/twg/ - Total War General

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1st for mike slate

nth for damn you beat me to it OP

copper age mesoamerica would be an amazing setting, full apocalyptico

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>>127077838
You can BARELY make out the zone of control in this pic if you strain your eyes to the point of getting cross-eyed (no fucking idea why my game doesn't show the fiery border I've seen in youtube videos) it honestly looks like they shouldn't be able to bypass the city, which would make sense.

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5th for pike and shot.

6th for New Years Suicide Prevention TWotline

>>127081720
7th for you have nothing to live for, the Empire is gone

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Refugees not welcome

>>127082461
>Praise the Gods
>ERE
>Gods
>Constantinople, Chi Rho, etc
>Gods

Nuke CA when?

What is with Attila's really punishing building negative effects? It's like every province has to have a very specific building order just for it to be self sustaining

>>127082187
I will fight for the Empire
I will join Sigmar after death, and I will continue fighting yet

>>127083131

muh strategic depth

it's just fucking tedious honestly

>>127081720
don't do it bro

I like how the same core group of actors are in every history movie. The classic "kinda ugly and malproportioned so they look old-timey" people. Its starting to kill the immersion of historical films.

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First for vampire counts

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>>127085487
Skaven > Tomb Kings >>> Vamp Cucks

>>127085728
>Furries

>>127085349
Would you rather have a historic movie with A list actors?
>Starring Will Smith, as King George
>Tom Cruise, as Queen Elizabeth

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>>127085349
I like how Russel Crowe is in almost every TW related film.

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19 turns into my first ERE campaign in Attila and I've only been attacked by the visigoths. I lost Macedon because shitty public order but got it back in a few turns. Other than that the huns, vandals, ostrogoths, and alans have all paid me for peace or non aggression pacts while the WRE throws tons of cash at me to fight barbarians I am nowhere near. All the African barbarian factions are warring with each other and have also paid me not to fight them. I've had a good amount of time now to build up my armies and I plan to attack the Sassanids soon once I have another stack or two.

Feeling extremely lucky. This never happens.

>>127086095
Yes, the last few A-Listers we've got are the only people who can convince Jew producers to green-light riskier movies, like historical ones. The fall of the blockbuster actor is another blow against every movie that isn't immediate-billions capeshit.

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>>127086220
He's a good looking man tho

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>about to send a doomstack to the sassanids with my best general
>he goes FUCKING BLIND

So thats a thing. I had no idea.

Anyone ever had a Sangiovese varietal?

>>127084404
No kidding. Some of it doesn't even make sense. Why would a farm make people angry? Do people hate goats?

>>127087246
If you make a farm in the East, farms increase happiness but reduce growth rates

>>127086895
Does quality of General even make a difference in r2?

>>127087246
The public order in that game is infuriating. Attila is the hardest TW game just because its annoying.

>>127087373
Never played R2 went straight to Attila.

>>127087345
Okay but that still doesn't make sense.

I understand it's for balancing but I think they went too overboard with it.

hey /twg/

should I start drinking

>>127087985
It was a joke

Because they fuck goats

>>127088309
I would have been drinking but I forgot my alcohol

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>mfw play music, videos, movies in 6x speed because your brain is fucked up on total war

>>127085728
>shitting on vampire counts
Skaven >/= vanpire counts> everyone else>>>>>tombcucks

>>127089891
>muh rats

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>>127089945
Empire is also pretty based but you just don't see much fantasy with a race of giant rats the build crazy shit so they my personal favorite

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>Tomb Kings still not announced

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>>127092725
GO HOME TOMBKEKS

Is it okay to be a horde forever

>>127093425
No, you have a hordeing problem and you need to get over it

>>127079329
So many good historical TV shows to watch (even if it isn't accurate).

>HBO's ROME
Great for Rome 2

>The Last Kingdom
Fun for Age of Charlemagne Mercia and Danes

>Marco Polo
CHINA: TOTAL WAR, WHEN

>>127094662
ROME is amazing

>>127094662
THIRTEEEN

>>127094662
The last kingdom sucked ass tho

Alright I'm playing WRE hard. its 414. I fell back to a defensive position. shored up my public order and economy and now I can push forward again. I Just retook Lugdunesis and Dalmatia. both represent my furthest borders both northwards and eastwards.

