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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaS3vaNUYgs

Genevieve Dieudonné legendary hero when?

What was the worst cavalry charge in all of history?

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>>148369184
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP6oWExnoRQ

Eire's back baby

What's the best Empire lineup endgame?

I've been running:

2 Spearmen with Shields
4 Greatswords
2 Crossbowmen
6 Demigryphs
2 Steam Tanks
1 Luminark
2 Mortars
1 Karl

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Which is a more effective anvil for Vampire counts?

I was thinking Graveguards, but they're really expensive, and I'm getting outnumbered by Orcs.

Do Zombies make for an effective anvil while my Cavalry does the heavy lifting?

>>148369450
You don't really need the spearmen. Halberd demis can do their job better, as well as multiple other things. I'd replace them with two heroes. Nothing wrong with just filling up the slots when the rest of it can kill anything though.

>>148369802
Just do cairn wraiths and crypt horrors + nehek. You won't even need the cav.

>>148369290
the one that got gunned down by machine guns

>>148369802
The Skelly-Horror picture show has always been the best for VC. Now people run a few cairn wraiths a necro and the deathstar was born. Zambs are ok for being so disposable and take a while to die

Playing Rome 2.

Agains human players, how do I deal with superior numbers?

Playing as the Arverni.

Two oathsworn, Two noble horse, one noble spears, two chosen spears, three gallic hunters, three chosen swordmen and one celti youth.

>>148369863

I feel like I need a melee line to guard my artillery though.

My army differs quite a lot depending on who I'm fighting

When I'm marching to deal with Norsemen, I either go full Steam Tank and bulldoze march around Norsca or use three+ stacks of cheap infantry+mortars.

When I'm dealing with Dwarves, I bring more elite troops.

>>148370230
Your demis should be able to screen the arty well enough by themselves. One unit can tie up several of the enemy's, and so can a steam tank for that matter.

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Is it just me or do factions make much more armies now then before the patch? Bretonnia has like 6 atm and just look at these mad orcs.

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> Tomb Kings still not announced

>>148370154
MP guide to R2

You will never take high tier spears, they are worthless. Levy freeman are so damn cheap any kills you get on them (precursor javs) will pay for themselves and provide a screen against any cav (again javs). Spears are pretty trash for the most part.

Mid tier swords rule (rome, sword followers, chosen) the sword core will take up the biggest chunk of the army (supported by MLG Freeman). There will be a couple oathsworn

Rushes work best overall

Heavy horse will pay for itself better than noble but having 1 or 2 would be ok depending on funds.

Gallic hunters are trash and expensive, bring the slingers for skirmishing, freeman replace youths.

Some scout cav is good depending on your micro.

Less variety more abusing the well performing mid tier.

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any mention to bloodbowl in this game? just curious

>>148370758
I dunno man, my Gallic hunters always win skirmisher engagements.

Those are great tips all and all, but it involves expanding my army size due to cheaper units.

I was wondering, how would I deal with a larger force?

>>148370962
By ditching the expensive trash and implementing the over performing for cost freemand and mid tier swords you will have a larger army. You will trade cost effectively across your units.

Those expensive units you were running (noble spears, chosen spears, gallic hunters) are bleeding money from you for either sub optimal or no return.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0wXh9xOCWg

is a good talk on the units at the end and gamplay showing general ideas

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>try to play a chaos campaign
>can never get decent units because pop surplus is fucking with me
>thousands of doomstacks running around making me retreat every turn
>get cornered by 3 other chaos stacks with my first lord and he dies
>run along the coastline for about 8 turns with my other stack
>fucking emperor karl franz disembarks right along my path with another doomstack
>literally doesn't give a shit about greenskins and other chaos stacks sacking and razing his empire and decided to take his elite whoresons over the seas to fuck one particular chaos lord he's never seen before
>only have chaos marauders and other useless shit against his reiksguard and whatnot

tried to do that battle 5 times now always the same result, can't retreat anymore

>>148371631
>>148370758
I don't disagree with your advice. I get what you're saying.

I'm not thinking about unit picks, I'm thinking about tactics.

Rome II with DEI > Attila with Ancient Empires

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Tomorrow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds1ZsQAISeM

HYPE ALERT!!!

Are beastmen edible or will you be corrupted by chaos?

>>148370825

No. Blood bowl is an AU anyway.

>>148372889
SHIEEETTTT

>>148372889
wwwwwwwwwwwwwww

>>148372889
Well here they are

>>148369084
they really go deep into the lore don't they? I like it

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>>148369448
>>148369184

Fucking Catholics get off my island! REEEEE

>>148372889
Man, the trailers are always so fucking good

>>148372889

POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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>>148372889
WE WAIT NO LONGER

>>148372889
>28th of July
Oh boy, can't wait for two weeks of poo and rape shitposting

>>148372889
OH SHIT NIGGA

>>148371783
go for horde growth upgrades my man and raze shit. you'll have dragon ogres in no time

>>148372889
It's cool that they are using Middenland.

