toasterwarrior posted:

Can't go wrong with the 4 Halberdiers/4 Handgunners/4 Reiksguard Knights core. Add in a wizard, some Demigryphs, and your arty of choice, and baby you got a combined arms stew going. Even works with SFO's army caps option, for limiting insane doomstacks.

Zzulu posted:

The Grom campaign is so god drat fun

His cauldron is great. So many ways to make the goblins powerful.

SuperKlaus posted:

I've come to realize I like Lizardmen not just for giant dinosaurs as giant dinosaurs, but because their giant dinosaurs are readily distinguishable even when I'm zoomed out and taking a strategic view of the battle. So many other factions have fights where I just feel like I'm watching specks mosh with other specks or maybe shoot grey lines at specks, but with Lizards I can see my cool stuff fighting and smashing while still keeping an eye on the bigger picture. I even like Nakai as a lord just for being huge.

What other faction should I play for lots of Really Really Big Men?

JT Jag posted:

Welp, I think a glitch might have ruined my SFO campaign. I confederated Yvresse in my SFO Tyrion playthrough, and Eltharion's character info says he should have the talisman of hoeth, but the item doesn't seem to be anywhere. And without the talisman Eltharion doesn't get half his stuff.

(and for the record, I didn't inherit the quest for it when I confederated him either. He was wounded when I confederated, maybe that borked something)

Jimmy Noskill posted:

Is there a goon consensus on SFO? I've always been of the "less is more, vanilla+" philosophy when it comes to modding, but I like the idea of many of the rebalances and changes that differentiate the factions. Does it actually work out in practice? Are the changes seamless and well-polished, or are things super janky and stick out like a sore thumb?

Crazy Joe Wilson posted:

Most Elves in the levees of Ulthuan aren't thousands of years old, they might be 100 or 200 tops. Pretty sure Tyrion and Teclis aren't even over 500. Elves are always getting into so many fights that most of their older folks are either at home wounded or dead.

dogstile posted:

It's amazing how the elves think they're so superior when they seem to be just as bad as humans on the whole diplomacy thing.

Dr Christmas posted:

While the Wood Elves needed a rework, their needed changes were probably less extensive than the ones needed by Beastmen and Chaos Warriors.

If I was to describe Naggaroth as “Like North America, it all of North America was ____,” what would be the funniest and/or most accurate answer to the blank be? Nova Scotia?

punishedkissinger posted:

personally i think the demons should have chaos titties AND chaos penises

Zzulu posted:

Bloodletters should have huge swinging dongs imo

Flavahbeast posted:

why does it take him so long to realize that the Druchii are following the true phoenix king

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

isn't that basically Warhammer?

AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:

I really hope that they do come up with something so that they can force the AI to not have abominable armies of like 10 Empire artillery pieces & 10 Greatswords; 16 Bwettonian cavalry; 15 Skaven Weapons Teams; a smattering of VCount top tier units that they raise from a site; and so on.

Cpt_Obvious posted:

Think about using the underway as a form of looted transportation. Instead of stealing a busted up land raider and slapping some pointy bits all over it, they found a dwarven tunnel entrance and slapped some pointy bits all over it.

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

Why is the AI so bad at levelling up legendary lords? Just look at this poo poo. It took forever to get him to confed and by the time he agrees he's just garbage.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

I mean, that's on Epic. It is a bad platform.

AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:

JT Jag posted:

My Ikit Claw game is going great. Running a lord, 2 plague priests, 2 warlock engineers, a frontline of 4 Ratlings with a Warpstone Thrower in the middle, 4 Plague-Wind Mortars, 3 Jessails, 2 Catapults and one Cannon. The warlock engineers amp the weapon team firing speed to an insane level, every battle looks like the invasion of Normandy. I got the Priests kinda late so I haven't gotten them their cauldrons yet, which means they aren't as survivable as I'd prefer yet especially for the role of going ahead of the front line and tarpitting with their summons, but I can see their potential already.

Got two fully-geared up doomstacks to that spec and I can almost afford a third by turn ~80. I've completely infiltrated the entirety of the Wood Elf forest and a good chunk of the southern Empire with undercities. Haven't touched the Border Princes yet because I wanted to gently caress up members of the ordertide a bit first before I expanded, and food's getting to be a bit of a problem.

JT Jag posted:

POV: You Are Grimgor Ironhide, And You Have A Huge Rat Problem



"Close Victory"


Clan Skryre is fun as hell.

EthanSteele posted:

There's definitely some units that feel like they're not great until you hit a critical mass and suddenly they're the best thing in the game.

For me that's bats and vargheists. They feel useless if you have like 2 of each, but when you have 4 bats and 3 vargheists they can crash into dwarves and then 10 seconds later they fly off and there's a shattered unit there like a skeleton left behind by looney toons piranha. Obviously pretty much any combo of 7 units will do that, but it's fun when its flyers! And that was before Isabella got the move to turn them into amazing shock... cavalry?? I guess the better term would be hammers cos that's 100% of the Vamp lineup, either anvil (zombie, skelton, armoured skeleton, skeleton hero) or hammer (literally everything else).

Wish I didn't need a tier 5 building for +1 banshee, but maybe they are that good and I don't know how to use them properly because I'm bad.

Arcsquad12 posted:

I know Okoii uses a mod to remove the hero cap from armies but I've been messing around with a Grimgor + Blorc Big Boss stack and they are super good hero units. Their melee defense and armour stats are insanely good and they're great at killing undead or stubborn armies by just mulching through infantry and ganking monsters. Plus it's very easy to boost your hero cap for them so you'll have plenty running around smashing poo poo up.

Ra Ra Rasputin posted:

So reading people's game experience with legendary chaos invasions a running theme seems to be the dark elves being wiped out within a few turns of chaos showing up, to the point it's a meme

Has anyone tried very hard chaos invasions? do the dark elves still get wiped out? does kislev easily hold back a very hard invasion?
I imagine it's something that'll end up patched by the next major bug fix patch with just how consistently they get destroyed in such a short time of them showing up.

Unlucky7 posted:

So I had a battle yesterday that only amounted to a close victory despite it being an ambush. Granted, they were a bunch of human pirates with muskets, musket calvery, and cannons.

Still, I think I need to ask at this point: How do I Rat? As far as I can tell, Clanrats should be my backbone, though I do have Night Runners unlocked, though they seem rather expensive comparatively.

sauer kraut posted:

Do the Nightwatch buildings help detect undercities only in their little region or the whole province?
Are they even worth building? So far I've never encountered an undercity in the wild, outside of the very early one playing Tyrion. That is probably scripted to always be there.
WH2 is pretty brutal even on normal compared to the first one