun anymore, they hate themselves far more than we ever could.

>>536764305
I can't wait for all my mods to break

>>536766536
>She uses cheats

>>536764898
CA does not want to work on these games any more

>>536764305
So, "What's Next - Tides of Torments" video friday or next week.

Anyone else got this feeling that all video games related boards are full of basedboy manchildren? /vg/ and /v/ in particular are reddit-tier. You see all those "games are for children" posts and think that's retarded but I'm starting to think that only a bunch of people playing vidya in early adulthood and beyond are well mentally developed

Why would someone make such a lazy bait post?

>>536764305
>>536767867
>DLC
>later this Summer (Autumn) (fast for Winter)
This doesn't recharge my waddle-barag.

>>536764701
Cant wait to confed Khalida&Khatep and vassalize a harem as Settra.
Can TKs even force vassalize factions?

>>536770110
You can do it with diplo. Just give them a settlement or two with a barracks.

>>536764701
Repostan

>>536770110
Are they even gonna survive long enough for that to be possible?

>>536771245
"My ancestor :|"

>>536770110
they can vassalize through diplomacy, no idea if they can subjugate or not though
I know there's a mod that lets you use that feature it for all races if you want

Is there a Japan faction in Warhammer? Why are they not adding it as DLC? I'd paypig for that.

>>536771807
They 'exist', but didn't have an armybook since like, the 80's.

>>536771807
Nippon exists in lore but they've never had a proper complete army list beyond really early edition stuff

>>536771807
because they're lazy bums
a Nippon DLC could be really cool

Damn some of these mod siege maps are pretty good

>>536772038
>>536772053
Suggest Nippon lore. I personally think that Nippon should be a civilized Chaos worshipping nation. They don't worship the Chaos gods directly, but still follow the practices and ideals of them, but in a civilized manner. The two main deities would paradoxically be Khorne and Slaanesh.

Vampire coast should not be that strong wtf

>>536773210
I'm not into full blow chaos worship, but I like the idea of them worshipping countless spirits and minor deities of the land, among which are a shitload of actual demons and it just works out.

Also have magic blacksmiths who bind demons to katanas for the elite samurai. The japanese absolutely fucking LOVE demon swords.

>patch in a couple days
damn i wanna play but not if the save is gonna go to shit when the patch drops

>SADISTIC and EVIL
>somehow still gains the respect of his people
>believes his divine "right" to the throne was taken from him
>burns that shit down once it doesn't go his way
>oppression-based mechanics
Kurunta is the Pharaoh version of Malekith

when has a patch ever broken your save*

*not counting beta patches

>>536771807
Ehh, it'd just be the sengokuslop we've seen a million times before.

>>536775845
kek they both even have antler helmets

How long does it usually take before the new dlc gets uploaded on that russian site we all know of?

>>536775845
wouldn't that make Suppiluliuma the High Elf then?

>>536771245
What are they thinking?

>>536773210
>Civilized chaos
Uwotm8
That niche is already taken by chorfs

>>536775950
Sengokuslop with yokai and magic shit would be infinitely better than regular sengokuslopper.

>>536776570
nice, didn't notice that comparison
>>536776919
In a sense, yes
you could make the argument that his is a weak and fragmented empire led by the weak

>>536777154
Inuyasha: Total War

>want to try grimhammer out
>dlc is coming out in a few days
man...

>>536758519
>deport dookii from ulthuan
>stop morathi and her wetback legion in tiranoc
>confed your frens
>spend the rest of the game printing money and steamrolling everything in sight
Tyrone campaigns are some of the comfiest for how easy they are

>>536777910
>Update is chock-full of new unusual locations that finally do something instead of +5% money or +3 public order
God bless Sofia

>>536778196
does Tyrion have a tight pussy?

>>536773103
Some are great, some are bad, but I'd take both any day over same 5 reskinned maps. Fucking Lothern or Altdorf being generic copypaste settlement is borderline criminal. WH3's siege maps feel like cheap Temu copy of an actual Total War Warhammer sieges.

>>536777108
>Minor god worshipper

>>536778596
Total Warhammer has never had good sieges tho

>>536764701
I will post one for my Kang...

>>536778867
3K did
>Vigor actually matters so siege towers make sense and assladders/ropes are reserved for autoresolve-tier facerolls
>Pre battle deployables like stakes, ramparts and caltrops
>Wall-mountable artillery
>Buildings built in campaign map existed as physical locations in battle map and could be destroyed by artillery/fire: careful siege attacker could take the city without destroying it in the process.
>Gates took more than slight breeze to knock down
>Dismountable cavalry could be used to climb unguarded parts of the wall and open gates
>Raider infantry could throw torches to burn buildings/towers
>Good balance of city tower's power and difficulty of destroying them
>Cities looked like actual cities instead of you fighting over just a 1% segment of it
>Cities had actual fallback locations for multi-layered retreats instead of swiss cheese sieges of WH3
>Lord banter mid-battle relates to what is happening: for example an attacker may insult a lord falling back as a coward for running
And then they just threw it all away

>>536779375
he based
>>536778584
teclis is the tight one but you have to put up with her "not like other girls" bullshit. tyrion woud be a stacy getting banged out by entire crews of sea guard

>>536779902
I specifically meant total Warhammer as in wh1, wh2 or wh3

>>536767867
>Norsca Blue

>>536778196
I ragequit my last Tyrone campaign during the siege beta. Feel free to laugh at me.

>>536780098
>>536779375

>>536780731
Nice

Deamon princes can change their minds, right? Like a deamon prince asks you for a fig, and you tell it that figs aren't in season right now, and then it tells you that figs are always in season. If you told it that it is wrong and then showed proof, would its beliefs change to fit reality?
What stops them from changing their minds on moral propositions not just factual propositions?