>>148372889
Where will the Beastmen be on the world map?

>>148372070
is AE out?

also I hope AE will implement some of DEI's mechanics. I really love the horde mechanic in attila so I want AE to be as good as DEI so I can play that

>>148373389
>Literal shitposting

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>>148372889
RAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>148372889

>Darkspeak
>Repeater guns

Hype.

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>>148372889
AW FUCKING YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!

>>148372889
KHAZRAK YEAHHHHHHHH

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>>148373615
everywhere

>>148372889
>that cygor

holy fuck, it's scary

>>148372889
IS THIS FUCKER SUPOSED TO BE MY HOMEBOY KHAZRAK THE ONE-EYE?

>>148372889
Darren?

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>>148372889

More inhumans to bring righteous fury against.

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>>148374462
Yep, he has no left eye.

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>>148372889
hype

Gonna be so awesome to get ambushed by beasti boys. Makes it more scary to send armies throughout the empire

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>>148374705
this desu.

>>148372889
>2 weeks
fucking

>>148372889
>speak in dark tongue
>goat eyes
>that fucking cygor popping from the wood
>those wild beasts sounds
>that raid on middenlanders


HOLY FUCK

HYPE

>CLICK PRE-ORDER
>CAN'T PRE-ORDER

WHY WONT YOU LET ME GIVE YOU MONEY CA?

Time to rape some elves with my goatmen.

>>148374771
>>148374462
>KHAZRAK THE ONE-EYE?
ok so that's 1. Who will be the other legendary lord?

>>148375026
Malagor, he was mentioned in the Markus Wulfhart teaser.

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>>148372889

>>148375026
Probably get 3 since all facs are heading that way

Malagor the Crowfather, already referenced in the Monday teaser

Taurox the Brass Bull, the meanest motherfucker in the old world

>>148375026
malagor, flying wizard

taurox, as mendotary "big guy LL"

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>>148372889
>mfw more ugly shits to kill and raise

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Noice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds1ZsQAISeM

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>>148374902

Tactical as fuck.

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>that blured, giant Cygor being near the imperial as he tries to hide from it

this was legitimately scary

>>148375541
Can't they only see magic? He could have stood right in front of it and it wouldn't have seen him.

Are they ever going to fix AI sieges?

I've played multiple 150+ turn campaigns and not a SINGLE time have the AI actually initiated a siege battle against me.

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>>148374771
>big paldron
>one eye
>chainmail
>same sword
>bunch of shit on his belt

I can't believe CA made him better than his model

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>>148372889
>Beastmen cannot speak mortal tongue only a slow version of dark tongue

>CA pulled it off perfectly

what the fuck hype train

>>148375749
Is sword in the trailer is covered in runes and shit too.

>>148375737
Just capture marienburg as the empire and move your armies east. The Norse shits will be there right away with four armies of horse marauders

>>148375093
>>148375187
>>148375310
cool! who will be the faction leader?

>>148375985
Khazrak most likely, he leads the Brayherds of the Drakwald (Largest concentration of Beastmen in the Empire), plus he's the guy in the trailer.

He's basically the Grimgor of the Beastmen.

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>>148375985
The Beastmen leader more profound than Khazrak was Gorthor but he perished in the Siege of Hergig. Khazrak will be the faction leader.


Also the dude that gets the trailer spot is usually the leader.

>>148375984
I've had the situation you're describing, but they never, ever actually initiate a siege fight where I'm defending my walls.

Every single AI faction will just siege up and try to wait it out, always.

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>tfw no unit banners for your bestigors to go berserk over and shit on

Put in banners already CA fuck

>>148376390
They siege for a lot of turns and then attack with many towers in my empire save.

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>>148353585
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
ENOUGH OF THIS FUCKING SHIT! THE SONG IS CALLED FORTUNATE SON.

>>148375702
you think some random captain knows that or even remembers such details as he's scared to death during an ambush?

>>148376670
>he unironically listens to it ain't me

Units confirmed so far by the trailer

Khazrak (LL)
Wargor ( the big dude getting smashed by the gun)
Bray-Shaman (the voice during the battle)
Gor
Ungor
Bestigor
Razorgor
Cygor

>>148372889
>Furry faction before Bretonnia

Hammer n' hammer tactics when?

>>148376052
>>148376231
I'm fucking hyped guys!

>>148376670
meant for
>>148353664

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>>148376670
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Beda3kFNjo

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>least popular of the armies that can appear on the current map is the first major DLC

come on CA

>Beastmen fully added before Bretonnia
How will they ever recover?

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>>148377002
Beastieboys should have been in the base game, playing as empire and not getting to slaughter them just feels wrong.

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Can't wait to ram Boris in the nuts and shit on his face.

>Driving threw the forest shooting beastmen shits while sitting atop a steam tank
>I aint no fortunate one starts playing.

