/twg/ - Total War General

first for blood dragon

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Explosions make everything better

>>143987263
Hahaha that's actually fucking awesome.

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>Bretonnia
>shitfarming all day
>only get to keep 1/10th of your harvest
>you're worth less than the tools you use to farm for your liege
>fuck, you're so irrelevant you're not even allowed to practice the state religion because it'd be filthy
>invent trebuchet, the single most important weapon in the Bretonnian army except horses
>get paid two gold coins and a well-fed pig

>The Empire
>shitfarming all day
>pay mad taxes
>fucking beastmen all over just won't fuck off
>poor as fuck
>get conscripted
>forced to fight fucking Daemons the size of a goddamn house with a dinky spear and frilly pants

>Sylvania
>chill as fuck
>till the land with your family
>no taxes what so ever
>do whatever the fuck you want
>exciting and unique wildlife
>raise grandma from the dead
>eco-friendly as fuck with mad recycling animating the dead instead of having conscripted armies
>once in a blue moon a big titty sultry vampire comes to suck on your neck for a bit

Give me ONE reason Sylvania isn't the objectively best place for humans

YOU FUCKS

POST TRADING CARD REWARDS COOL BACKGROUNDS AND EMOTIONCS

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Is this really happening, I fled to the other side of the world to escape these faggots.

>>143987418
trading cards?

>>143987425
you pissed in the wrong dwarfs ale, skellie.

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>>143987425
>what are grudges

>>143987386
sounds like paradise

Reposting.

So my dorf campaign just bugged out and now I can't save or end my turn, anyone here encountered the same issue?

I just wiped out the last Chaos stack and the advisor tells me about Chaos coming back again and it brings me to the diplomacy screen with the Empire selected but no dice.

Finally decided to install the agents mod for TWWH after my chaos Lord got killed instantly despite being almost level 19

>>143987425
i guess they have a bone to pick with you. dont take their armies for granite or you might be dead.

>>143987548

I just let them massacre two zombie armies so that I can raise high end units from the battlefield.

Dwarves are cunts, but vampires are bigger cunts.

>>143987425
As vamps never fucking touch the dwarfs until you've conquered the humans

They're hell to fight and they never give up

>>143987263
THIS ACTION DOES NOT HAVE MY CONSENT

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>>143987386
>once in a blue moon a big titty sultry vampire comes to suck on your neck for a bit
Do you cuddle afterwards?

>>143987625
>being so bad you need to cheat

>>143987721

I didn't.

>>143987386
Dunno if it's just lahmians but vamps feeding on you feels so good that you never want to do anything else

>>143987721
Either this or go all out and raze them completely. You don't want ongoing hostility with those fucks.

>>143987295
>badlands kotyl

>>143987642
>dont take their armies for granite
>for granite

is this a meme? is he memeing?

The best thing about dwarfs is having less dwarfs to fight

>>143987386
>land is literally dead
>farming
>get torn to shreds by horrifying creatures regardless if its day or night

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>buy total war warhammer on first day
>try to buy food
>card doesn't work
>go to bank to withdraw cash
>"insufficient funds"
>i spent my last dime on warhammers
>my money doesn't come in until thursday

>>143987821
Enemy agents are complete bullshit you have no power over. There would be 5 in one province that can insta kill your Lords but you try the same and you fail every time

>>143987994

How the fuck

>>143987994
Embrace the vampire count way, suck some blood from your neighbours

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>>143987654
>Raise armies based on how many died
>Never occured to me to just throw a couple of zombie stacks at something for mad gains
I now see the way.

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>>143988082
i am not a wealthy man

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>>143987654
>>143988161

>play as vampires
>none of the units has any interesting dialog
It's pretty shit compared to the dwarves. Even the dwarven settlements are High Energy, I just feel like an asshat riding on a chair into battle

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I know its only short and I know it's on Normal but I'm still pretty chuffed. I didn't really do much fighting so my next playthrough will definately be more fightan.

>>143987994
B R O K E B O I
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K
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Do we have any word on when the freeLC is coming?

I wanna play as the spoops next but I don't wanna play without whatever elite new units they're gonna add.

THEY'RE ONTO US

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVE-mncKFsA

>>143987263
>Ionut Andrei

That's a Romanian/gypsy

>>143988424
historically it comes out alongside actual dlc

so either soon with the blood or in months

>>143987994
Don't feel too bad. It took Ghandi months of fasting to become a hungry skellington so you should be fine until Thursday. Besides fasting is good for you :^)

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>>143988357
on the one hand, it makes me feel like i should get a job

on the other hand, i bought already bought the game

>>143987994
you can live for days without food, just drink water and play warhammer, friendo. I believe in you

What are your grudges /twg/ ?
>combat is over way too fast
>ability bloat
>health
>it can be impossible to withdraw some units because one fucker is stuck in Africa

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>>143987098
Rollan

>>143988463
All names east of Paris sound the same to me.

