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Karanas
Jul 17, 2011

Euuuuuuuugh
Malekith just doesn't make peace does he? Had to attack him to get the Sisters' Dragon mount. After razing half his empire to the ground he still won't give up. Just give in drat you I've got other places to be, trees to grow and plants to plant.

Karanas fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Jan 24, 2021

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KazigluBey
Oct 30, 2011

boner

e.: actually, nevermind

KazigluBey fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Jan 24, 2021

Damn Dirty Ape
Jan 23, 2015

I love you Dr. Zaius



Karanas posted:

Malekith just doesn't make peace does he? Had to attack him to get the Sisters' Dragon mount. After razing half his empire to the ground he still won't give up. Just give in drat you I've got other places to be, trees to grow and plants to plant.

I believe you can get the AI to a point where they hate you enough to never make peace a possibility.

kingturnip
Apr 18, 2008
As Clan Mors, Tilea declared war on me, dragging Karaz-a-Karak, Reikland, Couronne et al into war with me, too. When I'd had literally no interaction with Tilea up to that point in the campaign.
God I loving hate diplomacy in this game...

DourCricket
Jan 15, 2021

Thanks Coupleofkooks
Easy Campaign difficulty as Tyr- (per suggestions here)

Turn 1 - Go exploring as I'm sure I'll have time before enemies show up

Turn 2 - Dark elf army shows up, BARELY defeat them

Turn 3 - Two more armies show up, fmlok

Reload back to Turn 1 so I can instead turtle-up and recruit a bunch of guys rather than go ranging :lol:

Now on turn 10 of round 2 and it's going much better. Only some of the elves hate me and I took out one of the DarkElf factions.

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





kingturnip posted:

As Clan Mors, Tilea declared war on me, dragging Karaz-a-Karak, Reikland, Couronne et al into war with me, too. When I'd had literally no interaction with Tilea up to that point in the campaign.
God I loving hate diplomacy in this game...

god bless, kill all skaven

Dull Fork
Mar 22, 2009

DourCricket posted:

Easy Campaign difficulty as Tyr- (per suggestions here)

Reload back to Turn 1 so I can instead turtle-up and recruit a bunch of guys rather than go ranging :lol:


Ah, so here is a good rule of thumb, always max out your stack to 20 units if you can afford it!

I R SMART LIKE ROCK
Mar 10, 2003

I just want a hug.

Fun Shoe
also the first 20 or so turns you generally want to stay near your home province as the ai will punish you for leaving provinces undefended :argh:

this is why it is highly recommended to builds walls before you decide to go adventuring as a small half stack and a garrison can defend against a lot of enemies until higher tier stuff shows up

pnutz
Jan 5, 2015

AnEdgelord posted:

It sounds like Total War Center: the youtube channel

except he's scottish and not a serbian nationalist throwing around death threats like chupa chups

kanonvandekempen
Mar 14, 2009

kingturnip posted:

I've just sat through this video where some miserable Scottish person complains about hidden battle modifiers ruining his Total War experience, using the peerless examples of [checks notes] playing 3 Kingdoms and Troy on Legendary difficulty as the starting point for complaining about how bad modern Total War games are.

His complaints are so petty, I actually wondered whether it was a parody video, but no, he's got loads of videos where he just whines about how bad the modern Total War games are when you play them on the difficulty that makes them the exact sort of thing he hates.

I watched his channel in the lead up to Rome 2, which he was super psyched for. That game had a famously rough launch and it seemed to have broken his brain somewhat.

maev
Dec 6, 2010
Economically illiterate Tory Boy Bollocks brain.
Keep away from children
Yeah that guy is something else. I watched him for the sheer morbid interest of seeing someone twist themselves into knots trying to prove that total war warhammer is the worst thing to happen to the series.

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
pony porn was here
The best fans are the ones who are salty that 3 Kingdoms and Troy have single model hero units.

Sanzuo
May 7, 2007

https://i.imgur.com/AxrAhhE.mp4

Why would you play anything other than skaven.

Zephro
Nov 23, 2000

I suppose I could part with one and still be feared...