Constantinopolis has fallen to the visigoths and the eastern roman empire is reduced to Ancyra.

Should i potentially spread myself too thin by trying to retake the eastern capital or should I just hold firm and prepare for the coming storm?

>>127096519
If you want to retake Constantinople you should do it slowly. I've been playing WRE on Legendary and trying to reclaim things too fast has led to me wasting tens of thousands of talents.

I'm interested in what your maps looks like, but regardless I'd say you'll want to secure Macedonia, Dardania and one or both of Crete and Rhodes. Securing naval control and the western border of Thrace is crucial to preventing Constantinople from being isolated.

If you're in doubt, preparing for the storm is a good option. You'll want to be ready for the Huns.

>>127097972
The huns attacked me about 6 years prior, they invaded my lands and were just raiding and around Ravenna and mediolanum. I wasn't stupid and put a another stack there along with my already 2 full stacks. Eventually they attacked and I massacred them. but I've been at war with them since and have yet to see them again.

>>127098185
That's about the same as what happened in my game, although I ended losing almost all of Italy before taking it back. The Huns eventually left and burned down everything east of Germany. Then Attila came of age and they gradually returned. I fortified the towns with walls and have strong stacks defending them; they're pretty adverse to laying siege against such strong defense. It's just a waiting game while I try to build up my economy and make sure no one else can cause any problems.

ded

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>>127102303
>tfw the minimap is mai waifu

happy new year

>>127102970
qt

>>127102970

10/10 waifu sempai!

>>127102970
Who is that? Satsuki?
Ryuko > Satsuki

>>127103345
this

>>127082187
The new empire will rise under Emperor Trump

Someone make a meme compilation for the year

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>>127105627
You do it

>>127105627
What would we even put on it?

>>127107687

ur mum

>>127105627
Have we really had that many memes this year? The only big one I can think of is the whole fantasyfag thing.

>>127111335
We had two forced memes

>>127111335
Last warning bud.

Also, was dogwallcuck this year?

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>that one guy shouting at the camera

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>>127111874

>>127111874

Are you using mods? Your units look odd

Final Rome 2 dlc when?

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Damn, I think I fucked up, I can't get the victory because I would need to build a greek cathedral, except I'm latin christian now because of Rome and Papal See. Or more like the game fucked up to not foresee this happening. I would just grab one of ERE's settlements to get one, but the faggots won't upgrade their churches to lvl4.

>>127114210
hopefully soon, hopefully it goes bronze age and gibs Mycenae & hittites & such

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>>127099691
Differnt poster here, also playing WRE on VH, currently in 405 ad. I just completely smashed the Huns in Aquileia, killed 4 of their 5 stacks, the last one retreated too deep into Germany for me to pursue, now I'm in a comfort zone being able to send stacks to Britain to punish the Celts and I already finished off the N African fuckers. Am I too confident with my victory over the Huns? They don't really seem THAT menacing, but will this change dramatically when Attila comes of age?

Roma Invicta from a Foederati Germanic Dux

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I didn't finish my Celt dump the other night so allow me to finish it now.

>>127086724
was*

>>127114737
Go ahead

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>>127114816
Jolly good.

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We wuz kings n shiet

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Is anyone else getting this bullshit? I have latest drivers

Which Total War trailer is your favorite? I think the Shogun 2 trailer is the best by far

>>127115227
The Fall of the Samurai one definitely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj3-VkbRSKQ

I like the whole contrast thing

>>127115031
Yup

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>>127115417
>those haircuts

War, war never changes

>>127115503
What was the idea of those light chariots?
Did they just act as mobile platforms to hurl javelins at the enemy or were they used for charging as well?

I can only imagine how hard those things would be to maneuver in any terrain except for a cleared grassland or plains.

>>127115609
They inflicted fear on the enemy as well as being a mobile platform to hurl missiles from. Once the missiles were exhausted the warrior would dismount and fight on foot.

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>>127115648
Forgot pic

>playing rome 2 as Egypt
>always thought chariots were garbage even though I had never tried them
>pick them as generals bodyguard once
>1035 kills out of 3465

Hory shet

>>127115743
Cool, it's interesting how Celtic and Germanic warfare was all about individual acts of heroism compared to the much more unit orientated warfare of the Mediterranean civilizations.