>>536780870
what manga is that? It looks like a berserk clone, in a good way

>>536781209
Kingdom
Many creative liberties taken on Qin's unification wars
I think a total war game with Spring/Autumn period into Warring States into Qin conquest into Chu Han contention would be decent as like a 3k prequel

So HE's are getting Aislin next, right?

>>536741656
She's taking longer than expected so they can give her a monstergirl form to appeal to the nip market

Why is it that some battles I can tick control large armies while some battles I can't?

>>536784287
You need to have more than one army on your side, even a settlement garrison.

>>536782724
Aislinn is the only thing confirmed coming for HE with the DLC so far.

>>536764701
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5VbNUmIk2c

finishing up my first beastman campaign as taurox vh/vh, just gotta fuck that elf tree up

max level nemesis crown but no sword

is taurox most busted lord in game? that momentum thing is insane

ps. beastmen play like i imagined greenskins should, just nonstop mayhem

>>536785764
begone vermin

>>536785119
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI--6-kR3xc

>>536786530
it used to be even broken in WH2.

>>536779902
3k towers are way too strong desu
if you dont have fire arrows or several trebutchets to take them down you eat shit

>>536775772
>I'm not into full blow chaos worship
To me, samurai commiting seppuku is 100% a Khorne ritual. Same goes for Geisha obsessively trying to perform dances and tea ceremonies perfectly, lest they fail and become prostitutes, that's 100% Slaanesh. I can't think of any good examples of old Japanese culture that translates well to Nurgle or Tzeentch rituals though, plus, I like the irony of a nation of Khorne and Slaanesh "worshippers" living together. Also, they don't worship Khorne and Slaanesh directly, just through their culture's actions, meanwhile, they actually directly worship spirits and yokai on their island. That's my idea of Nippon.

I like nurgle toads and flies so much more without a stinky plaguebearer riding them but they're so much worse

It's over

>>536603668
Wow I didn't think this would work, guess the engine's flexible enough for it

patch notes of delay
dlc of torment

When is the fucking 6.3 update? I am getting antsy waiting for to try out the new TK stuff

I kinda wish we get med3 but there is a 99% chance they name THAT CITY kyiv instead of kiev. Probably a ukrainian faction too, but would they name it kyivan rus then? or just go full retard and name it ukraine?

>>536787330
da boyz take flight!
Is this a bug or did you mod it in?

>>536786530
>is taurox most busted lord in game?
Skulltaker is more ridiculous once he gets some of his cloak abilities. He gets movement after winning fights, can replenish his movement on top of that on a cooldown, fully replenish his army after every fight that involves an enemy lord, and even teleport.
And that's without using him to shit out endless blood host armies.

>>536788751
Kyiv x Byzantine Empire

>>536788821
bug afaik, when I got the Vermintide special army the Bright Wizard was an Or* model

>>536789273
its beautiful either way

No, seriously, why can't I offer up multiple settlements for one settlement. I conquered all this land to trade it, but I can only do 1 for 1 trades

>>536789796
>why cant I do basic shit while playing literal goyslop for the masses?

>>536790485
What games do you play anon?

Wednesday = patch notes + watch upper class streamers play patch 6.3
Thursday = plebs allowed to play patch 6.3
Friday = non-elves allowed to witness the glory of Aislinn the Sea Lord and his armada of Dragonships

my favorite part of the campaign is getting comfy enough to build all of those high priced expensive upgrades all across my kingdom

>>536792052
also didn't realize that ToB had an option to disable the map details
it's such a comfy overlay though the Med2: Britannia ambience is better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmUd4xivzpA

>>536754638
These are a bit too much, wish they just made some more simple but interesting ones.

>>536792052
never played THROB, what kind of upgrades are we talking about here?

>>536754638
>corruption is a joke
>build one anti corruption building and get 50% charge and 20% damage for the rest of the campaign
kinda nuts no?

>>536790619
NTA but I only play NetHack. While I do so I am in a cave, naked, covered in lipstick, with no internet.

>>536788709
see >>536764305

Cibyra seems to be the local hangout spot. We've had locals, greeks, canaanites, and now great kings stopping by and just kind of standing there intimidatingly before moving on in their travels.

>>536792887
mostly just more income, multipliers, trade good, and food (that I haven't worried about since turn 10)
it's just pretty rewarding not seeing those "you can build here" popups anymore, but also comfy to see all of the towns scattered about, just like in Empire, Napoleon, and Shogun 2

>>536790619
dota

>>536780870
>>536781209


There is too much shonenshit in this manga. A lot of retarded moments. But I can't stop reading it somehow. And it also has really hype moments that work.

>Patch thursday
>I go in for a dental cleaning in the morning and will be drugged up for most of the day afterwards

>>536797496
Dont be a pussy anon. I remember playing wh2 all day after my implant surgery.

>my hobgoblin cuttthroats have 53/60 MA/MD, 20% PR, 10% WS, vanguarding, heals in foreign territory with Gorduz and the corrupted Salve of Valaya
>HOBGOBLA!
>(HOBGOBLA OF DA HASHUTS!)

>>536773210
they should be humans who aren't specifically aligned with chaos but they worship a serpent demon that causes earthquakes if not fed human sacrifices

>>536799083
Nippon being chaos worshippers should just be Cathayan propaganda.

Friends of the Empire, cum.

>>536797496
wtf kind of dental cleaning gives you drugs?

>>536799525
Scaling

>>536794638
maybe I'll skip it then, shonen is almost as cringe as Kouji Mori

>>536799525
Scaling like the other naon said.

>>536698303
nothing of value was lost

I will now play your Cathay.

>>536803247
>heterogenous structure and loadout
this belongs in 40k

>>536803247
SKIDOOSH!!! HAHAHA LOL

I am only playing the same 8-10 LLs every time, pitch me a LL to play.

>>536805091
ZULAHOOO!

>>536805091
Nagash was weak.

I hope we get another brown "people" centric total war so the franchise dies for good and a new one rises from its ashes

>>536805091
It'd be easier if you first said which 8-10 LLs you regularly play but ze Fay Enchantress.

