/twg/ - Total War General

Everytime i get drunk, FPS games become so genuine and exciting, and strategy games feel like a chore and pointless

It's this what the 99% of the normal population feels like everyday?¿

>>181770013
The HMS Warrior is the best ironclad.

>>181770213

I get that it's kind of a trophy but it's too real

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>people are glad the next title is historical
>it takes place in britain at the dusk of the roman empire
>it follows the events that occured back then there
>trailer drops
>bloody battle
>camera pans over the hill of swords and dead bodies
>pic related

>>181770263
>>181770105
>Have you never watched the south park episode where autistic people drink alcohol and call it the matrix normal people are stuck in?

What does "(province to each region)" mean in Charlemagne?

Does it mean you only build 1 in each region or do the effects stack but effect the whole region?

>>181770506
>we see that
>historyfags rage out seeing a girl fighting (and well)

>>181770570
it means it affects every settlement in the province

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W-where´s the Krell poster? ;_;

>>181771004
dead and burried I hope

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>>181770445

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>>181771004
Muh boi is so good he took him out

>>181770841
ok cool, and it all stacks? If so that seems insane.

>>181771130
just imagine showing this to fucking hannibal or scipio

Whats your favorite total war youtuber?

and why milkandcookies is so fucking smug?

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>tfw no sci-fi TW

Whose better Vlad or Manfred? Vlad doesnt have a mount so really all he can do is cast spells and there is almost no difference in their melee abilities since it took 5 whole minutes for him to wound Manfred last time I fought against him. I just feel like Vampire counts is too generic, and I cant confederate with them as Vlad but Im missing the strong leaders from the counts.

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Why haven't you converted to history yet reddit?

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>>181771523
>picking manlets over VLAD

>>181771004
SHUT THE FUCK UP KEMMLER

>>181770279

L'ocean is best, Warrior has small cannons

Also L'ocean can ram, it's basically a kotetsu on steroids.

>>181771617
Doesnt Manfred ride a dragon? Why dont they give Vlad any bonuses to anything. Hes actually worse then a caster because if he dies it effects the battle. Give him some mana bonuses or something to set him apart. Hes so shit in a fight.

>>181771571
Because Attila and Rome II were garbage.

>>181771826
>Attila was shit
Filtered

>>181771826

Convert now reddit and you will see the light.

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Post your best dark elfesses?

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>>181771826

Convert

>>181771786
>one is a bald manlet loser neet
>other is a 6'2 alpha with hair and a loving waifu
>manlet is better because he can ride a floppy meat fidget-spinner

>>181772182
>>181771617
Found the fix

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=758797657

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>>181772128
>http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=758797657

>>181772182
If he's such a loser then how can he supass Nagash? Checkmate vlad

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>>181771826

>>181772587
Nagash was weak.
If Manny's greatest accomplishment is surpassing a weakling, what does that make him?

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>>181772128
Dark elves > High Elves

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>>181772587
>manlet
>surpassing muh boi
You're playing with fire, kid.

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So... where do I put mods? There is no documents folder either.

>>181772879
data folder

>>181773194
thanks mate

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>>181772879
>poorfag pirates
do you even jewsteam workshop?

>>181771571

I'll convert the day some modder fixes the terrible combat animations and, in Attilas case, the performance.

>>181773309
I made the mistake with buying CK2 before I found out the DLC problems people are shilling now a days, not buying any game that says they have cut content, which they did with chaos, or the DLC past the first of the ones who havent.

>>181773309

What's with all these shills, traps and sluts lately on /twg/? Are those workshop fags bringing them in?

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>tfw can't beat any campaign on a difficulty harder than normal

Who else /shit/ at Total War here?

>>181773485

Total war are constantly getting patched with big performance fixes

>>181773652
who even cares, the only thing campaign difficulty changes is how much the AI cheats

>>181771571

Beautiful map

God they completely butchered sieges in Warhammer.

>>181773539
It's all shithammer's fault

>>181773792

That they did. I love Warhammer but I can't deny that the sieges are pretty shit. GCCM will hopefully ameliorate.

>>181773652
I can beat battles in very hard, but there is no way a player can keep up with the computer that can cheap in the economy. I mean Manfred can already field 2 armies without anything other the the capital on Normal, what could he do on higher levels? I remember the AI could do the same in M2TW with 1 castle and I couldnt do that without all of Britain, but maybe my standards are higher.

>master engineer

This hero seems like fucking shit. Why should I even have this

>>181774010

Can they pull it off? Not only do we need mutli-tiered cities, but coastal maps for flavor and good minor settlements as well.

So far, a lot of the maps are just ass aside from maybe 5-10 (mostly Dawi stuff).

>>181773652

>tfw Very Hard is essentially normal for me now

It sucks to be good

>>181773792
Warhammer has been the best game in the series but I sorely wish they would unfuck sieges.

That and make the battles feel a bit less...blobby?

God
I hope the next main total war title is Warring States total war

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>all these autistic idiots on lionheart's videos writing out these terrible LARP'er fan fictions, and tallying the exact numbers of troops/battles he's lost/won

Funny that we don't see this on lionheart's Warhammer videos....and they call fantasy fans autists....

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>>181774330
same here

>>181774195

Maybe. Some maps are decent, depending on who did it. Middenheim, Nuln, Karak Kadrin, that new Karak Azul and Mousillon maps. Frankly even the worst of them are better than vanilla.

