/twg/ - Total War General

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"you better stay off from albion or else..."

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>he played under 500 hours
>he doesn't have all the achievements

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Wood Elves are the comfiest and happiest elves

>>174946428
>he hasn't played in almost 2 weeks
you'll get rusty, anon

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>>174946541
Fucking drought tho

>>174946417
Don't worry buddy, it would cost CA way too much money to take us to Albion.

>>174946603
>tfw stopped playing for a while because my campaign partner blew up at me
i mean, yeah, vampire counts are just no fun for me anymore or whatever

>>174946801
aw, what happened anon?

>Pick empire first
>Then go to dawi/greenskinz
>Get bored because their campaigns lack depth

Just saw the trailer for Warhammer II, does anyone know what the Lizardmen are like in the tabletop? And are Skaven coming as DLC or will they be in Warhammer II

>>174946997
so we like to skype and talk while we campaign, and we've done lots of campaigns before. but when the campaign gets tricky or i'm trying to do my early-game stuff i get quiet because i'm thinking a lot. doesn't help that i'm not much like my partner, who doesn't mind if an enemy takes a settlement and things like that.

i'm still relatively new to this so trying to keep up with 10+ years of total war experience can be daunting and i feel bad sometimes, like when my partner just runs away with the campaign and i'm slipping head over heels to try to keep up. then i get talked down to because i'm not being hype enough even though i'm having fun. i dunno, maybe i should just talk more about things on my mind, or what's going on on the other end of the mic, or what the next plan is. usually it's pretty casual and we just aim to play for funsies.

anyways, last time i got blown up at and my partner told me i made them not want to play campaigns together anymore for a while, so i eased off and just didn't touch the game for a bit. felt real bad, i was just upset that i couldn't keep up with what my partner was doing. i just wanna play some games, man. i'll talk more next time, i guess.

/rant

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Rock the boat!

>>174947808
I really hope they do some kind of "Beast of War" like pack that just adds in a bunch of the more weird or extreme units like this for the races.

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To the provinces? Who calls?

Recently downloaded Steel Faith, are Slayers more worthwhile? Or are you still better off just brute forcing large units with Hammerers and such.

>>174947495
Skaven will be in 2. The logo has Skaven symbols in it

Overall, Lizardmen are mostly melee/infantry oriented. Their infantry is strong, slow, fairly durable, and hard to rout. They dont have too much in terms of ranged or support but the few options they do have are pretty handy. You'll mostly just see clusterfucks of skinks and saurus's while a slaan or stegadon backs them up

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Summon who?

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Of course I accept! How could I not when it is my fellow countrymen who ask?

>>174949167
Gonna have to watch a video on them tomorrow; they sound interesting

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yall niggas don't even have cav with 74 melee attack lmao

>Gotrek & Felix legendary hero unit
>Felix muttering under his breath while Gotrek yells at him for being a manling fucking shit

Comfiest unit possible. Make it happen CA

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How would you change his stats to make him as powerful as he is in the lore?

>>174949280
What is this rotoscoped from?

>>174947808
>the boat was introduce
>marineburg is now harder to siege in the early game because they have the boat

>>174949665
Tell me you're secrets.

>>174949776
Turn everything up to 200

>>174949861
step 1 go to syracuse step 2 hire the mercs
romans hate him, find out his one secret to sacking rome!

So is there any point in upgrading resource deposits if you're not trading all of it? I swear its impossible to be exporting more than 50% of any particular resource in Warhammer.

>>174949776
gives him the slayer of kings trait that not only ignore ward save, but also forbid anyone that hit by the blade to regenerate from the hit.

If he is on his horse Dorghar, give him the ability to instantly increase his speed and charge bonus to an insane amount in a short time.

He should also have eye of sheerian trait that gives him ludicrous amount of melee defense, because the eye saw the future and shit.

>>174949962
>sacking rome
Horrific. Stopped reading there.

>>174950162
bitch you aint see what I did to the rest of italy

>>174949776
One, Archaon needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine. Two, whenever Archaon's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking "Where's Archaon"? Three--

>>174950357

He had a time machine??

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>>174946428
I'll get your damn fancypants achievements in my own damn time you young fast paced hoodlum.

>>174949776
Give him a free win every time his little eyes tear up up again because daddy didn't love him. Lore friendly.

>>174947495
They have really tough, slow, strong saurus infantry with great morale that just annihilates most anything it comes across as an ever-shifting wall
Other than that, they've got cannon-fodder skinks that aren't good at much in battle save being cannon-fodder, very sleepy slann mage-priests that are the best mages in all of warhammer and can realistically solo armies, and dinosaurs with ancient weapons of mass destruction mounted on their backs

>>174951457
Oh, and variants of the same raptor-cavalry that the dark elves have, but cold ones cav isn't particularly good so no one really cares

>>174946781
Huh? Just reskin the celts from Rome 2, and add a few really, really tall giants.

>>174946428
I had a friend who was an achievementwhore

It ruined our friendship entirely

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>encircle Hoplite unit with two Libyan Hoplite units and one Libyan Javilenman unit
>javelinmen break
>hoplites break

Anyone got the RX480? If so, how well does it run this game?