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>>143988424
It'll most likely be blood dragon cavalry, since they're using the blood dragon snakey symbol. This further implies the next VC hero will be the best hero ever ever ever everrv ervev everv erverv erve rverv aerverv

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> Tomb Kings still not announced

>>143988062
thats odd, I had a witch hunter with tons of confirmed kills

>>143987952
>farming in based Sylvania
>difficult, but you get to keep your ENTIRE yield so it's alright

>farming in the Empire
>easy as fuck but the chucklefuck tax collector will take half of your shit

>go on forest adventures in Sylvania
>exciting and exotic vampiric beasts seen nowhere else in the old world

>go on forest adventures in The Empire
>get captured and raped to death by goats

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>>143987098

>>143988573

>no unit formation
>no spear wall
>no shield wall
>lack of abilities on units
>too much abilities on LL and heroes

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>>143988461

>>143987994
Almost as me
>payment will arrive on the 10th of June
>have 65 dollars left
>total war warhammer is 50usd here
>still buy

>>143988613
ROLLIN

>>143988573
Balance stuff like magic being good
Want to play as a small faction like border princes
lords need to be even more powerful

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sorry about the shitty camera work, but what the fuck.

>>143988651
And this is exactly why I'd want to wait. Oh well, guess I'll just roll for my next one after Grimgor finishes bullying everybody on the map.
>tfw I cucked estalia and left one bretonnian faction so they could build up while I was Waaghing in the empire

>>143988857
>Not buying from one of the hundreds of CDKey sites to save le moni

>>143988923

Spooky as fuck

>>143988573
>no battlefield settlements
>settlements
>no settlement arena to play on
>upgrade settlement walls
>no walls
>no settlement
But health is amazing, anon.

>>143987386
>believing Vampire propaganda about life in Empire
lmao

>>143988923
ARE YOU A GOD?
FOOL!

Are directed at the player too

I'm new to Total War and just started with the warhammer one. Just a couple of stupid newbie questions since I've only played a couple hours.

Some units require multiple buildings to make. Do all of those buildings need to be in the same city or will it work if it's all in the same province? Like one unit requires a barracks and armory. Is it cool if the barracks is in one town and armory in another as long as its the same province?

Also do your troops heal or replenish I guess every turn unless a stance specifies otherwise? Or is it like civ and troops only heal up if you don't move them that turn? Do they heal up slower if outside a friendly province? I know about merging but if I just have a few units that are only missing a couple troops I was just wondering how to heal them up.

Lastly, ambush. If I go into the ambush stance while another army is already visible will it always fail and be spotted?

>>143988923
ANON STOP IT THATS FAR TOO SPOOPY FOR A BLUE BOARD

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>>143988857
it sucks having no money

fucking bills
fucking taxes

>>143988663
You can fuck high elves and drink with dorf bros in Empire.

>>143989152
Province

You want to build all the shit that requires more than a tier 3 main building in your capital

Ambush is down to the % chance on the map

>>143989228
>high elves
>paying attention to HUMAN shitfarmers

>dorfs
>bros

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>>143989228
>You can fuck high elves
>in the empire
i don't think so timmy tim tim

>>143987386
>Give me ONE reason Sylvania isn't the objectively best place for humans
ok
>permanent darkness
>blood tax
>literally can't go outside of your village/town just like in Bretonnia, not because of a law, but because there are undead beasts/ghouls/spooky ghosts everywhere
>infertile land
>you will be a slave even after death

Who the fuck designed chaos
>have to attack a tribe twice to subjugate it
>other factions immediately raze it without issue if you do

>>143988613
rolling

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Karl is so tsun tsun

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>Spend 10 minutes carefully surrounding my ranged units with spearman covering the flanks
>Move my army forward into position
>Forgot to lock the formation

>>143989505
>Karl zogging Franz, what a loser, I will kill you all dead

>>143989542
>setup vanguard first
>accidentally reselect them when doing infantry
>they deploy behind my army
oops

>>143989386
>permanent darkness
No need to worry about getting sunburn.
>blood tax
According to the fluff, getting your neck sucked by a sultry big titty vampire feels fucking amazing.
>literally can't go outside of your village/town just like in Bretonnia, not because of a law, but because there are undead beasts/ghouls/spooky ghosts everywhere
Endless adventure literally on your doorstep.
>infertile land
No taxes so no need to farm as hard.
>you will be a slave even after death
You'll also be dead.

>>143989316
>>143989350
High elf Tyrion fucks with human twins and half elves are thing.

>ARE YOU A GOD?

What do they mean with this?

>>143989565
>1 TW:W Level 1 AI agent
Why are they so rigged?

>>143989714
Because you only remember the times they succeeded.

>>143989565
>twenty good tw:w agents are unstopable, not even shirtless ramsey dual-wielding daggers, with 20 good men and with his best hounds could stop such a menace

>>143989542
not just pressing alt

Who's ready for battle of the powerchairs with greasus vs thorgrim

Is it quicker to level up agents in my army or by embedding them/doing actions

>Be me with all the other factions p much in a military alliance
>accidently declare war and everyone else declares on him too
>woops.png
>So I sign peace treaty
>everyone else STILL warred
>Hold on, I still have VERY good relationship with the person I accidently declared on because a turn didnt pass yet
>Become vassal is green as fuck

Well shit, do I just declare war on all the single factions and vassal them one by one

>>143989701
they mean to ask you are you a god

>>143989746
I know for a fact that my level 1 guys have never done shit

>>143989778
The quickest way is to do actions against enemy factions.

