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Previous thread: >>163583801
Day 215
Warhammer is still shit.
S/o to the brits for letting me use their ship to btfo shogunfags
Xth for Superior Elf women and shaving dwarven sluts
Well lads, let's begin this then
>>163659293
How far do I need to go to make a Sassanid campaign worthy of a true vnderstander?
Did the White Huns make it suitably difficult? What if I declare war on all my satraps at start to simulate a mass rebellion? Or do I have to go full This is Total War? Please /twg/, I don't want to be whatever the Persians call a pleb.
Also, fuck you Google, don't you fucking redline Sassanid. I hate this fucking "Sasanian" shit, why did historians decide that just this one dynasty needs to be -ian instead of -id? Achaemenid, Seleucid, Arsacid, Saffarid, Samanid, Safavid, Afsharid, but Sasanian? The only other Iranian dynasty names ending in -ian are named after places (Parthian and Khwarezmian), but the Sassanids were named after some mythical ancestor name Sasan.
My beard hurts
My hands are cold
I wish I was home weighing gold
Holy shit
>>163659715
Problem is, I have many armies in the north just holding an instable peace with the nervii and such. So, I'm making two new armies to take back the north of africa. Fuckers flanked me, so, I'm about to lose two, three regions all at once. Fuckers.
>>163659141
Christmas rollan!
>Want to play Skarsnik
>remember Tree Hitler exists
>>163659816
>losing a city defence against cavalry
Inexcusable. You should have plugged all the gaps with 1-2 infantry, filled from reserves where necessary, and focus fired their ranged with your own. Your cav should have been hiding or kept inside to run around and hit moshpits in the rear.
You deserve to lose Africa.
>>163659816
Rejoice! For a Knight of Bretonnia provides your shield.
I was inspired by the Vampire Count adventures in the border princes territory, and decided to do a fun/specific target campaign of my own, so gather 'round ya gitz and hear the story of how Grimgor Stole Christmas
>>163659960
>implying I lost
git gud scrub. The provinces I'm losing don't have troops in it.
>>163660075
>that horse blob
jesus
>>163660045
After gathering the toughest boyz and sneakiest gobbos I could get my hands on, I headed north, disregarding all else. it didn't take long before Grimgor took his first steps in northern snow, and realized how cold it was and how difficult this was actually going to be. the original plan was to sit around and raid until a waagh showed up, but there was no time for that.
New content for Attila 2017?
>>163660159
there it is, kraka drak, the home of the snow dwarves. it is here that the toys for christmas are made, bringing joy to all the puny races of the world, and soon it will be our home, and the toys will be ours, as well as all the christmas joy
>Miners (Blasting Charges)
>>163660242
the dwarves inside head out to deliver toys, but we intercept them and send in the boyz. We hold the high ground as our doom divers dive, our orks hold the line, and our skulkers take their lives. it is not long before the battle is won, the stunties are dead and the day is done.
>>163660008
*rejoices*
>>163660075
>>163660116
>>163660045
I'm glad I could help make /twg/ a more cozy place.
My vamp campaign fizzled, but I've got a Christmas surprise for you all tomorrow if I can just figure out where in the localization file Legendary Lord campaign map names are stored...But really, you guys are great, and the only reason I still come to 4chan. Merry christmas my fellow understanders :3
>>163660353
next up to attack is our new home kraka drak, we hit both the doors and we send in the boars
>>163660421
Merry Christmas my /twg friends!
>>163660454
our skulkers snuck in and hit them in the flanks, stabbing and slicing and slaughtering through there ranks.
I was looking at
>>163660551
by turn 23 we have kraka drak, and with it a hope of actually taking and holding the north
>mfw it's stabby time
>>163660660
our actions have consequences, drawing the scorn of practically everyone, every human, norsican and dwarf in sight wants to kill me.
>>163659916
Just burn down the trees nerd
This dwarf cock sucker has taken the last fucking waggh stack god dammit
>>163660763
Meanwhile, things are going bad back at black crag, but despite an active rebellion and a barak var siege going on, they still manage to be happy about something
>>163660867
back in Norsica, we have gone mostly ignored by the armies that want to kill us, as they are all at war with eachother as well, the winner of the brawl is Varg, who for some reason hates me for stealing christmas. I've read the naughty list, they are on it every year. they must really love getting coal. Unfortunately all kraka drak has is diamonds, and I'm not sure how to reverse the process and turn them back into coal, so to compensate I'll just burn down their towns and turn them into charcoal, it is close enough. Once I take care of the main Varg army, wounded from its fight with the last of kraka drak's dwarves, I'll be able to deliver coal to every single settlement.
>>163660814
its stabbin time boyz
>>163660961
Barak Var finally attacks, and the boyz take down more than I expected, but the arro boys are practically useless
>>163661062
my victory over the main varg army spawns a waagh, wich I send to deliver coal to the Varg settlements to the right while I handle with the ones to the left as well as the chaos rebels that spawn every few turns
>>163660710
>mfw it's routing greenskin shits with a handful of thunderer volleys time
>>163661154
I kept this settlement alive as long as possible, sacking it every turn to get Grimgor's levels up, as well as as a small source of income and to bait Varg armies to come try to defend it, making the coal delivering much more convenient for me, but after a dozen or so turns the waagh catches up to me and razes it, ending my fun
>>163661248
with Varg all but destroyed I wanted to turtle up a bit, and you can't do that with a waagh raiding your own territory every turn, so I sent them on a suicide mission, but behold a christmas miracle, they somehow managed to get a heroic victory.
>>163661005
>dwarves in charge of defendin theyz backsides
>>163661168
See that to my stabba not online see what happens stuntie
After a horrible failure for my first FotS/Shogun 2 campaign, my second attempt seemed almost laughable, as my rine infantry facerolled the pathetic armies of the shogunfags
>>163661336
I realized that the humans care more about me punishing people on the naughty list than they do about me stealing Christmas, so I end the war with kislev and start to deliver more coal to get them to stop randomly sending up a stack that forces me to return home to defend. The beastmen are razing their smaller settlements, putting them high up on the naughty list, but no matter what I did, I couldn't convince kislev to let me come in and help them. I guess they wanted to deliver the coal to the beastmen themselves.
Just picked up Total War Warhammer, where the fuck is the keyboard shortcut for Fire at Will and Guard mode in the controls? I can clearly see them in the UI below when I'm playing.
Also, is there no skirmish mode for missile troops? No loose formations?
>>163661416
Chaos invades. They apparently don't like that I've been delivering coal and are here to shut it down, making the naughty list so big that every other faction instantly loves me.
>>163661404
>needing rine infantry
>not destroying their entire army with armstrong guns before they even meet your line
#Woke #Zama #African_Vacation
>>163661493
there were about 5 stacks of varg/skaeling/chaos in one area, but lightning strike made cleaning them up a breeze. and soon after this I got giants to really destroy any chance that they had of taking me down
>>163661350
Ah the ole sneak a giant spider right behind'em trick
Works ery time
>>163661591
Chaos is defeated, and christmas is saved, for now.
>>163661608
Ah a stuntie right where he belongs
>>163661681
I know they'll be back soon because number one on the naughty list, archaeon, hasn't even shown up yet, but my actions have redeemed me in the eyes of the other factions, and when archaeon does show up, we will be ready for him
that does it for now, hope you guys enjoyed it and I didn't come across as a giant faggot the first time I posted a campaign. I highly recommend migrating to kraka drak, it is a lot of fun as it is just non stop fighting all the time and as you slaughter noriscans the rest of the world grows to absolutely love you
>>163661493
You're doing Gork's work, lad.
Fuck, I have over 600 hours in Attila, but I've never played a single campaign long enough to actually fight Attila.
What do I do lads? I was thinking of an artificially difficult Sassanid run, but I know I'll just get bored too soon. I need an idea for a campaign that will keep me engaged for 200 turns.
And don't say Tanukhids, I've already blobbed to Constantinople and back with them.
WTF CA? Why did you remove building subchains?
Fucking hell.
>>163662359
warhammer is designed to make campaign map "choices" as simple as possible for new people. they want the dumbest person in the world to be able to go, oh look I need more public order I'll build hte one public order building, but that still isn't simple enough for some of these retards that can't read tool tips and then get fucked by corruption and go "WOW this is impossible please nerf"
>>163662232
Play a barbar faction like Saxons or Geats without fucking off to Britain, try to control Europe
You'll be right at the frontline against Attila.
>>163660539
Merry Christmas!
>>163662559
They kept things like maintainence costs and the like from attila in. There is leftover code for food shortage attrition, cities requiring a food surplus to create (not just growth) and the like. I am just pissed that they had to remove the one thing that would make empire building more fun.
>>163662842
For that one Anon.
So what do Greenskins do with the rare dwarf women they find in conquered Karaks?
>>163662559
>>163662750
>province level spreadsheeting
>fun
The campaign mechanics have always been complete shit, and as long as they're shit, the less I have to deal with them, the better. If you think Attila's building system was deep, complex, or intellectually engaging in any way, you're functionally retarded.
They need to copy the diplomacy of EUIV, the asymmetrical provinces of any Paradox game, and come up with a building system that's about directing your entire empire in one direction or another instead of making sure every province has 2-3 threshold numbers taken care of and then maxed out for money (or troop recruitment in 2-3 provinces empire-wide).
This game can be so frustrating sometimes
>Out maneuver and kite the enemy the whole battle
>All he has left is his lords and cygores with no ammo
>They proceed to rout my whole fucking army, not even causing a lot of casualties, just massive morale loss for some reason
>Lose despite kicking his ass
Lords in this game are very frustrating sometimes. I don't understand why some random beastlord is able to sit there and take punishment from my whole army, laugh it off, and proceed to rout everyone.
>>163663193
you can do that with mods.
I am pissed because they removed the tools to make buildings more complex than they had in rome 2.
>play himyar
>trying to take aksum capital
>6 afar swordsmen
how the fuck are they so powerful?
>>163663394
the tools I mean.
>>163663193
Rome 2 and attila had provinces with different fertility levels, places where you could specialize the provinces based on resources and all that. I want the Empire to actually feel like an empire, not a giant reikland blob.
>>163659851
havent heard "YARI ASHIGARU GOZAIMASU" in ages, so lets double down
>>163663658
That dubs part has to be removed. You can only get dubs with 3 of the clans for Shogun 2 and all of the clans from RotS and FotS cannot convert to Christianity again.
>>163660270
>Ironbreakers (Blasting Charges)
>>163663658
Rollin
>>163663658
da revy is ready
>>163663658
>Obama
>>163663623
>Rome 2 and attila had provinces with different fertility levels, places where you could specialize the provinces based on resources and all that.
It was a no-brainer to put food buildings in the high fertility provinces, although Attila ruined that with local food requirements, and climate change causing the fertility-neutral farm to be ideal in 90% of the provinces.
We should be making choices that affect how we play the game later on, not pointless threshold management.
I.E. make three different types of building for every province: military, urban, and agricultural. Have 2-3 buildings per type. Each military building allows you to recruit X number of units of Y type, so your military infrastructure will significantly affect what size and kinds of armies you can build. Urban development gives you lots of money but costs a lot of food, and epidemics and riots and other shit will fuck you periodically. Agricultural produces food and a bit of money, but is always self-sufficient.
You get better overall output from specializing provinces, but higher risk (big cities get fucked more by disease, if you rely 2-3 farm provs, one being hit by a bad event fucks your entire empire).
So, we now have the following important choices:
-Overall military vs. urban vs. agrarian focus for the empire
-Evenly mixed or highly specialized development plan
-How we structure our army with our level of resources (i.e. lots of good troops, or a few elite badasses and a lot of shit-tiers).
Is Warhammer really worth the money? I'm kind of Assblasted for having to pay extra 25€ just so i can play with Skarsnik and best elves.
