Asehujiko posted:

In my experience, you'll want to pretty much immediately prepare a nuke under Itza(vortex) and Miriblablabla(ME), especially the latter because there's no way you're going to break Tilea's fyouull stack+giant garrison with the units you have available by turn 12.

OwlFancier posted:

I think my main complaint is literally just having them on the field would make any high value units kinda crap, you don't really need to think about it, just have them target the high value unit and it dies eventually.

Accuracy enough to hit mass troops and things like giant monsters or artillery teams with a few volleys, that's fine, and a situational ability to let them snipe out lords is also fine because you can micro around that kind of accuracy, but them having that accuracy all the time puts the attention requirement waaaay to far in the favour of the person with the weapon team.

Jezzails would still be very effective if they were less accurate, being 100% accurate or near enough at their range just makes them broken against lords and things in a way that nothing else in the game is. They're literally as good as buffed cannons are now, while also being way better against infantry.

juggalo baby coffin posted:

so far my plagueclaw catapults are still outperforming my ratling guns

the ratling guns can melt stuff if its in their optimal range, but they take forever to move and change targets, and shielded units can push up on them pretty well. its harder to keep them protected (for me at least) by melee units, cause unlike bowmen or slingers or catapults, putting your rats between your gunners and the enemy stops them firing effectively.

Luminous Cow posted:

I stuck out an Ikit campaign for 100 turns but man I just absolutely HATE the food mechanic. Campaign abandoned. Ikit and the new Skaven units are super fun though.

AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:

In basegame news, the Skaven under-empire buildings got nerfed completely into the ground. The basic food building, "Skavenger Raiders" produced 2 food; it now produces 1. The basic money building "Warp-Token Stash" didnt cost a food upkeep; now it does. The first tier of % income building now has 1 food upkeep, instead of none; tier 2 now has 2 food upkeep instead of 1. The Under-Empire expanding building now has a steep money and food upkeep where previously it was minor. All of the advanced/unique buildings that add a smattering of small bonuses now all have prohibitively expensive money and food upkeep.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

I wish Ikit was nearly as fun as he seemed from the trailer

TaintedBalance posted:

Despite some protestations of others, yes, this is the "balanced" doom stack that does a good job of balancing how completely insane Ikit weapon team/artillery teams are with how micro/macro good you need to be at understanding it. If you're new to skaven, this will work very well and once you understand this comp, you can start trying some of the other ones. I personally roll:

4 Ratling Guns
2 Warplock Jezzails
2 Warpfire
3 Doomwheels
3 Plague Priests
2 Plaguefire Catapults
1 Lightening Warp Cannon
1 Poisonwind Mortar
1 Engineer
1 Ikit Claw

Mostly because I like watching Warpfire weapon teams melt enemies and the Warp Cannons are fun to watch snipe dragons out of the sky. They're all good once you understand their roles. Ultimately range is king in single player and skaven are the best at it.

Dr Christmas posted:

Why does initiating a lightning strike on a lone army sometimes decrease autoresolve odds? It puts a penalty on the defending army.

Vagabong posted:

Them blowing up the old fantasy world would of been alot easier to swallow if it was because the Orks won. They rule.

TheLastRoboKy posted:

The real End Times is whichever playthrough you did of TWW1 or 2 where you hilariously beat Archaon up. For me it's always that one very angry tree man marched up and beat them all up before they could even leave the Chaos wastes.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

It's better but honestly all the mainline GW games not named "Lord of the Rings" suck and have always sucked gameplay wise.

MonsterEnvy posted:

The Blissbarb Archers cover that well.

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.

Noir89 posted:

Ah yes the classic"Heh this thing you enjoy is maybe not for you? "

Or maybe, just maybe, it is ok to like different things?

Eimi posted:

I thought the Farsight enclave was still around and his entire thing was that he was stuck in his mech suit for too long and he stopped breathing the mind control pheromones.

NewMars posted:

The greatest concentration of beastmen is said to be the warhammer equivalent of antarctica. Can anyone say new, penguin themed overhaul?

Comrade Blyatlov posted: