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About to win my Very Hard empire campaign. Pretty much just need to recolonize the territories that got rekt by Chaos.

Edit: and fight a short, victorious war against the Border Princes to claim Averland.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
I find it surprising you guys are having such a hard time with the orcs. I'm playing on normal with Grimgor and it's fairly easy. Kill enough dwarfs (which makes greenies love you) and then confederate with greenskins to absorb them into your empire. I'm on turn like 46 or something and the main dwarfs have been gone a while, the other dwarfs are on their last legs (1-2 territories left) and my territory is on ridiculous levels. Everybody within view has like 4 or so territories at most excepting one other greenskin tribe i know about (which has savage orcs) and shocker they're on friendly terms with me and waiting to join a confederation. All i have to do is conquer a bit more, make more money and i'll absorb their 12 territories into my empire as well.

Seriously i don't get the complaints so far. I've pretty much absorbed every orc faction out there into my orc faction. Not only that but the Waaagh! army is just stupid good. You keep letting them tag along with you for each battle and you let them die for you so your waaagh! can stay higher which is the only real negative modifier besides losing. Also using the Underway is stupid strong.

I will admit though that my obedience and Waaagh! levels were a bit of a struggle but as a 2nd playthrough and knowing the ins and outs of this it's not that hard anymore (they're mostly in the negatives but stabilizing). Keep winning fights for each army and honestly that could probably be mitigated by adding units from failing armies into successful ones with higher Waaagh levels.

It's Turn 43 and everything yellow is mine.

it is not that it is hard just not fun. Btw did you notice when you play grimgor you win alot more auto reslove then with azhag?

Burrowed through the underground last night to go and take a minor Greenskin settlement, popped up right in front of two 20-stack Greenskin armies, one of which belonged to old Ironhide himself.

Needless to say, I quickly reloaded the last save.

I've wondered this for a while, but has anyone else noticed that enemy legendary lords appear to automatically obtain their legendary items when they reach the level required to start the quests? Whilst it takes the player a good chunk of time, money, and effort to get even one piece, AI seem to just be gifted them.

 Avatar 720 wrote:
I've wondered this for a while, but has anyone else noticed that enemy legendary lords appear to automatically obtain their legendary items when they reach the level required to start the quests? Whilst it takes the player a good chunk of time, money, and effort to get even one piece, AI seem to just be gifted them.

yep I noticed that, but I also noticed that player lords are generally better than the a.i ones, as we control them better, ive noticed that archaon rarely uses magic for instance

Daston wrote:
... however I now have 3 full stacks of elite Chaos Warriors just show up in the south of the badlands! I have 2% corruption and these guys just appear out of nowhere??

Its a scripted event, there is a sea borne Chaos invasion in the Black Gulf. Happily in my game I already had a couple of Dwarf stacks there cleaning up the last of the Greenskins from the area so I was able to crush them easily, although I only had 2 stacks. Once you get some momentum going with the Dwarves you can basically steamrole anything.

I am currently playing as Mousillion and virtually all of Brettonia now belongs to me, I am finding all zombie stacks surprisingly effective as they are so cheap. Brettonia only has 2 settlement provinces unfortunately which, combined with the lackluster undead building tree, is quite a hindrance.

Starting to try out some of the niftier-looking mods - there's a unit mod that offers a bunch of new greenskin troops (spear boyz, night goblin spears, stone trolls) and another mod that unlocks playable factions. I'll be taking Gitslik and his Black Venom Tribe on a proper forest goblin Waaagh!

Assuming Karak Hirn doesn't squash me like a bug. We're about to find out if hordes of goblins can beat hordes of miners.

EDIT: The answer is 'yes'

Also, in the future, could we get the giant screenshots in spoilers?

Started a Vampire Counts campaign recently and while I find the core troops quite boring the lords and heroes are baller! I've had 4 matches where all my crappy zombie and skele chaff has crumbled away and I was just left with a Beatstick Vampire and a Banshee and together they routed entire armies! Both caused Terror and through The Hunger and Invocation neither lost enough health to crumble. 3 Empire armies and even a dwarf army went down like that to two regenerating heroes.