>>143989778
Actions by far

I thought killing the vampire lord leading an army made all of them start to crumble? I killed him and they're still going strong.

I don't know much about Warhammer it Total War, but will the skaven ever be a playable race? I like the idea of a million paper soldiers and scuzzy rat people with catapults that hurl disease

>>143989228
>Barman accidentally shortchanges dwarf by 1/64th of a penny
>Dwarfs kill barman, burn down bar, and also burn down altdorf just because

>>143989773
>not just pressing alt

what did he mean by this?

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>>143989678
>High elf Tyrion
i'm not bi enough for that
>and half elves are thing.

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>>143987098
is TWW easy to get into and learn as someone who has never played RTS games before? It looks cool but unit management and tech trees look intimidating

I want a game I can sink alot of time into and this seems like one

>>143990040
It takes a while before the binding breaks.

>>143990057
There's no thing like ratmen you retard, I bet you believe lizard people are real too lmao

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any way to get rid of some faggot I got by confederating a faction? just want to kick him out of my roster, army and this world but can't figure how other than send him to a suicide mission

>>143990040
Just speeds up the process

It's the same process as routing so it takes a while for it to happen

Isn't a Phyrric Victory for the Vampires still a victory?

>>143990207
Disband him like any other unit.

>>143990139
when you press alt and drag units around it keeps their formation

>>143990157
Shoot with your bowmen, kill their leader, flank with cavalry

That's pretty much it, I don't like RTS but it's fine. And most tech trees just come down to picking which unit you want to be better

>>143990207
mouse over him and select disband

>>143989641
>Endless adventure literally on your doorstep.
I like the way you think.

>>143990207
Empty all his army then you can click and disband him like a normal unit.

>>143990356
THAT'S FUCKING IT, I HAD TO EMPTY HIS ARMY FIRST, thanks anon.

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>>143988923
Is that undead dragon related to Jay Leno?

>>143990323
aw jesus

>>143990326
>Gives advice that literally can't be followed by 60% of the factions in the game
Kek

>>143988947
Yeah, I could buy a key for like 43-45 dollars(plus the 27% tax if I want to be a good goy, I mean nobody pays it but it's a funny sidenote), or I can buy the metal box version for 50. Which sounds better for you?
>>143989170
Yeah, living in the country with the highest tax rates worldwide, with the usual wage being 400-500 dollars pretty much sucks.
>omg le warez u r a cheap retard if u warez lol X-DDDD ruining le gaym industriiez

>>143990429
wow you are retarded

>>143990467
well for dwarfs you don't need to flank as your bowmen kill them all and for vamps you don't need bowmen as you have loads of zombies to soak up damage

Also 2/5 is not 60% dipshit

>Get to the point where it's clear I'll never be wiped out and my victory is only a matter of time
>Lose all motivation to keep playing

It doesn't even take long. Normally by turn 70 it's clear that I'm going to win, and I can't be bothered playing Benny Hill with four/five separate Chaos Stacks.

Which is a shame, because I never really get to play around with the high-end units. Greatswords seem fucking insane from what I've seen. Like, two to three times better than swordsmen/spearmen.

>>143990157
depends on army size. If you play with a couple of units it pretty much boils down to basic understanding of flanking tactics and when to pull your ranged units back. But as soon as you get into larger battles you are going to have skirmish units that need to be micro-managed while your main infantry holds the line on one or two fronts. And then you have to manage your cavalry and break up enemy unit formations etc.

>>143990157
I'm sure you'll do just fine. The campaign teaches you the stuff about tech trees and shit. Just make sure to have fun

>>143990180
; ;

>>143989641
Used car salesman detected.

>>143990431
oh shit lol'd

>>143990589
Its time for MP

first to assassinate the other guy wins

>>143990582
>>143990326
>>143990596
thanks, I'll buy it then

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>tfw my campaign would be perfect if not for this one region held by Bretonnia
>I'm allied with them and they already confederated with pretty much all the frogs and got rid of the french vampires
>I managed to get a long victory at the same time I killed chaos

Should I commit sudoku?

Why are vampires so bald?

>>143990582
Chaos don't have bowmen either dipshit.

(Marauderererer horsemen don't have the range.)

>>143990057
yes.

>>143990157
>unit management
You can pause the game at any point to give new orders.

>>143990638
I never don't have fun with vidya anon

except for horror games, also space engineers, that game makes me want to kill myself

>>143990834
I use them as sort of pseudo bowmen, weakening units whilst I pull them away from the main army

>>143990834
>>143990582
shut up dipshits

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How's my generalized VC army setup? I might trade some stuff for a Black Coach and Terrorgheist later. Maybe Varghulf, but I'm honestly not too big a fan of them.

How do you guys deal with massive battles with like 40 units?

I've been trying to do it real time, but it's been going kind of eh. I normally win, but fights that should be over relatively painlessly become slugfests because I'm not 100% on time with everything that's going on and units waste time standing about not attacking.

Up to about 20 units I'm fine, but once that unit bar starts compressing, it becomes a pain.

Sell me this game /vg/.

I bought this game yesterday but got a refund on it and bought naruto shippuden ultimate ninja storm 4 instead but now I think I might actually want to play this.

