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Previous thread >>543494307

It's over

Wegh

Thanquol soon, friends!

>TWWH 1 is dark and gritty, evoking the dark fantasy of Warhammer Fantasy perfectly
>After 10 years of releases the game is reddit personified

Be a good person

>>543649791
nigger it didnt have banners and couldnt even get the empire aesthetic right

>no DLC for 12 months
>big next dlc announced in december and probably released in march (may) at the earliest
So, fantasyfags.
What was that about you carrying Total War on your back?
What was that about CA going bankrupt without you?
Wanna expound on that? Huh? Wanna dig into that a bit? Eh?

Sqvire, give me hopium that the DLC won't flop

Warhammer 3 > Warhammer 2 > Warhammer 1

>>543650191
...on the reddit scale

Any stand out units I should be using as WRE in Attila? I'm not real familiar with the time period and my roman knowledge ends around 20 BC.

Also is the general tactic just to throw everyone in testudo and cycle charge with cav/ shoot with crossbowmen?

>>543650180
it has... it uh...
it has boobs

>>543649415 (OP)
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>>543650361
Javelins and ranged units in general are quite good, as you seem to have discovered.
Scout Equites really are good good for their cost, altough they are definitely a glass cannon.
>Also is the general tactic just to throw everyone in testudo and cycle charge with cav/ shoot with crossbowmen?
Pretty much, but describes most total wars.

storm clouds gather... our threads are beset by shitposters... both mundane... and ban evading...

>>543650361
I recommend upgrading your Cohors and Limitanei as soon as possible.
Swords perform much better in melee than spear units but the catch is that cavalry is really overpowered in Attila.
Defensive Testudo is amazing at blocking arrows, holding chokepoints and surviving cavalry charges.

Get those Legio and go raze some barbarian settlements.

>>543649791
You must have mistake TWW1 with Attila.

Since the new games are being announced in december, CA has probably received budgets (or commissions or whatever they call it) for them long ago.
DLC sales are a supplementary income at this point.

He won

>>543649929
the empire is an npc faction so it doesnt matter

>>543650886
Who?

>>543650949
r*ddit users are also people.

>>543650712
How's this general army template sound

General, 6 Swords (main line), 4 spears (2 on each flank) 4 Crossbows, 4 cav (2 melee, 2 shock) 1 large onager.

>>543650886
it aint shit until custom siege maps are in

>>543649791
Warhammer isn’t dark at all, it’s grim derp. Shogun 3 when btw

Warhammer fantasy only got grimdark in 8th ed, you read the 6th ed rulebook its like a slightly darker lotr
The first pages literally contains Sigmars saga and the words "Hear these words and live in hope"
Of course 40kslopers ruined everything

Imagine being a Sylvanian peasant.

>>543649791
In what world was TWW1 "dark and gritty"?

>>543652445
I think I'd rather die and be a mindless zombie.

>>543652478
skull mountains = dark and gritty
duh

>>543651146
Onager? Is that a Skaven thing? But they don't have Cav.

>>543652445
Vlad sounds better than most bretonnian lords desu

>>543653128
>Anon sees a description saying he'd get treated like fucking cattle and goes "That's pretty neat".

>>543652445
Imagine being an Empire peasant lmao
>Good harvest? Empire taxes it away or appropriates it
>Bad harvest? Just starve lmao
>Beastmen and Greenskins raid your towns on a weekly basis
Then imagine being peak Stockholm Syndrome Sylvanian peasantchad:
>Harvest is always bad but taxes are near zero so you make do
>Zero beastmen or Greenskin raids since Vampires actually protect their cattle
>As "tax" you give them one of your daughters (out of dozens since you have enough food and theres nothing else to do but fuck so you have 14 daughters already)
>When "War Calls(tm)" not a single peasant is drafted, its all zombos and skellies, maybe couple volunteer Crossbows join

>>543653459
I wouldnt want to be a peasant at all, but if I had to choose...

>>543596338
I know and its a dam shame they have not utilized the trailer music since some of it is actually some of the best music they made for the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGQgbrIIxPg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoiks2rQa9o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgtF1H0JUCQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jNuJXoKFvI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrX1aGHK1lM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiHvsinEn58

>>543653714
Warden&Paunch trailer music is my white whale.

>>543650180
It won't, units are good and not reskins. At least 2 of the factions are popular. Reworks and mechanics sound good.

>>543653994
>units are good and not reskins
Except for the Dooki anointed and maybe Slaangors*
Forgot about those

>>543653968
cant you run the trailer through an ai program that removes the dialogue

>Vlad had a special fondness for ravens, making sure they were well fed from his own kitchen
He's a good lad.

Someone post the Tides of Delay revealed unit list so far plox

>>543654634
fed with what

>>543655305
>fed with what
Scraps from the dinner table.

>I will be their undying lord, their protector against the evils of Chaos. Under my command they will be safe from corruption, protected from possession and though they will never thank me for it, I will save their souls from the most terrifying destiny."
Vlad's not so bad after all.

>>543652478
>the forces of good are outnumbered and restricted to their lands
>the empire and dwarves, unable to fully help one another, stand alone against the vampires and dwarves
>chaos is inevitable, a horde sweeping down from the north to envelop all
Vs Wh3
>all the good guys form global UN as soon as possible
>bad guys are all goofy jobbers
>end game crises is barely noticeable

>>543655814
>chaos is inevitable, a horde sweeping down from the north to envelop all
as if
did we play the same campaign

>>543655814
way to out yourself as an empshitter
in wh1 and 2 ordertide will occur when playing as bad guys and vice versa, and in wh3 ordertide will occur when playing as order and eviltide will occur when playing as evil

>>543655449
thanks

fuck these guys and their horse archers

FUCK warhammer FAGtasy, FUCK HISTORICALS, FUCK 40gay.
CA
Where is my Shin Megami Tensei total war game? I want literal demons warring with angels, not some gay ass cartoon caricature of them.

>>543657385
As soon as you dilate and become a real woman my fellow anime fan

>>543656881
these guys too

TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER: WARCRAFT

Damn, DEI is kind of like sensory overload. None of the mechanics explained, there's a bunch of new things to track like population types and sanitation, even fucking local banditry. Not to mention the 5 different types of each unit that does the same thing. This is a history autists wet dream.

It's running like shit though, massive loading times even on SSD. Apparently you have to put the mod files somewhere else to fix this. I'll try that and report back if anyone cares.

>>543655449
>>543654643
The same assumptions as made here. Some are absolutely not confirmed.

I love WH3 but don't know spit or dick about any of the lore I just like when Orcs yell and smash things

>The labour districts are where the Skink handlers farm out Kroxigor labour for favour or a price
Kroxigor prostitutes and Skink pimps confirmed

>>543657385
I dont know what that is but why is that fella carrying what looks like a diving helmet/mechwarrior neurohelmet?

>>543655484
How would you "pet" water? Your hand would go into them?

>>543658894
I tried DEI but couldn't get into it, it was too complicated for my warhammer brain. Might try it in another 100 hours when the game becomes too easy.
>It's running like shit though, massive loading times even on SSD. Apparently you have to put the mod files somewhere else to fix this. I'll try that and report back if anyone cares.
I do this for my other mods and it is significantly faster, went from 5 minutes to load to 20-30 seconds. I do crash every so often during loading screens, but I think it's an unrelated issue since clearing up my hard drive made it happen less often.

>>543659069
Lizard sex mod when

>skarbrand on his last city, doesn't even have a full army
>run up to it, see its besieged by a full stack of savage orc boar boy biguns
>"well I'll try and get it next turn if the orcs are damaged enough"
>next turn the orc army is eliminated
>skarbrands still only got 5 units in his army
>they've barely taken damage
>go to besiege
>close defeat

>>543660965
That's how it feels to fight Skarbrand without having the plot armor of bad writing.

>>543661417
He completely trounced level 50 cheat bernhardt when I ran into him at 43

>>543659309
its a combat helmet that's designed to help its wearers adapt to harsh environments.As to why hes carrying it, the man basically wears it for the entire game, hes allowed to vibe with it off.
Also the sound track for the game is good, give them a listen.
https://youtu.be/N1lA-COyWYA?si=FjlKzgKVrFWdszSJ

>>543661902
As expected of the best demon

he's dead but at what cost? it'll be 10 years before I can recruit another war sphynx and that tomb prince wasn't immortal yet

>>543653459
>get succ'd by a busty vampfu once a week
oh no the horror!!!

>>543662516
You're getting the bald wiry wizard dude and you will make do with it. Or not, because he's extra hungry and antisocial today and he's just gonna go all the way both for food and to avoid dealing with you.

