>"By Sigmar, NO!"
>"This action does not have my consent!"
Why do you keep raping the Emperor, /v/?
SUMMON THE ELECTOR COUNTS
>voice acting for initiating diplomacy
>no voice acting for their responses
Why
Having quite a lot of fun but fuck me they cut so many corners.
No reload animations, battle animations themselves are quite fucking bad, just smacking into thin air, economy is fucking gutted and boring as shit and the lack of voice acting in diplo is shit.
>tfw no crack yet
Why are the dwarfs so based?
>>339578015
>Everyone has the same leaping attack animation
This game suffers from a case of selective attention.
>>339576739
>mfw I keep pillaging all around the world as Chaos
>mfw the whole world keeps chasing me but they can never catch me
>>339579439
that drives me nuts in my vampire campaign
>chaos decends upon my northern borders
>beat their army to a pulp
>they flee INTO MY LANDS
>proceed to raze every one of my minor cities
>still manage to be out of my range every single turn
made me rage quit
>>339576739
He sounds like space marine.
>>339580383
Or, you can do what I did in my VC campaign: when you notice a Chaos army moving to your settlement, immediately buy a lord somewhere near, put your main armies on march get them close enough to join the battle and use the lord you just bought to initiate the battle.
>>339579439
All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you
>>339580562
thanks for the advice, I will try that
>>339580741
Be aware that you have to wait a turn before you can move the lord you bought. You have to predict where the enemy is going.
What is good early game strategy in this game? Yesterday In one thread everyone kept saying that best one is to build comfy hugbox of non aggression pact factions around you and get your first province complete. Then just sit in your province for 20-30 turns just to build shit and tech up.
Seriously? Is this only viable thing, because from my impression what people said, AI gets super aggressive towards you, if you start expanding too fast.
>>339581296
It doesn't take that long, turn timers are pretty short in this game
>>339581624
I know it doesnt. It just feels that AI would get lot more done during those turns while I sit in my province. Or do they do the same? I noticed my one neighbour just sacked one of my villages, but didnt bother occupying it, which surprised me.
I only started this yesterday, but I've played Total War games before this.
>>339581296
I've mainly played with the Dwarves and Empire. Complete your first province and I'd recommend building up your army and building walls in your minor settlements. Don't confederate- the extra armies can bankrupt you. As the Dwarves storm up and take Grom Peak- the mines will be able to support multiple armies by themselves after they're fully upgraded. As the Empire, take out Marienburg and get as many non-aggression pacts as possible.
As Chaos just wreck everything. If you are Archaon just encamp and wait until you can build the Chaos Warrior building.
>>339578063
>>339581818
>marienburg
Are they some special minor faction? Because they had like 10 strongest army in game pretty soon, compared to other factions surrounding empire.
>>339580383
>>339579439
>>339580562
Friendly reminder to download the '10% bonus movement in friendly territory' mod.
>>339581793
The AI will obviously do stuff as well but they're stupid so they can't make as much use of what they have as the player.
In this game I invest in walls in ALL of my minor settlements because it stops the AI from being able to turn up and sack/raze your stuff in one turn.
>>339576739
all I did was click on the army you're about to attack while forgetting to take you out of the ambush stance
>>339581941
In the lore its the richest city in the old world, and because of some dumbass previous emperor they were able to buy their independence from the Empire (used to be part of Nordland). In the game their port makes double? the income as regular ports, which is why everyone recommends you go for it right from the start.
>>339582238
>cheating
Have I missed the Chaos DLC yet?
AHHHHHHH I FUCKING HATE DORFS
>>339582352
It costs money now. 7,50€ here
Is it just me or does the campaign lack drama?
It's very uninteresting IMO. There's so much lore to the warhammer fantasy universe and nothing is being used in the campaign. It's just "Beat up everyone else, go.".
>>339582238
I had to cave and get a no hostile agent mod too. Invading the badlands and the fucking orcs have 10 high level agents surrounding each of my armies there, and fucking Gelt gets woundedi every sngle turn I'm able to get him back as a general, meanwhile my agents ranging from low to high level can't do shit against theirs.
>>339582428
I have a feeling that AI got some level up cheats for those. Thats just annoying shit.
>>339582385
Yeah fuck that, first sale it is
>>339582428
>mfw enemy agents got wounded 3 times trying to assassinate my Sigvald the Magnificent
There is no stopping the rape train baby.
How to deal against those doomstacks of dwarves and humans during first 10 turns or so as Chaos? Just keep running away?