I need an upgrade over my shitty 270x and only have about 200 burgerbucks

Anybody interested in a co-op campaign? I've got most of them.

>>174953326
This post is relevant to my interests. I'm also interested in the gtx 1080ti. Or should I wait for its and equivalent at least?

>>174953542

isn't that like a 600$ card? It should be able to run basically anything

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>LOUD PUNIC SWEATING

>>174953326
>>174953542
I have a 1070 + i7 6700k and I cant run it max without dropping below 60

So. Yeah. I get pretty good settings, but play on Large unit sizes with a lot of stuff turned just down from best settings.

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TODAY IS THE DAY

>>174954185
The unceasing optimism of /vg/ never ceases to amaze me

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Can somebody tell me why my Punic fort has Roman flags?

>>174954185
kek

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What is the best Faction in Total War History and why is it the Ghorid Sultanate?

>Awesome Ghazi Infantry

>Pretty good cav and very nice variety of archers.

> Awesome Ghulam horse archers

> inb4 muh spears

Spearman are worthless against Cav is BC anyway.

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>>174954817
>sultanate
>best
Lord forgive him for he knows not what he speaks.

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>>174954185
YOU'RE RIGHT!

>>174947516
Sorry to hear that. Sometimes games get between friends in ugly ways. We should ban games.

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>>174946168
Send help.

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>>174955119

Takbir infidel.

>>174955302
How do you fuck up that badly?

Are greenskins fun?

Should i shekel up for beastmen?

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well anons, i tried

Mannfred and the 4 varghulfs were too much

Sigmar preserve them

>>174955428
They are if you're hyperaggressive.
The way Gork (or Mork?) intended.

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>>174955302
Principes

like your entire army. They chew up the Etruscan League like no other

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>>174955302

what the fuck

>>174955471
Sigmar Bless Those Brave Men

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>25th of april 2017
>We still don't know who the fuck is the old friend

>>174958735
Whatever it is, it will be disappointing

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HOO
HAA
HOO
HAA

To anyone who hasn't already, I highly recommend playing a campaign as Westphalia in Age of Charlemagne. It's by far some of the most fun I've had in any TW game, and a real challenge. The feeling of beating back multiple Frankish armies with nothing but levy-tier swordsmen in shieldwall and a few javelin cavalry is glorious.

>>174958735
It's Slambo.

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>>174954185
>tfw today is not the day

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>>174958735
Krell, old, etc. Between four kittens and four adult cats I've been run too roughshod for witty responses.

>>174959359
My heart tells me this (And the disappointment it will bring) is true, but I'm still hoping for some kind of big update or pack or something more.

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Why I didn-t notice this concept in their jewbook page?


damn they made the saurus sexy fuckers

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>dogpile of Chaos agents in the province
>nobody has above a 40% chance to assassinate them
>so much corruption and public order fuckery that there is a Chaos uprising besieging my cities between turns with no room for a break to replenish the garrisons
>walled cities falling one after another after slaying untold thousands

>>174954403
Because you're Roman spys

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>>174955302

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>>174949280


S T A T E - T R O O P S

MORSLIEB SHINES

>>174960048
>mmmmoooooooooooooooooooo

>>174960024

>battle skirts

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SEND THEM TO MORRRRRRRR

Also why are all norscans forming armies of 14 fucking chariots, 4 ogres, one infantry unit and a general? What's the purpose?

>>174960112


>he doesn't go to battle in a skirt and floppy hat

wew, it's like youre a heretic or something

>>174960151
The chariots are the strongest units they have, so they spam the shit out of them.

>>174960169

I wear only the floppiest hat, but skirt sounds like something a Bretonnian would wear.

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>>174960151

Beyond your comprehension.

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>>174960151

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>>174960151

Archaon was weak.

Witness True Endtimes

>rebellion pops up in the province consisting entirely of Demigryphs, Helstorms and STEAM TANKS
IS THIS SHIT SUPPOSED TO MAKE FUCKING SENSE

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Guess I'll zog right off den.

>>174960578

I fucking love meme army compositions.

>>174960578
>daemon price gets beaten by a bunch of dropped rocks
>now rocks are being spread across the world as definitive anti-chaos weapon

Is it normal that when I literally surround the enemy and there is no way for him to run through the red circle and I engage him he STILL could use the retreat option and run through my units?

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>no rors for chaos and beastmemes
T-thanks for the game CA

>>174962054

I've read your post twice and I still can't figure out what the fuck you're saying

>>174962245
No problem!

>>174960578
>Boyz win fights
>Black Orcs win battles
>Rock Lobbas win WAAAGHs!

>>174962054
AI can wiggle its larger units through any blob you put on them.

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>>174962245

Anytime senpai

>looking for total war games on youtube
>find halo wars 2 instead

How the fuck did CA make a better rts than relic?

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>>174958735
It's muh boi

I want an expansion for Rome II that's set before the punic wars. Maybe featuring a breaking-up-of-Alexander's-empire event. And a Rome that isn't in full control of Italia yet. Like they gotta wrestle with Samnites and shit first. And Carthage is the dominant power in the western mediterrenean.