>>536805368
I thought about it but no, because people will just "review" my taste in LLs

>>536805620
No review No recommendation.

>>536805268
30 years war it is

>>536799752
wtf is that? are you a ligger with scales?

>>536806801
>are you a ligger with scales?
as opposed to?

are Cairn Wraiths any good?

>>536806934
A nice smooth slick slimy ligger, like a Slann perhaps.

>>536805620
>be an attention whore
>but no I don't actually want help or answers teehee~
kys faggot

>>536805889
>Belegar
>Astragoth
>Zhatan
>Greasus
>Tamurkhan
>Skrolk
>Khatep
>Mazdamundi
are the 8 I played the most and most of them I played
I enjoy factions that start far away from their homeland

>>536807409
only on kemmler and arkhan, it's better to just go for hexwraiths in most cases

>>536807409
they're not a frontline, people always think these gimmick units are an anvil and they are WRONG, they are always the hammer, and there are few that are bad at it, like the basic kroxigor and really not much else

>>536807716
Arkhan only gets Hexwraiths thoughbeitsoever

How do I build generic Chaos Dwarf lords / heroes? Can't really find any info on optimal ways to spend skillpoints.

>>536807679
It was just a chance for you to write why you enjoy to play a particular LL I maybe haven't touched. Sorry, I will never discuss faction choice in a TW thread again.

>>536807409
You should always bring slowing attack stacked with poison attack with the counts, but banshee and mournghoul are better than wraiths because they are tankier.

>>536807680
*most of them I played to world conquest

>>536807680
fellow outsider campaign enjoyer
Boris is good and worth trying if you haven't played Kislev much, he gets bonuses towards colonializing the chaos wastes so if you want to you can ignore Kislev alltogether and just go on a crusade
I strongly implore you to try Wurzaag. The cool thing about orcs is that just about everything is their home territory, even if it's red because they just stomp around anyways. His buffs to savage orcs are rediculous, and combined with scrap upgrades it's one of the best statmanii campaigns in the game

>>536808224
I never tried Boris, that's a great call.

>>536807680
Someone already said Boris so I'll go with Markus Wulfhart, haven't played him since Warhammer 2 but the start position and mechanics really sold me on the whole being a colony disconnected from the empire thing they were going for.

>>536807980
sorcerers: careful casting, thirst for magic, blue line with ambush chance and lightning strike and the last skill, red line with usually guns and artillery. Goblins or Chorf warriors with Overseers with either the hobgob or the +20 armor to all Chorf infantry skill.

>>536792975
If they reverted rebel armies to their pre-nerf state it would become an apocalyptic threat.
>Empire general spawns with 8 steam tanks and attacks on same end turn

>>536803247
Based dead-meme spouting reddit non-human mammal attracted person (MAP)

>>536808827
I played a big Wulfhart game back in WH2 as well, was very fun. No idea why I didn't try him again in 3

>>536808349
Just be prepared for a rough start, but it's worth it if you can stick with it

>>536747352
KiZlev won
Ukraos lost

>>536807680
>spoiler
You want Imrik, anon. Skarsnik and Queek also both give you other fun angles on the K8Pbowl if you're used to Belegar as is, Alith is also fun for bullying delves and coming home to Nagarythe later, but going on a high elf jihad back home to Caledor from across the world while collecting dragons like Pokémon is the definitive "far from home" campaign imo

What factions are ones that have long term goals past their victory? I know Dwarfs are pretty good for it due to the grudge book and needing to go around the world for all those targets.
Also how do you deal with an ally/neutral faction occupying a settlement you need and not it being impossible to obtain it through diplomacy? I need Black Crag and a WE settlement that's owned by Karl, but he won't accept any deals.

they saw an alpha copy of tw40k on the ground

>>536810647
WE NEED A NEW ENGINE

>>536810976
an engine of RUIN?
ANNINA DOOMSKULL KABANU NIBURTU!

We know your issues and CA listen, it's my pleasure to announce that the next Total War game will use the highly acclaimed Unreal Engine 5.

Change is good.
Stagnation is bad.

>>536811789
I've been playing the Chorfs for 350 hours and I still want blood, fire, iron, oppression and TRINAZ FA ZHARR NAGGRUND!

>IF 40K:
Who do you want to play as first. Regardless of expectations of who comes in the first release. IE even if you expect to be last-call as a sisters of battle you can cite them. Only cite one, no hedging or 'X or Y'.

>IF Medieval 3:
Who would you like to play as first. Same deal.

>If Pike and shot:
Same deal. Who you wanna be nigguh

>If Victoria
Same deal, in b4 greater gross germany.

>If Age of sigmar
Post a reaction image of your despair

>>536811789
Tzeentchian hands typed this post.

>>536812217
dont care about anything other than med3
>Who would you like to play as first
Rvssia

>>536812492
>Ziggerland

>>536807980
Sorcerer lords should rush magic then blue line, and have a variety of chorf units to make up your higher-end armies.
Overseers should rush hobgob redline skills and the unique hobgob buffs for efficiently shitstacking gobbos.

Heroes depends on which type of army you stick them in but you do want to stick them in armies since they aren't subject to the same unit caps your units are and they're all good.

>>536812607
ywnbaw, nafoid

Meow ying?

>>536812776
SVPREME MATRIARCH

>>536812730
Hit a nerve I see

Chinks kneel to wood
Post your heroic victories

>>536812492
Russia didn't exist in the middle ages tho, they're a post-mongol state

>>536813129
obviously I meant the Rus. The Russian state wasn't centralized

>>536812776
>>536783943
Something is awakening within me

>>536813219
You can call them the Kievan Rus here

>>536812217
Imperial Guard
Kingdom of Jerusalem
Portuguese Empire
Confederate States of America
see attached picture, I'd me more disgusted than despairs

Shouldn't it be "Kyivan Rus"?

