/twg/ - Total War General

Will next week be the week? I just want the fucking Brets

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Rock the boat!

>>167462515
Look at the bright side anon, they are running out of weeks to postpone telling us anything, but they like to keep the trailer about 2-3 weeks before the release so its a solid "maybe"

>>167462208
why the fuck did you make the thread early you stupid retard

Quick reminder that if you choose for your General's unit to be anything other than heavy Cav you're a shitter

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Post em.

>>167465390
fuck off

every goddamn thread with this garbage

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>>167465626
Yes, let's post memes instead.

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>>167465626
Oh no, helping people pick what faction to play, how awful.

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>>167465821
Old memes?

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>>167465821

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WHAT'S UP MOTHERFUCKER!? YOU THINK I WOULD JUST FORGET YOU AFTER YOU SPENT THE PAST 100 TURNS TRYING TO RAPE MY LANDS!?

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G O B L I N S

>>167466698
Shouldnt that be STABS INTERNALLY

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STABBY S T A B B Y

>>167467123
What's a sarl?

Why didn't medieval nations give their forces a couple of javelins to launch before the charge? It's a pretty sweet thing

>>167467846

A norscan tribe.

>>167467123
>bringing guns and greatswords vs norscans

>>167468338
In the Europe of those times armoured heavy cavalry was the dominant shock force, so their tactics proved to be an innovation. The Almogavars were uncomfortable riding, and always fought afoot.[24] The first thing they did was throw their spears at the knights, piercing through their armor and shields from a distance, but especially fatally wounding the horses. They also got into the enemy formation to cut the hocks of the animals with their knives, or impaled them with spears. In the melee they did not hesitate to use their short swords or maces to disembowel horses, and when the agonized mounts collapsed they rushed at the horsemen with their knives to kill them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almogavars

LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS

TO DEFEAT

THE HUNS

>>167468865

>vc

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MARIUS
A
R
I
U
S

APRIL 2017

>>167469038
Really?

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>>167469038

Real talk though, Greenskins really need a Savage Orc Warboss already.

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>>167465390
Alright, rollan

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>>167469038
>Another samey badlandsbowl faction

>>167469507
>Cornelia rome
Really?
Reroll, give me some minor tribe this time

>>167469652
>arevaci
Alright, lets do dis

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>>167469652
Thats a bit better.
I'm currently trying out a minor faction playthrough as Knossos. It's not going so well.

>>167469038
Hasn't Gorbad been dead for like 500 years?

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>>167469864
Three armies all camped out on my only mainland region. Greaaaat

>>167466402
we need a new version of this with the constant bickering between fantasyfags and historyfags

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>>167470101
The sand peoples come out of the desert in an attempt to dislodge me from my new home.
They're unlikely to be successful.

>>167469959

Didn't stop Vlad

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>Running back to my city
>Can't quite make it
>Swap to forced march
>Don't get any extra movement distance
>Can't swap back out
>Now this

Fucking hell CA

>>167469347
Real talk at least give the races in the game all their generic lords and heroes. Every campaign I'm missing black/savage/orc big bosses, wargors, etc.

>>167470852
The difference being that Vlad is an immortal who was notorious for resurrecting and Gorbad is just an orc boss who was not immortal and never once resurrected in the lore.

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Posting shots from a top-notch map.

>>167469959

Never confirmed to be dead, plus he's in 8th ed so fuck it.

hello is AE out yet

>>167462208
>Make thread early
>Don't update the OP
>Don't know how to link to a different thread
Kill yourself

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>>167471254
Pardon me, the map is City of the Damned Battle Map and the creator is creme_de_la_bear

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>>167471150
Azhag, Vlad, Marius, Isabella, and in the end they are all dead anyway. Besides Gorbad and Grom the Paunch have the "defeated but never found" shit to them.

Fuck it if they are in the book put them in. Lets get Gorthor in here with Taurox

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what the fug

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>>167469592

Could always make him a horde, start him in like Kislev or some shit. The fuck if I care I just want my crazy idiot diamond Elector Count and sweet as black/gold colored army.

>>167471643

Shit I'll settle for just a generic Doombull lord.

Which artillery should I use in the Empire's late game? I'm tempted to take Helblasters, but I've heard bad things about them.

>>167471254
>>167471502

I'm glad you enjoyed my map at least anon, I admit though I only tested the waters for small flying units so all large flying units still go into the water, as you may have noticed. working on fixing that as we speak!

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>>167471857
I'd bet my left nut Doombull and Taurox come out the same time. If only there would be a Taurox/Valkia DLC in a real Blood for the Blood God DLC. But without the Dark Elves Valkia has no one to bully into exile.

Khorne's pet with Khorne's waifu. We'll call it Beauty and the Beast....

>>167469038

>huntsmen
>bowmen
>pump wagon

Never ever. Empire doesn't need either and the pump wagon is such a weird awesome thing that alone means we'll never get it.

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>>167466402
>old
try again

How do I git gud at this game?

I just bought the game through humblebundle and started the grand campaign, and around turn 20~ as dwarves I got my shit pushed in. Two full stack orc armies just appeared and started taking over settlements one by one. Is this supposed to happen or did I fuck up early game by not building enough troops?

