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Vergil wrote: ↑ March 23rd, 2025, 19:53

they can just spawn armies behind me

That's every Total War in the warscape engine. The computer gets even more free elite stacks in higher difficulties. There's no strategy, beyond ambushes.

I know it's only easy mode so it's not that impressive but I thought it was a pretty kino fight. I had a garrison of 3 spearmen, 3 archers, and one archer cavalry all half health and they had two melee units and their own archer cavalry. I was projected to lose in the auto resolve so I figured I'd at least play and see what I could do. I managed to end up with only their general (named Boudicca funny enough) vs two of my surviving archer columns. How I ended up winning was having her essentially ping pong back and forth chasing one archer column while the others shot at her and slowly whittled her health down. Finally when she had like a sliver of health left my archers ran out of ammo and all charged her in one final desperate assault which managed to route her winning the battle. Like I said I'm playing on baby ****** mode but it still felt pretty frickin epic!

What the hell this isn't a fantasy monster this is just an old jewish guy

Vergil wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 01:15

What the hell this isn't a fantasy monster this is just an old jewish guy

also

Vergil wrote: ↑ March 23rd, 2025, 20:08

Also, I really don't appreciate this real time strategy war game having random **** *** puzzles. As if I don't feel like a brainlet enough already!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/ ... 1568246541

they got rid of the puzzle nonsense in game 3 thankfully

Which one is more worth playing, 2 or 3?

A Chinese opium den wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 02:25

Which one is more worth playing, 2 or 3?

I got 2 for free so that one

A Chinese opium den wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 02:25

Which one is more worth playing, 2 or 3?

depends on what factions you care most about playing, i suppose.

3 is effectively the definitive version of the game now with all the factions and immortal empires, but has some questionable decisions mechanics wise (and a bit buggier).

they left game 2 in a pretty good state before moving on to 3, so it's arguably better if you don't really care about what was added in 3. that said it's kinda hard to go back to 2 when there's no Daemons, Ogres, or Chaos Dwarfs

2 has elves what more could you need?

Whoa look it's Aurelian!

I had to ally with the dwarves for a joint offensive against the orcs. I'm disgusted.

dwarfs still have the high elves' Phoenix Crown after the War of Vengeance btw

Manny V wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 03:44

dwarfs still have the high elves' Phoenix Crown after the War of Vengeance btw

Is this an actual item I can gain in this game?

Vergil wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 03:53

Manny V wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 03:44

dwarfs still have the high elves' Phoenix Crown after the War of Vengeance btw

Is this an actual item I can gain in this game?

nah, the only legendary artifacts not tied to a legendary lord is the Sword of Khaine, which is back at Ulthuan (elven homeland) and in game 3 they added the Nemesis Crown which is in the Empire.

Sword of Khaine makes you go sicko mode in combat but has campaign penalties, Nemesis Crown buffs your army and has similar penalties

Manny V wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 03:56

nah

Then the dwarves will be spared my wrath for now

Manny V wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 03:56

which is back at Ulthuan (elven homeland)

I would rather not talk about what's going on with the donut in my game right now

Vergil wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 03:57

Manny V wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 03:56

nah

Then the dwarves will be spared my wrath for now

Manny V wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 03:56

which is back at Ulthuan (elven homeland)

I would rather not talk about what's going on with the donut in my game right now

yeah it's always lame and gay when your races' homeland gets gutterstomped by a gorillion factions and you can't do **** about it because the devs decided to plop you in the middle of bumfuck nowhere

as i said before it's part of why i just prefer playing the main faction leader ay

Manny V wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 04:00

yeah it's always lame and gay when your races' homeland gets gutterstomped by a gorillion factions and you can't do **** about it because the devs decided to plop you in the middle of bumfuck nowhere

Well at least the Tweeds and detroit elves have decided to just fight each other on the donut instead of taking my one basically undefended city

Vergil wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 04:05

Manny V wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 04:00

yeah it's always lame and gay when your races' homeland gets gutterstomped by a gorillion factions and you can't do **** about it because the devs decided to plop you in the middle of bumfuck nowhere