>>536813329
It depends on the time we are talking about, it would be either Novgorodian Rus or Kievan Rus. Muscovite Rus is just Russia

>>536812217
Tau
Moops
Watermelon selling Kebab
France
Pic relevant to age of sigmar and to medieval 3.

>>536813352
Back in M2 they did a 1070 starting date but I'm wondering if they might not shift it a bit further ahead to where you have Jerusalem as a kingdom, so 1100-1170s or so. That way you can have mongols show up more reliably in the average ~100 turn campaign people often do.

The gooses seem like a strong option in pike-shot since if you release three games cutting up the map they can show up in every single one. In terms of a campaign map design you'd figure Spain is more "Hold what you have and spend all your time in the Mediterranean and Europe" and Portugal is "fightaen round the world"

>>536812217
Tau
Whichever caliphate is in Spain at the time of the game's start
Poland
England I guess I'm not really too big on Victorian era history
>AoS
CA and GW aren't so fucking stupid to think anyone is looking forward to that, right?

>me using Daemonettes
>too slow, die too quick, trade poorly
>enemy uses Daemonettes
>kill blenders, destroy my frontline, survive longer than higher tiered infantry

>>536814431
>spoiler
yes they are

>>536812217
>40k
Sisters
>Histasoy
who cares lol
>AoS
LOL

>>536813896
>if you release three games cutting up the map
oh god no not this shit again
this is a recipe for disaster and they need to keep that shit in the fantasoy games

>>536812217
Tau and Necrons
Mongols
Venice
England
>AoS

>>536812217
Dark Eldar
Bavaria/Teutonic Knights
13 Colonies (I know Empire technically had it but a full American Revolution TW is my pipe dream)
Mexico
Picrel

>>536814431
It'll be taifas & almoravids, Umayyads disappear before a likely start date unless they go early 1000s.

Also honestly I joked about age of sigmar but if you really were bone headed you'd go "We have DOW4 for 40k, we need a good age of sigmar game, look at how Warhammer fantasy helped us reboot the old world".

It'd be a real stupid company that did that though. I mean, you'd have to be a company stupid enough to waste 100 million on a game that never released or do some kind of climatic end to your original game that is universally maligned to the point that you have to reboot the series. Uh oh

I still suspect 40k but AOS:TW is far from 0%. I'd say my expectation is 60-40 40k to AoS, 75-25 if I am being generous to CA and GW being smart

>>536812217
alpha legion
milan
swiss
america
picrel

>>536780386
CUTE

>>536815874
I think I'd actually prefer to start as a taifa, always been more of a fan of starting small and building up my empire from there. The Taifa of Valencia would be sick, I studied some islamic poems dedicated to Valencia and what it represented to the islamic world in uni.

Also STOP DEPRESSING ME.

daniel update when

>>536816402
What needs to be updated on him?

>>536816402
Just wait until you see the patch notes ;)

>>536816195
Honestly I expect AoS more after 40k, it still needs to develop its playerbase (IE little timmies who aren't older like us) and still hasn't even complete its rosters yet with malekith and others missing. It's just fun to terrify people with the possibility.

>>536817524
it would unironically be better than muh emprah xDD

>>536817524
>>536817876
I could see Games Workshop pushing for it after every other attempt at an AoS game ended a massive flop.
>"Fuck it, let CA do it. Now it HAS to sell."

Bonus points for them if it "rescues" people from the dead setting back to the proper one.

>>536812217
>40K
Supesu Marinzu desu ne
>Medieval 3
Portugal
>Pike and Shot
Avstria
>Victoria
Avstria
>AOS gets announced
Pic related

>>536812217
nids
pasta
pasta
bongs

mfw

>>536812776
warden of the great bastion

/ourqueen/ is spoiling us so hard bros, get it while its hot!
Rome: Remastered until 8pm Australian time, then the Warhammer embargo drops and she will play the update if she feels up for it, but for sure tomorrow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29YbYtkMZcE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29YbYtkMZcE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29YbYtkMZcE

>>536812217
>40k
Necron
>M3
Mongols
>P&S/Victoria
RULE BRITANNIA
BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES

>>536819794
I wish my Oshi would play TW games

>>536819893
Who is your Oshi? My dream is for Quetzu to play the Lizardmen, since she is in fact a QuetzaCoatl.

>>536819794
She looks like she only fucks BPC (Big Purple Cocks).

>>536820239
The more I think about it the more I realize she's way too retarded to play any TW game

>>536820518
many such cases

>>536812217
commander farsight
alberto barbossa
wallenstein
idk

>>536775772
The Japanese trope of Mono no Aware could be construed as Nurgle aligned. It's basically the romanticism and sad awareness of the transience of life and things. It's one of the reasons Cherry blossoms are wanked over so hard there. They are beautiful but doomed to a short flowering period before withering away and dying.

For Tzeentch, maybe Wabi-sabi? Basically aesthetics that find beauty in the asymmetric, the incomplete and the imperfect. Like an unfinished painting.

Are the new locations just for chaos orientated factions, or could Franz for example get the Abandoned Forge of Hashut?

Unrelated, but is there a mod that gives all Daemon recruitment or the portals of Bel'Akor to Archaon? Or something that lets you dedicate a Dark Fortress to one of the Chaos Gods to make it easier to recruit themed units via corruption?

>>536818229
>literally reskinned TW:WH
>they can dedicate dev time to real mechanics
>"lost technology" is reinvented
>actually a good game
>sells better than fantasoi

>>536783759
fucking kek

>>536819794
>she will probably yap for 4 hours before playing

>>536822382
Meant for
>>536786968

You've heard of Wulfrik the Wanderer but have you heard of Wulfrik of the Fjordlings?