Remember to never charge your enemy's rear, that's gay

>>543662442
>Going at Skarbrand without archers
By Djaf...

>>543650361
Whatever your spear unit is to turtle horseniggers
Also legio
Legio
More legion and some legio
Roma invicta!

>>543662442
>Practically zero ranged VS Khorne
You're lucky you got off that easy, honestly.

>>543649791
Game peaked during wh2. They still had the fantasy horror aesthetic, just take a look at how chaos spawn look in wh2, those things are outright horrible. Now chaos spawn are smoother and less threatening, more like a wow mob. This change in the art direction affected every new creature they added to the game, only races like the vcunts have stayed horrible because CA's lazy asses haven't updated their models since the first game.

>>543664121
>Now chaos spawn are smoother and less threatening
Arent they basically the same but another color

How do you use these hybrid units effectively that can fire on the move, but are far better off charging into melee vs a fair few opponents (and will reliably shred them)? Toggling on and off that melee mode constantly is getting a bit tiresome, as is having to remember to disable skirmish every battle.

>>543662442
Might want to bring more than one catapult as your ranged firepower vs Khorne in future.

>>543665225
Alt+right click is quick melee charge for ranged, I only bother clicking melee mode for ranged chariots like cold one chariots or skeleton archer chariots
Skirmish mode default is in options somewhere, I haven't had it on for ages

>>543655426
Fed with longma of course

>when your dismounted knights fight to death, allowing your army to reform inside the citadel
>when your last few battered line regiments, under cannon fire, musket vollies and cavalry charges fire their last shots and go for the ill fated charge
>when that singular samurai retainer fights on and on against hundred or enemies
https://youtu.be/d3-7wjri_QE?si=8jNYQ638rIW4Pc7I
TW will never be this good again

>>543666563
>when that singular samurai retainer fights on and on against hundred or enemies
this omission is inexcusable
and also
why the fuck dont defending units rout INTO the city???

>herdstone just got attacked by two bretonian armies
>the idiot ai lightning strikes me instead

>>543666563
Watching my yellow line lord solo a dragon is more kino than any of that other crap

>>543666936
>why the fuck dont defending units rout INTO the city???
Don't be absurd, only attacking units get to route INTO the city and start fucking up your backlines, that's just realism.

>>543666936
Fighting to the death is what irks me, not because they had some dumb special rule, but because circumstances dictated they must (because they can't just phase through the encirclement lmao)

>>543667254
>One prideful Bretonnian lord rushes ahead to claim the glory for himself, to his downfall
Ludonarrative kino, actually

>>543662442
where are your archers retard

>>543666563
A hist game could still draw me back if they lean into every unit being the same human, and just making the animation system absolutely godlike, units actually responding to what is around them and swarming organically to the point where it just looks like a cinematic battle
But CA could never perform such technical wizardry

>>543667332
No one cares about the yellow stains in your pants, nerd

>>543667386
>it's not a bug
>it's a feature
i'll accept it in this case

how do i properly counter the flying niggers as beastmen? the herdstone had manticores, but i don't want that shit in a normal army and harpies aren't very good at the job

>>543667710
40k may be their buggiest and most poorly optimized game of all time.

>>543657385
>Strange Journey
Based taste
>>543657780
Troon post

>>543653128
>vlad is the good guy
huh

>>543670113
Always has been.

>>543670113
I saw lore somewhere that zombies do the menial farm work when vampires are in charge
So it's not all bad

>>543669182
>mfw I assumed you're talking about an entire faction that you refer to as "the flying niggers"
Anyways just wait for shit to land then jump it, the whole point in beastmen is being fast as fuck

Have you guys seen just how busted Blessed Saurus Warriors are?

>>543673121
Yeah whatever patch showed fatigue as stats is really stressing how strong perfect vigor is
I haven't played them since their little rework though, did they get even stronger in typical powercreep fashion?

TW is dead.

>>543669182
beast caster can summon a manticore, and buff it to be able to snipe any other flying unit when buffed by the moon spell and/or lore of beasts buffs
not to mention the lore of beasts is incredibly underrated and good for beastmen specifically since they use a lot of rush infantry
otherwise you can just wait for flying units to land and pin them down with monstrous infantry while a damage dealer kills them

>>543673443
bitch its only beginning

>>543673443
It's Mostly Negative and Mixed
Why do you guys even play a game that bad?

>>543673441
Not much stronger. They were always busted in battles, now it's just slightly easier to get the ball rolling, especially when you can just buy blessed saurus and blessed big dinos before you can actually recruit them

>>543673804
>bitch its only beginning

>>543673121
Yeah they’re nuts. The icon is deceptive, even though they’re majority non-AP they have more AP damage than most elite infantry

>the enemy brings 200 more troops than me
>3300 late game troops vs 3500 early game troops
>heroic victory
this game doesn't make sense sometimes

>>543674046
The KINOest trailer for TW2. Made me a instant dork elf fan.

>>543674132
Bad strategy results in bad outcomes.

>>543674323
whoa thanks sun tzu you got any more ancient cathayan wisdom for us

>>543673857
???

>>543674323
I lost 43 men

Today, I'm going to play Delfs and actually utilize some manner of strategy instead of spamming Shades.

Why is there no Ireland in the lore?

*saves TW*

Imagine facing a roman legion back in the day... As you and your fellow barbarians charge them, they all throw pilums at the same time, maiming or killing many to your left and right. They then immediately draw their spathas and counter charge. Life back then was crazy.

>>543676187
Perhaps you aren't completely irredeemable...

>>543676187
dark sharts. ra roo

>>543676331
>low level romeaboo thinks romans invented throwing shit
What they won with was formation porn and cycling out tired troops for fresh ones in a way phalanxtards can't or eurotards can't conceive of

>>543676187
Cold one knights are a good cav.
Hydra is great
Dreadspears are good
Don't use bleakswords use corsairs
Sorceresses are amazing

>>543677001
Are witch elves and sisters of slaughter any good, dark elf sensei?

>>543677193
nta but witch elves are as good as you are, glass cannon as you'd expect, don't waste their fentanyl on something they can hit easily anyways
sisters ehh if you're going to sink gold it can go elsewhere

>>543677193
After the retarded rampage changes witch elves are now a better unit that the sisters. They are excellent flanking blenders. If you are playing as granny you can replace corsairs with them as your general melee infantry.

>>543677193
not worth the hassle

>>543676319
Holy based

>>543676187
>not waiting for the DLC

>>543678235
god I wish that were me

>>543676319
*tick tock tick tock*

>>543678021
Typical incel; short

>>543678478
What does that title mean?

>>543678478
Nobody escapes the end times.

>>543678839
GW removed original Stormcasts from AOS range.

>>543679891
Damn, surely they must be outraged at that treatment, GW must have a Very Negative rating right now

Should I do a rome campaign in rome 2 before playing WRE in Attila? I'm not doing DEI or anything, I aint got time for all that.

>>543677193
Witch elves always perform way better than I expect from their stats, as long as you keep them safe.

>>543679891
>removed the poster boys of the setting
Thats hilarious. Anyone who buys this plastic shit gets what they fucking deserve

>>543676187
cold one knights are good against most other cav
medusas are good against any blobs
scourgerunners are one of the best missile chariots
doom bolt is currently one of the best nukes in the game

>>543680510
>>543680131
https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/GrAX4aBG/whats-leaving-the-warhammer-age-of-sigmar-range/

All here are honored dwarf-kin.

>>543681265
>new background and rules, and will be considered legal for use in competitive play until summer 2025. At this point they will move over to Warhammer Legends, and will no longer be supported for competitive play.
loooole

>>543681417
You are strength rank 46
I am strength rank 2
I kneel to your dominance

>>543681417
The High King? Bowing to Settra?

>>543676331
Better to die in battle than live as a slave.

Your move.

>Play Cathay
>enemy has Squidman has darksharts
>Use Missile Mirror
>They wipe themselves out in 2 vollies

Never used the spell but fuck me thats funny

should I just stop using regular skeleton chariots after unlocking the archer version or is there something about it that makes it worse?

>>543669182
Manticores are fine in a beastmanii army since you can just re-recruit them immediately after rampage gets them killed. In general though your air game is weak.

>>543684243
You can use them to screen or tie down other units to not hit your more valuable archer chariots, or throw them into the riskier melee engagements to preserve your more valuable archer chariots.

>>543683563
The mysterious Roman Mudmen.

darkblade

>>543683570
Funny enough when the game came out the AI was perfect in avoiding the spell by halting ranged units. But the enshitification of TW caused it all to fall apart.

