/twg/ - Total War General

first for vlad

Axed the TWW multiplayer pastebin because it is ludicrously outdated by this point.

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>>172161610
>4 days
>17 hours
>50 minutes
>can't wait

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>Announcement trailer hasn't even dropped yet
>Already hyped

This wait is going to be painful

>>172161717
Dedicating two stacks to work together is a pretty big waste.

>>172161543
Sure you can. There are just more variables.

TZEENTCH'S MANY GLORIES
NURGLE'S PESTILENT GLORY
KHORNE'S BLOODY GLORY
SLAANESH'S PERVERSE GLORY

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To the provinces!

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>>172161610
MEDIEVAL KINGDOMS 1212 WHEN
ANCIENT EMPIRES WHEN

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>>172162012
Soon(tm)

>>172162157
Two stacks together should be the default vamp modus operandi though, because stacks are cheap and you have such a strong ecomony.

>>172162460
But two stacks seperately can take two seperate provinces. And there is almost no circumstance in the game where one stack isn't all you'll need, until at least badlands bowl is complete and the stunties come for blood, or Chaos feels like being particularly effective once in a blue moon.

So what's gonna be the inevitable pre-order race?

>>172162728
Tilea

>>172162728

Pontus

>>172162706
There's seldom a need to take two provinces in the same turn.

>>172162728
Lizardmen.

>>172162728
Skaven

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What faction in any total war game gets you the most hyped up to play as them?

For me, it's the HRE in Medieval 2. The voice acting of the captains and shit somehow turns me into a fanatical zealot who will rage against any enemies who dare attack my glorious Reich, wiping out Denmark and Poland in the name of the Kaiser.

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>tfw scraping a Valiant Defeat with Volkmar and his 18 stack of t1 troops v 2 full stacks of mid tier + RoR filled Vamps

Managed to take Kemmler and Manlet down with us.

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Playing as Vampire Count (brown). Am I doing it right? Fucked up Dwarves, but now gonna sue for peace and prepare for next chaos invasion. Varg is at 22 settlements, and they're shitting on Empire right now. :S

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>>172163089

>tfw Disney, butthurt that nobody liked Phasma, killed the TR-8R meme in its cradle as revenge.

>>172163732
How did they kill it?

>>172162008
Did you censor her nipples?

>>172163671
>conquer everywhere
Fuck off outta here

>>172163089
I will see your head rest upon a top of a pike
OUTLANDER SCUM

>>172163732
Was I supposed to like Phasma? She's not bad, but I don't particularly care about her. It would be like expecting me to care about the guys that report to Darth Vader in the original trilogy.

>>172162312
2019

>>172164040
She's going to play a part in the second movie. They're trying to sell her.

>>172162706
>But two stacks seperately can take two seperate provinces
Four stacks in two pairs can also do that.

>>172164240
Alright, okay. Maybe I'll like her more in the second movie? But if you're giving me the equivalent to Boba Fett, I'm going to love the shit out of Boba Fett, even if you want me to love Tarkin.

>>172162767
There's probably gonna be a 'fantasy Conquistador' pre-order race if we're gonna be realistic here

That, or Luthor Harkon and ZOMBIE GUNNERS

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>Fat, loud and obnoxious
>Appropriate the food of other cultures as their own
>Led by a retarded rich guy
>Go round fighting in other peoples wars
>Obsessed with guns
>Owns a slave race

Are Ogres the Americans of the Warhammer setting?

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Do you ever wish that Mousilion had a bit more of a unique unit roster? Or maybe just some reskins of more traditional units to make them a distinct Bretonnian version of the Vampire Counts?

Can Dwarves conquor human settlements?

How come elves can live anywhere the knife‐eared bastards...

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>>172163823
That's the original art. I wouldn't censor any elf nipple since they were shown on the actual models and art in army books.

>>172164527
I wish we were still like that, unfortunately we're cucked and infested with self hating marxists now.

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I hope we can make both campaigns combine from the get go so I can make Lustria green once the second game is out.

>>172163808

C+D'ing anyone who used TR-8R, giving him an official history, and forcing anyone to push the official history or face copyright charges.

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>>172164860

>>172164558
I'd love if they had some more Bretonnian units. I get that Blood Knights are the best cavalry and I wouldn't want that upended, but just undead Yeomen or reskinning and renaming Grave Guard as Foot Squires would be great.

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>>172165217

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>>172164527
Or are the Dark Elves the equivalent?

>Rebelled against glorious Island Empire and caused their decline
>Incestuous and inbred
>Skyscrapers and soulless, new non-traditional architecture in every city
>Decadent and sexually liberal
>Economy revolves around trade, raiding and slave labor
>Genocided original inhabitants of America
>Hostile against jungle neighbors
>Fights bearded mountain conservatives in a far away place across the ocean
>Supremacist ideology
>Warlike culture

>>172165287
Even just dressing the zombies up as peasants would make me happy. Give the skeletons a few Men-at-Arms style helmets, give the Black Knights some Bretonnian-style armor.

>>172163876
>not conquering everywhere
Fucking casuals.

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>>172165393

>>172164371
>if you're giving me the equivalent to Boba Fett, I'm going to love the shit out of Boba Fett,

Disney lawyers are already en route to your residence to rectify your thoughtcrime.

>>172164865
>Trump won
>Clinton second
>some dumbass ultra-liberal distant third
Who's supposed to want to abolish private property, again?

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I want to be dominated by a best elf!

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I'm having so much fun playing Medieval.

>>172165573
I believe there are mods for that.

What type of peasants should I be stocking my Bretonnia armies with? I'm thinking spearmen with shields/archers and eventually moving to polearms as the anvil to my knights hammer.

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Here are some of my achievements.

First off, Byzantine infantry and kataphraktoi are amazing. Trebizond archers are OP as fuck.

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Stop playing fantasy

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so uh

reminder to any legendary bros

if you play a VH campaign,,,you need to create a save for it or the autosave will be overwritten

122 turns in

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My Denmark campaign took quite a while.

Vikings are good shock troops, but that's about the only unique shit they got.

