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 Tagony wrote:
I nocked out 12 hours of the empire map yesterday and not one crash. Loving it so far and I have screwed up a ton by making buildings i didnt need lol. Any of you guys know when the gal maraz( THE warhammer) quest chain starts? As in what round?

I think it's level dependent. At least, when I remembered to look for the legendary items on my character screens, everything I saw said that I would unlock a quest at a certain level to get said item.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 Tagony wrote:
I nocked out 12 hours of the empire map yesterday and not one crash. Loving it so far and I have screwed up a ton by making buildings i didnt need lol. Any of you guys know when the gal maraz( THE warhammer) quest chain starts? As in what round?

I think it's level dependent. At least, when I remembered to look for the legendary items on my character screens, everything I saw said that I would unlock a quest at a certain level to get said item.

Yeah just hover over the quest and it will tell you what level it starts on. Azhag's quest for the crown starts when he reaches level 8.

Loving this game so far. Have had no problems yet.

Just started last night, seems decent, but holy crap, is there no instructions for base building / diplomacy. I'm trying to expand my tech tree for greenskins, and I can't expand any further until I increase my surplus population, and I've no idea how to, and I can't find any help on the matter.

Seems to be a bit of a learning curve on the unit management, too - I didn't know that you can't move a hero while you're recruiting units, for example.

Anyways. Seems decent so far, but pretty sort on tutorials, other than 'this is how a mouse works'.

Turns out my laptops video driver/card isn't quite good enough even though every other requirement is well above recommended. I wish I could kick my 2 year ago self. Oh well. Going to have to grab a new system to get in on this and several other games

@hulksmash: I feel your pain. I had to do a clean install of the 64-bit version of Windows 10 (didn't realize I was schlepping along in 32-bit mode).

I just dropped the difficulty to 'Easy' for my first foray into the game; that counts as a tutorial. Even so, I'm like 70 turns in and still scratching my head about what can and cannot be done. For example: An army is besieging a city. I THOUGHT that I had, on a prior turn, walked right past the besieging army (an ally) and attacked the city. But in this case, I wanted to attack the besieging army (essentially double-crossing an ally because, frankly, his usefulness was at an end and I AM the Everchosen...), but I have to sit, filled with impotent blood lust, waiting for the siege to resolve one way or the other. /shrug Seems an odd restriction.

Learning how to use Heroes is quite the process too, though once I started to get the hang of it, they shot up in levels very quickly (hint: do SOMETHING with them every turn).

Are the Vampires just the Von Carsteins or other bloodlines as well

thanks

 Hulksmash wrote:
Turns out my laptops video driver/card isn't quite good enough even though every other requirement is well above recommended. I wish I could kick my 2 year ago self. Oh well. Going to have to grab a new system to get in on this and several other games

Related to this - does anyone know how much of a graphics card you need (pretend you are explaining to an idiot...because I am...) I can play Rome Total War II and all the expansions just fine without any problems.

Thanks guys! Turns out I just don't pay attention, had the quest for a while lol.

Think I got my laptop working properly again, and it seems it meets the necessary specs, so will be giving the game a shot tonight.

just got to say thanks to the people that helped me choose a gaming laptop on here to play this, game runs on top specs like a dream, haven't really had a drop below 50fps, even on massive battles, really appreciate it people who live in my computer

 Formosa wrote:
just got to say thanks to the people that helped me choose a gaming laptop on here to play this, game runs on top specs like a dream, haven't really had a drop below 50fps, even on massive battles, really appreciate it people who live in my computer

Give us internet money then. Just insert your credit card into the slot and blam thank you received . Or maybe paypal.

 Mr Morden wrote:
Are the Vampires just the Von Carsteins or other bloodlines as well

thanks

I had a Vanhal vampire at one point. I'm not entirely sure what other vampires you can get as lords. Btw you need a lord to recruit units and you recruit them on said lord. Heroes just do actions mostly like agents in other total war games.

The 2 legendary lords are mannfred and kemmler. Lord choices for vampires are mostly just vampires and master necromancers.

If i remember the heroes are necromancers, cairn wraiths, banshees and wight kings though i may have gotten that wrong.