Communist Thoughts posted:

play beastmen, you dont have to worry about holding territory, you can disappear when threatened.
you do have cav/ranged/artillery to fill out your roster but really you just wipe the enemy army away with two stacks of mega-charging trash infantry and giant cows

bretonnia only adopted the charge
Counterpoint: don't play Beastmen as your first faction. They are unfun and bad compared to most other factions and are in dire need of an update. They will either get one in the next DLC or they will be fixed when Warhams 3 comes out but for now stay away from them if you're new to the game

Zephro fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Jan 26, 2021

Scott Forstall
Aug 16, 2003

MMM THAT FAUX LEATHER
Anyone interested in these? I somehow got dupes and am happy to send them to a good home if you cover shipping. They are brand new.

rideANDxORdie
Jun 11, 2010
I read trash 40k fic to unwind all the time and just got interested in WH Fantasy b/c I picked this game up during pandemic so I'll take em easy. I'll make a donation to a food bank in your area if you like and/or cover shipping as long as you can vouch for them being pretty good reads

e: feeling pretty dumb looking back and realizing you hadn't read them either lol

rideANDxORdie fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Jan 26, 2021

Scott Forstall
Aug 16, 2003

MMM THAT FAUX LEATHER
https://www.servings.org/donate/

at least :10bux: to this place and I’ll send it your way.

e: send me a screenshot and I’ll match + cover shipping.

Scott Forstall fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Jan 26, 2021

rideANDxORdie
Jun 11, 2010
Awesome!



I am a dinosaur and it took me way longer to figure out how to post an image on the forums than it took to make the donation lol

rideANDxORdie fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Jan 26, 2021

Scott Forstall
Aug 16, 2003

MMM THAT FAUX LEATHER
Heyyyyy nice!

Thanks for doing that. DM me your shipping address and I’ll donate/post a screenshot in the morning.

DourCricket
Jan 15, 2021

Thanks Coupleofkooks
Turn 25 with Tyr - I am bros with all the High Elves and have kicked the poo poo out of Dark Elves and am duking it out with pirates too. Things are going swell

Turn 30 - WHERE DID ALL THESE GOBLINS COME FROM HELP HELP

feller
Jul 5, 2006


Scott Forstall posted:

https://www.servings.org/donate/

at least :10bux: to this place and I’ll send it your way.

e: send me a screenshot and I’ll match + cover shipping.

rideANDxORdie posted:

Awesome!



I am a dinosaur and it took me way longer to figure out how to post an image on the forums than it took to make the donation lol

You two are good people! Let me know if the books are any good.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

kingturnip posted:

I've just sat through this video where some miserable Scottish person complains about hidden battle modifiers ruining his Total War experience, using the peerless examples of [checks notes] playing 3 Kingdoms and Troy on Legendary difficulty as the starting point for complaining about how bad modern Total War games are.

His complaints are so petty, I actually wondered whether it was a parody video, but no, he's got loads of videos where he just whines about how bad the modern Total War games are when you play them on the difficulty that makes them the exact sort of thing he hates.

I was really surprised that "miserable Scottish" Total War Youtube channel was NOT LegendofTotalWar

PlushCow
Oct 19, 2005

The cow eats the grass

Sanzuo posted:

https://i.imgur.com/AxrAhhE.mp4

Why would you play anything other than skaven.

Beautiful yes yes

Ammanas
Jul 17, 2005

Voltes V: "Laser swooooooooord!"

Mantis42 posted:

I was really surprised that "miserable Scottish" Total War Youtube channel was NOT LegendofTotalWar

legend is australian but pretty miserable

Blooming Brilliant
Jul 12, 2010

Sanzuo posted:

https://i.imgur.com/AxrAhhE.mp4

Why would you play anything other than skaven.

Perfect in everyway-way!

Affi
Dec 18, 2005

Break bread wit the enemy

X GON GIVE IT TO YA
drat it to hell.

I played dwarfs and it’s just too easy suddenly. As long as I focus on getting a couple of grudgethrowers and take black crag there is nobody to stop me from doing whatever I want.

Mors never took off. Karak Azul is taking the darklands from eshin and caledor. Zhufbar is holding firm and Kadrin is taking Sylvania.
Barak Varr is eating Wurrzag.

Man I should just reload and just turtle for 50 rounds to make it more interesting.

Houserule that i can’t expand beyond Silver roads until my capital is level 4?

ArchRanger
Mar 19, 2007
I'm tired of following my dreams, I'm just gonna ask where they're goin' and meet up with 'em there.

I've been using the mod that lets you adjust the AI's autoresolve odds against each other to ensure I have some stuff to fight. Bumping Grimgor, Vlad, Manfred, and all of Norsca up a couple pegs usually does the trick.

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





Affi posted:

drat it to hell.

I played dwarfs and it’s just too easy suddenly. As long as I focus on getting a couple of grudgethrowers and take black crag there is nobody to stop me from doing whatever I want.

Mors never took off. Karak Azul is taking the darklands from eshin and caledor. Zhufbar is holding firm and Kadrin is taking Sylvania.
Barak Varr is eating Wurrzag.