Hardest part was early on, taking the full brunt of the Holy Roman Empire and getting excommunicated by the Pope.

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Why does Napoleon keep crashing to desktop when I click on Torino? I'm not using any mods and it has done this 5 times in a row now, it's really putting a damper on things. Verifying the cache comes up with nothing either. I really wanted to finish this Brit campaign off. I guess Napoleon wins, the cheating cunt.

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My HRE campaign was fairly easy. Tons of choices for expansion.

I went for Poland and Hungary first, since they were the weakest targets.

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Pizzaria Mama mia.

Naval power allowed me to go for a crusade early on.

>>172163464
Sniping a leader is always handy, but especially with Vampires. Once they die it is just a matter of time before it all falls apart for them.

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My favorite campaign so far.

Had a tough attrition war with the English, but once I kicked those bongs back to their island, it would be an easy ride.

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Allahu Akbar

My first 100% victory.

>>172164558
It'd be nice, but I'd just be happy if they gave Red Duke bonuses for Grave Guard and the undead Knights so he uses them more.

A skellington looks the same weather Empire or Bret, really.

>>172164828
Dwarfs don't like living in such temporary construction such as castles and towns if they can avoid it.

Though with the introduction of the Welf "outposts" it would be nice if any race could do that to a settlement.

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Finally, my most recent one.

Slavic warriors and javelin men are pretty neat.

>>172166297
That's a good idea, I never thought of that.

>>172151425
What did they do when the city grew bigger than the walls?

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IF OUR LORD IS T'BECOME KING Beastmen had the best pre-announcement meme

>>172163464

I need to look in the workshop for a RoR removal mod,

I could almost tolerate them if they weren't rebought at full strength the turn after you destroyed them reeeeeeeeeeeee

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So this is going to be a royal cluster fuck

hope my micro skills are up to a 3v3

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>>172166524
At least I assassinated him earlier on, so I'm calling this campaign a victory as it stands.

I know he doesn't actually die but this is the only consolation I can get

>>172166524
Torino is stronk. Power of Gianduia

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>>172165287
>blood knights
>best cavalry

>>172169246
Well, better than Bret cavalry. They feel like it at least

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What is your favorite Faction to Play in Attila Multiplayer and why is it the Tanukhids?

>>172169342
Don't GK btfo BK in 1v1 situation?

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>>172169598

>mfw CA releases Araby and their most OP cavalry unit ends up being hot armoured camel dick

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>>172169598
WRE

>>172169598
It is Tanukhids, but Camels are a meme, it's really all about the pikes.

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>>172169868

>he plays as Gawds Chosen people instead of a Christian faction.

>>172169884

Is this that shitty game Ryse?

>>172169884
Why is he fighting orcs?

>>172164527
Why do people use the only example of "good" Ogres when talking about them?

Leadbelchers are actually tolerable as far as Ogres go, IE, they only work for the "good" factions and only eat the dead enemies and not the live allies

>>172169981

The Pikes are good but Mavia's Chosen are what takes the cake for me, with Sandstorm Lancers and Ambushers having good use depending on the map.

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>>172168713

welp

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>>172161610

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>>172164558
Why would I do it if there's a mod for it which does its job?

It even has Mutants of Mousillon. Nothing says Bret vampire like having hordes of endless skellies and still bullying peasants into doing their work for them

>>172169884
Why is pullo not staying in formation

>>172169884
Is that game good?

>>172170112
Yup, got it for 1 dollar on steem. It's bretty gud for a 1 dollar game. Had fun in coop with a friend too. Also it gets points for insane roman-wank.

>>172165849
Well nothing like seeing and not playing to break them rose-tinted glasses

Christ does that look worse than I remembered

what do the Chaos infantry units chant, iirc one guy leads and the rest follow the chant like 3x or something.

>>172169884
It was bretty gud as movie when i watched it on youtube. Average blockbuster.

>>172169884
>Entire regiment of men with interlocked shields behind him
>Leaves to fight about 8 barbars alone


This is why I prefer my games as fantasy, at least that has an excuse, history games ends up being fantasy anyway and it triggers me

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>>172170421
Pretty fun for the time you get with it. The story is decent and the arena mode gives you some hours.

Get it on sale though.

>>172165435
The brits caused their own decline by literally throwing their empire away to kill more europeans. such is the anglo way.

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>>172170421
For a single buck? Sure. Nice fantasy movie.
>>172170696
It is fantasy.

>>172171010
What the fuck are you talking about?

I like to be proper meme'd, not whatever travesty you're pulling here

>>172161610
Is that Milan-chan hanging from the gallows?

>>172168713
>risk magic for more favourable wins
>gamble
yeah this series is dead

>>172171617
What's wrong with it? It's just a re-roll, that can backfire.

>>172171617
?

>>172171617
What's the problem?

Is "wins" a typo or do you think it says "wins" and not "winds"?

>>172171617
Literally the same as 'gambling' for better weather.

>>172169884
GET BACK IN FORMATION

>angrily blows whistle

What's your favourite LL in the game?

I think I'll go with Kholek, nothing more satisfying that seeing than seein him charging and crushing the enemies with his huge ass hammer

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>>172172043

The world will drown in VLAD

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>>172172043
Prince and Emperor
>useful
>looks cool
>hams it up
>/fa/
>true chad

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>>172172043
SAY MY NAME

SAY MY NAME

>>172171885
Not quite in my opinion. Gambling for better winds is a way to help generals who only provide value through their magic. Weather affects everyone equally, but low magic can fuck over magic heavy lords or army compositions.

>>172172043
Angry Tree Dad no question

>>172170354
Mind spoonfeeding and giving me the mod name, please?

>>172172845
>but low magic can fuck over magic heavy lords or army compositions.
It really can't. You don't really have magic-dependant army setups. Also gambling can fuck you over hard.

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>>172172043
We'll always be friends, won't we, Gobbla?

Is it normal to love the Fantasy Greenkins while totally hating the 40K Orks?

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>>172173162
F

>>172173189
No.

>>172173189
You gotta be a follower of Nurgle with that much shit taste.