>>148377002
>>least popular of the armies
that means most popular to fgight against. Brilliant move by CA desu. My empire campaign just got a lot ore interestig. Gonna obliterate beast shits with my cannons and gunpowder and other civilized weapons

>beastman before bretonnia

I was NOT expecting this

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2 weeks Todbringer

>28th of july

BUT IM MOVING OUT THEN REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>148377478
WFRP2e is so damn good.

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POOPOSTING TIME

>>148377002

Yeah no shit. The least popular armies will be DLC, the most popular will be saved for the expansions.

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>tfw game crashes right after a battle

At least those Rohan weaklings are easy to kill

>>148377451
>expecting Bretonnia this soon after release

>Alongside the Call of the Beastmen Campaign Pack, another free content update will introduce a brand new Lore of Magic and an accompanying Hero unit for The Empire. Perhaps the most rarely seen of all Wizards, the solitary Amber Wizards are no less powerful than their more prevalent counterparts. Wielding the deadly Lore of Beasts they are able to perform unique feats of magical power, from enchanting their allies with impenetrable pelts to summoning a manticore from the bowels of the earth.


https://mmohuts.com/video/total-war-warhammer-call-beastmen-trailer/

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>>148377880

>>148377869

They're practically done though.

>>148377869
>bretonnia is already half finished and it shares the same skeletons as empire

Why would someone expect something other than bretonnia?

>>148369450
>no handgunners

I always have 4 units of them. Once you research some technologies that give them damage buffs and faster reload times they pretty much become machine gun teams that take down monsters and lords before they even reach my line.

>Middenheim now has to deal with Beastmen and Savage Orcs

Y'know, I feel sort of bad for Boris. 90% of the time, the early game fucks him up as is.

>>148377880
>Call of the Beastmen, the first Campaign Pack for Total War: WARHAMMER, introduces the Beastmen as a new playable race and further expands the game with a brand new Story Campaign. A feral, Chaos-tainted horde race, they move like a plague across The Old World, wielding the deadly Lore of the Wild and fielding half-human aberrations and colossal beasts in battle. The Beastmen are playable in the Grand Campaign, custom and multiplayer battles, and in their very own custom Story Campaign, ‘An Eye for an Eye’.

IT'S NOT A RACE PACK

IT'S A CAMPAIGN PACK

>With a uniquely aggressive horde-style campaign game, the Beastmen are masters of unconventional warfare both on and off the battlefield. They feature an array of unique gameplay mechanics, including the ability to travel through overgrown Beastpaths to outmanoeuvre unsuspecting foes and, through a dark bond with Morrslieb, the Chaos Moon, perform twisted acts of faith to gain its favour.

GET HYPED

>>148377880

>Another useless wizard
Thanks CA, but I think you should fix magic first

>>148377880
BRETONNIA FREELC FUCKING WHEN CA FUCKING SHITS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also which factions use amber wizards?

>>148377880
>Beastmen are playable in both Grand Campaign and get their own story campaign

Thank god everyone will be happy, I can wait 2 weeks for that at least.

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>>148377880
I GOT A GOOD FEELING ABOUT THIS

>>148378149
>Campaign pack
So it's confirmed for costing 14.99, like the packs for Rome and Attila?

I guess they will add both bretonnia and empire beastmen packs

God empire campaign just got harder

>>148378343
I mean Bretons are pretty easy to live with.

But the beastmen will give early game empire something to do at least.

>>148378016
They are partially done.

>>148378020
It isn't about effort required anon. There is an agenda behind releasing FreeLC and releasing the biggest, most desirable of it right away makes zero sense.

>Middenland will now disappear even faster

Poor boris

>>148378249
Close to the end of the year.

Empire, though beastmen shamans use the same lore.

>>148378270
>An Eye for An Eye
Todbringer vs Khazrak campaign confirmed?

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>>148377394
literally LITERALLY can't wait for Beastmen genocide

>>148378270
>Forests
>Undetectable

CA pls fix Norsca abusing force march first before you sick another broken hit-and-run chaos faction for the Empire players to deal with.

>To the north, Boris Todbringer of Middenheim - a bitter rival in the recent election - is openly hostile. You may need to bail him out before turn 5, lest he get murderfucked by Savage Orcs and Beastmen. Plan for this eventuality.

>>148378708
That is pretty obvious from the title

>>148378149
>through a dark bond with Morrslieb, the Chaos Moon, perform twisted acts of faith to gain its favour.
is Morslieb a chaos god? I just thought it was a moon the vamps worshiped

>>148379028
Vampires worship Nagash

>>148378565
Not really Beastmen do have access to Lore of Beasts but their specialty is Lore of the Wild. Can also use shadow and death.

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>That short buildup to the ambush
>Those Beastmen voices and animations
>Razorgors confirmed
>That Cygor coming out from the trees
>Khazrak backhanding and headbutting the Empire general
>That cool as fuck horn blast
I don't even play Beastmen and I'm still fully hyped.

>>148378553
s-send armies to help him for gods sake!

>>148379028

Morrslieb is made entirely of warpstone. Warpstone is literally solidified chaos energy. It's an evil omen.

>>148379028
It's one of the two moons of the old world that is made entirely out of warp stone.