>Trying to play Very Hard elves
>Beastmen stacks keep spawning
>They run 10,000 miles just to raid my lands and destroy my outposts
>Can't possibly keep up with how many spawn
>No way to permanently get rid of them
this is fucking retarded, m8.
>>163664483
>pointless threshold management.
wrong.
You had the option of specializing the provinces you had based on their local resources or using them for something else. It wasn't so apparent in the base game, but if you followed house rules or mods that slowed down gameplay pace you would notice.
>Do I spread my culture in this province so that I can stabilize it in the long run and use it for something more.
>Do I turn this province into a hotbed of industry so that it becomes a primary moneymaker for my empire.
>Do I turn this province with rich mineral deposits into a full on military staging area with military infrastructure that lets me pump out armies I can use to expand my kingdom or mantain a standing force to police my heavily taxed zones or agricultural lands?
Right now the game doesn't have that. It is all about expanding, having a province or two for recruiting your entire army roster and then turning everything else into moneymakers.
After I research the related technology, can I destroy the buildings?
I am playing as the Elves, and I want to build more useful things in my capital than these two tech-enabling buildings.
Merry Christmas!
I hope you cheap fucks who complain about DLC at least bought something for your friend in his wishlist to subsidize your whining.
How do I play WRE without wanting to kill myself 10 turns in?
When is CA going to let us tax provinces individually again?
>>163664694
No it's not.
>>163664748
>stuggling as welves
how?
>>163665160
play extremely aggressively, don't abandon even an inch of roman clay, fuck barbar shit up
Merry Christmas Ancient Empires. 2017 is the year!
>>163665447Never ever
>>163665447
>mfw Attila end times compared to Warhams turn end times
>mfw ths map
>>163665447
>Iberia
>that far from the Iberian peninsula
>>163665728
There are also several factions that can suddenly appear on the map if a rebellion happens or if the faction is liberated.
What is most fun faction to play in Attila dlc included?
>>163664843
>having a province or two for recruiting your entire army roster and then turning everything else into moneymakers.
Literally all I ever did in R2 or Attila.
>Do I spread my culture in this province so that I can stabilize it in the long run and use it for something more.
You always try to prevent negative PO, especially if you are going to hold a province long term. If not possible at present, you garrison it until you don't have to.
>Do I turn this province into a hotbed of industry so that it becomes a primary moneymaker for my empire.
>Do I turn this province with rich mineral deposits into a full on military staging area with military infrastructure that lets me pump out armies I can use to expand my kingdom or mantain a standing force to police my heavily taxed zones or agricultural lands?
You need 2-3 military recruitment zones tops regardless of size, and on top of that all you do is maximize money without sending a threshold number into the red.
The only real choice deriving from the current system is whether or not to use soldiers to boost PO, or invest in buildings, i.e. a choice between which exact way you spend your money on managing a threshold number.
Paradox games are generally shallow as fuck, but they're light years ahead of the steaming pile of shit that is the TW campaign system. There's so many fucking models for acceptably playable turn-based strategy out there, it shouldn't be that fucking hard for CA to come up with something.
>>163665885
W R E
R
E
>>163665885
Is fall of the eagles a good mod for Attila?
>>163666095
yes
>>163665885
Aksum or Himyar because shock infantry and ARMORED CAMEL WARRIORS
Why doesn't anyone ever talk about Rise of the Samurai?
Is it crap or just nothing special?
>>163666140
Would that still be the case if I had fall of the eagles because those are one of the factions that get overhauled
RotS kinda feels like a less-fleshed-out Shogun 2. I don't know that I'll give it another run.
>tfw most likely doomed to lose because you thought you had selected long campaign, spent loads of turns developing your economy, and didn't realize until the last minute that you had selected short campaign and needed to get three or four unstoppable armies that aren't just levy stacks built up pronto
>>163649297
I love Cimmeria. It's the best of both Occidental and Oriental units from the timeframe. Hoplites, incredibly strong foot archers, horse-fuckery of every stripe, and a really fun starting position.
>>163666213
I was thinking of one of the Black Sea ones. But I don't want to spread Greek again for a while after my big Massilia campaign.
>>163666205
all rook very same
>>163666209
I don't know, because I never played one of those factions with FotE.
>>163666095
its unfinished and never will be finished because meloncat died, so some factions are really under/overpowered
play something else
>>163666205
It takes the "all armies have identical units" thing that S2 suffers from but makes it significantly more obvious by removing unique units entirely and stripping down the roster even more. It also covers a conflict that's almost entirely unknown in the western world. As far as CA products go it's an oddity, an early experiment in additional content to try and see how it's received.
>>163666264
That's understandable. Part of the reason why I loved Cimmeria in vannila is precisely due to the fact that I could have one Hellenic foot army and one nomadic Scythian mounted army at the same time, but the roster is still predominantly Greek.
>>163666264
play baktria then
become heterogenes.
>Gobbo Archers
>>163664694
I'd say so, but I have a job, some disposable income, and don't live with my parents.
>>163665885
Jutes, watch your Housecarls/Huscarls fucking tear the enemy to shreds.
It is like a god damn meat-grinder watching them go to work.
Also, Vikings are fun in general. Geats have the best bonus due to lack of winter attrition in my opinion, but only Jutes get the OP as fuck unique units.
>>163665885
Franks
>>163667606
That's not an excuse to support shitty DLC practices though.
>>163667804
He asked if it was worth the money, in my opinion it is, because I have a high enough level of disposable income to not be concerned about spending 10 dollars here or 20 dollars there on a game/series that interests me.
I understand you don't share this opinion, that is okay.
Merry Christmas, anon.
>>163667765
>Charlemagne shed the blood of Saxon men
>Charlemagne and Christopher Lee are related
>Christopher Lee spent WW2 assassinating as many Nazis are he could
>The Nazis were based in Germany
>Saxons were from Germania
>Christopher Lee shed the blood of Saxon men
WE
>tfw drunk on the holiday spirit.
>watch the karl franz introduction trailer where he rallies his men.
>realize what the empire has done for humanity.
>tfw
Would follow him into the chaos wastes if he asked me desu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyU_1-Py0dA
>>163668517
I wouldshove my lance up his ass since he's nothing more than a peasant, and then oppress every Imperial peasant far more than I oppress my Bretonnian peasants.
>>163668517
They should update Karl's lord selection video with this
Is there anyone mod that fixes Attila: The Wood Elf yet?
>>163663658
roll ?
>>163668517
>thinking that trailer compares to the Vampire Count trailer
Mannfred von Carstein is the TRUE and rightful Emperor of the Empire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T-omKwUOIU
>>163669324
I wonder if this trailer knowingly resembled the Mark of Chaos trailer
The coincidence seems too great
Happy Kholek ChristmasMay you be a BIG GUY just like he is
>>163668693
t.Elf cuck
>>163668624
Member what happened the last time a bretonnian army set foot in reikland?
I member!
>>163670371
They had to save the Empire because the Empire couldn't save itself?
>>163670525
no, they ran headfirst into walls and got shot.
>>163670772
And the bullets were deflected because The Lady of the Lake is a true goddess, unless Shitmar?
>>163670772
>bullets
>doing any harm
Real men knows that only arrows can do any damage
>>163670840
no. they ran away because their elf god was making sure that her actual juniors were safe and sound in athel loren.
>>163670890
t. Renauld le Jungleur
Oh you want to come play in sylvania?
>>163671031
Knights of Bretonnia do not run away and the Lady of the Lake doesn't like elves, so your story is obvious bullshit. This is why the lands of the Empire, Kislev, Sylvania, Estalia, Tilea, and the Border Princes are going to be added to Bretonnia.
Reminder that CA incorporated this lore into their game.
>>163671148
thought so, chaos fucking shits
>>163669469
Merry Festag, heretic.
>>163671219
Yeah, because it is canon, and always was. It was obvious even before ET/8th Ed
>Darthmod Empire
>Russia
>Make peace with Turks, they demand a trade agreement for peace
>Declare war a few turns later anyway and land army that had been waiting in the Baltic sea onto land
>Have my damaged army from St.Petersburg attack them, retreat since id rather defend
>St.Petersburg defense runs halfway to Moscow instead of St.Petersburg
I fucking hate this game
>>163671219
As opposed to what, exactly? The empire that got everything it has from even more factions, takes all the credit for "stopping chaos" when kislev does it all the time and everyone helps them, and worships a human that's not even a true god himself?
Really "BTFO" lad.
Is EBII playable?
>>163671219
>Muh Lady
>Muh Grail
>Muh oppress peasants
Bretcucks are truly a pathetic bunch.
Whenever I route a unit of those losers I like to zoom in and listen to their knights crying about muh knights vow.
Rollan for a comfy winter campaign to play during holidays
1 Alamans
2 Burgundians
3 Caledonians
4 Ebdanians
5 Franks
6 Geats
7 Jutes
8 Picts
9 Saxons
0 Gothic vacation in Britannia
>>163671521
>not a true god
yeah, all those miracles that warrior priests do like healing the injured and fighting with supernatural strength are just coincidence.
>empire
>getting handouts.
The empire manufactures and uses their own equipment. Unlike the bretonnians who are known to import plate from the empire.
>kislev stops chaos.
No, chaos ignores kislev and goes straight for middenheim and the flame of ulric.
>>163671521
>This post shows the Bretons confusion and lack of understanding.
You dont need to be a Shitmar to laugh at Brettonia :^)
>>163671669
Sigmar was a human, the empire got magic from the elves and tech/artifacts from the dwarfs, kislev fights chaos all the time but the empire takes credit
>>163671621
Have fun, German scum.
>>163671669
I think what he means is that much of the Empire's current status can be attributed to the help of other races, specifically the dwarfs and high elves.
>>163671148
>>163671228
sylvania more like sillymania
vampires are gay
dead people suck
>>163671938
go scribble in your book, thorgrim
>>163671827
the elves just made the college of magic and fucked off.
The dwarves just gave gunpowder to humans and just went back to gold grubbing.
Everything else after that was largely done by the empire. The foundries of nuln and the wizarding colleges of altdorf are run by humans. They innovate upon the stuff that the dwarves or elves left them instead of using them as sacred trophies.
Have Orcs always been able to get money from razing a settlement?
Nothing a Shitmar worshiper says in this thread matters. The Lady of the Lake is a human goddess with big human tits. Bretonnia will conquer the world.
>>163659916
>want to play Belegar
>remember Tree Hitler exists and it'd sooner kill me than Skarsnik
Alrighty /twg/ for the fourth year running I'm giving away vidya for christmas.
Here's how it works. You look at the picture, find a game you like and add me on steam. Ask for the game you want and I'll give you a code.
Because of the nature of the giveaway it's first come first served, so unfortunately if the game you want has already gone you can pick another from the list.
I'll be hanging around here for the next hour or so giving away games.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/Funntroll
>>163672482
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
>>163672723
I am fond of pigs.
>>163671228
>the only LL capable of standing up to CHOSEN
You have my respect, manlet.
>>163672516
>and it'd sooner kill me than Skarsnik
Only because you are closer and slower.
>>163672723
Be quiet!
could you be any more of a horsefucker than these guys jesus christ
> Tomb Kings still not announced
>>163671219
Im not sure if this is karma for how knights treated peasants or what.
Still ,a shitty ending for bretonnia nonetheless
Happy Christmas
Wood elves was the easiest faction to beat so far.
I just sat around and gave money to the empire and dwarfs, got a military alliance and ended up with 40+ Amber, ignored archaon and beast men and won the campaign.
Last battle was really fun though.
Were wood elves a mistake? Seems like they just ruin the GC for other factions.
>>163673163
Do me a favor and install the recruitment mod please
>>163673189
Good.
Why doesn't the Empire just embrace vampirism? They could have undead armies.
>>163673189
>>163673439
You faggots have no idea how much the campaign is gonna improve with Tomb kings.
