Warhammer: Total War

Ok, so I started a new Campaign as Carcassonne and TBH, I was liking it more. Just don't think my playstyle suits Greenskins.

Kind of annoying how it's hard to support 2 decent armies (upkeep cosy + peasant counting mechanic), kind of running back and forth defending with my 1 decent army now

F**k the lads in the Southern Realms. Myself and all the Bretonians and Empire lads and guys in the top left area are all in a big fu€k pile. All allied up and making joint wars etc and wrecking the gaf.... but these langers won't join the fu€k pile and they keep getting hit by loads of Beastmen who OF COURSE come up through Estalia and are knocking on my Capitals door within a turn or two... ughhhh

I've been going down the tech route of getting all these lads into my big confederacy, which is nice, actually playing a strong diplomacy game. Really liking my girls spells too

Me and the Wood Elves butted heads a bit early one, but they we all made peace but this one dude, so this dude now decides he wants to war, but his Army is OP, like all Dryads and Wardances and Eagles and they are just ripping me apart. How can the AI even sustain these big armies with like 1 town each

I keep utterly annihilating the Vampire Couts in fights (like some fights they have 4 separate stacks, not full) and I'm killing like 2,000 of them to their 500 of my lads killed... but becasue they rarely ever rout it's hard to actually beat them. Plus their dog things and bat things are hella annoying. And they seem to replenish fast so it's a total war of Attroition now.

They only have 1 province, I want them gone, so that whole place can become Human master-race

I've provided a detailed tactical run-down map below

Latest Humble bundle has a voucher for 50% off all Sega games including warhammer 1, all the DLC and warhammer 2 pre-order. Makes the new game only €30!!

Looks like I bought too soon.

Varik wrote: »

At the bottom, it's per cart load if you beat the average. Last part is a pick one the rest you just get.

so average is currently $6.22, you pay a tiny bit more and you get the discount for their store where the game is €60, DLC is normal steam priced.

What Varik said.

What that list actually says is:

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I have absorbed 2 lesser nations into the Fu€k Pile alliance and the Bretonians have absorbed 1.
I now need to convince them to bend the knee and I'm sorted.
So I realised the Vampires were EXHAUSTING me basically hitting me with THOUSANDS of troops, failing, and coming back 2 turns later (effing regen mechanics) so I accepted their Peace Treaty as I was having some minor Beastmen and Wood Elves issues down south
Before the next turn even began it was like "Bretonia is going war with the Vampires, will you join your Allies" and I'm like you "you bet your a$$ I will" :pac: (need them to be my besties.... for now) so back to grinding out some more "Close" Victories it is (sorry for the cr@ppy picture quality)

3x Trebuchet Units + 5 Peasant Bowmen (2 of which are Fire Arrows) make short work of their slow moving, bunched up Zombies, Skeletons etc

eeguy wrote: »

545 men died in that skirmish

#PrayForBretonnia

I'd be more concerned about the 562 "captured" undead....

New PC Invasion Article on the combined campaign "Mortal Empires" and image for initial Free DLC

Total War blog post

"An experiment"?

From this I'm expecting first Paid DLC is going to be skaven related so I might play them first before the DLC lands.

Like to get the vanilla campaign experience as I missed out on that last time

d31b0y wrote: »

I finally picked this up recently and started playing it... Any good guides at becoming better? I gotta be honest, I suck.
Skirmishes are generally ok but I could do with some tactic training. I never have any money. I absorbed a nation. Got a tiny army for it and three strongholds / towns and still ended up with even less money.

Should I be concetrating my army into just one early game? I had three generals on the field in my first play but I couldn't sustain them.

What's the best first steps for starting out?

Sorry if any of the terms are wrong... I'm quite new to this

Cheers.

There are some commanalities between factions but a lot of them play very differently.

The Dwarves are quite easy to play because they lean towards turtling, both in the turn-based layer and on the RTS layer of the game.

They've really tough units who tend not to break, really powerful ranged options, tramendous artillery options.

So they're good at defending. Sit like a big rock and let the river of enemies wash around you.
It's deeply satisfying to see a horde of undead outnumber you 5 to 1 and you just blast them to bits regardless.

They've no cavalry (except their Gyrocopters I suppose, but they fill a different role).

Their bases tend to make a huge amount of money (your capital in the main Dwarven campaign has a big diamond mine that can sustain an army all on it's own.
Then they've lots of options for trade and aliiances nearby.

So stick to relatively few armies. 1 until you pin down 1 or 2 territories, then maybe keep one at home and march your main one around securing more territory.

It pays to play conservatively with them. Always keep your hinterlands defended.
Armies can sweep through out of nowhere and make **** of your economy pretty quickly if they're undefended.

Don't Confederate unless you've a strong economy available to support the extra forces you'll need to defend the territory, and spend on upgrading it so it's not just deadweight but actually becomes a net positive.

The biggest trick for me was diplomacy.
It's tempting to embark off an a crusade to crush all evil, but it becomes unmanageable pretty quick.
Try to stick to one war at a time.

With that in mind, try to avoid too many alliances that'll draw you into other people's wars.

Bretonnia are kinda the oppositite in the RTS layer, with flexible, cavalry heavy units, but rely on a lot of consolodation as well in the turn-based layer.

The orcs, chaos, the beastmen and to a lesser extent the Norsca all rely instead on being super aggressive to earn money through sacking and raiding to make up for often running at a budget defecit and keep their forces or the gods of choas entertained by frequently fighting.

The Empire seem to me to be the most flexible faction.

The Wood Elves are tricky to juggle early game but as far as I can tell, have the best unit roster. It's hard to know when and how to expand.
I found the best thing is to try and be nice to everyone who isn't evil and then you can build up a big alliance a little later that'll protect your flanks while you go chasing objectives, killing far away baddies or setting up colonies.

Truthfully, I'm not that great either. I'm more interested in winning than challenging myself so I've stuck to Normal difficulty throughout, but those are my 2 cents.