>>148378993
Kek
Middenland will get besieged by orcs, marienburg and rapists

Seriously Middenland will get razed by turn 30 and it will be a pain in the ass to rebuild it and fight archaon the everfucker while you have rapists in the heart of empire

The empire campaign just got a lot more interesting

>the Empire now gets to purge even more savages

Nice.

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Got TW warhammer for free buying an r9 390.

Feel pretty cucked having to buy blood and chaos, but I'm pretty hype to play it finally.

How should I run the campaign? I'm thinking on hard and without any saves. In previous games, I would always backtrack if I made a mistake, and it would be actually kind of frustrating trying to play the game as efficient as possible and have it be impossible for me to lose.

Gimme tips.

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AHH SAVE ME KARL

>>148379110
>Vampires worship Nagash
>"Nagash was weak, witness true power!"

ELVES LITERALLY WHEN

>>148379291

I doubt Middenheim will get razed for a long time. It's garrison is incredible. Normally, it only happens in the initial rush of Skaeling stacks.

If that doesn't do it, Boris will last until the player decides to either confederate him or take him out.

>>148379493
Try next year or so

>>148379110

Most vampires are atheists actually. Faith and holiness - even chaos - are an affront to their existence and literally burns them. Thus they worship only themselves.

>>148378993
exactly what I was thinking Guess Middenland will no longer be a threat.
They'll probaly be dead before you fight them in KF's first quest battle
>>148379291
>it will be a pain in the ass to rebuild it and fight archaon the everfucker while you have rapists in the heart of empire
my sides. the next few weeks of peepee poopoo and rapefosting will be entertaining

It will be easy to confederate Middenland now tho

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>>148379305
>Gets a game for free and whines about it

dumb frogposters

Just play the game on hard and ironman mode it. Play dwarf to settle yourself into the game or Orcs if you want a challenge.

>>148379305
officially the bloodpack thing is to keep the rating of the main game at PG13

also yeah go ironman, no savescumming, play what you get. If you're a TW veteran go hard or even very hard but lower the battle difficulty to hard or normal. otherwise you'll just be annoyed

>>148379295
recruit those battle mages m8. They'll have plenty of work

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>>148379854
Why not the empire thou?

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>>148379941
Save the best faction for last.

>>148379305
Just have fun. Pick the faction you like the most or you find the most interesting.

If this is your first total war, just take is slow and listen to what the adviser tells you. Don't forget you can pause during battles, which will help you learn how to hammer the anvil since there aren't any other strategies that are worth learning.

>>148379714
yeah if you even want to.
Have fun managing a burning realm full of piss and shit and beastmen and save orcs sieging and raidiing every city

>>148380074
What is the hammer and anvil? I've seen it mentioned previously in the thread.

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>mfw I can finally genocide beastmen

>>148380189
just think about for 0 seconds and you should understand

>>148380380
I am thinking hard anon.

>>148380189
It's essentially just flanking and attacking an enemy from behind. When the infantry lines clash against one another, you move your flanking units, typically cavalry, around the sides and charge into the enemy from their back. This will cause tremendous damage to the enemy morale and will likely rout all but the most elite units.

>>148380556
thinking too hard, it's a nearly literal term

>>148378270
>chaos with waaagh and underground travel

might be cool

>>148378270
Where are they going to be, though? Just dicking around the areas of Middenland?

The only problem with beastmen is that it adds another rush heavy melee focused army when warriors of chaos, greenskins and vampires are all melee focused and like to rush their opponents

What the fuck does warpstone do

is it unontanium or does it have actual rules

>>148377478
That woman is staring right at it's dick

She knows what's gonna happen

>>148381410
practical usable form of corruption, albeit not without side effects

little crystal batteries

>>148381354
Pretty much every Warhammer army is going to be melee focused. TT didn't care about armies having balanced rosters.

>>148379207
But he was mean to me!

BEASTMAN CAMPAIGN PACK AND 2 FREE CONTENT. MY STEAM WALLET IS FUCKING READY.

RUSSIAN DATAMINERS WERE 100% ACCURATE SO FAR.

DLC PACK 5 IS WOOD ELVES CAMPAIGN PACK.

Ready for the piss, ready for the shit and most certainly ready for the raping.

>>148381737
>RUSSIAN DATAMINERS WERE 100% ACCURATE SO FAR.
when did they say based Bretonnia would be released?

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>Beastman CAMPAIGN pack
>Middenland troops shown in the trailer
>Eye for an Eye
>Todd Bringer

What are the odds they make Toddy an LL for the mini-campaign and make Middenland playable on the regular campaign map?

>>148381737
don't elves do more raping than bestmin

>>148381823
What does Todd bring exactly?

>>148381927

An opportunity to get the closet thing to cooping as the same faction without using shonky mods.

>>148369290
Agincourt

>into allied crossbowmen
>across muddy field
>into entrenched longbowmen supported by polearm wearing heavy infantry

And the flower of the French nobility fell that day

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>>148381354
The only really ranged focused armies I can think of were Empire, High elves sometimes, and Skaven. And even then those armies need footsloggers and tarpits.