Thoughts?

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>>174963215
play the tutorial

>>174962635

I see nothing wrong here.

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>>174963738

>>174959441
How difficult it must be to have big dreams but the intelligence of a retard.

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>>174963870

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I'm going to be dominated by a best elf!

New dlc for Vermintide if anyone is interested.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/235540/

>>174966790
might consider if they added a new enemy and a nemesis mode.

>>174962462
it's not a better RTS

>>174966790
Does anyone even still play it though? The general for it has died out last I checked

Today's the day right?

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This must be the work of Mork

>>174967717
No, it'll be Thursday

>>174967846
Hiding in plain sight? Now dat's usin ya zoggin noggin

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>That description

[X] Doubt

>>174967717
kek

>>174967846
>Black Orcs and Night Goblins
>Still fighting Top Knotz

>>174968727

Should really say "preferred Goblin tactic"

>>174967846
If you get him through Confederation, he gtws a hidden stat that turns savage Orc upkeep back to the normal value, IIRC.

>>174969002
But I thought the reduced upkeep was just for him and him only, the only thing savage orcs have over their counterparts is frenzy and a ward save that I'm not sure justifies their expense.

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Is this common that welves get rekt? Not sure by who, could be beastmen or bretts. Or even clan angrund.

Kinda scary.

>>174969261
No it's not. Are you using any mods? Even with Rise of the Beastmen i didn't have anything like that.

>>174969490
not him but i played dwarves in VH and chaos just REKT everyone but the border princes tilea and bretonia

so it happens. at least it did in my only dwarf campaign

>>174953326
I get 15 fps on high in a zombie tarpit 4500 v 4500
Otherwise it's pretty decent

>>174962273
There are red circles around every enemy army and town that you can't pass through unless you siege the town, then you can move your units closer. But enemy armies don!t work that way. You just can!t run through it if the passage is narrow enough or you are surrounded from every side.

>>174969261
If it was Beastmen or Chaos, the provinces would have lots of chaos corruption.

But I've seen the WElf AI fuck up by declaring war on the Brets and Dwarves at the same time, and then leaving one of those enemies free to waltz in and burn down thier trees.

>>174962245
>not disabling ror forever
shite mechanic is shite

>>174967103
>nemesis mode
?

>>174969490
Only mods I use is that one which changes army recruitment and building system for AI.

And conquer anywhere.

>>174969706
No chaos yet, too early. Kislev is still alive. But some weird things happen, like greenskins invading tilea/estalia and these purple dwarfs absolutely rekting southlands. Its not like I complaing, its fun to see how everey game is quite different.

>>174969261
>>174969586
Had an Orc game on very hard and chaos literally dunked the whole world, including precious Athel Faglen.

>>174967717
The day we get more concept art. We got 2 for Lizardmen and 2 for Dark Elves now, so we will probably get 2 for High Elves before anything major drops.

>Tilea
>Italia

Fuck you GW

What information is there on Dwarfs living in Empire and Bretonnia lands? They get mentioned, but it's never clear what laws they're subject to or if they ever join their militaries.

>>174971375
What's the issue?

>>174971375
>bretonnia
>britannia

Its just the normal lazy ass naming that GW did with fantasy and with 40k naming as well.

>>174969261
My Wood Elves got rekt by the minor human factions in the south in my dwarf campaign.


>Wood Elves going full lebensraum on the southern kingdoms
>Estalia is lost
>Stalemate in Tilea
>Border Princes keeps getting razed
>Wood Elves suddenly declare war on my ally Clan Angrund
>Angrund is also allied with bretonnian dukes
>I wreck the most elite wood elf army in a costly battle
>Wood elves gets fucked by Tilea, Border Princes and a bretonnian faction thereafter

Todayeth

>>174971761
Well judging by TW:WH they're spastics who would rather be razed and genocided into the dirt than confed with Thorgrim.

>>174971761

I found some relatively detailed info in Sigmars Heirs. There's more than this in the book but here's what I though seemed most relevant to your question. There's wasn't much on law:

"Dwarfs are a feature of the Empire’s towns and cities, sometimes comprising as much as 10% of the population. Although they organize themselves in their own guilds and mostly trade with each other, Dwarfs are a linchpin of the economy, providing quality goods and services to those who can afford their prices and needed loans to those who can afford their interest charges.

Dwarfs are also a key force in the Imperial Army, when it takes the field. By ancient agreement, they owe service only to the Emperor, though Dwarfs will naturally take part in the defence of their cities and some hire themselves to local rulers as mercenaries. In the Imperial Army, Dwarfs form into their own units of pikemen and axemen, while also providing siege and engineering skills.

But Dwarfs are never entirely comfortable in the Empire, never completely escaping the feeling that they do not belong or are not wanted. Naturally clannish and reserved, they gather in their own districts and, in some Imperial towns, walled ghettos. Some Humans interpret this as snobbishness and an insult, while the Dwarfs feel a need to gather together for mutual protection. There have been too many times when hard economic times have led Humans to take their frustrations out on the Dwarfs for them to feel otherwise."


