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I'd be terrible at MP, mostly because I tend to wander off mid-game for a cup of tea then return after like 40 minutes and forget the tea.  Curious on what characters the Namman DLC might update into actual uniques. Hoping we get Zhang He, Pang De, Cao Ren and maybe someone like Lu Su. Or even the Commander-Bandit that's with Zhang Yan as most Bandits seem to be Champions at the moment.
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Multiplayer popularity is a pretty good metric for how much staying power a total war title will have. 3k is a bit of an anomaly, but I'd chalk that up to them tapping into a massive new market.
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Three Kingdoms multiplayer collapsed because they did nothing to fix it's many balance issues.
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Warhammer 2 multiplayer is actually cool to watch because you see the purpose of units that people consider trash in single player like rat orgres and empire knights. It's cooler then seeing doomstacks run into each other imo
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How do you all tend to prefer to build the mixed Harbour/Farmland Commanderies? Do you tend to split between Food/Commerce or just go all in on the one as needed?
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Flipswitch posted:How do you all tend to prefer to build the mixed Harbour/Farmland Commanderies? Do you tend to split between Food/Commerce or just go all in on the one as needed? I try to do as little building as possible so if I grab a port and it's geared one way or the other that's usually what I stick with for the whole commandery. Rebuilding to make the thing more efficient rarely pays off for me. I'll just use that money to buy an army to take something else 
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Flipswitch posted:How do you all tend to prefer to build the mixed Harbour/Farmland Commanderies? Do you tend to split between Food/Commerce or just go all in on the one as needed? Usually all in and usually towards commerce. You can run a slight food deficit and make it up via trading pretty easily but running too far in the red with food can leave you boned if everyone turns their back on you. If its already level 2 or 3 I say eh and leave it
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I wonder what 'full' mod support means, particularly on Epic. Can't be Medieval 2 level.
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Supposedly the 3K nanman dealio is supposed to drop between Troy and its Amazon dlc, so in theory we should get some details... soon. Which is good cause I'm jonesing hard
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Arbite posted:I wonder what 'full' mod support means, particularly on Epic. Can't be Medieval 2 level. They implied that it would match what the steam workshop offers, but that was a while ago. I don't know if they have since changed their promise.
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Thanks all, going all in on one seems better. I quite like going strong on food for big cities but also as it gives you a lot of weight in the diplomacy game. It's for my Ma Chao campaign specifically and it was the port of Ba. Fuligin posted:Supposedly the 3K nanman dealio is supposed to drop between Troy and its Amazon dlc, so in theory we should get some details... soon. Which is good cause I'm jonesing hard I think I'll download Troy when it comes out, I am interested in trying it and the period is interesting.
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Zikan posted:Warhammer 2 multiplayer is actually cool to watch because you see the purpose of units that people consider trash in single player like rat orgres and empire knights. It's cooler then seeing doomstacks run into each other imo I do wish they could find some way to encourage this kind of mixed composition in single player somehow because yeah in SP there's really no reason to use anything but a doomstack of your strongest units at all times.
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The Cheshire Cat posted:I do wish they could find some way to encourage this kind of mixed composition in single player somehow because yeah in SP there's really no reason to use anything but a doomstack of your strongest units at all times. There is a way to do so (to some extent) with unit caps. It's just that CA seems reluctant to actually implement those outside true oddities like Tomb Kings. And Rat Ogres in particular are alright units in campaign - it's just that virtually everyone rushes for like an almost pure gun line + war machine build as Skaven. Even aside from the actual overall cost of those builds (which is obviously a restriction in MP) there's also the fact that the AI is just flat out much worse at dealing with that than an actual thinking human player. So it's not so much "Rat Ogres are garbage" as it is "Skaven gunlines + Doomflayers + extra army of slaves is overpowered vs. the AI."
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I think giving people the option to make full spam gimmick armies isn't a bad thing but then again I'm happy to put limitations on myself (max 2x unit type per retinue or 2x per army for example) and don't play multiplayer which does change things.
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Flipswitch posted:I think giving people the option to make full spam gimmick armies isn't a bad thing but then again I'm happy to put limitations on myself (max 2x unit type per retinue or 2x per army for example) and don't play multiplayer which does change things. I usually do this kind of thing too just to keep it interesting, but part of the issue is that the AI doesn't and it gets really old fighting the same big ol stack of High Elves that's just sea guard and spearmen over and over. I guess it does make the AI more competent if they have fewer unique units in an army since they don't have to juggle multiple roles against each other, but still.
