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yooooo this game is amazing ive played like 150 hours in two weeks.

ive done most campaigns on hard except havent tried the Empire at all yet.

Looking to play some online battles and/or campaigns online soon.

Online battles look neat. Anyone else addicted?

I'm trying to find the strength to move on and accept that my super general isn't going to survive this siege. Haven't loaded the game in the past week.

im playing on Legendary difficulty now (after very hard)

cant pause during fights and cant save the game, it autosaves at everyturn and after everyfights so if you ****up you cant just "LUL RELOAD"

honestly this makes it so much more fun and chaotic i was addicted to saving and reloading.

and no pauses during fights makes it super intense and great practice for online battles.

on legendary i just open the save game folder and cut/paste the files in and out. its too much time to waste just to have one stupid mistake cost you an army, especially as chaos.

great game, but after beating the campaign as dwarfs and chaos im not really interested in doing the others. i get really irritated with having to read through 100's of bonuses to pick the right one, and every turn having several guys level up - especially agents.

also, isnt there supposed to be an elf faction?

theyll probably come in an expansion or a paid DLC.

I know the next (free and soon) DLC should have Brittonia (britonnia is already a playable faction in multiplayer)

I think empire and vampire are the two most interesting so far for what it's worth.


I still think quarrelers are super overpowered in the campaign to almost every other options of any faction so far :O (shielded and semi armored ranged units that are strong in melee too? wtF)
but then again I didnt get to demigryphs yet

*Bretonnia

yeah that

Yeah, def agree that vampires are super unique and interesting. Haven't gotten into the empire campaign much as I found the beginning a really tough grind.

Bretonnia going to be the first DLC fo sho, then basically a paid DLC for the rest of the factions. I have little faith this will actually bring much to be desired. I've always thought these small DLC's in past total wars were really meh, but the ones that brought a new campaign map were essentially a new game and totally worth it (Charlemagne, wrath of sparta, last roman)

Game looks epic. I have a few questions before I purchase it, or not.

I've never played a game in this genre, how friendly is the UI? Will I just be super confused? I don't play many video games overall. How much micromanagement is involved in terms of needing like reasonable APM on a scale from 1 easy to 10 hard? The closer to 1 the better, I'm not good at games that require quick actions. (To clarify, micromanagement isn't an issue, I'm fine playing XCOM because there are turns.) Might have more questions, let's start here.

The UI is somewhat friendly and not too cumbersome but the system is pretty deep without too much information given about the most indepth mechanics.

Lots of good youtube videos for people new to total war though I learned a lot from the total war reddit and especially one guy's youtube channel
( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg3...BE9hA9EWYTgtAg )

you can pause during battles to issue orders unless you're on legendary difficulty (above very hard)

Also cant online but its not exactly a game made for multiplayer battles.

Alright, I don't care about legendary or anything. So just a normal difficulty level I can pause and set all of my current orders as much as I'd like, yeah? I've mostly just seen the battles, there's also an empire building aspect, right? I'll probably buy it soon. Looks like a game I'd enjoy.

yup you can do that and pause every two seconds if you want.

its basically two games, one you do the whole campaign map movement/buildings/economy/diplomacy/recruiting dudes and heroes

but you can decide to autoresolve some fights that the game calculates outcomes and casualties (I recommend not doing it too much unless the powerbar says its super one sided and a waste of time, kills some of the fun in the game otherwise if you autoresolve everything)

battles are basically half of the game imo, and the most fun usually.

You'll probably start your campaigns scummy-save-reloading a lot after making facepalm mistakes on the campaign map but thats part of it unless you put self-disciplined rules (or play legendary -.-)

Is there a faction which is easier to start playing? I played the old Medieval years ago so I am little out of touch. I tried few games with Imperium so far but now the enemy which has 3 cities of your region has a full army already in the 2nd city. So it probably takes few tries since i only have one cavalry squadron so far.

The two Id recommend to start off with are either greenskins or dwarfs, theyre basically the two biggest rivals so you can play one then the other in your next campaign and you'll learn a lot, etc.


Greenskins basically always want to fight or they suffer attrition (as if they fight each other when theres no enemy army ), but if they engage in battles a lot and win enough they even spawn a "waaagh", basically a second AI army that follows you. You can imagine how the greenskins are just one giant red unstoppable snowball if you can get things going your way.

Dwarves dont have cavalry which is one of the most fun type of units in the game (you can basically run through units and send them flying and then regroup of melee and go charge something else) but they have very high leadership(morale), which means they dont rout easily/run away in battle.

Right now dwarves kind of have boring lategame due to the fact that thier lategame technology units are pretty damn bad for the cost and upkeep (patch soon might buff them a bit). But theyre super solid early. They can trade for economy like the vampires and empire, unlike the greenskins or chaos. Also their position and diplomacy isnt bad so even ifi their lategame composition sucks theyre still not the hardest to play and win a campaign with. Probably the simplest faction to start off with.


Both of these factions also very often use a ton of "underway" passage, basically they can move underground on the campaign map to travel through obstacles and dont suffer attrition in some terrain. But they can also catch either in the underground and once you take a fight there theres no surviving troops for the losers.

as Empire I think you should just go and crush that first secessionist army.

Go and fight them on your first turn, then stay just barely in your territory as they run away to their settlement. By doing that you can see that your troops are recuperating, then next turn finish them off.

The one cavalry that you start off with is EXTREMELY strong against early units, super high armor and charge bonus. Use em wisely n' ****.

ps: one of the most important thing to learn early is how the charge/fast movement command works (R)

omfg I learned today you can "teleport" to the special unique item quests you dont have to run through hell and back

^Yeah I did the same at first.

Few complaints of mine -

Auto resolve is so over powered,. You can beat an entire legendary campaign without a single manually resolved battle. I just finished off chaos as the empire, and they dont even bother to assault your settlements that they besiege. Instead of getting a defensive manually fought battle whose odds you can defy, they just sit there trying to starve you out. All you need to do is bring a few stacks of garbage armies and auto resolve it. That goes for any situation - hire the cheap units in bulk and auto resolve everything. It makes you not have any incentive for the top tier units, which very often are extremely overpriced and not that effective (excluding chaos I guess).

Defeating chaos is not difficult at all for this reason. Their biggest threat to you is the corruption, and its more annoying than challenging. I guess chaos and archaeon are supposed to be like the huns and attila in the last total war, but attila is pretty tough and challenging to take down on the hardest difficulty while archaeon isn't at all.

yeah either you impose self-made rules about not cheesing autoresolve tactics (like full stacks of bad units) or you fight battles that arent super one sided.

Or they patch it (should be a big one soon cant wait for it).

fisrt big patch and adding blood knights to VC

http://wiki.totalwar.com/w/Total_War_WARHAMMER_Update_1

I really like the nerfs to demigryphs and crypt horrors for multiplayer.

Dwarfs and overall artillery still seem very weak for that though.

I bet some of the units that got buffed a lot will be OP (chaos horse marauders?!)

Just got this game and its fun as hell, Kirby you still playing?

ive been playing 14 hours a day of PoE for the past 2 months but im guessing theyve added a truckload of content might have to get back to it soon

are the wood elves pretty NEAT?