You can get Vampire Heroes, too, and they can lead armies. I've got one who's rather more bad-ass than Mannfred on account of being the one who ran around reclaiming stuff and beating up other counts to steal their lunch money, whilst Mannfred held the siege of their capital.

Speaking of sieges, it really does seem like the days of rocking up and starving people out in a few turns, forcing them to sally, or building up some nifty equipment and doing it yourself shortly after you get there, are passed--at least for the early game. It took ages to make the siege towers I needed to just survive the settlement defences on the way in. It's a real drag.

 Avatar 720 wrote:

Speaking of sieges, it really does seem like the days of rocking up and starving people out in a few turns, forcing them to sally, or building up some nifty equipment and doing it yourself shortly after you get there, are passed--at least for the early game. It took ages to make the siege towers I needed to just survive the settlement defences on the way in. It's a real drag.

Sort of, but not really. I suppose it depends on who you're playing as though... I kind of did that with Marienburg... Rolled up with Karl, kicked in the door (so to speak) and took that gak after a couple turns, once a couple towers were built.... Now I'm royally paying for that because I have two fairly large orc forces swirling around me, and they stay close enough that no matter what, if one wants to fight, I'm gonna get the other as reinforcement as well.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 Avatar 720 wrote:

Speaking of sieges, it really does seem like the days of rocking up and starving people out in a few turns, forcing them to sally, or building up some nifty equipment and doing it yourself shortly after you get there, are passed--at least for the early game. It took ages to make the siege towers I needed to just survive the settlement defences on the way in. It's a real drag.

Sort of, but not really. I suppose it depends on who you're playing as though... I kind of did that with Marienburg... Rolled up with Karl, kicked in the door (so to speak) and took that gak after a couple turns, once a couple towers were built.... Now I'm royally paying for that because I have two fairly large orc forces swirling around me, and they stay close enough that no matter what, if one wants to fight, I'm gonna get the other as reinforcement as well.

I think there's an ability called lightning strike or something that prevents enemy reinforcements. You need to give your general that skill though.

The game is great fun, but there are some infuriating scenarios that can arise that functionally mean you've lost the game. Like earlier I tried a Chaos playthrough with Kholek, and a wee while in the Norse Dwarfs started harassing my army with a Hero - when I tried to assassinate him with my own Hero, my guy crit failed and died, and now this Dwarf git just follows me around repeatedly succeeding in killing off huge chunks of my army, leaving me without enough resources to grow and recruit another Hero to Assassinate him and replace my losses, while at the same time my army is now too small to pillage up those resources.

Is there a a move button? like attack and click on a spot and they will fight anything on the way? Because my units are like slowed and stand there till they die and never fight

OgreChubbs wrote:
Is there a a move button? like attack and click on a spot and they will fight anything on the way? Because my units are like slowed and stand there till they die and never fight

If there is, I haven't discovered it, and I have that problem... Or, I have 4 units chasing after a completely broken unit halfway across the map to the point that they are all but useless for the rest of the battle.

Best you can do is pause the game and assign orders.

For whatever reason nobody has initiated a war against me. I still don't understand why not and i was in the #1 and #2 spots for army power or something. It's just nuts and i don't understand why i haven't received fights yet. That said enemy's are joining each other into bigger groups so the threats may start to get larger.

Vampire corruption is a massive pain though. You gotta keep spreading corruption and it's ultra slow. I've just gotten bored and marched through taking attrition though sadly i'm trying to slowly build up corruption before marching on new cities. It's a very frustrating task esp. when heroes come in my lands to stamp out corruption.

I've done several different starts, but haven't played much through.

On my most recent start - as Empire - I'd taken the initial secessionist town, and had Karl Franz hanging out in the southern forests in Reikland. An orc leader crossed over into my territory, razed the town I'd captured, and then continued up toward Altdorf. I got a mission to get rid of him, and moved to intercept him, but couldn't quite catch up to him during my turn. Then one of the territories adjacent to Reikland sent someone in also chasing after him. But again, they couldn't quite reach the orc. Then during the orc's move, he moved back in the direction that Karl Franz had come from, ended his move in the forest, and then suddenly vanished in a puff of purple. I figured he was still there but hiding, and ran my army down through the area, but couldn't find him.

