3 GRAVE GUARD, 1 GRAVE GUARD WITH GREAT WEAPONS, 2 FELL BATS, 2 DIRE WOLVES, A CORPSE CART, 8 ZOMBIES AND THE GARRISON CAUSE FUCK YOU

I was playing Skarsnik in the Old World mod, highly recommend, but I was thinking about the idea of creating a proper green tide like in the End Times with Grimgor assault on Cathay, the Darklands, and the Mountains of Mourn. I think that the Greenskins Waaagh mechanic actually has an easy way of becoming this sort of End Times level threat like Nagash where over time, they just start stacking these bonuses given through their Waaagh trophies and become an actual threat to the entire world as they spread across the planet. Perhaps this could be a Grimgor only mechanic? Idk. What do you think?

Also, as I said, the bonuses would have to be nerfed of course cuz you could quite quickly get like 60% weapon strength if you targeted the right people. lol

It’s also just silly thinking that they get this trophy from their waaagh and then just toss it away when they get a new one. Lmao

For example Archaon’s melee animations are incredibly beautiful and cool, but mounted form is always more beneficial.I’m not saying mounted form is bad, but sometimes just wants to see something different.

I remember that in older Total War games, we could dismount soldiers from their horses in battlefield :D

Anyways what im saying is it would make sense for their combat stats to be better when they are unmounted. Like unmounted gives more melee attack and defence while mounted gives more charge bonus and move speed idk.

So, we all love the total war formula (turn based campaign map + RTS battles), but we also all agree CA does some pretty unabashed cash grabs and doesn’t often play test their designs, resulting in crappy gameplay. My question is, what other companies could provide them meaningful competition? Are any likely to do so in the near future?

Feels like a super uneccessary building chain these days with the power creep..

Thoughts?

Hi everyone!

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Who do you think will be crowned champion?

First, I'm not asking for Elspeth specially. She is a one-women doomstack by herself, so whatever you give her she will be doing fine. And she got extra Amethyst units, so her stack will be different from the generic lords.

Since we're limited to 5 Amethyst units per army (except for Elspeth), what's your favorite Amethyst variant?

The Landships and Outriders are great, but I feel like they fit more a mixed composition with melee units. So the choice is between Helstorm and Ironsides. I feel like the Amethyst Helstorm is a straight upgrade, while Amethyst Ironsides are a sidegrade mostly for better melee.

Then, in your lategame stacks do you use Hochland Long Rifles and Helblaster Volley Guns?

The Empire have so many options for ranged units, that I don't really see why pick these units over Ironsides, Tanks and Helstorms.
For killing infantries, Helstorms are the best option. And monstrous infantries / single entities / cavs that survive the Helstorms fire will die to Ironsides, while the Tanks can hold the line and do great damages, and are really good in siege.

I can see an use for Great Cannons, between Monstrous Impact, Grapeshot, they are good against SI and Monstrous Infantry, and they are good to breach walls in siege.
But I really fail to see any reasons to pick Helblaster and Hochland Long Rifles over other things. I know that Hochland Long Rifles are like Jezzails, but I don't really see the value when you have access to Lore of Light so you can Net any threat in your Ironsides killzone, and Cannons / Helblaster outperform them to kill big things at range, because they ignore shields.

Am I missing something? Any reasons to pick these units in lategame?

You should be able to slowly withdraw backwards whilst facing/defending yourself from the front.

That is all.

I made CPU performance mods for Attila and Rome 2. This is my first time trying it on Warhammer 3 and since I don't really play Warhammer as much as the historical one, I thought the community could help. I don’t know yet if it’ll work, but I want to give it a shot. First I need to know where the game struggles for you.

If you’ve got a minute, post:

• CPU, GPU, RAM
• resolution and unit size
• where it’s bad: end turn time, campaign map stutter, battles, loading
• roughly what turn your campaign is on, and if you use big mods
• how long your end turns take

A late-game save where end turns are really slow would help a lot. Upload it anywhere and link it, along with your mod list if the save needs mods.

No promises on what I can fix, but anything I find goes into a free mod.

Heads up: I use AI (Claude) to help write the code. All testing is done by me in game.

I'm considering Throt as my next Old World campaign and wondering how much of a factor is Loyalty, since WH2 mechanics tend to get depreciated in WH3.

Is it still relevant? Does campaign difficulty impact Loyalty gain/loss? How do you manage it?

It just hit me that I really hope they build some kind of Nemesis-system for 40k (yes, I know it's patented by Warner, but hopefully they're not dumb enough to start a large scale patent war in the games industry).

Anyways, it fits the setting. You as a player should be able to get your own personal enemy (or multiple), the same way Yarick is to Ghazghkull (or vice versa).

E.g.

When you defeat an enemy lord for the first time, there is a chance that they did not actually die (plot armor!) but are instead tagged as your lord's Nemesis.

The effect of Nemesis is that there is a chance that they show up in any system even if you're fighting another faction.

Make a reverse defeat trait, i.e. every time they get defeated they get a bonus trait based on what kind of Lord you're playing.

If you play multiple characters, a Nemesis for character A can show up for character B (though not as a Nemesis for B, initially, they're just gathering their strengths in some systems and you accidentally run into them). If you defeat them they now get a trait based on B's Lord type, and can potentially become a Nemesis for B as well.

If there is a Galactic News ticker system, then events "off screen" that happens to your Nemesis would show up there, e.g. "Your Nemesis sacked a hive in System X, their army grows in size"

Just had to tell someone.

A project I was working on, to try and interview as many of the game devs of ME2 that I could track down, to hear them talk about their individual contributions to the game, share some memories and reflect on its success.

I've been struggling a lot every time I attempt an Archaon playthrough because of the RNG recruitment. How do you guys manage to make a general battle plan when you don't even know what you can recruit? Help a scrub out please

Nothing like a good chokepoint to turn into a killzone, because the enemy is too fat to climb the walls.

It would had been more fun, if the AI suddenly didn't started acting stupid, forming a line outside the gate, and making enter only one enemy unit once at a time, instead of trying to overwhelm me.

Playing as Glottkin and I tried to devote my lvl 50 Melee (starting?) Hero via Path to Glory and reset his skill points, but he lost all progress and got reduced to lvl 1 instead.

I have all the perks that reduces Path to Glory costs/ lvl reduction and since I'm around midgame I already devoted quite some Lords/ Heroes, but reducing lvl to 1 is a new one.

An update about my one-man army, Emperor E. You can see his previous stats and abilities here: https://www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/1xdzz2a/project_e_complete_is_there_any_way_to_defeat_him/

I did allow the same leniencies used to get Dechala to 12k weapon strength- namely, allies casting damage buff spells and fighting a faction you receive a boost against. Even without those however, it is higher than it was before.

Other than that, over double the barrier and much higher speed plus wayfarer (eliminating practically all chance of kiting him to death) are the main boosts he has received.

Edit: In addition, post this screenshot, I swapped out some of his barrier for the Storm Daemon to provide him a ranged attack and expand his options.