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>Celts dump

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>>127116270
>"Romans" dump

>Mobile testudo ability still doesn't work in Attila 1 year after release and despite several reportings on forums.

I'm getting more and more worried about the Warhammer release for each passing day.

So has anyone heard the news that a faction is only allowed to conquer 1 other faction in the WTW campaign, sounds pretty fucking stupid

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>>127116363

Let's unite the worlds

>>127116429
Pretty sure you'd be able to take over the other human factions as empire

>>127116429
I heard that you can't conquer every settlement on the map, you're restricted to conquering certain settlements from certain factions.

Empire can't conquer Ork settlements for instance

>>127116483
Varangians were Celtic now? I swear every year I see new ethnic groups claiming that they had soldiers in the Varangian guard lmao

>>127115227

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

Personally I like this one, with the added headcannon that it's the ghost of Ceasar talking to Belisarius in the trailer.

>>127115227
>>127115336
>>127116717
>not The Ashen Horse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5ihy9aY0UM

>>127115981
The way Mediterranean warfare developed is that it started out like the Celtic and Germanic way of fighting individual heroes and small scale skirmishes, then some general or king changed that to get edge over his adversaries and in time that developed in to the greek and roman tactics we know today.

>>127115336
Is it possible to use the old style armies in singleplayer and win?

>>127116629

Celts are a social construct

>>127094662
What about Vikings?

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Is it "shitposting with non-/twg/ related pictures" time already?

>>127116846
I wonder if Attila ever used the whole apocalypse/scourge of god meme about himself irl or if it's just something modern historians attributed him.

>>127117006
I think you can draw clear parallels between the Celtic peoples in antiquity, similar languages, customs, warfare etc.

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>>127117605
Don't bother, he's trolling

That feel when the Jews finally got their revenge on the Romans from the destruction of Jerusalem by making them adopt a Jewish cult as state religion, making them afraid of everything (apocalypse) and shredding Rome frontiers by inviting Germanic tribes to rape and plunder.

It was all part of a greater scheme

>>127117630

>implying

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31905764

I keep on getting shat on trying to siege in Shogun FOTS - any tips? I just started out so I'm really only getting marginally less shat on during field battles but sieges are really rough. Pasta didn't help much.

>>127115503
>holy fuck i love being white

>>127118334
where are you gettting these anon? is it a book?

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>>127118398
I've collected them over time through a combination of /twg/ images, google image searching and Osprey torrents.

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>>127118456
That's pretty awesome

>>127117747
>And it shows that the invading Anglo Saxons did not wipe out the Britons of 1,500 years ago, but mixed with them.

Wow what a surprise!
How come some people are so stupid that they actually think population groups were ever completely wiped off the face of the earth by invaders?

>>127118456
How are they supposed to keep their helmets on with no strap?

It's like the authors/artists never try to put themselves in the place of those who they try to depict.

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>>127118729
Many of those helmets depicted are ceremonial i.e. never meant to be worn in combat, but you're right, some of them would have had straps.

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>>127118786
Good point

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How was your New Years /twg/?

>>127119007

Playing Ryse: Son of Rome

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>>127119007
Was pretty average actually. Went to a sub-par party and feel I would have enjoyed it more if I'd just stayed at home, got drunk and shitposted on /twg/

>>127118456
>>127118530
>have an old-ass book detailing the evolution of weaponry and war through history.
>it goes into detail of how the primitive man first used the simple rock to kill his fellow men, all the way to the invention of the first nuclear weapon in WWII.
Maybe I'll scan it and post it here someday.
It's in Spanish, though.

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Is Atilla worth getting? 32 Britbucks is more than I'd usually be willing to pay for something with such mixed reviews, but folks here seem to enjoy it. Which DLCs, if any, should I ditch? I'm thinking of avoiding the Charlemagne campaign pack for now since it's not reduced. Or should I just not bother with the game at all?

>>127119007
Continued to bring the true faith (Semitic Paganism) back to Arabia as Aksum. I have no friends to hang out with.

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>>127119186
So long as it has pretty images I am happy

>>127119220
do it, it's seriously the most fun i've had in vidya for a long, long time.

sure, there's optimisation issues, polish is lacking in certain areas, rosters aren't perfect (not god awful), and attacking testudo is still broken, but it's hands down the only game i love playing

>>127119186
Please do so my Visigothic broþer

>>127119220
Why not buy it from any of the steam-key sites?