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Lord Koth posted:There is a way to do so (to some extent) with unit caps. It's just that CA seems reluctant to actually implement those outside true oddities like Tomb Kings. I wish extra unit and army cost wasn't linear. An army of Britonia peasants should cost basically nothing but two of doom should be prohibitively expensive. Let me know if these things changed but just having a new lord cost you 1.35 upkeep really means you have to doom. Especially on the harder difficulty
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Submarine Sandpaper posted:I wish extra unit and army cost wasn't linear. An army of Britonia peasants should cost basically nothing but two of doom should be prohibitively expensive.
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you can also pull off some remarkably stupid poo poo with brettonian peasants and the fey enchantress maybe not 'doom' but gotta be somewhere near 'woe' at least.
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Submarine Sandpaper posted:I wish extra unit and army cost wasn't linear. An army of Britonia peasants should cost basically nothing but two of doom should be prohibitively expensive. I think the testing grounds had a campaign version without supply lines but I don't know if they have any plans to incorporate that into main
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Higher tier units causing a stacking upkeep penalty to their army when you have more than a certain amount might help encourage having varied armies using lower-tier units and encourage mixing up compositions. So a steamtank is fine, maybe causes a little more upkeep for the whole army. A second steamtank suddenly adds a large upkeep penalty to every unit in the army, while another t5 unit also adds some upkeep, but not as much as a second steamtank. You'd have to play around with values and number of allowed units per faction and unit and it'd be a balancing nightmare but it would reduce doomstacking. It might also unnecessarily incentivise swarms of chaff instead.
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The source material has the answer, either have a point limit or a force org chart. Point limit is simple, gold = points, and each army can be worth so much gold. Alternatively, and what I prefer since there is a mod that does this that I like, a force org chart breaks your army down into core, special, and rare troops. You can have more special troops than rare, and each unit costs x points in addition to gold. So a star dragon is 3 rare points and you have 5 rare points to use per army total. Meanwhile your lower tier troops are core so you can have as many spearmanii and archers as your heart desires.
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people citing the source game is always funny as its balance was total dogshit and its kind of understood it wasn't actually that good of a game
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Tiler Kiwi posted:people citing the source game is always funny as its balance was total dogshit and its kind of understood it wasn't actually that good of a game Teenage me disagrees  I would probably still be into the game if it wasn't such a pain to play in every other way (live an hour away from anyone to play with, transportation and storage is a pain, it's expensive as gently caress and oh yeah WHF is dead now so that's a big issue too). I mean it was hardly perfectly balanced back when I played but I never ran into anything worse than poo poo like ranged units in TWW2 and I still enjoy TWW2 just fine so. I tried the 5 rare point/10 special point mod out but it felt a bit too restrictive to me. Only one real power-unit in a 20-unit army felt too restrictive for me compared to the TT experience. Something like 3 big rare boys and ~6 - 8 special units per army would be better IMO.
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Tiler Kiwi posted:people citing the source game is always funny as its balance was total dogshit and its kind of understood it wasn't actually that good of a game yeah and the org chart in particular was designed as a bandaid on the fact that the designers couldn't be bothered to balance the underlying game maybe adopting it would be a good idea given how the game is currently (tomb king late game armies are a lot more fun than the doomstacks imo) but it would be better to design a system where, say, a few mammoths is good and 20 mammoths is not
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I hated that org chart mod. Not every faction wants the same amount of t1 troops and I like that asymmetry a lot more than I hate domstacks. I also like making gimmick/theme armies and it was pretty restrictive on the kind I like. I tried the cost point mod also and it felt better but I don’t remember if it actually affected the AI or not.
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Honestly tomb kings really don't prevent doomstacks. It does however promote different types of doomstacks. Each of the units tend to perform best when paired with the same units due to the blue line of buffs and other traits. The tomb kings unit limit just promotes individual armies of different units. I'll end up with a bone giant army, a sphinx army, an ushabti army, and a scorpion army with the rest filled out with skeleton spearmen and archers chaff. Without improving the ai the only way to lessen doomstacking is to make each unit perform better in conjunction with other units as opposed to the same units.