I have no doubt that the Warhammer games will be my favourite Total War(s) in a couple of years, once the series is done with, the DLC is out and the modders have had time to do their thing.

Not even gonna give you a (you). Stop posting JewTube stuff.

Lets throw some ideas for goat siege maps

>Multi stage sieges
>You can reserve units for each stage or just throw everything right from the start (but they start tired in the next battle)
>More in-campaign siege options (Like attempting to dig a tunnel, Skirmishing, night assaults, sneaking troops inside the gates to open it from inside) etc

Dei or vanilla rome 2 with some workshop mods lads?

>>181775092
Attlia

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>>181774906

Fucking sapping and countering it. Where the fuck that feature go after Rome 1?

>>181775149
played it to death with all factions now, and i'm also bored of the original rome before you mention that as well

>>181775092
DeI as Pontus is the only answer.

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>>181774415
>Funny that we don't see this on lionheart's Warhammer videos....
What kind of a faggot watches let's plays.

How the fuck do I beat Skarsnik early game as Agrund? On legendary he's got 2 dull stacks and won't fight my single stack without that one.

>>181775596
Have you got the +12 defence and attack buff on your lord for dwarf warriors?

>>181775828

Lewd.

>>181775828
Well
Atleast we gonna be able to recreate the siege from AoR intro cinematic when TWW2 hits

>>181775092

DeI is great but battles are too easy

>>181771571
nice gay moat for me to shit in

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>tfw next total war is warring states
>tfw battle of kankoku pass

My dick is wet

>>181777158

>anime to learn history

the absolute state of every china poster

god damn I hate china posters so much

>>181777271
>>181777390
China is the future of history, and that's a good thing.

>>181777271
>>181777390

Its gonna be china and no whining will change that

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>>181777158

>tfw battle of bayou mission

holy shit yes

based CA

>>181777685

literally no tactics involved

God I hate the Chinese

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How will they do the battle of dakan plains?

>>181777817
>>181774431
>>181774330
>>181777158
>>181777729
>>181777685
>>181777554
>>181777484
>>181777390

Can I just take a minute to BTFO all the people clamoring for a China/Three Kindgoms/Warring States TW.

First, the two claims China fans make about the success of such a game is based on two propositions:

a) That there is mainstream demand for a China TW game

Outside of a few posters on /twg/ and TWC, I really don't see this. We've seen that the more popular time/country settings like Rome and Medieval sell very well, and less popular periods like Attila's sell poorly. China would be a very niche title, since there isn't a lot of evidence that there is the sort of interest in Chinese history as some posters claim. In other Western media, China is not covered extensively in film, television or other historical video game series like Assassin's Creed.

1/

>>181777685
Doubt we'd ever see a game with that scale.

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>>181777927
b) That the hypothetical China Total War would sell well in China.

People who claim this clearly lack an understanding of Chinese media laws. If making a video game about China and releasing it there will make millions, why don't other series (AC, CoD) do the same thing? Answer: Chinese media laws.

And before someone argues that WoW's Mists of Pandaria contradicts my point, that expansion mainly featured a vague Chinese aesthetic, rather than the mostly accurate depictions of countries we're used to in the Total War series.

Because of these strict media laws, any Western video game (or film) released in China must be vetted for approval by strict censors, and may not even be approved, as we saw with the Ghostbusters remake last year. This process can take weeks/months, and could be highly expensive/stressful for CA, especially if their success depending on an opening in the Chinese market. As the game would be actually depicting Chinese history, the censors would make sure that the game accurately reflected the official party line on China's history, and did nothing to glorify China's historic enemies or its systems of government. Not only would it be likely that censors would object to the idea of another nation (e.g. Mongolia, Korea, or Japan) conquering the Chinese mainland, but they'd probably take issue with the 'corruption' mechanic we see in games like Attila, as the censors may view this as an attack on Chinese governance, as well as assassinations and even the idea of razing territories or destroying buildings. The idea of spreading religion as well (especially Islam, a very topical and sensitive issue in Western China due to regular terrorist attacks) would probably attract the eye of the censor. To bypass this censorship, what we'd likely see is a heavily trimmed down game, light on features, conforming to the official Chinese government's line, a game so barren so as to repulse the average Western Total War fan.

2/3

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>>181777778

>no tactics
here

>>181777927
China is boring shit with no variety

>>181777835
What the fuck is that shit

>>181778075
Putting aside how unlikely it even is that the Chinese government would let a small developer like CA release their niche strategy game into the Chinese market without extensive censorship and concessions, CA would have to obtain a local distributor (another costly and time-consuming process) as well as filling the game with DRM-heavy features to prevent the sort of piracy that is common in China.

Wishing to cut my post short, I shall summarise:

1. There is little evidence to suggest a Total War based in China will do well with a Western audience in the first place.
2. Any Chinese Total War game actually released in China would have to be vetted by extremely strict Chinese censors who will not tolerate even a remotely negative portrayal of their country.
3. Even if 2 is satisfied, the process of actually releasing the game in China would be immensely risky and difficult for a small-medium size developer like CA.

I hope this clarifies why a TW: China game is, at the very best, extremely unlikely; and in the near future, probably not going to happen.

3/3

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>siege of sai quest

damn....

>>181778269
I hate you so much

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And now to finish my wet dream

The best battle, where my husbando took a big dump on the wei

>>181777927
>>181778075
>>181778201

>yfw CA goes ahead, releases china total war, goes bankrupt and we never see another total war-like game ever again

thanks faggots

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>>181771130

>tfw you're more attracted to the guy than the girl

>>181770036
Her horse is so happy.
Modern conveniences be damned. I would never let it go. Shame on you, France.

its gonna be vikings

>>181778959
Chinese Vikings!?