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>tfw quarter to four in the morning

>>127119452

Call me paranoid, but I don't like inputting my personal and financial details into most websites. It's bad enough that steam has them.

>>127119220
After playing everything from there (not every nation obviously), I'd say those DLCs are totally worth it when at that price. Regular cost? Fuck no.

>Dark ages were so shit people used literal roman villas and amphiteaters as forts

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>>127120121

>>127119707
I buy from them through paypal. They're scum too, but they're accountable scum.

I will conclude this dump tomorrow sometime, goodnight /twg/

>>127119061
How are you finding it?

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Here comes the agent gangbang

I get at least 2 generals assassinated each turn, why the fuck did CA decide to turn spies into killer machines?

>>127119707
I understand that, but I've bought Rome 2 and Attila from one of those sites and I saved a shitload of money doing so.

>>127120639
Where are your agents?

>>127120223
The story of the Galatians is amazing desu

>>127120836
Reducing corruption and spreading paganism

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>Studying the school of Azyr
>Studying the school of Chamon.
>Hysh
>Ulgu
>Aqshy
>Ghyran
>Ghur.
>Not studying the school of Shyish.

Do you even death magic plebs?

>>127119007
Was great. Woke up at 5 am and played attila and some AoC to 4 pm. Then went to dinner/vorspiel followed by the party. Was fun. Came back home at 5 am and started shitposting on twg.

>>127120590

Fun, worth the price while on sale and not even trying to be historically accurate in any way. No replay value though as it's completely linear. I like its aesthetic.

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>Playing Rome II as Athens.
>Having fun generally expanding.
>Pushing further into the Cretan capital with my marine forces.
>Decide to zoom in to watch the fighting.
>Hear a couple of shouts and taunts in a nearby moshpits.
>Oh cool, I forgot Rome II had this feature.
>"h-has anyone seen my son??"
>mfw

What have I done /twg/, what was it all worth?

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What is the most effective way to fight those cunts in Call Of Warhammer? They seem to be almost immune to arrows and bullets, they completely wreck any defensive formations of spear men or haleberdiers, sending swordsmen or greatswords at them seem like a suicide.

>>127121357
I thought Shyish was outlawed because the Mor priests hated it?

>>127122101
Knights, crossbows, handgunners and artillery.

Anything with a high attack will do hitpoint damage to them, remember they have like 11 hitpoints so while it may seem you do nothing with guns you are hurting them.

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>>127122148
Mor priests can suck by deathly edgelord dick.

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>410 ad
>Huns fucked off all the back to Crimea after I shat on them
>already making punitive incursions into Germanic territory

So much for le legendary campaign, I thought this would be harder.

>>127123959
Sup LoTW

>>127120639
The Visigoths are the true heirs to the WRE.

>>127122097
I don't think I've ever heard that one, I do remember hearing "tell my children I died bravely" multiple times.

My all time favorite will always be "does anyone recognize this head"?

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Tfw I just bought shogun 2 from steam and it gives me this message, pls help.

>>127124334
He taught be a few things desu, like general scumming

>>127124640
You probably pirated S2 and left some leftover files before uninstalling it you niggerfaggot

>>127124640
How about you do what the message tells you to do?

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>>127124772
But i didn't, i really bought it.
>>127124817
I dont have any viruses and i dont use cheats.

>>127124975

Did you ever pirate shogun 2 on your PC before buying it? There may be some files left as >>127124772 said.

Reinstalling steam is also a good option, just don't delete the games.

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>>127124975
Buy it anew anon, it's worth the money

>>127122101

This >>127122269

Sending one unit to tie them up is a great tactic because big units kills so slowly. High charge units will wreck them too. You could also reduce their hit points by half in export_descr_unit file

Was it mainly skill or luck that kept you alive in melee combat?

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Welp, those poor sassyboys. And my WRE brothers are raping germs a few tribes has gone already.

Yo familia I'm trying to play Attila but I can't really get into it. I hate how it restricts everything you try to do, like with the tech tree and all that. I'm not sure if I'm playing it wrong or you're supposed to have to wait like 20 years to build an army. Any tips n shit? I've played the shit out of Rome 1 and Medieval 2, but haven't played muchof the others. I'm playing the arab jew guys btw, but I'm open to suggestions if they're not the best for a first playthrough

>>127123959
How did you managed to keep Italy ?