>>339582716
I lost them by embarking and going to pillage some greenskins
>>339582767
Never thought about going after orks. Are they weaker than those two?
>>339582832
I pillaged a few of their settlements while they were busy with the dwarves, then got bored and went to pillage bretonnia.
You just gotta go fast.
>>339576739
Hooray, a game for the worst GW setting.
A 40k mechwarrior Titan game please.
>>339582393
The random events are pretty fun.
>Play dorfs
>Heavily implied Skaven sabotage
>Everybody's taking slayer oaths
>"Some guy fucked us over, should we take revenge or let it go?" revenge/revenge
>>339584135
Well meme'd.
>>339584451
You think I'm memeing well I'm not.
40k is a God-tier setting that hasn't been exploited in the slightest, outside of tabletop roleplay anyway.
Warhammer's just a shit knockoff, despite being the earlier franchise.
Necromunda now.
>>339576739
Empire is pretty underpowered.
Had no trouble with my vamp campaign, but Empire is hell and the ranged units are pretty shit
>>339584543
would be fun
maybe in 5 years when they've put out some DLC's
>>339582314
Literally okay since the AI gets it too. So now you can't exploit them by running circles around them.
>>339584824
the raiding and razing is still fucking aweful after the mod
getting a 20k value settlement razed just because you can't get there in time and they're playing chase with me is annoying, nothing else
campaign should have choke points
>>339584543
Epic, simply epic.
>>339584910
That's just called losing, anon.
SUMMON THE ELECTOR COUUUUNTS
About to start Vampire Cunts game for the first time. Starting tips?
>>339584687
Ranged units are good but firearms guys cant have any allies in front of them unlike crossbows. I dont think they actually say that anywhere.
>>339585106
Makeu skellytons
>>339585106
Terrorgheists.
>>339585113
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>>339585106
Raise Dead is your friend.
Enemies run away from big stacks, but if you have a little stack they'll stay well inside your threat range. Then you just Raise some dead to double your army and they're fucked
>>339585309
Well, ask those guys trying to crack Denuvo, thats whats holding it up.
>>339585113
I know that, but they still do way too little damage.
Handgunners don't nearly get the amount of kills a simple unit of swordsmen does even when flanking.
Outriders are barely worth their upkeep vs halberdiers.
>>339585106
ethereal units and coach is worthless
cav isn't worth it either, just get terrorgheist instead for catching cav and skirmishers
varghulf is extremely powerful
graveguards upgrade as soon as you have about 4 provinces
get about 4 of the greatsword ones when going up against armor
Vampire lords for the zombie dragon mound and melee and the vampire hero for death magic
for income get gold in your starting province, you should still be able to build all recruit buildings
And finally build the corruption building in every province, otherwise your public order goes to shit.
Warhammer Dark Omen is still my favourite of these games.
But damn, revealing this makes me feel old.
>>339585215
I nave no idea what I'm looking at but it looks awesome
How's this game for a total war noob? Love Warhammer so thinking of buying it.
>>339585548
Total War is the plebbiest of strat games.
Just jump in, it's the shallow end of the pool.
>>339585548
Its great. Im a total war noob too and apparently all the vets talk about is how dumbed down this one is. It's still a little effort to pick up but i assume way easier than earlier ones
>>339585548
Total War is very simple and this is probably the simplest entry which is not the same as easiest but you will have no trouble understanding it.
>>339585548
You'd have to have some kind of brain problem to not be able to get into it.
>>339585460
I never finished SOTH.
Sorry Sven Carlsson, your last orc stage is too goddamn hard.
>>339585460
ENEMY SPOTTED!!!!
>>339585460
Shadow of the Horned Rat and Dark Omen were ridiculously tough. Took me a while to beat both of these games.
The most viable tactic was simply to get cannons, archers and mages (anything ranged basically) and bombard the shit out of the enemy before they got to your lines. By the time they made it (if they did), they would be easy to break and run down with Morgan.
>>339578015
>battle animations themselves are quite fucking bad, just smacking into thin air
people spent the last 5 games bitching about the matched animations that locked units in place (despite the fact that the animations actually did not affect the math behind the scenes in any way)
they finally removed it and people still bitch about it
>>339582393
despite everything, it's still a total war game. Not really a series about "drama".
>>339586347
I had to use Canon and mortar cheese too, because I didn't know what the heck I was doing back then.
I also cheesed the final boss by running him over with the Steam Tank.