On that note does anyone know how Terror actually works? It seems very powerful.

I think terror causes units to temporarily rout. But not sure how that's calculated in game.

Game is once again being a colossal fapstain.

Playing as Chaos with Kholek, and I'm having issues taking out one specific dwarf settlement, because they have a Thane sitting next to it that my sorcerer is ~10/10 on failing to assassinate, and every time I lay siege the Thane 'hinders' my army, causing most units/every unit in the army to take ~25% instant casualties, forcing me to break off to replenish because the thing's garrison is hefty, and the army is 70% experienced longbeards. This latest attempt I rolled up to lay siege, and the turn I did a group of Chaos Rebels spawn directly behind me. The Thane 'hinders' as expected, but because the Rebels are where they are, I have no option to break the siege, so I'm stuck. I start trying to run my sorcerer up from dealing with Kislev, as well as my second small back-up force, and hope I can last long enough for them to get here. The Thane hinders me again, and my entire army is at half strength. The Rebels stay put so I still can't retreat, and the garrison sallies, forcing me into an unwinnable fight.

I load up the last save, and decide to turn around and nuke the rebels, since even with 25% casualties across the board Kholek could do it on his own; they're 4 units: a lord, horsemen, marauders, and warpuppers. But the game throws a hissy fit, requiring me to first press the button to break the siege before I can do anything with Kholek's army, only I can't break the siege to attack the rebels, because the presence of the rebels so close by has greyed the button out...

I can maybe understand not being able to retreat from a fight, but being unable to break a siege? Why does that even require movement? Why does some other unrelated army nearby stop me calling off a siege? Hell, why does an army nearby stop me calling off a siege so I can GO AND FETHING ATTACK IT?

"Break off the siege, we're going to smash the rebels!"
"We can't, sir!"
"Why not?"
"The rebels are too close to break the siege."
"...But we're going to attack the rebels; that's not a concern."
"Yeah, no, they're too close to break the siege. We can't attack them."
"..."

 ALEXisAWESOME wrote:
Started a Vampire Counts campaign recently and while I find the core troops quite boring the lords and heroes are baller! I've had 4 matches where all my crappy zombie and skele chaff has crumbled away and I was just left with a Beatstick Vampire and a Banshee and together they routed entire armies! Both caused Terror and through The Hunger and Invocation neither lost enough health to crumble. 3 Empire armies and even a dwarf army went down like that to two regenerating heroes.

On that note does anyone know how Terror actually works? It seems very powerful.

Did you use the crypt horrors yet? Early on zombies and low tier stuff is spammable and can recruit fast but later crypt horrors almost never die. During mid-game they are practically unstoppable and make grave guard look pitiful in comparison. Hexwraiths are also really nice.

Oddly so far i've noticed goblin wolf riders are amazing and even with the spider riders i find myself preferring the wolf riders just for speed purposes. That may change when i fight some castles with walls though as i heard spiders can climb walls.

Massed rock lobbas are pretty fun. I have an all cavalry army that'll be ready in a turn or two that's is just boar boys, wolf riders and spider riders with maybe some rock lobber support. I found late game with vampire i preferred fast and hard hitting cavalry units and armies to the super slow infantry ones but in castle fights you still needed the infantry to go on walls (didn't matter too much if you had flyers though).

 Silent Puffin? wrote:


I am currently playing as Mousillion and virtually all of Brettonia now belongs to me, I am finding all zombie stacks surprisingly effective as they are so cheap. Brettonia only has 2 settlement provinces unfortunately which, combined with the lackluster undead building tree, is quite a hindrance.

Like you I downloaded that mod to play as French vampires, and It is a lot more challenging then the vampire counts on the same difficulty, but overall fun. I downloaded the Blood knight mod too, and my oh my are those guys powerful. I am only limiting myself to 2 blood knight units per stack because they are so powerful!