Right now stunties wins the badlandsbowl 9 out of 10 times, and once they do, they become number 1 strength with a huge gap, they shit out stacks in dozens and this innevitably weaken vampire counts, border princes or anyone who ever insulted a dwarf before.
If the tomb kings are not complete shitters it should make the dwarfs busy enough.
And ffs confederation needs to be made harder.
>>163673560
Because the common civilian don't want to be turned into a puppet and sigmarite lords don't like the notion of becoming undead, since becoming a vampire implies drinking nehekhara coolaid.
>>163673163
>three full stacks of NOTHING but skirmisher cav raiding my territories and besieging towns
>get close to one
>they march away
aaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>163673586
Tomb kangz are closer to Greenskins though
>>163673712
And?
They are still participants of the badlandsbowl
>>163673586
Maybe that's because Dorfs are the best faction or something, I dunno.
>>163673586
Catch is, Tomb Kings are really only interested in ruling their lands in Nekherara.
Unless Nagash gets to be LL, of course - in which case we'll have another candidate for the world dominating ruler competition.
Then again, WE were only supposed to be interested in Athel Loren, so ...
Nobody wants any games for Christmas?
>>163672638
>>163672638
>>163673246
They made them to aggressive as AI.
Just intercepted Big Durthu doing a world roots walk, had a great fight with him there. The lack of width in those underway/world roots battles makes them pretty interesting.
>>163674070
Nah, thanks mate.
Better luck next year
>>163673705
Use agents to block them so they can't run
>>163674070
I'm honestly not even interest in new vidya, most of the stuff that has come out seems so shitty I dont want to waste my time trying it out.
I've been playing nothing but total war for the last few months.
>>163673816
Yeah, by fucking up greenskins even more
>>163674249
>can only use witch hunters to block them
>15000 gold for +1 witch hunter capacity
I've just been cheesing the AI by leaving a lone lord just within their attack range, close to my real army, then retreating him when they take the bait.
It makes me feel so dirty having to exploit the shit AI like this.
So I bought Warhammer yesterday. I'm playing Vampire Counts.
Am I doin it rite or wrong if nearly every battle so far has been a "close" or "phyrric" victory where I send in hordes of zombies to just block the enemy up while using a handful of units of Grave Guard and Vargheists etc to flank round and do the killing?
I mean it seems like a pretty legit intended tactic, but it just feels kinda dull and I have to stop to muster up new hordes of expendables every turn. Is this just the way I'm forced to play in the early game and they get good later on?
>>163674384
It's fine early but won't work well later
>>163672638
Thanks anon! Merry Christmas to you too.
>>163674384
Zombies and skellies are worthless cannon fodder that you can raise more of literally the same turn you lost them, it's how they're supposed to be used.
They're not worth bothering with late game though, you should aim to have elite stacks of monsters and grave guard by then.
Vargheists OP, get lots.
>>163674281
>>163674239
Oh well, I'll try again tomorrow when the thread is more active.
Goodnight /twg/ hope you all have a good christmas.
>>163671219
>Bretcucks treat serfs like shit
>Bretcucks were the real serfs this whole time
the deepest lore
>>163674526
Gnight, and merry christmas to you too!
>>163674384
Yup sounds like vampire counts. Later on you will need to have grave guard as your line and they worthwhile to not have crumble.
Who is the oldest Legendary Lord in TWW?
>>163674590
Tree Hitler
>>163674590
Kholek
>Install Shogun 2 FotS.
>Haven't played it before, did fine in the custom battle.
>Start a campaign as Satsuma.
>Load up on levy infantry, win a few ground battles.
>Siege a castle and fight it out.
>All but 4 units and the general rout against two levy infantry and a spear infantry.
>Lose around 900 men to 450 men.
>Would've lost more, but the AI ran out of ammo and wouldn't press their guns into melee.
I'm not sure why I thought rushing walls with guns was a good idea, or why my backup plan was to sit back and shoot at the dudes behind the walls, but I felt stupid the whole damn battle.
On the plus side, I only lost 33 men when they tried to take the castle back. Seems that I'm only horrible at offensive siegesso far.
>>163674590
Orion
>>163674590
Durthu or Kholek
聖誕節快樂,朋友們!
IF OUR LORD IS T'BECOME KINGMerry Christmas, my friends
>>163674971
Levy infantry is trash. Use yari.
And siege offensives are more difficult than in Shogun 2, atleast until you get cannons.
Once you get cannons sieges are hilariously easy
SUMMEN
>>163675297
You too babe
So, so close to wiping the Wood Elves off the map
I'm going to savour this moment.
>Attila encyclopaedia
how did they fuck it up so hard?
Shogun 2s for example is perfect, Attilas is total trash. The UI is bad, and it's slow as fuck.
Just bothered to get darthmod for Empire after maybe 150 hours in vanilla. What are the major differences I can expect? Did they fix the whole AI-naval invasions thing?
Is there any way to see any income modifiers in Shogun 2?
I know in Attila you can see income modifiers based on whatever type of income is modifier, I'd like to know if Shogun 2 has the same thing.
>>163676224
>PEE PEE POO POO
i like it
>>163676282
>tfw no map-destruction like in Attila when you raze a settlement
damn shame
>>163676617
the charlemagnes dolores
EAST ASIA TOTAR WAL WHEN
>>163665414
It's literally just beastmen destroying my outposts
They keep spawning, and I can't deal with them fast enough.
>>163677427
>those swords
Burmese motherfuckers are some crazy shits
>>163665885
ERE is pretty fun
I find them to be the hardest faction in the game.
The WRE can gimmick and just raze all of their cities outside of italy/north Africa and then are completely fine.
ERE can't, and are basically fucked. They have to fight the Sassy-Nids and multiple roaming barbarian bands in their lands from turn 1.
>>163677559
I want that map in a Total War game
>Norway conquering Korea
>>163677565
>DIVIDENDS the faction
>hard
Nigger, how can you find a faction with a in-built money cheat hard?
are rome 2/attila worth getting now after all the patches and stuff?
do i need rome 2 for attila to work?
>>163677695
I played it at release, and I don't know if it's been changed since then.
But back at release, your entire income was based on the WRE's Trade Agreement, and if they get wiped out or get into too many wars or just wanna be cucks, you can go from +3000 a turn to -2000
I also played it on Legendary.
>>163677565
You can literally pay all the barbars to fuck off and only fight Sassy kids
>>163677559
I've been playing the South East Asian expansion for AoE2 this past week.
I really want a TW like this.
>>163677694
>implying Norse War Clerics can best Korean troopsthey probably will trample the poor Koreans
>>163677717
also if i was going to get attila what dlc (if any) is recommended?
>>163677717
Attila was worth it from the start desu
Attila is completely standalone senpai, other than the blood DLC you don't need any DLC. The DLC only unlocks the factions, they'll have all the variety that the DLC adds anyway. Empires of Sand is generally praised as the DLC that offers more diversity/content for your buck.
>>163677808
>I've been playing the South East Asian expansion for AoE2 this past week.
Are the single player campaigns any good in the recent expansions? I loved those in the old Age of Kings and The Conquerors games.
>>163678015
It's great.
The Vietnamese campaign is hard as fuck, though.
>>163677881
thanks mEight
>>163678085
>speedclicking race
>hard
Dude, just, like, engage Turbo, man.
>>163677808
How's the voice acting?
>>163678756
WUZ
>GONNA STAB
Merry Christmas /twg/.Welf fags are pussies.
>>163679393
What's with the heavy armored spearmen huh? You wanna die or something?
>>163679979
Probably one of those mods that makes everyone wear plate armor
>>163680021
>Probably one of those mods that makes everyone wear plate armor
So he really is trying to start something. Fucking punk.
>>163680021
Segmentata won once again!
Hamatafags btfo
>invading the orcish badlands with wardancers
In warhammer, elf rape you.
Im about to give up on my VC run because of shitty op chaos.
I only played empire when it first came out and didnt finish it.
>>163677717
Attila is one of the best TW games for sure, so get that.
R2 worth it if it's extremely cheap.
>>163680214
Hordes were a mistake
Playing as them is generally boring, but the most annoying bit is that they refuse to truly die. They keep coming back.
All they do is just raid your lands and raze a few villages before you squash them. Repeat 1000x times throughout the course of your campaign.
>when u tell ur cannons to shoot but they not responding and u see this
>>163678816
What mod/game?
>>163680719
M2
Asia Dynasties aka Chinese mod
>>163680826
The forbidden one? Models look p good for M2
>>163680946
There might have been a link put up somewhere on TWC, I don't remember since the mod team has gone full Chinese warlord civil war mode on itself
>>163680387
Yeah it ruined this game for me, so is it true chaos lords just keep coming back. if so fuck this I wont even be able to do the south when I have to control the north with over powered chaos armies.
Is there a mod that removes them
Guys why isn't the in-game encyclopedia working for me?
I have the game unblocked in my firewall and AV and shit. Just comes up with a black box whenever I try to view unit information, which is getting to be a ballache.
>vanilla Total War battles will never be this huge
>feels bad
>>163681149
>so is it true chaos lords just keep coming back
The invasion will stop after defeating all the waves and you get a "An age of peace?" event.
>>163667354
>tfw no 3 gobbo archer start
>>163681416
>tfw when you add +40 defense to all units in S2 and FoTS
>40-unit armies
>minimum 400 men per unit
Fucking good battles everywhere with enough time to enjoy it
>>163681416
huge battles are fun to watch but they can be a chore to play
>>163681582
what mod
>>163681745
I made my own
Unless you meant the unit appearance, then it's probably Vastator's FoTS mod
>>163678408
Okayish.
The same VA does the Malay and Burmese narration.
>drivers are out of date
>update drivers
>unit scale small
Oh yay
>>163682037
27fps on a computer when running a 2 year old computer on high everything apart from unit size and texture quality which were ultra?
Any tips for a SFO VC playthrough
>>163682375
on tww of course
>>163682720
Get a lot of agents with the income boost skill and just put them at your capital.
Should I do it? Stainless Steel btw
>want to fight orcs as welves
>the manlets always win the badlandswall
how to stop the manlets? I want elves fighting elite orc armies
>>163682862
pays off in the long run and the only bway you should be able to win is my slowing down muslim armies and then killing them one by oneinb4 history fags pls leave
>>163682862
theologians guild lad.
>>163682980
>Spoiler
Why mention it? It just screams inferiority complex. Keep calm and carry on.
>>163682868
raid orc lands and go to war with the ones next to you
>>163683227
they'll only have worthless gobbos and boys, I want them to win so that I can fight their top troops and monsters
>>163660439
Merry Christmas, anon
>>163673560
They did in the end times
>>163682720
first army didn't completely die when I killed the general and fled, now that I chase him only the necromancer is left.
If I just kill that fucker do I win?
Merry Christmas
Shogun 2 base or Napoleon? Have FOTS and Empire, Rome II doesn't seem interesting from the little I played of it, and Atilla will run like shit. Leaning towards Shogun at the moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY0lLcz3Qis
>Install 10 slot mod for karaz ankor
>Secure the Silver Road
>Get comfy
I'm hype
>>163681873
Vastator don't do FoTS uniform mod, he only do sengoku jidai.
>>163685327
where's the mod?
>>163685395
Then it's some other guy sorry
>>163685327
>not listening to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qm-DBB2b1M
>>163685783
Jesus christ that song gives me a boner.
>>163685783
Man WH OST is too weak
How could they fuck it up
>>163686106
its rather limited.
>>163685327
POST THE MOD FAGGOT.
>>163659851
Just finished Vlad, who now?
>>163686106
Vampire battle themes are pretty great. The campaign map songs are pretty neat too.
>>163685327
>that part when the king under the mountain returns.
>>163685573
>>163686223
How the fuck are you unable to find the 10 slot mod on the workshop by yourself?