Based Imperial Steam Tanks steadily and surely running over all of the demons in the world.
>>339585548
You only have to worry if the enemy is fielding cavalry.
The AI is a downright cunt with them and forces you to stay on your toes because he WILL harass the everloving fuck out of your ranged, artillery and flanks with them.
melee line and some ranged? just slam that shit together then just sit back and watch the mayhem unfold.
>>339578063
>Have friends on steam
>They buy it
>One of them family shares it with me
>>339586747
>WILL harass the everloving fuck out of your ranged,
Fucking chaos chariots
they will go TROUGH your melee line just to hit your ranged dudes
and they take fucking forever to kill too
I CANNOT GET GOOD AT THIS SHIT
FUCK
Restarted as empire countless times
>Ostland starting shit, getting a full stack and raping me DESPITE HAVING A FULL STACK AS WELL.
>Pistoliers running around the entire map fucking my morale because lolicanthitshitapparently
>'if i DO slap their shit, fucking dorfs come and slap my face to pieces
i haven't even fought greenskins or even vampire counts yet, what the FUCK
>>339586890
I'm sure you're doing better than I would. I couldn't even get past the final tutorial battle in Shogun 2. That's how much I suck at TW games.
>>339586871
>trying to unite (rape into submission) the Norscan clans under chaos vassalage
>Replaced shit marauders with chaos warriors/chosen
>Marauder horsemen
>Marauder horsemen everywhere
>Forced to chase them down into the corners of the map and hit them for 2 seconds then they break and flee immediately.
Same fucking shit with the empire mounted gunners, drives me up the fucking wall, doesn't help that the chaos knights are slightly slower than them as well. They should have shit leadership/moral to balance it out so that they actually break when the rest of the army is dead, because being forced to chase these dumbshit easy fuckers down every single time I fight is getting real old fast.
>>339586867
>Have friends on steam
Is there something wrong with you?
>>339586648
The tactic was not cheese, it was literally the only way to beat the game as you were outnumbered and outmatched in every part of the two games and casualties cost a lot in later battles.
The steam tank was very useful as a mobile cannon and a charger when they got too close. I just crushed the undead or greenskins if they were lucky enough to survive the utter barrage of ranged death.
Here is a playthrough showing the whole game and the tactics required.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC0D08E0A416FC1F3
>>339586890
Anon you are supposed to diplomacy all your humie friends into submission.
>>339587284
Yes. I'm lucky that I have a few friends though, and they're good ones. They enjoy discussing anime and even hentai, and they seem to truly respect my knowledge and opinions on the subjects. It's more than I've ever had.
Are there any good mods yet? Something that unfucks wizards if you play on anything higher than normal unit size?
>>339585460
WE ARE VICTORIOUS!
>>339576739
>By Sigmar. Yes
>>339582314
the AI is literally cheating though
>>339584687
What difficulty? Just finished my first playthrough on normal with Empire. My first TW game as well. Didn't have too much trouble, though probably would have been crushed by Chaos if it wasn't for getting Bretonia, Dwarves and the remaining Empire's I hadn't confederated to be pals. I never fought Archaon, he got stomped by Dwarves a tile or so beside my northernmost settlement.
Then it was a fun grind against the Vampire Cunts while Bretonia kept the northern tribes occupied and it was smooth sailing.
Not sure who to play next. Maybe Orcs.
>>339587694
Git gud
>>339587754
I never said I had problems with it.
That dude said >cheating. And I just commented on the fact that the AI literally uses cheats to be able to keep up with you. I have no problem playing the game on Hard.
>>339587227
Get some hounds to chase them. all in all your infantry line shouldn't be that big so you can afford to have two units of them to chase the axefags back to their northern shithole.
>>339587710
Hard.
Rekt shit with Vamps, but Empire just seems to have shit infantry and it doesn't help.
It's not even with Chaos I'm having trouble, it's with the dwarves and vamps running around razing shit.
>>339580383
Ambush faggot
>>339587847
Of course it has to cheat. Otherwise it wouldn't even remotely be a challenge.
If an AI ever becomes as intelligent as we are, we should be worried.
Sitting defensively with artillery in a corner while skirmishing pistoleers cav and one unit of reiksguard chip away from behind them as they march is so satisfying. They were favored to beat me but were crumbling as they reached my main lines. If they had those bat fucks it would probably be a different story.
>>339587950
I didn't even consider Dwarves being an issue at higher difficulties, they were bros from the start pretty much on normal.
