>the culmination of over a decade of development
>dozens of unique factions
>hundreds of units each with distinct stats and skills
>huge campaign with hundreds of regions, factions, and endless possibilities
>intense live action battles
Why aren't you playing Total War: Warhammer 3?
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What gave you the impression that I wasn't playing it?
they ruined campaigns from 2
>Gelt
>Belagar
>Skarsnik
lighting fricked
ran like shit
RUNS HOT
>RUNS HOT
This reminds me, how is it possible that the campaign map is making my PC sound like a jet engine, but battles are all OK. Shouldn't it be the other way around? Something feels fricked.
Also, is there any mod or option that allows to limit the framerate on the map only, so battles can run high fps, but map limited to 30 to prevent fan noise?
Campaign maps are generally more resource intensive than the battles, way more unique assets.
CA is just awful at optimization, nothing new to see here.
Try any of the fog/effect removals - there's a bunch of those in the Workshop.
I wish i could find any fog remover for the battle maps. There's this Cathay map that just tanks my fps if i see any fog clouds.
Turn off 3D portholes
They are off, and still. Oh well, I guess these developers just fricking suck at doing their jobs.
>but battles are all OK. Shouldn't it be the other way around?
Battles aren't really more demanding than before, but the world map?
It's huge and not optimized
Battles run way worse for me than in 2 as well. I get 80fps on ultra settings in 2 but I need to go all the way down to medium in 3 or I can't hit 60.
There's been a lot of improvements to particle effects and such
Look at the lore of fire. That's the most recent update. Flame storm looks way better now.
cap your fps
if its anything like attila the trees are resource hogs and the campaign map water is 10,000x larger than it appears
best way to play gelt is to get a mod that disables imperial authority for him and then move to estalia
I bought it at the end of the summer sale and it gobbled up a week for me
I get one-more-turn'd bad
>Nu-total war with spreadshit combat and HP pools and towers like a fricking MOBA
Jeez no wonder it's shit
tell me you only watched the trailers and never played the game without without telling me you never played the game
How do you look at the current total war games and think "This is a MOBA"?
Because there is no savescum mod and I can't help myself from doing it, so it takes all the fun out of the game for me. If I start losing a battle I will just load. If I start getting trapped I'll revert to an older save.
Give me a mode that saves automatically every X seconds like say elden ring, where I cannot do it, and I will play the shit out of this game.
If you play on Legendary campaign, doesn't this automatically happen?
Isn't that the absolute hardest difficulty in the game? Also, if you start losing the battle can't you just alt f4 and start it over again?
I guess you can, but at that difficulty if you made a mistake a turn ago you will hardy avaid a losing battle that easily so it's less effective than ooutright negating a battle. Try it out.
Runs better than wh2 for me. No idea if its the drivers, or new engine. But I also play off SSD, because I still remember waiting like 15 mins for a battle to load in wh1.
Legendary difficulty is very hard campaign difficulty but without the ability to manually save. You can still play on lower battle difficulties
>Also, if you start losing the battle can't you just alt f4 and start it over again?
You can, but you're still stuck with having to fight/flee that particular battle, since the game saves at the pre-battle screen
>Anon savescums if things go sour and complains
>Anon gets a anti savescum mod for easier difficulties
>Anon ALT F4s if things go sour and complains
>Anon gets anti ALT F4 mod
>Anon just starts pulling the power cord out of the wall
>Anon now needs an anti tamper sentry gun mounted over the PC power cable and the houses power breaker switchs
Gotta love autism
>savescum
The problem with most campaigns is it's way too easy, even on legendary, 90% of the time. And then there are sudden spikes of difficulty that at that point seem like "total bullshit, dude" and then you save scum.
Basically, go play a campaign that's "bullshit" from start to finish. WH2's Wulfhart campaign was like that on release, and so was WH3's Miao, again on release. Although both were patched to be far easier.
That's what Legendary difficulty does, the game autosaves when shit happens and you cannot savescum. IIRC it also restricts your camera movement - not just your view but actual camera control - over the battle map and I hate it with a fiery passion, which is why I just play VH/VH instead.
Problem is that the game has also been known to sometimes corrupt autosaves, which is another downside to playing Legendary. You're really better off learning not to minmax everything and to take a loss when you make a bad move.
Don't think my PC can run it, and I'm still playing 2 anyway.
3 runs 10x better then 2 for me.
I'm playing it, but not that much at the moment. Will play more when Mirror of Madness comes.
>the culmination of over a decade of bug and glitch pile up
>dozens of unique coding problems
>hundreds of bugs each with distinct frequency and annoyance
>huge bug list with hundreds of problems, balance issues, and endless glitches
>intense live action fatal crashes
It's my fav strategy game right now. Like how there are so many factions and characters, kinda feels like homm in a way for me, million combinations and battle possibilities.
Still haven't played every faction, let alone lord and I have almost 800h on it. Also, praise Slaanesh for Miao modders.
She already has a really... Interesting animation in the base game.
why are animators such weirdos?
>oh boy you mean i can create my own reality? where anything goes as long as i can make it look convincing? oh boy oh boy oh boy!
>dragon eating humans
>weird
uhhh, what?
It's kinda weird I guess since she can turn into a human and leads them, but eh, dragons will do dragon things.
She's no human, even if she can assume a form of one.
WH3 Chaos Warriors, by far.
I cannot abide by a one and a half minutes load time per battle even on my SSD.
Played the shit out of 2 and the only thing that's still engaging for me on field battles are gunpowder factions (who are now shit in sieges which are fricking everywhere)
They currently removed minor settlement battles if you don't have walls built, and chaos dwarfs are the best gunpowder faction right now. It's literally what you asked for.
But yeah, sieges are still not very good in general, hate it how there is like one tall wall you can jump over and towers that cannot fire back for more than 10s. A significant buff to supplies is needed to increase the difficulty of sieges.
>chaos dwarfs
'Empire but OP as frick' isn't interesting enough to make me buy a ~~*CA DLC*~~ outside of a heavy discount
Chorfs don't really play that similarly to the Empire
>buying DLC when creamapi exists
>not buying the DLC anyway to show the poorplebs that you can afford them
Sorry, steam doesn't take fake money, sir
then how can you explain me trading my way to 10 keys, selling them on the steam market and using the money to buy a new DLC?
>he trades in TF2/CS:GO/Dota
>or in something much more irrelevant I don't know about
Sorry to hear this, sir
>>he trades in TF2/CS:GO/Dota
Yes
and thats how i got 200$+ to afford every thing i might want, all without forking over a single dime
I kneel
The combat kinda sucks. I could not for the life of me get my ratling gunners to shoot their targets despite having full line of sight and standing at in incline with full view of the entire battlefield. Also half the factions are blatantly stronger than others and some are incredibly overpowered.
>win a difficult 20 minute long battle
>game crashes
>get to turn 10
>play another faction
how do i continue with what i have going
Set up a goal (i.e. befriending the Asur as Dark Elves, it's very much doable), stop being a min-maxxing gay, use themed armies
Diplomacy playthrough is pretty nifty
>Millitary Alliance with Tomb Kangz, Pirates, Rat Chinaboo and worse of all
>A FRICKING DRUCHII
If you're friends with any Dark Elf playing as Alith Anar I don't know what to say.
play chaos and see where the campaign gets you other undivided are usually bro’s and your cities are OP as is your economy
because it’s shit now only chaos has fun campaign
maybe if they ever develop a remotely competent campaign AI that isnt just full of anti-player bias and "tee hee im gonna calculate your possible movement every turn and stay 1 pixel away from your attack range no matter what xd"
its so tiresome
Seiges.
teminder that 40kiddies will NEVER get a total war game
their franchise is doomed in mediocrity and corpo slop
40k is better suited to Dawn of War 1 style and systems
Even Age of Sigmar is better suited to Dawn of Wars gameplay.
AoS would do fine in total war style. Could be cool going around founding your own cities since the realms are all infinite space. Only issue would be stuff like Kharadron boats breaking CAs garbage ass engine.
