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Kislev is, IIRC, not an Empire faction. You can't confederate with them.
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I got lucky with my last ritual invasion - the skaven popped up next to Kroq-gar, and for some reason underway-stanced past him. One at a time. He got the interception every time.
It felt a little unfair, to be honest. They didn't stand a chance.
I also was massively overprepared for the final battle, since I'd had it spoiled that you take on four full stacks together. Mazdamundi and his ever-present scar veteran bodyguard were both level 40, and all his troops were triple-gold veterans; not only that, but I had him sail around and grab a bunch of stat-boosting treasures beforehand, so every single soldier was regenerating with bonus melee defense, offense, and armor. It was the curbstomp to end all curbstomps. Still fun, though, and a satisfying end. His personal retinue of temple guards and his long-suffering solar engine bastiladon both even lived to see the victory screen!
edited 1st Oct '17 2:49:48 PM by Hydrall
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Speaking of the final ritual battle, I'm getting there. The High Elves failed but the Dark Elves and I are now in a race. Hopefully some of the Chaos factions attacking them end up destroying a vital city.
But man I wish confederations was easier. Lizardmen control most of Lustria but neither of the factions will confederate with me.
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The filidh that cam frae Skye
So I've finally been lured by CA's siren song and I'm thinking of getting this game.
Alas, the two games together cost $150 and the Halloween Sale is so far away... 
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And that 150 likely doesn't include all the races either :(
They are really fun though. Probably the most fun I've had playing Total War in a really long time.
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Just confirming that Kislev aren't an Empire faction. They're a separate country, the Russia/Poland to the Empire's Holy Roman Empire on steroids.
Have to agree with the Teclis campaign being a lot of fun, although now I've basically befriended everyone around me, and am just happily stomping out Skaven, exploring the seas, building a bank and setting up rituals. Do the 10k gold intervention armies world well? I think I sent a few 2ks off to do something once and they completely ignored the ritual site right next to them, picked a fight with a Dark Elf stack and lost so badly I was ready to march up there to finish the twit off.
Maybe a secondary assassination stack is in order to swoop in and nuke certain cities...
"...in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
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Yeah, Kislev is like a mix of Poland and Russia.
Anyway, I had probably the biggest battle I'd ever had in a Total War game: 4000 Skaven and 4000 Lizardmen (the lizardmen played by me) defended Hexoatl in a massive battle that we ended up winning. I'm gonna watch that battle again in the replay I saved, 'cuz that was epic XD
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So I was about to start my final ritual, and parked Teclis on a crossroads that would likely be on the way from the spot from which Chaos spawns to one of the ritual sites.
Turns out I parked him right in the middle of said spawning point, and my main lord found himself surrounded by five stacks of Unknown Skaven Clan, all decked out with copious amounts of artillery, plague monks and stormvermin. Luckily I still had a sliver of movement left that allowed me to attack two of them before they all ganged up, but I lost my moon dragon in the process due to gross mismanagement.
Still managed to tank it out in the end, which I think was pretty awesome. Now to survive 18 more turns of the occasional intervention army and a winner is me!
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I'm in a race with the Dark Elves now. I may have to fight two ritual battles together, one to stop the Dark Elves and the other to defend my attempt at the ritual.
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And that's it. I have won the campaign.
Loved the twist to the story, but the final battle was a bit of a disappointment. I get that you can't make it too difficult, and you need to give the players some concessions for such a supposedly long battle, but free heals limited only by a 30-second cooldown, bombs, a perfect defensive position after the first "wave" and unlimited ammo for your archers made the whole thing way too easy. Other than that, really good campaign. Much preferred over Warhammer 1.
Also, FUCK Clan Pestilence. Those assholes have been at me for the entire campaign, sending stack after stack after stack after stack to mess with my stuff. I think they accounted for half the battles I had fought this campaign. I couldn't manage to wipe them off the map even after putting three armies on the job.
At least I get to claim a moral victory by taking the Altar of the Horned Rat from them. That probably pissed in their black cornflakes.
Think I'm gonna start me a Clan Mors campaign. Should be real difficult to adjust to their playstyle after Teclis, though. With High Elves, I could just set up a defensive geometry and have my archers murder everything, but that's not much of an option for Skaven.