Well at least the Tweeds and detroit elves have decided to just fight each other on the donut instead of taking my one basically undefended city

lizardmen are an order faction despite appearances so you probs wanna get chummy with them

Manny V wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 04:06

Vergil wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 04:05

Manny V wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 04:00

yeah it's always lame and gay when your races' homeland gets gutterstomped by a gorillion factions and you can't do **** about it because the devs decided to plop you in the middle of bumfuck nowhere

Well at least the Tweeds and detroit elves have decided to just fight each other on the donut instead of taking my one basically undefended city

lizardmen are an order faction despite appearances so you probs wanna get chummy with them

Yea they offered a non-aggression pact which I took because they're good boys

Holy **** I'm tired of these orc ******* randomly confederating and getting like 4-5 new cities out of their ***

Oh my campaign might be DOA because I didn't know about uncertainty

Vergil wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 04:35

Oh my campaign might be DOA because I didn't know about uncertainty

is that the thing where you abandon a settlement and get public order debuff?

Manny V wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 04:38

Vergil wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 04:35

Oh my campaign might be DOA because I didn't know about uncertainty

is that the thing where you abandon a settlement and get public order debuff?

Yup, the super helpful advisor that lets me know everytime ogre mercs I never use show up didn't tell me that abandoning an orc settlement the same turn I take it would result in my cities on the other end of hte map getting so ****** they're going to revolt in like 10 turns )))))

with imrik you should be curbstomping all orks in a dozen turns then go conquer everything else

asf wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 04:41

with imrik you should be curbstomping all orks in a dozen turns then go conquer everything else

Vergil wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 04:40

Manny V wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 04:38

Vergil wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 04:35

Oh my campaign might be DOA because I didn't know about uncertainty

is that the thing where you abandon a settlement and get public order debuff?

Yup, the super helpful advisor that lets me know everytime ogre mercs I never use show up didn't tell me that abandoning an orc settlement the same turn I take it would result in my cities on the other end of hte map getting so ****** they're going to revolt in like 10 turns )))))

yeah, better off just razing a settlement you dont intend on keeping, or just occupying and doing nothing with it. abandoning settlements just screws you over for no reason which is kinda dumb

i don't think you can trade settlements in game 2 either, pretty sure they added that in 3. pretty handy way of getting rid of settlements you dont want for $ers and to befriend factions

Manny V wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 04:44

yeah, better off just razing a settlement you dont intend on keeping, or just occupying and doing nothing with it. abandoning settlements just screws you over for no reason which is kinda dumb

I was trying to game the system because I wanted the troop replenishment from looting and didn't want to wait a turn to raze it after. What a fiasco.

Manny V wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 02:51

A Chinese opium den wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 02:25

Which one is more worth playing, 2 or 3?

depends on what factions you care most about playing, i suppose.

3 is effectively the definitive version of the game now with all the factions and immortal empires, but has some questionable decisions mechanics wise (and a bit buggier).

they left game 2 in a pretty good state before moving on to 3, so it's arguably better if you don't really care about what was added in 3. that said it's kinda hard to go back to 2 when there's no Daemons, Ogres, or Chaos Dwarfs

Didn't they do something where you have to have all 3 installed for some grand campaign? I dread to think how much diskspace that needs.

Jordy wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 10:27

Manny V wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 02:51

A Chinese opium den wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2025, 02:25

Which one is more worth playing, 2 or 3?

depends on what factions you care most about playing, i suppose.

3 is effectively the definitive version of the game now with all the factions and immortal empires, but has some questionable decisions mechanics wise (and a bit buggier).

they left game 2 in a pretty good state before moving on to 3, so it's arguably better if you don't really care about what was added in 3. that said it's kinda hard to go back to 2 when there's no Daemons, Ogres, or Chaos Dwarfs

Didn't they do something where you have to have all 3 installed for some grand campaign? I dread to think how much diskspace that needs.

You just need to own them on the same platform