Space marine 2 will be kino who are you kidding?
I’m still pissed over how Demon Prince turned out
>fully customizable, but you’re just gonna use the top tier options anyway
>no real tech tree
>no real skill tree for demon prince
>shit start location
>once you start your 2nd army, the faction loses all its charm
>additional conent is locked unless you own a powerhouse intel PC (and even then, the content is restricted to Tzeentch devotion)
>gets a mediocre mechanic of the other monogod factions
>Belakor is simply better in every way
Is it worth one campaign at least? I still haven't bothered yet. I tend to forget it's in the game.
Not him but I tried a Legendary DP Vortex campaign just to see if both of those things are as shitty as people say and honestly I found my fun in the fact that it was probably the hardest and most brutal TW campaign I've ever played. Had pretty much the entire south-eastern quadrant at war with me by turn 15 and couldn't even get out of my second province until turn ~40 for how many invasions I had to fight back. I don't think I've ever lost my capital in one of these games since Medieval 2 when I was 10 years old and got vassalised by HRE
As for whether or not it's "good" - dunno, beats Lizardmen I guess.
No. Just play Belakor instead
I have trouble wanting to play DoC when WoC exists. Daniel is how every daemon prince you make should be. Let you customize and boutique design them so you get to watch some random lord build up and up and become a truly LL with their own concept.
>additional conent is locked unless you own a powerhouse intel PC (and even then, the content is restricted to Tzeentch devotion)
What?
the most recent major patch added those tzeentch-themed special battles that have intel's logo slapped all over them, by getting a good score in each you unlock tzeentch wargear for the demon prince in the campaign
>cuckscape engine
>moba like microing of super single entity units
>non sensical sieges with hero single entity dancing on a pressure plate wins the siege
>pondering to american mutt morons
>thanks for the super chat
Post the beastmen webm.
Do it now.
Which one
The mod.
they still haven't fixed the performance in campaign view, shit is like a GPU stress test while actual battles run decently well
It's 100gb and don't have that much free space on my ssd.
>yakuza series gets a gog release including like a dragon
Surely sega will put Total War there next, right?
I haven't finished a single campaign in either 2 or 3.
I tend to reach sort of mid-game then get bored to tears or not really know what the frick I'm meant to do next.
angry grudge noises
It's so fricking bloated.
I have no fricking clue if my Hot Sauce Cannons can handle the Demon Rape Pillars.
I have 60 different resources and most of them give me a bonus like "The Die will be shaken 3 times before it is cast" and I have no idea what that implies for me.
My Leader has "Increased Honk Radius" but I don't see any abilities that seem to use it. Maybe I need to buy the quest with my primeval currency so that I can fight Scribblius the Mad for something that honks?
I sure as frick don't know.
I don't understand what you're talking about fricking schizo.
read the stat cards idiot
look at the prices of the units
play the game
>Why aren't you playing Total War: Warhammer 3?
I am though. Took a break to play Iron Harvest after I got it on sale but I'm back on it.
Not sure if I wanna start a new mommy run or a new chorf run.
So how often does Morathi frick that horse?
I'm just waiting for Thrones of Decay and whatever the Slaanesh DLC will be called before I jump back in.
I started up my first game of TWW3 as festus and facerolled half the map so easily and quickly I got bored like 20 hours in. The AI is simply dumb, cheating piece of shit. No way to enjoy this game until they rework the AI (never)
>Buy the game, and try to play.
>Chinese faction looks fun, I could play as a cool dragon...
>Shit gets too intense, end up uninstalling the game.
>installing degenerate nonloreful coom mods
You asked for it yourself
The only good coom mods are for slaanesh and dark elves, and only for showing the breasts.
>"The dragons are older than gods, what need do we have of a god's power?"
>100% seductive influence later
>"Ooh N'Kari frick me harder while my brother watches!"
>Chaos can't be that bad, it's just Empire nazis spreading lies, but we won't fall for that, right?
where from image?
Wouldn't you like to know, Empire boy.
I'm having a blast. So far Lizardmen, Skaven, and Tzeentch are my favorite campaigns. Grom is good too.
>Grom
IZ IMMENSITY is truly the most fun you can have with the greenskins.
Shame the pointy ear frick dies so fast to N'kari these days.
There’s nothing quite like watching armoured supermen get the living shit kicked out of them by basic goblins that Grom’s buffed to hell
Can't even play a battle with him without putting on the Putin March song.
>open game
>spend 20 minutes looking at all the campaigns
>realised I already played 80% of them in the first and second games
>already played Warhammer 3 ones
I think the game tries to bamboozle you a bit with '100 campaigns!' or whatever, but if you played the first two games then you've already played most of whats on offer
which way, chaos warrior?
Tzeentch but khorne proposition is kinda enticing
KHORNE
Give me that moron violence mindset 24/7
I wish my answer was Khorne but I know it's really Slannie. We're gonna do some sexual stuff that makes the other three jealous. I will enjoy most of it. Honestly if Tzeench wanted to do drugs, I might switch.
because Im a moron who cant into tactics so I just play the game like a shitty 4x game playing sims with my provinces and towns. This usually devolves into me spamming stacks of basic b***h spearmanni and archers abusing auto resolve cause I have two stacks to their one.
Thoughts on Yuan Bo? I hope he has less inventive to just conquer the world but actually has a build-tall playstyle and Machiavelli's his way through sending intervention armies if any of the other dragons start getting fricked on, and can influence AI's relationships similar to the HE.
Yuan and Yin Yin are both pretty boring
Li Dao is going to be the best sibling left. Can't wait for him vs Monkey King
Haven't read his storybook just yet, but he does look pretty cool. Makes me curious how the Monkey King will look like
cause im playing total war saga troy
i played fair bit of wh1 cause i got it for free
should i play wh2 before wh3 or can i just jump to wh3?
>Why aren't you playing Total War: Warhammer 3?
Too lazy. Way too many bugs, lot of them carried from previous version of the previous games. Also, the dwarf DLC had on less legendary lord and cost 5 more €.
Therefore I didn't buy it and stopped playing the game despite having bought and played every other DLC.
The devs are dead to me and so is this franchise. They had it coming for a very long time. Without the warhammer franchise I wouldn't even have bothered past rome 2.
And apparently I'm not the only one since the gameplay videos for their new egyptian total war get like 30k views on youtube
>Go in
>Have all DLCs
>My mouse hovers over "it" anyway
Oh yeah, time for another campaign.
dangerously, irrevocably, unredeemably, unquestionably and unbelievably based
>Go to play a different faction this time
>It always continues as this chad
WE MUST NOT BE BLINDED FOR OUR OWN NEED FOR POWER
>ally and protect the dwarfs
>eventually get their helicopters through allied points
>it aint me starts playing
Behold, the majestic!
THE MAJESTIC DEFENDUH
Too many bad reviews for me to bother. Also all my fav factions are already in TWWH2.
I doubt it runs on my Steam Deck.