It's funny too, because at one point I had a chain of factions dragging other factions into was and immediately saying "screw this" and wanting peace. Like I was fighting Artion or something, then they dragged bretonnia into the war and asked for a peace treaty with me, then I staretd to fight bretonnia and suddenly they drag a dwarven faction in after them before backing out. Slimey gents!

How have you been able to keep the peace in your domain? Do you raze settlements to repopulate them latter? Or do you just not tax them?

 Tiger9gamer wrote:

How have you been able to keep the peace in your domain? Do you raze settlements to repopulate them latter? Or do you just not tax them?

Slow expansion, I only attack a province that I will be occupying once it has at least 50% corruption as once it has stabilised they should be neutral if not positive happiness. Balefire structures are really handy for this.

For Dwarven settlements I use them as a handy source of revenue every few turns.

I am currently playing as Nordland it its extremely difficult. Nordland itself only has 2 settlements and they are both level 1, even the capital, expansion is limited and you are right next door nasty Norse.

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 Tiger9gamer wrote:

How have you been able to keep the peace in your domain? Do you raze settlements to repopulate them latter? Or do you just not tax them?

Slow expansion, I only attack a province that I will be occupying once it has at least 50% corruption as once it has stabilised they should be neutral if not positive happiness. Balefire structures are really handy for this.

For Dwarven settlements I use them as a handy source of revenue every few turns.

ah, I see. I basically was on a non-stop war rampage for the 70 turn game so far without getting any chance to just rest. I began to let the rebellions happen because then the providence would start being happy again once the damn schemeing nobility was out of the way.

Also I just razed the dwarf settlements to the north so no added income from razing =(

Nordland is damn near impossible. 4 attempts now and I always get eaten by Hochland and/or Ostland thanks to the defensive alliance with Middenheim dragging me into a one sided war. I could just break the alliance but I never like doing that. I've managed to survive until turn 40 or so but my economy is horrendous and I can only recruit basic infantry which means that my military is pretty pathetic to the extent that I can't beat an equal stack due to the inevitable mortars and my effective lack of cavalry.

Oh, I have to give some advice: Get an extra skill point mod! It's much more fun to use all the skills they offer you.

Very unhappy. Everytime I pull up Steam to launch it, it says my drivers should be updated. All of my drivers are updated. When I launch the game, it goes to a black screen and freezes the computer.

This is getting frustrating.

Ok, Windows 8, no option to uninstall the game. Going through the Control Panel, it's not in the remove program list. Going to the file, I can't find an uninstall application.

Anyone got any ideas?

You usually uninstall steam games directly from Steam itself by right clicking on it in your "Library" list and select, "Delete Local Content."

You can also go to the Steam directory, find the game's file and delete that (which is basically the same thing as an uninstall).

Another oddity, but playing as Empire, has anyone else noticed that embedded wizards--and Gelt--seem to suffer horrific damage during auto-resolves, even when you're guaranteed to win them by about 99|1?

Taking on an undefended settlement with the base 6 default units of garrison using my experienced 20-stack, I take about 6 casualties overall, but Gelt or embedded wizards lose 66%+ of their health for no apparent reason.

How long is this damn game lol. I am at turn 165 and currenly own everything bellow empire/ vamps. I tried to make friends but they kept turning on me becuase I was too big.

OgreChubbs wrote:
How long is this damn game lol. I am at turn 165 and currenly own everything bellow empire/ vamps. I tried to make friends but they kept turning on me becuase I was too big.

My first game went beyond turn 300. So yeah. That long O_O!

However in my current playthrough i'm at about turn 130 something i think and the chaos faction was destroyed. Basically punked archaeon and most of his buds. Kholek Suneater was the last one left and i assassinated him to make the fight against him easier for the other computer players. They managed to fight them off. It mostly sucked because the Varg and Chaos were attacking in the same place at once and without me would have created a swath of destruction in their wake. Had to nip that crap in the bud. Severely weakened me to where i had like no armies left in fighting condition but i now have 4 fully capable armies (probably one more than i should). However the upkeep is really high. I'm guessing it's all the pricey stuff like the arachnaroks. I basically took the last dwarf sub faction's home settlement. They have 3 left and my 4 arachnaroks took a beating but 3 of em lived if only by very little. I barely won that fight too.

