Total War: General discussion.

Probably not considering her actual existence is dubious (unlike the other characters being real people that are embellished), the only thing she really did was play two doodz against each other, and the announced lack of agents in 3K presumably means that any character will be capable of being put on the battlefield, and I'd imagine they'd think it too much of a stretch to let a woman who did nothing but manipulate also be a combatant.

But I'm not CA I guess

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GODODIN!

So ToB blood and Allegiance update is coming next Wednesday on the 29th.

Oh wow, sync kills, blood events, guts spilling out of stomach wounds...eesh, this might be some of the most gruesome stuff yet.

Perfect time for me to get back into it.

Zhou Yu is up. Check out his abilities.

"Knowledge of the enemy weakens their defences against you!"

...motherfucker.

Dear god, I made a blunder worthy of the history books today.

Currently playing a Rome 2 Divide et Impera campaign with a friend - he's Rome and I'm the Hellenic League (formerly Syracuse).

While the Rome player has been going for parts of the Balkans, I've been kicking the Carthaginians out of Sicily and then Sardinia. Because they refused to make peace, I ended up conquering the province of Africa as well.

Stuff got a bit tricky at this point because after I took the Numidian cities of Capsa and Cirta I was faced with a desert that I could only circumvent via two options: Go along the coast or take the southern road. At this point I had only two armies in the area, so either option would have ended up exposing my newly-gained territories to the Numidians, especially since these jerks can just walk through the desert without getting attrition.

So I fortified my armies and spent some time consolidating my new territories again - then a Numidian army came through the desert.

I had been routing enemy armies left and right up to this, so of course I assumed "This is going to be a cakewalk". The army was standing on a hill just inside the desert, so I would take a bit of attrition, but I was certain this battle would end like all the ones before, especially since I just defended Euphranta at the border of Libya against one of Egypt's former client states.

Cue me losing most of my cavalry to their skirmisher cavalry and my army almost suffering a complete collapse. In the end I won, but just barely. I could have pursued the enemy to wipe them out, but most of my units were heavily damaged and the enemy army had retreated further into the desert. Following them would have brought me into range of the army still waiting in their capital - pursuit could have meant the complete annihilation of this army and the dead of my faction leader - fittingly enough, he had the 'Egotistical' trait, so this disaster made some sense RP-wise. :/

I retreated my army back into Capsa and put my other army on hold in the north until I could bring up more troops. At some point the Numidians moved their second army out of Dimmidi, so one of my generals took it in a night battle, robbing the Numidians of their last settlement and leaving the door to Mauretania wide open.

In the end I persevered, but this one battle could have been an absolute military disaster - I got overconfident and almost paid with my main army and my tyrant's life for it. How many great generals in history got cocky and died as a result?

By the way, this is the current state of the map◊. At some point I'm going to attempt confederating the remaining Hellenic factions, but first I need to consolidate North Africa.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Sep 7th 2018 at 12:53:24 PM

I never realized how fast you can level your army up in Warhammer 2 as the Empire if you know the buildings you need. I'm only around Turn 40 and I've already got Greatswords, Handgunners, Mortars, and other stuff, and I'm going to have Battle Wizards and Reiksguard soon.

So, a friend and I installed Total War: Warhammer today and we might have done the stupidest faction combination for coop we could come up with: Von Carsteins and Empire◊

Suffice to say, most of the game so far has been kind of a diplomatic mess - random factions kept declaring war on the Empire player because of their hatred for me. After he confederated Wissenland and I annexed Averland we seemed to have reached a point at which we're both liked by the same factions.

Our relations with the dwarven factions are finally improving and some of the remaining elector-counts might come around after the confederation penalty wore off - the other ones will have to be subjugated by force.

Wissenland has actually been the Empire player's first territorial gain outside the Reikland - he's been busy consolidating his province and launching an expedition into the nearby mountain range to kick the Crooked Moon goblins out - he almost lost an army to Skarsnik once, but the Wissenland annexation finally gave him the muscle to deal with them for good.

The Beastmen have also been constantly probing our defense - the first two small stacks tried to invade through Helmgart (what's it with Chaos and invading Helmgart?) and were beaten back by Karl Franz - many terms later one larger army tried to invade through the pass south of Pfeildorf, only to be deterred by the massive vampire army outside the settlement. After they retreated I had to get my armies back home - not only was the attrition killing my units, I also kept spreading corruption into his territory.