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I feel like the only real way to combat doomstacking besides caps or similar is to change up red line skills completely. Remove all the 'boosts units x, y, z' it'd be better to have skills that promote synergies between different types of units. One very obvious one could be a massive boost to missile damage against units that are flanked in melee, for example. Or a skill that lets skirmishing units increase the range of artillery with their field of vision (probably with some limitations to avoid complete stupidity but still). A skill that significantly reduces the damage taken from friendly fire on cavalry, a skill that boosts increases melee defense and leadership for infantry engaged in the same combat as friendly cavalry, a skill that gives small entity infantry extra missile block when next to large entity units, etc etc. You'd also need a rebalance of unit types in general IMO but it'd be a nice start. E: You could have unique ones like Chariot-focused skills for Settra, but ones that encourage you to bring other units as well (massive speed boost to Ushabti when near chariots) or whacky stuff like stalk for light cavalry if you have at least 4 units and none are within 200 yards of each-other, you can do all kinds of crazy poo poo. Insurrectionist fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Aug 2, 2020 |
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they have all the tools in place for the ending of doomstacks and mixing up army composition: 1) resources besides money from Troy required for recruiting units 2) different color or 'types' of generals recruiting different units from 3K 3) dynamic unit pool from Thrones 4) straight up army cap hard limit based on some kind of faction level from 3k but I think at the end of the day most people WANT to roll around with a doom stack killing everything, so I would be surprised to see if they implement something
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I think encouraging diversity is also better than restricting people into it. 3k does that with retinues and general bonuses. Speaking of 3k, I wonder what campaign starts we'll get for the expansion. Liu Bei is a given.
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yikes! posted:I hated that org chart mod. Not every faction wants the same amount of t1 troops and I like that asymmetry a lot more than I hate domstacks. I also like making gimmick/theme armies and it was pretty restrictive on the kind I like. Agreed. A force chart org might be the answer but that mod isn't it.
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Flipswitch posted:I think encouraging diversity is also better than restricting people into it. 3k does that with retinues and general bonuses. Probably not since he's dead by the Nanman Campaign If I had to guess, and let's say we get 10-ish new starts: Liu Shan, Zhuge Liang, he'll be a separate start that's a vassal under Liu Shan, Cao Pi, Simi Yi, same deal as Zhuge Liang, Sun Quan, maybe Lu Xun, same again as Liang and Yi, Zheng Jiang or Lady Trieu for a Bandit start, Meng Huo obviously, and maybe a couple other Nanman starts, like King Mulu. Now some wild cards: Gongsun Kang, just to give the north-eastern part of the map something, speaking of, possibly Kebineng or someone representing the northern nomadic tribes, lastly, Yong Kai who will probably be featured in some way since he's the historical figure behind the rebellion, but CA might make him a unique/playable. Edit: Shi Xie would also make sense for the FLC character, since he's kicking until 226. Blooming Brilliant fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Aug 2, 2020 |
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Ah true I was thinking Shu/Zhuge when I said Liu but the timeline isn't my strong point. I hope we get a bucket of uniques, the lack of them is a real weakness of the 8 Prince's campaign.
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Same, uniques are great. This expansion will probably set up other start date DLC's, maybe stuff like Wu Zhang Plains/Simi Yi's rise to power. We'll probably see lots of uniques who play critical roles in those events established, like Jiang Wei. Also I'd expect Cao Ren and Zhang He being made proper uniques, since they played roles in the Wei Invasions of Wu during the time. Maybe Ma Zhong for Shu since he was a crucial commander in the Nanman Campaign. Blooming Brilliant fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Aug 2, 2020 |
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We got the full hero rosters now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szw-8FLS5Rc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfbNTnGQMuY It's good that they're going with unique campaign features for each hero out of the gate. That's easily the best part of the Warhammer lord packs.
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Flipswitch posted:I think encouraging diversity is also better than restricting people into it. 3k does that with retinues and general bonuses. Supposedly this expansion won't add a new startdate
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Fuligin posted:Supposedly this expansion won't add a new startdate ^ its this i dont think we're getting 10, if the spacing on the bottom is to be believed theres 2 in between 194 and 8 princes my guesses are red cliffs which comes with a naval combat system and mid northern campaigns / pre wuzhang plains giving you the choice to get usurped into jin the only question is how you make wei interesting, maybe just breaking it into 10 vassals and be a bit disingenuous with how efficiently it was run by wei in current 3k if you laid out the maps of wu wei and shu immediately post cao cao's death, wei would be a difficulty below easy. You own almost half the map, and own 80% of the good parts
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Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:^ its this Shu is probably best represented as no more than two factions. It might even make sense to make Zhuge Liang the dominant faction at scenario start, to represent the fact Liu Shan basically let him do whatever. Zhuge Liang's inevitable death would upset the power balance and lead to Liu Shan being more "active", which could make for an interesting challenge for the player(assuming that it wouldn't be trivial just to dumpster him and seize power for yourself, of course).
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Huh, that's pretty interesting. I was under the impression it was leading onto the Namman expedition but that's cool if not. Roll on the info!
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I started to play another game of Shogun 2 again but this time as Oda. Any tips? Is that clan's special units worth getting?
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Jimbot posted:I started to play another game of Shogun 2 again but this time as Oda. Any tips? Is that clan's special units worth getting? Yes, they are some of the best special units in the game.
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