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>>148381894
Beastie boys literally had to rape human women to make more beastmen back in the day. they couldn't reproduce naturally.

>>148382298
and then back again into the french heavy infantry reserves.

>>148378149
>horde

So no ambush and whack a mole gameplay? Fuck that.

>>148382595

I think you got them mixed with Fimirs.

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>>148383758
I think both had to but while Fimir were just written out Beastmen just no longer had that lore in the game. I will readily admit to not being a massive fantasy lorefag but that's something I remember so I could be wrong.

>>148382595
No, the lore has made mention of female beastmen. Propagation through raping human females is just a meme.

Once I wrap up this Empire campaign I think I'll give Chaos another try.

I'll probably start with Kholek.

What should my first 20-30 turns look like? Should I PURGE Norsca until it's all subjugated, razed, or should I head into Kislev the Empire asap? Should I awaken enough tribes to get Siggy, then raze them after?

What's the average Chaos composition? When should I unlock a second Horde?

Any Chaos tips or thoughtful insight appreciated.

Will Kemmler ever get a buff that isn't named Krell?
favorite LL in the game so far

>>148383971
God I hate ShindoL so fucking much. If I ever bumped into that fucker in real life I would murder him without any regret.

>>148384093
Put your first few points into the herd growth traits.

>>148384232
But why? Shindol writes some GOAT vaniller.

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>>148384093
Seconding these questions.

Last thread had a good discussion of chaos recruitment chains going, but nobody said what turn they were on when they were looking to unlock the third recruitment building on their starting horde.

>tl;dr
WHAT TURN DO YOU RECRUIT YOUR SECOND HORDE

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>>148373615
Everywhere.

Pic related

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>>148372889

What the fuck is this shit?

Why are Games Workshop suddenly ripping off Tauren? Blizzard did it first.

Blizzard should sue.

What are the odds of beastmen having Centigors and Harpies?

>>148385080
>Centigors
Probable
>Harpies
Don't get cocky

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>>148381823
An enlarged Drakwald Forest and surrounding areas of 50-60 regions featuring Beastmen vs Elector counts vs Forest Tribes.

YES please. Without a doubt with beastmen added we'll see pop ups of Wood Elf events.
>>148381816
It seems they releasing free content in the order the pic was given.
Pic related

That's 3 down on the 28th. So judging by the rate they are going. Probably October/November time.

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

Fuck yeah, Beastmen!

>>148385024
Nice meme.

>>148382298
>into allied crossbowmen
That was Crecy.

Beastmen first gameplay(I assume both battle and campaign) is at 2pm British time on Friday.

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I hope they don't do the retarded as fuck split campaigns like they did for Attila

Every new race and expansion should incorporate itself into the existing grand campaign, and that's it.

Age of Charlemagne units and campaign was such faggotry.

>>148386475
Campaign Packs add a mini campaign(enlarged area of the world map) with that race as the central figure. The campaigns will *always* be historical events from Warhammers past. It also adds them seamlessly to the grand campaign,custom battles and multiplayer.

Link here clearly indicates campaign map selections:
http://whenc.totalwar.com/#/regions

Likely going to be an enlarged Drakwald Forest and surrounding areas.

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>>148368983

>>148386852
I meant adds the faction seamlessly not the campaigns.

>>148373615
Probably in the fuck huge forest West of Kislev. Beastmen's unique map thing is underways but for forests and also hide them in the forests. Surprise buttrape from Beastmen

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>>148386901
>i rule

>>148386985

Preview clearly stated they'd be in the grand campaign.

>>148384961

Would be interesting if there was a brayherd up in Norsca that was aggressive to the norscans. Would really shake up empire if you didn't have a clear idea of which kinda chaos monstrosities would be rowing across the sea of claws to raid you.

If Beastmen are DLC 3, and Wood Elves are DLC 5, what's next?

>>148387129
>Wood Elves come out in DLC pack 5 with a forest regrowth mechanic for Human lands that links direct to Athel Loren meaning the lore about leaving the forest isn't broken
>It's both their best and worst enemy
>Beastmen surprises in freshly grown forest all with blood and guts as humans,greenskins and vampires hack away and corrupt them whilst suffering attrition meanwhile the Dawi are just laughing at the stupid surfacers.

FUCKING HNNGH.

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>>148387326

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G O B L I N S

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>>148387437

>>148387326

Minor faction pack, like Kislev and Tilea and shit.

>>148387326
Probably something small, like a lord pack, that the dlc team can get done fast for August, and have as much time as possible to dedicate to Wood Elfs to get them out before September ends.

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>>148387537

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>>148386901
Tomb Kings rule. We're the Tomb Kings. That's us, and we rule, rule, r-r-r-r-rule.

>>148387286
Obviously.

Campaign packs are the ultimate pack as laid out in their pre launch DLC blog:

>Story campaign set in Warhammers past with the new faction
>New faction also added to grand campaign,Custom and MP
>New LL's,heroes,armies,mechanics,technologies,architecture,narrative questlines,unit of renown etc.