>no banners/musicians or officers
>no speeches aside from quest battles
>no dynamic speeches tied to what traits your general has
>no minor settlements
>no night battles
>no weather effects during battle (i.e rain effecting fatigue/vigor and gunpowder units)
>no units pushing siege towers
>no reload animations for the majority of units
>no seasonal changes
>no army painter or avatar mode where you fully customize your units and generals feature from Shogun 2
>no burnable cities mechanic from Attila
>no siege escalation mechanic from Attila
>no random civilians running around during a siege feature from Attila
>no dynamic music feature from Attila
>no soldiers who visually look sick and start vomiting during battle if the army is struck with the plague feature from Attila
>no soldiers who visually look tired and breathless during battle if the army is fighting in forced-march stance feature from Attila
>no unique camp-site battle map while in encampment stance
>no more Jeff van Dyck
>no armor getting a visual upgrade during battle if you upgraded the unit’s armor in the campaign
>Archaon's helmet clipping still not fixed
>Old World factions don't have new dialogue when engaging with the WH2 factions both in battle and the diplomacy screen
>no snow staying on shields/armor like in Rome 2
>generals no longer gain visual upgrades as they rank up(i.e. viking generals in Attila would gain a gold trimmed helmet at level 4 and a fully decked out gold helmet at level 8)
>buildings you build in the campaign map no longer can be seen during siege battles like in R1/M2
>no dismount cavalry option during battle
>no burning death animations despite units having literal flamethrowers
>no visual trade caravans or trade ships on the campaign map
>no naval battles
>cant edit the campaign map, voice lines and music like in R1/M2
>shit siege battles
>no fortifications
>no formation
>no breasts mods
>no breasts mods
wrong
>no speeches aside from quest battles
Actually, WH3 has pre battle speeches but only for the WH3 factions. But you gotta zoom in close to the lord at the start of the battle.
holy frick I know that we've regressed since past titles but I actually forgot some of the shit we used to have, thanks for reminding me just how far we've fallen
and on top of that look at all the morons itt who lap this shit up replaying the same faction over and over
Good point but warhammer ones are still way more fun to play.
They lobotomized the AI so hard that you literally can't fricking lose. I played these games for 500+ hours but I have never seen a game over screen.
WH3 in is general is a LOT easier than WH2.
The Nagash mod is very good.
Nagash mod is 100% the best mod ever made for these games
It's a shame the mod makers can't seem to resolve that persistent random crashing that keeps happening.
I never understood people who say Nagash is too powerful to add to the main game, when characters like Mazadamundi or Kairos, who could lorewise solo all the other magical LLs put together, are in the game
The main issue isn't the powerscaling. The main issue is that he is objectively and factually a lord of all undead. It's like asking Sigmar. Sigmar isn't the most powerful being in warhammer but he is a god dawn father of all Empire. I don't want Nagash, since almost all other undead lords will feel redundant.
i've never played tomb kings
can i jump stright into nagash or should i play someone else first?
which tomb king gives the best tomb king experience?
Probably Settra - he's the most vanilla Tomb Kangz experience (easiest as well).
Best Kang right now is either Arkhan or Khalida. Settra's surrounded on all sides and Khatep is well, Khatep.
And no you don't really need to. Nagash's economy is totally different from Kangs (his units actually cost money and you'll be running red the entire time and surviving off loot). He works with unit caps and buildings increasing said caps, but really that's not unique to kangs.
And he's got horde mechanics
>Settra's surrounded on all sides
I think you've got the wrong idea here
I love Settra so god damn much. I guess it’s time to start another campaign
They're all fun but I would recommend either Settra or Arkhan.
Khalida feels left behind and Khatep is a very strong lord with a very bad start position.
That shit keeps crashing constantly for me
Needs a bigger hat
Crashes my gpu dogshit game. No other game does this.
What gpu
Why does the game run like SHIT
Unoptimized
Same reason WH2 ran like shit until maybe halfway through (potion of speed was the turning point)
I dunno how much they can improve performance at this point, since dev team is so fricked I doubt they've got the knowhow
I am playing it on and off, among other games. I plan a Kislev campaign and probably some Chaos stuff once the update is out.
Personal no Denuvo rule. Please understand I've lost two hard drives suspiciously while playing Denuvo games and I don't want to have to buy a new drive and reinstall everything on my computer again for a third time.
>Checked out Kislev stuff
>Their infantry literally can't retreat
KINO
Bretonnian knights are probably the single funnest human faction in the game currently.
Where's the monkey king DLC CA?
This month.
Nope. The new cathay lord is the bureaucrat dragon kid.
Monkey King can only really work if it's Monkey King vs Li Dao but that would be a pure Cathay DLC
I dunno how they'll manage it with their new DLC format. Heck it doesn't even fit into the old DLC format.
I'll wait for holidays sale.
BEASTMEN RAROOOO
>*proceeds to BVLL the entirety of bretonnia and naggarond*
If I wasn't a total Nakai fan I'd play Oxyotl more often.
Who's the funnest Chaos dwarf LL?
They are all the same.
astragoth and drazoath are both competent hybrid LLs which gain access to spammable versions of the high end hashut spells, former buffs bull centaurs and gets WoM reductions on hell hammer, latter buffs infernal guard/ironsworn and kdaii, gets WoM reductions on flame of azgorh, though drazoath gets barrier and a flying mount
zhatan's skills buff all units so just build what you like with him, though his starting army and position near a chorf landmark leans him more towards the war machines and artillery, competent foot lord with wide mount selection, but the main draw is his faction effect which lets you get 2 caravans at once
if you ask me, drazoath has the easiest campaign since you can cheese caravans by parking a lord in the dark fortress and they frequently pass by its zone of control for ez money and slaves - and he's the LL least close to grimgor who'll be your main hurdle in any chorf campaign, but if you're playing and thinking in the long term, you can confed the other LLs via campaign mechanics so start with zhatan for the strongest labour economy
basically described the core of all 3 LLs here so do whatever you like the sound of most
I'll go with Draz then thanks lad
Someone actually drew a r63 Drazh.
ZOOO LA HOOOO
>Why aren't you playing Total War: Warhammer 3?
it's worse than rome 1, medieval 2, and shogun 2. i refuse to play inferior games made for casuals. total war and warhammer deserve better
they fricked up the economy and now you can field less armies. im guessing this was for performance since they have more factions so they had to globally reduce army count to make the game work.
makes it less fun
The game is still braindead easy.
>they fricked up the economy and now you can field less armies.
Black person, what? Did you even play the game? Supply lines aka the biggest gold sink are now a joke and barely matter. WH3 lets you field way more armies than ever, even on highest difficulties.
It's not available in my country. Never buying S*ga games again.
>Why aren't you playing Total War: Warhammer 3?
sieges are shit
khorn faction is all about cutting your balls off and wearing a cück cage
and kislev is now a feminist utopia
>and kislev is now a feminist utopia
What I find funny about this is that they present Katarina as the nemesis to Chaos and Archaon, so trying to say LE STRANG WAHMEN is the only one keeping the world safe from Chaos.
Sieges are somehow worse than 2
AI is somehow worse than 2
Garrisons were completely gutted from 2
Performance is worse than 2
I hate reddit, the community apparently made them remove every single minor settlement being a siege battle in the campaign
the upgrade to siege battles was one of the best things about WH3, almost reminded me of the insanely good siege battles of attila
now I have to spam garrison buildings in every minor settlement which makes the AI too moronic to actually attack them
>the community apparently made them remove every single minor settlement being a siege battle in the campaign
the core problem here is the fact that the sieges are shit
>the upgrade to siege battles was one of the best things about WH3,
lmao no
The siege rework is the fricking worst thing they did
you are moronic, the sieges from WH1 and WH2 were an absolute fricking joke
we need attila sieges back with entire cities being modelled, and what they did was at least one step closer to that
Remove the absolutely moronic capture point system and the new siege maps would be better than the old ones.
The siege rework is complete dogshit as long as that garbage mechanic exists.
I kinda agree, the capture mechanic definitely is moronic
but the current sieges are definitely better than defending a tiny strip of a huge city like it was back in WH1 and WH2
Also forgot to mention the tower building mechanic and supplies are also shit and should be removed.
The towers/barricades would be fine if it all remained in the deployment phase. I don't like magically spawning buildings out of your ass mid-battle.
WH2 sieges were crap but at least the AI pretended to have a brain. WH3 is just awful.
it definitely did not, you could just blast their siege engines and the AI just started storming your gates like a braindead moron
Sieges suck. CA hyped up the rework and they're actually worse. Then, in true CA fashion, they have vanished on the issue altogether. Whenever CA fricks up, they bury their heads in the sand and hope it blows over.
>defensive sieges actually make you more vulnerable because you have to defend two capture points not to lose
Whoever the frick thought it was a good idea to have both points generate victory tickets need to be offed. I should never feel like I have a handicap because I'm on the defensive side of the siege
I love this game and Warhammer in general but it has glaring problems that you're underplaying, OP.