>>163686727
there was a mod which made every faction capital into it's own province that promptly got deleted.
I was wondering if anyone had a copy of that mod.
>>163686106
chaos ambient is really good, shame it got pulled of youtube
>>163661484
There are no formations, reload animations, or firing drills.
>Skarsnik campaign
>Elves have all confederated
Its over
How early and where should i settle as the Alans?
I was planning to make my way to Africa whilst i sack every settlement i pass belonging to Rome, however i am not sure what to do since my campaign objectives are so far apart from each other.
Also Horses are fucking strong, just wiped out 30 units with only 10 cav.
Would be a shame if someone had vanguard deployWhy are Reiksguard better than blood knights in the armour and weapon strength department. These are fucking vampires vs some uppity lesser nobles
>>163687503
>How early and where should i settle as the Alans?
don't settle to early, you wont to have a lot of free cash, because you are going to have a huge negative balance at the start
settle whenever and wherever you feel like, Iberia is the easiest and safest choice but also kinda boring, I like settling in Alexandria to fight Sassies, ERE, kangz AND barbars
>>163687837
At the moment all i am doing is liberating lands, i dont like the idea of razing because it ruins fertility.
Am i best of just forcing people to be my puppet state till i have the cash to settle?
>almost 2017
>still no crack
is the game so bad noone gives a shit or what
>>163687914
just sack and move on, puppets will turn on you eventually anyway, the only reason to puppet is a replenishment boost
also, don't underestimate the sarmatian warband, those guys are incredibly strong for their price, you can easily take most walled settlements for sacking purposes as long as you have them
>>163659851
RATS WHEN?
>>163687751
More modern equipment I guess. Not as skilled though.
>>163687994
It's hard I guess.
>>163687751
Blood knights get effectively equal weapon strength due to frenzy, and they have 10 less armour because half of them forgot to bring helmets
>>163687994
Probably waiting for all of DLC.
>>163687503
just ignore the campaign objectives
after playing for about a year i think having 25k saved per stack is a good rule for when youre settling
avoid upgrading to high tier units until youve settled or saved extra
>>163687994
Poorfags outDENUVO'ed
I feel bad at never giving Rome II the time of day which how much fun I'm having this Epirus campaign
>>163688114
I'm literally refusing to get this game til they add Skaven.
They made Skaven the focus of the (shitty) End Times release for tabletop, gave them tat Left 4 Dead rip off, but they don'thave them in the Total War? Not even as a generic bandit-like enemy faction? Not even as a fucking random nuisance horde??! It makes no sense.
All I want is my fucking doomwheels.
>>163688412
DEI?
>running down bretonnian peasants with wild riders
>one of them laughs and the other says "your king is powerless"
WTF? I thought they were nice guys
>>163688443
At least make the post look different.
>>163688443
It wont happen cuckboy
Rats never
>>163687271
Just declare look for their approval by doubling down on their war declaration, long enough so that you can get all migrate to the badlands
>>163688109
>the crossbow with 550 kills
>>163688793
>he lost more units from friendly fire than all the Frank forces combined
>>163688793
>>163688109
M-MASAKA
>>163689005
than from*
>>163688454
The DEI Massalia campaign is so much fun.
Grab Syracuse early for dem Gastraphetes and slaughter gauls til the end of time
>>163687751
Reiksguard are the best knights in the Empire, Blood Dragons are a bunch of lesser vampires with a hard on for swords and honour.
>>163688793
>>163689080
It was a forest battle, its hard to keep track of all your and the enemies troops, especially since I can't pause
>playing this during an empire run
I am woken in elysium lads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyN3Z-LTSc8
Posted this yesterday, but here we go again.
What DLCs should I get with Attila?
Rushed to get Waldenhof thinking only one of their armies could get Eschen and even then only via forced march, but alas I was wrong, and although I killed one of their lords I still lost.
And now they have retreated to where I will have to fight them and their garrison
>>163687271
i went up there with one-eye and they confederated in a couple of turns around turn 18 its crazy
i got btfo
>>163690117
They're all good desu. You could skip the last roman and viking forfathers if you wanna save some dosh though
How the fuck do I get good at Shogun 2?
Bought it yesterday and got my shit pushed in
>>163690469
what exactly are you doing to get your shit pushed in senpai
>>163688454
Vanilla
Acting in character and accepting every single request for assistance I receive
>>163659851
Rollan
>>163689971
>not playing this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBGOQ7SsJrw
>>163690469
play Oda
acquire firearms
>>163690383
What about Charlememe?
>>163690682
idk man, I'm losing a shitton of units every battle because I focus on one part and something flanks my other units and I don't see it
plus, I don't know which 'agents' are worth and which notis there a hotkey to slow down the time or do I have to use the mouse?
>>163690797
I don't really enjoy firearms in this setting
All I wanted is Attila with Warhammer optimization and loading times
>>163690850
Westernise or die desu
Oda Ashigaru spam is still extremely effective even without the dishonorable gaijin weaponry
>>163686106
Some themes are superb, such as most vampire/chaos stuff. Dorfs and orcs were pretty low-tier though. A lot of hit and miss.
>>163690117
empires of sand is the absolute best and is all around great, AoC and TLR are pretty fun, celts are acceptable, the rest are shit
>>163690695
You should try DEI for your next campaign.
Did you invade Italy yet?
ALAN STRONK.
This battle took me like 20 minutes but it was damn fun, cav is so OP they had a garrison too which had 3 archers and 1 cav and 3 infantry.
>>163691648
>The Wild Hunters
CA confirmed for bros?
>>163691648
ELF FUCKING SHITS GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY THREAD
REEEEEEE
>>163690778
dafuq is this shit?
>10 capital build slot mod doesn't work with any of the major battle overhaul mods
fug
>>163671621
Gonna roll for a fun comfy snow campaign as well, merry Yuletide!
How easy is it to install M2 and the LOTR mod these days? last I checked the download links were fucked for the mod
>>163691470
>>163690383
Followup question.
Shogun 2 or FOTS?
I've played both, but not sure which one to get.
I really liked guns in FOTS, but Shogun 2 is quite fun as well.
How do I get better with Unit Composition and tactics?
Take in mind I'm referring to Total War: Warhammer for this and I'm just wondering if I should do anything specific when trying to play
I just suck ass at the game and wanna win more battles for having better combined arms
>>163691478
Working with them to assblast Carthage actually.
I'm allied with Macedon too and campaign against the Balkan barbarians, as well as picking a fight with Persia on behalf of Pergamom
Pyrrhus of Eprius is the hero the Hellenic and Latin world needs
>>163689276
How is DeI? Considering it's still WIP and the manpower system is probably not going to be in, is the mod missing anything major at the moment?Is segmentata for rome in?
>>163692625
FOTS is in my opinion much more fun than shogun
>>163690131
>Didn't take Templehof on Turn 2
You fucked up m8
>>163690131
If you attack them while in forced march you will get an ambush battle
>>163692794
Pretty fun. A bit slower in battle but I like that.
Depending on your faction, you can recruits differents units in different provinces. As Rome is was fun to go full autist with iberian, greek and germanic auxiliari troops
>>163693330
Pic related, gastraphetes are (were?) absolute rape machines
>>163693553
>20 minutes battle
So here is how things stand:
The war with Egypt and it's allies is nearing it's end. After the destruction of more than 20 armies (3 of which were mine), Iberia won a grand total of two new territories (Alexandria and Memphis) and a complete region, Lybia. My Economy suffered, trade agreements with Parthia, Pontus, Athens, Egypt and Sparta were all ended and they will take sometime to gain back.
>>163692724
Bring in a load of line infantry, preferably spears or halberds. I usually bring in 10 or so. Bring some missile units to back them up. Try rolling 2 melee / 1 missile or 1 melee / 2 missile. This should be the bulk of your force.
Then bring 2-4 cav units to hold your flanks, run down routing units that might rally and to charge into the rear of moshpits.
Bring another 2-4 units of arty, monsters to some sort of specialist units.
As for tactics, whenever in doubt, hammer and anvil. Set aside some units like swords, cav or heavy inf to sit on the flanks and wrap around enemy units once they make contact with your spears or halberds or whatever. Use your lord to fuck up baddies. If you got cav, wheel them around and attack from their rear.
>>163688443
Don't copypasta me bitch.
>>163693752
It's decent length, there's only 6k soldiers there
>>163693818
Meanwhile, Rome has been destroyed. I don't know exactly how Europe looks, because I was so focused in Norther Africa, but as you can see the Nervii havee become quite the power. Carthage has reappeared, but they are quite small. However, Athens has become the masters of Italy while Sparta now has it's domain in Greece.
>>163693553
the AI can't really handle the changes DeI makes to the balance desu, makes it even easier than usual
>first time taking a castle in shogun 2
>kill almost everything with arrows
>lose 50 yari ashigaru because they fell climbing the walls
what the fuck nigger
>>163693978
But man, the east is fucked. Parthia are huge and then you have fucking Pontus that are also huge. I can't expand to Brittania because I can't pull back my armies from Europe (for fear of the Nervii going retarded and attacking me or, even worse, Athens and Sparta) and I can't pull back my armies from the north of Africa because of Parthia, Pontus and Egypt.
So now I have to develop Lybia and what I can of Aegiptus to have good garrisons and to make money.
>>163694105
The Japanese never really understood castles
>>163694001
Depends, they can drown you in numbers
>>163694126
>>163693978
>Pontus
>>163694126
Pontus stronk.
Suck it antiochus
>>163663658
Rolling.
Also, Warhammer looks like fun but is itworth it
>>163694909
Depends on whether or not youhave a job
>>163695012
I do but Ispent almost $200 on other shit for Christmas already
>>163694470
>>163694270
Right, I figured out something I can do. I'm going to send my armies up to Parthia, the only faction still at war with me, and I'm going to attempt to liberate the old factions there to destabilize the region.
>>163695120
I see, then maybehold off until the Bretonnia releaseunless you have a lot of disposable income.
>>163695294
Not a bad idea butwhen will that be released?
Is it feasible to make a run straight for Karak Eight Peaks as Ironhammer? The 50% upkeep is insane and from what I see the elves always confederate and turn on you or the orcs just keep gunning for you and there is no opportunity to leave.
I've decided to become America and free the world from the corrupt and dirty hands of Parthia, giving the lands back to their rightful owners. Until I gather money and eventually conquer everything for myself, of course.
>>163695901
>Parthia
You mean Seleucid
>>163695901
>>163693064
How do you do this?
>>163662651
When I played Saxons by the time Attila showed up I had recreated the Roman empire, with everything from Spain to Constantinople under my heel. The Huns were an insignificant border conflict, I went full defense in depth and they couldn't get even one full province into my land.The Sassanids, on the other hand
Newfag here, can you only hold dorf land as orc tribes? I'm not seeing any info in my faction summary.
>>163696684
>an you only hold dorf land as orc tribes?
yes. unless you have the occupy everywhere mod.
>>163696615
What difficulty are you playing on? Because when I played Geats (Legendary) I had basically all of west/central europe except modern spain and italy, and when the huns came I had to use all 10 of my armies on the east border with them and I still lost ground
>>163695543
February
>it's the "form an infantry box and set kneel fire while your cannons rape half their army before they even reach you" phase of the game
>>163697116
That movement speed on the campaign map of armies with artillery though. I fucking hate it so much.
I just talked to /my guy/. AE- 2017 is the year. Rejoice
>>163697004
VH, I gave ground too, and had to raise more armies than I expected, but they never broke through the land I had set aside as 'Land To Fight Huns In.'
>>163697004
saxons are much stronger at fighting huns than geats, because they have tier3 melee cav that shits on nokkors, they have tier 3 spears and swords with great armour and just fuck hunnic shit upfighting sassies as the jutes is the most fun you can have with a nordic roster
>>163697408
I thought you said you never fought Atilla?