Can you build up your own kingdom or w/e? Or is all there is to do in this game is fight and game over like star craft. I don't play RTS games at all but I really want to get into the genre. Should I rebuy this game?

>>143990821
Because vamps are dead so nothing grows

>>143991042
It's honestly worth keeping some zombies around to soak up archer fire

Do that and you can all greatsword grave guard

>>143990207
open the equipment window and click the boot icon

>>143991045
I don't. I avoid them like the plague, or autoresolve. Fuck. That. Shit. 20 feels just right. More than that and i'll have to pause the game, and fuck pausing too. Just fuck in general.

>>143991151
Zombies are so damn slow though, I tend to get rid of them asap in favor of skeleton warriors and spearmen.

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>>143987994
>Bought it off G2A
>Only paid 47
>Still got Chaos DLC

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>When you're besieging a dirty Orc fortress and their low fightiness kicks in

>>143991086
buy the game then climb up a tall building and jump off it

>>143991042
get rid of the sword and shield guys they are not really worth it, just take more greatweapon graveguards

>>143989386
>Night time best time
>Adventure everywhere
>Getting sucked by hot vamp chicks who will probably want to do other things too
>Get to spend the rest of your unnatural life fighting

Sounds perfect sign me up

>>143988613
rollin

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Bretonnia when?

>>143990793
Yes. How the fuck did they manage to get a piece of Middenland?

>>143991042
The grave guard with shields aren't worth it, shields are only anti-missile in TWWH and the 2h units have way more armour

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Think I am going to try to be diplomatic this time around.

>>143991226

You don't really have a choice when assaulting cities early on though. The AI loves stacking 20 units on top of a garrison of 5+, and you aren't winning a siege with numeric inferiority as the attacker without units vastly superior to what they've got.

>>143991475
There's no block chance or anything for close combat? Really?

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>>143991086
You chose between 4 factions and from there you build your kingdom / empire, or just do whatever on a world map. This includes picking buildings for cities and making armies and stuff. There's also custom battles and mutliplayer ofc.

If you like large fantasy battles i don't know of a better game.

Jesus christ is anybody watching that Legend of Total War stream right now? Somebody recommended he do a quick match and now he is sitting in a 2vs2 on small unit scale, playing as Bretonnia while the enemies has ALL steam tanks cause they obviously can't be less than 1 anyways.

>>143991460

Not until they get polished. Right now they're shit at everything but cav and they don't even have the best cav.

>>143991086
actually just decide for yourself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgAFu5kT3-I

>>143991470

They were at war with middenland, just before the turn we confederated they took that town and I didn't notice

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Smash Da Immortulz so I don't have to be afraid of the mountains anymore, or conquer Border Princes to expand my territory and take my econ out of the shitter?

Karl is my tsun tsun best friend, so that's not an option.

>>143991716

Why the fuck didn't you declare war on them to get it back. You have map cancer.

>Never played a Total War game
>Decide to just jump into the Warhammer one
>Dorfs labeled as easy
>No clue what the hell is going on. Just clicking random buttons
>"Skirmish mode will move your ranged units back automatically. Vulnerable to Calvary charges"
>Sounds good. I don't see any horses
>Move crossbows way out front
>Fucking wolves come charging in
>Shitshitshit
>Lose tons of crossbows, they panic and flee
>You're being flanked!
>What? Where the fuck did these giant green fucks come from?
>STOP DYING YOU COWARDS
>Are those fucking helicopters? What the fuck am I even playing? Can I just have an army of Apache choppers?
>Eventually route enemy army
>Close Victory
>Grudge complete
>You found a magic rock

Holy shit this is fun

The first battle let me use some leader abilities. They were just icons next to his portrait when I had him selected. It hasn't shown up since though. How do I get them back?

>>143991151

Have a 19 zombie stack follow you around.

>>143991854
You level the Lord and pick the abilities. You played the introduction which is just giving you a taste of what is going to happen.

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>It's a "Heir corner camps or noob boxes" episode

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>>143988613
Holy shit, is that map fucking serious? And I AM the defender? It's like a perfect Davi shooting gallery.

>>143991704
>that voice
>that sex analogy
>nasal everywhere


what.the.fuck

>>143991854
Skirmish mode is shit unless it's a really fast unit. Dorfs don't have many fast units

>>143991854
10/ten greentext anon, had me laughing. Not sure about the icon things though, i only play Vampires. Maybe you accidentally removed an item from him?

>>143990793
Declare war on them and faceroll the posh cunts using superior Reikland steel!

>>143992091
watch out anon they've got mans coming in behind you

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>>143992091

Fuck man, how to deal with cavalry as dwarves

>>143992136
when the reviewer don't give a fucking fuck, anon

>>143992314
Kill them before they get close

>>143992091
moonrunes! rusky! begone!@

>>143992239
Someone should put Grimgors face on the middle guy, and goblins on the rest of them. When_the_Waaagh_is_just_right.webm

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>>143992314
>playing with vamps
>mfw enemy missile cav

And the AI is so good with them now, it outruns everything I have and keeps kiting. I just have to ignore them and break the rest of the army, hoping their morale just breaks eventually.