Any advice and general tips appreciated

>>167472214
It would be badass to have Huntsmen. Anti Large archers.

>>167472391
Jesus. Gamespot.

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Rejoice! For a Knight of Bretonnia provides your shield.

>>167472436
rush for walls in every settlement. don't overextend

>>167472214

>Bowmen
>Tier 1, recruited from Barracks
>Cheap, Can fire while moving, 170 range, lower damage, higher rate of fire, higher ammo

>Huntsmen, specialist ranged infantry
>Tier 2, New building chain like Dwarf rangers
>Stalk, Vanguard, Anti-Large, Bonus Against Monsters

They'd fit in nicely to be honest.

>>167466698
I'm looking forward to Styx 2, but the preorder DLC is easy mode bullshit.

>Warhammer already has as many player created maps as Attila

Come on CA. Let us make some decent siege battles.

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>>167472138
Excellent map lots of fun choke points. Here is what I am hammering out, supposed to be the Pillars of Grungi, it has been a learning experiance

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>>167473132
Better shot

>>167473006
how was the mapmaking for attila? I remember some youtubers like blademaster previewing maps they thought were cool and well-made and thats about it. Were you able to tie custom maps to the campaign at all? Would be neato if someone could make better fort maps

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how does this happen

>>167473132
>>167473456
neat attempt so far anon do some sneaky blending on those mountains along the edges

>>167473863
low integrity, I can only assume

What's some good music to listen to for a beastmen campaign?

>>167474554
attila ost, huns music

>own almost all of france and half of Germany along with the non-nations of netherlands and belgium in med 2
>they both refuse peace despite the pope being in my pocket

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How do you become so shit that you have -1 morale?

>>167474690
Fug, which songs are the huns songs?

DOES

ATTILA

EVER GO ON SALE

>>167475239
Yes. It goes on sale all the time for around 75% off.

>>167475239
WHO

CARES

JUST

PIRATE

IT

>>167475307
ITS
FOR
COPO COOP

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>>167466402

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>>167473456
make sure to add flavour, like pic related

>>167474860
youtube anon

>>167475605
I mean which songs are there's? It's a big ass soundtrack and I want to make a playlist.

>>167475861

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLWr03q5sDU&list=PLh4Eme5gACZEM-VNYOi8CcZa1AluMXFmB&index=1

the first 19 are Hunnic

>>167474764
Some of the debuffs in Attila are complete bullshit. I had a generals unit with a melee attack skill of fucking 0.

Can flagellants be viable in the endgame provided that they have Volkmar's buffs?

>>167476085
Thanks anon, going to have a dank no minotaur campaign now.

Empire:
Lords : 5/10
Heroes : 3/8
Units : 19/24

Total = 64% Complete

Dwarfs:
Lords : 6/8
Heroes : 3/6
Units : 17/17

Total = 83% Complete

Greenskins:
Lords : 7/11
Heroes : 3/9
Units : 22/25

Total = 71% Complete

Vampires:
Lords : 7/6
Heroes : 4/8
Units : 18/20

Total = 85% Complete

Warriors of Chaos
Lords : 5/11
Heroes : 2/10
Units : 16/23

Total = 52% Complete

Beastmen
Lords : 5/8
Heroes : 2/5
Units : 14/16

Total = 72% Complete

Wood Elves
Lords : 4/6
Heroes : 3/7
Units : 15/14

Total = 81% Complete

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Questionable siege tactics by the AI here

>>167478127
are you playing vanilla

fuck off

>>167477818
>Warriors of Chaos
>Total = 52% Complete

Guys what if, guys listen, guys - what if we take the most iconic and popular faction in WHFB and, guys pay attention, and not only make them a pre-order DLC but not even include most of their units and shit.

t. Creative Assembly

It still pisses me off how much shit they're missing.

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>>167478246
How bout you let the man post his campaign and go be a bitch somewhere else.

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>>167478127
Yes guys burn down the gates if only there was a way inside

>>167478246
Yes

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What's the point of building a ram in TWW when literally any unit can punch the fucking gate to death?

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Jelly?

>>167475605
that is the intent, I intend to have a Greenskin occupied version as well. and

>>167478620

>He hasn't removed the elf menace

Smh Tbqh

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>>167478620
>he vassalized the wood elfs instead of throwing the old world's largest bonfire

>>167478607
takes one turn, and will initiate sieges if you don't have any siege stuff
Its pretty useless though

>>167478607
Rams are much faster of you don't have monstrous units.

>>167479070

>much faster
>can take the gates down to 20% health by the time the ram gets to them
>much faster

>>167479282
What units are you using that can take gates down so fast?

>>167478607
The ram significantly boosts your autoresolve odds.

>>167479696
20 archaons

>>167478620
have fun watching your vassals all rebel after you destroy chaos

>>167477818
what other units are the Empire missing?

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>outnumbered 2 to 1
>hug a corner of the map and win
What did the pikemen mean by this?

>>167480230
nice toaster, faggot

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this guy cross your border and slap your general , what do ?

