Elukka posted:

He's a series of elves, one altered into Orion each year.

THE BAR posted:

I'm looking forward to the new mechanics, but the map size is already unreasonable for the kind of game they're making. Ever tried the full coop campaign? May as well be a world conquest.

Kata-Haro posted:

SteelMentor posted:

I could whip up some quick descriptions of any of the AoS units in the post above and if they're likely to make it over into TWW3 if anyone's interested in a particular unit of weirdos.

Eej posted:

The latest edition of 40k has undergone a points increase across the board which leads to smaller armies (and less money spent on models! or maybe just makes you spend more because new armies are slightly cheaper) and a focus on taking and holding objectives to win games instead of wipe your enemy off the board. So yes, in a strange twist of fate 40k in 2021 has ended up exactly like Dawn of War 2 in 2009 with (relatively) small armies skirmishing over holding objective points on the map. I'm sure you could make it work but I don't know how compelling it would be to order like 50-70 Marines around in a Total War game.

e: on the other hand Epic would work and you could have tons of little marines to order around with Titans stomping around

AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:

By the time WH3's lifecycle is winding down, GW's The Old World will probably be fully released and alive. They could make Total War: Warhammer: The Old World (TWWHTOW).

Electronico6 posted:

Fantasy is the original, Age of Sigmar is the Michael Bay remake, The Old World is the "faithful" reboot.

orangelex44 posted:

"Fantasy" and "The Old World" are basically exactly this - with the caveat that The Old World still has a lot of question marks right now, not much has been released. It's a prequel to "Fantasy". "Age of Sigmar" is what you get when the company wants to do a full story reboot but also realizes they need to let people who spent thousands on older models continue to play with them in official events - from a story perspective it happens after "Fantasy", but a bunch of pretty random poo poo happened it between. The "Age of Sigmar" shares certain characters and themes, but it really could have been a brand-new setting with very few changes. However, when it comes to models/units a lot of the "Fantasy" stuff was grandfathered in, although support for that has been on the decline as Games Workshop pushes people to buy newer models. The proper "Age of Sigmar" units tend to have a pretty different aesthetic from "Fantasy".

From a tabletop gameplay perspective, I have no idea. My dim understanding is that "Age of Sigmar" was a more substantial change than just an edition update would have been, but I might be wrong. Jury's out on "The Old World", they haven't released anything about how it'll actually work yet.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

I disagree. Bland mustachio'd european men who are exactly like irl european men are boring as gently caress even when they exist in a fantasy world and have a different Jesus. The only good parts of the Empire are the wacky bits like Nuln and the Colleges of Magic. I want to see dwarfs and elves and dinosaurs and arthurian knights smashing trolls and daemons and technovikings and hippy goblins. Karl Franz and Kruber and whoever else can gently caress off, I don't care about them. They're boring. If I wanted them I'd go read about the actual Thirty Years War.

Sasgrillo posted:

Also I'm probably making myself see things but the map in the trailer looks rectangular, with Cathay being the upper right corner and the realms of Chaos making up the northern edge. I'm very interested in seeing how the ME map will change assuming they're even keeping it for game 3.

NewMars posted:

The thing is that the realm of chaos and the chaos wastes are in a very real sense not different things. Past a certain point up there, reality just breaks, progressively as you get closer to the pole. The distinction between the two is nonexistent: pockets of artic landscapes coexist with lush jungles and anything you can think of.



Mind you, the chaos wastes is a very, very big area by itself.

Log082 posted:

There actually is a mod that allows for upgrades when units reach a certain amount of veterancy! It's pretty neat.

Archonex posted:

You'd think he'd realize that he'd win more supporters if he had used that enhanced intelligence to petition some of the other factions like the Border Kingdoms into his crusade against the Chaos Dwarfs.

Then again, that ain't krumpin.

Sasgrillo posted:

Is the AR broken again? I had a Level 40 Kroq Gar and his Stegadon doomstack go up against an unoccupied Tier 2 Skaven settlement and it was split nearly 55-45 in my favor. Or is it just lolskaven?

Vargs posted:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1523125314

Arcsquad12 posted:

I never liked how Mark of Chaos and Age of Reckoning both tried to make Chaos and Greenskins allies.

Collapsing Farts posted:

Yeah Orks are way more chaotic. Also more fun. And way cooler. They never really get to be the main villains though, that always seems to be Chaos

I hope the fantasy orcs get some more love as well. They didn't really get any cool stuff in Age of Sigmar. I'd like to see them get more cool stuff like the Rogue Idol and weird Squigmonster variants

tgacon posted:

Nuffle

Cythereal posted:

I'm pretty sure the Imperial Guard are. Hordes of expendable chaff backed up by powerful war machines, artillery, and unreliable weapons that may fry their owners, all backed by a civilization of turboNazis who have zero regard for anyone's lives but their own and live in a society characterized by relentless ambition and backstabbing.

