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2016/04/10 11:27:17
Subject: Re:Total War: WARHAMMER- OFFICIAL : page 9 Vampire Counts
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2016/04/28 19:26:49
Subject: Re:Total War: WARHAMMER- OFFICIAL : page 9 Vampire Counts
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2016/04/29 12:04:56
Subject: Total War: WARHAMMER- OFFICIAL : page 9 Vampire Counts
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2016/05/19 14:27:35
Subject: Total War: WARHAMMER- OFFICIAL : page 9 Vampire Counts
After how great Atilla was, I was pretty confident that this game would get great reviews. Cannot wait to play.
"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
2016/05/19 16:57:40
Subject: Total War: WARHAMMER- OFFICIAL : page 9 Vampire Counts
NewTruthNeomaxim wrote: How accessible are these games to newer players? I've never been very good at real-time strategy. :-p
Total War games tend to have a lot of moving parts (the campaign map, the empire management and the actual battle mode) and recent sequels have really only added more and more stuff on top of it. The good news is that none of these parts are particularly complicated by themselves and the game itself is pretty forgiving, especially on the lower difficulties. I would also say that it doesn't really share a tremendous amount with other RTS games which I find are all about multi-tasking. Total War tends to be somewhat more leisurely.
Tldr: it can be a lot but the learning curve is pretty gentle and it is a game that really lets you play at your own pace
2016/05/19 23:59:45
Subject: Total War: WARHAMMER- OFFICIAL : page 9 Vampire Counts
Accessibility for maintstream reviewers means dumbing down.
"Games" are supposed to have a few buttons an d half a dozxen choices, there arwe whole genres beyond this which are by default not "accessible".
This isn't a bad thing, complexity attracts a different type of gamer.
n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
2016/05/25 16:12:13
Subject: Re:Total War: WARHAMMER- OFFICIAL : page 9 Vampire Counts
While this Total War will surely destroy my social life, I think Mark of Chaos/ Battle March were a better visual representation of the Old World. Ofc the game itself was a bit flawed and animations mediocre but I felt the mood much more. Architecture, models, textures, sky, it all reeked of whfb. TWW looks a bit like a glorified mod in comparision.
Still it's a great day when we are alive and can play Total War in the Old World. Now if someone has a million to spare so I can quit my job for a few years and pay off my wife, pm please.
From the initial Age of Sigmar news thread, when its "feature" list was first confirmed:
Kid_Kyoto wrote:
It's like a train wreck. But one made from two circus trains colliding.
A collosal, terrible, flaming, hysterical train wreck with burning clowns running around spraying it with seltzer bottles while ring masters cry out how everything is fine and we should all come in while the dancing elephants lurch around leaving trails of blood behind them.
How could I look away?
2016/05/25 16:32:14
Subject: Total War: WARHAMMER- OFFICIAL : page 9 Vampire Counts
So what are these £1000 plus per miniature costs that the guardian article references? I cant think of anything even remotely close to this - even smaug isn't that costly.
2016/05/25 16:45:44
Subject: Total War: WARHAMMER- OFFICIAL : page 9 Vampire Counts
BlaxicanX wrote: A young business man named Tom Kirby, who was a pupil of mine until he turned greedy, helped the capitalists hunt down and destroy the wargamers. He betrayed and murdered Games Workshop.
2016/05/25 17:02:42
Subject: Total War: WARHAMMER- OFFICIAL : page 9 Vampire Counts
Does that really count? Different game system and also not part of the GW main product line. Thought the article tried to sound positive but actually made it slightly off-putting for a non warhammer fan.
2016/05/25 17:04:19
Subject: Total War: WARHAMMER- OFFICIAL : page 9 Vampire Counts
Definitely not representative. Just going for shock value.
BlaxicanX wrote: A young business man named Tom Kirby, who was a pupil of mine until he turned greedy, helped the capitalists hunt down and destroy the wargamers. He betrayed and murdered Games Workshop.