>>167480230

On my Macedonian and Sparta playthroughs, all I did was build a load of pikes in an army, move them to near an enemy town with an army inside it and enter Fort stance. They always fell for it and tried to take a fort garrisoned entirely by pikemen and shock cav. >>167480230

>>167479070

I can send a unit of wolf riders in and beat the gate to death before the ram even reaches the walls.

>>167480307
burn his forest to the ground

>>167480307
Tell him that his bark is worse than his bite.

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>>167480326
I had that sort of battle before, They didn't put much efforts into flanking nor know to burn down wall to create breaches so everything was a breeze

>>167480307
Tell him to make like tree and get out of here.

>>167481396
It's make like a tree and LEAF.

>>167481515
I don't get it.

Released a new version of my mod.
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198071756309/myworkshopfiles/?appid=364360
pls subscribe.

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>>167481824
noice anon, I just began to add video effects to mine

>>167482410
pretty good. You have to be careful that they don't tank effects.

I wonder how easy or hard it would be to add lovecraft thematics to it using existing designs.

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>3 fleets chasing this one guy on a rowboat
>Still not able to catch him
Shameful dispray!

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I seriously underestimated pikemen

>>167483001
SUCH IS THE FATE OF ALL FILTHY BARBARS

>>167483001

i cant wait for ae in 2034 when large artillery with explosive ammo don't suck dick

How do I increase unit size in Attila? I've restarted the game, reloaded the save, done battles etc but it's still on Large (should be Ultra).

>>167483169
Pretty sure you can't change it mid-campaign

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>>167482487
Played Total War games for over 15 years and i've never gotten so much satisfaction from wiping out an AI faction as i did just now.

>>167484195
Yeah, those guys are the biggest headache without an AI buffer. I personally leave Nordland in AI hands until the tail end of the End Times for that reason.

>>167483228
damn, i thought you could. Made a new campaign and it was on ultra. A shame since i'm at 420AD in my campaign.

When do you think we can get child soldiers in a Total War game?

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>>167484195
Nothing else left to do. Greenskins got wiped out while i was dicking in the north. Anyone got the roll chart saved up?

>>167485150
>Nothing left to do

I see at least five factions that need to be removed. You already removed Elf. Now remove Dawi.

The Old World belongs to the sons and daughters of Sigmar. No one else.

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>>167485150

I'll dump 3 shogun 2 and AOC after. Rome 2 and Attila are near the thread start.

>>167485125
never ever

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>90 second post cooldown

>>167485208
So what happens when you roll a 33?

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>>167485193
>Remove Dawi
Nah. They were total bros throughout the campaign and kept the Greenskins off my back whilst i dealt with Chaos and tree Hitler
>>167485208
Thanks anon. Rollan.

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>>167485284
>167485284

You can't roll dubs on /vg/

>>167485330
You deserve that 30 for choose to not remove Dawi.

>>167469038

>Gorbland Ironbore

No no, for the last time, no.

Gorbad a shit.

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>>167485330

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>>167485330
>Gobbo archers

How does charge bonus in Attila work?

I'm assuming it's:

>300 charge bonus + 10 weapon damage = 310 weapon damage on charge

or

>300 charge bonus + 10 weapon damage = 300 charge damage + 10 weapon damage

The 2nd one seems unlikely but ya never know it could be a thing.

I'm asking because I wanna build a thing that increases Weapon Damage of my units, but since Shock Cavalry do no actual damage, I'm wondering if it would do anything for them since multiplying the 1st equation by 15% gets you lots more damage, but if it's the 2nd equation then it doesn't really help at all.

>>167480307

Hire the Silver Bullets

>>167462208
>Daily reminder that Very Hard campaign/Normal battle difficulty is the best way to play

>Huge battles with lost of campaign planning
>Forced to manage careful diplomatic relations early on
>Literally cannot over extend
>Battles are actually fun instead of having to fight inexperienced stacks of retards who somehow have a higher morale stat than your strongest elites

>several different artillery units for the empire
Which one do I pick?

>>167486064
Mortars are pretty good because you don't need to reposition them once melee combat begins.

>>167486064

2 Mortars/Helstorm rockets
2 Great cannons/Steam Tanks

>>167486064

some do armour pen

some don't

some are accurate

some aren't

some do anti large

some don't

looking at stats helps, they are all wildly different. give em a go in custom battles to see which you like.

>>167486064
Mortars and Helstorms for low armor units. Others for heavy armor and elite unit duty. Steam tank is one of the better ones. Once the enemy gets close you can just send it in melee and it'll soak up a ton of damage and also terrify any nearby enemy units.

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>>167485901
>playing on anything lower than legendary
lmao, git gud

>>167486702

>playing on legendary bullshit mode

No thanks

>>167483079
Use Scorpios in AE to kill men, Ballista aren't the best at killing infantry.

>>167485115
You can do it through modding really quickly and easily

>>167486702
Gee I really enjoy my elite shock cavalry's perfectly planned maximum momentum charge into the rear of some engaged units having absolutely zero effect on the enemies' morale.

>>167481772
Butthead.

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thats a lot of money

>>167475307
Not everyone is a thief.

>>167475239
pretty often

any must install mods for TW Warhammer?

