Warhammer: Total War

IvoryTower · 05-12-2016 07:21PM

Okay thanks for that

will56 · 07-12-2016 10:08AM

Hi,

Big fan of the Warhammer universe so I was thinking of getting this while its on sale, but have a few questions

Whats the learning curve like ?
Is it easy to pick up for someone who's never played a Total War game ?
How long do battles usually last ? I usually only game for an hour or so in the evenings, get a couple of hours in the odd weekend.

How is it likely to run on this ?
I5 4460, GTX 960 2gb and installed on an SSD

degrassinoel · 07-12-2016 11:42AM

will56 wrote: »

Hi,

Big fan of the Warhammer universe so I was thinking of getting this while its on sale, but have a few questions

Whats the learning curve like ?
Is it easy to pick up for someone who's never played a Total War game ?
How long do battles usually last ? I usually only game for an hour or so in the evenings, get a couple of hours in the odd weekend.

How is it likely to run on this ?
I5 4460, GTX 960 2gb and installed on an SSD

learning curve is easy enough if you've played TW before, if not there are tutorials and various difficulties.

Battles can be set to last a minimum of 20mins, but they rarely take more than 10-15 minutes in the solo campaign.

Try the following website to see if you can run it
type in or copy the following Total War: WARHAMMER
paste and click "can you run it". presto.

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri

IvoryTower · 09-12-2016 06:12PM

it says i meet the minimum requirements

Spear · 09-12-2016 06:55PM

The GW stores have a stack of the Grombrindl DLC cards to give out for free to anyone who asks.

IvoryTower · 09-12-2016 08:08PM

IvoryTower wrote: »

it says i meet the minimum requirements

It's actually testing off Intel graphic rather than the radeon card so should be above minimum I hope

Patser · 12-12-2016 08:33PM

Just noticed a new series of Time Commanders is on bbc4 at 9 o'clock.

Basically a Total War game show, it has 2 teams fighting each other with Gregg Wallace (Master Chef host) shouting at them

https://www.google.ie/amp/www.eurogamer.net/amp/2016-12-12-time-commanders-is-back-on-the-telly-tonight-at-9pm

TerrorFirmer · 12-12-2016 09:43PM

IvoryTower wrote: »

It's actually testing off Intel graphic rather than the radeon card so should be above minimum I hope

The 7670M is very low end so I think if the poster above said he can barely run it on a GT740M (a lot faster than 7670M) I don't think it would be a great experience overall.

IvoryTower · 12-12-2016 09:47PM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

The 7670M is very low end so I think if the poster above said he can barely run it on a GT740M (a lot faster than 7670M) I don't think it would be a great experience overall.

Aye. Gonna wait until it's cheap. Just got civ 5 having never played one before so ill be nicely distracted

Venom · 03-01-2017 05:01PM

So I got a spare Steam DLC code up for grabs for the White Dwarf Lord character.

You must have the game in your steam library so first PM with his real name and your steam name gets it

Edit

Grats to Pablomakaveli on the code

degrassinoel · 19-01-2017 04:09PM

Grombrindal FREELC

http://store.steampowered.com/app/506190/

Venom · 19-01-2017 05:30PM

degrassinoel wrote: »

Grombrindal FREELC

http://store.steampowered.com/app/506190/

Makes sense giving him away as the magazine is hitting the 40 years old mark

IvoryTower · 04-02-2017 09:08AM

12e in the humble monthy thing, the wait has paid off!

YouSavedMyLife · 04-02-2017 10:28AM

Can anyone get this game to run at anything over 60FPS? Even on the lowest settings the frame rate is very inconsistent. According to steam i have spent 2 hours playing this game and those 2 hours where pretty much spent trying to get it to run at 60+

The only mission i can run on max settings, 60FPS is the Dwarf tutorial one. The Human and Undead Lords tutorial are 35-40 even on lowest settings. The overworld turnbased map even has stutter, i just don't get it...

i5 6600
GTX1070
16GB RAM

Dave_The_Sheep · 04-02-2017 12:08PM

YouSavedMyLife wrote: »

Can anyone get this game to run at anything over 60FPS? Even on the lowest settings the frame rate is very inconsistent.

From what I gather it's not the graphics card that's getting a hiding, but the CPU. Given the number of units on screen, it just takes a kicking.

I've a GTX 1080 and only get about 40 fps in large battles. I'm ok with that, admittedly, but it would point to the CPU being the problem perhaps.

Varik · 04-02-2017 03:37PM

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

From what I gather it's not the graphics card that's getting a hiding, but the CPU. Given the number of units on screen, it just takes a kicking.

I've a GTX 1080 and only get about 40 fps in large battles. I'm ok with that, admittedly, but it would point to the CPU being the problem perhaps.

Got a 1060 and a top end i7 in laptop and get over 50 but have it locked to 30 now.

Patser · 04-02-2017 09:04PM

IvoryTower wrote: »

12e in the humble monthy thing, the wait has paid off!

Thanks for that tip off, I've been loitering in this thread, continually tempted but couldn't resist at that price (also been very curious about the whole Humble Bundle thing too, so perfect introduction)

So game got...

And now after reading the last few posts it probably wont run on my yoke anyway...:)

IvoryTower · 04-02-2017 10:01PM

It just about runs on mine, looks more like Rome rw but it'll get me started anyway

Varik · 06-02-2017 09:28AM

Bought the game off humble before the monthly bundle so bit pissed about that and only a week before.