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>>181770036
Alright you meme loving fucks, you know what time it is?

>>181778479
This.

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>>181775828
>Less than 3 months until we can finally raze all of Nagaroth to the ground and torture all Druchii to death
Can't wait; I'll even mod in Shadow Warriors myself.

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how the fuck do I succeed early in the Charlemagne expansion as Charlemagne?

>>181779070

china time

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I fucking love fire.

And explosions.

Fuck yeah Dawi.

>>181779070
aww shit here come dat pontus

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>>181779025
Chinese ratmen, where each life is so invaluable and they threaten to swarm over the world.

>>181779202
>Chinese ratmen
So, just Chinese?

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>>181779202
fucking hell

>>181779241
That's the joke

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>>181779175

Are the Dawi the most American faction?

>short
>fat
>conservative to a fault
>advanced military technology
>massively overreact to any and all slights
>rich

etc.

its kind of disturbing just how many people want a China: TW around here. Have we been infiltrated by the communist party?

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I got the itch for some Napoleon, any mod recommendations?

>>181779745

No. Just 1 guy posting about it.

>>181779495
Nah the staple of the American people is it's diversity which isn't reflected at all in the dwarfs.

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>>181779772
L M E
M
E

>>181779495
>Are the Dawi the most American faction?
if so that makes elves brits

>>181779745
Nah it's just some larping chink dogeater wanting his chinese cartoons played out through TW

>>181778201
>>181778075
>>181777927

>China posters so BTFO they've stopped posting

Can we screencap this and post it every time they shill their boring history here?

>>181779901
>not the orks

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>>181779832

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I am claiming this thread in the name of the house of Scipi, beloved of the gods.

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>>181779070
Nothing like a turn 1 war declaration to kick things off

>>181780027
>Americans are one people
>The Americans are all Anglo
>The majority of Americans are white
Sure friend

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>>181780110
Some perfidious Persians want in on the action, but its on the cheap and i need the Armenians distracted so i can take Sinope

Tree kins are unfuckingkillable.

Is there any tankier unit in the game if you don't have fire?

>>181780209
Well the majority are white. It's just a very small majority compared to European countries.

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>>181780294
The Assault on Sinope with my hastily assembled army, the cowardly dogs wouldn't even fight in the field

>>181779986
Orks a football hooligans.

The High Elves are the isolationist island nation with former colonies all over the world and the strongest navy in the world.

>>181780434
"Officially" the majority are white now, but barely. The racial diversity is something very important to America and it's identity just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's wrong.

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Turn 20 as Clan Angrund legendary and already the autoresolve results are far outweighing any kind of tactical possibility.

Why is this game so fucking shit? Now due to the retarded constrictions on legendary I'm more or less forced to play only with autoresolve to avoid greater losses. It's basically just a browser game at this point.

What a waste of money. Is Atilla any better?

>>181780669
Who said I didn't like it? I couldn't care less.

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>>181780475
The crafty enemy catches me off guard by charging out of the settlement after i had set up for an encirclement offensive into the town, luckily my block of slingers is in a good position to deal damage while my levy hoplites hold and my pontics spears and galatian swords rush over

>>181780776
Then why would you call it bait?

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OH BABY

>>181780857
Believe it or not, we're more than 2 in this thread.

>>181780970
>implying I'm not Grace posting as everyone on different VPNs

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>>181780783
The battle gets messy, in the end only the galatians and one rallied hoplite unit remain of my melee troops, however, i have routed all their cav and missile troops. After my missles have expended all their ammo, they charge into the enemy to support the beleaguered swordsmen, and my general and the merc cappadocian lancers i hired charge into the rear, breaking the enemy

I really dont see the fucking fun about ARR

Yeah boo fucking hoo, the narrator wins again
Oh lord how dramatic, I would never imagine that happening

Gargle on a cock, I don't want to read several posts of ego stroking, its ALWAYS the same fucking shit, painted in different tones of colors

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>>181781114
It wasn't pretty, but it was the first of many victories for mighty
>Pontus
Ironically the day was carried by the Cuckadocian lancers that i hired

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>>181781324
These ass-scratching barbars demand money from
>Pontus
How Laughable

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>>181781595
Looks like those Persians did fuck all to slow these guys down, not that im really surprised, guess ill need to put punishing the audacity of those barbs on hold

>>181781249
whats ARR?

>>181781872

What this faggot is doing >>181781114
>>181781324
>>181781595
>>181781841

Its not ARR tho

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>>181779495
Freedom smells like gasoline, rubber, and mcdonalds.

>>181780669

Bait guy here. What you said may be true but in a game like WH where every race is extremely homogeneous and very racist you can't really take multiculturalism into account when doing direct comparisons between fantasy races and real world countries.

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12 years on from this and CA still cant make an ai that builds decent armies

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>>181781841
Battle is joined, time to try out these discount pikes I picked up in Sinope
>>181782072
excuse me for campaign posting in /twg/

>>181782072
>complaining about campaign posting

Fuck off, would you rather have the general be 24/7 His vs Fantasy shitposting and other inane garbage?

>>181782238

You can post your campaign all you want
But don't pretend its nothing but self fellatio

>>181782176

did you print screen AND press F12 for a steam screenshot?