>>167487961
radious

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>>167487998

Yet another freshly bought Warhammer here.

All memes aside, WHY is Radious considered so necessary? I'm not asking as a detractor or anything, I'm just curious how it changes the game.

>>167488145

Radious is the meme m8, it's complete shit. Avoid it like the plague.

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Industry, commerce, culture.
On which do you focus and how?

>>167488145

>WHY is Radious considered so necessary?

kek

Radious is a piece of shit mod that no one here likes.

People pretend to like it sometimes because it's understood that it's a joke, I can understand that it might be confusing to newcomers.

>>167485901
It is, its a shame it does not work on warhammer.

>>167488145
Makes battles longer,magic do damage and more units affordable on top of other QoL improvements
Radiuos units is trash though

>>167488145
As the OP who added it to the OP: I'm fucking joking m8.
The main gag is that he diversifies everyone's roster to the point that everyone has the same as everyone else, and at the cost of an army's original identity.
>Black Orc Archers

>>167488145

>I'm just curious how it changes the game.

Adds a bunch of fan-fiction units that add nothing good to the game and only serves to erase the mechanical identity of the factions by removing weaknesses the factions are balanced around.

Makes upkeep cost far too low meaning that there'll be a billion armies running around at any given time.

>Taking off half the health of the Chaos frontline with Ironbreaker blasting charges before they even make contact

Is there a better feel?

>>167488417
>>167488480

It ties in with the mod lore though.

>>167488480
>>167488415
>>167488417
>>167488216
>>167488163
Thanks for the responses guys. I won't bother then, or I'll just use it for one campaign later on.

Any mods I SHOULD use though?

>>167488663

Hellcannons hitting high value targets is always a good feel

>tfw wiping out Ironbreakers in 2 shots

>>167488176
which game and which faction? or did you mean it in some different way?

>>167478302
Maybe CA were salty about AOS

>>167488678
I play vanilla personally, so the only mods I'd recommend to look at are some aesthetic ones. I think there are mods that add like extra models to zombie units and shit like that.

And there is the old +10% movement speed in friendly land to help you chase varg fucks.

>>167488742
I would think Rome 2 and Attila, but you can tell me your income strategy for Warhammer as well

>>167488678

Improved AI Recruitment is the only one I would count as absolutely essential, stops the AI from spamming too many annoying skirmish cavalry units, makes them recruit more actual elite infantry and so on.

Other than that there aren't many must haves.

I'd recommend stuff like Mousillon: City of the Damned and Blacker Black Orcs, but those are purely cosmetic.

I have a list I use myself, but many of those are just changes I personally like that I don't think I would recommend to the general player

>>167488176

Depends, really. Industry for barbs, Culture for Greeks and Easterners and Commerce for Romans and sea-based factions while doing Agriculture for all (unless bad fertility).

>>167488843
well in Attila it depends on your faction, Rome can actually do pretty well with culture income in Ravenna, Constantinople, and Rome, since those two cities get +10% to culture income, so you build a library, a theatre, public baths, civil hall, basically everything that gives culture income

with other cities for roman factions you generally just build commerce, though in some provinces you can go for industry as well, the ones with forest, since it gives +20% industry income. With barbars economy is a bit more complicated because unless you take over a city with roman sanitation, you can't really build any top tier industry buildings without the whole town drowning in shit and filth, so you are pretty much forced to focus on things like taverns and markets instead of industry. But generally, you just need to look at what kinda special resources a province has, your own faction and plan based on that

and in warhammer, well there is literally just 1 economy building per faction so just build it everywhere, together with walls

is it safe to use the various out of date mods on the /twg/ basics mod list?

>>167489337
yeah most are fine to use, just disable the ones that CTD

>>167483079
>>167486901
How about MKTW's artillery?

I love their flaming shots, those things can roll downhill and keep killing

>>167488672
t. Radious

Oooh, you mean with RADIOUS LORE?

>>167489461
Flaming shot on ballistas is always best for infantry. MKTW has quite bad balance though.

Thinking about buying warhammer.
How much would i be missing out without any dlcs?

>>167489689
Overall balance or strictly about the artillery?

If youre talking about the overall faction-to-faction balance, then yes its quite bad, its like each factions are made by different people

>>167489814
Overall balance, yes i believe they are. They don't seem to have a system to balance and each unit and faction is biased to be "better" by its creator

>>167489768
not much lmao
more like
what will I actually HAVE if I get warhammer without any dlc's. I can tell you what. 4 factions + flc's

if i wanted to pick a chariot, should i go with chaos or gorebull

i tried gorebull and i understand that it has a lot more weight but 66 speed is just so slow

>>167489768
>How much would i be missing out without any dlcs?
Just the ability to play as those dlc factions, they are still in the game as enemies if you don't buy it. People always forget that.

>>167489768
Blood,two campaigns.DLC content will in the game to agaisn't but not as

>>167489768

>How much would i be missing out without any dlcs?

All the DLC is in the game as AI even if you don't own it, so a playthrough as the base game races really won't lose much without the DLCs.

