Rip_Van_Winkle posted:

I also can't wait to lose so bad it'll be so excellent I'm going to lose a lot of games of total war warhammer

Panfilo posted:

I definitely like how they did traits for Brettonia. Beating legendary lords gives unique bonuses, and they give ways to get rid of the bad ones (Albrecht needs a time-out at a grail chapel to cure his laziness. All he's drove is sitting around at the special port staring at boats wistfully.

Also:Windmills have one of the funniest flavor texts of any building in the game.

Super 3 posted:

I had issues balancing peasant infantry with my economy and supporting more than 1.5 stacks. I think I need to diversify my economy more and rely on more Knights than infantry.

KPC_Mammon posted:

I don't particularly like controlling 40+ units, but running around with my small force trying to make a difference against such overwhelming odds was a ton of fun. Is there a good way to coordinate with the AI to make this sort of thing happen more often? It wasn't just my forces plus Altdorf's garrison, empire had a full stack as well.

Panfilo posted:

Finally got to play Brettonia:

-I really don't like how their economy is set up. Your infantry past a certain point start to wreck the economy itself. The Tailor/Storehouse combo seems flat out inferior to the Fields/Windmill combo and I don't know why people would want the latter unless you really think the siege holdout bonus is gonna make a difference in your campaign.

Angry Lobster posted:

-Cavalry can hit the gate with their swords and break it down, given enough time.

ChickenWing posted:

Man you don't even know it's like you know you're going to lose and then you go into your games expecting to lose all three but you don't really know just how hard you're going to lose and so you just sit there after like "holy dang I lost real bad"

ditty bout my clitty posted:

This works really well until you attempt a siege with heavy infantry blocking the gates.

Chomp8645 posted:

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Angry Lobster posted:

Trying to cheese Marienburg's siege in turn 2 I discovered two things:

-Louen can't climb walls even on foot. He's the only fucker in the realm without a handy pocket-sized ladder.
-Cavalry can hit the gate with their swords and break it down, given enough time. Heck, even managed to warp two units of knights through the gate when it still was at 90%.

Trujillo posted:

Any unit can take the gate down by attacking it, not just cav.

Angry Lobster posted:

drat, didn't know that. Hundreds of peasants have died for this mistake, oh well who cares.

Trujillo posted:

Yep, something else about sieges that everyone might not know is that there's a decent sized area in front of the gate where the towers don't hit. If you hold the mouse over the tower you can see their range. So one thing you can do is rush your whole army up to that area and break down the gate. After the gate is down they'll usually vacate the walls if a fight hasn't started on them, then you can send some infantry up ladders while your heaviest units go through the gate. As long as they don't have a huge amount of missile units you'll usually take a lot less casualties than if you sit under tower fire.

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

So, how are people actually using peasants? I found their low speed a liability, and tend not to use any except mounted Yeomen. You'll end up with less stacks running around, but those stacks hit much harder than regular stacks, and they're fast as hell. Because peasants run so far behind, it ends up splitting your army in half in battle, and they're less useful on the campaign map to boot.

I'll occasionally call up huge peasant stacks if beastmen start marauding around the heartlands or whatever, but dudes without horses have no place in a real Brett army.

Sure knights are expensive, but their speed on the campaign map largely mitigates the fact you have less stacks.

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

So, how are people actually using peasants? I found their low speed a liability, and tend not to use any except mounted Yeomen. You'll end up with less stacks running around, but those stacks hit much harder than regular stacks, and they're fast as hell. Because peasants run so far behind, it ends up splitting your army in half in battle, and they're less useful on the campaign map to boot.

I'll occasionally call up huge peasant stacks if beastmen start marauding around the heartlands or whatever, but dudes without horses have no place in a real Brett army.

Sure knights are expensive, but their speed on the campaign map largely mitigates the fact you have less stacks.

Smiling Knight posted:

I was under the impression that unit types no longer affected campaign map movement.

theDOWmustflow posted:

When using ladders, do your units suffer passive attrition like in STW2? Or is it instead severe penalties to morale or combat?

Vargs posted:

They're super tired when they get to the top, and they trickle in which makes them easy targets to get ganged up on. I only use ladders as a last resort.

Fish and Chimps posted:

Holy poo poo am I bad at this game, all of a sudden. This is my 4th campaign that I've given up on as the Brets now. With only a single stack, it only takes one mistake to topple everything. gently caress this poo poo, I love the Brets but they hate me apparently. Might have to come back to them again at a later time because getting dunked on by the AI like this is already getting old.

theDOWmustflow posted:

Which Legendary Lord are you starting as? Some have easier starts than others IMO.

wiegieman posted:

Deployment is an engine thing that I don't think they plan on changing. That's the weakness of a supporting army, that they have to trickle in from off the map.

Ravenfood posted:

The combat effects of fatigue are something I'm only tangentially aware of, which is why I really hope the "vigor loss reduction" skill I max out on every lord that can has the significant effect I hope it does.

Fish and Chimps posted:

Leon. Mousillon is a bitch. This campaign seems like trial-and-error to learn the correct method of dealing with stuff, with an error meaning lose all my irreplaceable units or restart.

Edit: Last restart was after a failed siege of Mousillon. Both Leon and Ramirez got killed. I usually do pretty well in TW but this cavalry poo poo has me beat

Pendent posted:

When a unit gets exhausted it gets a ton of debuffs including losing the bulk of its armor value. If you keep an eye on a lord while he's fighting you can see his health start dropping really fast as soon as he hits exhausted.

Pendent posted:

When a unit gets exhausted it gets a ton of debuffs including losing the bulk of its armor value. If you keep an eye on a lord while he's fighting you can see his health start dropping really fast as soon as he hits exhausted.