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I love playing ambush battles but it's so rare for it to work so that should be pretty fun. Hope Wood Elves gets it as well.
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Kainser posted:I love playing ambush battles but it's so rare for it to work so that should be pretty fun. Hope Wood Elves gets it as well. I've gotta a couple sweet ones off, it's the best. I clowned Marienburg one game by baiting their big army into ambush. A good ambush is among the most fun you can have in this game IMO.
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My favorite ambush was against Marienburg as well where my Light Wizard netted all their 5 or so missile cavalry units right at the start 
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My god, after a few days of trying I finally managed to get a VC game where the orcs didn't eat poo poo and get completely rolled by the loving dwarves, and thus finally got to prop the green fuckers up until they wrecked every dwarf ever. Of course, then Tilea had to be a bitch and call the Grimgor into a fight with me, just because I was picking apart their poo poo. So I ended up fighting an absolutely ridiculous defense at Akendorf against like three orc stacks with two bonus WAAAGHs on board with Kemmler's army. Naturally, since the AI is poo poo at sieges I won, and for some reason this made the Orcs want to not only sue for peace, but also become my vassal? For some reason? I don't know. I immediately turned them around and set them to piss all over the Empire from the south while I hit it from Averland and Wissenland. The Empire had taken over the entirety of Bretonnia and Estalia (thereby ensuring I didn't have to bother fighting Grail Knights), and so Grimgor's giant piles of green from the south combined with my wave of death from the east squeezed them out of existence and I finally got the loving achievement and oh my loving god I hate dwarves.
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Yeah, my hatred of dwarves rises more and more with each game I've played. I think it was a few games ago that my policy became "raze the lot of them first chance you get" no matter what faction I'm playing as. Greenskins? It's a razing because I don't feel like defending new stuff and I can just confederate or crush whatever other tribe re-settles. And if they re-settle I can just enjoy razing them again in a weakened state. I can pick up the razed provinces myself at my leisure. Vampires? It's a razing because dead provinces are both secure and tend to ensure a faster spread of corruption to further discourage resettling. Empire? You bet it's a razing because they tend to hate bretonnia which I tend to like. Completely killing them and knowing I won't need to bother with garrisons/the buildings I can build instead of garrisons near their mountains are worth more than the trade gold to me.
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so it sounds to me like Beastmen are basically an army of sneaky glass cannons? is that close?
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Jamwad Hilder posted:so it sounds to me like Beastmen are basically an army of sneaky glass cannons? is that close? With charge bonuses out the wazoo, probably.
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How do you guys deal with Savage Orks when playing as Greenskins? Autoresolve tells me it's either 50/50 or 80/20 in my favour but I inevitably get totally destroyed or Close Victory on the battlefield. I'm talking large amounts of Savage Orc Arrer Boyz, Boar Boy Big Uns and Trolls. Currently thanks to some poor planning and previous losses I have around 4 Big Uns, 2 Boyz, 2 standard Night Goblins, 2 Arrer Boyz, 2 Trolls, 3 Spider Rider Archers, 2 Trolls along with a wyvern-mounted Lord and a level 2 Orc Shaman (Gaze of Mork). Playing on Hard, Savage Orcs give me the most problems out of all enemies I've fought so far. I think a lot of my problems stem from not being able to bring decent cavalry to tie up the Arrer Boyz who mess up my Big Uns/everything, as well as not being able to deal with the Boar Boyz outside of skirmishing them to death with the Spider Riders. I'm interested to hear how everyone else deals with them! Also some general tips for the orc Wyvern mount which feels like a bit of a step down much like the Boar mount, but then again I'm probably misusing it against Boar Boy Big Un/skirmisher heavy armies also sneaky chaos goatmen based in the badlands/tilea sound like a lot of fun to play as or against, price be damned.
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Goblin archers are your best counter to savage orcs. I'm dead serious, they're infantry has an armor rating of 0, and the large goblin unit sizes means a lot of arrows.
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^^ Yep. I use Night Goblin personally, but for all intents normal should do fine as well.
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Beastman units we aren't getting with the dlc:NoNotTheMindProbe posted:
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Kainser posted:Beastman units we aren't getting with the dlc: boycotting until bird tits
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Vargs posted:boycotting until bird tits I hope we get all the TT units eventually. The empire swordsman even yell "Where are the flagellants when you need them?!"
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Dandywalken posted:^^ Yep. I use Night Goblin personally, but for all intents normal should do fine as well. Night Goblin archers are fantastic and you should replace all your regular Goblin archers with them asap. Poison ranged attacks are amazing for loving the enemy over, and Night Goblins' vanguard deployment and remaining hidden while moving in any terrain means you can set up some nice flanks/ambushes.