>>143991086
you should kill yourself

i work for steam and im suspending your refund privileges for abuse

herlp me I'm too scared to open up my campaign

>tfw chronic restart disease

one slight fucking wrong move and BAM I have to restart

>>143992239
damn that female is kinda hot

fucking russians

>>143992579
I think the ai leaves all missile units on skirmish mode. It's real easy to cheese a few units away from a battlefield if you had something armored enough to not get killed form the arrows

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Guys, I really need advice. What are you using for your Empire armies? I am honestly getting overwhelmed a bit. There are so many different units that I don't know which ones to take. Especially since army size is so limited what with your general + any heroes in your army taking up slots. Are spearmen/halberds better than swordsmen for frontline fighting? It says they are anti large so does that mean they wont be good against regular guys? What about artillary and cavalry? I honestly don't know what to put in my armies.

Post pics of your winning army compositions!

>>143992091
>Played that map for the first time yesterday
>Be defender against Dwarfs
>Dwarfs sit on hill
>No withdraw button
>Forced to make the charge even though im the defender
What is this shit
Its like the enemy never makes the attack anymore

>>143992832
Franz,
Bright Wiz,
Greatswords x 5,
Crossbows x 5,
Demigryph Halbird x 4
Steam Tank x 4

>>143992630
XCOM helped me through it. Even if everything looks from and it looks like there's no chance of victory, force yourself to keep playing that file. The mist exciting play throughs of games I've ever had were ones where shit gets fucked yet you power through. Feels good man.

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>random event on turn 5
>witch hunter recruited
don't mind if I do

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Does Leadership do anything for vampire counts?

Don't know what to get for my Mannfred as speccing him into a duelist seems counter productive with all the "he dies - army dies" stuff. He seems pretty useful in the backrow with his heals and that strong nuke but the rest of his spells seem kinda lackluster.

Leadership tree worth it?

>>143987386
>still being poorer than even the poorest shithole in the Empire
>regular famines because the soil is shit for farming and the weaher even worse
>whole place is so full of gribblies and zombies awakened by latent dark magic that evey home has to be built zombie-proof just to make everyday life survivable
>vamps will randomly kill you just to show the other peasants who's boss
>vamps will randomly kill you because they need more bodies
>vamps will randomly kill you just because it's amusing to them

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>>143991489
why is this so much fun against other counts

>>143992579
use wolves

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>What are you trying to tell me Franz? That I can dodge Undead?

>No, General. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

>>143993074
Mannfred won't die if you spec him full close combat.

He will make other things die.

>>143992929
Make sure bring at least one arty unit. Without them the ai just sits on it's ass

>>143987295
you left out the part where they get through without routing and shove the cannonballs into the crews asses.

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what difficulty is the most fun to you in campaign mode?

>>143989386
You've gotta be kidding me!

>permanent darkness
no sun = no food for humans = no humans = no food for vampires = no vampires (sure, they could hunt abroad - but what the fuck for?)

>blood tax
Now payable in murderers, robbers, rapists and pedofiles - and they get to go just as a hot chick is sucking on them! Man, talk about the ultimate death penalty huh?

>literally can't go outside of your village/town just like in Bretonnia, not because of a law, but because there are undead easts/ghouls/spooky ghosts everywhere.
Yeah, well - what can I tell you - some Curfews are tougher than others - live with it.

>infertile land
again - see eternal darkness above.

>you will be a slave even after death
Dude - you'll be dead. I seriously doubt you'll be giving a fuck about a collection of bones that once upon a life belonged to you - get over it.

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>>143992832
Steamtanks. Just steamtanks.

Chaos will come to know the horror of mechanized warfare.

>https://youtu.be/lmVCoTfsL7c?t=1m37s

>>143992832
At low turn Empire ive been using 4 sword, 4 spear, 2 halberd, 3 ranged, 3 cav, and the Lord.
The Spears and Halberds I put in the frontline to take the enemy's charge. The swordsman are in the second line to move around and flank after the charge has already happened (or alternatively if things arent going well in the front to reinforce). The ranged are screens and can also flank, and the cav are for their cav, or to run down ranged units.
Thats my basic composition, havent lost any major battlees yet.

>>143993263
Legendary d'uh

>>143992832

Early game, you want spearmen and crossbowmen.

Swordsmen are shit, and not worth the price. They're a bit better than spearmen 1v1, but not as flexible and about 25% more expensive. Take 1-3 units of Swordsmen in an army for flank charges, which they do well.

The thing is, the early game Empire melee units are shit. They lose 1v1 to almost any other factions started melee units. People moan about Greatswords, and they are very good, but you won't see any for 50 turns.

What you really want is Crossbowmen. Friendly Fire isn't a huge issue in this game, and units will outright refuse to fire if the risk of Friendly Fire is too high for a certain angle.

You basically want 5-10 units of spearmen as your front line, 2 units of swordsmen for flank attacks, and 3-infinite crossbowmen.

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>>143993263
Your Emperor demands sauce.

>>143993263
Very Hard

Doo doom divers work well against towers and walls?

>>143992832
it depends on who you're fighthing

>>143992091
This map is actually fucking dogshit because your cannons dont get an angle into that fucking pit.

>>143989714
There's modifiers in the data tables that give them an edge.