Currently in a good position with the empire, Chaos only pushing in now and Kiev is still strong. My empire is a bit spread, and a load of people have stop their now aggression treaties with me (some of the western dwarves and some empire who i was going to start a war with if I didn't confederate). Have 1 army finishing off 1 human faction and going after the vampires (the east side ones), and 2 against some of the northern northern factions who're getting hit heavy from Chaos/Norsca

Just have to deal with an elf invasion with 3 stacks with an army I've not built yet, before it destroys me as I'm still not used to fighting any of the non-human races.

After I get a good game out of the empire I'll try dwarves, and hope for a DLC sale.

ShadowHearth · 06-02-2017 01:24PM

I just could not say no to this months bundle due to Warhammer. I kept putting away buying it until price drops and with monthly bundle I just cant see going wrong at all. Considering last months bundle was fantastic too.

Downloading it now, got only 2 days left before going back to work after holidays. Time will be well spent.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!

A Little Pony · 06-02-2017 04:03PM

Thinking of getting this game. My PC is [font=Arial, sans-serif]Intel 3rd Generation Core i5-3570K CPU (4 x 3.40GHz, Ivy Bridge, Socket 1155, 6Mb L3 Cache, Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0)[/font]

[font=Arial, sans-serif]Asus Nvidia GeForce GT 640 Graphics Card (2GB DDR3, PCI Express 3.0, VGA, 2x DVI-D, HDMI, Nvidia 3D Vision Ready)[/font]

Any chance I could run it on normal settings easily enough?

degrassinoel · 06-02-2017 05:25PM

A Little Pony wrote: »

Thinking of getting this game. My PC is [font=Arial, sans-serif]Intel 3rd Generation Core i5-3570K CPU (4 x 3.40GHz, Ivy Bridge, Socket 1155, 6Mb L3 Cache, Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0)[/font]

[font=Arial, sans-serif]Asus Nvidia GeForce GT 640 Graphics Card (2GB DDR3, PCI Express 3.0, VGA, 2x DVI-D, HDMI, Nvidia 3D Vision Ready)[/font]

Any chance I could run it on normal settings easily enough?

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri

just stick the game name in and you'll know

Also, the Bretonian faction is the FREELC at the end of the month

Varik · 08-02-2017 09:31AM

Pretty much the opposite of the end of shogun, everyone suddenly likes each other when chaos shows up.
Met a faction and and them my vassal in the same turn with the buff.

Venom · 08-02-2017 12:53PM

Bretonnia getting added as free playable race this month

https://www.pcgamesn.com/total-war-warhammer/total-war-warhammer-bretonnia-release-date

ShadowHearth · 08-02-2017 04:00PM

So I finally gave it a wee go the other day. I never properly played any of total war games before, but own almost all of them...
First things first, I am very overwhelmed at the moment. Battles themselves easy enough, but whole map world is just has too much stuff going on. To make it worse its not tiled like most turn based strategy games I play.
Me playing as orcs does not help!
I am watching some guide seires on YouTube now and hopefully I will learn how to play propelry. Warhammer setting just does it for me and has biggest apeal to me out of all totalwar games.

Dave_The_Sheep · 09-02-2017 11:36AM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Me playing as orcs does not help!

You picked a hard enough starting race, that's for sure.

Started as Dwarf myself, after a quick dabble with Empire, but first proper campaign was with the stunties. They're far more forgiving (once you get over the initial Orc Waaagh).

will56 · 09-02-2017 11:39AM

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

You picked a hard enough starting race, that's for sure.

Started as Dwarf myself, after a quick dabble with Empire, but first proper campaign was with the stunties. They're far more forgiving (once you get over the initial Orc Waaagh).

Agreed, all that firepower really helps soften up armies before they make it to melee

eeguy · 09-02-2017 12:14PM

will56 wrote: »

Agreed, all that firepower really helps soften up armies before they make it to melee

Nothing compared to the joy of rolling through wood elves with an all steam tank army.

Everyone those trees flee I shoot them down and advance.

ShadowHearth · 09-02-2017 03:31PM

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

You picked a hard enough starting race, that's for sure.

Started as Dwarf myself, after a quick dabble with Empire, but first proper campaign was with the stunties. They're far more forgiving (once you get over the initial Orc Waaagh).

Thats what I did today after trying one more time with orcs. I LOVE ORCS in warhammer universe, but **** they are hard to play. Started with dwarf and omg how much easier they are!
Did some conquest, did some diplomacy and I feel a lot more safer if it makes any sense.

With orcs you have to manage so much and constantly kicking someones arse. You spread out so much and have waaaay to many fronts. I will come back to them when I learn proper basics.

eeguy · 09-02-2017 03:55PM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Thats what I did today after trying one more time with orcs. I LOVE ORCS in warhammer universe, but **** they are hard to play. Started with dwarf and omg how much easier they are!
Did some conquest, did some diplomacy and I feel a lot more safer if it makes any sense.

With orcs you have to manage so much and constantly kicking someones arse. You spread out so much and have waaaay to many fronts. I will come back to them when I learn proper basics.

The best way to play with Orcs is to move south to the edge of the map, build up a decent army stack, then move north to kill dwarves The dwarves are rock hard early in the game, with thunderers and siege weapons, so best avoided till you can roll over them with boars and buff your armies with magic

You don't have to worry about the south until the chaos hordes come.

Warhammer: Total War

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