>>172173078
If I'm fighting two or three stacks and I'm relying on 2-3 treekin holding the line, then I need all the overcast healing I can get as soon as I can get it and aoe damage if I can afford it. If I start with just enough for one regular cast then hell yeah, I'm gambling. It's not like it can get that much worse. It's not every battle obviously, but it does come up and helps wizards out.

>>172173189
Eh
The problem with greenskins is that goblins are more fun and have more of a personality than most of the orcs, whilst 40k orks do away with needing goblins so they end up being more fun overall.

Would it be possible to make a mod that makes Kholek's hammer less retardedly out of proportion?

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>>172173445
>he wants small hammers
How low test can you be?

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Outta ma way skaven fucking shits!

>>172172043
Siggy, just 'cause I like starting with a hellcannon and chosen

Are Halberdiers better at holding the line than Swordsmen?

Every battle I'm noticing Halberdiers just fucking annihilating the opposition while my paper Swordsmen need to be merged after every other battle.

I would mind Kholek hammering me desu

>>172173692
>he's happy with a hammer so retardedly big it makes Kholek look like he has babby arms
How much of an infant can you be?

>>172173932
Armour piercing and better charge defence. Weaker to missiles.

>>172172043
Oh Emperor, my emperor.

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The Old Friend better be either Kislev or alternate starting position for the Empire with new LL.

I want to play another Empire campaign, especially because i bought both the King and the Warlord and the Grim and the Grave recently, but a feeling that Old Friend is related to the Empire stops me from doing this.

Also any required mods for Empire Total War? Is that darth mod the only thing i need? Do i even need it? I played only one campaign in it for a while since i bought it few years ago and got bored quickly. I think that i am burned out of every other Total War except this one, its sequel and Warhammer so i want to give it another chance.

>>172172043
Louen, Karl, Gelt and Vlad are based for the voice acting alone. I click at them frequently just to hear their voices.
>You are a guest in my realm. You will act like it or i will strike you down where you stand!
>You tread upon Bretonnian land and I'll have your will and I'll have it now.
>This is Bretonnia. I am it's King. For the Lady's sake stand your demands, so i can reject them!
I think I like Louen the most, Karl is close second, tho

>>172173189
Orcs < Orkz
Gobbos > Gretchins

>>172174030
Swordsmen already seem to eat shit from any ranged volley, shields be damned.
So if I'm confident I can tie up enemy ranged, it sounds like it's generally safer to just have a huge line of halberds.

Anyone tried playing Chaos in SFO recently?

What's a good opening strategy?

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>>172173445
actually I've just realised why Dragon ogre shaggoths & kholek look off in this game

They're just scaled up versions of the little Dragon Ogre's in every way.

They don't have the proper proportions of shaggoths in Warhammer because CA couldn't be fucked to make new models & animations.

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>>172174205
>implying it won't be muh boi
Step aside, fucbois, real necrodancer's here.

>>172174386
Swordsmen only have bronze shields so they only drop to skirmishers slightly slower than halberds. Swords also have better charge and melee attack, but halberds have anti-large and AP which causes them to perform better versus a lot of mid and late tier units.

>>172174587
I hope you're not implying that they should look like that model because that looks fucking ridiculous

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>>172173162
Skarsnik and Gobbla were some of the first models I ever bought when I was seven goddamn years old. Gobbla dying in the End Times broke a little part inside of me.

Between the End Times, Terry Pratchett and my Dad dying, I think that's every major formative element of my childhood gone.
Fuck.

I'm playing Attila laying siege to a town. There seems to be this invisible zone that renders everyone in it exhausted.

What is going on?

Any good qt mods yet.

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>>172174803
>tfw waiting the Elves just for the waifus

>>172172196

*Vampire Lord

>>172161610

Is Warhammer Total War fun/playable if you don't even play warhammer and don't like fantasy that much?

>>172173932
>>172174030

a hidden stat where Halbs suffer is their "melee interval", which is tied to animation, which I believe is 5.5 seconds compared to 3.8 for spears or swords.

Against highly armored units the AP damage more than makes up for this, but against low armored units it makes them very cost inefficient.

I tend to run a Halberd main line but I'm a pike fag so there it is,

>>172174739
Yeah, t-rex arms is best Dragon Ogre.

But I'm not necessarily implying that, the point is more that Dragon Ogre Shaggoths & Kholek are meant to have a bigger upper body compared to their dragon half than the regular ogres do, but they don't because CA couldn't be fucked to make them different models.

That's why Kholek looks retarded with his babby arms and fuckhuge club.

Making him actually look like pic related would've required more than just recycling the dragon ogre model with new armour.

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>500 kills on the hellcannon

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>>172175108
W
H
E
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G O B L I N S

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>>172175647
forgot pic

>>172175247

so

at it's core, every Total War is about the real time battles and their Rock Scissors Paper combat.

TWW takes RSP and adds Magic and Monsters and Flying and all kinds of shit.

That along with the gorgeous visuals make it enjoyable to me,

>>172175247
Much of the playerbase has never touched anything Warhammer prior to playing the game and, for the most part, everyone loves it. If you don't mind the fantasy (genre, not the game) aspect of the game, you'll probably like it. It's a great Total War title overall.

>>172172043
Franz or Grimgor

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Goblin Dabbing

Also fuck me I've realised something so retarded it hurts.

>Kholek is huge armoured Dragon ogre
>only has 50 armour, just like regular shaggoth
>In chaos codex he doesn't have heavy armour - they forgot to include it in his wargear and it was added by errata
>CA looked at codex post-Age of Smegmar when all errata's had been taken down
>Kholek's armour is now purely fucking cosmetic in total war

>>172176080
He also gets increased missile resistance and increased damage resistance

>>172175647
>>172175801
But that artwork has babby arm syndrome
Seems like you're trying to make a mountain out of a molehill when the dragon ogres ingame look fine

Do you guys think they'll be brave enough to try the 4th race as DLC?

And I so, which race?