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>>148387628

>>148387326
Minor ones until the map expands east and south adding TK's,CD's,Skaven and Ogres. The map outline for the new areas has been in since launch day.

>>148387763
>>148387628
>>148387537

bkub pls go.

>>148387636
>>148386901

WE

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>>148388337
ARE THE CRYSTAL GEMS

>>148388546
Peridot best waifu.

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Seeing you devolve into a mess of poo and pee-posting is tearing me apart, anon. You were supposed to be better than this. The Olde Guard of /twg/ understood they needed to stand against the Barbars™ - yet you willingly surrender to the primal urges of the Beastmen™?

I can't watch you lose yourself to madness anymore. I'm seeking refuge in the last bastion of law, order, and civilization on this board: /gsg/. Only there can I be free of this autistic shitposting frenzy.

I'm genuinely happy that CA is having enough sucess with Warhammer that they can fully develop their 100 year DLC plan.
At first I was skeptic of it, but now I finally see what they are trying to do and if everything goes right, it's going to be great.

>>148389553
>Only there can I be free of this autistic shitposting frenzy
Stopped reading there

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I'm probably 100% wrong on the LLs, but now I'm even more confident in my hero and lore picks with the announcement of the Amber Wizard and Lore of Beasts.

Altdorf Colleges of Magic is in the game, it's icon has all of the symbols of the Winds of Magic in it. Empire will have a full roster of battle wizards repping every aspect.

>jade wizard added with Lore of Life
>cast Earth Blood
>empire can do the VC blob and heal now too
>cast Regrowth
>literally raising the dead
>tfw

>>148389790
It's not as though they can really do this sort of thing in historical games
The only reason people don't mind the small faction count in Total Warhammer is because each one is unique enough that they will need a decent amount of work for each one and so can justify having a long DLC plan for them

>>148390145

Wurrzag is already confirmed to be the new LL, not Skarsnik.

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>>148389553
This one was weak, I enjoyed your previous work alot more. You are losing it, take a break and come back in a week when you are more refreshed.

>>148368983
SOON™

>>148390983
NOW!

>>148379406
Mannfred is tsundere, he helps Arkhan res him and acts like he didn't want to.

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>>148379406
>when u say Nagash was weak
>but he was strong.

>>148390145
>close miss the hero and lore already
>Vlad is long dead, maybe Isabella
>Green prohet, outside memes no one cares about goblins, not even orcs
>Brets for sure
>Lore of Shadow will be a sweet addition and needed for Wood Elves and the wizard is a given tag along

you weren't too far off

>>148393195
>Vlad is long dead
>maybe Isabella

Anon, I...

>>148393586
ah fuck and thats one reason why i never played vamps fucking all their characters are redead

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Ayyo familan, how do you like your Beastmen?

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>>148394445
GIVE HIM TO US CA

>>148394445
Best not being memeing us

>>148394839
Im surprised this event is more well known.

>>148369084
Honestly it's details like this which is why I like Warhammer.

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>>148394445
Is that from the mousillon mod or is that in the base game?
Speaking of events, I have no idea what this one is about.

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>>148396250
It's a callout to the Dreadfleet boardgame.

>>148396250
No idea, probably from the base game as Im using the most basic faction unlocker mod, although its only ever appeared to me on my third undead play through ever.(1st was VC, next two have been Mousillon)

Also
>Manny just lets some faggot come into his house and take his shit
what a faggot.

>>148396710
Mannfredd von cuckstein is a bit of a chump.

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>when u try to defend ur villages but beastmen already shit all over them

>>148396918
>When you want to take a dump with the boyz after looting a town but the beastmen already filled up the town with their shit.

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>>148394445

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>>148396250
>>148396456
That guy def looks interesting.

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>>148396918
>when you try to raise the dead after a beastmen raid but all the skeletons have broken pelvises

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Let the Greenskin-Beastmen Shit Wars begin.

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>>148397619

>>148397619
>turn 300
>only greenskins and beastmen remain
>Every city is covered with a 10 inch layer of shit

tempted to start a napoopan or rots campaign while i wait for CA to fix the cunting flickering smoke bullshit. shit hurts my eyes.

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>>148397619
Its a toss up on that. CA might go with the Beastmen erecting chaos monuments in the same manner as WoC.

whoa why is this general dying

what the fuck guys

>>148398301
Does that only happen on 980ti's or does it affect all Nvidia cards?

>>148400650
its getting shitty

>>148400794
seemed like all the cards reported in the steam thread were 980tis but not sure.
at the very least they're the majority of cases.

>>148400650
warhammer happened

>enemy troops route into my city and rally
>shattered troops run into the city border to disappear

nice video game

>>148401940
This irritates me as well. Troops on walls and within the city should fight to the death regardless of whether they are attacking or defending.

Just de-buff their offense and defense if they break.

>>148404209
>Troops on walls and within the city should fight to the death regardless of whether they are attacking or defending.