>>543687226
I seem to remember it changing from a wall that blocks missiles to a debuff that affects the enemy unit, could be remembering it wrong though.

>>543687226
Every time I use it, I get at most one volley out of it. Often none.

>>543687194
nerfed to the ground.

>>543687783
he needed it
he was making karl franz look bad

Total War: Alice in Wonderland

Are unusual locations getting more and more unhinged? I thought it was gonna stay as cute little curios but now we have a multi campaign spanning one too.

Next year we're gonna get shit like
>sacrifice (disband) your highest level non-LL for +100 growth and +30 winds until you hire a new one
>a random save file gets deleted every time you do

>>543688709
>Next year we're gonna get
Stop being delusional, at the very maximum TWW3 gets one final DLC, and maybe not even that.

>>543687783
darkbladebros..

>>543665824
Thanks anon! : )

>>543683563
Rome: Clone Wars.

>>543688585
Total War: Chronicles of Narnia.

>>543689141
It's bizarre to me that anyone still gives a single flying fuck about Star Wars at this point, it's a ravaged and maggot ridden corpse of a franchise. About the only IP I can think of off the top of my head that's in a worse state is Warcraft.

>>543689526
Those books are trash, C.S. Lewis got way too deep into his religion, he flat out kills off one of the major characters in the later books just to try and force a point about how evil backsliding is. Absolutely garbage fiction, just a bunch of Christian talking points poorly wrapped up behind a tattered and barely there facade of fantasy.

>>543689613
harry potter

>>543689526
the first movie was kino

Guys... It's total war trench crusade... That's why they canceled WWI because this one was already being made.

>>543690062
Really? It seems to be doing fine to me, as far as I'm aware Rowling maintained control over it so no severe damage to the IP was ever done by incompetent retards, unlike Star Wars or Warcraft which have been driven into utter ruination by the hacks controlling it.

>>543653128
I love this trope of a villain saving the day at the 11th hour, not because of a change of heart or redemption, but because doing the right thing in that specific situation was always part of his ideology.

Off-topic, but are there other examples of this trope?

Does elf pussy stay tight?

Whose the most fun HE lord in the Vortex campaign?

>>543690565
Trench Crusade is beyond retarded, that's the one where the insane authors try to make the setting with literal demons from hell morally comparable to the humans trying to fight them back, because "it's all relative" or some stupid shit.

>>543691334
>insane authors try to make the setting with literal demons from hell morally comparable to the humans trying to fight them back, because "it's all relative" or some stupid shit
sounds familiar

>>543690950
Heir Of Aenarion.

>>543649415 (OP)
>get purple hand location
>take their money, let them do their thing
>end chain popup makes me think it's some pivotal thing
>nothing happens
I can't tell if the game broke, if i missed something, if it hasn't happened yet or if I'm being japed by tzeentch

>>543691334
Oh shush, I find the setting interesting at least, that the Faithful have had to debase themselves so far to hold back literal actual Hell.

>>543691429
40k/fantasy doesn't paint daemons nuanced

>>543691678
Fuck off faggot, the fact you like such puerile trash is reason enough to fully dismiss you and anything you have to say, especially on matters as crucial as what the next TW game should be.

>>543690864
I doubt that Morathi's does at any rate.

>>543691810
>the fact you like such puerile trash
Anon ... you play Warhammer.

>>543692150
Warhammer is a much better setting than Trench Crusade could ever even HOPE to be.

>>543692560
Eh….its really not. Maybe if we’re talking 40K.

>>543652914
It's an old latin word for a catapult, Skaven are not involved in this discussion nor are any other warhammer factions.

>>543691565
We expect to be able to deliver Unusual Locations part 2 in August, more news soon.

>>543692681
WHFB is a much better written setting than 40K, the fact you actually think 40K is the better setting and not the other way around merely further confirms your lack of cerebral function and resulting absolutely shit taste. Don't reply to me again you disgusting vermin.

luthor harkon here
i have come to save you from the coomers
by shooting you in your stupid face

>>543693319
40k is better. You can tell because it's more popular and still exists

>>543693319
Look man, when I think of fantasy I just wish I was engaging with Tolkien or Conan or even something like discworld rather than fantasy battle directly. 40K is much more self contained and is more consistent than fantasy is. Also franz is a cuck, Gorrilaman is my primarch. Simple as.

>>543693319
Oh aye, it was so well written that GW stopped selling it due to poor sales, and now its back because some idiots have got their nostalgia goggles on.
>>543692560
What a ridiculous statement - theres barely even a handful of lore out for Trench Crusade yet. WHFB had 30 years of support and lore and it still got axed.

>>543693319
>the fact you actually think 40K is the better setting and not the other way around
Shit, at least 40K isn't direct copy/paste Lord of the Rings with magic and frogs sprinkled on top.
Best game GW ever released was MESBG, and it was because they didnt write the lore for it.

>>543694146
This honestly

Is tides far away? I feel the urge to play but I know the game is broken. Is cream broken too?

>>543693849
I'd love a Discword game, not Total War obviously, but something set in the universe. The 90's point and click adventures are really showing their age.

>>543694282
Cream is fine - 5.3.0.0

>>543694282
dlc releases on dec 4th. Game is not that broken. They fixed liggers and TKs but AI still starts blobbing around turn 40.

squigit claw

>>543694402
Discord got done dirty in the media. It had two decent movies they used to show on sky and some abomination called the watch a few years back.
> not Total War obviously,
It would work if CA ever got off their asses and worked on expanding the campaign side of stuff again. Imagine the agent videos.

>>543692013
what if she uses her magic to keep it tight

>>543697153
Cant do that sort of thing with Dark Magic surely?

>>543694146
It's copy/paste Dune

>>543697652
Hellebron can make herself look young so it's possible Morathi could do something to make her pussy youthful once again

Wait a minute, this isn't the techworkers general

Total War: Macross 7

>>543699778
still had me reeling about exorcising the computer

>>543694282
>>543694749
It's coming out next year.

The man who destroyed Legend

>>543697652
Just cast a really small Pit of Shades.

>>543700784
liberal memes be like

wew

>inflict army losses in 10 minutes
>oops, an elite enemy SEM/General is unbreakable
>have to spend as much time kiting, plinking and cycle charging him
Lacking a hero killer these days is a serious handicap

>>543702325
Ungrim should be buffed more
Vlad should be nerfed more

>>543691334
Trench Crusade lore makes me so fucking mad because they didn't even try reading a fucking wikipedia page about the crusades before making the basic concept of the setting.
>Hellportal in TC is originally opened up by Knights Templar doing some demon-worshipper shit underneath Jerusalem during the 1st crusade
The Templars didn't even EXIST during the first crusade. Their order came into existence30 years later as a direct result of the 1st crusade's success.
They don't even handwave it with some bullshit excuse of "oh the templars formed earlier in this timeline", they just completely ignore the discrepancy and hope their audience is as ignorant and illiterate as them.
It's like they couldn't decide between using le ebil templars meme (which would be 12th or 13th century) or using the historically-accurate ultraviolence of the taking of Jerusalem for their divergence point from IRL history. So they combined both of them, which would each have been fine on their own, into a confused mess of a lore startpoint that makes no fucking sense.
The fact that they couldn't be bothered to at least briefly look into the groups that compose such a crucial element of their own setting tells me they're complete and utter hack retards who should not be indulged in the slightest.

>>543705506
Isn’t it alt history

>>543705506
Don't worry anon, they know all too well that their fans wouldn't know shit about history.

>>543706278
Most alt history you assume everything is the same up the the divergence point.
They should have known the premise would have attracted history autists.

>>543705506
I thought having the Avignon Antipapacy being a literal anitpapacy was clever.
Turns out that was about it for clever ideas.

>>543705506
>The Templars didn't even EXIST during the first crusade.
Neither did a giant fucking portal directly to Hell? Does it really matter?

>>543706841
>Neither did a giant fucking portal directly to Hell
What is your evidence for this claim?

>>543702325
>>543702823
I have ptsd (diagnosed) from fighting Ungrim with my Snaggla Gnobspit army
kited and killed his army in about 10 minutes no problem, and then it took something like another 50 minutes kiting hiis midget ass with my spider riders, then my arachnaroks, then cycle charging waagh goblins in and out and waiting for sneaky stabbin to recharge
Ever since then I auto resolve Ungrim every time as a rule, and if they have a slayer lord I autoresolve most of the time too

>>543705506
youre getting mad a game, that has literally demons from hell, about historical accuracy, thats like complaining that iron harvest has mechs and invented walking tanks the german royal is becoming hitler without the communists revolution, and poland is fighting off germany and russia

>>543706841
Bro your India?