>>181775828
Thats alot of sexual tension

>>181782072

>Complaining about campaign posting
>In /twg/

And you can fuck right on out of here

>>181782287
my steam screenshot hotkey is home ( for some reason steam wont let me set it to print screen) and pressing home on rome takes you to your capital city

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTs6a0ORdQU
Dorfs are pretty 'Murika and I love it.

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>>181782238
wew lad, reworked pikes in DEI are pretty good, even the shield-less, bargain bin AOR variety. Guess its time to move the Armenian genocide up a millennia or two

Who gave you the right to rule? It wasn't the people, it wasn't god

It was you

>>181781249
I'd rather read campaign posts over your cunty whining. shut the fuck up

Do buildings that give +% bonuses to a region in Attila stack?

E.g if I build 3 mills in a high fertility province, do all farms get +90% income?

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>>181782502
We pursue the enemy into their territory, unfortunately they made it far enough to call a nearby garrison for help. Regardless, we push onward into battle

>>181779119
Shed the blood of SAXON MEN

what is playing pontus actually like? despite it being a meme faction i've never given it a try

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>>181782667
Oh fug, I seem to have made a slight tactical miscalculation, these Armenian hillmen move around a lot faster than the mighty, but admittedly slow at times men of
>Pontus

"hurr look at me winning again guys, im so fucking original, but lets add a >Pontus just to make a special snowflake"

kys campaign poster

>>181783130
so in your ideal /twg/ what would the posts be

>>181783130

i bet you are the china poster

>>181783271
Us pisstaking Reddit memes

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>both of my client states start off rebellious as the lombards

JUST

How should I deal with this? Considering seeking out their leaders and assassinating them, but that damages reputations/ruins my diplomatic marriages w/ them. I would like to keep them around as puppets instead of just conquering them, as otherwise the faction bonus feels pointless

>>181779119
shield walls, shield walls, shield walls. Since your empire starts out fairly large you also want to make sure you get your public order up globally through techs/offices.

>>181782857
combo between eastern/greek. Has pikes/chariots/that kind of hellenic stuff, but also has good cavalry and above average skirmishers

>>181783130
autism

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>>181782891
My galatian sell-swords desperately hold the top of the cliff to keep the enemy from getting behind my pikeline and collapsing it while i try and rush my reserves over to cover the flank and brace the pikewall
>>181782857
Honestly pontus is pretty neat, you get access to persian missile units/lancers, hellenic style pikes and hoplites, some choice heavy infantry in the form of galatians and other hillmen, and later access to sycthed chariots
>>181783130
Is only shit-posting allowed now?

Why is this faggot getting so upset at campaign posting...? I don't get it...

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"LOOK GUYS IM GONNA PRETEND IM HAVING DIFFICULTIES IN THIS BATTLE WHEN IN REALITY, ITS VERY STRAIGHTFORWARD"

>>181783413

he is the chinaposter that wants to shitpost about china

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>>181783391
Victory is secured, though the losses are beginning to stack up, and ive barely set foot in armenia

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Can it be done?

>>181783470
alright this is just baiting (you)s at this point. Here is your last one from me use it well

>>181783615
>Victory is secured

zzzz

>>181783618
With schemes, yes.

>>181779495
pretty sure they're the jews. tolkein's were.

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>>181783615
Every time you think the AI might not be a total trashcan, things like this happen

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>>181782275
>>181783130
Get fucked buddy, campaign posting a time honoured tradition here.

>>181783391
I'm enjoying this immensely, please keep posting.

>>181783618
>no redline gobbo buffs
>regular gobbos
>only 2 archers

doubtful. You are going to have to do some crazy shit with the moon howlers though

>>181783809
Unfortunately as cool as DEI is it is way too easy in battles as the already pretty dumb AI can't into the battle changes

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>>181783809
After another battle a foothold is secured in armenia, but i lost my cappadocian lancers and about half the manpower of my army, there is much more land to go, and there is another army on the horizon. I think i'll leave here for now, gonna go play some plunkbat with my bros, but fear not
>Pontus
will return
>>181783667
ill be back especially for you

>>181783130
campain posting is best i want to do it but im not smart enough to make my adventures sound interesting

>>181783359
>end first turn
>one of them rebels, the other refuses to join my war against them
>didn't even get the bonus income for 1 turn

nice

In AoC should I put my units into shield/ spear wall even if I'm using them to attack?

>>181784593
spear wall is debateable, sometimes you will want to go chase down cav with spears, but shield wall is one of the most important factors in winning battles in AoC - if you can, get as close to the enemy as possible and try to get them to charge into your shield walls. The bonus vs inf is huge

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I can't get no
Sadist faction

>>181784096
Thanks for posting your campaign lad, it's enjoyable reading something other than China/historyvfantasy shitposting

Ok so what the fuck is up with Siege towers in AoC (and possibly attila)?

This is my first siege in Attila and none of my units are able to go up the siege towers and flank the enemy, using them seems to be completely random.

1 unit I wanted to go through the gate decided to use the siege tower and now all my units I want to use the towers are just running towards the gate.

Am I doing something wrong or is it just retarded?

>>181785467
I've had problems w/ pathing involving siege towers in attila, sometimes units will be retarded and decide to use the gate instead of a perfectly fine tower

>>181785467

don't click over the enemy if you want them to attack rather put a move command near the enemy in the walls

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What you gonna do when Chaos runs wild over you?