That makes no sense.

>>148378565

I think Bretonnia has lore of beast users

>>148404398
Why? It seems silly that when a unit routes, it just casually strolls off the wall and runs off the map.

>>148404589

It seems even sillier to have a single soldier trying to solo a thousand dudes just because he is surrounded by buildings.

>>148404698
I disagree

>>148404879

Congratulations. Could you explain why being in a town should make a unit immune to fearing for it's life?

>>148404209

I don't agree with this. I understand the complaint however because it's fucking stupid to see armies march outside the walls in a straight line.

They should just break formation and run away like a bunch of retards in random directions. They shouldn't just immediately sprint to exit the castle.

>>148379305
Long story short, normal is the most even difficulty, hard and above they give the AI cheats and buffs to units and production so if you find it a real drag then don't worry too much about bumping the difficulty down because it can get really bullshit fast.

But otherwise yeah, iron man it and have fun man!

>>148405231


I think what he's getting at is that since they're technically trapped in the city they would fight to the death since there's no escape anyway.

>>148396918
>when u try to defend ur villages but beastmen already turned them into shit
>and then shit them all over whats left of the village...

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>>148372889
B E S T
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S
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M E N
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Fuck yeah, it actually happened, now I only have to survive 2 weeks

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>>148407719
don't jinx yourself man

https://youtu.be/cVU4mosCu7A

How to defeat a Vampire Death Star

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>>148407801
The Dark Gods watch over me which means I'm fucked ;_;

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Anyone else excited what kind of bullshit the adviser is going to have to pull in order to get in with the beastmen in their intro video?

>>148408123
why the fuck would they not eat/rape/shit on him on sight?

>>148408123
He has to endure the whole tribe shitting on him one by one. It's a 3 hour long intro

>>148408123
To be fair he is kind of a agent of Chaos So it's not implausible.

>>148408234
There's the theory that for you guys he looks like one of their own race, so he looks like an Orc or Goblin for other Greenskins, like a Dwarf for Dwarfs and so on.
He's an agent of Tzeentch after all

>>148408123
>>148408234
Human Chaos cultists often interact with Beastmen. There's a Tzeentchian cult based in Altdorf that feeds info to beastmen herds about caravans and other high-value targets traveling on the road.

>>148408487
*for your guys

>>148408123
Will they use him for Tomb Kangz? Ogres?

There's no way he could work for Lizardmen.

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>>148408050
nah man don't worry, Chaos wants to help

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>>148408752
Meh overall I would have preferred faction specific advisor, but well is cheaper this way, lizardmen would really be weird also not sure if the Wood Elves would like him

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anyone tried a legendary greenskin campaign with gobbos only?

seems doable, considering arachnarok spiders and doom divers use goblins
would probably only work late game with 3+ stacks fighting at once though

>>148409683
Plus night Goblins with poison attacks/fanatics.

Honestly the biggest thing to watch out for would be moral and making sure you get the fight over quickly.

Goblin Legendary Lord option when?

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>>148372889
Fuck, it's actually true!

POO POO
PEE PEE
TWO WEEKS UNTIL DLC

You know, I've never been into horde factions, since I prefer empire building, but Beastmen might just be my first jump into that. I just really like their look.

>>148377880
Grey wizards when? Those are some secretively hardcore mother fuckers. I mean who doesn't want to make weather their bitch and out-spook skeletons.

>>148410576
They also look fast as fuck and are all about ambushing and hiding in woods.
I guess they will be a really fun horde experience like Tanookis

>>148410701
Yeah, the speedy forest movement is one of the big draws to me, I love the idea of skulking hordes through the woods and emerging only to bum rush settlements and sack them.

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Motherfucker razed my province and tried to run from me.

>>148381927
Clearly Boris is bringing Todds

Someone photoshop a picture of Boris Johnson carrying several Todd Howards for me

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>>148384961
>The Land of Chill

It's actually scaring me, when all the races are added this game will really become total chaos, as the empire you ll have to fight against: beastmen, chaos, norsca, VC, skaven, late game greenskins and who knows maybe even the dark elves too.

>>148411084
total war in a total war game? THIS DOES NOT HAVE MY CONSENT

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I haven't been on /twg/ for a long time, what ever happened to discussing the great classics of Total War?

>>148381823
>>148381927
>>148410905
It's Todbringer with a single 'd', german for death bringer

>>148384961
The best thing is that the beastmen locations there look like pubes. Which oddly seems in character for beastmen.

>>148411431
>>>/vr/
Discuss your old game no one cares about anymore there

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>>148411431
>new game came out
>its being talked about more than older games
gee i wonder, anon

bunch of oldfags went on hiatus until summer is over since it kinda shat on the thread a while back

>>148411084
What is scaring you is giving me the biggest boner of my life.

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>>148384961
>Not-Antarctica is literally the exact same shape as Antarctica

WOW GREAT WORLDBUILDING GEEDUBS

>>148411431
They still get discussed, much more often before the Total Warhammer release though, as it's of course been in the lead since then. As time moves on we'll slowly incorporate it into the mass of TWG talk.