No clue what happened. The middle of the forest he was skirting along is completely impassable, so there's no way that he could have dived in and hidden himself inside of it.

They get the Underway, or whatever it's called.

Anyone else find the nomad style of play really boring?

Love the chaos roster but setting fire to everything get's stale by about turn 50.

 Mozzyfuzzy wrote:
They get the Underway, or whatever it's called.

Anyone else find the nomad style of play really boring?

Love the chaos roster but setting fire to everything get's stale by about turn 50.

This was my thought, and why I haven't really bothered with Chaos. I liked the Horde concept, and how they decided to go all the way, but it needs expansion. As it is, it feels like half a campaign.

I've been playing Vampire Counts, cause I want zombie dragon. I like the raising the dead mechanic, and the unit roster is fun. I really wish some elves were in game though, because they were definitely the factions I liked most in Fantasy (and maybe some tomb kings).

I'm almost done the Empire campaign - I've staked the Vampire Counts, beaten Archaon (in fact, the two no name lords sitting in my northern most territories managed to beat him and a Lord of Change), and am right now sitting in Sylvania purifying the land before I wander off and reclaim Ghal Maraz.

Main problem I'm having is rebellions In the provinces I haven't completely reclaimed yet, but if I reclaim them I'll win before finishing all the quests and side objectives, or before I burn the Norse settlements to the ground.

#oldworldproblems, clearly.

I started the game as dwarfs, and I think that may have been a mistake. the high king's army is just so damn slow with that grudge thrower (and I don't wanna get rid of it because it's artilery) and I was litterally three miles behind an ork army for two turns before I could catch it. I dunno, there just seems so little variation in that army.

so I restarted as Vampire counts, and they are much more fun. Raising the dead, Making monsters, and being evil. Going to start going into the empire I think, mostly to get more land.

I'm trying to like this game, but I am 100% lost. The tutorial is perhaps the most unhelpful tutorial I've ever played. Had to restart once, and I'm cruising for a second restart really quick, I expect.

Anyone have any good links on how to (as greenskins) effectively manage settlement's obedience, how to encourage population growth, and what buildings to prioritize with the extremely limited building slots available in towns?

Starting a Co-op Campaign series with my friend on Total War: Warhammer, part one is a tad long due to us wanting to set up our start zones properly

So if I am used to traditional Total War games like Empire, Rome 1, and Medieval, how lost would I be trying to play this game?

Jusy reading some of your comments it seems like some basic functions have completely changed (like unit recruitment).

 SickSix wrote:
So if I am used to traditional Total War games like Empire, Rome 1, and Medieval, how lost would I be trying to play this game?

Jusy reading some of your comments it seems like some basic functions have completely changed (like unit recruitment).

My last total war game that had any real play time, was Rome 1 (I had Empire, but my system, for whatever reason just would not play it... almost like they made me download a Mac version of it or something)

And I haven't been *too* lost, but I would suggest if you jump into a campaign, be prepared for the first campaign to be a "learning" campaign and ready to ditch it

 SickSix wrote:
So if I am used to traditional Total War games like Empire, Rome 1, and Medieval, how lost would I be trying to play this game?

Jusy reading some of your comments it seems like some basic functions have completely changed (like unit recruitment).

Preeeeeety lost, going off of rome 1. They did away with a ton of single, stand alone towns in a region and now have Provinces that are all connected (like 3 cities, one is a capital and the other two are regular towns) and if you control all of them in a province you can give an edict that adds buffs / debuffs (like make a higher tax rate, focus more on crops, ect) also they did away with smaller non-castle sieges and it's pretty much pitched deployment now for all non-castle battles (which I friggen hate! )

Your heroes in this game are single units but have abilities and powers to cast around.

You can control artillery yourself if you click the cinematic button on it.

Each of your army has different stances it could do (encamp, forced march, ambush, Raid) with each having disadvantages, like forced march doubling your movement but making every attack against you an ambush battle with your force being ambushed.

so yea... a ton of differences.

However, all that is sounding very similar to Rome 2 Total War.