>>536822406
there's a lot of similar mods, but I've used this one before and know that it works
gets a little boring after 1 campaign though, its a little overdone
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2877163852&searchtext=rifts

>>536773210
Taoist (Chinese but shintoism follows a similar view of "Can't kill all the bad kami") would suggest a view that chaos is a necessary balance. Return to form of the old warhammer or elric where excess order is bad, excess chaos is bad too. Avoid making it excessively sycophantic like China so some in its sengoku jidai are means-to-an-end (Nobunaga is very clearly Tzeentchian), others are sincere in the balance, and others are chaos fanatics in disguise.

Also I believe in old lore nippon was the big naval power in the East even if that's clearly gone towards Ying BaddaBingYing.

>>536823071
>excess order is bad, excess chaos is bad too
Erm sorry GW says that order "gods" are all weak and limited but chaos daemons are infinite and invincible so we'll stick to that thank you very much

>>536822550
she's starting to wake up now, shouldn't be too much longer

if ulric is a real god in fantasy then what does he do to help his followers, if anything?

>>536823552
Well in ET he saved Middenheim by stopping Teclis from stealing the white fl- oh wait.

>>536823626
End Times aka "its literally all Teclis' fault"

>>536819794
she's just yapping and not actually playing TW tho

>>536823697
Its her shtick she yaps for like 6 hours and then plays a game after it for about 5-8 hours.

>>536823697
she always yaps for a few hours and then gets to the game, I can post an update when she starts

>>536780520
You in real life?

Why do anons here hate legendsoftotalwar?

>>536824796
idk bout that but THX for the SUPACHAT 'precitae it

>>536824796
because he has an asian wife and i dont

>>536824796
hes bald and im not

>>536824796
I don't know what you just wrote or whatever but I'm juking 40 high elf archers with my lord brb

you gotta commend his bravery

>>536812217
>40k
Nids, only faction in either setting with a lot of sex appeal.
>Other
I don't care about pre-industrial history.

>>536825259
no shoes
no hesitation
no ovaries

>>536825290
Good lord that's low quality. 3D-printed?

>>536824796
he is a bad influence on the community because he makes people think that his super autistic way of playing the game is how it's supposed to be played. whether they admit to being his dicksuckers or not you will see that most of the "advice" given here whether it's for which units to make or how to play a campaign is taken directly from his playbook. then people complain that the game isn't fun which is a direct consequence of how they chose to play it.

>>536826239
Shouldn't it be CA's job to make the optimal way to play not feel like shit?
Not the playerbases job to lie to new players?

>>536825573
I saw thighs and saved it. Neuron activated, it's several years old so I don't remember.

>>536826239
despite the fact that you speak like the >cheatsfag you are pretty spot on. To this very day he is cited as the legend, of total war. Go to any online community and his prophets will just regurgitate everything he says to new players who can't tell any better, and before you know it it's too late.

>>536826675
That's just retarded.

>>536827349
What is?

>>536826239
Yeah he's pretty much the king of metafags, he did it with shogun 2 as well.

>>536819794
RED ALERT SHE HAS BOOTED UP THE GAME

>>536827968
I'm not going to watch a tranny play a game I can already play.

>>536827968
I can't wait to see her autistic chat teach her to play the game

>>536828141
she's already in love with the sound design

>>536828141
I don't understand why vtubers are so popular. You know that they just made up that anime avatar and they don't actually look like that, right? I guess if she is actually funny and entertaining I could understand, but it seems like a large portion of the draw is the anime thing

Getting terberculosis and selling my soul and body to rail a "lord" of change with a feminine voice and female topology

>>536828956
Wait it's an avatar?

>>536829142
I just doubt that most of these vtubers would get a fraction of views if not for the avatar.

>>536828956
yeah, that's kind of the whole point
it's a multimedia art form

what do i gotta filter to stop seeing vtuber shit in this thread

>>536829492
ntr, M4M, findom

>>536829492
yeah I think they should make a thread in /vt/ instead of posting here

>>536826457
that's like saying that nintendo shouldn't have made the "optimal" way to play mario 64 phasing though walls with half button presses. the optimal way to play a single player game is the way that is the most fun. no one without crippling autism or norwood 4+ hair loss finds legend's play style fun.

>>536828956
Because retarded faggots aren't beaten enough as children.

>>536830251
Total war is a multiplayer game though?

>>536803447
>heterogenous structure and loadout
>belongs in 40k
Not anymore... Why?

>>536830443
legend doesn't play multiplayer and this thread makes fun of optimal multiplayer strategies like bringing markus + 10 spearmen + 5 swordsmen

>>536830251
Do you also hold people who know how to do a blj and tell people how to do a blj in contempt, too?
Anyway, that misses the difference between the two. You can't accidentally do a BLJ. In half-life 2, there is the ABH and prop hopping, which are the optimal way to play most senerios by just skipping them. Does the fact that these and the console commands justify adding a weapon to the game that makes the player take 99% reduced damage and one-shots all enemies in the normal equipment roster after all you can just not use any of these things?
The game shouldn't require me to play one-handed to have fun.

>>536830969
you forgot war wagons

>>536831348
War Wagons would have been amazing if they actually where deployed like hussites did.

>>536831840
Am I interpreting this correctly? It looks like a mobile defense platform, like the same idea as archers with stakes but better
that would be pretty cool, maybe kind of situational but more interesting than gimp chariots at least

You honestly don't even need to cheese the game to make it trivial. That is what makes WH3 so boring lmao.

>>536832113
Yeah pretty much. Honestly, war wagons are way more interesting and useful when they are destroyed, as the wagon still has collision and creates some choke points for infantry.

>>536832170
Based easy difficulty LORD.

>>536830251
>>536831040
This isn't normal. Most games don't require you to find the fun. Write increasingly long documents on what is and isn't an exploit.
There is a HUGE difference between expecting a company to patch EVERY little incredibly percuse and complex physics expoloit and, the game have a unit that is recruitable like any other that is just better than everything else, to the point where bringing only them trivalized the game.
Can you grow a spine, and start demanding these people who get paid more than FUCKING SURGEONS, do their job for five fucking seconds? They think this product is worth $380.
>Actually I circumvented that and got it for $20
That's amazing. You understand if they could stop you from doing that, they would make you give them 400 dollars. 400 dollars for a product that you can make unfun by accident?