>>167489814
their gunpowder artillery are fun though

terrible campaign. Even on easy the whole thing is stupid OP in favor of the countless enemy forces that never stop attacking your owned territories. Armies can go from 4 units to 20 units in one turn and can cover half the campaign map makling it impossible to keep up with them or hunt them down. The in game economy does not hold up in ballancing the game play out and your forces quickly dwindle away as more and more armies attack you. compared to other total war games I would put this at the bottom and would definitly NOT recommend this game expecially at the insane price point its at now.

For some reason I'm unable to play as the Vampire Counts. It always hangs on the loading screen going in. The game loads fine for literally another other faction, I think.

Anyone else ever have this?

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>>167490000
>posting random steam reviews

>>167490000
Nice quads?
You didn't mention what game you're actually talking about.

OP forgot to mention it as well, but https://www.humblebundle.com/monthly
Warhammer is $12 at the moment.

I'm assuming you're talking about Warhammer obviously.

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>Lore of Metal will never be good
>Gold Wizard hero never.

>>167490050
Do you have mods/have you tried disabling them?

>>167490147
Im talking about shogun 1

>>167490317
Lies. Shogun 1 only had 16 units per stack.

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I miss Meme Commanders

>>167477818
Greenskins miss Mangler Squigs/Giant Squig, Pumpwagon and Spear Chuggas or whatever they're called ?

>>167490147

How does the Humble Bundle even work?

I never bothered to use it.

>>167485208
roll

am I a pussy if my first campaign was on normal?

>>167490928

>For players new to the Total War series

no, dummy

>>167490928
PUSSY

>>167490826
The traditional humblebundle was:

"Here is video games"
"Pay what you want for them"

Then they added stuff like:

"Pay more than the average and get extra"

Certain bundles from bigger developers have a "Pay minimum of X" for certain titles.

This in particular is a monthly subscription deal.
You pay whatever a month and get mystery games a month. Like at the moment it is $12 for Total Warhammer and OTHERS, you don't know what OTHERS are yet.
For the month you pay for you also get like a ten percent discount on the humblestore.
Which is just an ordinary store.

What do you do as Prussia? Do you sail to make colonies in the new world or India? Or do you stay and fight in Yurop?

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>>167462208
Should I get Total War Warhammer through the Humble Bundle and wait for the dlc to go on sale?

Or should I wait for the GOTY edition to come out that includes the dlc?

>>167490928
First- no
Second- ok
Third- you should be able to play on hard already

>>167491046
Well shit, i might be able to afford some of the dlc then. Is blood for the blood god just enabled gore?

>>167491226
They don't do GOTY editions

>>167491302
Yes.

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I have played over 1000 hours spread across all total war games and I have never once finished even a short campaign, I always get bored and restart as something else.

Does anyone else do this?

>>167491226

>Should I get Total War Warhammer through the Humble Bundle

Yes.

It's unlikely to be cheaper than this for a long, long time.

>Or should I wait for the GOTY edition to come out that includes the dlc?

CA doesn't do those so you'd be waiting in vain.

>>167491226
there won't be a GOAT edition,eventually everything will go on sale,so you might aswell buy warhammer now that it's on sale

>>167491395

I do it, but I'm not autistic enough to have sunk 1000 hours and not finished a campaign.

>>167491395

Yeah I have about 1600 hours and have only finished an Empire campaign in Warhammer. I just can't be arsed to do anything after playing so much as there's just so much to micromanage in every settlement, army, agent, etc that it just bores me.

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>>167491226
>that creature to the right

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>>167491303
>>167491398
>>167491406
Sega are better jews than the jews.

>>167485193
>Wanting to turn the Warhammer world into our boring fucking planet

The existence of the non humans keeps us pure, for it makes us less likely to fight among ourselves, as well as cementing our own personal identity. Without wildly different enemies to fight, your planet will become filled with the same dreary, limp-wristed, soft degenerates this one is filled with.

>>167491485
is called a girl

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>>167491395
You lack the necessary motivation to power through your goals. You are an underachiever

>>167491586

>SAXOND

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>>167491536
Conquer the non humans and put them to work.

>>167491586
It just becomes to easy once you own a chunk of the map.

>>167491631
>tfw to intelligent to win total war

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>>167491608
The Saxons control the east!
>>167491631
If it's easy there is no point of stopping the streamroll

Just starting my first TW: Warhammer game as the Vampire Counts. I don't have much experience with TW games, anything crucial I need to know?

>>167491713
Yes

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>>167491713
Kill them! Raise them!
Fear the dwarfs

keep your manlet alive

>>167491226
Get it now while it's cheap (It's never going to be this cheap on steam for years given how Sega like to handle sales) The DLC's aren't needed so you can wait for those to go on sale or just pick them up one at a time as you want to play them.

And well, others have already covered the likely hood of a GOTY edition.

>>167491713

Black Coaches are the worst unit in the game.

Pick Vlad as your starting Legendary Lord, he's the hardest to unlock while playing and has the best abilities.

Try not to fight the Dwarfs until late in the game if you can help it.

>>167491713

wipe out surrounding dwarfs after taking east and west sylvania

start with vlad for easy mode

spam necros with +% income in your starting region to gain mad dosh

build gold mine vampire crypt and necro library in Drakenhof

build Cairnstones in EVERY settlement for +1 banshee cap and put them all in Drakenhof with +% income on them

ignore all tech trees but bottom right

>>167491556
Her body looks like it is textured as well as a console game from ten years ago.