>>127126545
Have you tried Rome II ?

>>127079329
>http://pastebin.com/HK7Qd6if
Does anyone even check the OP anymore?

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>get Attila on sale
>runs so bad it's borderline unplayable AND looks like dogshit cause low settings
>blame it on pc, 2 years old mid class after all
>get rome 2 instead for lower reqs
>runs perfectly fine on extreme
>areyoutryingtotrickmeagain.jpg
>read obscure tweaks on atilla, one points to a number in an .ini
>change one value
>runs great on high
Great job CA

>>127114112
Was using fote

>>127126643
Naw, I was kind of turned off by all the controversy and stuff when it came out. I've heard Attila is basically a better version tho.

>>127126881
Yeah but it's more quick in Rome II to build an army. In Attila I can't even quit my province without a rebellion

What mod should I play for Napoleon?

Recommendation outside LME or DarthMod would be nice

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>>127111756
Jewts, the great discovery of Planetwar, Total War tactics vs reality (the one the faggot drew the faces on), Anthonius and his Breaded Horses against the Holly Germans, Lugians (haha), guy who had a dog fuck his gf, the dogcuckapult exploit that came not too long after, purple ramen guy, poor little roman guy/white goy, Theodosius Theodosius (Theodosius), Gaius and Aulus, Tatul war genrul aint free, I'm going to pay you (the huns) 100 gold to fuck off, more TWC autism (clay roof-tier autism being right), more cropped art and screenshots with misleading filenames, and tiny toy romans
Can't recall any others off the top of my head

>>127126828
which one?

>>127127310
gfx_video_memory 0
I doubt it just increases performance for everyone because it's just some vram issue, but for me it made the unplayable game completely fine and if I gave up on fixing it 5 minutes earlier it would just be money wasted and I wouldn't touch it anymore. This should be an option or a troubleshooting point or something if it's so damn important, for fucks sake.

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>>127127117
>mfw im the reason tiny toy romans exist because I made a troll post about formation attack in R2 a while back

>>127127874
Didnt the person who initiated that say it was based on something from /mlp/? I guess you reminded him of it

>>127115981
Even in that, there are tiers. Germans were the most organized, having spear walls and distinction between line infantry and flanking infantry. At the opposite end, Belgae were the most heroic and least organized, everyone was a guy charging an enemy host in some capacity.

>>127128114
Well the thread went to shit,as planned ;) everyone was either biting or going along with the thinely veiled shitposting, and eventually it evolve into tiny roman greentexts revolving around how I said something to the degree of "watching hundreds of tiny romans standing in formation awaiting death" and then its history.

>>127126093
one vs one its all skill.
in a melee its luck. unless you count knowing when to be in the back as a skill

>>127126093
>>127128926
Was it actually possible to survive if you were placed in the front line or was it a death sentence?

>>127128926
If I was a soldier I would always stay in the back

>>127129030
In a shield wall situation, most were merely injured and then pulled back through the lines, death isnt as common during battles as movies would lead you to believe, most death happened after the lines broke, not during the engagement

>>127127117
A few of those are older than a year. Is The Reconquista That Never Happened a dank meme? It was funny for a thread and never mentioned again.

>tfw I will never be swarthy

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"And i saw in his hand a book sealed with seven seals the first of which was broken.
And behold a white horse; and he that sat on him had a bow; and he went forth to conquer..."

>>127129695
Always found 4 horsemen pretty stupid. War and conquest are pretty much the same thing and then death is completely redundant with the other 3. Each one should be unique. St John, watch some power rangers for reference or something.

>>127130113
They aren't given the names of War, Conquest, Famine and Death though, are they? That's just what later people call them iirc

>>127130113
>>127130193
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

>>127130113
>>127130193

Death is the only one that is named in the text.

Some interpret the horsemen as the history of the Empire. White Rider is the expansion and prosperity, Red Rider is civil wars and discord in the empire. Black is the governmental oppression in the empire and Ashen is it's death.

>>127130492
>>127130379

Whatever the case is, it made a great series of trailers.

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Which campaign do I choose fąms? I did the Pompey one. Sulla vs Marius is not particularly interesting, a great one like the 4 emperors seems broken as you only get 11 turns to play

>>127130550

>veni
>vidi
>vici

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Who /preorder/ here?