2016/05/25 17:17:01
Subject: Total War: WARHAMMER- OFFICIAL : page 9 Vampire Counts
Finally got round to installing and playing the game. A little disappointed. The intro video and start of the campaign video got me so excited and then it got to actual gameplay and I was quite let down. Quite poor quality graphics - it actually looks much worse than my copy of Total War: Empire that runs on my Alienware laptop. Will give it a proper go later in the week.
2016/06/03 16:04:56
Subject: Re:Total War: WARHAMMER- OFFICIAL : page 9 Vampire Counts
AdamBridger wrote: Finally got round to installing and playing the game. A little disappointed. The intro video and start of the campaign video got me so excited and then it got to actual gameplay and I was quite let down. Quite poor quality graphics - it actually looks much worse than my copy of Total War: Empire that runs on my Alienware laptop. Will give it a proper go later in the week.
I agree with you chap, Atilla looks much better, I feel they wanted to get Warhammer to run on more systems and have a less realistic look. It still is a fun game mind....just rather hard.
2016/06/03 16:14:49
Subject: Total War: WARHAMMER- OFFICIAL : page 9 Vampire Counts
It works so much smoother for me than any of the other ones, the AI seems noticably better as well.
It seems that they sorted out a lot of the pathing issues as well, the fortifications seem to be less buggy then they were in previous versions of the total war series.
I have really been enjoying it both multiplayer with friends and the single player campaign, my only gripe is that its easy to beat the AI after a few times, but this is the problem with AI isnt it !!
All in all I think its a solid game, I am looking forward to more races.
2016/06/03 16:23:19
Subject: Re:Total War: WARHAMMER- OFFICIAL : page 9 Vampire Counts
Plumbumbarum wrote: While this Total War will surely destroy my social life, I think Mark of Chaos/ Battle March were a better visual representation of the Old World. Ofc the game itself was a bit flawed and animations mediocre but I felt the mood much more. Architecture, models, textures, sky, it all reeked of whfb. TWW looks a bit like a glorified mod in comparision.
Still it's a great day when we are alive and can play Total War in the Old World. Now if someone has a million to spare so I can quit my job for a few years and pay off my wife, pm please.
I still love the Mark of Chaos trailer and the feel was definitely more there. That's more the issue of them talking about things (mark of chaos) rather than just hinting at them and being like 'conquer the world n' stuff' (total war). I suppose the issue is more Total War isn't really where you go for story and in a game universe that lived on its story that's some missed potential. The music for both games is great but you can't go wrong with the composer of both 'dawn of war' and 'mark of chaos'. I think his name is jeremy soule. I know he did the music for skyrim and is great with epic music.
Here's a great song from the 'mark of chaos' soundtrack.
I still love Total War: Warhammer but the lack of story at times is a bit unfortunate.
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Started as chaos taking no tutorials. Game was pretty easy to learn - maybe 25 turns to get the basics down and maybe 50 more turns to figure out all the diplomatic nuances.
Was a pretty steep learning curve in the beginning, lost Archaon pretty much right away.
I managed to sweep across the north and dug up all the chaos tribes that start as military allies to chaos after you 'free' them from the faction sitting on them. Then I wiped out all the other ones.
Won't give it away but something crazy happens just after 100 turns for chaos - make sure you are powerful enough at that point and don't be sitting in the chaos wastes where your allies are.
So before begining my conquest south of the wastes I had 4 chaos tribes that allow me to direct them to attack whatever target I want - I feel that this is an important diplomatic part of the game that could be easily missed if you head south from the beginning. Especially since you cannot hold settlements yourself as chaos, this is sort of the way to hold a large territory yourself, and allows you to attack all across the south with many armies at once.
Now I'm working on turning the vampire factions into military allies.
Anyway, loving it so far and I'm playing on low graphics on my laptop.
Legion: Dark Angels 
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2000 Khorne Bloodbound (Skullfiend Tribe- Aqshy)
1000 Tzeentch Arcanites (Pyrofane Cult - Hysh) in progress