>>167488176
Playing Rome 2, I mostly focus on industry. Knowing those provinces with grain bonus (+food for every territory you own), agriculture becomes less important and cultural buildings are for converting and speeding up research. I like to mix industry with a bit of commerse, but industry is always first in priority

>>167491226
who are these semon demens

>>167491834
that fucking patch that added global effects to rome 2 resource buildings was ridiculous, I don't know why they did that

>>167488678
Get "Defensive Wood Elves", the only objective must-have mod

Then, play the campaign once or twice and once finished, mod it to your linking / to patch up whatever feels underwhelming

>>167491820
Sounds too meta for my taste

>>167491302
there's also some barely meaningful, temporary campaign events like
>+20 weapon damage for units from factions
>+20 winds of magic for everybody
>+20 charge bonus for all units from all factions

Is there an ETA on Bretonnia?

I'm in the twilight of my Angrund campaign, and wondering if I can start another one.

I mean I know I can start one and abandon, but I just want to play fleshed out horse fuckers.

>>167492362
28th of February my man

>>167491752
>>167491798
>>167491820

Well shit, I picked Mannfred. If it's that big a difference I could switch to Vlad, it's early days. I heard that you can pay off the dwarves to be friendly and not have any problems with them. Are there any factions that I can actually have a stable long term alliance with as VC? I'm guessing orcs, at least.

I'm definitely focusing on the economic upgrades, raising the dead is shittons of fun. I'm finding most of the basic units a bit underwhelming though- zombies just bog down the enemy and skeletons don't do much of worth. That Varghoul or whatever the giant bat ogre is, though, holy shit. I love him.

>>167491826
it's called being pale.

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>>167492374

FUG :DD

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>>167485901

i do very hard battle/very hard campaign for my RTR campaigns its the best

here's a little update for anyone who remembers my campaign

>>167492692

>Are there any factions that I can actually have a stable long term alliance with as VC?

All the factions have pretty high aversion to you, but you can usually manage to bag one or two solid alliances.

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>>167492790
You think that's bad?

g'day, wanna stream some total war campaign in a couple minutes, anyone have any idea on what you'd wanna watch if you were to have a look?

>>167491395
>1000 hours
>spread across all total war games
you are like a little baby

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>>167492880
Which titles do you have? And what DLC's respectively?
I'd be interested in a Jew-ts migration campaign or the like if you have the stuff
Post Twitch friend

>>167492750
Nah, not just the complexion.
The abdomen is just flat.
Not the ideal type of flatness in the abdominal area, obviously, as it looks like a starving african child's potbelly that somebody has taken a smoothing tool to in photoshop.
The navel itself looks drawn on.

And as a separate complaint, I'm generally okay with a mouth as long as it isn't stereotypically British, but this creature should never open theirs.
The angle is even flattering for the mouth. If the photo was straight on you would see like 5% teeth 95% gum.

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>>167493292

>>167492880
Some difficult endeavor.
Not that you have to be good at the game, just that you're actually struggling.
Like, "oh no I'm sparta and I'm at war with all of the Balkans".
Not "oh no I'm Rome and my unassailable position and economy is under minor duress on the border".

If you've got Attila, choose a nearby tribe and migrate to Northern Italy or another action spot.

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I finished my 430 turn Angrund game. Nearly a month to complete, with a ton of Screenshots taken.

A very fun an immersive campaign.

Not sure who to play as next.

>>167493705
VC are probably the most distinct starting position from Angrund.

>>167493812

Man, I love the Vampire Counts. They were my first Warhammer Campaign.

I think I've played two campaigns with them, Short and Long Campaigns.

Very fun faction.

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I want to be dominated by a best elf!

>>167494007
beggar nohammer

>>167492880
>>167493292
i own every game, no dlc for warhammer/attila though (felt it wasnt worth it really), do you guys prefer watching streams or a let's play-type video series when viewing total war?

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>>167494007
I love this screenshot, the only one where I can actually see Belegar's eyes
And by Grungi, he's seen some grudges
Post more blasting charges

>>167494189
I despise watching anything I can play as well or better than the person playing.
So the only TW shit I generally watch are people who are quite good at MP.

I can only speak for myself but you would need some sort of schtick, like letting chat decide diplomacy or some shit.

>>167494209

AYY YO
HOL UP

Is that a champion in the ironbreakers unit? What mod?

>>167494278
I was thinking about an entirely chat controlled game, choosing my army comp, diplomacy, buildings etc, but it doesn't really work unless you have viewers and i've got like 30 subs on youtube, but i'm yet to post anything total war related because if elt it was over saturated. feel like i'm decently entertaining and not a dirty neckbeard but i guess thats for others to decide

>>167494356
army comp and buildings would be silly for the most part but diplomacy is good viewer interaction.

And I'm not sure what you're going for here.
I initially got a 'hey I'll steam for you guys for a bit now' vibe. But you see to be on more of a 'how do I become a successful total war youtuber' path now.