>>536832328
>>536832113
>>536831840
An Atilla mod actually pulled this off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ubjdxjPXVI&t=139s

I haven't really played any total war games outside of the original rome tw and warhammer. What would I go for if I wanted to play some historical ones? Preferably rome era but I'm down for anything with grand big maps. Not a fan of gimmicky campaigns.

>>536831040
>>536832483
you don't have to play one handed or "find the fun." you literally just have to play like a normal fucking person. think of all of the literal 12 year olds and 50 year old dad gamers who build the reiksguard building and recruit them because they look cool without caring if it's "optimal." no one is forcing you to hide your army in a forest until the ai bugs out and you wouldn't even have thought to do it if you didn't see it on jewtube.

>>536832483
Not that anon, but you're preaching to the quire. The game is simply TOO EASY. Once you get to tier 4 on any building, the game is pretty much won. Once you can recruit 4 single entities in your main army, the campaign is finito. CA can't rebalance the 4x mechanics to be slower now, people expect the power fantasy now. You have to mod the game to be more challenging, that's your only option.

Also, did you notice that none of the factions really effect eachother's capabilities in any way? That is by design, because CA balanced the game for map painting - and they honestly have NEVER been good at 4x design.

>>536832998
>I wouldn't have thought to recruit heros if I didn't see it on YouTube

>>536833216
yeah im a fucking retard lol

>>536832883
Rome 2?

>>536833086
the obvious thing to do is put one or two heroes in your army because obviously an army is mostly made up of troops, not officers. maybe you would put one of each type if you're ocd. putting 5 paladins in your army and using them instead of infantry is something a normal person might think of but quickly dismiss as stupid.

>>536833024
the game is too easy because the player has too many cheese tactics and crutch mechanics that make it impossible to lose by using. the game is too one dimensional to still be hard while also letting the player be unbeatable, and they apparently aren't interested in retuning the difficulty to restrict the player instead of just giving the ai more cheats that ultimately don't matter.

>>536833419
I tried it but couldn't get into it. I was hoping they made something better later on

>>536833583
if you want more rome there's just rome 2 and attila. the best historical game is fall of the samurai, with the one demerit being annoying boat spam.

>>536833583
Three Kingdoms and Pharaoh are both good at what they do, but both are somewhat specific settings and not Rome
I never played Atilla but there's that too

>>536833557
I'll argue that cheese, should probably be ignored unless it's super egregious and is part of the "fun" for some things. Crutch mechanics, is the real culprit imo. All of the "mechanics" for TW are just shitty UIs that add nothing but benefits. There are 0 draw backs to using any of them, and the enemy can't interact with them at all. All of the little bonuses you get from tech trees, gear power scaling, skill tree bonuses, unit upgrades and faction "mechanics" will turn you into a snowball. How come other 4x titles simply operate better on a turn to turn basis? Because their factions mean something. Faction mechanics only really exist on the battlefield in total warhammer 3. Factions play different during battle but not on the campaign by any discernable degree, so in the hands of the player you snowball crazy.

Imagine if they spent the 100 million on hyenas on rome 3 instead bros

>>536817524
the game is full ten years old. they've had all the time in the world to develop AoS and done almost nothing of note. "develop its playerbase" LOL

How to play vs Dwarfs/Chaos Dwarfs
>declare war on them
>ambush stance
>set the AI difficulty to easy
>autoresolve
>do this until theyre wiped out
Then you can have a fun campaign again

>>536834237
Makes me wonder if CA employees come across this thought from time to time. I wonder if hey then think about the people who pushed for that project.

>>536834028
I said it before but the campaign only exists as a roleplaying tool to set up battles for you to play. it's too one dimensional to have any depth beyond that. unlike say civilization where you have alternate win conditions and could be the weakest faction militarily but still win the game, in total war there's only war and if you aren't at war the game will force someone to attack you. this means that the only mechanics that exist are ones that make your army stronger or indirectly stronger by letting you afford more/bigger armies. the opposite side of the coin is that they only thing they do to increase difficulty is by giving the ai bigger and stronger armies, but the player will always be able to scale harder because the ai isn't good at abusing mechanics and is weak to being cheesed.

the only way to make the game actually harder is to take away the crutch mechanics from the player and patch out cheese tactics, but for whatever reason ca doesn't seem interested in doing it.

>>536835403
Guaranteed all of the people that pushed for Hyenas are fired and or stepped down.

>>536835143
How to play vs any enemy faction
>declare war on them
>ambush stance
>set the AI difficulty to easy
>autoresolve
>do this until theyre wiped out
Then you can have a fun campaign again

>>536835403
Hyenas was such an obvious flop that I genuinely have no idea how it even got the greenlight. 99% of the people who were working on it knew it was doomed. I wonder if they knew it would hail the end of their careers though.

>>536835776
How to play
>turn on game
>pick Khorne
>autoresolve
Then you can have a fun campaign again

>>536835926
How to play total war
>buy shogun 1
>install shogun 1
>launch game
>start new campain
There now you can have a fun campaign again

>>536835898
>>536835403
>>536835759
Gaming companies have just been subverted by "activist" devs and managers that try to make everything as gay and retarded as they are

>>536834237
>10-20 years to get another rome if we are lucky
Pain.

>>536833024
While other total wars suffer this too Warhammer has really just gone off the deep end in doomstackism. At the same time it's also >>536832998 you don't have to recruit a doomstack.

>>536828956
It's a charming girl that fits whatever your niche interest is that you get a parasocial interaction with. Think to how lonely and isolated people are today. It's bad enough that people here refer to a game like Lethal company as 'friendslop games'. IE, a game that is for having fun with friends is considered derogatory. While these games are often rather shallow and meant more about memery between friends so you can see the validity of the term, it still comes across like "Monopoly is a friendslop game." Take that loneliness and then apply it x5 for a woman you interact with.