>>172176682
Maybe

Its obvious people actually dont give a fuck. Everyone bought Chaos, and everyone has been buying the DLC regardless if its good or absolute shit like Beastmen.

I suspect they could release the expansion and make someone like HE or DE preorder only or pay $19.99 and people would loudly say they think CA are the worst ever, that they will never purchase it then on the day of release
>X is playing Total War: Warhammer New World™

>>172176682
I seriously doubt it. People give CA shit for Chaos being a pre-order DLC, but without it we still would have gotten four factions to start. They may try another fifth faction as DLC, but not a forth.

>>172176682
No
The preorder bonus will either be a minor faction, the equivalent of a legendary lord DLC, or some miscellaneous thing like dogs of war

Will Cold One Knights or Dragon Princes become the best cavalry on the gamę?

>>172176882
>Everyone bought Chaos
Haha, joke's on you, I'm way too cheap for that.
I mean, fuck, I bought the base game with a 25% off voucher during a steam sale. Apparently those stack.

>Captured Reikland by turn 4
>Confed with the Talabs the same turn

Well shit, now this is how to start an empire game. Hopefully none of my neighbors get pissed. Having the strongest army in the game due to the confed helps though. Ruining my commerce though.

>>172177169
Nah, they should be good but they probably shouldn't be beating grail knights, blood knights, chaos knights, demigryphs

>>172176250
Where does he get increased damage resistance?

Increased missile resistance is just how CA implemented the Scaly Skin rule, any unit with scaly skin has that, including the normal shaggoths.

>>172177169
>cav
>warhams
>good
Na

Too many anti large that are too cheap

>>172176682
Considered that they switched Warriors of Chaos from pre-order DLC into free for all that bought the game during the first week they might not have a pre-order race now.

>>172176682
We are already likely paying $60 for this god damn expansion

Cant they just not do something so jewish for once

I want to block out the sun with repeater crossbows.

>>172177331
>been locked in a war with Averland for 50 turns
This is how you don't start an empire game

>>172177668
I want to RIP AND TEAR with lizards

>>172177742
I want to plunder your temples.

>>172176296
Not really. His hammer isn't so retardedly huge that it sticks out.

His proportions are also completely different - his torso should be way fucking bigger to match his lizard half.

>make a mountain out of a molehill when the dragon ogres ingame look fine
the regular ones do but I've thought the shaggoths & kholek have looked off for ages.

it's not like I'm expecting CA to change it, it's just disappointing that we won't get proper Shaggoth models & modders can't add them in either.

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>>172174783
Gobbos were my first army as a kid too, split the box ones with a friend. Loved the cheeky little gits, their maniac & comedic disposition & units. Also gave me an enduring hatred of High Elves when they beat my Gobbos every time, that evolved into a Dark Elves collection to exact revenge.

As Bretonnia...

>Destroy the Skullsmasherz
or
>Farm Orc Rebellions

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Wow vlad is really strong, he managed to solo the entire army.

>>172178427
>that quote
fucking Marius what a madman

>>172175865
Yes like a game of RPS where you throw down with your right hand on the main battleline against your opponent, and then once engaged, flank him with a cheeky left hook to side of the head that sees his muslces chain rout to the floor.

>bring ~4 hellcannons to siege
>win no matter the odds

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Theories on Future Rome 2/Attila DLC? I think something based around the collapse of Abbasid power in the late 9th century to 1080 would be good. You could have the Byzantines, Bulgars, the Abbasid Caliphate and various Christian and Muslim Factions that start as its Satraps like the Fatimids and Georgia, as well as nomadic factions like the Magyars.

You could introduce new mechanics specially for Islamic factions, such as a unique slave market tree giving some factions access to elite Ghulam cavalry, horse archers and infantry, though spamming them will lead to Ghulam rebellions, which work similar to Slave rebellions in Rome 2. And or course, the reintroduction of Jihads from Medieval 2.

Its an exciting time in History, as the old order collapses, new powers rise and fall, and the muslim world fragments, a Broken Crescent.

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>>172178947
>Future Rome 2/Attila DLC

>>172176080
Doesn't he have a ridiculous ward save though?

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>>172177169
Cold Ones will get velociraptor animations that will tear through units making Delves and Lizards the undisputed cavalry kings of the Warhammer world. It's too tempting for the animators not to do, they grew up on Jurassic Park and dino lore. Now they get to make dinos into the OP monsters they deserve to be.

>>172179096

CA said they were working on something for Attila to tide the non-Warhammer fans over, retard.

>>172179295
that's just CA's shitty way of implementing the lightening rule though.

That should be changed to magic res and he should get bonus armour instead.

Would also make him less OP with ward-stacking in campaign and make him different to any other shaggoth in both campaign & MP.

>agents that decrease enemy income/growth when deployed
Is there anything more useless than this?

>>172178947
if CA was smart and they truly weren't planning on releasing a M3 they would make a IA-sized mini-campaign taking place in the medieval era - people would buy that shit up and it would be a great way to give people a modern tw game in a medieval setting

>>172178427
I don't think so because the AI will pull however many resources it needs straight out of its asshole. They're more for the enemy to use on you only.

>>172177169
unless either of them get a substantial bonus vs large, no. Idk about Dragon Princes but I see Cold One knights having a bonus vs inf. W/o a bonus vs cav any new units will be grail/blood/demi w/ halberd fodder

>>172169884
The fuck is this shit. It's 300 all over again.

>>172169632
Usually, yeah. They're both superhuman, but Grail Knights get a bonus against undead because holiness.

>>172175247
I feel like it's only 'great' when you're a Warhammer fan. Otherwise, there are better Total Wars.

>>172169598
people still play attila mp?

>>172163730
The point of being wary is to not be a cuck who gives the stunties money.
I'd rather give the Skraelings money.

>>172171101
Indeed. Poor little innocent Milan.

>>172170847
What, no. What?

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>>172180197
>giving a cav bonus vs large

they fucking didn't learn from Attila that you shouldn't do that, god damnit might as well make the trait tag +mandatory -fun

>>172172589
Ungrim shits all over him in 1v1.