So yeah 2 norscan tribes left. I think the empire has almost completely united or had its sub factions destroyed (one province yet to confederate) and are just barely a decent force. Bretonnia has more territory and seems decent on that end. Vampires are also a decent sized force in provinces at least but their unit tech is currently just pitiful last i looked. The empire's tech is decent (mortars and probably outriders). I dunno what everybody else has. Oddly Tilea and maybe estalia and doing fairly well. I'm guessing it's because they were in the middle of nowhere so nobody fought them. That may change when Skaven get added with a home base probably around Tilea. Chaos cut a swath through the vampire side of the map. Interesting how that seems to be the case in both my games. 1-2 of the norscan tribes hit the empire along with chaos a bit. Finally in the last chaos invasion they had one horde faction that i wiped out fast (skaeling i think).

I love this game

Finished my first coop game, only took 100 turns exactly as the empire, but we were both very aggressive in grabbing territory

As for my solo vamp counts, I think I have ~13 of the 20 required provinces after smashing the empire and a couple minor settlements, along with a BUNCH of other regions about to fall to vamp rebels. Oddly enough, greenskins want to be military allies still, dwarves are tolerating me at roughly -430 relations.

Having tried all the factions but orks (any tips on them?), I love the VC the most with their wraith units, but the empire is a close second with their helstorm rockets being great morale breakers and horde killers (friend had ~4-5 of them break most of a chaos army in one of Franz's missions before they even reached his handgunners' range).

Just wishing that skaven will be added next though

I'm doing... decent as my solo Orc campaign. Was going to do a co-op with a fellow Dakkamite but his computer wasn't strong enough.

Turn 70-ish. Been no1 in strength pretty much the entire thing. Money is flowing pretty nicely. But I just had some pretty nasty defeats so now I've got to spend a few turns rebuilding my armies.

Started Grimmgor and just got Azog. Currently training a army for Azog and updating Grimgor's with Black Orcs

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
I'm doing... decent as my solo Orc campaign. Was going to do a co-op with a fellow Dakkamite but his computer wasn't strong enough.

Turn 70-ish. Been no1 in strength pretty much the entire thing. Money is flowing pretty nicely. But I just had some pretty nasty defeats so now I've got to spend a few turns rebuilding my armies.

Started Grimmgor and just got Azog. Currently training a army for Azog and updating Grimgor's with Black Orcs

We could play if you want.

Steam ID is:

FKM

I've only been playing on normal. It seems co-op allows each player to select their own difficulty for the enemy A.I.

I'm also up for a bit of co op with a competent player, my mate doesn't know how to play total war so I get a tirade of questions and his turns take 5 mins plus lol, its so frustrating ive told him to play single player for a bit till he learns the game lol

 Formosa wrote:
I'm also up for a bit of co op with a competent player, my mate doesn't know how to play total war so I get a tirade of questions and his turns take 5 mins plus lol, its so frustrating ive told him to play single player for a bit till he learns the game lol

I should be alright. I fully played Vampires and did a good chunk of greenskins in single player on normal difficulty. I may ramp up the difficulty soon actually so i get more of a challenge.

What's your Steam name btw?

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
I'm also up for a bit of co op with a competent player, my mate doesn't know how to play total war so I get a tirade of questions and his turns take 5 mins plus lol, its so frustrating ive told him to play single player for a bit till he learns the game lol

I should be alright. I fully played Vampires and did a good chunk of greenskins in single player on normal difficulty. I may ramp up the difficulty soon actually so i get more of a challenge.

What's your Steam name btw?

T-bono, and I just wanted someone who knew how to build settlements etc. Lol, skill isn't an issue