Warhammer: Total War

I bought it anyway :P

TheKells wrote: »

Yeah I've known before I got the game that this was their business model...just pointless complaining on my part. I'm pretty sure it was included for free in the older games though before DLC became the hateful beast it is now/

could have been alright, before sega got their heels in anyway

the little bit i played since i got that dlc seemed fine

shields and armour get bloody from melee.
artillery if it bullseyes a formation will gib it to bits and cause it's own explosion of both blood, bone, limb and dust.
Monstrous units however are quite literally the most fcuking gory horror film effects you could ever imagine. They produce fountains of blood, and dismemberment with each attack, and righteously cause terror. The Arachnarok in particular was horrific to watch up close, and yet.. i couldnt look away

Varik wrote: »

I get the blood when it's heavily discounted but it always is over the top, might suit this but the other games having giant geysers of blood is ridiculous.

In Rome 2 there is mods for the blood pack that make it more realistic.

Angron wrote: »

For those that have it, what're the forces of Chaos like?

By that, I mean sort of... How well are each of the Gods represented? I've been watching one series where I guy is playing it, but he's effed his start a few times, so he usually winds up starting over by the time the Chaos forces hit so I haven't really seen them properly.

Playing Chaos is a lot like playing a horde faction in Attila, playing the campaign against them as they come into the game can be one of three things, incredibly easy if you're playing Orcs or Dwarfs, and incredibly annoying, with anyone else. They can be either easy or difficult depending on which faction you're playing and on what difficulty - i play on normal, so here's my thoughts..

They are strong to start with but they get progressively weaker as they fight - it's harder for them to recoup losses than it is for most other factions.
That being said, if they have a lot of rank 9 units you're basically history if you attack them with a solitary army.
They also tend to gang up when they get into fresh territory, (particularly Empire territory) with one full army in range another, or two others.. which has massive effects on the land being corrupted and civil obedience.
This has a knockon effect of potentially (if not dealt with fast) causing revolts, and even worse, chaos revolts, if the land is tainted enough.

They have a specific faction skilltree to increase unit replenishment and decrease attrition losses etc.. the usual stuff for melee, ranged, arty, cav, etc..

Two basic lord types, melee and caster.
I've not played them enough to go that deep into either tree, but Sigvald the Magnificent's lore is hilarious! So i dropped all my points into the most selfish of his attributes making him an unbelievably powerful melee combatant.. ye know, for when he wasn't admiring himself in his shield-mirror.

afaik Archaon is both a strong Melee and Caster character

And Kholek is melee only.

Ye can recruit others as ye go, but they can be killed unlike the above named ones.

blatant self promotion video. Ye can see some of the grievous errors earlier on in it but dont do that.. 9mins onward and Grimgore takes them all on, and wins!

https://youtu.be/lLcuN2PJdbM?t=8m49s

I watched Arch Warhammer's lore video on it, it really is hilarious - it's long but worth it

Nathan G wrote: »

Big question, is this total war game actually any good ?

Yes.

I think its worth €16 as even if I only get a 4th of the playtime I've gotten so far out of the vanilla game, it would be more playtime then I've gotten outta €50-€60 games in awhile.

eeguy wrote: »

Game keeps crashing when I try to continue campaign.

Started a new dwarf campaign last night with 20 mods and can't even continue now.

Same thing happened me before when they released the update and i lost my 150 turn Bretonnia campaign.

Try it without the mods