>>172173917
Fighting all those Marauder Horsemen made me appreciate the Hellcannon so much.

>>172174597
Nagash is so fucking shit though, and nothing about his awesome power makes sense. Why the fuck would the first necromancer be the strongest? He wasn't even around for long before being sealed away. What did all the necromancers and vampires after him do, sit on their fucking asses instead of improving on his magic?

>>172175975
>Much of the playerbase has never touched anything Warhammer prior to playing the game
Or anything Total War, for that matter.

>>172175801
With those arms and that hammer he'd barely reach the ground without crushing his own toes.

>>172179848
If the AI didn't already cheat like a mad cunt, maybe. -income/-growth/-public order feel like ideas that will never see use outside of easy mode and maybe normal, where the game is so easy you don't even need to use them. You're better off just destroying their shit which is faster and more effective.

>>172180414

I do ;_;

Seriously though, games do happen, its just that Medieval 2 is more active and that game is a decade old with even more broken cavalry.

1: The DLC make this game seem incomplete, i see these other factions but i cant even assign them to the enemy AI bot in a custom battle
2: If you are going to make DLC at least make it available in a sale or something.
3: i bought this game for 40$ in a sale and it still feels like i bought a 20$ game becuase of how gutted the core game is.
4: IF you want super long battles this is not the game for you, they end fast and if you want to see some epic action you alwasy have to watch the replay becuase you are to busy microing your army during the fight.
5: if you dont have directx 11 its ok, run everything on teh below mario64 settings and it runs ok, given that some battles start with a pitch black screen which can be fixed by exiting the match and just starting the match back up.
6: fairly long load times for individual matches.
7: Some factions feel like they could use a boost in stats, like greenskins vs counts. about 3 minutes into that kind of game and the counts have the greenskins just running with fear while their casualties are like 70 men out of a 1200 man army, heros help with this but not by much.
8: the AI if given artilery in a land battle will just sit there the whole game and try to fire on you, this needs to be fixed.
9: you have to set the AI up with an army that has no artilery so it has to advance and even then if you dont have artilery the AI parks its army on a large hill, which always leads for such a dull upward hill battle.

PS: yes the DLC is bull crap but the game is alright in its current stage, however, due to the lack of content for the price this review ends in a negative review. if i had more content to grade like the other 3 factions this review would probably be positive).

>>172177393
Just use them to collapse shit to free other units to fight the anti-large.

>>172175247
Such a shame. Another sh*t TW game, the campaign is total garbage. I have been playing TW since Shgogun 1 and it is such a shame to see that the influence Rome 2 had on the franchise is still poisoning every game that follows. The AI in the campaign is ridiculous, your allies do nothing, whilst your enemies muster insane strong armies.
I played as Brettonia for my first 4 play throughs, "the strongest cavalry in the game". Yet when I encounter a wood elf army all I can do is chase the AI as they constantly flee, whilst shooting me the whole time. Bretonnian cavalry is utter garbage, with the elite Empire cavalry being infinitely stronger.
The hero upgrading is really cool, yet still doesnt seem to make a single peice of difference during battles, Ive easily pumped 4000+ hours into the TW franchise since Shogun 2 was released. Rome 2 created a cancer in the TW franchise that will not go away, it is a shame to see this game follows the same mechanics. As for DLC, i am glad I saw this game for what it is before I bought any. I will continue to play custom battles, but from what I saw from campaign battles, the different factions are incredibly unbalanced.
Oh and I also think its pretty ironic that the Wood Elves and Chaos forces completely f*ck me into oblivion, yet I would have to PAY for them in order to use that kind of power for myself.... Creative Assembly has changed... I am so glad Dawn of War III willl be coming soon. Peace.

>>172177368
Level 14 (I think) 25% Ward save.

>>172178427
>Vlad: 192 kills
>enemy losses: 527
>enemies remaining: 543
>Vlad soloed the entire army
Brush up your math.

>>172172589
Grimgor-senpai!

>>172172845
Angry Tree Dad doesn't have a single bit of "friendly" diplomatic dialogue does he? Playing as him, even when an ally comes to me asking for something, Durthu's line is usually along the lines of "you'll be good fertilizer P.S. never enter athel loren thats our turf"

Can you not stack warrior priests for more growth?
I have 3 in a province and it says +50 from characters.

>>172180596
Keep the dwarves happy, keep the orcs away, get to focus on half as many borders, all for a paltry sum that's irrelevant if you have a strong economy.

>>172180062

IA?

>>172181521
Are you saying that it's a bad thing for the AI to wait for you if they have an artillery advantage?

>>172182248
May ten thousand men die before the stunties get a single cent from my hands.

>>172182416
If you can't profit from beating them, join them.

>>172182235
Do you have to deploy them for the bonus? Agents that deploy don't stack, agents that offer a passive buff stack.

>>172182490
Can profit from beating them.

>>172182276
imperator augustus - basically a mini-campaign the size of the grand campaign

>>172182235

Deployment bonuses do not stack.

Standing around bonuses like the + public order bonus they get in their blue tree does stack, though.

soooo

for anyone wanting to sample chaos or beastmemes or welves

Crynsos faction unlocker basically lets you play the DLCs,,kinda, minus the quests/story.

Honestly not sure how this mod has escaped the CA/GW/Steam DLC gestapo

>>172182526
Oh, I see. Thanks.

Damn. That's a lot of wasted money on empire captains as well.
>>172182576
At least quite a few of them have loafing about bonuses now.

>>172182157
Well if those damn kids would stay off his lawn then maybe Angry Tree Dad could stop spending so much time being angry and start being Awesome Tree Dad again.

>>172182546
Not in the long term, and less of a profit is a loss.

STATE TROOPS READY
HAH

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Date rightful shogun of Japan

Big Date No-dachi > small takeda horses

>Hochland brought into war against me by Marienburg
>They brought Norrland with them
>But I currently control the Wastelands, Reikland
>Confeded Talabs, built improved walls which are stopping Hochland
>Confed Stirland after Anderson got seduced by the vampires
>Can't actually do anything because of the confed malus
>Not making enough money right now to upgrade buildings either

Do I just sit and chill with my two armies and wait out this confed and hope they dont bring any friends into conflict with me?

