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2020/04/27 19:31:29
Subject: Total War Shogun 2 - FREE - limited period
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Creative Arts have made their outstanding Total War Shogun 2 game FREE on Steam until 1st May
store.steampowered.com/app/201270/Total_War_SHOGUN_2
This is an outstanding wargame and a powerful sequel to the game that began the TW legacy. Grab it now!
All the DLC is also 75% off for this period as well - including the big updates like Rise of the Samurai which is only just under £2 right now (all the DCL is just under £10).
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This message was edited 4 times. Last update was at 2020/04/27 19:32:45
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2020/04/27 23:24:45
Subject: Total War Shogun 2 - FREE - limited period
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Owns Whole Set of Skullz Techpriests
Versteckt in den Schatten deines Geistes.
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Downloading it.
And 75% off on the DLC? Good deal.
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2020/04/28 08:01:30
Subject: Total War Shogun 2 - FREE - limited period
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The Dread Evil Lord Varlak
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Watch out for realm divide and don't loot!
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https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/766717.page
A Mostly Renegades and Heretics blog.
GW:"Space marines got too many options to balance, therefore we decided to legends HH units."
Players: "why?!? Now we finally got decent plastic kits and you cut them?"
Chaos marines players: "Since when are Daemonengines 30k models and why do i have NO droppods now?"
GW" MONEY.... erm i meant TOO MANY OPTIONS (to resell your army to you again by disalowing former units)! Do you want specific tyranid fighiting Primaris? Even a new sabotage lieutnant!"
Chaos players: Guess i stop playing or go to HH. |
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2020/04/28 11:02:32
Subject: Re:Total War Shogun 2 - FREE - limited period
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Dakka Veteran
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I think I have four other Total War games in my library that I have never played, but free is a good price. Thanks! 
I did play a fair bit of Medieval 2 Total War Kingdoms after I moved house last year and had no internet. I managed to wipe out the Jehovah-worshiping nations and spread Paganism throughout all of Europe 
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2020/04/28 14:43:02
Subject: Total War Shogun 2 - FREE - limited period
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Knight of the Inner Circle
Montreal, QC Canada
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I was upset when I missed the discounted Warhammer last week as I was finally going to buy it (Never pay full price for games!!!)...but free?! Oh yeah, I know what I'm playing now.
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2020/04/28 15:21:09
Subject: Re:Total War Shogun 2 - FREE - limited period
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Executing Exarch
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Also worth noting -
Every other Total War release except for those connected to the Warhammer games (discounted last week) and Three Kingdoms (the most recent game) is heavily discounted right now.
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2020/04/28 18:29:01
Subject: Re:Total War Shogun 2 - FREE - limited period
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Shadowy Grot Kommittee Memba
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 Bilge Rat wrote:I think I have four other Total War games in my library that I have never played, but free is a good price. Thanks!
I did play a fair bit of Medieval 2 Total War Kingdoms after I moved house last year and had no internet. I managed to wipe out the Jehovah-worshiping nations and spread Paganism throughout all of Europe
I do love me some Shogun 2, but I feel like it didn't hold the hours for me that other total war games did because it was too....I think the word is, good? Shogun 2 is one of the few total wargames that doesn't do one of two things
1) present you with a totally impossible task of conquering a ridiculously gigantic world that would take 5,000 hours to totally conquer (Warhammer, Rome 2)
2) Present you with an absolute clownfiesta of exploitable mechanics that allow for the kind of crazy situations that are fun precisely because of how blatantly and obviously unintended they are (Medieval 2, Empire)
When I look back...I spent the most time on category 2 total war games, by very very far. To me, nothing beats the Elephants Conquer Europe empire run.
step 1: Play as an indian faction
Step 2: Discover europe, wait for the inevitable trade request of one of your indian territories for a european territory
Step 3: purposefully lose your indian territories or trade them for moar europe
step 4: Get elephants. Once you get elephant units they are the only military units you are allowed.
Stomple your foes to the dust with full stack armies of 150 elephants fighting armies of 1500 soldiers.
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"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"
"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"
"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"
"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!" |
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2020/04/30 03:58:42
Subject: Total War Shogun 2 - FREE - limited period
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Owns Whole Set of Skullz Techpriests
Versteckt in den Schatten deines Geistes.
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So it turns out that Fall of the Samurai or whatever the one with that great trailer that cuts from "Super folded steel katana!" to "Look at this Gatling gun! YEEHAW!" half-way through, is a stand-alone expansion. Didn't know that.
But it's also 75% off, thankfully, including all its DLC.
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2020/04/30 05:52:44
Subject: Total War Shogun 2 - FREE - limited period
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Executing Exarch
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 H.B.M.C. wrote:So it turns out that Fall of the Samurai or whatever the one with that great trailer that cuts from "Super folded steel katana!" to "Look at this Gatling gun! YEEHAW!" half-way through, is a stand-alone expansion. Didn't know that.
But it's also 75% off, thankfully, including all its DLC.
When it was released it was a stand-alone expansion. But when Creative Assembly announced the Saga format, it was switched over to that category as the first of the Saga games.
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2020/04/30 15:18:51
Subject: Total War Shogun 2 - FREE - limited period
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Owns Whole Set of Skullz Techpriests
Versteckt in den Schatten deines Geistes.
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Not sure what a Saga game is, TBH.
And Steam still says it's a game that does not require the original to play.
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2020/04/30 15:33:26
Subject: Total War Shogun 2 - FREE - limited period
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Terrifying Doombull
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Saga games are their smaller scale, 'experimental' games- Thrones of Britannia and the upcoming Troy.
https://www.totalwar.com/blog/a-total-war-saga-announce-blog/
They dressed it up for the blog, but I suspect its more an internal designation where they let the C team screw around with ideas that they'll port into future games if people like them, rather than take risks with real titles.
I think three kingdoms benefited from some of the trial and error of Thrones, but that's all Thrones really amounted to.
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