>huge campaign with hundreds of regions, factions, and endless possiblities
Simply bullshit. The map is huge, I'll give you that. But the faction and possibility part is so disconnected from reality. If you've played one campaign, they tend to all go the same. Minor factions/clans/tribes whatever simply don't put up a fight. They roll over for major powers, and they refuse to expand. In my Azhag campaign, I GIFTED multiple settlements to the 'Red-Eye' tribe so that I could build an alliance with them and they'd secure my southern flank. They wound up getting kicked around by Thorgrim. I jumped in and helped, I killed ALL of Thorgrim's armies. Red-Eye had several stacks and a small empire, they were running unopposed at that point. Imagine my shock to see not 10 turns later they were on the defensive again against one single Thorgrim stack. Why? Thorgrim is an LL, and Red-Eye are minor Greenskins. They're hard-programmed to simply not win. They won't expand, or if they do there is no rhyme or reason to it. Beyond that, every endgame ALWAYS goes the same depending on the latest patch. Right now, Chaos is very strong. You usually see Chaos doing well painting the map, Grimgor dominating his area of the map, etc. The same LLs that do well always do well until a new patch comes out that makes rebalances another race or area of the world, then the game plays out that new way every time... Until another patch. So on and so forth. The games aren't half as random as you let on.
>intense battles
Lmao. The AI in WH3 is the worst it has been in a long time. Now I'll admit, I got 500 hours spread out over all 3 WH games so I'm definitely an experienced player. But I have friends that I introduced to this game pick it up quickly, and it doesn't take long at all for them to crank up the difficulty and still step on the AI.
The best the campaign has ever been was the post vampirates patch that caused minor factions to run wild. Fricking rogue armies and blue vipers dominating Lustria, stirland conquering the Empire and Sylvania, Minor kangz and dwarfs tearing up badlands, Vlads beach vacation crusades.
Yeah, but does it matter if it's fun?
I don't mind pointing out problems or " it could be better" but often it's just moronic and worthless.
You're right, it doesn't matter the campaign sucks compared to games in the same franchise 10+ years old.
I maintain my argument that people get off on the sheer spectacle of these games. Seeing giants step on stuff, spiders eat people, Foot of Gork get 500+ kills in a blob. Because the actual game itself is in many ways a giant leap backwards from the likes of Medieval 2, Rome, etc.
Yeah yeah sure.
Man I miss time when people were playing video games instead of whining about them.
I hate how unfun they have to make the game to give the AI a fighting chance against a non-braindead player.
I don't like lategame almost mandating doomstacks.
And early game is so unbalanced that if you start snowballing you basically just win.
I am but the game could still use a lot of work. the amount of shit in the game is impressive tough.
This have better animation than Elden Ring.
And it's a fricking unit in a strategy game lmao
Warriors Of Chaos are so unbalanced it seems like trolling. Aspiring Champions are almost immortal killing machines and it's not that hard to get them.
Warriors of Chaos lack speedy option and will struggle against most cavalry or ranged focus factions.
Because my toaster can't handle any Total War newer than Rome2 and WH1
I've played the first Warhammer Total War quite recently and it's honestly pretty great. I'm a long time GM for Warhammer RPGs and it really helped me to get back into the vibe after a long break in running it
>campaign map feels both bloated and empty at the same time
>AI hate boner is so high against you they will ignore closer threats to beeline a fullstack at you
>AI will always refuse a fight it knows it wont win via autoresolve results, leading to a constant game of cat and mouse
>only fix to the garbage turtling got nerfed (Lightning Strike) by CA because... because it just needed to be, ok?
>melee units are still mostly useless especially heavily armored ones due to all the armor piercing missiles/magic damage missiles
>CA releases entire powercreep faction (Chaos Dwarfs) that have a powerful as frick army roster that is a pain in the ass to fight and an easy win to play, all for an extra israelite price
>the worst sieges ever made in CA, psuedo RTS with towers that they get to start with meanwhile you don't get that luxury and have to wait a bit for it to build
>clearly unfinished armies for the newer factions besides Belakor and Demon Prince who get every Chaos option available
>Demon Prince is an embarassment, awful stat line, mechanics, start position and overall worse than Belakor so no point to play him
>new lighting on the map looks awful and shows you the difference in quality between 1 and 2 areas vs 3 areas that were added
>multiple new bugs and glitches that make the experience even more painful for you
Unfun game
>still no crack
It's getting silly at this point.
EMPRESS is too batshit crazy to realize what people would actually enjoy playing
somehow I doubt it'll happen
Probably not gonna get cracked anytime soon since it's getting constant updates and that's a massive issue for denuvo.
You have a better chance of it landing on gog than getting cracked.
Does 2 even have all its content cracked?
No, I don't think so. Iirc Sisters/Throt DLC is the last one cracked.
Serene Naestra....
DO NOT TOUCH N'KARI
Asrai women have truly bountiful tracts of 100% organic woodland.
wood elves dont look like this
Tell CA that
In-game art that was also approved by GW. So yeah, they now look like this.
Yeah but they also probably don't shave their pubes or armpits so they probably smell bad too.
Gorgeous Spellsinger melons
Saturated with the energies of Ghyran.
Incestuous Arahan!
Still can't believe that's a real line.
Zhatan or Arkhan for best Black person?
Arkhan is from Africa - he's a certified homie.
He can read, write and build stuff though
And Chaos Dwarfs can't? They're literally "Industry - the race". Plus, Arkhan is an actual Tomb Kang.
homies can't
mazadamundi or nagash in a 1v1
Mitsubishi casually moves continents around because they're not where they're supposed to be after waking up from a nap.
I love the Skelepope but he's gonna get rekt
bony homie has no chance
Mazdamundi easely
I'm creamapi Nagash and Incarnates dlcs if they release after 2023 ends btw.
I play for she
Because I want to play the campaign from 1 or 2, but the morons refuse to port them over to 3.
Mannfred buff when?
Why would he need a buff? He's pretty damned strong
because he is the destroyer of the old world
Yeah, that's why he should never be buffed.
Mannfred is a major homosexual and ruined literally everything.
cope gelt
>Winds of Death in your path
i miss warhammer 2 winds of death
How would you buff him?
Buff him how
I have played it, but honestly waiting for more DLC/Updates. All of the base factions of the game need DLC to get up to snuff with even factions from 1/2 that got DLCs/Updates. They feel very basic compared to them, and we all know CA are israeli as frick and will release plenty of DLC.
For the coomers out there is a mod in nexus that turns every unit into naked females
So, Yuan Bo ( Jade Dragon ) / Changeling / Oestanka ( Baba Yaga ) probably is the next DLC
What’s everyone’s favorite faction and how long did it take you to realize it was always Khemri
It actually is the Kangz.
I bought Warhammer 2 specifically so I could play as Settra.
So what made people 180 on this game?
it released
Immortal empires, they shouldn’t have even bothered with a base game really
the game on release was unbelievably bad
They fixed the most egregious things about the launch and IE came out. Took them a while, but it at least happened. It's a CA game so it's still pretty buggy, but it's nowhere near as bad as it used to be.
The Realms of Chaos campaign was just fricking terrible.
>It's a CA game so it's still pretty buggy
That's why I'm not buying this game. Every total war game I've played seems interesting but has been fundamnetally broken with dumbshit AI and people just don't seem to care. I care.
For me it went from 30fps on low settings to 60fps on high on a much larger map.
I just can't get into playing the 'evil' races for some reason
I'm leaving so much on the table anons help me
He's right. Morals and justice are so inherent to the human race that it's hard to imagine a viewpoint without them, and yet no other living creature cares about these concepts.
>and yet no other living creature cares about these concepts.
Animals are perfectly capable of acts of kindness too. Wild animals are just way too fricking busy staying alive to be able to afford them.
>no other living creature cares about these concepts.
Not true.