>>172182716
Material profit at complete moral devestation.
Worse than bending over backwards for Archaon is helping the stunties.

>>172182834
How brave of you to post from your tiny little corner safespace, Date.

>>172183053
Just come for them when you've taken over the human lands. They aren't going anywhere on their short deformed legs.

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>>172182834

good luck, I'm behind 7000 walls

>>172182834
Have you read the Masamune or Takeda manga? Same artist, very historically accurate. Also drew a Genghis Khan manga.

http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/date-masamune-yokoyama-mitsuteru-r4292
http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/takeda-shingen-yokoyama-mitsuteru-r8740

But if you kill the stunties who will make the beer?

>>172183935
human beer>dwarf piss-drink

>>172183935

>iz tried a stuntie bee'a once, zoggin trash, fungi bee'a iz da only propah bee'a you git

>>172184046

the the only thing humans make is fertile women for the superior BBC (Big Beastmen Cock)

Dark elves actually look really fun.

>Interesting start location
>Potential for cool campaign mechanics
>Diverse roster full of monsters and elves
>Hydras

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>make sure to deploy on the opposite bank of a nearby river whilst recruiting so that I can have a river battle if I get attacked
>game doesn't give me a river battle here

ffs

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>>172184046

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>>172183181
S-shut up, Oda.

>>172183749
Classic Hojo.

>>172183761
I haven't. I don't usually consume that kind of japanese pop culture; my interests lie in live-action films (like Kurosawa) and history. The regular anime/manga shenanigans usually put me off, but if it's as accurate as you say then I'll actually check it out.

>>172181710
Yeah that's stupid though.

Kholek currently sucks in MP and is literally no different from a normal Shaggoth despite having all that heavy armour.

They need to increase his armour to the 80-100 range so it reflects his model & TT rules and get rid of the ward save in SP.

It's stupid anyway that you can stack up to 90% resists on him in SP if you get lucky with items and just solo entire armies and cheese the game.

>>172183395
Yeah they usually have to wait. I'd rather take some backstabs from them in the meantime than actually give the fucks some money.
Incase you didn't know my entire point is an anti-stuntie sentiment. You're right on how easy it is to get along with them, I just detest them and refuse to coexist.

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>>172182834
Japan is

RIGHTFUL

KIRISHITAN

CLAY

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>>172184316
>move to a different location
>actually get a river battle
>enemy reinforcements spawn behind me, on my side of the river despite being behind the attacking army on the campaign map

FOR FUCKS SAKE

>>172184648
He is a very decent pick in MP.

Meta is switching away from goonsquads into big booty blobs, but kholek and another shaggoth is a damn fine goonsquad. His bombardment is pretty decent as well.

>>172173189

I'm the exact opposite. I love my lead-belching, smoke-spewing Space Orkz.
Orcs with shitty bows and fucking pigs instead of HOGS does not get my dick hard.

>>172173189
Total War: Warhammer's Orcs are a bit light on personality, even though they have some cool lore stuff. The Gobboz make up for it though.

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>>172184909
>bringing tercios to a katana fight
fucking nanban, every time with this shit

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>>172182834
Come to Echigo and say that to my face faggot.

*sips wine*

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>>172185212
I think Orkz are a more original idea. Which makes them pretty good for the setting because in general original it aint.

At a glance I should have the same opinion about Greenskins as you do, being so generic.
But I end up absolutely loving their roster and presentation.
They're like the generic M2 army, very nostalgic playing them in the midst of meme stunties and chaos shit and pike and shot armies.
And then you have weird little exchanges like wolves and pigs instead of horses.
Definitely my favorite roster in TWW as it exists right now.
You're the only army that really feels like it needs to manage morale as well.

I like Lizardmen and KANGZ and maybe even Ogres more than Greenskins, but until them, Grimgor is the strongest.

>>172174386

If you're talking campaign, halberds are pretty much superior at holding the line. I tend to go with spears without shields until I can recruit and afford halberds.
Back them up with a light wiz and overcast pha's protection can make them withstand ridiculous mosh pits.

I honestly do think that Naval battles will be added in with the new Warhammer game. CA isn't completely retarded, and they must know that adding in a giant ocean to cross along with the 2 best naval factions in the world (high/dark elves) while making them auto resolve sea battles would be dumb. I'm not expecting like 10 different ships per faction, but there will hopefully be at least a few.

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>>172184969
that was closer than I would have liked

Are any of the corpse carts worth it?

>>172165593

>that pegasus

M O U L D L I N E S

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>>172186152
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

ATTILA HAS KILLED MORE FUCKING BARBARIANS THAN ANY OTHER PERSON IN HISTORY

>>172182610
Beastmen and Welves don't allow you to build any new units without the DLC although you can play with your initial troops for a bit before you get stomped, and Chaos has a limited roster based on some units having a DLC tag (Dragon ogres, Armored trolls, some forms of Chosen and Warriors) and some units not (Giants, regular trolls, most Marauder units and some Warriors/Chosen). It actually was a sort of fun demo to Chaos and convinced me to get them when they went on sale.

>>172186309
only the one w/ unholy lodestone + ghorst's cart

>>172181124

Other necros just mimick Naggy, who designed necromancy from scratch by mixing Dark and Death winds. Modern day necromancers are just scraping together the finished articles from lost tomes and minorly tweaking them here and there.
Even the original vamps were just a product of Neferata aping Nagash.

>>172186309
Yes.

>>172186524
Vampires kinda are like little pieces of Nagash.

>>172185627

Bit of a 40k nerd and I'd have no issues with Orks being squatted desu - the endless cannon fodder before the real bad guys meme is sort of meh

but in TWW Ive also found them to be my favorite faction,

my only gripe is that by the time the badlands is semi secure around turn 75ish and I'm ready to WAAGH it up chaos has left me nothin but ruins and vamps

>>172180382

Why are you pulling shit out of your ass? Blood Knights completely obliterate Grail Knights in-game, they have FORTY more armor and a significantly larger bonus vs large.