As for Bretonnia, there are apparently aren't many dwarfs there, according to this wiki, which cites the Warhammer Fantasy RPG book:

http://warhammerfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Expatriate_Dwarf

>>174955471
>more than 4:1 K/D ratio
You did great, anon. Now rest easy, it's time to come home.

>>174972236
My favorite Elf faction!

>>174972319
Oh cool. I wonder if that feeling of unease is part of their Old One programming.

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>>174946168
But can we talk about LegendofTotalWar?

>>174950529
He's called Belakor.

>>174971375
>Nippon
>Japan

>>174972495
Damn shame about that weakness to rocks.

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Jesus Christ greenskin campaign is completely isolated from the rest of the world

WHAT IS GOING ON OUT THERE

>>174972864
At least they were creative with that name.

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>>174971761
They were in the Empire army list in 5th edition. Pic related.

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>>174973341
And here are some in Imperial gear.

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>>174973007
>Ind
>India

>>174973571
Spear dwarfs were a mistake

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>new version 40k coming
>"last chance to buy codexes as they will be incompatible with the new edition of Warhammer 40,000"
>mfw

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>>174973821
I disagree.

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>>174973919

A new End Times is upon us.

>>174973919
>Age of Sigmarines 2: Now with Actual Marines!

>>174974086
I can feel my faith in the Empror becoming very firm

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Is there a graph/list of all the difficulties and their differences? Bonuses to AI. etc.

>>174972468
Fuck off

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Stuff

>>174974589
But we already know what the box art looks like

>>174974589
But i don't want to play as boxart!

>>174974589
They tweeted "What do you think is on the other side?" with this picture. Could it mean something, or is it just a random addition to the picture?

>>174974361

No graph or official list that I know of but I found this, which isn't extremely specific and I don't know for certain is correct but it sounds believable:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/364360/discussions/0/343788552546278103/

Per difficulty it goes roughly goes as follows
Easy: The campaign AI is given penalties to its income, statistics and development speed. In addition it will do its utmost to ignore you in favor of other AI factions to wage war with. In battle your units get extra stats and enemy stats are reduced from their starting values.

Normal: The AI isn't handicapped or boosted in any real way and on the campaign map it will attack you if it senses a weakness to exploit, but will not zealously hunt you over other factions. On the battlefield your units get miniscule bonuses to their stats and enemy stats are iirc unchanged.

Hard: The AI starts getting artificial help on the campaign map in terms of income and progression speed, but it isn't extremely blatant. It will also prioritize you whenever it can safely do so, but won't suicide against you just because it HAS to fight YOU. On the battlefield you get small penalties to stats and the enemy gets small boosts to stats.

V. Hard & Legendary. The AI gets some serious artificial help in their income and progression speed, focuses on you almost to the exclusion of everything else whenever it can reasonably do so. On the battlefield your stats are debuffed and the AI gets some serious boosts to their stats.

>>174974742
Daemons of chaos endboss

>>174974805
Normal difficulty AI gets a +4 to public order on the campaign map, which makes instigating rebellions a pain in the ass.

>>174974742
Sounds like they are teasing the unannounced 4th faction.

They did the same shit with Vampire Counts although on a way less meme level. They're gonna milk the Skaven memes forever to hype the 2nd game.

>>174974589
Lizardmen and high elves on the front, skaven and dark elves on the back.

>>174974805
Makes sense why my very hard Orc games suffer so fucking much due to the fact that the baseline orc stats are pretty shite and dwarves are fucking OP.

>>174974975
Issue made worse on harder difficulties. Not only do they get even more public order boosts but the rebellions that do happen die of attrition and don!t even get to full stack as the ones against you do.

>>174974742
probably teh release date you imbecile.

>>174959103
I love the idea of beating back the filthy Christians, but man what a bad start position Westphalia has. Not being able to get a full province without attacking allies and trying to martial all these random tribes against the coming Christian hordes? Throw me a bone somewhere!

I'm curious as to what exactly the dlc team is working on until game 2 releases. They would have finished Bretonnia mid February at the latest, so that it could be printed and shipped on a disk. Assuming that Warhammer 2 releases late September, that leaves over 7 months for them to work on the Old Friend and the pre order bonus for game 2.

Unless the Old Friend is a major overhaul, which he isn't, it shouldn't take 7 months to crank out a Legendary Lord and a preorder dlc race.

How do you play Orcs and Vampire Counts/Von Carstein on very hard? Both of these feel so weak against their main enemies, Dwarves and Empire respectively.

Whats way to deal with them?

>>174976037

Never had a problem as VC, as for greenskins, get rock lobbers and wolf ridershave 2-3 goblins to screen for quarrelers and don't bother with ranged units

If you do get ranged get globin arches to focus fire the enemy lord

>>174976182
How do you play VC? Grave Guards? How do you deal with economy? Feels like VCs have the worst economy in the game.

>>174976182
Yeah. It's pretty hard to outshoot dwarves who all have good armor and Shields. Need to flank and surround the stunties. Cav is good as long you don't use goblin riders.