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>>181785952

>>181785639
>>181785713
nvm, i figured it out, you need to order them to man the enemy walls and it works.

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>>181786119
Most sieges end up looking the same.

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>>181783618
>>181783715
>>181784049

IT HAS BEEN DONE, NEVER DOUBT RAGUK AGAIN

Sneaky gobbos saving the day as always. I loved those little bastards.

>>181786303
>dat hammer
so happy we got Kholek, such a bad ass.

Any Carcassonne strategies? Killing the occasional beastman or greenskin that wanders into my territory while waiting to confederate is boring.

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>>181786519
The normal unit has better stats than him (if he doesn't have items). Which I find funny.

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The rebels attack ravenna after waiting a few months to build siege equipment. Unfortunately the King's son and most of the military forces are south of Ravenna, having just captured the Duchy of Spoleto's last holdout on the coast. The Lombard cavalry will be the deciding factor in this battle, and is positioned to sally out from either side of the city

>>181786456
very nice

>>181786875
Go take estalia from the notEmpire guys there, but be wary of the beastmen spawn there

>>181787041

Do I take Chivalry hits from conquering tradeniggers?

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The Skutatoi Sellswords purchased by the enemy are able to utilize their armor to bring the battering ram to the gate while under heavy fire - with the gates destroyed the rebel cavalry begins to pour in through the opening into the settlement. With most of their infantry now engaged with ours on the walls, now is the perfect time for our cavalry to strike

>>181787162
no

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>>181787616
The enemy has left their archers unprotected, and with the swamps of Ravenna to their backs they have nowhere to run

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>>181788075
a well placed barricade prevents the enemy from marching straight towards the city center from their entrance to the city, and the presence of troops blocks the attackers from another path. Our surviving archers on the wall have re-positioned themselves to fire on the enemy's rear from above.

If the barricade holds, the city might hold as well

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>>181788316
Forgot to get screencaps of the end - the marines from the garrison plugged the other route from the gate, so most of the enemy cavalry was trapped and destroyed, including their gen. After that all the levy units routed and the day was ours.

Despite that victory and the peace treaty with the Duchy of Benevento, things are not looking good

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>>181789568
>benevento breaks the peace immediately after that and captures ancona

Thankfully I have an army close to re-capture it from them.

>Former puppet state already has t3 cav
wut

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Just took alexandria as tanukhids, i kinda want to convert on religion but is it even worth it? also my first playtrough of attila pls no bully

>>181791458
>converting to memestern Christianity

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>>181791998
But its only at 3%, i guess ill stay true for Maiv and dont convert...

I guess ill take control of the whole Aegyptus and maybe expand downwards for safe spot

>>181792383
Why does the vas tmajority of units in Attila look like hobos? This is such a turn off

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>>181792610
man, i just got BTFO by fucking Nobatia god damn

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Ohh noooooooo, im about to get fucked am i ?

>>181792610
to be fair, almost a third of his army is made up of actual hobos - those are the worst unit in the game, rebellion militia.

>>181793436
And i did get fucked by them, forgot to take a screnshot.. maybe ill try easier faction this time

>>181790263
>20 turns in
>Charlemagne has consolidated both frankish factions, now the strongest faction in the game w/ 35 provinces
>at war with him, seems to be no end in sight
>at war with provence to the west
>benevento keeps sporadically declaring war/making peace to the south
>had to accept venice's offer of $$$ for military/defensive alliance, so won't be able to consolidate that territory for a while
>Public order still problematic

Just shed my shit up senpai

How hard is playing as the eastern roman empire in attila? i'm thinking about starting a new campaign as them.

How do I vampire good early game?

>>181795398

Only the first 20 turns or so are hard but once you've gotten a strong foothold in your income, it ends up being extremely easy due to their broken as hell faction trait

>>181795568
tertle

Why does TWW have such shit replayability?

>>181798858

2 streamlined

So the next total war from what I've read wont be about diplomacy/city management, it will be about just having an army and fighting in random historical battles ?

>>181799247
read better next time

>>181798858
Each faction can only occupy certain areas so the map always ends up looking the same and it's always the same factions who survive or get wiped out.

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

>>181798858
Fewer starting locations, limited diplomatic options, what few options you do have are either a stepping stone to a larger goal with limited reward for implementing them such as the meager amount of income you get from trade, or are objectively better and easier to get than the next closest option e.g. confederate VS vassal, no internal politics for factions that would most definitely have them, limited starting positions, no time progression(not seasonal changes but generals aging, reproducing and dying), NPC diplo traits are not as varied as previous games, diplo traits are set in stone until you beat chaos but then everyone becomes as reliable as a greenskin faction, Kislev, Esatlia, Tilea, and the Border Princes are all fucking passive and there is little you can do with them diplomatically short of constantly bribing them till they like you enough to trade or ally.

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>>181799891
>Estalia
>mentioned start positions twice

Sorry for the typos.

>>181798858
to sell TWW2

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I vaguely remember the list of features in Ancient Empires for Attila including changes to the physics and behavior of individual soldiers so they behave more like in Rome 1.

Am I crazy? Misremembering?

Is Sparta the second most played faction in Rome 2?

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AHHHHHHHHHHHH ROME!
Most beautiful and powerful of cities. However, though much construction is underway to improve the city, potential enemies lurk all round. Carthaginians scheme in the south, barbarians infest gaul and spain, and the greeks of Epirus have not forgotten their recent defeat by Rome's hands. But presently the threat comes from the Etruscans. They wage war against Rome and must be destroyed. To accomplish this Lucius Libo Junius has taken the Legio I Italica northwards to wipe out their armies and claim their settlements for the glory of Roma!