He'll show up m8, him and his stacks
Maybe you're just too good, I know I literally can't play any Total War on anything below the hardest (campaign) difficulty, which fucking sucks because I like diplomacy and making friends
>Skarsnik campaign
>Ironpick's minor settlement already has walls on turn 10 even though he hasn't built anything to give it walls and it is a tier one settlement
Is this a cheat the AI has that I'm just not aware of?
>>163697383
Restarting my VC run, hopefully the skellie doesn't lone survive this time and I can get more units.
How do I capture their castle? Just raid until they sally out or build up an amry bigger than theirs.
Should I capture the castle or go for the 2 settlements right nearby
>>163697383
>>163697857
I don't get the buzz for AE. Some of the features look nice, but Rome II is perfectly playable nowadays, and doing the same thing in Attila will just bring the massive turn lag and gimp naval battles. All you gain are horde factions.
True understanders are waiting on Medieval Kingdoms.
>>163698191
Rome 2 is and always will be shit.
>>163698241
How is it any worse than Attila?
It runs 5x better, and doesn't have the same kind of tedious sanitation and food management.
The only downside compared to Attila is the setting.
>>163675297
>this guy
Welcome back friendo
>>163675682
pretty sure r2 was the same, why does it have to load why can't it just be in the base game tho
>>163676224
beastmen giant?
>>163698319family tree
>>163698319
Attila's downside IS the setting.
>>163698319
Terrible mechanics like instant sieges and gate burning, ugly washed out lighting 90% of the time, AI is still broken on siege maps, retarded civil war mechanics, and the campaign map still runs at 30fps for me.
Why don't VC have a army steal option when fighting VC factions, like with siege weapons in atilla
IE 2 random units from the army you killed join your side at like 10% strength
I want to be dominated by a best elf!
>Wipe out enemy forces
>Lose a comparatively small number in return
>Close victory
I've had enough of your shit Total War
>>163698319
>How is it any worse than Attila?
no hordes, no family trees, instant sieges, retarded inner politics and civil war, worse AI
>>163698438
>being this much of a pleb
I bet you don't even enjoy being released from the oppressive Roman tax regime.
>>163698392
Eh, it's a nice feature. I didn't really miss it going from Attila to Rome, however.
>>163698463
>instant sieges
With 4 ladders. If they can take the city with just that, they deserve to.
>gate burning
Triggers my autism, but functionally no worse than bashing down gates with swords in Attila.
>AI is still broken on siege maps
I didn't notice any new problems when going from Attila to Rome II.
>retarded civil war mechanics
Haven't seen one yet but it sounds fun.
>and the campaign map still runs at 30fps for me.
The shitty campaign performance in Attila is the main reason I don't play it anymore. Rome II runs like a charm until turn ~150, and even then it's still only as bad as Attila at turn 1.
SUMMON
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Jesus fuck it's Christmas stop you fucking autists
>>163698797
Those skeleton spearmen were vital to the campaign you fucking shitter.
>>163664694
yes
>>163699040
When you say STOP I say ALL HANDS ON THE OARS
>>163699117
Where did this meme come from?
>>163697116
That's literally the tactic I used for every battle in Empire/Napoleon. Spanish have sent a huge horde against your tiny expeditionary force in Gibraltar? No problem, stand behind these sandbags lads. Huge Russian swarm threatening your precarious hold in the German peninsular? Stand behind some sandbags lads. Maybe switch to cannister shot if they get close.
It's a real shame too because I loved the setting and aesthetic in Napoleon. Just spending hours sitting reading the unit cards about how many cannons battleships had and shit, with that cozy music in the background.
I want to post about CKII games in here because /gsg/ is shit.
I just want a general autistic history-fantasy strategy thread where every regular poster from /gsg/ is permabanned. Us and the m&b guys would have a new golden age of autism posting and quality meme generation.
>>163699117
Life as a reanimated skeleton soldier must be hard.
Oh wait.
WTF HOW CAN HE FLEEE I KILLED HIM
>>163699596
Now follow him and use him to lure out the Castle Templehof garrison so you can take it on the next turn
>>163699695
Or I could abuse auto resolve, having got a ghoul king last turn with 3 skellies , and raise dead to get as much as possible.
Blood knights and varghesits still in tack
>turn 26
>have only just now captured Karak Norn as Crooked Moon
this entire campaign is a cluster fuck
>>163699036
THE
hey /twg/
I'm shopping for complete Shogun 2 and I noticed that getting the steam key for the Gold Edition together with the boxed version is a lot cheaper where I live.
What do I get when I enter the steam key for the localized Gold Edition? Is it simply S2 with Fall of the Samurai and all the DLC separately of some fucked up limbo version?
I'm concerned I will be stuck with polish version only, no trading cards and empty multiplayer server.
I like this screenshot so much Im gonna post it twice
>>163700481
>tfw the army retreats twice after concurrent victories against them in one turn and don't get destroyed
>>163699447
I haven't been to /gsg/ in a long time, is it that bad? I just remember HOI4 being shit compared to HOI3
>Epic movie music on the CAMPAIGN map
I wish modders would stop doing that shit. It gets so fucking tiring in the BotET mod. Just stick with the medieval 2 soundtrack if you can't find something that fits better.There is like a million 2hu orchestral pieces that would fit better than movie music
>>163700960
>you will never hear something as comfy as that Rome 1 campaign music for the first time again
>>163700929
/gsg/ became shit because they kept taking every joke too far. The germonies posting became worse than the numerous german/byzantium game posts. Also they keep doing that "SPLIT THE GENERAL XD" shit for every fucking game.
>>163699447
thats what the mbg steamgruppe is for
>>163700481
>>163701165
>mfw remembering the autists here wanting to split the general in to warhammer and history
>>163700960
most mods that touch ost are absolute cancer, it has always been the case and always will be
>>163701409
It was just a unorthworthy spat, comparing to all the /gsg/ schisms.
>>163701409
This general would have been better off. Now it's a shadow of its former self.
Is a mercenary-only campaign in Rome II possible?
>>163701857
Most people who play Warhammer also played the historical titles, we just have to be strict against /a/ shitters who come here with their "lewd elf XD" bullshit
>>163702497
>He thinks animeposting, which is so rare it practically might as well not exist, is the problem with this general.
>Strigoi ghoul king with 60 leadership with aura size +15%
or
>vampire lord with 80 leadership with 'characters aura leadership effect +6
>>163702157
I imagine it would be hard in the early game, but when your economy starts skyrocketing you could very well do that. Some buildings and ancillaries give bonuses to recruitment and upkeep costs.
>>163702858
Ghoul King is morefun
>>163701857
>it's a shadow of its former self
True
Fucking Rome 2
>>163702969
I have vlad and a ghoul king already so it's really tit for tat
>>163703021
>he blames the game
>not the autists who started shitposting about it
If they had been well-adjusted individuals the general wouldn't have become so shit
>>163701276
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHEifuLCSIY
>>163703158
The game was a fucking outrage at release, there was no way twg could live this down without some damage done.
CA hurt us big time and now they're trying to jew the absolute fuck out of us with marginal unit packs and shitty mini campaigns for Warhammer. I'm surprised twg is even still alive.
>declare war
>vassal doesnt join
>they are now at war with me
???
>>163703645
TRICKED
>>163703645
Did you declare war on the vassal by accident?
>>163703763
no, i declared war on marienburg in a co-op campaign, my chaos partner had a vassal who didnt join and now they are at war
>Skarsnik campaign
>Kill Durthu and raze the waterfall palace to the ground before heading after K8P
Perfect. Leaving Azgog Twigstikka up by Karak Norn to keep an eye on things
>>163703158
Maybe the game should have been good instead.
>>163701126
Shogun/Med campaign map is comfier. Truly the most tasteful campaign map music of the series.
>mfw map music for the 4 seasons in shogun
>>163703021
>>163703158
after attilas release there was a good period though, minimal shitposting, a lot of campaign posting, modders coming here (rip meloncat) it was pretty good for a while
>tfw you are killing entire nations for your personal gain, satisfying your power hunger
WHAT GIFTS DO YOU BRING ON THIS FESTAG, MEN OF THE EMPIRE? I BRING, UNTO THE PRINCE OF ALTDORF, GOLD, THE MOST PRECIOUS OF METALS
How good is this for turn 5 of a normal difficulty VC SFO game? Am I on track or behind. What should I do next just build up the economy, or raid some dwarfs to afford armies to SUMMON THE ELECTOR COUNTS
>>163699447
/gsg/ would be ok if HPM would die
>>163704674
you'll need to take essen for vlad's quest, schwarzhafen is a decent ally but it's also nice to have all of sylvania
>>163701126
medieval 2 was peak comfy, that ambience and music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fwb8gE1AHU
>>163704641
I brought a mud-pie
This is going well
>>163704641
If only you brought usefulness instead.
>>163704964
Is this your first time playing a total war game
>>163705146
Its my first time playing after cumming inside your mom
https://youtu.be/C--UFqAsaEQ
>>163704849
Okay I'll try that, any other of what to do.
Also the Lord pastebin in the OP, is that for multiplayer or is it a guide of how they'll be once properly specced out.
Is it good to have like 5 zombie units in your army that go a few feet ahead to neuter charges or is that a bad tactic
The army buildings that go up to only tier 3 town hall, should I be build them in just the villages and do economic stuff in the state capital?
>>163702851
It was for a bit, you have to nip problems like that in the bud
>>163705516
Shogun 2 sieges could have been so much better.
>>163705195
you have pretty bad taste then
Why are people saying Clan Angrund is so bad now? Shouldn't a starting Alliance with the Wood Elves help?
>>163703310
This
I've been playing TW since the Shogun mongol invasion pack I picked up from a Costco when I was 8, and the first time I stumbled upon /twg/ was the release of Rome 2
>>163704964
>wood elves
What where they thinking
>>163687751
>underestimating humans
>>163705981
They're a great addition though?
Literally the #1 problem with this series is and has always been a lack of late game challenge.
Wood Elves are actually a serious fucking bitch to deal with late-game unless you make it a point to nip them in the bud early.
>>163706124
They are a bitch early game too
>>163704964
>not watching yourselves around elves
as empire/gobbos the first rule of business is to go full vietnam on their shit
carpet bomb athel loren ASAP or you'll regret it. It's fun to have a lategame challenge as everyone else though
>>163706124
They should change how Chaos and the Greenskins work then instead of making the Wood Elves into hulking retards
>>163706121
>vampire with tree hands>humans
>>163706216
>implying
Elves were my best ally as Empire, even better than Dwarves because Dwarves are constantly starting wars to settle grudges
The world is literally split between us
>>163706252
Greenskins should be able to occupy all provinces first of all.
>>163706369
>Steal all the precious Bretonnian clay
>"Best ally"
Non
>>163705958
My nig
>tfw picked up shogun instead of medieval at officemax because we already had age of empires 2
>>163706252
>They should change how Chaos and the Greenskins work
Sure that would be nice, but they should have done that in any case so I don't get what you're complaining about Elves for
The game is straight up better than it was before they were added.
what's the easiest faction to win as with TW: Warhammer? I tried all the base game ones and got my ass handed to me each time. playing on Hard.
>>163706642
Dwarfs probably
Infantry and quarrelers combo does the trick
>>163706642
Vampires is the borderline brain-dead "Select all your dudes and make an attack order" faction
Dwarfs are pretty easy too, just line infantry and crossbows will fucking anyone up (Remember to bring some artillery to lure the enemy.)
>>163706642
That's kinda hard. All of the factions can have a pretty tough start and so on. I guess it would be dwarfs because their campaign is more predictable in a way.
>>163706690
I was doing well on my Dwarf run but got rekt by a fuckhuge vampire count that conquered half the continent
>>163706437
Bretts are jerks who start fights constantly though
As soon as I could I vasssalized them, ending all their dumbass wars between each other and the welfs so we were all united against beastmen, chaos, andDwarfs
>>163706642
Greenskins. Just autoresolve everything.