>>174976037
Spam nasty skulkers early game, get a goblin warboss and go red on skill tree.

Get an orc warboss once you can afford black orcs.

For vampire counts how are you having trouble, just spam monsters and attack it's easy. Vargheists can fly over an enemy whilst your infantry engage then get a east hammer and anvil.

>>174946428
>8k income from raiding achievements
no thanks, that's just pain in the ass

>>174976317
Library, crypt, ghoul recruitment building for banshees and drakenhoff's gold mine. VC econ is stronk imo

>>174976317

Get the techs from the economy tree, then go for the diplomacy ones and then go for the improved income from repression buildings and necromancer/vampire lairs

then get those buildings in every capital

>>174947516
Are you playing coop or what?

>>174960360
Similarly, I find it interesting if you leave Malagor and Khazrak running around with their original armies, it will be a long time before you see any Cygors. If you kill them though and have random BEASTS! respawn they will have a few or several even. Quite frustrating.

Really wish CA would do an AI pass. I can't believe they're not going to keep doing patches and content for TTW1.

Do they think it will slow TTW2 sales?

>>174974049

food coming with a toothpick is always good food.

>>174972425
Probably just because humans are short sighted and temperamental.

>>174975892
>I'm curious as to what exactly the dlc team is working on until game 2 releases.
They're working on W2.

Pay attention and read the dev blogs.

>>174977091
I think CA just completely gave up on their Ai with Rome2.

>>174960360
Just laugh and carry on.

In the beastmen mini campaign, the Ulric faction and Middenland had more artillery and tanks than Rommel had in 1940.

Six cannons, four rocket batteries and eight steam tanks?
Three stacks of this? Sure thing, Mr. Boris 'Blitzkrieg' Todbringer.

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>>174977265
guessing you're american.

>>174974805
so it makes no sense to play something else than hard...

I fucking hate when the AI cheats it infuriates me to no end

But I do realize that they need to cheat though.

>>174977476

>>174977513
Same here, problem is that hard isn!t cutting it for me. After a certain while it seems I firgured it out but very hard is fucking up the "weaker" factions.

Hey guys, be honest with me here
Is Attila worth buying without the DLC? There are keys for 10 bucks but i don't want to regret not having DLC after buying the game

>>174912912
but why would i buy the japanese themed version of Napoleon Total War if i dont like Napoleon

>>174977513
Very Hard is easy as fuck though, especially if you actually use pause and savescum if you make a major mistake. Even so it's only the difference between making up a few more turns. The ai is incredibly exploitable in early game as well.

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>>174977616
>>174977476

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>can't win any custom battle as Wood Elves
i just fucking can't they break like twigs. Frontline can't hold shit and then my missle units just get slaughtered. I micro as best as i possibly can.
What do i do bros

>>174978419
Put your missile units on skirmish mode, and get a a grail reliquary

>>174978683
>a grail reliquary
anon pls

>>174975374
Dark Elves are on the front too though. The fuckhuge dragon and everything around it are all Dark Elves. Looks like the tip of a Skaven spear leading off to the right too, so if the back is a continuation of the image, then it will definitely have rats.

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>>174971375
>Sylvania
>Sransylvania
You aren't even trying!

>>174978974
>rts hiding on the back side
That is surprisingly sneaky.

>>174978974
>Dark Elves are on the front too though. The fuckhuge dragon and everything around it are all Dark Elves
No anon, those are HE.

>>174978419
Stop trying to hold a front line. Spear wardancers are fast enough to avoid any infantry except forsaken, and they are effective against most things fast enough to catch them. A glade lord on an eagle or dragon can seek favorable engagements and use prey of anath raema, while deepwood scouts are your mobile firing line. Wild Riders provide punch for your army when the enemy is out of position.

Glade riders with poison can be useful for slowing down the enemy's mobile assets.

>>174978974
I thought dragons were exclusive Helves and Delves got hydras.

>>174979173
You need glasses. Last I checked the High Elf roster didn't contain any Witch Elves or Black Guard of Naggarond.

>>174979261
Dark Elves ride Black Dragons

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>>174979173

Don't know about the dragon but these are clearly dark elves.

>>174952975

As someone with like 2k hours logged across all TWs I suppose i should know this, but do achievements get you anything at all? Like get them all and get 30 cents off a game or something?

>>174979202
this game is fucking broken, empire infantry catches up UPHILL to my running infantry on the top of the hill, fuck this shit.

>>174974732
You'll play as boxart and you'll fr*cking like it!

>>174977084
yeah, coop with a friend, not head-to-head. in warhammer.

>>174977853
Base game + Blood & Burning is good enough to experience the core of the game.

>>174979685
Steam cheevos don't get you anything as they're too easy to cheat (not that anyone bothers with this, as nobody cares about Steam cheevos)
The golden days of Xbox Live cheevos are over.

>>174968868

Dunno if it applies oh this case but if you use 'Da green tide' mod you'll have full GS stacks of killed off/confeded tribes pop up all game

>>174979685
The achievements in Shogun 2 unlock cosmetics for your Avatar Conquest general.