This is going to be awesome.

>>127129670
what does that even mean

>>127131118

Is this a pretend shill or an actual shill?

Could it be that FOTE is buggy for the Last Roman DLC? I can still recruit the vanilla units with vanilla stats AND their modded counterparts.

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>>127129695
>and he that sat on him had a bow; and he went forth to conquer
Did the Christians literally predict the Huns and Mongols?
Did God try to warn us about the horsefuckers?

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>>127130824
I don't know anon, this seems to be one of the most boring campaigns. There is no civil war, the republic is united all you have to do is fight some enemy factions for merely 30 settlements.
The limitations are real. It's not easy to follow history and make a great game out of it

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What's the public order building for muh muslims?

>>127131548
They had always been the terror of the ancient world, even before the Huns or Mongols, steppe tribes were fucking scary. Imagine being a roman soldier living in Rome and then meeting a group of people that live in the worst environment on the planet, practically live on horses and can hit an apple off someone's head with an arrow while galloping at full speed. Theyre savage, terrifying men bred to view themselves as a pack of lions circling around herd animals-civilized people- and running them down like animals.

We dont need god to create myths centered around the scariest people on the planet. The crazy religious fear of horsemen stems from the fact that true horsefuckers are really fucking scary, simple as that

>>127132372
>horsefuckers?
did the Chinese have similar myths and horror stories about the Mongols before the Mongol conquest of China?

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I shed the blood of the Saxon men

So what do you guys prefer for Axum, paganism or Christianity?

>>127126548
The Huns mainly tried to come through at Aquileia, just put a halfstack there and raped them.

Some time late they tried at Verona, at this point I had 2 fullstacks in N Italy, the Huns got smacked to shit.

Then they retreated to Germany and came back when I had lvl 3 garrison in Aquileia and 1 fullstack.

I hope Attila will pose a greater threat.

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>>127126794
Fuck, we've been bamboozled.Apparently no one has bothered to read the OP since December 8.

>>127126794
It was pretty out of date anyway iirc so no

>>127126794
I've seen that a few times desu. thougt it was part of the joke that is the OP

>>127133303
It gets removed every now and again, then comes back. You're right, it's an extended joke.

>>127132625
The horsefuckers have been fucking with china for thousands of years before anyone from the west got a real taste of them. China's entire history is molded by their fear of horsefuckers. Their entire culture has lived for 99% of its lifespan in feat of invasion. Their armies were the largest and most advanced in the world, the arbiters of civilization in the direct threat of the most effective armies on the planet. Europeans became dominant during the gunpowder era because they had to fight each other all the time. China was so strong because they had to fight horsefuckers all the time. They were always the biggest threat, even China, which dwarfed even the HRE or any Muslim kingsom, could not contain them for long.

They built a literal wall of fear. Horsefuckerd aint nothing to fuck with.

>>127126794
the OP is a meme, lad

>>127133695
Too bad horsefuckers contributed nothing to society as a whole except death and destruction. No wonder they got fucked over eventually.

>>127132731
guys please advice!!! need to know if I should tear down the church and build Steles

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>>127131118
>really don't want to pre-order because what they did was bang out of order
>but really really don't want to pay an extra £10-15 to get Chaos if I can help it

Fucking CA/Sega. I'm genuinely conflicted over this.

>>127134232
Pirate the DLC later

>>127134232
Preorder last second?

>>127134232
>unironically buying cuckhammer at all
Kill yourself

>>127134017
Genghis post service was pretty neat

>>127123959
Army comp tier: AI

>>127134721
Is that why mailmen always start fucking other men's wives? Is it tradition?

>>127134342
>>127134232

Yeah I was gonna say this. Wait for reviews and general response. Honestly this "pre-order" thing tends to carry on for a couple of days after release too. I got Atilla like a week after it came out (iirc) and still got the pre-order bonus.

>>127135212
deepest lore

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holy shit waht the fuck do i do

>>127135906
pay jizyat, kufir

>>127136067
>being cucked further by the false caliphs

So what's the consensus on Charlemagne? Worth 15 bucks?

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>>127135906
you are the remnants of the UmAyyads! the true heirs of Mohammed. you will not bow to Abbasid scum!
MUSTER YOUR MEN!!