Now the Beastman army seems to be rampaging through the Border Princes' territories to get to Grenzstadt which is probably my weakest border town right now - I've been fortifying all my settlements, with Wurthbad being a massive fortress at the north of my territory. I just recently took Grenzstadt, so the defenses aren't as strong as elsewhere. Mannfred's already in position to defend it against any southern incursions.

At this point I really need to retool my armies - I've been holding off on that for most of the game to save up some money for my infrastructure. But at some point Chaos might come knocking and I can't keep throwing skeletons and zombies at problems.

Though at the moment our biggest enemy is corruption - well, at least my friend's biggest enemy. The territories north of Sylvania are heavily corrupted and there's some slight vampiric corruption in Nuln and even Altdorf - he's been setting up some temples of Sigmar to deal with the problem, but that means I probably won't be able to properly assist him if he fights in uncorrupted areas.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Sep 10th 2018 at 7:54:30 PM

I’ve been mainly fighting east in my own a empire campaign. Had to conquer Hochland but I’m getting closer and closer to Sylvania.

If you aren't using chariots in Rome 2, you should really try starting. -Roxana (no relation), Egyptian General whose unit of oversized lawnmoversScythed Chariots got 657 kills in a battle

OwO What's this?

It's a very poorly-kept piece of paper.

Fantastical? Could that be a new Warhammer Campaign/Race pack?!

Almost certainly.

My guess is Southern Realms.

Some people's guess◊

By guess I mean hopes.

I hope it's Araby, another human nation that's not Fantasy!Europeans would be awesome.

How much of a roster did Araby have in the tabletop? Because that's always a limiting factor.

Also they'd have to expand the map in both Warhammer 2 and Mortal Empires to fit them because most of Araby isn't on the map, if I recall correctly - and the part that is is occupied by Arkhan right now.

IIRC they had a single very old army book, but how much of Norsca was on the tabletop? So that needn't be a disqualifier.

CA has demonstrated that they can make stuff up quite well and if anyone could do it justice it would be them IMO.

I think this would be a greater obstacle, still who knows what's possible.

I'm pretty sure it was about zero in most cases. Araby, Albion, Cathan, Nippon, the works, nothing on tabletop aside from just maybe the odd Dogs of War model.

This means should GW actually do any of them, they will be certainly making a ton of shit up (which is awesome by me).

I would assume what ever they're previewing next month though probably won't be a fabled faction that GW mostly spoke of only. CA's already missing an "Entire faction which definitely existed in the tabletop game" for the four factions that will certainly release for Warhammer 3, judging by how 1 and 2 went (the existing including Ogres, Chaos Dwarfs, and Daemons of Chaos). Thus, if they actually released a new full faction before 3, I would assume it'd be Border Princes, Estalia, Kislev or Tilea since like Norsca, the roots of them already exist in the game with Empire and just needs further fleshing out in their specific flavour.

Edited by VutherA on Sep 25th 2018 at 3:51:56 PM

This is why I don't identify as a gamer, beyond being a silly thing to do the communities have deep undercurrents of toxicity.

Can we maybe not make generalising statements about people? This nonsense has mainly been driven by people outside the Total War community.

Most of the people doing the review-bombing rarely or never played the game and the subreddit got brigaded by the alt-right after both Arch Warhammer and the Daily Stormer stirred the pot.

Calling for people to be shot into the sun is really crossing the line.

Creative Assembldy also released a statement debunking the original "claims" and the whole thing has already started to die down - again, this nontroversy has mainly been engineered by outside elements.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Sep 25th 2018 at 10:17:29 AM

How? It's a blatantly hyperbolic statement, saying that they should be shot period would be crossing a line because being shot is not beyond the realm of possibility. But on the other hand, the chance of someone realistically dying via being shot into the sun has zero chance of occurring and thus is hardly a serious statement.

I just ignored it because it's clearly ridiculous and unsurprisingly based on false pretenses.

Which is why I personally didn't want to bring it up here in the first place - I was hoping the whole thing would just die down and everyone could go back to enjoying Total War.

And as I said, this wasn't really a community thing - this was outside groups trying to steer another community down the cliffside.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Sep 25th 2018 at 11:18:02 AM