In my recent Malekith campaign I think I got something like a thousand kills with that free bomb spell. It really is overpowered as hell if you can land it in the middle of an enemy blob.
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To be honest, I was really hoping you'd keep those abilities after the final battle - so you could use them to finish up your domination victory. 
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I also beat my campaign last night. Mazdamundi bolstered the Great Vortex.
Now, tonight, I'm gonna play Kroq-Gar.
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Thank you, Monty Oum.
Whew, finished Empire on Very Hard (Long victory, even) in 125 turns. The Legitimacy mod made it a lot funner than constantly fighting other Empire factions or trying to herd those cats at End Times if you don't, but I'm still feel like I must have got lucky somewhere around the start.
Now to complete an Orc and Wood Elves game. Probably Orc first because DA GREAT GREEN PROFIT HEHEHEHEHE
edited 3rd Oct '17 1:01:59 PM by VutherA
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Glad that I don't have to go through the tutorial again for Kroq-Gar. Not gonna use it for any of the other campaigns either.
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But you get extra units for sitting through it! Pretty good units, at that.
edited 3rd Oct '17 5:14:25 PM by Hydrall
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Meh.
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Clan Mors campaign had a bit of a rough start. It's pretty darn difficult to get anything done with Elf-things and Kroq-Gar bearing down in me from three different directions. Managed to break out of the stalemate by destroying the Fortress of Dawn when their army was out to attack some lizards up north, but now Lothern is pulling way ahead in rituals.
At least it's getting me to think like a Skaven. I've actually developed Queek to go down the blue path in the skill tree for a bit, because 100% successful ambushes and Lightning Strike are really good things to have when you're rats.
Though their playstyle is way different from the High Elves, they feel pretty powerful in battle. Huge numbers do make up for a lot of lacking in quality, and you get some hefty short-range missile troops to deal with the tougher enemies. Poison Wind globes make Stegadons melt.
Not quite feeling the Warp Fire Thrower, though. It's supposedly this great anti-armour tool, but I have a hard time getting it to actually fire, even when there is seemingly nothing to get in their way. I wonder if they are bugged? I'm still keeping them, however, because when the stars align and they actually do fire, they can get over 60 kills easily, and I once got nearly 130 during a quest battle.
The real stars of the show so far seem to be the night/gutter runners. They've proven to be an invaluable distraction at times, because the AI doesn't quite seem to get how to deal with them. I once had two units kite two Kroxigors around the map on auto-skirmish, and attack once the Kroxigors were exhausted and low on HP after all the throwing stars. Took them down with almost zero losses, and those Krox would've made the fight a lot more difficult for my slave frontline.
I might start over to see if I can get a better start going, but I'm liking these little buggers so far.
EDIT: oh, and BTW, if you are interested in the story of the Vortex campaign, make sure to keep playing for a few more turns after winning. You'll get a little "Epilogue" message, with potentially another twist to the whole thing.
edited 4th Oct '17 5:51:51 AM by Kayeka
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Ah shit, I royally screwed my campaign last night. Clan Mors and I raced to colonize the Golden Tower and I won, only for Queek to declare war the next turn and take it, killing Kroq Gar and his whole army. Guess I'm starting over tonight.
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Huh. I appear to have learned something new today. You know how a unit takes a massive fatigue penalty when climbing a wall using ladders? Turns out they don't take quite as much of a penalty if the ladders are already there!
I keep discovering new and exciting uses for Skaven slaves.
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Yay XD
Anyway, re-started my Kroq-Gar campaign. He's in a great position when it comes to Chaos armies, the Golden Tower pass gives me a great place to fortify and keep them out of the rest of my area.
Now if I can only confederate those two Lizardmen factions near me...
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Serving Crits
Workshop is up and Radious with it.
"The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself." Albert Camus
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Nice.
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Okay, that horde of Chaos armies attacking Hexoatl have been destroyed. Now I have to rebuild all of the cities I lost and I can focus on warring against the Elves again. I've nearly pushed them out of Lustria entirely, though I did just lose an army when Tyrion and another army attacked us together.
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