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Nitrousoxide posted:
Not sure, on mobile, but if it's telling you to restart TW after claiming your dlc, restarting steam fixed it for me.
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The Total War 2 game menu is telling him he needs to have Total War 2 in his Steam library...
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Oct 28, 2017 17:33
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  Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......
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Oct 28, 2017 17:36
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sassassin posted:The income is tiny compared to that of the crafting building, so I'm always reluctant to waste precious space on plazas. Need trade goods, need growth, need walls, need troops, sometimes need untainted corruption, drat this settlement has a unique building (or two) got to have that. Don’t forget that high elves get bonuses to growth and income if the province public order is high enough. It may not be as much income on paper but if you’re at -50 public order or something it actually makes you more money to get the public order high
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Oct 28, 2017 17:37
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Plavski posted:Just build up a stack and kill the frogs. Siege the capital and starve them In my game once I broke the NAP then my trade agreement they got mad enough to declare war before turn 15. Took care of the issue neatly. Then I spent 10 turns chasing 2 vampire stacks through the province, each taking almost no attrition, and a banshee killed little Ra’Tok, the priest you start with. 
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Oct 28, 2017 17:41
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Mightypeon posted:Kroq Gar has some sizeable money issues on acount of: Hrmmm? I attacked the frog immediately after securing my home province. I also told him to piss off on all diplomatic offers because I was planning to do precisely that though.
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Oct 28, 2017 17:48
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:Don’t forget that high elves get bonuses to growth and income if the province public order is high enough. It may not be as much income on paper but if you’re at -50 public order or something it actually makes you more money to get the public order high Factionwide bonuses to trade goods and income make that a tough sell for me. First tiers are 60 income plus public order, versus 100 income and 6 trinkets worth 20 each, the latter of which isn't effected by local unrest afaik. A few embassies and nobles lurking around and that's not just pocket money. I rely almost entirely on rites, rituals, bards and vintners for keeping public order in check.
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Oct 28, 2017 17:50
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ZearothK posted:What is this sad world coming to when I agree with sassassin. People say this so often I wonder if it's my new gimmick?
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Oct 28, 2017 17:52
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Nitrousoxide posted:
Yeah, the activation process is kind of a bitch and a half. In my case, I just fooled around in a Vortex game until suddenly a pop-up appeared saying that it had finished downloading the Mortal Empires FLC, and then I restarted to initialize the install and once more to finish up.
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Oct 28, 2017 17:58
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Godspeed, College of Pyrotechnics.  These crazy bastards carved out a nice 4-settlement nation in between Morathi and Mazdamundi and have held it since drat near the beginning.
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Oct 28, 2017 18:04
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sassassin posted:People say this so often I wonder if it's my new gimmick? if your gimmick is pointing out obviously agreeable poo poo in a petty douche manner sure Unrelated note: wow, they changed some maps from WH1 in a big way. Battle for Bloodpine Woods is now twice as big for some reason. Going to see if the reinforcements come from somewhere else now. EDIT: They don't. Hope I see this map appear elsewhere, kind of a strange waste of effort if it doesn't. toasterwarrior fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Oct 28, 2017 |
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Oct 28, 2017 18:17
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How the heck do I get food as Queek? I can’t see any food generating buildings and consumption just gets worse as I expand. I can get 2 food when I win a battle but it’s not enough.
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Oct 28, 2017 18:44
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Pick a province you own, they are now your bitches. Raid them all the time, it gets you food and rebellions. Have the raiding army defeat the rebellions, that gets you food to.
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Oct 28, 2017 18:50
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GuardianOfAsgaard posted:How the heck do I get food as Queek? I can’t see any food generating buildings and consumption just gets worse as I expand. I can get 2 food when I win a battle but it’s not enough. Raid your provinces, trust me, it's not cheese and it fits perfectly. If you like, you can also let the rebellions grow to a bigger stack since more prisoners caught means more food from the battle results, even before the 2 food execution choice. Basically it's about striking a balance between your income and food, in that you can convert income into food by having a general + slaves and artillery batteries raid your own stuff for a flat 3 food + rebellion farming.
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Raiding (even your own lands) and province orders. You'll have constant rebellions and massive upkeep costs relative to your economy, meaning you'll have to actually use cheap units and rebellious generals. Whilst very thematic, it's not much like the traditional consolodation and expansion gameplay of most factions in 99% of the series. Skaven are just really strange to play as compared to most factions. Queek's also annoying to deal with as a Lord because skaven benefit so much from red tree but he's the sort of unique general where it feels a waste to not rush his other trees, but then he gets stunlocked anyway. Warp lightning cannons have no issues racking up 400 dead dawi per battle to make up for it though. I thought it was all hype, even after two vortex campaigns and shredding many 2x claw / 2x cannon intervention stacks, but holy poo poo...