>>543706841
People who would be into Trench Crusade wouldn't think like that.

>>543707191
Haha fuck you Venice

>>543707117
I think they fucked up the USA in Iron Harvest.
One of the leaders should have been a Blackjack Pershing expy and they shouldn't have been in the middle east.
South America would make a lot more sense for 1920s America, alternate or otherwise, pit them against alternate history Empire of Brazil.

>>543707116
>Still won
Buff Ungrim

>>543708434
you're right they need to give him more speed so he can't be exploited in an unfair manner

>>543705506
Isn't that the setting where people where checking it out because 40k becoming less grimdark and over-the-top and the authors had some freak out over "the chuds" coming into the fanbase?

>>543708751
Yes

>>543708191
i think its fine, theyre coming over to bail out europe in the name of freedom and lawrence of arabia, and the ottomans were important to ww1 since you need oil to run all the mechs, and the middle east has never not been important in european warfare post 19th century for that exact reason

>>543708842
Well, how about an Ottoman faction then?

Is it worth it if I am only semi interested in the amazons?

>>543709010
theres no ottomans apparently, its just the local tribes, but there is tatars

>>543709452
DESTROYER OF MEN
Most likely. The amazons are a lot of fun and also sexy, but unless you want to play a horde faction (you don't) you're stuck playing as the old lady. You can mostly ignore the Trojan war and just let them fight each other while you focus on your faction quests and monster hunts.
I have played 2 Hippolyta campaigns but could never get into anyone else, and it was worth it for me, but not very replayable.

now what

Could Odysseus beat Karl Franz?

>>543705506
trench crusade is stupid because your first impression is that it's just alternate history where muslims are demons but then the game does everything it can to step back from that first impression because it's heckin problematic.

>>543712186
just like in real life

>>543710640
No.

>>543705506
They didn't even look at their own lore, how the fuck do demons and after 500 years of war control so little land with retarded border gore and dominate the seas while barely owning any ports compared to christchuds

>>543712514
Also logistics, the recruitment of legionaires is retarded. You need to be a pure evil fucker to look at the portal of hell and survive,that already narrows your options meanwhile the population is fucking themselves over. Ritualistic slaughter and murderhoboing is common in heretic cities there is always human flesh in stock in the markets. People here laughed at Dooki for having too much bullshit backstabing and murder death night in their society, ergo they are unrealistic, this deathmogs them in that department lmao

>>543706841
Yes, it matters, because the devs have NEVER (to my knowledge) addressed this, which leaves a giant fucking hole in the lore that they have never attempted to patch.
Like I said, I would be at least slightly less mad if they even bothered making a blatant handwave saying "Oh yeah the Templars formed before the crusades in this timeline through some other event that made christians want to be warrior monks btw." Because at least there would be an explanation.
It also upsets me because using the conquest of Jerusalem as the catalyst for a hellmouth opening up could be really fucking cool if you did it right. Historical accounts written by the crusaders themselves not only discuss how much of an utter slaughter it was, they even BRAG about it. Like the chronicles of it record that the crusaders killed so many of the city's Muslim residents that the city was flooded in blood up to their ankles. Yeah, they were probably exaggerating, but if that doesn't sound like the prerequisite to a fucking demon summoning then Idk what does. If you just rolled with that as the explanation for the Hellmouth's creation, just the result of the sheer gore and death and hatred being unleashed within the city of god, it would be so fucking fitting. It would even add a bit of tragic irony to the Christians' millennia-long war against the demons, knowing that their initial incursion that brought all this misery was ultimately the result of their own zeal.
But no, they just had to throw the Templars in and throw all that away.
>>543707117
pic related

>>543705506
I thought it was offensive because it's clearly a creatively bankrupt pastiche of other stuff with generic art station aesthetics, rather than being angry at their lack of a command of history or anything.

Well I decided to give Bretonnia a go after shitting on it so much yesterday, and I don't know if it's undergone significant changes since I last played them or it's just my particular collection of mods, but I'm finding the French bastards rather enjoyable.
Poor old Leon'coeur is run absolutely ragged charging back and forth across the countryside putting out fires and trying to keep the other Brettonoa factions alive to confederate. Between Norscans, Orks, Kemmler, Mixus Moussilon, a pair of random beastmen hordes raiding everyone, rebellions, and then that Chaos Daemon guy who Archaeon made his cuck turning up to redecorate Lyonnaise it's been a properly hectic start to the campaign.
The peasants aren't quite as shit as I remember them being, and having to cycle charge the knights in and out isn't as much of a chore as I was thinking. Still prefer horsemen who can charge in and stick about mind you, but still, it's workable. Still don't see the point in that "peasant economy" thing, that just seems needlessly irritating. Surely there's always going to be enough peasants you can shove a pointy stick into the hands of and charge them up with religious fervor? It's not like any other faction has similar restrictions on their most basic ass units.

>>543714425
That's how you spot 40gays.

>>543713463
I find it funny how it really seems to tilt some people while I just find the whole idea of the setting rather neat. Templars opened a hellgate in Jerusalem? Cool, those little scoundrels. Christians have to clone Christ and literally eat the flesh of the clones to stand a chance of keeping hell at bay? Awesome. There's a Persian factions with weird alchemists and horrendous flesh beasts? Nice. I just don't overthink it or try and make it make sense in the real world. It's like trying to tie down the lore of Warhammer to real world events, why bother, no?

>>543713463
>which leaves a giant fucking hole in the lore that they have never attempted to patch.
"Templars came early in Trench Crusade universe due to lore we haven't released yet"
Job done. It's fictional anon, they can make it work however the fuck they like lol. Shit, it's still in testing FFS, the whole damn thing can be retconned completely and it wouldn't matter.

>>543714425
>>543714610
Shit, I collect Orks, what can I say? "Orc" feels wrong!

>>543714326
>that "peasant economy" thing
That, aside from the vows -or forgetting them- is the most annoying thing about Bretonnia imo. Bretonnia should be able to field massive armies of peasants to bog the enemy down with.
I hope we eventually get a skill tree for lords/prophetesses that gives progressively cheaper upkeep costs for the basic peasant units (peasant mobs, men-at-arms, spearmen-at-arms, peasant bowmen) to make it possible to churn out peasant shitstacks, like master necromancers do with zombies and skellies for the Vampire Counts.

GET IN HERE BROS
https://www.twitch.tv/lululasso

A single regular orc would defeat Achilles in a duel.

>>543715453
>she's playing the tutorial
shit stream

>>543717531
>she

>>543713463
>it record that the crusaders killed so many of the city's Muslim residents that the city was flooded in blood up to their ankles.

If you ever see footage of stabbing/slashings I actually buy this narrative or the Livy(?) one of romans drowning in blood in the field. It wouldn't be ankle deep in wide opening streets but I can entirely see some backalley where bodies allow for blood to pool up to the ankles.

I also found claims of 'waaah eurocentricism' funny when that game has it where the Jews, Pagans, Orthodox Christians, Muslims all could hold jerusalem just fine and soberly maintain vigil against the portal to hell but along comes some Franco-Northmen and mon dieu dohonhonhon time to make a pact with Satan.

I'm not big on the setting as I am bone tired of grimderp gore, but all the power to it niche wise.

>>543699778
I really like that concept in his here I'll show you how. I say as a low agency person. But it's so fucking clever. High initiative and you need a tard wrangler, low initiative and you need a validating kindergarden wrangler.

Remember to delete your saves from time to time

>>543710532
now you kill the stupid rat
I see plenty of """empty""" provinces below you in the map

>>543718136
her voice is unambiguously female

>>543718851
First time? It's ambiguously female until the mask drops, always has been. All you need to dupe retards is fucked up vocal cords or a voice mod.

>>543719165
I hate to break it to you anon but not everyone has a penis
I know this must be hard for you to accept it's ok

Warhammer is the only total war title I've played. Should I try Rome 2 or Med 2? I imagine I will find the lack of SEMs and heroes less fun but I'm getting into the historic mindset (not talking about the aged games).

>>543719574
On the internet everyone does until proven otherwise. And even if it is a woman, it's not going to end with you getting laid. You have the option of assuming male - gaining nothing and losing nothing, and you have the option of assuming female - gaining nothing and looking like a retard when it isn't.

>>543719574
everyone who is into warhammer has a penis, especially the women

>>543719816
>And even if it is a woman, it's not going to end with you getting laid.
factually incorrect
she will let me breed her as thanks for helping her beat the tutorial campaign

Any fun factions in Attila that provides a decent challenge, but has a cool an interesting roster?