>>181776802
Tried KAM's faster battles? I'm going to install and see what sort of difference it makes.

>>181774137
Solid army-wide buffs to missile troops. Given that your killing power mostly comes from missiles, a leveled Engineer is worth more than another unit of quarrelers.

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>>181802359
As the army prepares for the first of many battles Junius overlooks his men from atop a hill and issues a simple proclamation
>I will kill any man who shows fear or mercy
(I actually heard that line in game)

>>181780475
>Not running a chariot general

Get out

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>>181803048
Then blood is spilled. First the Velites unleash a deadly volley against the Etruscan skirmishers. The first death of this campaign. And a beautiful death it is. 2 javelins sticking out the Etruscan dog. The Legio I Italica's first kill. Many more will die before Roma is safe.

What do we want?
Siege Escalation!
When do we want it?
Next Turn!
hahey :d

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>>181803653
As the Hastati meet the Etruscan's spearmen in combat Lucios Libo Junius bravely leads his personal guard in a rear charge. An inspiring sight for his men and a terrifying one to his enemies.

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>>181804246
But wary of staying in open combat agaisnt spearmen for long. Lucius has his guard retreat and instead has the spearmen be encircled by more Hastati, who have driven off the other etruscans.
Outnumbered and outskilled It does not take long for the Etruscans to die. There is no escape for them. All are slaughtered there. The only Etruscan survivors are 4 javelinmen who ran off into the mountains and never returned.

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>>181804386
As a reward for his victory Junius is made a Military Tribune. But as he attempts to raise a large army in recently occupied Velathri. He is angered by news that the senate will only allow him to raise 3 measly units of Hastati. The rest of the military funds being given to Cornelius Scipio. Junius is enraged, money given to that fat fool who fights on foot like a Pleb! Nonetheless he calms himself with the knowledge that by being made Tribune the House of Julii now hold the most power in the senate.

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History and fantasy living in harmony while campaignposting I was asleep. I'll try not to let work and sleep and other trivial matters get in the way again for the sake of your good health.

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>Fight on open field and siege dozens of times
>Close victory
>Close victory
>Close victory
>Stand on a STEEP hill while they charge uphill and I cycle charge with a 90 speed horse and shoot them in the backs with arrows
>Heroic victory
Man.

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>>181804821
While Junius takes Ariminum, the Senate is thrown into chaos by news from Sicily.
Postumia Scapula, a travelling poet and secret spy for the roman senate. Has discovered that Syracuse and Carthage are at war and that a Syracuse army is marching on Lilybaeum. Dubbed the Sicilian debacle it has split the senate. Carthage has never been a friend to Rome, war with them is likely with or without syracuse. But Syracuse has been left undefended it is ripe for the taking by the large navy and army which are already close by in Magna Graecia. Whether to join the war or stay out and who to side with if they join.
And there are other issues, a lack of food, the Etruscans still hold Alalia, the senate is almost constantly arguing.

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>Awaken all the Norsca tribes
>They immediately begin declaring war on eachother

I really hope we aren't actually going to get the American Civil War, it will just mean they aren't going to release a full Victoria: Total War anytime soon.

>>181805708
okay you see what you did with you cavalry,

do it on a large scale.

also that army is pretty shit. you want to get your self off of infantry peasants as soon as possible.

You can do grail pilgrims for infantry but ultimately you want you cav to do the bulk.

also if you're all cav and you have cav archers

>stand on top of hill
>shoot as they charge up hill.
>cycle charge and disrupt their most vulnerable units
>run as they get near the top
>since you're all horse you run away fast
>run to next hill
>repeat use certain knights as necessary.

or

>station artillery on hill
>enemy starts moving towards artillery
>move all other horse units behind enemy
>enemy now has choice of rushing 3 artillery pieces and turning his back to 10+ horse units, or reforming to face the main threat.
>either option is good for you.

Don't underestimate mobility.

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>>181805964

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>First time playing Rome in DEI long enough to get reformed auxiliaries.

These guys look fantastic. If only R2 had attila or warhammer quality cavalry charges.

>>181805964
Why would you even do that?

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>>181805760
Ultimately the senate is influenced by Lucius papirus Cursor. A often drunk but politically savvy senator. He made a convincing speech in the senate house with several solid points. He pointed out how Syracuse has a non-aggression pact with the vile Epirotes, how the grain in Syracuse will solve the food crisis, and that the only agreement between Rome and them is a trade agreement. But he did not stop there. He made it clear that Rome will not be joining this war on Carthage's behalf. That Carthage will in fact be next.
>Syracuse for this year, Carthage for the next! Roma Invicta!
He then stumbled off home to drown himself in wine.

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>>181806538
Cornelius Scipio was disappointed when he arrived to take Syracuse for Rome. Not only was it raining, the city itself did not even have walls! His hopes and dreams of a glorious siege were crushed. He wondered why the Greeks of Syracuse had not bothered to build walls. He had so many expectations, of siege equipment and mars watching proudly as he scaled the walls. But it would not come to pass. He was glad for the rain then, as with it the men could not see his bitter tears of disappointment.

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>>181806341

>>181782098
in fantasy games "Race" means a different species of humanoid creatures.