>>174976037

The WAAAGH and Raise Dead mechanic are there precisely to give you the numbers to drown them in blood/gitz

>>174977513

>it makes no sense to have a challenge

Different strokes I guess

>>174980589
All my WAAAGHs on normal had large units and a dearth of gits though.

I've played around with difficulty by trying a few changeups
* Removing player-focused AI priority overrides
I think the AI suffers from focusing on the player in some ways. Chaos in particular seems to fall apart if they have to beeline through strong territory to get to you.
* Flat +4 public order buff across the board for AI
No more, no less. Any lower and they seem to forget how to stabilise a province and you end up with multiple settlements being held by rebels for ages.
* No leadership bonus
Means their low leadership units actually act like they should, no more True Believing Goblinz
* Doubling the upkeep reductions, and increasing their income boosts by about 50%
More Armies = More Fun
* No confederations
Minor factions make life interesting.
* Tripling the priority of all attack-type tasks in the AI task generator table
This might have been too extreme, but they definitely go harder with this. Also a lot more resettling, especially by smaller factions

AI's been a lot more fun with this, more stuff changes from turn to turn, more AI armies looking to fight. One major major downside though... fucking WOOD ELVES. They became a megapower the moment they declared war on both Bretonnia and The Empire, and I don't think there's a single army around that can go 1v1 with a Wood Elf stack, so they're dominating the board. Gonna have to find a way to make them less imperial....

What makes grimgor da one true git?

I always thought it would be a goofy orc

>>174981328
link to mod?

>>174981328

Jesus christ that is terrible

>>174981357
He's a black orc and he's the most recent one introduced.

>>174980931
not even what I said.

if you read what i wrote it's at least implied that I play or played VH and that even though I don't like the AI cheating I understand it's practically impossible to make one that can compete without cheating.

>>174981043

Bigga gitz iz still gitz ya git,

>>174981793
wasn't he introduced in like 2002-2003 or some shit

guess there aren't many notable black orcs around

are black orcs still made by the chaos dorfs? where did grimgor come from?

>>174981357

More like grimBORE

skarsnik is da blessed o' mork and Wurrzag has a cool dance

>>174982295
Wurrzag sucks dick, though.

>>174982090
Fair enough

>>174982140
Azhag is dead, The Paunch is dead too as best as I can recall, Wurrzag is the prophet and then you have Skarsnik as the Mork(or maybe Gork) to Grimgor's Gork(or maybe Mork),

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>>174982391

If you mean as a character, you have shit taste

If you mean as a LL, you're bad at tww

>>174982391
Wurrzag's fun, loved playing his campaign.

>>174982140
Chorfs made Black Orcs as a slave fighting force which went about as well for them as you'd expect but its the reason why they care more about making armor and weapons than other orcs who're content with stealing and looting it.

>>174974589
atleast is not a vampire related thing

Are Skaven going to be the Vampire Counts of TWW2 in that they're obviously the runaway favourite of so-called Creative Assemblers?

>>174983093
Grace likes lizards, she even made a game of thrones lizard army, so there's that

>>174982391

He's really, really not.

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>>174983361
That was Joey anon.
Grace is /OurGirl/

>>174983496
Which is the hot one?

>>174978419
stop sperging about in custom battles and play a fucking campaign

baptism by fire

>>174983607
Darren

>>174983607
dogbert

>>174983093
no, CA has just realized that they can just hint at reddit rats w/ every promotional image they release and the fanbase will eat it up because of the retarded "rodents don't exist you stupid heretic xD" meme

>>174983775
It's a good solid meme.

>>174983775
I'm really surprised Dogbert isn't more of a meme on 4chan, little fucker was based in the cartoon.

>>174983650
i won legendary already and i still lose custom shitty battles. My autism doesn't let me let go

>>174983775
>Reddit rats

Literally only exists as a meme because people like alliteration.

No reason why they should be called reddit.

VC are braindead to the point where it just becomes disgusting.

>>174978419
List your comp and your enemy comp from the last Custo Batto you tried.

>>174984751
>No reason why they should be called reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/4yiz48/skaven_confirmed_warpstone_mines_new_map_for/

https://www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/5dh3jn/whelp_skaven_are_confirmed_not_coming_this_game/

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> Mfw defending the lands bequeathed unto me for Lord and Lady

Bretonnia is certified fun. Don't let CA know, but I would have paid for this shit.

>>174984751
10 years ago we'd be goofin' about Digg Dwarfs

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friendly reminder skaven are going to be the most fun faction yet with the most interesting mechanics and units

>>174985071
What would Gaia be?

>>174985101
And the most cancerous fanbase.

>>174985101

>End Times trash

lol no

>>174984950
i just auto-generate for me and AI and try to win

>>174983775
As much as they're not-hiding the skaven they better have a good gimmick feature for them in store.

Inb4 instead of making an interesting under-empire with all the Skaven infighting they'll just make them one faction, give them a goid spy and assassin and give them two or three provinces scattered across the map and another variation if the deep forest/underway mechanic.

>>174985101
Yeah they'll be fun... to kill! hehe...