How many workshop favourites do you think I could get if I changed it?

>>143993263
Source? Also hard. Mode that is

>>143993263
Very hard right now.
souce

wait, did you plan this? Did you set us up for multiple puns?

>>143993020
>>143993341

>end game units

Empire is only difficult for the first fifteen turns. Once you get past the initial dual orc raid and unite Reikland, they're in a very solid position.

>>143993565
For some reason.

>>143993263
legendary, no pausing and no save scumming, I have enough willpower to avoid savescumming, but I just cant stop using pause on lower difficulties

>>143992832
late game: 1 general, 1 bright/metal wizard, 1 captain/witchdoctor + 4 demigryph halberds, 6 greatswords, 3 halberdiers, 4 crossbows

Nvidia drivers when?

>>143993341

Quick!
Somebody make a Panzer Vor! video starring Steamtanks!

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>>143993341

Did someone say... PANZER?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiFy9FjuF9Q

>>143993612
>>143993681
>>143993548
do you guys turn down battle difficulty to normal after starting it on very hard or do you allow the AI to cheat in battles as well?

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>fighting Top-Knots savage arrow boys spam as Dwarves

Fucking end me

>>143993741
No Artillery OR Tanks. See me after class, this college of grand strategy and understanding of tactics won't have students like yourself.

Are Greatswords needed against mostly unarmoured Greenskins?

>>143992832

If this is campaign, then early game Spearmen and Crossbowmen should be your mainstay. Lategame, you want Demigryphs and Greatswords.

For the early Empire campaign, diplomacy is key. You can make a defensive pacts/trade deals/non aggression pacts early on, then focus on dealing with other shit. I think Talacbeland can normally be made a defensive ally on the spot, unless they've got the distrustful of Imperials trait.

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>>143993957

>Are Greatswords needed

What do you think?

>>143991086
thanks for the laff m8 I needed that today

>>143993957
Yes, they're anti-infantry so they shred them.

Greatswords are needed against everything, they're easily the most cost effective Empire unit.

>>143993957
You don't have better infantry so pretty much yes.

>>143994026
>being gay

I sure am glad there's a dismounted reiksguard mod

>>143993957

Against greenskins, you take Greatswords or Crossbows.

Their melee units are better than yours. Basically everything up to Halberdiers will lose 1v1 to basic boyz. Your ranged is much better though.

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>>143991086

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>>143994117

>dismounted reiksguard
>dismounted

Fucking plebs. I bet you use guns too.

>>143988613
Rolering

>>143993940

Ironbreakers as soon as you can get them.

Until then, quarrelers.

Basically every faction that has them should spam ranged units for early game. They dominate, because armor is so rare early on.

>>143994197
there's a mod for reiksguard handgunners too

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>tfw Kemmler doesn't start with Krell so you have to make your own

>>143994136
Orc units are actually fucking terrible, their infantry is nothing special, their archers are total crap and their cav is either slow or hits like a wet noodle.

The only good orc units are Grimgor, the spider and the doom diver.

>THIS ACTION DOES NOT HAVE MY CONSENT?

What did he mean by this? Is he being raped?

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>>143993538
Don't know where it is from, but I do have this one.

Please halp

I can't finish my dorf campaign because I can't clear a grudge for which I have to raid a region that isn't colonized by anyone anymore.

Any way to clear it anyway or any cheat to clear all grudges?

>>143994197
But anon, dismounted Reiksguard is entirely canon. I am suprised it is not availble in the core game. They are meant to be the elite infantry of the Empire, aswell as the elite mounted troops.

>>143994461
White men can't be raped idiot.

>>143994378

>their infantry is nothing special

Neither is the Empire's. In fact, barring VC's, they might have the worst starting melee infantry.

Crossbowmen are great though.

>>143994524
You can still raid it can't you? You just get 0 gold if there's no settlement there.

How this somehow counts as revenge in the minds of the dwarfs, I don't know.

>>143993957
They're lawnmowers in offense, but more importantly their armor is so high they can be justified anywhere

>>143988613
hi

>>143988923
That's something that can happen randoly with any mount, I think. I had a Reiksguard warhorse and a demigryph stare into the screen like that, too.

>>143994641
Nah, you only get the option to "Do nothing"

>>143993976
>>143993741
>>143993530


So apparently I should just ignore swordsman and go with spears.

What about the difference between halberds and spears? Are halberds essentially just high level spear units? I mean, once I get the ability ot recruit them, should I just go halberds and ignore spears?

>desperate for some unit mods
>only one that adds a significant amount is radious
>he only adds units to the two factions I don't want to play
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>143993263
seconding for sauce

>>143994635
The Empire early infantry routs almost immediately, faster than Goblins do.

It's a shame so many units are fucking useless in this game.

Any good mods out besides more starting locations?

>>143994773

Halberdiers are basically Spear+, yes.

Depending on your economy, it can be worth the upgrade. Generally though, any spot that a Halberdier can fill, a Greatsword can fill better.

>>143994769
Anon raiding is an army stance, not an option when assaulting a city.

>>143994930
>>143994641
Oh I see, I'm gonna try that later. Thanks guys.