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>>181806984
While Cornelius pondered walls. Many men died a horrible death in the black ocean. The roman fleet led by Decimus Brutus had come to support the Legio II Antiqua in taking Syracuse. They rained down javelins and Rock from onagers. Killing them with the javelins or sinking them with the rocks.

So have they basically admitted that history games are being shuffled off to tiny spinoffs while Warhammer and other licensed stuff gets the focus/

>>181806037
That's like a worst a worst setting for total war ever.

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>>181808339
On land it was a sight familiar to any veteran of the etruscan campaign. Red vs Blue. Though this time the blues were more equipped. Deadly pikemen had come to defend their city.

>>181806341
Why do they wear the masks

>>181808398
No, they've said History will get a mainline game AND a Saga spinoff, so history gets 2 games for Warhammer's 1

>>181808398
Nope, they make history 'main line titles' (like Empire, Shogun 2, Rome II) and 'spin-off titles' (like Napoleon, Fall of the Samurai, Attila).
Those Sagas are mostly to finally shut history autists up I guess.

CA still focuses on Warhammer atm though

>>181808472
Imagine being this retarded.

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>>181808478
There is a reason Cornelius fights on foot "like a pleb" as Junius put it. He is one of the best fighters Rome has. Here he is heroically stabbing the backs of the Syracuse generals bodyguard.

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>>181808621
Unfortunately, not all romans were as brave as Cornelius. The deadly pikes drove some hastati into retreat. Have no fear, the dogs were executed afterwards. Though at the time the pikes remained to pursue other quarry.

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The pikes are VERY deadly. While Cornelius slew the enemy general the pikes flanked his bodyguard. Though most were able to pull back in time. Cornelius was too slow. In that moment he realized that Syracuse does have walls. The pikemen were unbreakable ones. His black plumed hat was recovered afterwards and enshrined in Rome.

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>>181808938
But even without a generals direction the romans are clever. They retreated, letting the pikemen go out of formation to chase them, then turned around and charged into the unready pikes

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>>181809092
A close battle, those pikes nearly won it on their own. But roman intelligence triumphed. Syracuse had fallen, the city was looted and many slaves were taken.

>>181809207
What happened to Archimedes during the sack of the city?

>>181809841
he is camping lazer towers

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>>181809207
As Syracuse was taken Lucius was raising an army to finally destroy the etruscans. When the Roman navy arrived to support him he set sail only to be met by an Etruscan army sailing to Rome. As the Etruscan "fleet" was merely transports the navy wiped them out. The following summer Corsica was taken. The etruscan's Romes oldest enemy, were gone.

>>181810943
Is this vanilla R2 or an overhaul you're playing, anon?

>>181806050
Yeah. I didn't think I would win that one.
Mousillion declared on me and I just confederated and used their army to move in to stop them from razing a level 4 city because I haven't put walls anywhere because everything needs like 3 buildings for 100% efficiency in Bretonnia apparently.
I disbanded them later.
I don't know what's going on. It SEEMS like Breton infantry holds better than Empire. Maybe it's the variety? The support?
All I can think of for the archers as well is that they can shoot a higher arc, maybe that's why they seem better than crossbows, because they never have to let up.

I lucked out and got an event just as I finished the level 3 stables in the province with warhorse stables so I got to recruit 1 gold chevron knights right off the bat for Louen.
He's currently raping the north.

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>>181810943
After that Rome was at peace. Lucius played politics becoming first quaester then swiftly being promoted to Aedilis as Quaester is a bad office for a man as generous as Lucius.

>>181811017
Vanilla. Got a new PC. Installed rome 2 yesterday. Played it a bit on my old PC but that couldnt handle graphics very well. No mods. This is only the second campaign im posting here. First was a crooked moon Warhammer one. I have played all total war games. Started with Empire.

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>>181811301
But peace does not last long with the Romans. Eager to consolidate their power over the Mediterranean Islands. The senate almost unanimously agrees to declare war on Carthage. Though in true Roman fashion they hide it at first. They have Lucius trespass in Sardinia and then when a Carthaginian ambassador arrives asking for a trade agreement. he is sent back to Carthage in pieces.

2nd Opium War Total War when

China alone is boring and I post this as 中國人. 3 kingdoms posters are like muh 300 posters DESU

>>181811301
I know what you might be feeling right now, anon.
Don't worry. You didn't cheap out. You shouldn't have gotten the (CPU or graphics card here).
It just chugs on the campaign map. It's the clouds. Poorly, poorly optimized clouds. Like The Sims 3. No computer can run it perfectly.
>>181811631
I recognize 1 of those letters from the Air Fortress logo for NES.

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>>181811495
Said to be
>as fast and as deadly as Jupiter's lightning bolt
The roman armies take Karalis and Lilybaeum in the same spring that war was declared. The towns have only a small garrison as the Carthaginians had sent their armies into Africa to deal with the garamantians. Nearly all western Mediterranean islands are Roman. But Carthage will not give up yet.

>>181811757
I did notice the clouds are weird looking. Rome 2 I find is actually worse optimized then Attila.
Warhammer runs like a dream though.

>>181811757
Basically I said I'm Chinese

>inb4 IGdood

>>181808549
They're a big unit

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>>181811759
Not even a Carthaginian can trust another Carthaginian. Intimidated by our victory the western parts of Carthage have refused to support them in their war. Claiming
>The city of Carthage does not dictate the fate of all Carthaginians. We will not die in their war.
But in this war or the next. They will die.

Im going to sleep.