Most mammals will go out of their way to help members of their species.
There are even examples of synthesis between species, like badgers and coyotes joining up to find food.
Just do it, homie. Some of the best factions in the game are evil.
It's a lot better with mods.
>not being a DROOKI enjoyer
Missing out anon.
Reminder Malekith did nothing wrong and mommy Morathi is always right.
this didnt happen in lore
dark elves dont look like that
Yes they do. And yes that did happen. I was there.
youre shitposting
warhammer races dont look like this
>youre shitposting
I am not. It is historically accurate warhammer lore.
>WOHOO! LOOK MOM I RULE!
was never uttered
sorry not sorry
Prove it was never said in the lore. Point to me a source.
You can't.
you cant point to something that doesnt exist
So you're saying he said it. OK.
How about this.
greatswords are a meme unit
>lore
Who cares. WH3's a sandbox
Make your own lore.
Druchii are so edgy and over the top that they turn around into being fun to me.
Setting is boring and the AI is still braindead and can't into sieges. Easiest refund of my life.
>WELCOME TO ESTALIA GENTLEMEN!!!
Shame Valten won't show up cos no end times shit.
Valten could happen since he's from Storm of Chaos originally. There is an empire DLC coming but it will probably be Elspeth unfortunately.
Because it's sixty dollarydoos and then you have to include all the DLC on top of that. I'll stick with TWW II until there's a hefty discount, besides TOW might come out later this year so I why play the videogame when I can own the actual models and play it with fat, sweaty grogs in person?
S M A S H
T H E
G I T Z
Greenskins are great and I'm tired of pretending they aren't/
Of course they are. This is my personal favorite bit of Greenskin lore. Azhag was a badass.
>Lets the crown believe he is going to become a puppet for Nagash
>All the while abuses the frick out of the crown's magic and tactics, letting him and his boyz have proper fun and burn the Empire for no other reason than a good laugh
>Cause such a problem for humans they have to unite and confederate together to even stand a chance
>Crown finally realizes it was Nagash, not Azhag, that was the slave the entire time as it fulfilled ZERO of it's hopes and dreams while giving the Greenskins everything they could've ever wanted (a good time)
>Nagash is so mad and embarrassed he puts Azhag in a trance, allows him to die, knowing full well the Empire will identify the crown and lock it away forever
>not taking both as concubines
Low test.
for me its beastmen because city management fricking sucks in warham
just let me burn the world
wasn't there some controversy regarding imported character models in the third one? i read somewhere that the character models from the previous games were totally bungled. some guy even showed how it could be done correctly with just five minutes of work and he got banned from the forums, or something. i dunno, i'm not a warhammer fan, anyways.
>"Keep your head forward Chang. Don't pay the crocodile any attention. This is for the greater good."
I have a hard time enjoying turn based strategy games. The pacing of them has always fricked with me and I can't get over it.
>Mfw I pass a turn without doing anything even though everything I can do was already done and I just need to wait a turn or two
STOP UPDATING AND BREAKING ALL MY FRICKING MODS
I'm more annoyed by patches being some minor number changes for some units yet somehow being like 50 gigs
Because the game is currently bugged to shit and in all likelihood will continue to be bugged to shit because CA is spending all of their time and effort on a worthless team shooter that nobody in the entire world is going to play.
JOIN
>want to play a Queek's Big Chinese Holiday campaign
>always end up getting bogged down in the Badlandsbowl for 100+ turns, don't even make it to the Dark Lands most of the time
>get frustrated and give up on campaign
>do it all over again a month later
Help.
Mors should get a not!WAAAGH!!! mechanic for their armies. Lore-wise they are Vermintide light. They literally drown the battlefield with Clanrats.
Could see it as that if you manage to get enough food and get the right conditions then your armies will go full Orc and just go on a rampage. In this case even Skarbrand won't survive this.
Anon skaven can trivially field extra armies of skavenslaves to back up any army they have.
Mors even so since they also bully weaker warlord clans into giving them their clanrats. Hence why they should get a not!WAAAGH!!! mechanic.
Don't forget that Skavenslaves are only tarpits that exist to die and so that your more valuable troops will be shielded by them. Problem is when you meet an army that can take on your main one even when backed up by a Skavenslave army.
Skaven should by default have extra army unit slots that can only be filled with skavenslaves. Clan Mors then would have the ability to fill those slots with clanrats instead
>skaven are inherent permanent double armies
Don’t make them even more horribly annoying to fight, they’re already the very worst enemy in the game.
I didn't say an entire extra army, I mean like starting off with 2 extra slots and then expanding to 5 over the course of the tech tree (7 with Mors)
>*spams warp lightning on you and Menaces below your archers*
Nothing personnel man-thing
*routes through your walls and rallies on your artillery*
nothin personnel
Queek needs a headhunter mechanic. Killing specific LLs gives him extra bonuses, mark specific lords as a target for him (similar to waaghs targeting a city), etc.
That too honestly. Depending on the trophy he gets different bonuse and even gets different quests from them (because Queek actually talks with his trophies).
Three DLCs onwards after Mirror of Madness. Hoping for Dechala vs HElves and DElves with whatever Lords they get.
>Three DLCs onwards
That's like in three more years.
They CLAIM we're getting 2 DLCs before 2024, so it's probably only two years away.
>JOIN LE PACK XD
Thanks, Hyenas. Frick you.
Not quite. DLCs now are going to appear a tad more frequently than like with TWW2 and half a year waiting for new DLCs. So expect them earlier than usually.
Norsca should get a CoC-style DLC with their own marked units (those that can take marks that is like the Skin Wolves since Fimir can't), new units (Curs'd Ettins being the most demanded), the god dedication getting reworked into what Daniel kinda has (as in even if you max out the initial bars you can choose a god or go full undivided...all with their own bonuses), an expanded tech-tree and their monster hunts reworked. And if they get marked LLs then hoping those get their god dedication mechanics replaced with stuff like tapping into the aspects of their respective gods (positive, negative or a combo of those).
Not to mention Wulfric getting a lord hunt mechanic that works similarly to the monster hunts and Throgg getting a Monster Kingdom mechanic along with an expanded roster that gives him ALL the Trolls.
He's cool. The e-book made him a badass and Miao doesn't want to mess with him due to being the Emperor's Executioner.
Norsca needs to be remade into 'Northern Tribes' and include the Kurgan also rerecord Throgg's voice lines and give him access to every troll unit
Declaration would be nice. I'm also hoping that it updates Norsca. They really need more god aligned units and especially some more named characters.
Rolling.
wait for yuan bo for an even bigger mess
Quick, it's been a while since I played the game. Which faction and LL should I play? Think fast!
tretch
Tiktaq'to of course
>Played Tiktaq'to in multiplayer
>Everyone is managing their own bombing squadrons
One of the most fun lords if you have some people to help with micro. Never sure what to do with Tictaq'to himself though
He was already decent prior to the Qoatl DLC but now he's just bonkers. Huge movement range bonuses and great units availalble very early.
Guve this anon a rolling picture already. me too, I lost my with Chaos Dwarfs
Yeah, please, give me that rolling picture stat
Found it meself You can also play with mods
Speak of those mods. Also, thank you for finding the pic, rollin'
Honestly, just go to workshop and oick whatever you want. I quite like Marienburg mod. And I always play Sartosa with Nixu's living units overhaul. Also there is mod that adds Ind, Khuresh and Nippon as a playable landmass with it's own settlements.
rollan
Rolllllll
I recommend to play her modded.
sweaty repanse armpit
Posting my greenskin lord and campaign review because I'm bored and maybe to help newbies lurking pick.
>Grimgor
Pitbull of a lord, can quite literally "sick" him on enemy generals with his special ability. If you invest in yellow and get the 'Unbreakable' skill, he can solo armies. His campaign is surprisingly hard, or can be. Deal with Kholek early or you'll regret it. Archaon will show up to your neighborhood from the chaos wastes and kick your fricking door in. You can either send an agent up there to monitor the situation, or go there yourself immediately and run him down. The latter option isn't fun, fighting in the chaos wastes is a slog. Just have a big boss lurking and keep an eye out. He WILL come.
