Warhammer: Total War

Playing the first game, on my first go around I made the mistake of expanding north near the Beastmen etc which kicked me in the arse when Chaos came. I restarted and went for a nice rounded area on my second save and have to say... a major, major turnoff for me on this game are Chaos just completely ignoring every single other race and just going straight for you all the time, non-stop, on easy mode. Either I am doing something very wrong or it makes no sense and is a cheap, lazy cop out. None of my armies have been able to do anything but basically occupy around 1-2 cities close by each other as they last 2-3 twenty unit armies at me more or less every turn, which to be honest is both boring and tedious.

I really hope I am doing something very wrong, because otherwise it was a good game but because of this I'm leaning towards ditching it as more or less unplayable without mods.

I have googled around and it says difficulty levels have to do with it, but I am playing on easy.

I'm playing as the empire, control all over Averland, Wissenland (bar the capital), Reikland, Stirland and one city in Bastonne. I was very careful to not weaken anybody to the north or north-east of me, have not had a single attack on any of my cities from any of the surrounding factions, have a very strong economy (lots of resources all of which have tier 3 buildings, numerous trade agreements, tailor's guilds in just about every city) and every military/hero type of building you can... or rather, had a very strong economy which now has 4-5 Chaos heroes destroying buildings pretty much every single turn to the point I'm barely breaking even on money and struggling to rebuild them while army after army after army after army of Chaos ignores all the other human factions and marches directly to me time and time again. I have every type of hero, battle wizard, etc - all built up a good few levels, built to try and have good assassins, and at best have got 54% for an assassination attempt on any of these heroes and have failed on every single one of about 8-9 attempts that were 48%-54%.

I'm becoming very skeptical about how this game manufacturers difficulty at this rate.

Billy86 wrote: »

I'm playing as the empire, control all over Averland, Wissenland (bar the capital), Reikland, Stirland and one city in Bastonne. I was very careful to not weaken anybody to the north or north-east of me, have not had a single attack on any of my cities from any of the surrounding factions, have a very strong economy (lots of resources all of which have tier 3 buildings, numerous trade agreements, tailor's guilds in just about every city) and every military/hero type of building you can... or rather, had a very strong economy which now has 4-5 Chaos heroes destroying buildings pretty much every single turn to the point I'm barely breaking even on money and struggling to rebuild them while army after army after army after army of Chaos ignores all the other human factions and marches directly to me time and time again. I have every type of hero, battle wizard, etc - all built up a good few levels, built to try and have good assassins, and at best have got 54% for an assassination attempt on any of these heroes and have failed on every single one of about 8-9 attempts that were 48%-54%.

I'm becoming very skeptical about how this game manufacturers difficulty at this rate.

Hole up in cities and let Chaos kill themselves against your walls. My settlements usually have walls, a money building and either a growth or happiness building. Don't bother with military stuff for most settlements. You probably won't be recruiting there.