Total War: Warhammer

With IE coming up, be aware there are several mods out there reducing the number of minor settlement battles you deal with. There's plenty others but some seem to not have been updated in a while:

non-port, non-walled minor settlements will be field battles: Steam Workshop::More Land Battles

all non-port minor settlements will be field battles: Steam Workshop::Minor settlement become land battles.

Was looking for updates on my favorite mod and thought it was interesting how the old factions from WH 1 & 2 are getting in the way for modders:

Burns said:

Was looking for updates on my favorite mod and thought it was interesting how the old factions from WH 1 & 2 are getting in the way for modders:

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Oof

Burns said:

Was looking for updates on my favorite mod and thought it was interesting how the old factions from WH 1 & 2 are getting in the way for modders:

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I read that a few days ago, and yeah, this thing musta been a real burn out to the end for them.

This thing is salvageable, they've heard 1000 times by now what people dont like about it.

Pushed myself to campaign turn 106 with Tzeentch. Dunno if I'm gonna see this bear or whatever before Immortal Empires.

Does that mean WH3 comes out tomorrow?

sadris said:

Does that mean WH3 comes out tomorrow?

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Pretty much.

Still need mods to kill those stupid siege battles and I'll probably wait until at least the Radious mod is updated (in a couple weeks). Unfortunately (for me), it looks like SFO mod will take 6+ months to get to the same level its at in WH2.

Welp, I couldn't make myself finish the base campaign before immortal empires came out. It is official.

It's live.

Patch notes.


Womp Womp
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TRAITS (GENERAL)​

DEV NOTE:
While the WARHAMMER II version of Knowledgeable invited all sorts of abusive behaviours, the stricter caps on Winds of Magic in WARHAMMER III were probably an overcorrection that resulted in the new Knowledgeable trait feeling quite weak. As such, we’ve not only reworked the trait to focus on experience rather than magic, but also positioned the Magical Reserves skill (shared by nearly all spellcasters) as a means to increase your maximum Winds of Magic capacity.

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There is an issue from previous game's DLC/FLC. You need to do the following to get access to them

RIGHT CLICK WH1 & WH2 - PROPERTIES - UNCHECK & THEN RECHECK BOXES TO REDOWNLOAD & THEN THE GAME WILL SEE THEM

This reeks of campaign getting bugged out cuz of a patch later to me:




But this looks beautiful:




Now if they'd only listen and not be stubborn, and only do campaign themes approved by hyper lore heads.

Awesome, only 3-6 more months of waiting to see if it's fun.

Burren said:

Awesome, only 3-6 more months of waiting to see if it's fun.

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ya as much as I love being on turn 126 and a campaign gets hosed by a patch.....

I think WH3 has broken my 7 year addiction to this game. I played and turns of a dwarf IE campaign and logged out with no desire to play anything else.

Julian The Apostate said:

I think WH3 has broken my 7 year addiction to this game. I played and turns of a dwarf IE campaign and logged out with no desire to play anything else.

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It does feel like a continuation of the first without enough "newness"

and the new stuff like the tower/barricade mini game def ain't the right move


For instance consider a larger scale 5+ army required assault on the Cathay wall with new and much improved siege AI

Julian The Apostate said:

I think WH3 has broken my 7 year addiction to this game. I played and turns of a dwarf IE campaign and logged out with no desire to play anything else.

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Yeah, I know the feeling. I just played 10 turns of a new Festus campaign, and it's already left me pretty indifferent.

There's obviously so much that needs tweaking, fixing, revision, rethinking and outright removal (hi there stupid tower defense settlement battles) that it's really hard to enjoy TW:W3 even with Immortal Empires.

Plus, Creative Assembly has taken a page from the Blizzard playbook and are aggressively nerfing any old elements that might make you play the game the "wrong" way. There's the massive nerf to the Knowledgeable trait Muurloen noted above (among many, many other trait nerfs), the removal of free skellies from Vampire Counts, and dozens of other little edits that each make the game a little less fun to play than TW:W2.

Quick example: for Warriors of Chaos the Dragon Ogres, Dragon Ogre Shaggoths, and Hellcannons are all "gifted" units now - you're capped to a max of 6 for most armies. I guess that's payback for the years and years of Shaggoth doomstacks being one of the few viable WoC army compositions. However, not only are you restricted in the number of those units you can bring in any one army, there are no techs to improve those units anymore. Your lord's red-line skills are the only buffs they get. Giants and trolls, however, get a those same red-line skills AND a massive +15% damage boost and 25% missile resist via the tech tree. So fuck you for liking Dragon Ogres, I guess. (EDIT: It looks like I might be wrong on this - I was looking through the .pack files and there might be a tech for them, but only for certain WoC factions? Dunno, but my point is they're making tons of weird little changes for no clear reason.)

Maybe this will be good by Christmas or the 1-year anniversary of the game's release? Maybe modders will continue slogging through the endless sea of data tables to make this less of a chore to play? I don't know, but I'm already looking at going back to that Beastmen campaign I was messing around with in TW:W2 the other week.

I tried to load that turn 106 tzeentch campaign up just to see.... and yup it crashes the entire game on load LOL

Nirgon said:

I tried to load that turn 106 tzeentch campaign up just to see.... and yup it crashes the entire game on load LOL

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They usually have a roll back feature, if you want to finish an old game (or is that Stellaris I am thinking of?). It's the same place you switch to the beta build.

Cant get the new DLC heroes to show up for the campaigns after it says it installed them

Watched a few Legends stream replays. Consensus is, TW2 is still a better game. Not surprised.