I hear people yap about the Langobards, how are they?

>>543719816
I wish we'd also return to the "You are just 0s and 1s online", since so many faggots here think their IRL flexing claims matter. It's like they saw the navy seal copypasta and wanted to imitate it.

>>543719597
Rome 2 is the closest to warhammer, if you can play caesar in gaul because the politics is disabled or the hannibal one.

>>543718682
I usually do it whenever there's a new patch. It's pretty ridiculous that every individual save is 15bm.

>>543650361
Also is the general tactic just to throw everyone in testudo and cycle charge with cav/ shoot with crossbowmen?
I generally don't quite put EVERYONE in testudo, only the units in need to be a rock the enemy line can break itself against. Even in absence of cavalry, any free infantry unit with room to maneuver can get to work sandwiching enemy units against its friendly units.
Remember that cavalry isn't the only thing that can flank and rear charge, they're just the best at it.
Also get artillery asap.
>>543719985
I enjoy playing as the Vandals because they actually get pretty nice naval units.

>>543714704
>just don't overthink it
Exactly, its not hard to have fun.
>my opponents fw his OC donutsteal heckin big evil world endin deamonarino is turned into swiss cheese by farmer gary and the boys with rusty lee enfields

I don't ever play orcs, can I get a QRD on whether savage orcs are worth recruiting as Gorbad or if you should only ever be recruiting them as Wurrzag because of his buffs to them?
What's their use case over regular orc boyz as other LLs?

>>543650361
One tip I can give as WRE is to recruit levy units from hordes and vassal states when you can (so long as you have room). As WRE you get an ability which gives a minor cut to army upkeep for having non-Roman units in your armies. It’s also a fantastic way to get cavalry early on, as getting more scout equites requires building up a cavalry corral compared to just drafting some Germanic horsemen without them raising a fuss.

>>543672292
lmao. i thought i mentioned the bretonians in that post. my gorebull/doombull takes care of the flying melee niggers with the help of infantry, when they land. the flying sorceress fucked me up good, do'ever. i'll keep that>>543673720 in mind

>>543681196
you get bored before unlocking any of that stuff besides maybe scourgerunners

>>543727607
Haven't played in awhile but IIRC don't the Savage orcs have frenzy + magic resistance instead of armour or something?

>>543701969
fix your camera orientation you subhuman

>>543731093
I think it's physical resistance, which isn't much help against Elspeth

>>543655814
>the empire and dwarves, unable to fully help one another, stand alone against the vampires and dwarves
>and dwarves
Was dawi civil war common in 1?

VCunt autoresolve is fucking miserable holy shit
>make faction based around strong healing and magic
>Don't factor healing or magic into autoresolve

>>543734347
Just gives you more piles to recruit from

>>543697714
No, it isn't
At all
Why do dunetards have such an inferiority complex towards 40k? This just keeps showing up and its so absurdly embarrassing to read.
Dune is a story focused on a single planet, following story of a mary sue jedi and his family with melee only Muslim themed, human centric setting

40k aesthetics are Christian, galaxy full of alien life, no single planet is given a focus and instead entire galaxy is being explored, there isn't a single story with protagonists and the biggest focus there is, is on medieval themed knightly orders in space fighting daemons, orks, dinosaurs with guns and other fantasy creatures. And the most iconic weapon is a duo of a sword-chainsaw and a gun

If you'd shown 40k art to someone who just watched even new Dune movies and claimed its this same because of some quarternary, irrelevant background lore, you would be called retarded.

Ok alright guys, stop showing off

>>543734836
Dunetards have an inferiority complex towards all science fantasy

>>543734948
>average tzeentch experience
barriers were a mistake

>play Ghorst
>he is op and boring

>>543736089
>Bided his time to dominate everyone in game three
The true master of dank magic

>>543733084
Oh shrimple typing error, anon meant to say
>the empire and dwarves, unable to fully help one another, stand alone against the vampire dwarves

>>543736914
have they tried asking the vampire dwarves for governing advice?

>>543734347
healing is actually considered in autoresolve but only for a tiny number of units in the army

There is plan for 2032. No assets. Classical antiquity. Rome Alexander Persia India warring states china. Britain to Japan.

>>543700784
>8 clown emojis
All I need to see to conclude that yes, Legend won again

Summoning all historyfags post your favorite Osprey pictures

Are the new slaanesh snake dudes reusing K'daai Fireborns?

>>543738859
Yes, along with the Sea Elementals from the HElves because CA is literally that incompetent kek

>>543674789
So this is the power Superchatman...

>>543681265
>Beastmanii are also getting deleted
RARO-ACK

>>543693319
40kekbros...

>>543653714
>>543653968
The best track in the trilogy is still in the game thobiet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHF4aoBxYe0&list=RDHHF4aoBxYe0

>>543659069
>blessed scared kroxigors have more armor than the RoR version
who made this shit

>>543660965
>>543661417
How well would skulltaker or Arbaal do in a duel vs skarbrand?

What in the actual fuck is this bullshit

>>543693640
40k is more popular than WHFB for the same reason Harry Potter is popular, it's sloppa for the consoomers.

>>543742738
they would get their spines pulled out through their asshole

Total War: Crusades WHEN???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EJa7L43BWQ
I wouldn't even mind if it was a Saga Total War in scope

tzeentch has such a cool roster, shame about their campaigns

>>543744235
a company in a muslim country will make a game about the crusades
ok retard

>>543743204
pay up stunty

>>543748623
Play Belakor, recruit tzeench.

>>543744235
>Total War: Crusades
That was literally just M2.

Should this shit be checked or not right now? For a less buggy experience...

>>543752354
the goggles do nothing, anon

>>543650361
Early game you have no good offensive units to make plays with, but much better equipment than everyone else so you win the slow grindy fights. Javelins until you can get crossbows serve as your main hammer for the anvil be sure to hold fire until you've gotten around the side to avoid wasting limited ammo into shields.
As you tech up, your roster will get lighter, more mobile and more offensive. Protectors Domestici are your power unit, grindy infantry with shield wall earlygame and powerhouse offensive infantry late game. Also high-tier artillery is overpowered in Attila and Rome gets it a tier early in their research tree so make that a priority.

Your cavalry sucks so take advantage of your faction passive to recruit cav from passing hordes or make vassals along the German border and levy them.

>>543652445
>tfw I will never be a Sylvanian peasant
>tfw a vampfu will never pin me down to suck me dry
Why live?

wh3 campaigns are really fucking boring past the short victory conditions, no wonder barely anyone has the steam achievements for single player campaigns since that forces you to get long victory

wh3 is more fun just playing different custom battles because the campaign gameplay is so fucking boring and braindead, you never even get any satisfying fights since the ai doesn't recruit proper armies

>>543753293
>those tit veins
that can't be vanilla...right?

dead game dead general

Wtf is this shit? I AM Bretonnia, I cant declare war on myself.

>>543755230
other bretonnian factions

the ai was always stupid
you notice it now because CA powercreeped every race they touched post wh3
you are stupid and you deserve this

>>543756552
not my problem, ca. fix it or I continue my internet tantrum

>>543743880
That means it's better

>>543757721
you dont look like that

>>543649791
nta, but after 1000+ hours in the trilogy the Warhammer 1 'endgame' is the only one I actually really enjoyed and bothered playing much come to think of it.
There was something very comfy about fortifying as empire or vamps, knowing what was coming

>>543755959
I'm not fighting those either, I'm trying to confederate them.

you should have listened to luthor
luthor tried to warn you
ikit dlc started this

>>543758953
And you should have acted
They're already here
From the time the Chaos rifts opened
When the brothers of Kislev would spill their own blood
No one wanted to believe
Believe they even existed
But when the truth finally dawned
It dawns in fire
Butt
There is one they fear
In their tongue, he is DhrathZharrSoldreg
CHORF-KILLER

>>543758902
Confederating other bretonians counts as declaring war on them.

>>543758902
that one mod that lets you hire the LL of defeated factions also does taht

>>543760270
Oh for fuck sake.

>>543760078
>how dare you do something unchivilarous as joining forces with me!
>*wins the next 20 battles for you*
>*spits*

>>543761106
>>543760078
The French are weird like that.

does aura of madness and greater aura of madness stack? like double madness, when giving a banner to a jabberslut?

Did you know?
40k is coming.

>>543762839
No. It's going.

>>543762839
lmao good one

average skaven player
https://files.catbox.moe/6vkmeb.webm

>>543762762
Yes

>>543762958
>>543763095
Look behind you

>>543763321
Is that... Is that a Stormcast???