>>174983496
Joey is the one who voiced the pre-release videos for TWW, right?

Shit, TWW is over a year old? I think I missed all of 2016 somehow.

Which of the new factions will be the most simplistic in battles? Like Dwarfs are now. Seems like it's a toss up between Helves and Lizardmen.

>>174985447
I'm not sure any will be. Maybe High Elves, but they'll probably rely on magic more.

>>174985447

Ogres

>>174985592
Ogres? Aren't they only gonna be in the game in 2019?

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>>174984950
for example i lost this, everything broke like twigs.
as i said i auto-generate.

>>174985024

I liked the corny ass Arthurian French more than I thought I would, but I didn't enjoy the battles much, mostly because I suck many cocks at cav micro on legendary

>>174985795
DON'T CRUSH OUR DREAMS!

>>174971897
Except Bretonnia isn't Britannia, that would be Albion. Which is not exactly inspirate either

>>174985190
gaiaskins

>>174985897
yeah, because you are using the auto-generate army feature and it gave you a retarded army

>4 melee inf

jesus if you really did beat the game on legendary you this really shouldn't be that surprising to you you fucking moron

>>174985897
I see many archers but almost all of the greatswords are alive?
wot were you shooting at anon, your archers should be able to wipe a heap of greatswords then pounce on the empire ranged contingent and still win.

>>174986104
i want to win with that shitty comp though, tactics should help me overcome shitty comp

>>174986063
Britain is kind of spread out among the races. The Empire and Bretonnia both use elements from Renaissance and Medieval England respectively. The Elves, both High and Dark, represent the best and worst of modern Britain/America/Angloshere.

>>174985908
I'm having a lot of fun now that I'm using battle rebalance mods.

>>174986063
Hint: It's called Great Britain to distinguish it from the other Britain - the region of Brittany in France.
Whose people are Bretons.

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rollin

>>174986516
I did not know that, I thought the "Great" was just the British putting on airs again.

>>174985795
they may never be playable for all we know

they were pretty popular in 8e though, the army was pretty good

I wonder why people don't request playable ogres as often as they request TKs and Skaven, I've only seen ogres mentioned in these threads like 5 times in the past 2 months

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>>174985101
This. It's going to be a hell of a ride after the tears and autism from the cuck faction fans dies down.

>>174986728
G O B B O A R C H E R S

>>174986728
I'm going to do a SFO run for the first time, is my [roll] any good in that mod?

hoping for either KARL FRANZ or THE CHOSEN OF THE GODS, GRIMGOR is cool too

>>174986846
Vlad Daddy, lucky you~

>>174986352
>>174985897
1. deploy your army on favourable grounds, preferably high ground.
2. micro dragons/flyers around back/side of enemy force, make sure they are out of range

3. place a single bait unit ahead of your main force to eat cannonballs/everything.
4. once enemy siege has shot a few rounds at your bait unit, siege units will be seperated from main force.
fly your air shit in and hit them, use micro to avoid cannonballs/luminarkn/shit(its really easy(
5.
run away if you can kill them in time, focus on routing. don't let air force get tangled. you do need to wipe out their siege before your ranged units start shooting at their dudes.

6. your archers should be focus firing and routing greatswords 1 by one, swap target on rout.

7. fight demigryphs in the woods/high grounds with your 2h anti large guys, use something else to absorb the charge though unless they are in the woods.

8. ponder life itself.

9. kill yourself and your elf.

>>174986946
Beastmen are for bullying
W*lves are for total nonstop genocide

>>174986836
G O N N A S T A B

>>174986946
Nice spoiler, nerd

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>>174986728
rll

>>174987024
>8. ponder life itself.
>9. kill yourself and your elf.
i can't kill myself yet, 2 more games are coming out

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>>174985101
I will probably not play Skaven out of principle. Those fuckers killed Thorgrim!

>>174987961
And they killeed Valten. And most of the lizardmen heroes.

Skaven are all Mary Sue nazi's that only exist to please fur fags, and/or reddit rats

>>174988037
>Mentioning Valten
>calling anybody else a Mary sue

>>174946417
>refuse this creature

>>174946417
Oh its the guys that were wiped from canon

>>174986728
Gamblin'.

Anybody else afraid that CA is just going to stitch the two campaigns together and not add any of the new mechanics to the Warhammer 1 races?

>>174988442
They said they would give the WH1 races a bit of an update to be competitive. I trust CA!

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>>174988442
>new mechanics

>>174988442
I mean a couple months ago I was afraid that they wouldn't even do a combined grand campaign, or that they would shrink the Old World to do it, so I wouldn't be that broken up about it.

Ghorros Heartrender is a good friend

>>174988958

Ghorros Heartrender is a [Disband Army]

>>174985908
you need to go all in on cav half your cav you should essentially use like an infantry line while you micro your airforce/grailknights

>>174985897
the key with custom/mulitplayer battles is learning how to build your armies.

The auto generator makes retarded armies.

though sometimes using the auto generator and playing multiplayer can be fun if you don't mind losing

>>174986516

That's so wrong I have to believe it's intentional.