>>163704964
DO you know how to make peace?>>163705548
>HELP
>E
>L
>P
Maymay
>>163706642
Wood Elves I would say, Dwarfs for base game
Just remember to make a second army to guard your starting settlements while you send your main guys out to conquest the mountains
>>163705548
Try not to make an enemy of the empire right away if possible
As VC (I play on VH) I usually move south to occupy the land held by the border princes and Tilea instead of moving west, since you can occupy any non-norscan human settlement.
>>163704641
>Gold
How quaint.
BEHOLD MY EMPEROR! I PRESENT TO YOU A NUGGET OF PURE GREEN
>>163706286
>human with meme magic>vampires
Also that priest wasn't gay enough
>>163705548
>Is it good to have like 5 zombie units in your army that go a few feet ahead to neuter charges or is that a bad tactic
If it works economically for you, I personally don't use zombies once I get grave guard and some monstrous units
>The army buildings that go up to only tier 3 town hall, should I be build them in just the villages and do economic stuff in the state capital?
Try to free up your capital as much as possible because it usually has unique buildings villages can't build. So put your "max tier 3 barracks" in a village, put a potential tier 4 or 5 building in your capital.
>>163707461
What do grave guard excel at, great weapons with danse macabre?
>>163704641
>GOLD, THE MOST PRECIOUS OF METALS
It is amazing indeed, gold is a very valuable commodity. I have no choice but to submit to my servile instincts and choose you as my next LL.
>Anything assassinating Kholek Suneater, Archaon
>Anything assassinating Durthu, or Orion
>Anything assassinating Grimgor or Skarsnik
>Anything assassinating any LL
There is a point where my immersion overpowers my gameplay and this it. I'm tempted to find a mod that completely negates LL from being assassinated, or just disabling agents in general.
I love meme builds
>>163707726
LLs don't die though, they just get wounded for a few turns
>>163707726
but dude skaven assassins lmao xD
>>163707827
You will ride eternal, shiny and chrome
>>163705919
Wood elves hate everyone
>Playing vampires
>Campaign always end up being a nonending fight against dwarven stacks
For once I'd like to conquer the empire but these stunties are such a pain, if only the orcs could put up a fight and distract them.
>>163707548
Basic frontline troops to me, mix them up a bit if you want. Great weapons are usually the better choice but I prefer to have all the variations
VC are as far as I know the best cavalry faction in the game, so I go classic hammer/anvil using GG as anvil and whatever highest tier Cav I have as the hammer
Throw in some chariots, flying monsters, and vampire-chan for flavour and situational utility
>>163707726
>mfw my witch hunters have 90% chance to assassinate almost anything except LLs
>>163707827
How do you even use chariots? I really like the Chaos chariots but I can't seem to get any mileage out of them.
Like do you charge them in the flank and then let them duke it out, cycle them, or try and have them plow right on through, either way they seem to require a lot of babysitting.
>>163708030
>VC are as far as I know the best cavalry faction in the game
>when fucking Empire exists
>>163707984
This, it's so fucking annoying.
>fight dwarf
>stall enough time to get a couple of empire settlements
>sue for peace as soon as you notice dwarf stacks making their way to sylvania
>at some point move all your stacks together to kill chaos stacks raiding your shit
>back to fighthing dwarfs
And so on
>>163708160
Are they not? I haven't been keeping up with patches but I'm fairly certain black knights were pretty high up there, weren't they?
>>163659851
ROLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
>>163707726
A thief stole vlad's ring of his sleeping corpse so anything is possible
>>163708320
I don't have the luxury of concentrating on anyone else, it's just nonending dwarf stacks that sometimes manage to catch one of my villages and raze it, forcing me to turtle to get it back.
>>163708110
They are pretty fucking good after the patch, but their viablilty is weakened by the fact that you have to do a lot of micro for one unit(which makes it less viable in mp). You keep charging with them. Even one charge will cause serious hp damage on a lot of infantry units.
>NEET elves
>tries to conquer every settlement
Doesnt seem all that NEET to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvJsG4F2Img
>try play beastmans
>end up running for my life most of the time and sneaking in a few sackings
this sucks the stupid elf outposts dont even give any money
>>163700929
>I haven't been to /gsg/ in a long time, is it that bad?
It's a /pol/-infested shithole with a sub-reddit-tier level of discussion, and goes way too fast to form any kind of cozy feel or warm sense of community.
/twg/ feels like a big, autistic, dysfunctional-but-more-or-less happy family. /gsg/ feel like an average neo-4chan shithole.
>>163709282
Meme men campaign sorta sucks now that the elves do nothing but chase you forever. I was fucking around in Kislev as Morghur and all of a sudden I see Orion and Durthu with full doom stacks coming for me.
>>163708370
>blood knights cost more than demys with halbeard but are worse
>black knights are worse than reiksguard
>>163709282
Norsca is your best bet at this rate. Or dwarves, sack the stunties to hell and back.
>>163663658
rollan
>>163708110
They do need a lot of attention but it really depends who your up against. Overall what you want to do is try to pull them through units. Trying and find ones that are in thiner lines to pull them through easier stuff like that.
Also you can just charge them into units and leave them there for a bit but just be sure they're lighter units.
>>163708110
Use gorebeasts
>there will never be a Total War that does pre-1700 India
I just want my meme whip-sword units. Those motherfuckers are terrifying.
https://youtu.be/RB7MF0zANT0?t=7730
>it's nearly impossible to find good Indian martial arts movies
Feels terrible man. I watched this entire movie in a language I don't understand because it has 4 good fight scenes, and doesn't shove a dozen shitty musical numbers into the story (the guy was trying to copy Kurosawa, and actually did a pretty good job).
>Elves burning down the world because they confederate by like turn 10
>Install "no confederation mod" because I'd like to play non-agent orange simulator empire campaign
>removing confederation somehow makes the AI spaz out
>most factions declare war on you, regardless of attitude
ca pls
>>163707984
>>163708320
>>163708621
totally agree, i dropped a VH near to be won for this, is too annoying.
>>163665772
Pedo scum.
Bet you exclusively play as the Greeks.
>Tfw no hordes of chaos army
Also
>tfw pick vlad as starting LL but Manlet is still the faction leader
>>163710884
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=758184450
>>163710183
By the way, that link is to a fight scene in the movie with whip-swords. Pretty well choreographed too, considering it was shot and edited with curried potatoes.
The dorfs are ______
Right, after some years of peace and the fitting of new units to the armies, it's time to finally put the egyptians out of their misery.
>>163711284
The sounds are fucking terrifying.
Got like 60 bucks extra to spend and I'm just looking for a game to sink time in while watching Netflix on the side. Warhammer looks nice but there's lotsa mixed reviews. Should I just grab another Total War?
>>163711391
literally an entire race of butthurt manlets.
>>163711859
Warhammer is good don't listen to the memes
>>163711859
Just buy Attila.
>>163711790
Now imagine a whole line of hundreds of those guys, spread out in front of your army.
Would be totally fucking useless in a real line fight against armored troops, but it'd be enough to scare off green recruits. Would also be pretty good for flanking unarmored units, or tearing up archers.
>>163711859
>mixed reviews
the bad reviews are mostly complaining about the DLC grifting. I'd recommend the game in general to Total War or Warhammer fans but it's hard to recommend it specifically to you without knowing what you're looking for.
I usually play it with a movie or youtube playing on my other monitor, it requires just about the perfect amount of concentration for that.
>>163711859
what other total wars do you not have? In terms of warhammer I like it but it definitely feels like it's missing a whole lot. I think it only becomes worth it with the King and Warlord DLC which I don't thin you would be willing to buy after getting warhammer.
you can always try Fall of the Samurai which I got this sale.
>>163710183
What the fuck am I watching?
>>163712127
I found cheaper on a few keysites so I can probly grab both the race DLCs. Really just want something to sink time with not too much to learn I guess?
>>163712154
I got Total War Napoleon but I never really got into that one
>>163709279
Beautiful. More like this please.
It never end
Anyone use "Fear the Green Tide" mod? I was told that it would make Greenskins more likely to survive on higher difficulties.
>>163711859
80+% of the negative reviews are complaining about the DLC policy and, valid or not, don't really speak to the quality of the actual game, so if you don't care about that shit then the reviews get a lot less mixed.
Obviously the game itself has it's frustrations and failures of design as well but, at least in my opinion, it is overall very fun and even if you don't buy any DLC there's a lot of value in terms of playtime to be had
>>163712245
>not too much to learn I guess?
Yeah it's pretty simple. You can probably find a really short guide with the like, 5 or so main concepts behind empire building.
It can take a couple campaigns to fully understand all the underlying systems but you really don't need that knowledge for a campaign on Normal.
>play as dorfs
>clean up badlands and confederate east mountains
>be bros with every human faction, including bret factions
>suddenly elves declare war on clan Angrund
>confederate them
>elves declare war on me
>"oh no you, didn't, cyкa"
>slaughter every elf and burn their shitty tree down
>suddenly every human faction hates me for fighting against the elves
>have to pay them some made dosh to stay out of fighting with them
Why the fuck did CA make every human faction good aligned towards the welves, if thos fuckheads are so agressive? Playing as dwarves is like a fucking Russia simulator
>fight chaos and some tree-hugging fuckheads
>everyone hates you for it
>>163713240
The fucking elves always declare war on Ironhammer and it makes no sense because they start off allied. I should play a campaign as Clan Angrund just to see what the fuck happens over there to make the elves so finicky.
>>163712923
Cool, I'll check it out
Thanks!
If I subscribed to mods on the steamworkshop why aren't they showing up in game eg zombie clothing?
>>163713526
Either you haven't turned them on which is unlikely or there's a conflict with another mod.
Any good mod suggestions for Empire?
>>163713428
>just to see what the fuck happens over there to make the elves so finicky
One of the shit elf factions declares war on you before turn 10 and Orion refuses to fight for you, voiding the alliance. I have no idea what were CA thinking here.
>>163712061
Seems like it would be very intimidating in a duel scenario like in that movie, just because the noise it makes and how weird it is compared to other weapons. How dangerous are they compared to more normal weapons? The only time I've seen something similar is in Berserk, but it's obviously not going to be an accurate representation of how they work when the guy using it is taking heads off with it.
>>163713863
>>163664748
stop upgrading your tree and nothing else. stacks appear everytime you do.
>>163714014
>>163711859
Warhammer deserves its mixed review don't listen to the marketers. The campaign map and battle map were neutered and the game is chock full of DLC.
>>163714142
>25% off base game is the only sale we're getting
It's like they never want me to buy beastmen
>>163714632
Gamesplanet has the race DLC for Warhammer on sale, though only 15% off.
>don't play greenskins for 2 months untill trying them again
>forget that orc boyz can't win a fight with dwarf warriors even in a 2v1 situation
Thank Mork for sneaky stabbas.
>>163713951
I don't think it's ever been used in a serious military context, because it requires a ton of training to not kill yourself with it, and you can't really fight in a tight line formation with it.
In a Total War game, however, I could easily see a special 60-man unit armed with these, with huge attack and damage scores and AoE damage, but shit-tier armor penetration and defense states.
Basically, it would be absolutely devastating as a flanking unit, but would melt if it tried a static defense.
>they keep rejecting
Does Franz have to go and suck off the high king himself for them to accept it?
>>163714601
>>163714783
Nigga you... Nigga, why are you in Castle Templehof?
>>163714783
>Karl Franz taking up residence in the superior bat country
HOVELDORF BTFO
B
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F
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>>163714783
>Settle this BIG grudge manling
>>163714893
>>163714913
Because its comfy there
And no elves
>>163714783
>Trustworthy
STEADFAST NIGGA, STEADFAST, ANYTHING LESS YOU'RE A LITERAL SKAVEN AND THE AI WON'T DEAL WITH YOU
>>163714783
wtf happened to Reikland
No wonder he doesn't want to trade with you, you're probably vampires in disguise
Where are the elector counts when you need them?