>Wurrzag
Greenskin magic is criminally underrated. Foot of Gork can get you an easy 500+ kills a use if you know when to use it, and Wurrzag gets them for almost nothing. The support spells like Fists & 'Ere We Go! are also very good with savage orcs, which is what Wurrzag specializes in. The combination will make savages punch way above their weight. They're pretty mediocre late game; Wurrzag makes them good. His campaign is just Badlands Bowl. Don't go south, you'll run into Skarbrand.
>Grom
Cauldron is stupid strong and Grom himself is a beast even after some alterations by CA. Just crash into shit. You can make bulletproof goblins that hit like freight trains. Grom is stupid OP and has a fun campaign if you invade the elven donut.
>Azhag
Criminally underrated. Free winds of death and a surprisingly good melee lord once he gets his quest stuff and wyvern. You also start right next to the Empire, which is a fricking pure kino part of the map.
>Skarsnik
Remember Grom? He's Grom but worse. I hate to say it cus I love Skarsnik, but he's not good. He is also all about buffing goblins, but not nearly as much. Skarsnik himself isn't very good in fight. He does have a cool ability that lets you sneak big monsters around the battle. Another Badlands Bowl campaign.
Dont forget that Grom can get a Tier 5 capital on like turn 3 so that makes him super OP
Grimgor sorry not Grom
>tfw too much Warcraft 3
>Don't go south, you'll run into Skarbrand.
Skarbrand is a massive pushover against anything that's either got archers or magic attack. Wurrzag has both.
Plus, the AI is shit at this semi-horde playstyle, so it's like 3 battles and bye-bye Skarbrand.
Wurrzag doesn't get magic attacks until later. And Skarbrand gets anti-infantry magic attack units from turn one, Wurrzag only has 0 armor physical resistance orcs from turn one. Skarbrand can absolutely be a big problem to a new player.
homie, it's like a lvl 12 skill point and if you're not rushing his personal skill line, you're doing something wrong.
Your Wurrzag should be well above lvl 12 when you're fighting Skarbrand. Skarbrand is a pussy when AI is commanding him.
>And Skarbrand gets anti-infantry magic attack units from turn one
Which one?
Bloodletters.
Bloodletters are dangerous only if you don't get magic attack for your boyz and why the frick would you not get it.
>I'm just saying from turn 1-30ish Skarbrand counters Wurrzag pretty hard.
Lord vs lord? Absolutely but that's true for most characters going against Skarbrand?
Faction vs faction? Absolutely not.
You won’t have that until you’ve met Skarbrand most likely. Skarbrand hard counters basically every faction that starts near him in the early game.
Like I said, it's a lvl 12-13 skill. You should be well above that level before meeting Skarbrand unless you're rushing him for some silly reason.
If he focuses the orcs to your south he’ll meet you really early.
Bloodletters, also SKarbrand himself is still a good lord. Ture, the AI is moronic playing hordes but the AI is moronic playing everything lmao. I'm just saying from turn 1-30ish Skarbrand counters Wurrzag pretty hard.
Tomb king has one of the best anti-skarbrand tools in the game, the bone giant.
Campaign and battles are totally fricked.
>Play like homosexual.
>Game sucks!
What am I looking at. Archers are standing in the front or at the back? Where's the enemy supposed to be?
That no longer words on harder battle difficulties since the AI doesn't attack smaller units. Only big ones like dragons
Still works on normal or easy but why the frick would you need to waste ammo. Distracting a dangerous arty like the chorf's dreadquake sure, but actively making it waste it's ammo is unecessary on easier battle difficulties.
I'm giving a break a Very Hard Karl Franz campaign to play Etrian Odyssey.
New Slaanesh legendary lord when? I'm sick of killing elves early game.
You already have 3
I said Slaanesh, not Warriors of Chaos.
>3
4 technically
N'kari, Azazel, Sigvald and Morathi.
I always forget about Morathi and all the other DE lords that aren't the KRAKEN LORD OF KAROND KAR
>I always forget about one of the absolute best campaigns in WH3 and the top 2 campaign of WH2
I don't understand how people don't enjoy Morathi.
Morathi doesnt look like this
correct. morathi is the walking definition of lithe.
Morathi's constantly described as voluptuous in a lot of lore. Probably also tons of times described as lithe.
Official artwork goes both ways either. And her model has pretty big breasts that you can tell.
>model has big breasts
I cant speak for the tabletop model but the total war model is almost flat. Flatter than tzarina Flatarin even.
The game's model is shit and I honestly can't play without using one of the improved models as far as Morathi's concerned.
Morathi's said to be the most beautiful and alluring mortal alive and her TW Warhammer model doesn't even begin to cover it. She's not even the most beautiful woman in the game.
>the most beautiful and alluring mortal alive
That's Sigvald, actually.
>Playing Dark Elves.
COLD BLOODED KILLERS > homosexual Asur
Only exception is Imrik, who coincidentally is the best campaign in WH2 and WH3
Nothing else is as high octane as Imrik.
Imrik is not fun in 3
I just don't like playing as the Dark Elves.
I only remember Lokhir because I like to click on his portrait in the lord select screen to hear him say KRAKEN LORD OF KAROND KAR.
I'm more of a Settra, Luthor, Gelt, Wulfrik, Grom kinda guy
Sigvald can't recruit the entire Slaanesh roster. Haven't played the others.
Did they add faction achievements for IE yet?
Boris is the most fun campaign in the game currently.
>Gets 5 faith points from every settlement that has Chaos Wastes as a climate
That's actually useful in the long run.
It's a shame that Boris doesn't actually have his own mechanics.
Also a shame that Rasputin doesn't have an Patriarch version of the Ice Court.
I enjoyed 1 & 2 but I'm a history gay and all the historical titles they've released in the meantime have been dogshit. I also don't care about Egyptian warfare so it's just a total war drought and I'm thirsty.
>Faction that focuses on flanking and chariots
>Whoops enjoy multiple siege battles <:o)
Starve them out and auto resolve
Or just starve them
>You must defend this city
>we included a chariot that cannot possibly flank any advancing infantry because it's in a fricking city in your miniscule garrison
>Enjoy the siege rework, boner.
What do we think about this guy being next DLC and changing
I think nothing about him because Cathayan characters are all literal whos.
Also the Changeling should be against the Monkey King, not this stoopid dragon
As I remember he is one of the few ones who had lore pre-tww He was killed by a bretonnian knight in the no-End Times future
>Merced by a literal who
THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF CATHAY
bretonnians are, quite simply, the protagonists of warhammer fantasy
And isn't a Bretonnian knight at the same level as a greater demon?
Greater? No. The grail knights are about Chosen level.
I know that some Knights are juiced up to that level, Leoncoeur took down several greater demons
Leoncouer is the Lady’s most favored, so he’s huge and so is his dick. Same with Franz with Ghal Maraz. Your standard Grail Knight is just chosen level, so they can get through Lesser Daemons with ease but it will take a lot of them for a Greater to be felled consistently.
Grail knights are basically chaos chosen or so abouts in strength.
But the average knight isn't a grail knight.
really? what did they do during ET?
i don't read fan fiction, sorry
werent they literally the last holdout alongside the undead?
I wonder where that could have possibly come from.
I'm pretty sure one of the loading screen quotes sets up Monkeyman vs. the Fire (?) dragon sibling who looks after the Southern border and seethes about Miao Ying getting all the attention and glory for holding a giant frickoff wall while he gets no recognition for dealing with all sorts of constant bullshit without any giant fortifications to help.
Andy Hall read from the Cathay army book during an interview and mentioned that the Changeling was masquerading around as the Monkey King to try and drive a wedge between him and the rest of Cathay.