>>543763321
It's... The ninth Roman Legion!

Finally completed a Sylvania campaign in Warhammer 2.
Most of the map was once again taken over by Malekith in the west and Grimgor in the east. Somehow I managed to avoid having either of them declare war on me, even though they both disliked me.

Really getting sick of Grimgor's 'Ardboyz and Naggarond dominating every fucking campaign. Is there more variety in what factions become dominant in Warhammer 3?

>>543763907
>Most of the map was once again taken over by Malekith in the west and Grimgor
the good old days...

>>543763907
you either get the good guys steamrolling or the bad guys. that's twice the variety, i guess

>>543763907
You can use mod for that.

>>543763208
Me uwu

Okay AoW cucks
Sell me on AoW, I will try to have an open mind
What makes it not a joke "anything goes" derivative setting with worse rules than 40k and a lower playerbase

>>543764196
>mods
I don't use 'em.

>>543764780
What do you mean by AoW?

>>543765602
Age of Wonders maybe?

look at my ice bear kingdom

>>543766102
Holding Kislev and trading everything else south to your allies while defending from northern invaders is peak Kinoslev

>Playing a Malekith campaign in WH3
>Get to Ulthuan
>Beggar Nohammer has occupied the east coast of Ulthuan
I've truly never seen this before.

Ash, Dame, or Madison
which one is finding the prostate first and what will she do with it

>>543769056
Yvresse is such a cuck

>>543769056
TAKE BACK EVERY GROOOOOOODGEEEE

>>543769056
Has ANYONE EVER actually seen AI Belegar reclaim Eight Peaks

Kislevite waifus.

>>543771940
It's Karak Eight Ports.

>>543763907
wh2 grimgor alone does more than all the ai combined in wh3

vgh....
https://youtu.be/Jd0zCodLPk4?si=lV8CdDsvPKBuzUwV

>>543775256
Chinkbux wasn't enough, Slavbucks is le bad so they're going for Saarbux now? Sad.

>>543775020
byzbros...

look at this retarded bird. it's stuck, because of that french faggot.

Are Franks worth playing in Attila or is Langobard the best barbarian experience? Having a hard time picking a faction to play. I just want to use fun units.

>>543775256
SAAR?

>>543775256
We already have Greenskins for public shitting.

>>543775256
>Watch Sotek's video to hear what he says about Ind
>Literally talking for almost 5 minutes about how Queek is good at sex

>>543779985
timestamp?

>>543779985
Why are ratfags like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPO91Xe4RHA&t=1642

>>543781038
you can tell he's put a lot of thought into this

>>543779040
Why would you default to Langobards of all things?

Franks are one of the stronger and more unique Germanic factions, they just start in a kind of challenging location and are under a lot of pressure to consolidate and expand westward into Gaul ASAP. Laangobards are a weird DLC faction and for some reason use these shitty club units because Sofia is oddly obsessed with them.

I'd argue Franks, Saxons and Ostrogoths are the premier barbarian experiences and Alans get an honorary mention because their roster is completely unique.

>>543763208
I expected gay SFM rat porn and I was let down.

How do you deal with the game when it turns into that ping-pong back-and-forth whack-a-mole that sometimes happens when you have an enemy on multiple sides and the enemies can summon far more armies than you can asnd you're constantly having your armies running back and forth across your own lands like headless chickens trying to put the fires out? Bit stuck in a situation like that right now, cant seem to progress anywhere without straying too far and getting sacked on the other side of my territory.

>>543786075
Focus on killing one of them.doesnt matter even if you lose your capital, you can always take it back.

>>543786075
Only build up major settlements, accept that the low tier ones will be cycle sacked. Decide which side of your empire is worth more. Leave a token resistance on the poor side to slow down the enemy, then put the majority on the enemy you want to take down. Don't waste time running across your territory defending it, use your armies to grind a foe into dust then disabnd most of them and re recruit new armies on the other side.

>>543786075
You just tunnel vision one enemy and eliminate them. The AI pays a fraction of the upkeep you do, summons armies out of thin air and receives flat income per turn so there is no economic damage you could possible inflict to stop it short of just taking all of their settlements and eliminating them. As long as your army can win battles you can always return and retake lost ground eventually but if you waste tempo moving back and forth without accomplishing anything you'll just remain stuck in an infinite whackamole loop because destroying the AI's cheated army stacks doesn't set it back in any meaningful way.

Hey
40k is almost here

>>543788158
I'm waiting for halfway through the second game to play it however

>>543788158
Hey
Azhag is 'ere

>>543779985
Based
With other men, I assume
Specifically the men that I play as

>>543761047
It's what you deserve for being a cheatfag, honestly. Imagine being so bad at the game that you need to install a cheat ensuring you never lose LLs if you fail to prevent their downfall by not reaching them in time. Just another means of trivializing an already easy game. Embarrassing, really.

>>543789762
kino

>>543791637
Cry more about someone elses game lol.

>>543790408
queek makes a good woman in a pinch its true

What possible in-universe explanation is there for Malekith, Louen Leoncoeur, or Thorgrim becoming confederated by another LL in their faction? These guys are the supreme leaders of their respective nations. I can't see any of them willingly giving up control, especially Malekith

Lol, kept on getting bogged down by their chaff units but they just kept on chopping the dead down until they killed enough that they could kick the shit out of the wizard.

>>543788158
Sauce?

>>543791637
I use the console commands mod, I bet that rustles your jimmies.

>>543794007
anon dont feed the cheatfags pls

>>543794721
Why? You are, if anything, more honest in your cheating.

>>543794007
Go ahead and cheat. Just don't pretend you're actually playing the real, genuine game while doing so. You should stop commenting on the game and talking about as if you're having any kind of real experience with it, because you're not. That's why it's so tiring to listen to cheatfags discuss the game, because they don't ever actually play the real thing and therefore have no opinions of merit or value to offer about it, yet they are deluded enough to think otherwise since they have somehow convinced themselves they're not cheating, they're "modding". Conveniently, these mods all make the game simpler and easier to beat, of course. Pathetic beyond belief.

Golgfag the
>Legend

>>543796141
autismkino right here

>>543796307
NOOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T USE THAT WORD OH MY GOOOD MY MONETIZATION AAAA

>>543796141
Oh no, you're one of those people who thinks all games should be "played as the devs intended". Shit, you probably even do achievements religiously and think that others give a shit about how many you have.

>>543796141
My mods make the game harder.

>>543797813
the game's mods make me harder

>>543789762
https://youtu.be/JhiUacGzIg8?t=76

>>543797926
my mods make me harder

>>543798247
Link pls?

>>543794402
They notice your superior military mind and defer to you on the important military matters.
Same with Yuan Bo, Zhao, and Miao confederating each other (as they would never bow to their siblings) or Most of the lizardmen confederating with Oxy, Tehen, or Tiktaq to.

>>543799001
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2793127003&searchtext=rotate
it's the default model

>>543799638
Oh damn.
I didn't realize the *elves* were just as hot as Drycha

>attack enemy army
>beat it in battle
>survivors retreat past me, through my territory an absurd distance my army can't possibly follow
>then immediately attacks and occupies nearby settlement
>when I retake the settlement next turn they've already demolished/converted every building
Haha out skilled I guess

Alright people
Should I do another
1: Wood Elf campaign (this time as Durthu instead of Drycha)
2: Another Vampire Coast campaign, focusing on Vargheists
3: A Vampire Counts campaign, focusing on Strigoi and Crypt Ghouls
or 4: IDK, play another game?
I've got nearly 800 hours in TWW3, I'm got it 80% of the way to Platinum. At this point I'm just waiting on the DLC so I can get Slaanesh's Long (hard, throbbing) Victory and then do Dark elves because VCO should be updated by then to have Lokhir.

>>543800606
Ogres

>>543800606
Play a Thorek campaign.

>>543800976
Bro... I have done probably 10 campaigns as ogres. roughly 200 hours of that 800 is on ogres. I can take a break from being the fattest.

>>543801150
No.
Similarly to >>543801191, I've done a lot of Dwarf campaigns, I don't wish to play (my favorite ngl) faction again right now.

>>543800606
Mannfred and get all the books

Bretonnia is boring as fuck
Daemon prince I wanna wait until end of life
Slaanesh I am waiting for Tides
Dark elves... are shit and as good as shades are, I can't bring myself to play anything but Lokhir, and he's lacking Victory conditions
and I FUCKING HATE SKAVEN I HATE THEIR GAMEPLAY THEY ARE SOMEHOW THE MOST OP AND SHITTY FACTION AT THE SAME FUCKING TIME

>>543802452
Bretonnia will get a rework.
Deamon Prince might get a rework alongside nagash dlc.
N'kari's pokemon campaign is actually pretty good.
DEs will get a rework.
Play Tretch and spam clanrats. Its the most fun way to play Skaven.