>>148411084
It's going to be awful and I know I'm going to hate it but thats kind of what I want. It's how the world should be.

That said there is going to be more than enough NPC buffers between everything to make it work. Or at leas give you the time to prepare for the rape train.

>>148393195
>Vlad is long dead
"ehehehe I'm not dead you fucks" - Vlad von Karstein, loading quotes

>>148411431
New game hype mostly. They can be brought up easily though its just almost everything about them has been talked about.

>>148411960
"What are you going to do? kill me?" - quote from man killed

>>148411881
Yeah you have to take into account how virtually everyone is fighting everyone else in the Warhammer world. The 'evil' factions definitely outnumber the major good ones but they're also at each other's throats constantly as well.

>>148411578
>Not-Nippon is called Nippon

>>148412214
Thats true so it's not going to be so bad.

It's just going to be very interesting to see how much the game changes with each release.

Fears aside i'm really hyped for it all.

>>148408123

Oh man, it's going to be nice having another faction that doesn't have to deal with Archaeon and pals being a slight nuisance at turn 100. I wonder if it'll be like WoC where you have to fight Sarthorael instead.

On that note, why does the AI WoC faction get to use Sarthorael as a 4th legendary lord doomstack but the player has to kill him instead when playing the WoC faction and we get no option to play as him?

Whoever decided that fighting stack upon stack of nothing but Doggos and Horsemen when Chaos comes was the norm should be sacrificed to Tzeentch. This is the most boring thing ever. I literally just made six stacks that go 3 by 3 and just hunt Chaos down and Autosave while Franz and Gelt clear out Norsca. So retarded.

>>148408752

I think that will depend on if the later factions have to kill Chaos to win the campaign, since advisor-kun's purpose is to inhibit Archaeon in any way possible.

My guess would be he'll be used for every faction though.

>>148412543
Guess they didn't want chaos campaign being too easy

>>148412697
They really need to tweak the AI so it tries to built armies that make sense.

This shit drives me nuts, I don't want to have to fight a army of all mortars again

>>148408969

I assume he has some bullshit magical diplomatic sway due to basically being the lord of change's version of wormtongue. It doesn't really make sense that Grimgor, for example, would even allow him to approach and speak to him otherwise.

>>148412472
Nippon is not a real faction.

>>148372889
Never been so fucking excited to a total war faction dlc

>>148411084

You dont always have to fight greenskins as empire, since you only have to destroy VC and Archie to win. I've had entire campaigns where they just do their own thing while shitting on dwarfs and never declare war on me or even move out of the badlands/mountains. Or otherwise they/I'll declare war and they'll still just stay out of sight in the territories they can control. My last empire campaign only involved me wiping out the savage orc tribes on sight as a safety measure, since they always spawned in reikland. Skaven might be similar in that aspect, unless they change empire's campaign objectives to force you to wipe them out.

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>>148372889
CA don't fuck this one up, make Beastmen fun and I'm gonna play the game for another 200 hours

>>148411431

New game hype as well as new faction/content hype, since a new faction in warhammer is a huge deal and guarantees entirely unique units/gameplay. That'll be going on for a long time, as this game is intended to be added onto for years to come.

>>148412874

I mean it's fair that you have to fight him as it's supposed to be a sort of test by the chaos gods for Archie, but it would've made more sense to be able to recruit him as a lord after defeating him.

>>148412946

I've never had this happen, but I've seen pictures posted here like the AI Azhag with 19 rock lobbas one. Is it only on VH/legendary that this tends to happen?

>>148392753


Where on the autism-spectrum is old Manny?

>>148414008

Pretty fucking high since he fucked everyone over in the end times due to his autistic rage spasms.

He's one of those high functioning but still retarded types.

>>148413678

Tbh I'd say you should temper your expectations a bit since they don't have a ton of unit variety and its a relatively small roster in general. All of their units look cool and menacing though which is a plus.

Also, did anyone find the lack of blood/actual violence in the trailer jarring? Maybe it's just that I'm used to having the blood and gore in-game now, but seeing shit like that one gor pounding on an empire troop's chest with a sword and seeing no damage whatsoever, not even a dent in the armor, was pretty fucking lame.

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>>148414539
>they don't have a ton of unit variety and its a relatively small roster in general.
I know that but I'm still waiting for a really fun horde experience (a bit like Tanukhids in Attila) and maybe Beastmen with fast units, ambushing and gruesome units could be exactly that.

And yeah, the trailer was nice but no blood made it look strange.
All in all I don't really care though as long as they're properly bloody in the game

>>148414789
>dat WoW design

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>>148415050
not a Doombull but better?

>>148414001
I'm not sure but that would make sense, the AI probably has more money than it knows what to deal with so it just spams what ever.

>>148410065
Never

Bestmen trailer is private for some reason. Anyone have a mirror?

>>148414789

I think we won't have to worry about them being bloody in game. I just hope they have animations involving skewering smaller troops with their horns.