>>167494278
>like letting chat decide diplomacy or some shit.
>LMAO DECLARE WAR XD

Everytime

>>167494445
yeah sorry, just second guessing etc. i was more asking what the boys would want and if you'd prefer streaming or edited let's play series' just for ease of watching but im hearing streams louder here
>>167494450
gotta get that chieve dude

>>167494450
There are ways to rein in rampant stupidity.
You don't allow them control, you allow them decision making input.

Like:
>Time for another wave of expansion, do we go balkans or africa or iberia
>Okay we're going Balkans, we will be wiping out Macedon, but should we ally/enforce vassalage on the city states or wipe them out as well?

Instead of:
>WE MILAN
>DECLARE WAR ON FRANCE Y/N
>DECLARE WAR ON HRE Y/N
>DECLARE WAR ON VENICE Y/N
>DECLARE WAR ON POPE Y/N

>>167491395

I have this same problem too. I always start my campaign very carefuly, naming units, thinking about every move, and after like 2 hours of playing, I get sloppy and pretty much just power through everything, skipping turns and not caring about agents.


Here are two things that helped me change that mentality:

>I fight literally single battle every battle.
No matter how boring it is, I fight it, because if I auto-resolve even once, it becomes a vicious cicle and I end up auto-resolving even more.

>I stop playing after 2 hours.
No matter how much fun I'm having, after 2 hours of playtime, I quit. This makes me not get absolutely bored of the campaign, since I have the attention span of a fish.


I hope this helps you as much as it did to me.

>>167462568
Playable Marienburg when?

>>167472391
It's funny how in the end they were right.

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>>167494775
>No matter how boring it is, I fight it, because if I auto-resolve even once, it becomes a vicious cicle and I end up auto-resolving even more.

Fucking this. Abusing autoresolve is the campaign killer. Also challenge campaigns like pic related keeps you a lot more invested in the campaign in general and makes you carefully consider and make your moves instead of half assing everything.

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>>167494292
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=753683788&searchtext=officers
Just an officers mod.
Some of them are kinda garish with their cloak colours though. Could clash with your atmosphere, or could fit in with a table top theme, up to you

>>167495069
I fight all field battles because they seem decently fair in line with autoresolve. I autoresolve assaults though because the towers give an arbitrary 200-300 casualties every battle, while autoresolving ignores them entirely. The one thing I can't avoid min maxing.

Darren's making maps on twitch for anyone interested.

Someone get some Bretonnia info out of him.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRfzfZW6VQCSRVCNeNt6V6w feel free to pop on and vote on the strawpoll :)

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I somehow went

>Chaos
>Empire
>Dwarves (failed)
>Long break from game
>Wood Elves (failed)
>Beastmen
>Wood Elves
>Empire (failed)
>Vampire Counts (failed)
>Empire
>Vampire Counts

All in Legendary, I've never played a campaign that wasn't in that mode.

Somehow I've never touched the Greenskins. And Beastmen were suprisingly fun and easy to use. I totally thought they just were Chaos copy pasted, while they're way more fun to play than Chaos for some reason.

>>167495069

>Rome 2

Autoresolve because of the casualty calculator. Though, if I feel the autoresolver is wrong, and I could lose fewer men, I play it.

>Attila

Other than the one sided curbstomps like 20vs3, play everything because I love the soundtrack and the feel of the combat.

>Warhammer

Play all but sieges. I fucking despise siege attacking in Warhammer. Hate everything about it. They are the antithesis of enjoyment.

>Against >16 cavalry units

Retreat, reload, move in the opposite direction.

>>167494029

Dude wtf she's like, 1000 years old

>>167495345
they are more fun than chaos because

>free replenishment/movement/stat bonuses thanks to moon events
>invisible stance allows them to avoid heat-seeking ai doomstacks
>no horde infighting
>combined raze/sack means you don't have to attack cities twice
>minotaurs and gorebulls

>>167495345
>they're way more fun to play than Chaos for some reason.
The reasons are obvious. Army stances that are original and fun. Relative freedom and not hiding up in norsca grinding armies for fifty turns.

>>167495426

>>minotaurs and gorebulls

Minotaurs are so fucking fun holy shit

Especially when sieging a walled city and breaking through the gates

https://strawpoll.com/yr5s96d

>>167495502
my fav strategy as beastmen when sieging with khazrak's stack was to take him, all the minos in the army, and the 2 gorebulls embeded into the army, and bumrush the gate, allowing them to slaughter the garrison while the rest of my troops hid from the infinite range towers

>>167495567
>.com
>not .me

>>167495426
>>combined raze/sack means you don't have to attack cities twice

What are you on about, you can either raze OR sack not both at the same time. That would actually be pretty great.

>>167496045

I thought it was Raze & Defile and Raze & Sack? One gives money, one gives growth, but both destroy the city.

>>167488145
You should try Steel Faith Overhaul instead.

>>167496045
no, when you are beastmen and attack an enemy city you get 2 options after winning, raze and defile/raze and sack. Defile gives growth and increases corruption in the region, sack gives money. Both raze the city.

>>167496137
I think the options for raze are between chaos corruption and growth.