Communist Thoughts posted:

I'm disappointed by how many TW warhammer characters just have shouty deep voices cause I always imagined malekith in particular to have a high pitched nerd whine

Sasgrillo posted:

It's definitely a YMMV situation right now. I've had several campaigns with one or all the following happen:
-Reikland does nothing and gets rolled by Vampires or Norsca.
-Dwarfs are killed off around-ish turn 50 by Skaven or Greenskins.
-High Elves overrun by Mortahi, sometimes very early on like turn 40ish.
-Bretonnia KO'd by turn 10 from Marienburg or World Walkers.

It doesn't help that CA did something to diplomacy and now it's virtually impossible to get anyone to deal with you without very high relations. But especially with how early and fast maluses like Great Power will stack so when you meet Reikland or Dwarfs you're likely at -60 or -80 and that's not even adding the likely aversion penalty.

Also kudos because I would have just ended my campaign right there after the avalanche of order tide war decs.

chaleski posted:

I'm glad Brettonia isn't stronger because playing against a faction that is cav and flying cav based isn't fun imo

Fangz posted:

A horse riding a horse

Third World Reagan posted:

A group of peasants complaining about shoes but with AKs for everybody

Gonkish posted:

Bretonnia needs to confederate less conveniently when I'm trying to murder them off. loving Louen is always like "YOU THOUGHT I WAS DOOMED, BUT NO!" whenever I get him down to one city that is under siege. loving notFrench horse fuckers. I will burn-kill your world-barn down with warpfire!

Cythereal posted:

I asked the guy I've been talking to about a Bretonnia revamp since the thread and discord's been talking about it, this was his response:

quote:

GW sees Bretonnia as a kind of newbie faction for the franchise. If you like medieval knights and archers and trebuchets without any weird monsters or steampunk or guns, Bretonnia is here for you.

KazigluBey posted:

Yeah I can get this, cool. I think that's where I stand too.


As someone posting "more is good" thanks for the direct reply to what I was asking to people on that side, but to follow-up: Isn't going by raw numbers kind of a bad way to look at it? Because not only does that ignore the fuzziness of some units being variants (as someone else posted, this actually brings the Brett (and other faction) roster down a fair few units) but also it just seems kinda'... Arbitrary? I asked "where is the line" to anyone arguing that "having more toys is always a plus" because it seems to me that since nobody is really arguing for making every faction all-rounders then additions do need some kind of justification.

orangelex44 posted:

I'm pretty willing to die on the hill that "dwarf" is a stupid word, and that it's purely exposure that means no one notices. It's really really hard to come up with fictional names for anything, because people's first reaction to new words is generally unfavorable. Doubly so if those words don't quite follow standard grammatical rules.

orangelex44 posted:

It turns out it's really hard to google for this, so I'm going to have to just point to the previous ~10 posts as anecdotal evidence. That, combined with the fact that English has ~1.5 billion speakers (and ~350 million native speakers) to potentially generate new terms/phrases/words, the language itself adds around ~1000 words per year. However, the large majority of those are either new usages of existing words (what does "literally" even mean), minor alterations (adding a suffix, making a compound word, extremely common misspellings/respellings, etc.), loan words from another language, technical/specialist reference words (such as all the military and nautical terms), or spillover from product names (e.g. "to web search" became "to google"). Very few words come out of nowhere, and even among those that hit the dictionary a lot of them don't penetrate to the common lexicon.

Zaphod42 posted:

Diplomacy is the biggest area of potential improvement IMO. I wouldn't mind if they just froze everything else basically as-is and worked full time on diplomacy for the next game.

AnEdgelord posted:

For Tomb Kings they still have Apophas as potential legendary lord number 5 and he has a built in reason to go globetrotting.

quote:

However, being of noble birth, Apophas was able to strike a bargain with Usirian,

So just say that he found some particularly evil prick out east that he hopes he can use to buy his way out of eternal damnation

ChickenHeart posted:

If I were CA/GW I'd just shamelessly rip-off Sekiro. Gimmie a run-down kingdom knee-deep in civil war over the secrets of eternal life (which turn out to be fueled by centipede Chaos magic).

That would give you a great mixture of down-to-earth units like swordsmen and gunners led by giant warlords weilding wacky powers, while allowing you to go hog-wild with poo poo like headless ghosts, chaos monks, and captured monsters that you guide into enemy formations before sending them into a berserk rage.

DourCricket posted:

As someone who just finished a Khalida campaign like a week ago I was quite surprised to learn Neferata WASN'T in the game somewhere considering just how frequently she asked me to bring her NEFERATA'S HEAD


Joke context for those who haven't played as Khalida - her one of five~ barks on the campaign map when you select her is her shouting at you to bring her Neferata's head, with the volume raising significantly the last two words

Kaiju Cage Match posted:

Aztec dinosaurs with laser beams have universal appeal.