I don't like them or watch them, and even as fap material there's such an oversaturation that it's not really stand out anymore.

>>536836931
you're right of course, but it's more than just /pol/shit
there were countless red flags besides the "relatable" characters and le heckin anarchists
>stale genre that hit it's peak a decade ago
>uninspired art design
>reliance on stupid gimmicks
>pushing micro transactions in a way that even the masses find insulting
>overreliance on corporate sponsorships and live service
>completely out of touch with anything else they've ever done
Rob Bartholomew was a fucking lunatic, that's the problem here

>>536837557
What is also funny is that The Finals, pretty much did what they attempted to do.

>>536837557
real problem was branching out into multiplayer for the first time ever, they should have done a short single player shooter game first to see if it sold or if the devs could do it

gather feedback about the troon artstyle and everything else and THEN do multiplayer if feasible. They just threw away so much money on a risky ass project for no reason

>>536837871
kek, just looked it up and you're right it's basically the same
seems like people actually play it too
absolutely hilarious

>>536837557
This. Your fanbase aren't hero shooter babies they're Total War players the majority of them why would you do this? It'd be like if codemasters suddenly made a grand strategy game it just makes no sense

WAAAAAAAAGH!

>playing Belakor
>easily grab Wulfrik as a vassal
>Throgg got raped by Malakai
>Declare war, easily beat him back
>Wulfrik captured all the settlements
Fuck, now I cant revive Throgg for his BvL trait

>>536840632
Banners are cheats!

>>536838669
Because your fanbase are a bunch of straight white males and the marketing team convinced the board of directors that making a modern hero shooter with a battlepass would appeal to a broader audience, generate greater income and free CA of having to rely on its old toxic consumer base of Total War players.

(The marketing team are millenials who regularly browse reddit and think that the left wing echo chambers they frequent are an accurate representation of reality.)

>Want the Tides video this week to show us the units coming for each faction, reveal the identity of the FLC LL and annouce the release date
>It will probably show us some more concept art pieces, some mumbling about how hard it is to make a DLC for a 2022 game and empty promises to reveal slightly more info on the 30th of September
It's all so tiresome

One single DLC a year :)

Quality > quantity :)

>>536843195
Norsca immediately disproves this fuck Norsca even if its the best rework ever Norsca blows

>High Elves
>quality
LMAO

>cathay
>quality
lol no lmao

lotta anons that can't read

lotta anons that can't rape

High Elves players wont be happy until they get Dreadquake Mortars in their roster desu, you already know the Lothern Skycutter (Bolt Thrower) is gonna be a strong, mobile Luminark of Hysh tier artillery made for killing SEMs and they basically have access to everything at this point

>>536747352
>One more time for the spcels at the back
KiZlev won
Ukraos lost

>>536840632
AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE GAMES WORKSHOPSAMA DON'T LOOK

>>536844153
It'll be a bolt thrower (flying) that's incredibly mediocre

>>536844153
It probably won't even shoot a physical bolt but some gay blue lazer lol.

>>536844153
This thing will look so retarded in motion, if they do add it.

>>536844418
>Turin and MPfags like High Elves
>bitch about the flying bolt thrower being too weak
>will get buffed to take down Thunderbarges in just a few shots

>>536844451
or course they are going to add it, they already showed with the landship and the thunderbarge that they are keen on adding retarded korean mobile game SEMs to these dlcs

every unit should be as squishy as a slaanesh unit
fuck trying to kill 1 blob for 10 min

>>536846028
yeah, except for jade warriors they need a buff if anything

>>536844153
it's going to be a flying scourgerunner isn't it?

>>536826239
it does not take too many hours of playing to run into a situation where you have some 200 armor 100 melee defense cunt solo your entire army as the last unit alive because you cant kill him with your basic units
then you try it yourself because you are a being capable of learning and notice that the game is a complete piece of shit designed by the utterly incompetent

>>536828956
socially inept men get to interact with women who dont seem to be disgusted by them for the first time in their lives

Is there anyway to enjoy snowballing, or does the game (TW3, but TW games in general) just get inherently less fun once you make it out of the first 20-30 turns and establish some breathing room? I love starting new campaigns, but as soon as the "game" becomes spending over half your turn time making sure your gorillion settlements, lords and heroes are progressing how you want them to, it just feels like a chore.

I came back to play WH3 co-op with some friends, and I have to say I'm glad I returned to the game after a few years, but now that we're 50+ turns in, so much of the enjoyment is from shooting the shit or helping out in battles where one of your friends gifts you a strong unit or two and lets you go nuts. The only thing left to do is paint maps, run around with our doomstacks, and suffer an overworld management UI that doesn't feel fit to handle organizing 25+ settlements and a ton of characters.

Branching off from my initial questions, are there any factions that are designed around little to no settlement management, and only managing 22-3 armies max?

Will I have to restart my campaigns when the patch drops?

>>536850887
try killing eachother instead of working together

>>536850887
>factions that are designed around little to no settlement management, and only managing 22-3 armies max?
Beastmen
Warriors (especially Festus)
Nakai
Wood Elves
Golgfag

>>536852291
>wood elves
huh? I'm always overwhelmed because niggers keep occupying my razed settlements or declaring on me if I took them for myself

>>536852453
1. Turtle harder. Don't expand until your latest tree is secure. You aren't in a rush.
2. Make friends around your trees. You don't need anything outside your heathland, so give away the land you conquer for alliances.
3. Have an army in any tree at moderate risk. It's very hard to lose a battle with a full wood elf stack + garrison on your home turf. This becomes less necessary when you can global recruit 10+ units at a time later in the game.

>>536852453
That has nothing to do with the fact that they have little to no settlement management and a small number of armies.