>>543802452
>>543803109
Daemon prince will never be good

>>543802452
cry about it no-fur

>>543798247
I could never get it up for a Troll.

What would possess the AI to try for this battle rather than retreat to their settlement? Even auto-resolve was showing as a Close Victory in my favour with Low Casualties. I wasn't even close to threatening its settlements either, it moved two armies into mine.
Seems like a really bizarre choice for it to make.

What are the dark elves supposedly missing that people are upset about? They’re already strong and fun.

>>543807445
I will take this one step further and say they its better if they don't get anything. Look at the High Elves for example. They are already strong and fun but they are about to be ruined with BS units and OP mechanics.

The dark elf research tree kinda sucks.

>>543807445
Strong doesnt mean fun.
>Slave mechanic is OP but boring as shit.
>Slave and control buildings doesnt make any sense.
>Building chains are shit.
>Malekith and Morathi (and Lokhir desu) has no mechanics.
>Hero skills and traits outdated
>Names of power are made for wh2 and in wh3 they are basically useless.
>Naggaroth part of the map sucks
>DEs still missing magic lores.

>Conga line of AI walking into the same ambush with a lvl 1 solo lord as bait
Is...is this really how you win on legendary?

>>543806234
Fag (or short).

>>543811040
For 2 it was lightning strike but yeah kinda

>>543810130
You’re never getting the lore of life in TW, Drukek. Or any more at all.

So I’m actually giving Thrones of Britannia a chance and it’s quite good. I fell for the memes that kept me away from this game

>>543807023
What is the cheatmod for the chevrons? IIRC AI armies attack after a diceroll determination if they think they have a chance of winning; the actual result is calculated at battle

>>543810130
One of the things that actually makes the EoS of TWW3 and the utter collapse of CAs ability to make DLC for the game so satisfying is the fact that High Elves will get a final DLC updating everything, and Dark Elves will remain in basically their TWW2 state forevermore. Broken hearted Dreadlords, weep away.

>>543812375
The Pharoh shill is doing a good job making me almost get it; I have not played a his title since Attila

>>543812641
Don't bother with Pharaoh. It's still just Troy with spitshine.

Karaz-A-Karak is actually has quite a difficult start. Both Gorbad and Skarsnik are way stronger than you are and you're sandwiched between the two. No wonder they always get wiped out quite fast.

>>543807445
You mean mechanics wise or units wise ?

IT'S UP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpdpVg6TL6k

>>543812641
I bought it on launch but never really gave it a good chance. Which is dumb because Attila is one of my favorite total wars (tied with shogun 2 and med 2). It’s not as good as those games but it’s interesting and the setting is fresh.

Lol, either my mods are acting up or Morganna has put on The Mask.

>>543812485
>What is the cheatmod for the chevrons?
I don't know what you're asking? The knights have just killed a lot of shit. The peasants are only Rank 2 and 3.

You may as well listen to some AoS lore now, chud. After all, you ARE going to buy TW:AoS, and you WILL enjoy it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaDeyxJe5pY

>>543816593
I meant the actual icons, like that they look like sergeant stripes instead of three lines

>>543649415 (OP)
Asurbros... we got our asses handed to us in our own trailer

>>543816715
Oh, I think thats just SFO's way of doing the ranks? Didn't even realize it was different.

>>543816593
>>543816715
>>543816941
Vanilla looks like this lol

>>543807023
The AI probably just thinks they can make your life harder by wiping out units

>>543816886
Teaser**
Lord trailers haven't dropped yet, there's still hope!

what difficulty do most people play on

>>543817868
I think a lot of people play on norm and autists including me go VH and above
Just do whatever you like

>>543816886
>DLC1
Hellebron invade temple of Khaine
>DLC2
Yvresse burnt by Grom and he is coming back
>DLC3
Kekslinn stabbed by Lokhir

>>543817868
VH/H
Because I'm hard.

>>543817038
Must be SFO I had a wee gander at my mods and nothing else seems to even mention the chevrons.

>>543817868
I just play on Hard Campaign/Very Hard Battle. If I go higher in the campaign I just find it tedious all the chaff that gets thrown at you, just seems to be the happy sweet-spot for me. I think only masochists play Legendary/Legendary.

>>543817868
VH is the default because its necessary for cheevos.

>Nerds playing for achievements in the year of CA 2025
Lol
Lmao

>>543820360
Number
Go
Up.

>>543819845
>cheevos
i just use this mod instead
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2793720739
same result in the end innit?

>>543814414
Melee rush has been a tactic in TW games for as long as TW games have had multiplayer and it's been a faction design that CA has been deliberately designing faction rosters around at least since Attila.

>>543818357
sexo

>>543820575
Fuck off Epidemius

>>543820681
nooooooooooooooo you can't use mods that isn't fair you're invalidating my work noooooooo

>>543820713
For me, it was picts

>>543817868
Legendary

https://youtu.be/rfrZPqmqPRc?si=5rcLXfC1syIVNtB5
Traditional badlands war chant

i will shoot up this bitch

do white people really

>>543802452
I ended up frenching.

>>543822524
False advertising if you ask me, clearly not naked. Why can't they have the dongs swinging about as their sword strikes their foes?

>>543822524
Bet that little twink standard-bearer with the cute little dress on and hairless waxed legs gets some abuse back at the camp.

>>543822984
Agreed. 0 authenticity.

>>543822624
I did obligatory frenching in the first two but not three yet, who did you play?

>>543823620
Alberic the literally who
VCO has a few rather "easy" routes for him.
Namely the "fuck lustria" route was not bad. Yeah VCO may be "CHEATS REEEEEEEEEE" but I feel it allows for more narrative focused campaigns

>>543824018
I've been doing the OvN objectives for Grudgebringers cheat and after playing Elspeths RoC campaign, I've started to appreciate narrative campaigns more because I feel much more obligated to sack and raid based on my needs since it isn't tied to settlement "number go up count"; I may try out the overhaul in future playthroughs since it looks like they're almost done with every faction too, most of the feedback for the routes look good even if some are "easy" like you said

>>543825038
Yeah, Honestly I wouldn't have Greenskins if it wasn't for one of Azhagg's being to take Nagashazar

froggos of nurgle. ribbit

When did the beastmen start using prisons?

I can't believe I lost a knights Errant to a skaven settlement
and it wasn't even from a nuke, the nuke hit my Knights of the Realm

>>543822524
My ancestors...

>>543828819
I see you use 4chanX like a civilized being

>>543823143
He's actually the one with the biggest dick, he gets forced to penetrate the other men's behinds
Goodbye wondrous femininity!

>>543829869
Indeed

What do I do as Wood Elves?
Is it even worth expanding out past the heathlands around the trees? Does fighting battles outside of those regions help the big tree?

>>543831116
Well there's one building in those that adds a flat +5 growth to all provinces.
However, you basically have to paint the map to make it worth.
TL;DR, no.

>>543831116
>Is it even worth expanding out past the heathlands around the trees?
no, kind of not really
It can be worth it if you have an enemy that is a threat to your hearthlands or if you need the money to raze their settlements or occupy and sell them to an ally. Despite the Orion meme having strong allies is the ideal way to play Wood Elves because you can focus on your trees.
some places have landmarks too
but the tree and the hearthlands are the most important. Keep the forest health up until you teleport to a new tree and go from there. Keep an eye out for encounters too

>>543831116
Raze capital settlements for absurd ammounts of money. A tier 5 skaven light could probably pay for a fully upgraded tree.

>>543817868
I've been playing on Legendary/VH because my autism compels it, but I feel like it's detracting from the fun of the game. I'm playing in such an incredibly lame, cheesy, and manipulative way because how else do you counter the AI getting like 6 free extra global recruitment slots, 3k free income, 70% upkeep reduction, 50% extra refreshment, being able to effectively upgrade buildings for free, et cetera.

It kind of...feels like nothing matters but chain winning fights? Taking provinces doesn't feel impactful when I know the AI can sustain at least 3 stacks off just their capital. Getting sacked can be catastrophic for you but is a very minor speed bump to the A Encircling or build siege engines is you practically throwing. Et cetera.