Man I should just reload and just turtle for 50 rounds to make it more interesting.

Houserule that i can’t expand beyond Silver roads until my capital is level 4?

ngl this sounds pretty good

once loving grimgor gets going he's bloody hard to stop

jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?

ArchRanger posted:

I've been using the mod that lets you adjust the AI's autoresolve odds against each other to ensure I have some stuff to fight. Bumping Grimgor, Vlad, Manfred, and all of Norsca up a couple pegs usually does the trick.

Norsca is fine, they usually end up dunking all over the Empire in my games unless Bretonnia crusades them. Mannered and Grimgor definitely are way funner when they get a boost against AI.

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)
Tried out the legendary chaos invasions on SFO and they basically wiped out all humans (and all dark elves) on the map. They came down south and knocked on my forest in Athel Loren so I had to take out 4 stacks of chaos boys on my own. Pretty sure they got more stacks lurking up north too.

It was pretty cool to see the entire north of the map basically be chaos territory for once

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


drat Dirty Ape posted:

I believe you can get the AI to a point where they hate you enough to never make peace a possibility.

yeah i want them to make this a bit more 3kified where this behaviour is a lot rarer, most AI will accept defeat when they're completely owned and accept an embarassing peace deal. and you can do the same when you get owned

i like the sorta loop in 3k of warring with someone until someone else declares war on you that ruins your plans, then cutting a load of diplomatic deals to try to get things back in your favour, repeat

Affi posted:

drat it to hell.

I played dwarfs and it’s just too easy suddenly. As long as I focus on getting a couple of grudgethrowers and take black crag there is nobody to stop me from doing whatever I want.

Mors never took off. Karak Azul is taking the darklands from eshin and caledor. Zhufbar is holding firm and Kadrin is taking Sylvania.
Barak Varr is eating Wurrzag.

Man I should just reload and just turtle for 50 rounds to make it more interesting.

Houserule that i can’t expand beyond Silver roads until my capital is level 4?

i heard thorgrim was really hard on SFO so gave that a go and completely stomped the orks unopposed, i didnt even rush grimgor i went for gunbad first
thorgrim is a fuckin tank, i'm not on legendary though maybe thats why

wurzag is the final hold out and he's doing a bit better but my whole army has magical attacks

Communist Thoughts fucked around with this message at 13:24 on Jan 26, 2021

Scott Forstall
Aug 16, 2003

MMM THAT FAUX LEATHER

rideANDxORdie posted:

Awesome!



I am a dinosaur and it took me way longer to figure out how to post an image on the forums than it took to make the donation lol


I haven't gotten an email yet, but I screen-capped the confirmation page.

I'll send out the books as soon as I can :)

e: oh hell yeah, my company matches my donation, so even better.

Dull Fork
Mar 22, 2009

Sanzuo posted:

https://i.imgur.com/AxrAhhE.mp4

Why would you play anything other than skaven.

The only thing that could improve this was a nuke landing at the end. It would really be the cherry on top.

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)
There isn't really a reason not to play Skaven

They got monstrous cavalry, great monsters, fast infantry with a ton of variation, the best ranged units, tons of artillery and great spells + the best campaign mechanics.

You can do combined arms, doomstacks or gimmick armies all day

Kaiju Cage Match
Nov 5, 2012




Imagine-think not fire-shooting into your own Skavenslaves.

Broken Cog
Dec 29, 2009

We're all friends here
The main reason not to play Skaven is that they have gotten powercreeped every single DLC they've been in, and are currently extremely overpowered in campaign.

The only campaign of theirs I wouldn't classify as a complete stomp right now is ME Snikch, and that's mainly just because he starts in the rear end-end of nowhere.
Edit: Arguably also ME Skrolk, but I'd argue that there are others starting in the Lustrian thunderdome in ME that have a tougher time of it.

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





I dont like rats

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





I'm ratcist

Lord_Magmar
Feb 24, 2015

"Welcome to pound town, Slifer slacker!"


I just want my ogres.

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Kaiju Cage Match
Nov 5, 2012




Broken Cog posted:

The main reason not to play Skaven is that they have gotten powercreeped every single DLC they've been in, and are currently extremely overpowered in campaign.

The only campaign of theirs I wouldn't classify as a complete stomp right now is ME Snikch, and that's mainly just because he starts in the rear end-end of nowhere.
Edit: Arguably also ME Skrolk, but I'd argue that there are others starting in the Lustrian thunderdome in ME that have a tougher time of it.

Worst part of fighting Skaven is you need to kill them quickly, otherwise you'll be playing whack-a-rat.

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