Bit odd, wasn't one of the very first bits of new Cathay lore about how the Monkey King pissed off all of the dragons by declaring himself Emperor and BTFOing all the siblings when mommy and daddy dragon went on holiday once? I would have thought there was a plenty big enough wedge between the two already.
I believe that was long in the past and they are somewhat okay with the Monkey King now since he guards the border with Khuresh (or was it Ind? Or both?)
Doesn't hurt to make sure they're keeping an eye on each other, and not on you
And like the other guy said, they're at least tolerating each other for the sake of keeping Khuresh in check. Might as well break that up so Khuresh can actually weaken Cathay
>Cathay
Literaly yawn
Can't believe we get chang and tzeentch instead of an empire rework
Empire rework is the DLC after.
Will be Empire-Kislev-Nurgle
Its Empire/DWARF/nurgle you kislevite pig.
You've got quite a short temper, anon.
>short(for a temper)
Im honestly disappointed I have to wait another year for the fun dlc.
What can the even add to the Dwarfs?
They need a rework, they feel left behind. This is coming from a Greenskins player. I remember the days when fighting the dawi was an absolute chore because of their armor and 0 AP Greenskin units. They used to be annoyingly good.
I feel like CA has really messed up with the power creep. There's a growing list of entire factions that feel left behind. Of course they probably see that as a good thing: a way to sell DLC.
It's because of how much more advanced the game has become. Particularly with faction mechanics. The dawi are fine in battle. Sure, they want more units, but get in line. Literally every player of any given race want more, even Skaven, and they've gotten the most love by a mile.
But shit, it took CA years to fix the Beastmen. And since being "fixed", they've been the most Grug 'turn my brain off and fricking charge' faction. Their mechanics are stupid strong. CA just doesn't care, if I'm being honest. I've been here since WH1 and one thing never changes: CA doesn't listen to feedback until it is damn near shaking the very skies with how many people are calling for it.
The dwarf DLC is ONLY six month away, anon
It's a tiny wait
Surely you jest. Were not even going to get the shadows of change for 9 more months.
Dwarfs should've been given their own CoC DLC. Since CA said that not only army books and other tabletop books are on the menu (including all older editions except the three first ones), but also other Warhammer media like books, RPGs, even other video games and such (I mean they put in the Wyrdspawn from Mark of Chaos and turned them into a RoR for WoC and Tzeentchian factions) and spin-off games like Blood Bowl. If books, then it means Rune Golems are a possibility, as well as the other Runic Units, their crazier engineer units (not only Thunderbarges but maybe even Deathrollers) and a tad more expanded Slayer Cult that not only includes stuff like Doomseekers but also the Brotherhood of Grimnir.
>Dwarfs should've been given their own CoC DLC.
Vampires are getting the next CoC style one adding in non-Carstein bloodlines.
Yep. But hoping that apart of the existing bloodlines they will also create thematic units for each of those.
Not to mention adding Ushoran and Abhorash as LLs since they deserve this. As much as I hate End Times I think it was utterly a big waste to not make a model for Abhorash and give him rules. Hell, Ushoran could be a good blank slate to fill as a playable character (he's already fleshed out personality-wise).
W'Soran however is dead. The closest thing to him would be either bringing Melkhior back (who is actually W'Soran possessing him) or Zacharias (which is more probable since before ET he was rumored to be possessed by Melkhior who is in fact W'Soran possessing Melkhior).
Those all + thematic units + the units that the VCs had in their last and their older books (like Abyssal Terrors, Spirit Hosts, Coven Throne...even Litches and Barrow Kings but turned into LL versions of Wight Kings).
Thought more like focusing on the different aspects of Dwarfs. Tradition and modernity + runecraft and engineering.
The VCs in general need some love. They get really powerful mechanics but the playstyle is pretty stagnant.
>Undead race led by parasites
>Stagnant
Loreful
>W'Soran however is dead.
So is Repanse and that didn't stop them.
Focusing on the different aspects of Dwarfs have no real sense at this point and by itself it isn't CoC worthy thing. There is only one aspect of dwarfs that can be explored in fully - engineering. There is not enough stuff for runesmithing ( Thorek is already an LL and I don't think they will make another runesmithing lord, maximum Kragg as a hero ). Slayers can get only a hero type addition plus units and Malakai is already all but confirmed as legendary hero. All other aspects of dwarfs are non-existent or already in the game. Only units that could be considered as Valaya related, rangers, are already in the game, only way to make something with them is to go completely ridiculous route with Valaya's priesthood ( dwarf women ). And while we are at rangers Bugman's rangers should be RoR and not standard units. All other ancestors for dwarfs aren't as venerated and known and don't have any unit types. all you can thematically do is a witch hunter hero type as Gazul priests, and only if they want to kinda make Dwarf vs Vampire Counts DLCs with Khalida
CoC DLCs are jot planned at all. And Dwarfs have no real subgroups like WoC, only subgroup they have are North Dwarfs. I really dialike Rune Golems, since it's a monstrous infantry for an army that doesn't have them and doesn't need them. Same goes for Shard Dragon. Thunderbarge hovewer is a must and I can't wait to have them officially, hopefully billions times better than fricking sky lattern.
As CoC types DLCs only Empire, Vampire Counts and Greenskins can get them.
Dwarfs, not Kislev. Sorry.
I've never played Realm of Chaos and never will
Waiting for patch 4.0.
The game is just too expensive.
buy game, creamAPI everything else.
dogs of war WHENNNNNNNNNNNN
I prefer if the game would allow for more player freedom. Right out the gate, the corruption mechanic heavily limits who you can and can't side with, and the AI randomly decides to declare war on you based on who you're doing politix with, so it feels like there's only one correct way to play each commander's campaign even in mortal empires.
If a faction has corruption you can’t deal with, chances are they are a faction you don’t want to ally with. Chaos hates mortals and undead, chaos hates eachother, mortals hate everything that isn’t mortal except Morathi, Nagash undead hate everything that isn’t Nagash undead.
But the game would be much more fun and replayable if each faction started at a random location on the map and could do what ever the frick they felt like.
So making every single faction functionally interchangeable with a mild difference in units? That seems like the opposite of replayability.
worked for Rome, Medieval, Shogun, Empire, and Napoleon for like 20 years
But all of those had significant diplomatic problems with other factions.
there are mods for that
Thanquol when?
Probably as LL #99.
I can't wait, /twg/ is going to have a complete fricking meltdown when he gets announced and it will be glorious.
when he's needed
>TWW3 main focus is on slavs and chinks killing demons and homosexuals.
BASED CA
This game is THE definition of wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle
Whats the most OP race? I literally want a no brain/strategy day of playing today
lizardmen
TWW3 Chaos Warriors
Autoresolve machine from turn 1
Beastmen as the Brass Bull.
if you just want to afk your army while it blows shit up, Skaven are probably the best for that. Wood Elves are also super easy, but you have to kite with them.
Warriors of Chaos
Stack chosen and chaos knights with like 1 hellcannon and they're tard proof.
Skarbrand. Unga bunga. Raze settlements. Right click enemies.
skarbrand or taurox
pee pee poo poo RAAA ROOOOOOO
SKARBRAND
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD
>Ganker loves this game now after repeatedly shitting on it for the past year
What changed?
real schizo hours
Immortal empires campaign mostly. The vanilla RoC campaign was so shitty it almost killed the game.
The actual game released to replace the wienerup that was Realms of Chaos
I am. Currently doing my DAWI campaign. My goal is to take back my home and exterminate woodgay knife ears.
>Sieges battles are even worse than before
>Glorified xpack for 2, who was a glorified xpack for 1
>AI still dogshit
>DLC pipeline for what is essentially a game from 2016
>Terrible release
>Infantry still dogshit, melee is borderline suicide in higher difficulty
No, I had enough fun with the estalia memes once and will not pay to do the same shit again. I play medieval 2 when I feel like doing a total war campaign now.
I play it frequently, both IE with the lads and multiplayer dom lobbies because I have autism, game is fun, desyncs suck dick
Post beastmen autism thing. You know, the one.
