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I played a bunch of Thrones of Britannia, ask me anything
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Fangz posted:I played a bunch of Thrones of Britannia, ask me anything When is Norsca coming back?
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Apr 14, 2018 16:22
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Fangz posted:I played a bunch of Thrones of Britannia, ask me anything Is it good?
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Apr 14, 2018 16:22
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what magic do the irish get
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Apr 14, 2018 16:26
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John Charity Spring posted:Is it good? It seems alright. My main impression is that fortified town attacks are much harder than in Warhammer. Siege towers can only be used once, and boiling oil equipped gates kill half of any infantry that try walking through them.
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Apr 14, 2018 16:30
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How much does it feel like Attila?
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Apr 14, 2018 16:41
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Fangz posted:I played a bunch of Thrones of Britannia, ask me anything Can troops attack walls with ladders as standard (like warhammer) or do you need to build ladders for certain units to carry in the campaign map (like previous historical titles)? Do factions get proper navies and what are they like?
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Apr 14, 2018 16:43
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Boiling oil in total war games is always incredibly overpowered
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Apr 14, 2018 17:04
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Genghis Cohen posted:Can troops attack walls with ladders as standard (like warhammer) or do you need to build ladders for certain units to carry in the campaign map (like previous historical titles)? You have to build siege stuff to get on to walls. I couldn't climb them. quote:Do factions get proper navies and what are they like? There's longboats and stuff. I didn't do a lot of naval combat. It felt less tedious than Attila but I dunno, I never got very far with it.
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Apr 14, 2018 17:22
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Can I amass longbows and paint the sky black with my arrows?
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Apr 14, 2018 17:36
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Billzasilver posted:Boiling oil in total war games is always incredibly overpowered Boiling oil never makes sense to me. That stuff is expensive. Couldn't you just throw boiling water instead?
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Apr 14, 2018 17:37
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PureRok posted:Can I amass longbows and paint the sky black with my arrows? I'll have to try later as Wales but maybe not. Shields are everywhere and armour piercing on archers is weak. Playing as Vikings I did have to keep my two handed axemen away from skirmishers though.
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Apr 14, 2018 17:40
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Arcsquad12 posted:Boiling oil never makes sense to me. That stuff is expensive. Couldn't you just throw boiling water instead? Boiling oil sticks to your skin while it burns.
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Apr 14, 2018 17:47
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It also can catch fire.
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Apr 14, 2018 17:59
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It also can catch fire. That seems bad if you have wooden walls.
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Apr 14, 2018 18:04
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Boiling oil is at 200C, water is below 100C. One is a lot nastier.
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Apr 14, 2018 18:07
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Also they did use boiling water in medieval sieges, it's just that oil has that special touch.
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Apr 14, 2018 18:25
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How did the AI handle the campaign map changes? Did you have to constantly deal with the AI sniping undefended villages?
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Apr 14, 2018 18:40
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KPC_Mammon posted:How did the AI handle the campaign map changes? Did you have to constantly deal with the AI sniping undefended villages? In the short bit of time I played, a village was sniped, yes
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Apr 14, 2018 18:54
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Fangz posted:I played a bunch of Thrones of Britannia, ask me anything was it actually good?
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Apr 14, 2018 21:56
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jokes posted:Boiling oil sticks to your skin while it burns. Arcsquad12 posted:Boiling oil never makes sense to me. That stuff is expensive. Couldn't you just throw boiling water instead? Yeah, oil gets much hotter and sticks instead of bouncing off, which is especially important if the enemy wears armor. The heat doesn’t work immediately, it needs time to pass through clothing and armor.
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Apr 15, 2018 01:41
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Fangz posted:You have to build siege stuff to get on to walls. I couldn't climb them. Thanks. Shame you can’t launch a daring escalade immediately, I think that’s a pretty cool way of representing attacking a town in an era that mostly lacked sophisticated siege equipment. I’m still definitely playing as sea vikings though.
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Apr 15, 2018 12:30
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Also I imagine the smell of crispy-fried Bob is super demoralizing to an attacker. Plus it's all slick and makes it harder to keep your footing while making your way up.
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Apr 15, 2018 15:17
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Have there been significant changes to the battle maps? While fidelity has been getting better with each game it still feels a bit cut and dry most of the time so more often than not battlefields look like abstractions of real terrain rather than genuine areas where battles would be fought.
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Apr 15, 2018 18:31
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Burning Oil made siege defense even more trivially easy in ME2:TW's expansions. You could just put your dudes in the interior of the gateway and the oil would burn 90% of the attackers.
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Apr 16, 2018 04:04
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It’s insane that gates just got infinite boiling oil and could dump a full cauldron every 15 seconds Maybe balance it to pour much less frequently and only if the top of the gate is manned. Or have a limited number of pours that you activate on command, like a dwarven gyrocopter’s bombs.
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Apr 16, 2018 12:04
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Billzasilver posted:It’s insane that gates just got infinite boiling oil and could dump a full cauldron every 15 seconds I think the best compromise would be being able to pour the oil manually with a decent cooldown.
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Apr 16, 2018 13:04
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An important question for Thrones of Britannia: can I light everything on fire again? Watching everything burn was my favorite part of Atilla, even if it did murder my computer and didn't really add any tactical advantage.
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Apr 16, 2018 18:56
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Don Gato posted:An important question for Thrones of Britannia: can I light everything on fire again? Watching everything burn was my favorite part of Atilla, even if it did murder my computer and didn't really add any tactical advantage. It provided morale modifiers!
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Apr 16, 2018 19:06
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There was a lot of stuff being lit on fire, yes. Most viking units (well, the ones with axes) automatically set buildings on fire around them.
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Apr 16, 2018 19:14
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Did you get much of a go with the strategy map, did the agents feel more fun to use again?
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Apr 16, 2018 19:17
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Not much, I'm afraid. I didn't touch agents.
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Apr 16, 2018 19:38
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Fangz posted:Not much, I'm afraid. I didn't touch agents. I'm glad to hear they aren't important then.
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Apr 16, 2018 19:56
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No automatic ladders is dumb.
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Apr 16, 2018 19:57
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I had such a lot of fun with the agents in Shogun 2, its a shame that none of them since then have been fun.
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Apr 16, 2018 20:14
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I liked the rock paper scissors aspect of agents in Attila but once you got a high level agent operating in your lands it's almost impossible to get rid of him. Agents in Warhammer are fun because they also fight in battle. The minotaur agents for beastmen are hilarious.
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Apr 16, 2018 20:17
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I wish agents would just go away. That way I don't have to get a mod every new game getting rid of them.
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Apr 16, 2018 20:20
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Same, but I do like mages in Warhammer and latching heroes onto my armies to bash dudes.
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Apr 16, 2018 20:36
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They took agents out of ToB. Or is that 
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Apr 17, 2018 00:06
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Is there a Shogun mod to make the agents behave like Warhammer heroes? Would really like to have an oversized magic ninja or foreign veteran laying waste to the enemy battle lines
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Apr 17, 2018 00:47
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