>>127094662

Master & Commander, Napoleon TV series and Sharpe for Empire/Napoopan goodness.

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>>127136198

fuck yeah

>>127124630
>Soldier1: 'He says men what we do in life echos in eternity'
>Soldier2: 'Bloody Romans full of it'

>>127135045
Why would I inhibit my economy when the basic spear unit is the best unit in the game?

>>127135906
Sending your diplomat makes it so they dont do nothing

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>>127122097
these new tw games give me ptsd

>>127132273
The mosque, duh

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>>127137518
The moment I start feeling sorry for all the men I'm responsible in killing coincides with when a blood pack is released.

I swear i'm going to start having flashbacks when we start getting Empire soldiers being ripped apart in a shower of gore and screams by daemons and shit.

>>127134232
I fell for the hype train too many times this year and I just ended wishing I'd waited for a sale, so just do that.

>>127138646
*last year

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>>127138127
>leading your starving, diminished and injured troops back home after a long campaign
>ambushed by a chaos warband
Sigmar protects anon

>>127138934

I really like how much slower the battles look, no more Roman legions sliding into combat.

>>127124975
verify game cache?

>>127138127
this! the moment the blood pack for Shogun 2 came out was the first time I felt bad for the soldiers. seeing a yari ashi lying in a pool of his own blood with 20 arrows sticking out of him whilst reaching for the sky was horrible

>>127138934
Why doesn't the Witchunter fire his gun before the impact?

>>127138934
These battles are going to look so cool when it's the same race against eachother. Imagine that webm but they're charging into a line of Stirlanders

Vampire vs. Vampire will be awesome, same with all the others.

Fug, 4 months to go, and 4 days until we start getting updates again.

>>127139579
He probably counts as a melee unit

>>127140042
wat

Is napoleon worth picking up if I enjoyed FotS?

>>127134017
The Germans were the same, look where they are now.

>>127140742
I like it more than Fots, the pace is slower and battles feel more realistic

>>127141542
Germans were horsefuckers?

Or you mean they were like horsefuckers?

>>127141542
By stealing Roman ideas and technology in the first place. Not exactly hard when someone else does all the work for you.

>>127141784
They were a culture wholly focused on war, even more than horsefuckers. Horsefuckers did a lot of trading, Germans thought trade was for fags.

>>127141990
Maybe horsefuckers could have done the same. German peoples still kept their extreme sense of honor and principles and that effected the world they dominated, maybe horsefuckers would keep something of themselves.

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>>127138127
Same goes for Brets as well. Knights are ok, but poor, terrified peasants seems too much.

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>>127138934
>>127139438
>>127143564
This is a problem for me, because I want to play a Sigvald campaign when it's released.

It's going to be hard cleansing the world of impurity when I start feeling bad about it.

Iv been playing Empire again, and god damn. I forgot how bullshit Indians are man. Like my men just melt as soon as those redskins hit our lines. I had a better position, and 8 units of 12 pounders and 26 line infantry.

Indians hit us and we just disolved man.

>>127144454

Are you referring to the Indians (Maratha) or the Native Americans?

Because both are pretty fucking broken.

Have you unlocked bayonets and canister shot? They can and will win you battle.s

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>>127144347
I'm probably going to feel bad when I eventually play as Bretonnia. Maybe I can lower the taxes at some point?
Being a bunch of elfcucks is also pretty bad

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Holy shit, I never ever thought about a lvl 2 settlement and a high tier garrison building provides almost a fullstack worth of garrison troops!

>>127146653
Man, thats larger than my constantinopolis stack for ere, doesnt have a garrison building chain.

>>127146653
what difficulty

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>been playing Dawn of War: Winter Assault all day
>mfw all this glorious IMPERIAL GUARD
>COMMISSARS
>SENTINELS
>BAAAAANEBLADES
>suddenly fucking Ultrasmurfs and faggy Eldar

Fuck this campaign is shitty.

Anyway, would a 40k game ever work with the Total War format? I'm dying for a new 40k RTS game.

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>>127145765
bless them in battle with the pretty ladies and they will be thankfull

>>127147301
>>127145765
>>127144347

>lots of heavy Cav
>pretty much King Arthur: The Faction
>trebuchets
>masses of peasants to do the dying

I can't fucking wait.