>get a WAAGH going early
>it wins the game for me
Okay

Also the AI is crap at autoresolving gobbo fights, I keep getting sub 40% chance for easy stomps

>>143994773
Similar to Spears but they're also effective against armor so they're overall better in more situations.

Way more expensive for that flexibility though

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From Rome 2 through Warhammer Total War, are these games more gpu or cpu intensive?

playing WH gave me the itch for Rome2 again

Im clearing my modlist, give me your best suggestions.

>>143992091
>intercept dwarfs in the underway somehow as vamps
>I start at the bottom of a hill
>they start at the top and just sit there

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>>143995091
Radious

What mods are the best to make battles better in Napoleon and Shogun 2?

>>143994773
Halberdiers actually have a chance of killing things with armor, unlike spearmen.

But Greatswords do that better.

Note that Greatswords are so good, they're actually anti-cav. Charge a unit of Reiksguard into a unit of the Greatswords, and the Greatswords will usually win.

>>143994801
the fuck you on about there's like 4

I saw someone playing Bretons earlier. is that on the workshop or TW center? Do quests work?

>>143995165
what in the everliving fuck

>>143995172

Dunno about napoleon but for shogun 2 I guess Trom3 although it's outdated

>>143991653
Steam tanks and assorted single-model units have their hitpoints scaled with unit size.

>>143995025
>hat late
gPU

(you)

Are there any like tactics guides for shit warhammer players or for general total war games etc?

>>143995325

All halberds in the game have an hidden stat with longer interval between attacks, I think it's 5.4 when every other weapon is 3.2.

So stats might be deceiving

>>143995414
it's not a total war game. it's that horribly buggy modern american civil war game.

>>143995329
Workshop. No quests, the tech tree's screwed up, and some buildings don't do anything (tier 3 barracks for example). But they're playable, as are all the minor bret factions if you prefer that swag bordaleux colour scheme.

>>143995165
You talk shit, but those armored guys look bad ass.
What is that even? I don't think it's radius as far as I know

>you can punch down the fucking gate to cities

Seriously?

Why do I even bother with fucking siege equipment.

I can just run Karl up to the front door and beat it with his hammer until it breaks.

Can anyone comment or opine about the usefulness of empire's pistolier unit (or handgunners or whatevery they are called), along with the mounted version (outriders)? Are they good, totally useless, or what?

I can't seem to get a kill with outriders (the one with grenade launcher fares MUCH better) and the pistoliers won't fire with another unit in front of them (obviously), unlike crossbowmen.

Are they just totally useless or I just dont know how to use them?

>>143993839
No that's for shitters. Game is already easy anyways. fucken source me senpai

>>143995626
Neat. I'll hold off for now then, I can wait

>>143995709

Set them in skirmish mode and give them an attack order while the enemy is closing in

>>143995578

There's also no mention of spearmen getting a bonus against cav like in every other total war game, but I'm pretty sure they do. The way the AI always tries to intercept cav charges with spearmen is suspicious.

When is a tombkings mod getting released?

what do you guys think of the "being able to conquer everything" mod? I am just finishing up my campaign as dorfs, and honestly it is a little crazy.

>play VC
>get a comfy kingdom, prep up for Chaos as they arrive
>Archaon attacks my first army
>5 chaos giants
>realise I don't have much anti large and no missiles
>h-here I go
>wipes the floor with my army
Sooo is that it? I'm done? I tried it several times and there's nothing I can do to kill that many giants

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>>143995982
>5 chaos giants
>against VC's
I don't even know how you would ever handle that shit along with the gorillion chosen and chaos knights

>>143995423
Does that affect battles? I thought it was mostly a campaign mod?

>>143995982
Quite simply, its time for

F A B I A N T A C T I C S
A
B
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T
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>>143991654
Straight up cavalry charges into the centre of the enemy is still fun though.

POST TRADING CARD REWARDS YOU SHITS

>>143993263
>>143994478

Dude c'mon ;-;

>>143996145
BJARKE BJÄRKE SPURDO

>The final chaos invasion has quadruple the number of stacks but no way of replenishing it's units

Yay or nay? I kinda feel that the final invasion should feel more apocalyptic, not like another normal prolonged war.

>>143995781
Does that help or are they still a waste of space in a unit? The gunner cavs (and nade launcher) are much better and useful because of the vanguard deployment and that they're cav, but can't say the same for the pistoliers.

I'll try this tactic later though, might only be useful against early units, no? Definitely no large units or other cavs.

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All Steam Tank is the new meta.

>>143996193
I haven't had a card drop yet. Is this because I refused to give Gabe my phone number?

>>143996145
I lost a game yesterday because the faggots i was playing built an army of only calvalry and fliers.

Alexander didnt have to deal with any fucking fliers.

Reading Sun Tzu did not prep me for this.

I cant beat them.

Does anyone have a list of all the special traits legendary lords get? For example Kimmler gets bonus magic then later get +9 damage to bats and hounds. Would be ncie to know these things to specialize their armies.

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>>143993341
Giants fuck them up pretty badly.

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nth for panzer commander

>>143995816

There is, it's literally spelled out twice, anti large and when you mouse over weapon damage

What is Kemmler good for? Is he the most useless LL in the game?