>very hard feels too easy
>on legendary you can't move camera around when paused so I cant look up close at units and take neat screenshots
Legendary is more fun but playing at maximum zoom out and taking little time to appreciate the visuals kinda makes me wonder whats the fucking point of all the unit detail

>>181812410

For you

>>181811847
The engine in Warhammer is fucking stellar.
They even fixed the 3D portholes. The lighting is shit, but it works.
>>181812546
Kinda wish you could sacrifice detail for other stuff. But it's not like you can make the animators and artists start coding when they're done.
I know this game is going for historical stuff (except warhammer) but if Total War didn't exist and they came out with a game that controls like this and it was set in a fictional world and you couldn't see rank and file soldier's eyes because they were hidden by helmets and masks, and hats, I think it would be fine. Maybe even a minimalist cell shaded look.

>>181798858
There's still at least 3-4 campaigns worth playing and it's replayability is tied up in the next title since that'll expand the map and victory conditions, it's no less replayable than Attila which essentially has 4 campaigns (Roman, Barb, Hunnic, Desert). People played a lot of Shogun 2 campaigns which were virtually the same so you probably just don't like most of the factions.

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r8 my state troops /twg/

>>181813775
nigga whats up with the 8-bit griffon in the background

>>181813775
AA kills my laptop

So, Total War Vikings comfirmed?

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>>181771571
The AI's cheating is just to fucking much in Attila man. Also it runs sub 40 no matter how much i overclock. Warhammer suffer from none of those things.

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Here, have a mixed formation shooting at norscaniggers

>>181814308
The only smooth thing in warhammer is how quickly the turns pass.

The rest run and loads like shit, especially the God awful loadtimes

>>181813775
What state? The state of gaytopia? hahahahahahaha

>>181814832
t. bretonnian

>>181814683
You need an SSD

>>181814308
Name one (2) cheats the AI uses in Attila: Total War

>>181814324
Pike and shot when?

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>>181814928
tbph I have been having fun with pike and shot ever since I began using more unorthodox tactics instead of hammer and anvil during my games.

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>>181814892
>Free money
>No Fog of war
>More recruitment slots
>More morale

>>181815058
You know what they say about free money... heh... don't... don't get a free lunch again.

>>181815007
I have a hard time with the micro. I put the gunners in front of my line and then retreat them but the results are hardly worth it I find. Better to have xbows that can somehow fire in an arc behind the line. Better still not to play Empire at all because if you can't use guns what is the point?

>>181815579
Checkerboard your troops, as enemies come in move spears up and fall handgunners back, and let your gunners chew flanks up
You can E-Z checkerboard by CTRL selecting Spearmen, Handgunners, Spearmen, Handgunners, Spearmen, and then stretching the line to your taste, they will be placed in the line according to their selection order.

>>181815728
Wont they just go through the gaps?

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I swear to god, if today isn't the day

>>181815820
Usually they don't get through, though Lords and Heroes can sneak through

>>181816039
Some of you guys are alright, Don't go to the CA headquaters tomorrow.

>>181816039
My dad works at video games, he told me today is the day

>>181816268
your dad was weak!

witness true parenting

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>Warned a guy who was about to start playing DEI about precursor spam
>Build an auxiliary legion down in Iberia
>All my swords have javelins
>All my cav have javelins(barring general)
>If I'd recruited spearmen, you could be damn sure they would have javelins

Fucking Spaniards man

Joan of Arc gave commands to La Hire at Patay! They were basically commands! She was more than a cheerleader goddammit!

>>181817467
>She was more than a cheerleader goddammit!
Even a she-goat can provide some diversion to the men.

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>>181817467
It's okay, Churchill was a cheerleader too.

>>181815728
>>181816097
I tried doing that, but I hit upon this idea eventually.
>>181814324
>have a unit of spearmen/halberds+ a unit of swordsmen occupy the same area
>have handgunners screen them to take potshots
>withdraw them before the lines meet
>handgunners keep shooting after the lines meet.

I found this formation to be extremely flexible and capable of dealing with cheeky flanks that that the AI is capable of doing.

>>181817579
>>181817643
Uh just fyi sweeties, she told the French knights to attacks the English immediately at Patay, which resulted in the mounted knights catching thousands of English longbowmen out of position and massacring them. They would have never been so aggressive without her explicit approval, soooo....

>>181817579
I like you DDanon

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>>181770036
Hisfags everyone

>>181818360
>magic of stabbing someone with a sharp piece of metal
What a fucking savage.

>>181798858
Try a unlocker faction and say that again fagg

>>181818360
so he's basically saying fuck artillery forcing me to engage an enemy?

>>181818360
the comments on anything CA posts on facebook are realms of cancer no mortal man should delve into

they make our shitposting look pathetic

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I can only recruit one of these guys. Not one per army like the first cohort, one across all armies.

Will post what the models look like when I get them into a battle.

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hey lads, so I'm importing some custom dds textures via pfm and the textures work fine as an overwrite, but I cannot seem to get them to work without overwriting the original textures.

I've got the dds maps, linked the item to the item.variantmeshdefinition then used wordpad to edit the lines in the .rigidmodel file to replace the original entries but I'm still getting no textures at all in game.

Pic sorta related is the textures, can anyone point me to what i'm missing or a sweet tutorial, I've tried looking online and reversing engineering mods which do it successfully but cannot figure it out.

Pic related I suppose.

Anyone know where I'm going wrong?

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>>181820314
pic also related. but mainly uploading as it looks really cool so far.



I'm making some vampirates in preparation