>>163715024
VC run here.
Going nothing like you guys describe. So far I turtled for about 100 turns with two fucking regions because it was too much of a cluster-fuck to try advance. Just raided the shit out of neighbouring dorfs and humans til I had some decent cash and fully upgraded settlements.
Finally I managed to spread out into the couple of human regions west and north of Sylvania. Dorfs stopped bothering me presumably because we killed so many of each other and there are famous battles in each of their settlements I can raise utterly OP armies from now. Technically we are still enemies but they haven't attacked me in a long while.
Turns out the Empire got destroyed by Wood Elves, and every other human faction appears to be getting their shit pushed in by Chaos. Currently there is literally nothing on my northern border but ruined settlements, so I'm turtling up a bit to try build some forces for the inevitable doomrape.
How fucked am I when Chaos finishes raping all the humans and turns its sights on me?
is Proper Combat Mod a decent battle mod?
want some slightly longer fights without installing some total rework mod like Steel faith or lorehammer.
>>163715556
Decent enough for big battles.
>>163713730
Darthmod.
>>163715463
not too fucked, chaos takes attrition damage from vampire corruption, and honestly one of the most fun things to do is to send army after army of cheap raise dead stacks at them, intending to lose but wearing them out so much that by the time they reach you, they only have a few units of chosen and maybe some cavalry left.
I just completed a campaign where I tried to never go to war, only increasing my territory by spreading corruption so bad that any faction will have rebellions razing their territory so I can come in and colonize right after.
VC can be pretty comfy when you want
>>163715463
if the wood elves go against Chaos, you are set
if the wood elves ally with Chaos, prepare to get fucked hard
if they ignore eachother, prepare for some fun battles, attrition will hurt them, but expect some great fights to take place
>>163714783
Declare war on their stunted kind. What they won't exchange through trade take through war. Karaz-a-Karak nets big money if you sack it.
Mongol fucking shits.
>>163714783
AI doesn't like it when you get more money than them of the trade . Offer some money too.
>>163715895
When will they learn?
>>163715964
I did
They still told me to go fuck myself
>>163716150
>>163716270
You better wait until being steadfast then. It seems dwarfs really like it.
I can't wait to see warhammer when all the factions are in it and it results in the most gargantuan clusterfuck ever. I bet even the lizardmen are going to come over and try to fuck you over if you're playing the Empire on harder difficulties.
>>163716336
the fun of being a levy in the ancient world
are these guys any good?
>>163716457
It will be interesting to see how it ends up.
is the blood for the blood god dlc pack worth it? kinda looks shitty in the pictures.
>>163716760
How did we go from those excellent unit cards to the unit cards of Rome 2?
>>163716760
Yes.
>>163716760
also what should my main line of infantry be composed of? I used ashigaru to get where I am now but don't want to use peasants now
>>163716868
CA are a bunch of incompetent monkeys.
>>163716868
Questionable art design and having to do many more units than in shogun 2
>>163716739
I think the funny thing is, I captured the town, the next turn they cap it back and now I cap it back. So that guy dying was probably an Iberian dude who settled there, then was drafted by the africans and then died against the iberians.
>>163716795
Pocket money. Actually less than that. Money you find in the sofa.Just watch a youtube video of it
The world would have been better off if Carthage razed Rome. Fact.
>>163717140
So yeah, that's done then.
>>163717010
>incompetent monkeys
Has Toyotomi Hideyoshi been the only competent monkey in history?
>>163716760
Welcome to the Chosokabe masterrace, those are rape trains you got there
If you don't want to use any Ashigaru as main line, I'd suggest Naginata samurai instead, Yari samurai, for what they are worth, are offensive units, decent at chasing and flanking
Am I the only one who thinks the dorfs are just boring to play as?
>>163717732
That's the point. They're supposed to be the most generic and vanilla faction, which is why they're given the only Easy start. They're the faction for people that already know the franchise but aren't sure about the fantasy setting.
G O B L I N S
I don't want to see Belegar KISSING goblins.
>>163717198
>We're all speaking in Latinized English instead of Punicized English
I was gonna say "shit-tier history to be honest family" with the latinate words replaced with hebrew, but fucking Semitic shits and their aversion to writing vowels make that way too hard.
So, nevermind, thank fuck Rome conquered Europe, just because their alphabet isn't complete shit.
did people in antiquity see everything in an orange piss filter?
>>163718790
yes and soldiers sort of just phased through eachother and slid around in battle
>>163718790
Unironically yes
http://www.sciencealert.com/humans-couldn-t-even-see-the-colour-blue-until-modern-times-research-suggests
>>163718790
Shitposting aside, its interesting to note that the old classics never refer to the color blue for the sky or ocean.
>>163717732
No you're not a special snow flake it depends on your play style and which race appeals to yours.
>>163718916
WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
>>163718916
DELET THIS
>>163718916
Literally no.
It's all a matter of the semantic boundaries of color terms, this has been extraordinarily well-studied and that article you linked doesn't cover it very well.
The Himba probably just took a while to figure out that the researchers were asking for the most divergent color from the mean, and spent a while thinking "what the fuck, all of these colors are !kagrurple".
>>163718954
And in Old Norse, Africa was sometimes called "Blue man land", but they didn't actually think the locals had skin that was colored like the daylight sky, "blue" just meant "dark colors including black and dark blue".
>>163719385
t. yellow apologist
just own up to the fact that all other colors are less advanced and inferior to best blue
Did Attila improve on the combat in Rome 2?
Thinking of giving it a go
>>163720218
yes
>>163720252
Thanks for the quick reply. I appreciate it a lot.
>>163720218
No.
Thank Grimnir for this hill or I would've been fucked in the ass
Me
>Deployed 1040
>Lost 458
Them
>Deployed 1425
>Lost 1050
>>163720218
I don't know.
Did this happen because I killed and raised so many manlets that their kins swore the oath?
>>163719224
>being unironically pagan
>year of our lord two-thousand and sixteen
SHIGGY
>>163719224
Literally fedora tier
Just got Shogun 2 on steam sale. Any must have mods?
>>163720218
its horsey kind of game mostly about horses
reminder that the AI is flat out retarded and cheats like a mad cunt
>>163663149
In the novel Skarsnik says he doesn't care about dwarfs with no beard statues.
So, my game went a little bit weird.
Alrighty /twg/ lets see if some more people would like some games for christmas.
Same deal as last night. You look at the picture, find a game you like and add me on steam. Ask for the game you want and I'll give you a code.
Because of the nature of the giveaway it's first come first served, so unfortunately if the game you want has already gone you can pick another from the list.
I'll be hanging around here for the next hour or so giving away games.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/Funntroll
>>163721093
>>163721315
Reminds me of Madworld
>>163721265
>902 hours in rome 2
FUCK
Is this even winnable? This is my first game on hard and this fucker rolls up on me with this doom stack on turn 23.
>>163720218
The main change in combat in Attila is that any cavalry unit, from the very light garrison cavalry to the super heavy shock cavalry, can absolutely skullfuck unbraced infantry due to how the impact damage works.
>attacking a castle full of bow monks
superior nippon strategy forded over 9000 time
>>163721315
>>163721403
That's what it reminds me of! couldn't think of the name myself.
But yeah, no idea what happened it just loaded in funny.
>>163721461
Uh, yeah. Play it well and you can win.
>>163721461
Flank his line with your stabbers and fuck his archer with the squigs and spider. Easy peasy.
>>163721461
The game thinks you can win at least.
God jul (Merry Christmas) /twg/!!!!!!
>>163721652
>>163721628
The BoP bar lies all the time. I feel downright dirty sometimes auto resolving sieges because I know it is giving me way better odds than I deserve.
>>163721659
Did /twg/ actually break off of /gsg/?
I-it can't be true, can it? We don't have anything in common with them, right?
wow rude
what does this mean lads
>>163721889
oh thats what it means
>>163721828
I hate sieges so I always auto them.
>>163722107
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>Republican Infantry use matchlock ashigaru lines
Why is it that CA recorded unique lines for the Imperial and Shogunate units but not for the Republicans? Is it because they got cucked in real life?
>>163720946
None, Shogun 2 has the best vanilla experience
Master of Strategy if you insist on modding the game
>>163721315
some nice ass comic effect filter you have there
>>163720946
Just stick to the classics.
Play Shogun 2.
Well I just fought Belegar and I fucking lost. God damn AI getting buffs instead of tactics with difficulty increases. Although I suspect it has more to do with the dorfs being piss easy to use so that even the drooling AI can manage them well enough.
God damn I hate dorfs.
>>163722107
likely the first of many
>>163723272
GOBKEKS IN RUINS
GO BACK TO YOUR SHIT PITS
>>163723060
Gee I wonder who's behind this post.
Dwarven ai really need a 50% increase in unit upkeep.
>>163720805
The AI basically gave up on army comp and is trying to lose afap to end the suffering
>>163723272
It's all fun and games until they start pumping out groups of 3 stacks huddled together that are 90% long beards
>>163723272
You lack schemes worthy of Skarsnik. What you should have done is retreat to get yourself out of the Underway stance, since the Underway is bad news for you. Then, when Belegar obviously chases you and starts a field battle, you have an easier time encircling him and breaking his troops.
Or you would, if you had fucking wolf riders instead of shitty-ass goblin archers. And the fuck is with your lack of gobbo spears? Gobbo spears have superior leadership, they should be your main line.
>>163717732
Just use lots of artillery
Explosions are cool at least
>>163721461
Nasty skulkers are bitchin
You can win
tfw you really out to go to bed because you have work in the morning but ONE MORE TURN WON'T HURT
Suddenly it's 3am
>>163723858
Gobbo spears suck my dick, and so do wolfs. No armor penetration, and wolves are just terrible period.
I think I'll stop this Vampire campaign, it's going nowhere with this endless dwarven aggression.
what happens if i become shogun, military ruler of all japan?
>>163724454
You're a fucking idiot. With Skarsnik/Night Goblin Warboss, gobbo spears and goblin wolf riders become some of your best units, especially since you can get army-wide poison attacks at level 4.
>>163724473
forgot pic
>>163724473
>>163724590
You get a tax bonus, +1 honour, a free Nihon Maru ship and 2 units of great guard, and your clan changes its name to [clan] Shogunate
>>163661769
you saved christmas anon
>>163661769
I found it enjoyable, nice work man.
I'm thinking of taking that occupy anywhere mod and redo my vampire campaign and take those fucking caverns so I can get some peace of minds.
>>163721461
You can win it ez pz lemon sqzy
Just be careful and dont let your units route becuese if they do you will probably lose them since its a shitty underground map
Feel like trying a Savage Orc campaign but never used Savage Orcs before. How are they?
>>163727260
Like every orc unit
terrible
Expect them to lose to dwarves even when you outnumber them 3 to 1
>>163663658
>no shogun 1
>>163710529
>Artist own self insert when he does trap porn
>Pedo scum
Also I don't know if you're aware but it is quite ironic since it is the very thing they speak of in that animation (it's cropped), like the buttfucker is asking him if he is a kid and he say im 18 or something like that.
>>163727718
your only choices in shogun 1 are to play as mori on VH or oda
Will Vampire Counts let me fill out my fantasies of a Castlevania strategy game when I was a kid?
>>163727731
He says he's 30 iirc
-8 is a great man, give him respect.
>>163728005
Only if your fantasy is about killing dwarves.
>nobody gives a shit about Indian history or mythology and we will never see games or fantasy universes inspired by or about them
Is there a worse fate than being an Indiaboo?other than being an Indian
>>163728603
Do you mean india indian or native american indian?
>>163728667
See what I mean?