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Oct 28, 2017 18:56
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The Skaven raiding yourself thing is great and works, but I wonder if it was intended to be that way or not.
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Oct 28, 2017 18:57
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drat Dirty Ape posted:The Skaven raiding yourself thing is great and works, but I wonder if it was intended to be that way or not. It does SOUND pretty Skaven.
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GuardianOfAsgaard posted:How the heck do I get food as Queek? I can’t see any food generating buildings and consumption just gets worse as I expand. I can get 2 food when I win a battle but it’s not enough. You live off eating your enemies. That 2 food is gonna have to be enough. Eat all the captives and engage in constant warfare. Build stacks of dudes and harass the enemy and then sack them. He's harder than Skrolk for sure. Skrolk is the best Legendary Lord in the game. Nullkigan posted:Raiding (even your own lands) and province orders. You'll have constant rebellions and massive upkeep costs relative to your economy, meaning you'll have to actually use cheap units and rebellious generals. Whilst very thematic, it's not much like the traditional consolodation and expansion gameplay of most factions in 99% of the series. Skaven are just really strange to play as compared to most factions. Yup, and that's what makes them fun! I love how asymmetric total warhammer is compared to like Shogun 2.
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drat Dirty Ape posted:The Skaven raiding yourself thing is great and works, but I wonder if it was intended to be that way or not. I assume it has to be; you don't incur a -100% own region wealth penalty using raiding stance unlike everyone else, particularly Lizardmen who can't raid at all. The thing about the Skaven is that it's actually stupidly easy to get to positive public order with them since their public order building also generates money and can be rushed thanks to the food mechanic. It all hinges on your ability to capture and secure the province's capital though, to corral rebels and access the +provincial wealth building.
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Holy poo poo this game is pissing me off now. Turn 14 in an Empire campaign Bordelaux declared war on me for some reason. They don't even border me. The next turn they invited the dwarves in the mountains close to Marienburg into the war. And the next 20 turns was spent chasing their armies around trying to cover my settlements because I had not been able to get walls on all of them yet. Then I gave up. I was at peace with everyone when the declaration of war out of the blue came, as I had killed the Orcs, seccessionists and Marienburg. Is there some mechanic that if you are at peace someone will declare war?
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toasterwarrior posted:Hope I see this map appear elsewhere, kind of a strange waste of effort if it doesn't. When I tested with a friend in Warhammer 1, fighting battles close to where Quest Battle sites were would give you the Quest Battle map. If this is the same, then you’ll probably be able to get that map by fighting in that area. (Unsure as Bloodpine wasn’t one of the ones I tested, I tested Hel Fenn/Blackfire Pass/Most of Mannfred’s Battle sites)
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Queek funnels experience from other lords to himself which is great to get him up to level 40 faster than other lords. Having lots of other lords is beneficial to him (I assume this is Queek hogging all the credit for himself).
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Hryme posted:Holy poo poo this game is pissing me off now. Turn 14 in an Empire campaign Bordelaux declared war on me for some reason. They don't even border me. The next turn they invited the dwarves in the mountains close to Marienburg into the war. And the next 20 turns was spent chasing their armies around trying to cover my settlements because I had not been able to get walls on all of them yet. Then I gave up. Nearly the same thing happened to me, except it was the Secessionists who got Ziflin to try and gank me. It took all of Gelt's magic, his starting Mortar, and a lot of crossbow bolts and pistol shots to fight back that double stack of tier 1 Dwarf units, and I consider myself lucky that they could only muster 3 ranged units because otherwise corner-camping wouldn't have worked. If you can, try sitting in ambush stance near Helmgart to bait a stack into a one-on-one fight with them at a formation disadvantage. Generally this'll get the fuckers to back off once they lose numerical superiority. Regarding the peace thing: you gotta get your strength ranking up to a serious number because otherwise other factions will see you as a chump. Get more stacks on the map, maybe even have them sit in garrisons to bolster the defences. Panfilo posted:Queek funnels experience from other lords to himself which is great to get him up to level 40 faster than other lords. Having lots of other lords is beneficial to him (I assume this is Queek hogging all the credit for himself). The funny thing about this is that this is considered a "negative" on the faction select, despite the fact that having a lord with a higher level than your faction leader means they can lose loyalty faster. toasterwarrior fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Oct 28, 2017 |
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Ok next time I will recuit the second general sooner.