>>167477818
>Vampires:
>Lords : 7/6

What? Wich one was created by CA?

>>167496246
Ghorst

>>167496246
Helman Horst.

>>167496246

Kemmler
Manfred
Vlad

Necromancer Master
Strigoi King
Vampire lord

I believe all of those have models, which leaves out Helman Ghorst who doesn't have a Tabletop equivalent.

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On the talk of autoresolves and game balance, I thought I just had to post about how fucking stupid Onagers are in TW:A.
Like this battle, for example, the Huns had shit for all infantry or horse skirmishers because of bad winter attrition, but when I attack, it gives them a 40/60 in the autoresolve, what the fuck
The huns should even HAVE them in field battles

>>167496313

He's canon, but literally a "MENTIONED HERE!"

Is Chaos the #1 laughingstock in Warhammer mp?

>>167477818

Does is list include The End Times content? Because a lot of these numbers do not add up with the 8th edition armybooks

>>167496460

Yeah, those large onagers have explosive ammo which is incredibly destructive. I posted a few days ago how I got attacked by 2 hunnic stacks in a town defense. 2 large onagers (8 in total then) loaded with explosives destroyed the majority of my infantry before any of their horsemen had made it to my settlement's walls. I just gave up right then.

>>167496460
What in the complete fuck is wrong with your game.

>>167496554

They're bad

Not nearly as bad as they used to be.

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First time playing as the Vampire counts. What kind of armies should i be using early on?

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>>167496460
It just adds insult to injury when the 2 malnourished slavs that they employ to man the onager swing it around like its made of Styrofoam and immediately try to snipe my general

>>167496554
No, they're decent. Probably the best flying goon squad.

Beastmen and Brets are probably the worst.
Stunties would be worst if not for runespam or all slayer cheese.

>>167496615
reshade or gemfx

Alright guys, I got an idea.

We mod the Vermintide characters into the game as Hero units

>>167496697
You're past early. That is a good composition.
I'd cut some horrors and grave guard for cavalry and a bit more unit variation, but that is only to fit my preferences and probably wouldn't be much better.

>>167496808
>we

>>167496697

At this point I would hire Mannfred and set him up with a moderately cheap stack of skellingtons and zomboid

Grave Guard with Great Weapons is also generally better than the shielded variant.

>>167496710
>when the 2 malnourished slavs that they employ to man the onager swing it around like its made of Styrofoam

lmao what are you talking about, Attila is the best TW game and deeper than your moms cunt. Best battle mechanics aswell, just like in your webm, not that arcade Warhammer shit.

>>167496808
LUMBAHFOOTS

>>167496697

Get 1 or 2 fell bats to take down Archers. Some black knights wouldn't go amiss. 4 crypt horrors are great. Perhaps some Great Weapons grave guards since you are a bit light on the damage side. I think you can get a better corpse cart version too.

>>167496898
>Grave Guard with Great Weapons is also generally better than the shielded variant.
Only against Chaos and stunties and late game(ie, what they'll never reach with a VC player) Empire armies.

Is there a GEMFX preset for TW:WH that makes it look a bit grimmer and a bit darker, without impacting performance?

>>167496924
>Get 1 or 2 fell bats to take down Archers.
He has two vargheists my dude.

>>167496808
LUMBAHFEWTS BREW? ACH, FER DESPERATE TIYMS ONLEE

>>167497102

meh, I prefer using vargs as flying shock cav to take down the main line. Fell bats are better since they are super fast. They're also god tier at stopping cavalry charges.

>>167497221
They're also kinda a waste of army spots when you have other options. Vargheists are slower yeah, but they'll actually rout the ranged units and probably have health left over to to hit the main line after.

>>167496697

With Vlad?
4-5 Zombos to Vanguard Deploy
Skeletons
Crypt Horrors
Black Knights


Eventually all of your armies will be combinations of the following:
Zombos
Graveguard (Shields against most races, Great Weapons against Chaos)
Crypt Horrors
Vargheists
Black Knights (Lances and Barding)
Blood Knights

Zombos are excellent at tuckering out the enemies front line at which point your advancing skeleton infantry will engage, followed by your Crypt Horrors with your cav providing the final fuck you as you slap their shit across the map.

I like to call this strat wet blanket + anvil + hammer + hammer + invocation of nehek.

Also points in Vlads personal stats are wasted. He's a god tier support/caster and is plenty strong with his base stats.

>>167497857
>4-5 Zombos to Vanguard Deploy
???
You vanguard deploy everything

How is Durthu dangerous to anybody, even in the tabletop, just set him on fire and he is done for.

>>167496313
>>167496320
>>167496310

What was even the point of adding him then?

>>167498109
as a counter-figure to volkmar, seeing how the grim and the grave was based entirely around some sort of mini-campaign from the tabletop involving them

>>167498109
You reskin a necro and then proudly present all the free shit you're giving players.

Why they did not just made Kemmler useful is anybodys guess.

>>167498096
Because he's really fucking tanky and has really strong abilities and hits like a truck.

>>167497221
>>167497332

>not just using a flying a lore of shadow vampire hero + 1 varghiest to fuck up backlines with reckless abandon

shit yo, vampire heroes are fucking stronk