>>163728989
>not even a proper desktop resolution
garbage
>>163728603
did you not enjoy asura's wrath?
Do the skaelling just never fuck off?
Playing as empire do i gotta get like a 3 stack and raid the north?
why does the "improved artwork" mod make my fucking game crash?
Are you ready guys?
what went wrong?
>>163729109
They'll stop when you take out WoC
what you should do is vassalize other factions (brettonian or dwarf minor factions) and then assign them to each raze a different Norscan settlement
It REALLY stops them in their tracks, I had Parravon, Karak Hirn, and Brettonia as my vassals burning down Skaeling settlements and didn't see a Skaeling stack in my territory for 20 or 30 straight turns
>>163729483
We are and always have been a fairly loyal but niche market
As much as I shit talk stuff in TW games I still buy all of them
Not to mention it's not exciting to stream, these are slow games
>>163729490
I did remove WoC but they're still here
:c
ill try that
>>163728603
play dei, it has an indian faction + aor indian units that are actually pretty decent
axum in attila also has access to indian units via their spice trade ports
>>163729605
They usually sue for peace after the game is "won", as in, the end time stuff is over
If you get them on the defense though they'll spend time trying to recover their lost territory
>>163729361
What is this that I am starting at with my eyes.
I was looking through the files when I noticed there were quite a bit of elf animations, including some not shown ingame.
If these are files for the other elves, what units could they hint at? For people that know more about Warhammer, what elf unit uses a two-handed sword and a crossbow?
>>163729361
Volquemare's sudden conversion to Ladyism surprised everyone in the Empire, but he quickly managed to convert the nobles and common people of Altdorf.
After naming himself Lord Spiritual Supreme of the Lady's Empire, he decreed that the Lady's faithful needed to purify the faith in its heartland of Bretonnia, for an apple that is rotten at the core cannot be saved. He seemed cavalierly disregardful of measures to protect the Imperial heartland, however...
Takeda Nagata was a close ally of the Chosokabe before the Shogun spurred the rest of Japan into action against our clan. With this in mind a truce was negotiated between our clans, so that we could focus our efforts on the many ikko ikki ships raiding our various ports, as well as their large force of ashigaru threatening kyoto. A hostage, one of our daimyo 's own sons, was offered as a hostage to ensure that the Takeda would feel safe, knowing that they had insurance against any possible treachery from our end. Our hostage was to spend 8 seasons at the Takeda court, free to spend his time amongst the nobility of the Takeda clan, but not free to leave. Takeda Nagata had known the boy since he was a small child, and the Chosokabe felt that they could trust him to keep the boy safe.
They were wrong
Not even 2 seasons after the deal was negotiated between our clans, Nagata Takeda sent our daimyo back his son - in multiple pieces. The takeda had betrayed our trust, and launched several surprise attacks against our forces. Nagata Takeda's own personal army sought to overwhelm one of our forces, but was soundly destroyed.
Nagata Takeda's head will be sent back to Kyoto, and will be placed upon a pike for all to see, and the rest of his body will be sent in various pieces to all of the clans of japan as a reminder as to what fate the enemies of the Chosokabe shogunate will be
>>163730707
>two handed sword
har ganeth executioners/swordmasters of hoeth
>crossbow
black ark corsairs
They're Dark Elf and High Elf animations.
>>163728603
Dominions 4 has 4 nations based on Hindu myth.
Beastmen shouldn't start at war with the Empire and instead should start at war mainly with Elves with a giant aversion to them so they focus on them and keep them in check.
>>163730746
Rebels who cling to the cult of the false "god" Sigmar are ruthlessly cut down by the Lady's knights. Praise the Lady!
>>163731429
but uh durr da AI has ta atak da playur first hurr durr we send logicks ur way 2 excit player
>>163731429
or at least have it so when they upgrade the oak of ages, which they will by turn 7 due to lol no amber penalties for ai, that it spawns the infinite waves of beastmen that beeline to the oak of ages like it does for the player
Was considering grabbing it since it's on sale, but I see that you guys mention Atilla having terrible performance - how bad are we talking, here?
I've always wanted to reunite the Roman Empire as a viking.
>>163731530
After crushing the rebels, we learn of yet more who oppose the Lady's Will, and recruit Her most devoted servants to help us (in addition to some penitent former mercenaries).
>>163731887
How can they be (metaphorical) sons of the lady if they are human? You do know that the lady is an elf, right?
>>163731864
Works fine on my 980 Ti :^)
>>163731887
More heretics! And it is no surprise that they make use of dishonorable artillery!
>>163732039
Why do you speak of the Lady with such certainty, when Her nature is obviously unknowable for mere mortals such as ourselves?
>>163732103
Shit, I only have a godawful 970.
>>163732272
aside from being a meme3.5gbcard, it's a good card still
always ignore the hardwarefags that buy a new card every generation
>>163732113
did you know that the wood elves of athel loren worship a goddess named lileath, whom they call "the lady of the lake"? Did you know that they build statues of said goddess? Did you know that those statues of said goddess look exactly like statues of "the lady" found in brettonia? Did you ever notice that the Brettonian statues of the lady never depict her ears? Did you know that elves who worship lileath are blessed with a resistance to magic, similar to the magic resistance granted by the lady of the lake?
t. scholar studying welfs
>>163732396
Aye, I wouldn't dislike this card so much if it was a legitimate 4GB card.
Think it can run Attila decently? I'm not sure how badly it supposedly runs. Otherwise I'll probably go back to just playing Stainless Steel and Third Age forever, with the occasional Shogun 2 sprinkled in.
>>163732113
>using units that use gunpowder
You are not true worshiper of THE LADY
Burning down the Oak of Ages as the player doesn't eliminate the Wood Elves faction
>>163732462
woah really have to think now
>>163732462
Did you know peasants that tell lies have a 100% chance of being oppressed?
>>163731887
>The Lady's (Metaphorical for She Remains Pure) Sons (Swordsmen)
im dying
Man it's 5 game as VC lost because the dwarves are such cunts they prevent me to expend so chaos storm sweep everyone.
>>163732817
Ever think about doing a migration?
>>163732817
Have you tried not pissing off the Dawi?
>>163732669
it will run Attila more than decentlyCPU dependent
>>163716760
Warrior monks are like Samurai archers if they traded off all of their melee capability to be better at range.
>>163732865
They come to me. Every single time. Aint no peace possible with stunties.
>>163732860
Nah, maybe I should.
>>163732865
>deliberately avoiding Thogrim at the Legendary Lord annual dinner
THAT"S A GRUDGE
>Start Clan Angrund campaign
>Seems ok, not really hard just annoying
>No real challenge so far
Does it kick off at any point? I'm 18 turns in and it seems relatively chill. Is it only "hard" because of the upkeep?
>>163733020
Thorgrim was never invited to the dinner.
>>163732894
Neat, thanks anon. That hopefully won't be too much of an issue with a 4790k.
I'll buy it and find out, I guess.
>>163732462
Oh, you're a heretic.
The penitent crusades will reach your home soon enough, scum.
PRAISE THE LADY
>>163732113
I don't even know what kind of heresy levels are going on here.
>>163733041
That and unending rebellions
>>163659851
I have all the DLC now. Going in dry for my first ever playthrough!
>>163733367
>Hijacking the Empire for a Bretonnian religion
The Witch Hunters will be along shortly.
>>163733367
One by one, the rebels fall. Soon, we will be ready to begin the first great crusade.
>>163733504
summon those electors
>>163733518
With Reikland secured, we turn our eyes to the south.
>>163732792
speaking of peasents, I came down from karak norn one day looking to sell some arrows to some guy I knew in some Brettonian shithole, when I noticed a light coming from somewhere out in the woods alongside the path I was on. Being the inquisitive dawi I am I went to go investigate, and stumbled upon a tranquil little pond I had never seen before. The glow was coming from the pond itself, and I was ready to leave and write it off as elf non-sense when all of the sudden, this tall beautiful woman rose from the pond, butt-ass naked, with long perfect hair that just barely covered her tits - now I usually like my woman short and hairy, but this was an opportunity I could not pass up. So this lady just pounces on me, still covered in pondwater, and starts ripping me armor off! Next thing you know I'm shoving my huge, thick 4 inch dwarven cock into this lady's asshole (she said she was saving her virginity for some wazzock named leon). After about 4 hours of violating her tight pink asshole (dawi are known for their endurances), I pull out and spray her supple tits with a massive load of my mineral-rich seed. As I'm getting dressed and getting ready to leave the lady (as she calls herself) sinks back into her little pond, but not before giving me a piece of parchment with the address of some place in athel loren so that we can meet up later and shag again. As I put the paper in my pocket, I noticed my az was gone, replaced by an umgi-sized blade that was surrounded by this magical pale flame, just like those horse-knights use.
Long story short, I'm now eskimo brothers with every single grail knight in brettonia
>>163733714
Stop being cucked by elves.
>>163733708
The electors will be summoned posthaste
>>163733714
On the eve of his departure on crusade, Volquemare formally assumes the title of Our Lady's Foremost Servant, and leaves his Chief Deputy, Karl Franz, to watch over the Empire in his absence.
>>163733504
REEEEE IM IMMORTAL AND EVERYTHING BELONGS TO ME!
>>163733723
Dawi don't have dicks because Dawi don't have women, everyone knows this.
But because of your lies, every single dwarf in Karak Norn will be put to the lance for the Lady's honor.
>>163734013
If you really valued the lady's honor, you wouldn't wipe out an entire clan of her favorite fuckbuddies
>>163734120
The Great Crusade is starting now. First Karak Norn, then every surviving Karak left.
>>163733940
who dat? Don't remember anything in the game looking like that
>>163734226
It's one of the generic Vampire Lord models.
>>163733936
The Lady spoke to Volquemare in a vision, and told him that Bretonnia, once the great bastion of the Faith, has fallen to vile heresy. Men cannot be leaders in the faith, and the Bretonnians have not launched any crusades in Our Lady's name in centuries!
Thus, Volquemare has declared the first Bretonnian Crusade, to purify the heartland of the faith. DOMINA VULT
The Bastonnian cowards fled with an entire army from Montfort at news of our approach, and so our first victory is an easy one. Praise the Lady!
>>163734170
It'll be hilarious to watch you umgis get blown to smithereens by blasting charges while your elf lady takes turns riding me and all the other karak norn ironbreakers to completion
>>163734352
>using a shamanistic pretender of a wizard instead of a celestial mage who practices the lady's preferred lore of magic
seems awfully close to heresy to me
>>163734372
The Lady's blessing makes your black powder useless. Mercy will not be given to dishonorable dwarfs like yourself. Say your prayers to your gods, for Bretonnia is coming for youwhen they get fucking released, because I don't want to ruin the experience by using a faction unlock mod
>>163734352
>He is still using gunpowder units
>>163734352
The Lady, in another vision, has commanded Volquemare to offer friendship to Skarsnik of the Crooked Moon goblins.
Volquemare gave a lengthy sermon about the virtues of friendship and loyalty, and surprised the audience by referencing the love between Skarsnik and his pet squig as the purest example of this in the world.
The Lady's will may be difficult to understand at times, but the faithful do not question it.
>>163734451
I wanted to get a Damsel (Male), but the Broken Pines quest battle gave me this guy.
>>163734636
Why are you so quick to point out the speck in another's eye, when you have a giant lead bullet in your own?
>>163734653
The cowards cannot run any further.
PRAISE THE LADY
new thread
>>163735049
>>163735049
>>163735049
>>163734964
anon, put your banners on your men so that they can use them to further the will of the lady
>>163659851
Well I got kemmler. I already did a campaign with him but that was before The King The Warlord dlc. Should I bother doing it again? Has his campaign gotten any better?
>>163659851
I got 33 what do I do?
>>163731380
Total War: Dominions when?
>>163736170
closest thing we have is that Thera mod or whatever