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GuardianOfAsgaard posted:How the heck do I get food as Queek? I can’t see any food generating buildings and consumption just gets worse as I expand. I can get 2 food when I win a battle but it’s not enough. You can get 2 extra food from that option. You get a lot more from the battle itself.
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Knobb Manwich posted:You can get 2 extra food from that option. You get a lot more from the battle itself. The 2 food doesn't sound like much, but if you repeatedly smash tiny armies over and over those flat bonuses add up. Ditto for the elf option that gives 100xp regardless of the size of the army.
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Mazdamundi is indeed frog Hitler. I am Kroq Gar, did the ritual battle around his turf via teleport (so, I am actually on the other side of the world). I get vision of him because of this and ... he declares war on me. Feelsbadman, he was actually doing pretty ok with 12 provinces in turn 60.
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sassassin posted:People say this so often I wonder if it's my new gimmick? 2017, the year Sass changed.
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Kanos posted:Corruption in a province works like a sliding scale rather than a zero sum thing. Since the local populace of vampire provinces is always a minimum +3 vampiric corruption, this means that there will always be SOME corruption in the province. If you have +6 untainted and +3 vampiric, it will stabilize at 66% untainted/33% vampiric. If you have +12 untainted and +3 vampiric, it will stabilize at 80% untainted/20% vampiric. It is completely impossible to permanently eradicate vampiric corruption from provinces that start vampiric, even if you have +10,000,000 untainted; there will still be a decimal amount of vampiric corruption due to that permanent +3. Wow, thanks for telling me this. What a bizarre decision hopefully someone gets around to making a mod to remove it being permanent.
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Panfilo posted:Queek funnels experience from other lords to himself which is great to get him up to level 40 faster than other lords. Having lots of other lords is beneficial to him (I assume this is Queek hogging all the credit for himself).
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SMP posted:Godspeed, College of Pyrotechnics. Its quite fun to adopt a awesome faction and help them build up.
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Mightypeon posted:Mazdamundi is indeed frog Hitler. Yea, the ending of the Mazda's ritual was a mood whiplash. "The world is safe and the great ones plan can continue." Yay! "Commence the purge." Wait, what? Edit: Hurrr, edit, not new post.
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There's a reason why most Slann consider Mazdamundi kind of a poo poo  Lord Kroak 4evar
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I have 10 stacks as Queek and I'm still making 36k a turn. I have 12 provinces and 40 settlements but it feels like a lot more since it's a huge chunk of the map (southern jungles/badlands and up to mt gunbad). Drowning the world in rats rules.
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Did they ever fix the range bug? I have the upgrades for artillery/flame weapons as Dwarves but I can't tell if they are actually doing damage at max range (previously, the range indicator would correctly adjust for the increased range, but the projectiles would either do 0 damage at the bonus range or always fall short to the stock range.
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Ahhh free blood for people who bought the blood dlc for TW1. Thank you for being reasonable CA.
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gently caress Confederation. CA either need to fix it or disable it. It feels nearly impossible to Confederate at all as the player unless you're up 5 full provinces on the other guy and you shower them with gifts. Meanwhile HElves, Greenskins and Stunties AI empires just confederate on cooldown.
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Were Luminarks of Hysh always mega murder machines or is that new to TWII? I knew they were ok for large unit sniping, but drat. I usually never used them, because they wouldn't fire if there was a branch on the ground obstructing their view.
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Xae posted:gently caress Confederation. Confederation as AI: "Is same culture? Is off cooldown? CONFEDERATION GO!" Confederation as player: "gently caress. YOU. gently caress YOUR FACE. gently caress YOUR CLOTHES. gently caress YOU FOR EXISTING." They never confederate unless they're down to their last city, it's being sieged, they have no armies, no money, it's a Tuesday while Mercury is in retrograde, their chakras are aligned, and they've conducted the requisite seventeen seances to commune with their great-great-great-great Aunt Agnes to discuss whether they should consider possibly almost sorta kinda confederating; and then they'll still want 70,000 gold for a Moderate chance of agreeing, at least. Then they'll still say no. Confederation is hosed.
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I dunno man. I keep reading things in this thread about confederation that I don't experience. It doesn't seem hard or impossible. Also, a ways back someone said you couldn't confederate if you were in an alliance with someone but I've been able to do that as well.
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