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unwantedplatypus posted:Goblin archers are your best counter to savage orcs. I'm dead serious, they're infantry has an armor rating of 0, and the large goblin unit sizes means a lot of arrows. Dandywalken posted:^^ Yep. I use Night Goblin personally, but for all intents normal should do fine as well. I thought I was missing something, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks guys! I keep forgetting to re-tool my armies specifically to fight what I'm facing - my goblin-heavy army that utterly destroyed the Border Princes in the north is now taking 'uge casualties against half-stacks of their angry Dwarf friends. I'm just too used to building up a core of roman heavy infantry and face-rolling across the known world.
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Vargs posted:boycotting until bird tits Looking forward to the outrage when CA doesn't model the Witch Elf breasts just right.
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Kainser posted:Looking forward to the outrage when CA doesn't model the Witch Elf breasts just right. There will be a day 1 mod to fix this (by taking their tops off) so nobody will care
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Sadly this game will probably get me to buy every stupid overpriced unit pack, unlike any other total war.
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Kainser posted:Beastman units we aren't getting with the dlc: I guess the Ghorgon got removed for having a similar role to the Giant, but it is a bloody crime to take away the Beastmen's airforce, specially the Jabberslythe.
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ZearothK posted:I guess the Ghorgon got removed for having a similar role to the Giant, but it is a bloody crime to take away the Beastmen's airforce, specially the Jabberslythe. Does the Jabberslythe actually fly? I assumed the wings were just for show.
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The Giant is probably just to save work on assets, sadly. I'd like to see the Ghorgon instead, but meh.
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There are just too many giants in these warhams!!!
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Spiros posted:With charge bonuses out the wazoo, probably. drat, this actually sounds like a really fun army.
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Is there anything that nerds love more than whining about having to spend too much of their paper route money for what they perceive to be too little dlc content? Man the usual crybaby sources for TW are already on fire about NO JABBERSLYTHE 20$ MY CHILDHOOD
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Factions that probably also will get reskinned giants: Chaos Dwarfs, Ogres
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Jul 15, 2016 02:54
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Hell, at least they bothered to reskin the giant to make it fit in with the army a bit better.
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Get the Kislev mod guy to reskin a griffon-bear into a Jabberslythe.
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unwantedplatypus posted:I hope we get all the TT units eventually. The empire swordsman even yell "Where are the flagellants when you need them?!" This is gonna be a running gag, isn't it? Every new faction is gonna complain at some missing unit or general.
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Chomp8645 posted:Get the Kislev mod guy to reskin a griffon-bear into a Jabberslythe. This would be amazing
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Chomp8645 posted:Get the Kislev mod guy to reskin a griffon-bear into a Jabberslythe. Uh, it has wings dude. Reskin a pegasus
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Put that fucker in the generic T-pose and just have it slide through the air, horrifying all that gaze upon it.
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terrorist ambulance posted:Is there anything that nerds love more than whining about having to spend too much of their paper route money for what they perceive to be too little dlc content? Man the usual crybaby sources for TW are already on fire about NO JABBERSLYTHE 20$ MY CHILDHOOD jabberslythe is cool though. give me the jabberslythes
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Hey guys so I talked to a modder about making a desert faction of beastmen for the Orks and Dwarfs to fight and work's already begun. Check it.  
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The nerd rage happening over this DLC announcement is entertaining.
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I've seen a couple of posts along the lines of "that's a bit pricey and it's a shame there's no jabberslythe", is that what passes for entertaining nerd rage these days or did I miss something?
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where is our Macho Man Randy Savage Wyvern mod anyway?Wafflecopper posted:I've seen a couple of posts along the lines of "that's a bit pricey and it's a shame there's no jabberslythe", is that what passes for entertaining nerd rage these days or did I miss something? I mean, there are some folks going berserk because Total War fans, but it's been pretty tame imo. They do have a point, the exclusion of some of their biggest units and the price sucks a little bit. I'm still picking it up, but it smells slightly of laziness on CA's part.
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Wafflecopper posted:I've seen a couple of posts along the lines of "that's a bit pricey and it's a shame there's no jabberslythe", is that what passes for entertaining nerd rage these days or did I miss something? Try venturing into other forums, where the DLC apparently costs $20 and your immortal soul.
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madmac posted:Try venturing into other forums, 
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gently caress u CA no jabberslythe remember carthage!
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Chomp8645 posted:Hey guys so I talked to a modder about making a desert faction of beastmen for the Orks and Dwarfs to fight and work's already begun. Check it. what was the actual name for that insane medieval 2 mod? total retardation?
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