>>172181639

>omg twwh is such a cash grab i cant believe its nothing like the old games

>I am so glad Dawn of War III willl be coming soon.

b8

>>172185468
How are monk units anyway? I've only got a few dozen hours in Shogun 2 so far and haven't gotten the chance to use them. Uesugi seem pretty unique in their religious focus which does make them interesting.

>>172186774
its actually pretty even if the grail knights are in lance formation - both have access to health regenerating magic support as well

>>172186792
its a steam review m8

>>172175710
Soon.

>>172186826
Can be clutch. Especially during sieges.

Use them for flanking because their defense is shit but their melee is savage.

Monk archers are smaller in number but they have added range so make good use of them.

>>172186364

>Your wizard levels up enough to ride a pegasus
They will know true fear when my Lore of Beast rolls by and shoves a amber spear up Mannlets ass.

>>172186892
>"the strongest cavalry in the game"
I always wonder just who these people are quoting.

>>172172845

You're some kind of retarded masochist if you have a magic dependant army comp. All it does is affect your starting winds out of 30, it still fills up quickly since your reserves are gonna be high at the start regardless.

>>172186653

Is this End Times stuff?
Far as I know Neferata developed Powerthirst™ and told her friends it was an 'elixir of immortality', which it was, but there were some side effects.

>>172186892

Post it with quotation marks or maymay arrows then, you double-umgi.

>>172186370
>utterly fearless
>fears savage barbarians
>even though he has wiped half of europe off the map and has won several heroic victories against them

bravo ca

>>172182784

THE THONG IS MUSTARD

>>172188113
DANSE MA CARP

>>172188208
NAGASH WAS WEEK, WITNESS TRUE HOUR

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Craptop HDD died and now gotta wait 15 days of repair before getting to play twwh again

why live

>Norsca is a nightmarish hellhole, where dozens to hundreds of tribes war over scant resources
>Main source of food is literally stealing shit from the Empire and Bretonnia
>Daemons, trolls, beastmen and spawn roam the wilderness, happy to kill you if nothing else does
>somehow capable of shitting out bigger armies than an organized agrarian society in a (comparatively) verdant land

How does this make any sense? I'm not even talking about in-game, but in the lore, swarms of chaos tribesmen just march south every few hundred years. How? Where do they come from?

>>172187657

>developed

She basically stole Nagash's notes and got Arkhan to read them out to her and explain what all the difficult words meant.

That said, the only character's are actually anything like 'little pieces of Nagash' or Arkhan and Krell, who are deeply bound to him. Krell basically has no free will, whereas Arkhan has embraced his role as Nagash's vizier completely.

>>172188308

BASED GOLD MAGIC

>>172188113
THE THONG IS MUSTERED
THICC

>>172161610
Does anyone have that picture of the understander of strategy Hannibal with a fucked up eye?

>>172188575
Norsca doesn't make much sense but the Realms of Chaos are practically infinite. Time and space are warped close to the polar gates.

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>>172189063

>>172187657
I don't think so. But later editions maybe.
I think the original elixir involved the blood of Nagash, which I assume then Neferata passed on with her blood I guess.

That's the connection I believe allowed Nagash to curse the lot of them for their treachery.

In regards to what specifically is End Times, I think from the novel associated with the Nagash book, when Mannfred contemplates the psychological issues all vampires share he attributes it to being related to Nagash. IE, Nagash seeks dominion over all so vampires do the same. So they're smaller clones of Nagash in that respect.

>>172189157

That's always bothered me. the Norse tribes have huge ass armies so they always run over Kieslev etc since they usually occupy power spots 2/3/4.

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Despite having multiple playthroughs w/

>more armies
>owning half the map
>finished all techs
>absurd economies

this is the only time I can recall hitting supreme imperium in Attila

>>172189348

Didn't know this before, thanks anon.

>>172189212
>black hannibal
>king at all
I'm not sure if we have a solid idea of what the phoencians looked like but they would've been arab-tier swarthy at best, no?

Got Attila, but I don't understand how the fuck to play.

I really liked Empire and Shogun, and they made a lot of sense tactically in an intuitive sense.

Empire was line battles and artillery, maximizing surface area of attack units, using calvalry to shock units or pick off static artillery off on its own.

Shogun was paper scissors rock.

What the fuck am I supposed to do in Attila?
Ranged units seem incredibly underemphasized and not nearly as effective as I'm used to.
Melee stuff seems to just dissolve into massive orgies of stuff where it's just matter of numbers and equipment quality and maybe a calvary charge from the flank or rear.

Is there anything more to this?

>>172189578
Sea jews.

>>172189157
>>172189361
>>172188575

>germania is a shithole of nothing but forests and swamp with no development, steppes are nothing but grassland and cows
>we're the ROMAN FUCKING EMPIRE
>how do the Suebi/Marcomanni/Goths/Huns/Alans keep sending these xboxhuege hordsd into Gaul WTF?!?!

>>172185627
>fighting grimgor
>fire cannon at him
>shot deflect off his skull and kills half a unit of dwarf warriors

>>172189826

Gaul was actually the weak point of the WRE and constantly held them back. They never settled the land enough, making it a wasteland that connected to Britain, a more valuable piece of the empire. If there were more colonization of romans outside of the southern coast of the Med and Trier, Gaul/Germania wouldn't have been such a ready area to seize by rebels and invaders.

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got this after defeating Karak Ziflin

>>172188575
>>172189826
To answer this question, this kind of society (germanic tribes inspired the norscans) will mobilise a greater percentage of its population for war. This forms a disproportionately large army that tends to stick together, overwhelming more traditional forces. Other real-life examples include basically any and all nomadic hordes.

>>172190260

You kicked their ass so hard your Lord felt unchivalrous doing it.

Matched Combat Animations were NOT a mistake

>>172190624
a couple here and there are fine but R2 adn Attila made infantry fights a literal blobby moshpit. Cool if you want some "realism" but gameplay is more important. Not to mention everything awkwardly shuffling everywhere to lock on and the performance dip.