>>543832681
I used to play on legendary but now I stick to hard with ai stats at 0. It is simply more fun to play like a casual, because that's what the game is designed for. Legendary forces you to be optimal and with the way the game is desinged being optimal gets repetitive really fast without being much more challenging. But on hard you can afford to use basically every option the game gives you and try different things and different playstyles for the sake of roleplay or just messing around.

Is there any kind of mod that gets the AI to try and force its units into a formation of some kind at the start of a battle?
I'd really like to see something where the AI chooses an appropriate formation depending on if they're missile heavy or infantry heavy
Basically anything other than one long ass line of units, it's so boring to fight

>>543831116
Be bored out of your mind in my experience. Such a dull faction.

Fuck sake, got attacked at the end of the turn by Vlad and Co, 3 on 1, barely managed to beat it while only losing two expendable units. Think I can clean him up next turn. No no, after the battle Vlad grabs another nearby lord he has hanging about with no army, and fucking raise deads a whole new deathstack and re-attacks in the same turn.
That is some straight up bullshit, it wasnt even crap chaff, it was primo grade A corpes.

How do you deal with that shit? Hes super fucking swole too, hes got near half the empire under control and covered in corruption.

>>543838142
You can't deal with it. Vlad is just stupid overpowered. Send feedback to CA asking them to nerf him so Empire players don't get FUCKED every fucking game.

Where are the cute rats?

holy crap why these niggas basically fighting to the death

>>543838554
That's what KEESLEV does

>>543838554
is this actually a good army comp for wood elves? what happens if they reach your 'frontline'?

>>543838554
That's kislev, they do that, especially during the lategame. They are cancer incarnate, even worse than woodelves.

Ah yes, Pyrrhic

>>543840836
still better to fight against than dwarfs tbdesu

>>543838393
He already got nerfed after Empshitters cried about it.

>>543841127
That depends which faction you're playing. If it's a melee one then I would take dorfs, because every time I fight lategame kislev they fight to the bitter end and end up taking a couple of units from me.

>>543841463
>melee
>prefer dorfs
Do you use a mod to remove THUNDABARGE from the game?

>>543841567
there's melee birds anon. THUNDABARGE is useless against those.

>>543831116
Raze shit, occupy it, sell it to your buddies, then move on. Repeat ad infinitum

>Rewatching the vampire coast trailer
>Mornguls actually doing something other than just dying.
God I wish.

>>543841983
mournguls are actually good though you just have to ambush with them

>>543841983
>watch vamp coast trailer
>Get both nostalgia and major depression
Those pre covid years were so much better man

>>543841983
i think they got nerfed

please answer my question.

>>543840172
i run away and some of my heroes have this bound net of amontok thing
also sniping all ranged and fast units with volley of kurnous as much as possible at the start

>>543810130
>Names of power are made for wh2 and in wh3 they are basically useless
lol
lmao even
Shadowdart lords with a stack of Shademannii are hilariously strong, even in 3.

>>543845195
I see that
I raise you this.

rat cummies elf tummies

>>543847756
she looks like she has downs syndrome

total war

>>543847756
Her gooner mod was so hot

>>543849764
What was the mod?

>redownload SFO for the first time since TW2
>scrolling lazily through races and lords to see if anything jumps out at me
>nothing inter-
>Grombrindal has -100 diplomatic relations with Dark, High, and Wood Elves and every army gets +100% weapon strength against them
Time to curbstomp some Elgi, lads.

>>543854653
take my reddit gold good sir

>>543856204
sHorT?! X DDDDDDD

>start a Volkmar campaign
>things going well, clearing out Arkhan
>Wurrzag to the south
>Skarbrand to the north
I feel like the filling in a Oreo.

>open clio stream
>tranny voice
ofc you faggots are watching this

>>543653459
You're talking to CAfags. Being cattle is their default mode

>>543812375
Honestly if Thrones had gotten a bit of a map expansion a'la Pharaoh it might have been able to do a little bit better. Probably not too much since all it'd add is Magyars, West/East Francia and slavs but that'd have been neat to see. Even has Charles the Bald. Whose that? I'm not sure, but why is he so bald?

Really just have taken Charles in charge and made it a standalone release.

>>543838142
>How do you deal with that shit?
Invest in ranged and magic (fire is ideal) and win with minimal casualties since ammo and magic replenish between battles for free. You want to focus fire their lords/heroes since without the leadership boosts the units will crumble.
Bait him into fighting on your turf since Vcunts units have a chance to come back based on Vampire corruption.
Have whatever assassin heros you have kill his heroes, the vampire heroes especially can be a bitch to kill.

>>543860505
>warhammer "lore"
>CAfags
you fucking retard

Crazy how after all these years there's no controversy over a lack of representation in the Warhammer Trilogy. They would be wrong too. Arkhan THE BLACK and Vlad is Nehekaran

>>543861540
>No Saar we histoids are no cattle *slurp slurp* Napoleon is great saar

Im enjoying Pharaoh Dynasties so far but I want to try Troy Mythos out. I heard it uses the same 4X resources system, outside of smaller map size and the mythic units, is there anything different about Troys system compared to Pharaoh's?

whats longma

>people are actually trying Pharoah and Troy
the absolute state of this server...

>>543864092
makok

>>543854653
Based

>>543828819
Raid Shadowlegends tm Looks like this!?

>>543849462
chat can he fucking say that

Why can't CA just extend the map a little bit to include Nippon and Tor Elithis? They don't need to be fleshed out factions, just land that exists. Then you would actually have the entire map available.

>>543866876
CA can't so much as look at the code without adding 10+ more bugs, you think they can just expand the map all willy-nilly?

>>543863776
Not really. Same resources, similar religion system, same combat balance. Biggest differences that come to mind are the Mythic Beast expeditions, no outpost system or lethality and far more expansive questlines (every LL has 18-25-step questline that takes you through the campaign, culminating in Siege of Troy for Achaeans).

>>543863138
Hard to complain when its a dead setting. Age of Smizzmar took all the heat instead
Not that it stopped them from trying anyway

i like crossbowmen

>>543847756
I'm on day 12 of nofap, asshole

>>543866876
Im using the cheat since I don't think they'll ever expand dong

>>543863138
except arkhan isnt black, they white washed him, hes supposed to be a charred skeleton

Imagine naming your empire Cathy

>>543874270
better than naming it Bort

>>543874842
Excuse me, my empire is also called Bort

The legendary Louen campaign feels really silly right now.

>>543875083
Mogged by ze Lady

>>543875331
She'll be kneeling in a few turns anyway.

>>543839508
Was this nerfed? I swear it used to be Unbreakable

>>543847505
On a tangent: holy fuck I love the Giant Spiders. They are super fast at killing routing units like Warhounds, but they have far superior combat stats, poison and armor piercing. You sic them on a routing unit and it just disappears. Fantastic little arachnids.

Am I missing a trick by not using orc cavalry?
Squigs, wolves/spiders, boar boys, pump wagons?
I'm shit with cavalry to begin with but I want to know if the juice is worth the squeeze to learn to micromanage

Realistically speaking how do I beat this army

>>543877993
Kite out his ammo m8

>>543878139
I don't have 2 hours to spend on this fight legend...maybe a change of comps in needed...but what do I bring

>>543877893
Obviously they're the easiest thing to race for the enemy's ranged and go round to get in flanks and asses when your infantry engages, you're not missing out on a 'trick' by steering clear of them, you're avoiding an entire basic piece of strategy

>>543878314
>you're not missing out on a 'trick'
Figure of speech, I mean missing out on something hugely beneficial
Orcs play fine as an infantry/missile/artilllery + sneakers faction desu

>>543877993
>>543878139
>>543878302
I think I'll try going full firepower, my melee are getting fucked no matter what so no point bringing them.

Jannies.........

Almost had him but this kdaai destroyer keeps fucking me, why do people say its trash

>>543879196
zoo la hoo

>>543879196
People don't use the destroyer properly
You're meant to cycle charge it into infantry blobs, not just leave it to get ganged up on

Must have a dwarf ancestor somewhere
The absolute state of Nordlanders

Where's the ideal Outer Heaven for Golgfag? For optimal contracts
I'm thinking Brass Keep or Hell Pit
But maybe Galleon's Graveyard for flavor

So this is the army that finally wins, holy shit hochland longrifles fuck, love these lil niggas like you wouldn't believe. Sorry dawi zharr cucks but empire wins again.

>>543878551
Orcs do just fine without cavalry, but its always nice to have something guarding the flanks to avoid backcharges by enemy cavalry. As for Greenskins, their cavalry relies on charge bonus and eats shit if they get swamped down, so you gotta be at top of your game to make them perform well.

we must form a military access pact!

>>543879873
Erengrad