>>174986728
rollan

>>174988037
There were like GW's Deus Ex Machina except instead of saving a character out of no where they killed a character out of nowhere.

>Oh? There's an extremely powerful and/or important character in a faction? Send in the rats.

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>>174955368

>>174987420

I just realized that TWW 2 and 3 will be major events in my life.

What I'm doing on this earth

>>174986728
ROLLING FOR DAWI

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>>174989845
you are like a little baby
watch this
;_;

>>174989945
ewww fug that.

>>174988213
>Valten
>Mary Sue

He would have fucking wiped the floor with Everchosen bitch boy outside Middenhiem then.

How do I mass delete my saves?


I am tired of these clogging up my menus.

>>174989534
What's wrong about it?

There's more than one origin for the 'great' admittedly. The 'lesser' Britain could also be Ireland. But both have been used.

>>174990312
the rubbish bin icon is RIGHT THERE on both load and save
mass select
rubbish em

>>174990068
Valten barely avoids the Mary sue label because they never make it 100% clear whether or not hes actually the reincarnation of Sigmar or just some madman. Franz was certainly dubious, or else he would have let him be Emperor.

>>174990532
I think he was the chosen of Sigmar.

Not Sigmar himself but a tool used by him.

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>>174987420
>>174985897

look anon, I recreated your shit and just kited and microd with archers./ used units to eat cannonballs/took advantage of trees to fight between to secure very small flanks.

I'm the one who posted the 8 steps.
consider this proof, also git gud my man.

>>174990641
I forget, was Volkmar on board with Valten?

>>174988825

I thought they were shrinking the Old World. Was that debunked?

>>174990796
He was chained to a daemon banner after being brought back to death when Belakor smashed his ass outside Kislev.

>>174990903
No that's real life.

>>174989112
So I'm not the only one who ditches the second army and just runs solo the whole campaign?

>>174990796
He 'died' before the issue came up. Esmer was the Grand Theogonist at the time.

But I think Volkmar basically backed Luthor Huss. Which is interesting because Huss wanted to reform the cult, thinking them too venal (hmm I wonder what historical figure he was based on) and Volkmar was basically Sigmar-Pope. Which you would have thought would be an issue.

>>174990440
I thought it was "Great Britain" because it included England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. It was first used when the crowns were united under James I, wasn't it?

>>174991128
You'd think so, but he's not called "the Grim" for no reason. Volkmar is a personally austere figure driven by genuine belief, so even if he can't fully support Luther for political reasons he sympathizes with him and doesn't feel inclined to go after him, either. Mostly he lets Luther do his own thing.

>>174991191
It was, but it's also a callback to Monmouth's use of 'Britannia Major'.

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>>174991128
Is this Storm of Chaos or End Times?
>>174991275
It helps that Volkmar actually is "Sigmar's Heir"

>>174990696
>trees
on my map there is no trees anon.
i played on Winter Pyre

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Naval sieges were a mistake.

>>174991658
Oh, Storm of Chaos.
Was Valten in the End Times? He was so key to the Storm of Chaos I'd have thought they would just leave him out.

>>174986516

The Bretons (and Brittany) are named after Britons who fled to France after the Anglo-Saxons invaded.

>>174990440
>>174991191

'The British Isles' refers to Ireland, The Isle of Man, the Hebrides, Orkney etc. and the main island itself. The 'Great' in 'Great Britain' just refers to the fact it's the biggest of the islands.

>>174991809
Nope he was in End Times. Died in 1 vs 2 fight against Archaeon and a Skaven Vermin Lord.

>>174986728
Eh, fuck it. VH.

>>174991809
>He was so key to the Storm of Chaos I'd have thought they would just leave him out.
Ha
>>174991832
>Britons who fled to France after the Anglo-Saxons invaded.
I watched a documentary that called into question the whole "invasion" theory. The new idea goes that the Saxons basically culturally assimilated the Bretons in England via hundreds of years of trading and migration.
I think the truth is somewhere in between, with the Anglo-Saxons trading when the going was good and raiding when things got tight.

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>>174991686
replace trees with hills, I played on some shitty map too but the main thing is line of sighting the artillery and dodging the ammo before engaging.


Gotta note though anon, the tattersouls should really be dead before they hit your lines, along with halberds and demi gryphs+greatswords via your ranged units. still wood elves don't do line battles nearly as good as the other races, play tricky. don't form a line against the nobs.

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>>174992242
THEY'RE RIPPING US OFF ON TRADE

>>174992150

Seems unlikely. The word 'Welsh' itself is an old Saxon word that means 'foreigner' or 'stranger.' That and the fact it's a little suspicious Briton culture only survived on the very fringes of the island (or in France, for that matter)

Who has the funniest quests?

>>174993170
Charlemagne

>>174993170
Probably Azshag or Grombrindal

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>>174992150
There's also the idea that many of them were invited over as mercenaries and then decided they wanted to be in charge and had the swords to back it up.

>>174993170

I like Wurrzag's

Which TW should i buy?
Dont have:
Medieval 2
Napoopan
Shogun 2
Attila