>>172189541

It's not confirmed and Mannfred is a completely unreliable narrator, who takes any excuse to shunt his flaws off as being someone else's fault.

More likely, the dark nature of vampires comes from the fact that they're inherently creatures of Dhar, Dark Magic, which promotes megalomania and destructive impulses in frequent users.

Even then, some vampires mostly rise above their nature. Notably, Nagash himself vastly preferred Vlad, as he found Vlad's belief in creating a nation greater than himself to be admirable, and believed that Vlad would eventually come to see that his nation of the dead was the only logical choice for the world.

>>172191060
I liked them in Medieval 2

>>172189624

So you need to learn basics about how archers work in Attila. Archers themselves are weak units that will rarely get kills. You use them for the special toggle arrows. Whistling arrows to morale route, Fire arrows to kill cavs, anti infantry arrows for lightly armored inf etc.

The ranged units that get tons of kills reliably? Fucking skirmishers with javelins. Slingers are alright since they have base-line arpen, but javeliners? Let them hit any unit outside of their shield arc and you will lose a unit faster than a demigryph charge.

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>>172188481
There's always the mobile app, anon.
Because ya know, that was a TW.

>>172161610
Is that manga about Hannibal and Scipio any good?

>>172191150
I did, too. I feel like making them the majority of all melee animations was a big mistake.

>>172191337
Ad Astra? It's alright. The group translating it stopped, though, so it ends in the middle of Cannae. Also, it is a manga, so expect your Roman characters to act more like typical Japanese characters at times.

>>172189624
Cav is king in attila - and cav w/ anti-cav bonus is king amongst cav. No matter what the melee stats are of a cavalry unit, in attila they will do the most damage through the impact damage mechanics which increases with how heavy a cavalry unit is (light -> very heavy). Archers aren't killers like in shogun 2, and generally rely on flaming/heavy shot to kill cavalry/infantry respectively. Instead they are used for killing lightly armored units/enemy skirmishers. Hurlers/slingers are great vs unarmored units, and also give off a speed debuff that is useful for slowing down cav, which also reduces the impact damage upon charging. Infantry varies depending on what faction you are playing as and what weapon the infantry is using, as well as if the unit gets access to formations like shield wall. Skirmishers are incredibly powerful, but suffer from short range and limited ammo

>>172191110
Based Vlad

>>172191110
vlad confirmed pawn of nagash

>>172165435

do they all look asian?

>>172189578
>what the phoencians looked like
Originally, they were from what is Lebanon and Israel today.

By Hannibal's time, it is safe to assume that they had mixed with the Hellenes from the colonies around them, and other peoples from around the western Med (Iberians, Gaetulains, whatever they were called).
IIRC Hannibal's mother was from the Balearic islands, so marriage to cement alliances etc was probably not unusual.

For some general idea, look at some guys in southern Italy, and add a more pronounced nose for semiticness.

The Romans essentially repopulated the areas they themselves laid waste during the war with Punic slaves, while the areas in North Africa enjoyed too many centuries of Arab/Islamic cultural enrichment to be representative.

>>172191110
Mannfred has a point though, even the 'good' vampires like Abhorash and Vlad are dogmatically self-serving. And Nagash was a lot less than logical, given that his main motivation in deathifying the world is to ensure none will ever be able to threaten him.

>>172191772
I enjoyed legend of the galactic heroes greatly so that's no problem for me.

>>172192445
;_;7 Ushoran.

>>172192445

Nagash actually has a good bit of respect for 'worthy' individuals. It feeds his ego to have individuals he recognizes as being intelligent, honourable and driven serve him willingly, rather than as undead slaves.

He offers Settra Mortarchship, tried quite hard to make Sigmar into one of his champions and gives Vlad a lot of leeway.

>>172188481
>laptop HDD dies
your only option is to buy a new one and reinstall window, which is possible for normal people and only take a few hours to do.
Instead you just hand it over to someone else and wait for 2 weeks

Gonna play G O B B O Z for the first time

Any tips?

Is there any way to combat vamp influence other than rushing a t3 settlement for the shrine of sigmar? Seems a little silly there is no t2 small prayer site or something for the empire.

>>172193598
Unless you share a province with vampires you shouldn't receive too much corruption, and all Empire heroes and general's have a corruption-lowering blue skill within the first part of the path.

>>172193573
nasty skulkers

>>172193754

Stirland has 20% vampire corruption which puts its public order in the tank.

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How do I control multiple stacks for battles in med 2? I clicked control the army yet the ai is in control. I told it to shoot out with our superior archers yet the retards decide to charge cavalry right into their spears I was shooting at. I'm upset because it takes like 10 turns for 1 of those cav to finally regenerate and recruit so the ai just kills them.

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>>172195003
>Tilea vs Estalia, Southern Realms mod

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>>172195362
>"Be a Squire" they said.

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>>172195754
They really need to add standard bearers

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>"Oh man, I've never tried a beast men campaign, why not?"
>start campaign as Kazarak
>going good, razed Estalia in a couple turns
>Move up towards Bretonia
>Orion shows up, in Estalia
>"All right, kill him"
>He gets ganked by my two armies of Gors and Ungors
>Moving up into Bretonia
>Siege a castle
>Almost going to run out of food and suffer attrition
>Orion shows up again, with another full stack that at least costs 15 amber
>"Okay"
>Wreck him again
>Go back to sieging with depleted troops
>1 turn away from cutting supplies
>Orion shows up AGAIN
>Realize with my already depleted forces I can't beat him
>Try to retreat, only way to get away is beast path
>Intercepted by defenders of the castleEven though I had the research to lower the chances
>Loose one of my 2 armies
>Zazarak's army gets away
>End turn
>Orion is still chasing my ass, giving me no time to re-build
>Quit the game
So much for trying them out, I suppose.
Fuck worst elves, seriously

>>172191431
I think the biggest problem with warhammer isn't so much the lack of matched animations as it is how terrible and stupid the animations look although going with medieval 2 style animations would probably be the best option.

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>>172195906