>>536828956
its no different than regular streamers, if anything millennials fucked up everything by constantly showing their faces rather than being smart and not posting personal information on the internet and making that the norm for streaming

>>536853039
I don't understand why regular streamers are so popular. Why would I watch someone else play a game I love when I could play a game I love? If it's something you're doing because you can't play the game at the moment I get it, but why would anyone spend 8+ hours watching some retard play a game that they could themselves be playing at that very moment?

>>536853341
streamers are basically modern day clowns, thats why the game they choose has to be right for streaming because people like watching people suffer

>refrain from building irondrakes troll torpedos because cultist of khorne said the unit sucked
>get my shit kicked in with arachnid and colossal squid spam

hmm

>>536855332
I understand these words and terms but collectively not so much. Is Cultist of Khorne some jewtuber or some shit? I'm aware it's a hero in-game.

>>536855332
Legend said that both irondrakes variants are great thoughbeit.

>>536855332
>>refrain from building irondrakes troll torpedos because cultist of khorne said the unit sucked
Literally who also he's clearly retarded, trollhammers are the best ranged unit available to dwarfs

>start first sisters run for the year (been so long since I've last played them)
>first turn get these
Yep it's time. Also their alternate ammo choice is so good and fun. Sounds like fireworks too.

>>536851812
This.
Played campaign with my nigger as Malakai and me Kostaltyn. Nigger attacked me as soon as I finished off the rats and shit was so intense.
Naturally I kicked his 5'7 ass but now he is a hoard faction. Intense game yo. Also first time I actually got to use invocations for kislev since my army was giving public order bonus which is necessary for it to start.

WHATS IN YOUR HEAD
IN YOUR HEAAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDD
ZOMBIE PIRATE GUNNERY MOB HANDGUNS

Today = patch notes
Tomorrow = patch release
Day after tomorrow = Aislinn reveal

Remember to upvote if you found this helpful!

PATCH NOTES!!!

https://community.creative-assembly.com/total-war/total-war-warhammer/blogs/78-total-war-warhammer-iii-patch-notes-6-3

>>536855332
>the unit that fires explosive, ap, anti large projectiles in an arc in a faction about building a wall is bad
are you retarded?

>>536859518
that's it? that's the patch you guys were waiting for?

>>536859518
>patch tomorrow
NOO!!! I have to wage slave for 5 days starting tomorrow! NO NO NO

>>536859518
Waiting for them to release the unit balance patch notes.
I need to see that Melee Attack + 2.

>even the patch notes release incomplete
its over

>>536860113
where is the shit about Lizardmen and TK?

didnt they say they rework traits?

>>536860209
>there is no content
trolled

>>536812776
A rat's natural predator.

what is happening

>bretonnian lances are colorful again
we won milord

>>536853341
Streamers are basically online friends. The more time you spend watching them, the more you know them, the more you enjoy their little quirks. Unlike real friends, they'll always be there for you.
Anons struggle with this because the concept of friendship is foreign to them.

Even the patch notes are delayed.

>>536860591
>the concept of friendship is foreign to them
saying this while cultivating a parasocial relationship with somebody who has no idea who you are and doesn't give a shit about you beyond what you can offer them monetarily is poetic

>Hi folks, we're aware of some confusion over the Patch 6.3 Release Notes only currently showing the bug fixes, as a lot of the new content was revealed in our 6.3 Dev Blog. We're working on some additional info on the additional content changes which will follow later today. Thanks for your patience!
even the fucking patch notes are delayed

>>536860208
Delayed to 6.4

Warhammer threeificiation

>can't even get the patch notes out properly
what a company

I hope that Warhammer 4 will receive better support than Warhammer 3.

>>536861964
4(0k).

>>536833024
>you're preaching to the quire.
>quire

how do you guys play the changeling, do you declare war upon everyone to attack minor settlements and establish trickster cults?

>>536862063
Preachingto the sqvire

>>536862158
The fuck? That cant be real. 4th generation ones were supposed to be the shit ones. How OP is the 2nd generation trait now?

>>536862158
>frogs got update
Me likey. Any skill line updates for slann as well?

>>536861964
It'll sell more than TWW1-3, and after a year in CA will start hating their customers and try to pitch another SUPERGAME to SEGA instead of supporting 4.

>>536862158
wtf this looks like some shitty mod tier balancing

Total Warharmer 4: ft Ind, Araby, Khuresh, and Pygmies

>>536862759
Hyenas 2? Fuck yeah

>>536861465
Tides of Dormant

>>536863184
I see most of these people whenever I take the subway to Brooklyn. Grim.

>>536863184
Kids love Richard Nixon masks

>>536863184
They consciously made the black woman a NASA astronaut.
Isn't that rather telling?

>>536863082
Surely Pygmies are the pre-order bonus

>>536862158
>this isn't even my final form

>>536862158
Given the specific wording, is it possible that 2nd Gen Slann will get worse melee buffs but far stronger caster buffs? That might actually be a fun tradeoff.

>>536850887
You can turn on auto- build and give the computer unlimited budget so you never have to worry about settlement management.

If you get bored by turn 30, turn on the endgame crises before then.

>>536832998
>think of all of the literal 12 year olds and 50 year old dad gamers who build the reiksguard building and recruit them because they look cool without caring if it's "optimal."
This is what I do.

what causes my trickster cults to have like a -45% in my income buildings? i don't seem to find the cause

>Lord of Shang-Yang
>Zhao Ming's Ogre Kingdoms friendship stretches >further than just recruiting a couple of mercenary units, they are valued allies. Because of this, his faction effect now applies to all ogres in any of his factions' armies, not just mercanaries. His Skills Desert Armour, Desert Weapons & Iron Strength apply to melee Ogre Kingdom allied recruitment as well as mercenaries. Lord of Shang-Yang now extends from "ogre mercenaries" to "All Ogre Kingdoms units (including mercenaries)”.

I still can't believe that when Zhao Ming got his first faction update ages ago Legend and half of his audience thought it was a DLC leak, what a bunch of retards.