>>143996628

Doesn't Anti-Large only apply to things like Varghulfs or dragons?

>>143989641
Would they get mad if you just started jerkin it right then and there while they are collecting your blood?

What should I focus on when leveling Mannfred? So far I maxed out Spirit Leech and the unit that summons skelly warriors as well as 10% movement on campaign.

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>>143994801
>Black Arrer Orcs
the meme magic is real

>>143996789
Anti-Large includes all cavalry you dip. It even says horse sized or larger.

>>143996889
so it counters my dick?

What's up with all the missions that are physically impossible to complete?
Like I just got asked to assassinate a specific rank 1 agent. My rank 5 agent has a 26% chance of success and fails everytime. And I got only 6 turns to do it, with the enemy agent running away constantly.
I also got a mission telling me to go defeat a specific dwarf lord in combat. Except that lord is currently sitting in a town which is under siege by my only ally and I got only 3 turns remaining.
This game could have been so great but instead it's just extremely frustrating for many reasons.
Also

>>143996962
I got a mission to assassinate Archaon. Just a complete waste of a mission.

>>143994801
I made custome units for rome 2, it is easy as fuck. You just write which animations and models to use then change the stat numbers.

>>143996225
The silly name of the Chaos Sorcerer-Lord of Metal really lessens the glory of my Grail Knight's charge.

>>143996145
>Bjarke Bjerke

BRAISE GHORNE :DDDDD

>>143996962
They didn't playtest the campaign properly

There is also a bug where the campaign just freezes and you can't move units, save or end the turn because it is all greyed out

>>143996808
I guess that's like asking if it'd be weird if you started jerking off on your landlord when paying for your housing.

>>143996889

Dunno why I didn't see that.

>>143993948
artilery is shit for scrubs

>>143996962
I'm just waiting for some balance so I can play this shit online.

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>Watching Arch's lets play
>Adblock enabled of course
>He's using Radious
>Solid 20fps
>Doing the worst Orc voice imaginable
>Had to stop watching after four minutes
I'm still not entirely sure how to react to it.

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>Don't mind us, just maintaining 5 doomstacks with 2 settlements and an income of 1k gold
>Oh and by the way, we're constantly pumping out new units we don't have tech for :^)

Why the fuck is this allowed?

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>>143997212

>BLACK ARRER ORCS

>>143997114
Spurdo Chaos God when

>>143997212
>guy complains about optimization and performance because he's a "critic"
>doesn't have a computer that can run anything above low/medium
He's in a class of his own.

>>143987386
People in Sylvania have it worse than in any other imperial province. Not just because the ghouls/ghosts/zombies/vampires/necromancers/wolves/bats/trees and whatnot would be happy to eat them alive, and also not simply because of the taxes that their liege lords actually do make them pay, but also because the very land itself is complete shit. The people in Sylvania are scraping by with less than even the average Bretonnian peasant does. A major reason as to why there are so many ghouls in Sylvania is because some famished peasants will take to eating human flesh rather than die of starvation like so many others are at peril of doing.

>>143993948

>artillery

A unit of greatswords will kill more, and won't be vulnerable to charges.

>>143995678
Karl Franz's hammer is the most powerful weapon in warhammer. It hits harder than monsters and some artillery in TT

>>143997212
WHy would anyone watch any videos made by that Total Biscuit impersonating multi-autist

>>143997336

There must be a good reason to have Arty then because otherwise why would the devs even be assed to put them into the game or make their models?

>>143997386
Is Karl Franz the Emperor of Mankind in Warhammer?

>>143997386

Yeah, and that's cool.

Greatswords can also hack down the wall.

>>143997479
yes

>>143997479
his coronation is in the opening cinematic.

>>143997202
Honestly I'm done with the game for now. I really hope they won't monetize the balance updates through some form of DLC bundled with the new factions. Because I don't want to give them more money than I already did for an unfinished game.

>>143997479

He is when he fuses with Sigmar in Warhammer Z

>>143997464

Because they look cool. They also force the AI to come to you if they don't have artillery, which is actually pretty good.

>>143997464
Because arty counters slow units. If you can defend it, it can be absolutely devastating in longer fights.

It's also great in sieges, since you won't need to wait for a battering ram to slowly get to and break the gates.

>>143997594

Someone will fall for this I'm sure.

>>143997464
>There must be a good reason to have Arty
Enjoy charging to the enemy instead of letting them come to you and your cannons whittling away units before getting massacred.

>>143997689

>battering ram

Have a hero run up to the door and start hitting it.

If he doesn't break it before the ram gets there, the ram will probably break it on the first hit.

Artillery also isn't good, because the towers are fucking memes and basically free, accurate artillery for the defenders.

I love the diplomacy lines in this game. Greenskins have the best insults

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I'll be invading chaos with these stacks of budget armies.

>>143997251
Welcome to Total War. The AI does a disgusting amount of cheating in every game.

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THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN
THERE'S NO TELLING WHAT HE WILL DO NEXT
WHO WILL STOP HIS MINDLESS RAMPAGE?

>>143997751
Fall for what? I wasn't baiting family.

>>143992579
You have dogs and bats to resolve those problems

>>143997867
>The AI "cheats"

Can you just fucking end yourself already