>A monument to the success of marketing
Gods... I hate the Gauls.
My grandfather hated them too, even before they put out his eyes.
>Why aren't you playing Total War: Warhammer 3?
Because TWW2 is simply better.
break down the differences for me between IE and ME
ME doesn't have all the terrible design decisions that CA forced into IE
>all the terrible design decisions that CA forced into IE
Such as?
Read the thread
ME isn't cucked by chaos
Just play as picrel and find out.
God, I wish the Delves got their mechanic back from the chorfs. I get that it was trivial and one-note in 2, but the new system is just worse.
The ability to spend slaves and the rework to the buildings made it way better
But yeah the old system was just superior.
They should just give it back and keep the extra. It’s still farcical they have called slaves “labor” in chorfs.
there's mods for that
Ah I wish the Druchii would capture me. Keep me a few months to mould me and then sacrifice me for the Crone when I am begging for it.
why is hellebron a literal hag, but morathi is so youthful?
is it because of her diet of minotaur and norseman cum?
Morathi is doing hardcore chaos shit, Hellebron is working off of the lesser version. Hellebron is nealry as old as Morathi.
because morathi was jealous that hellebron was hotter than her so she only shared half the secret to eternal youth
Waiting for new DLC.
Like always I'll no life for a week and then lose interest until the next one comes out.
>It's dark elf Black person again complaining that their core mechanic has been fixed and doesn't break game completely now.
>NOOOO YOU HAVE TO REMOVE FUN AND BALANCE THIS SINGLE PLAYER GAME LIKE IT WAS AN ESPORT!!!!!!!!!!
Anon the Delfs and the Helfs still have some of 5e strongest economies in the game. They’ve just made the system les good by copying the Slaanesh devotee shit for the core.
Which delf lord should I play?
hellebron
Lokhir
redpill me on Lokhir. he starts next to the bugs but does he have other enemies to fight as well?
with sea lanes, you can go anywhere you want
Oh yeah I forgot those exist.
sounds fun either way. Does he make Corsairs actually fun units or do they still suck shit?
Corsairs are actually really strong now that difficulty has nerfed very hard melee infantry being useless. They also get one of the very strongest names of power that turn them into horrific monsters in Krakenclaw. A Krakenclaw lord boosts them harder than Lokhir himself.
He will have to eat all the bugs but will hit the darklands battle royale to the west and chaos to the north.
He can go literally anywhere he wants with sealanes
When Ind will be made available, hoping he'll be there and one of his quests will be to sack the Temple of Gilgatresh again.
Would like the bloolines mechanic expanded and enhanced. Not to mention the generic vampire and Strigoi lords replaced with the superior bloodline ones and getting a vampire awakening mechanic that works similarly to the Ice Court (and hopefully like how the Colleges of Magic will work when the Empire gets an update).
No. W'Soran is SUPER DEAD. Last time he was possessing his student Melkhior. The latter killed the former but instead the former possessed the latter and used his body as his own. Then Zacharias supposedly killed him. Either W'Soran/Melkhior survived the experienced or got killed only for W'Soran to possess Zacharias...until End Times came and confirmed sadly that Zacharias was not possessed because if he were, then he'd instead fly to Nagash the moment he'd feel that the Arch-Necromancer's back.
Anon, Repanse lived hundreds of years before the time of Karl Franz
So did Grom for that matter
The game has no issues breaking timeline.
Grom nor Repanse was ever confirmed dead. Grail Knights can live silly long and no Greenskin has ever died of old age that we know of.
Repantsu isn't a grail knight
Repanse was never made a grail knight and Grom's rumours of surviving was a "once and future king" thing only for goblins.
>Anon, Repanse lived hundreds of years before the time
She wasn't a Grail Knight. All she got was the title of knighthood and became Duchess of Lyonesse.
>So did Grom for that matter
Grom gets tortured to death by Eltharion in a solo-mission in the latter's own novel, chopped up and his pieces fed to a magical furnace.
MALEKITH, KING OF NAGGAROTH or KRAKEN LORD OF KAROND KAR. Rakarth is pretty sick too.
I would argue Malekith has a hard start
He boosts every basic troop the delves have so his start is the strongest of them. He only has to batter down some skaven and an angry stunty before he’s mostly free to focus on what he likes.
I don't think Malekith actually boosts any units
He makes them cheap so you can field two armies when everyone else can only field one. Delf basic troops like Bleakswords and Darkshards punch way above their weight too. His start is really great, and when Valkia finally rears her ugly conehead you can just kill all of her most powerful troops with your tier 1 archer units.
Does he actually still do that? I know he did in 2
Yeah.
not really, depending on whether the ai decides to or not valkia can become a pain in the ass as well as taurox
movement is difficult in his area and that beast group always shows up at like turn 3 and can be a nuisance
to many directions to care about and you cant build armies or move enough to handle them at least in my experience
you can definitely do it but i found that actually peace treaty out with the rats and ignore grombrindal to ambush valkia as she comes down to take ghrond faction is the best way to deal with the situation
when norsca and valkia are gone you can either push south on grombrindal (usually has taken out the rats) or move east and take out more norscans
My legendary very hard campaign involved me having killed The White Dwarf and Taurox before I ever even met Valkia. I just had to push hard.
Malekith is easier for beginners
>hellebron
if you can keep the sacrifices going she is a solid choice and fun
>Morathi
Don't know yet.
Morathi
Mommy'll take care of you anon
>Mommy'll take care of you anon
Anon stop please I cannot again
It's already too late anon.
Just do another mommy run.
Yes my queen
So why are they called DOOKIE
Same reason Helfs are called ASSur
because i'm not good at the battles and i don't like warhammer
why did this franchise deserve 3 entries in 5 years?
Because most people like Warhammer.
because warhammer has been their most succesful total war series to date.
Games Workshop's paypigs are used to buying tons of overpriced content.
I doubt they ever planned for WH1 to make as much money and be as popular as it was.
The bigger question is why when they released WH2 didn't they account for the possibility of expanding the map so they could just turn the ME map into the IE map without releasing a third game
Of course that could simply be explained by israelites.
Three games being turned into one was the plan from the beginning
I very much doubt that
The plan was WH1 and that's it. Regardless of how CA wants to spin it, they never planned for more. But the success of 1 made them go into 2 and 3.
Why do you doubt that?
Because WH1 to WH2 is almost an entirely different game while WH2 and WH3 isn't.
Got the link to that?
>Got the link to that?
https://www.gamesradar.com/total-war-warhammer-just-start-new-strategy-trilogy/
Well shit. I eat my words then. Sorry.
Fair enough
https://www.creative-assembly.com/blog/total-war-warhammer-announced
>Because WH1 to WH2 is almost an entirely different game while WH2 and WH3 isn't.
How is that proof the games weren't planned? It makes perfect sense that the most changes would occur from 1 to 2 than from 2 to 3, since 1 was the test run. Besides, I really don't see how 1 and 2 are almost entirely different games
I already admitted defeated but yes, the thing is that 1 feels far more like a test. Like if things didn't work out, nothing lost. But with 2 and 3 there's far more put in, but at the same time less changed from 2 to 3.
Though funny enough, WH1 still has the best looking campaign map.
>Though funny enough, WH1 still has the best looking campaign map.
In a lot of ways the graphics look better than what we have now. I don't like how saturated the colors are in 2 and 3
Definitely
Also the lighting is dreadful now. I dunno if it's something with my settings or just because I play way too much against/with slaanesh corruption factions but the lighting's always fricking purple.
Total warhammer was announced as a trilogy in 2015 which is a year before TWW1 released.
Warhammer was planned as a trilogy from day 1, anon.
Remember to download immortal empire expended if you play anywhere near Cathey.
Is there a reason why elves love rats so much?
That's a nice campaign you just started, anon.
Would be a shame if something happened to it...
Give me a fricking option to play with all previous games' tactics terrain you Black folk
I love Aranessa
you'd be the first