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>>127147553
and tits anon

don't forget the tits

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>>127147850

>maidens rushing head long into the fray
>bound by chivalry to protect them
>frantically hacking my way through waves of Elves, Demons and other nasties just to protect maidens

>autoresolve yellow bar is almost full
>your army is a bit battered but the enemy garrison is maybe 4 half-health units
>go protective
>valiant defeat

why.

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>yfw Total Warhammer's mods will likely include pike & shot era, maybe even Fallout

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>>127148376
>Total Warhammer's mods
>mods

>>127136198
Needs more snake tits.

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HAHA...haha NEVER AGAIN!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N7VrwlJWHk

>>127148607
>>127148376
You might get new mercs/units and reskins but that's probably about it.

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>>127148973
>warhammer
>mercs

>>127147275
It's hard to say honestly. Sometimes the art depicts the armies in napoleonic like regimental formations, whereas for the most part it's all WW1/2 like, which wouldn't fit into Total War gameplay at all.

It's best to assume not until proven otherwise by CA magic.

>>127147275
40k is too shooty/mechanized to be fit into a melee-oriented system like Total War.

Something company of heroes-ish with some attention to melee fighting would probably work better.

>>127147553
And they're already near fully implemented if the campaign reveal is anything to go by, so it won't be long to wait.

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>>127149651
>Something company of heroes-ish with some attention to melee fighting would probably work better.

Yeah, it's a pity that game doesn't exist.

>>127135906
That's interesting. I thought the Emirate of Cordoba owned uch of Western North Afrcia. Did the Abbasids really own Morocco?

>>127148607
>le no mods meme
Just kill yourself already. It stopped being funny after the first time.

>>127149764
Anon, we could have had a developer that embraced its uniquely dedicated and amazing modding community, the thing that made this series what it is; instead we got a developer that turned away from it, going so far as to remove it from steam workshop. The DLC cancer is clear, it might be possible to mod some aspects of warhammer. But that doesnt mean we shouldnt be mad at this precedent.

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>>127149747
>>127149651

I'm glad none of you arse-weasels mentioned IT THAT SHALL NOT BE NAMED

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Poland here. How to stop the Mongols?

>>127150183
m8, CA have embraced modding from the beginning. It's the contract with GW that forced them from fully supporting modding with dedicated tools ans such. I'd rather have a Warhammer TW without mod tools than no Warhammer TW at all.

>>127150183
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?691160-Limitless-editing-tools-map-et-cetera&p=14555931&highlight=#post14555931

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>>127148886
And peace enveloped Japan

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>Celtic """"""cuisine""""""

>>127151239
Looks decent enough.

>>127151239
As long as britbong cuisine exists, you can't really insult any other type of cuisine.

>>127150183
It will have exactly the same modding support as M2 did. So by your logic the only time CA cared about modders were from S2>Attila since that's when they offered workshop intergration. It's been said time and time again that the only reason they can't have a workshop this time is because the lisencing contract with GW doesn't allow it.

Seriously tired of the repetitive doomsayer shit posted in every thread. No the game won't be perfect, we get it. Trying to make it seem worse than it is all the time though is honestly just getting pathetic.

>>127115921
yeah boii!

>>127147118
VH

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After a week or so of tinkering, I'm finally happy with the look of my Westphalians. Guess I'll play the campaign now...

>>127134561
why is it cuckhammer? or is this yet another sick meme?

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>>127153910
It's all about dem dank maymays nigga

But seriously, if you buy cuckhammer you're a traitor to the franchise and should shoot yourself in the testicles

>>127153910
Haven't you heard? Cuck is the new autist.
Just slap on whatever you want and people will see you're cool and tough.

>>127151847
>Fish & Chips
>English Breakfast
>Black pudding
>Haggis
>Chicken tikka masala
m8 c'mon

>>127154441
ITS RAW

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>>127154375

>tfw beat niggers using cats

>>127154723

Keep in mind that other than the portuguese arquebus, these guys are literally more advanced than japan 2800 years later.

Playing Theme of Sicily in Charlemagne. How did the Byzantines name their armies in that era? I've pretty much always been able to call my legions something simple like Legio I Germanica, for example, did that naming convention last?

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Medieval 3 fucking when?

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>>127155242

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>>127154723
tfw Your mum shows up at work to bug you about her wanting grandkids.