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Just preordered, placing more emphasis on individual characters gave me some strong CK2 vibes, while at the same time the game keeps the hero-factor from Warhammer. Also I'm a huge nerd for Chinese historical action-movies like Red Cliff or The Emperor and the Assassin.
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Since it's coming out in less than a week now, someone wanna jump on a thread for it?
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To Total War vets, does this one seem more complicated than the others? Do they have decent tutorials? Im watching the ~official~ stream and I have no idea whats going on, but I love anything 3 Kingdoms related so im wondering if me, a dipshit, should take the plunge and just preorder
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May 17, 2019 15:26
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Koramei posted:Since it's coming out in less than a week now, someone wanna jump on a thread for it? This is the thread for the historical games afaik Probably could do with a new OP though
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May 17, 2019 15:31
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No, this is just the general total war thread, new games have always gone in different threads. I don't always see the need to refresh threads for the same game like happens sometimes, but lumping in the talk about a game from this year with posts from a decade ago seems needless.
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StabMasterArson posted:To Total War vets, does this one seem more complicated than the others? Do they have decent tutorials? Im watching the ~official~ stream and I have no idea whats going on, but I love anything 3 Kingdoms related so im wondering if me, a dipshit, should take the plunge and just preorder From what I’ve watched it doesn’t seem much more complicated than the additions they made to Attila - it seems better explained and easier to manage than the growth/food/development stuff in Attila, too. I’m skeptical about 3K since all their historical games since TWW have been lovely at launch and just mediocre after DLC (Rome 2, Attila, Thrones of Brittania), the unit sizes look hella small, and it’s emphasis on agents/campaign map abilities has me worried that it’s going to degenerate into the agent spam the TW AI has traditionally liked but I don’t think it will be meaningfully more complex than earlier games
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StabMasterArson posted:To Total War vets, does this one seem more complicated than the others? Do they have decent tutorials? Im watching the ~official~ stream and I have no idea whats going on, but I love anything 3 Kingdoms related so im wondering if me, a dipshit, should take the plunge and just preorder There are more options for espionage and more pronounced family and general relationships. Food management looks completely different too, you couldn't stockpile food in other games. I don't recall any TW game where you could buy food too.
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May 17, 2019 15:54
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Attila was good* from launch, actually *ignoring performance
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May 17, 2019 16:01
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StabMasterArson posted:To Total War vets, does this one seem more complicated than the others? Do they have decent tutorials? Im watching the ~official~ stream and I have no idea whats going on, but I love anything 3 Kingdoms related so im wondering if me, a dipshit, should take the plunge and just preorder There are ingame tutorial videos. You can see buttons for them when streamers go to the Settings menu.
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May 17, 2019 16:08
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Frog Act posted:From what I’ve watched it doesn’t seem much more complicated than the additions they made to Attila - it seems better explained and easier to manage than the growth/food/development stuff in Attila, too. I’m skeptical about 3K since all their historical games since TWW have been lovely at launch and just mediocre after DLC (Rome 2, Attila, Thrones of Brittania), the unit sizes look hella small, and it’s emphasis on agents/campaign map abilities has me worried that it’s going to degenerate into the agent spam the TW AI has traditionally liked but I don’t think it will be meaningfully more complex than earlier games As long as you pay attention to who comes into your faction there is jackshit the AI can do to you in regards to agent spam.
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May 17, 2019 16:11
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Is there a good video about espionage for 3k?
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May 17, 2019 16:13
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Third World Reagan posted:Is there a good video about espionage for 3k? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfzwCV40Vsg&t=13s
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May 17, 2019 16:16
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Is there any fun Total War or Rot3K discord where I can get my fill of incredibly niche memes about Cao Cao trolling people?
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May 17, 2019 16:17
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Hunt11 posted:As long as you pay attention to who comes into your faction there is jackshit the AI can do to you in regards to agent spam. "Huh, this defector from Wei sure seems eager to take command of one of my armies right in the core of my empire"
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May 17, 2019 16:18
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toasterwarrior posted:"Huh, this defector from Wei sure seems eager to take command of one of my armies right in the core of my empire" TBF that happened alot in the source material. Wow I can't believe I was able to get guan yu to forsake his sworn brothers and join me by giving him a beard cover!
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May 17, 2019 16:20
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I can't believe lu bu, the bastard of 3 fathers, has betrayed me
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May 17, 2019 16:21
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Frog Act posted:From what I’ve watched it doesn’t seem much more complicated than the additions they made to Attila - it seems better explained and easier to manage than the growth/food/development stuff in Attila, too. I’m skeptical about 3K since all their historical games since TWW have been lovely at launch and just mediocre after DLC (Rome 2, Attila, Thrones of Brittania), the unit sizes look hella small, and it’s emphasis on agents/campaign map abilities has me worried that it’s going to degenerate into the agent spam the TW AI has traditionally liked but I don’t think it will be meaningfully more complex than earlier games Nah dude. The units have a max setting of like 240 dudes per (infantry) group, and agents don't exist as on-map units, only as characters in armies and governments.
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The units look small cause you have like 3 generals per army and they take up a slot each. No agents on the map is good. Though ThroB had that and still has bizzarely slow turn times for what it is. But I think ThroB was mystifyingly 32bit and based on the attila engine (lmao) E they can't be crazy enough to do that again right? I hope this game does well in China, TW seems pretty popular over there judging by all the Chinese translations of warhammer mods That way we might get TW Taiping War Communist Thoughts fucked around with this message at 17:12 on May 17, 2019 |
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May 17, 2019 16:50
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They don’t seem small to me. There’s still 18 slots for units, which is at least as many as I usually have in a Warhammer army by the time you deduct the lord and a hero. Then in records you have three more bodyguard units.
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May 17, 2019 17:18
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StabMasterArson posted:To Total War vets, does this one seem more complicated than the others? Do they have decent tutorials? Im watching the ~official~ stream and I have no idea whats going on, but I love anything 3 Kingdoms related so im wondering if me, a dipshit, should take the plunge and just preorder You should wait and make sure there are no glaring problems with the game when it comes out. You can still get the “free” dlc if you buy it the first week after launch.
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May 17, 2019 17:37
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Yeah only freaks like me should preorder TW games. Rome 2 straight up didn't work for me for about 4 months. Attila doesn't work to this day, heyooooo
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May 17, 2019 17:43
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The feels of remembering every borked launch or patch from CA.
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May 17, 2019 17:47
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Collector’s edition unpacked: Guan Yu looks nice, art book is meh, game won’t unlock now. Cat loves the red chest 
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May 17, 2019 17:53
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 not mine but looks ok Also apparently this is doing really well for chinese streamers and this makes me want to believe in cathay for total warhammer 2. I am sorry, this is my dream.
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May 17, 2019 17:55
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Yes my Chinese brothers and sisters please make this dumb series live forever
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May 17, 2019 17:57
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How hard will it be to get the swarthy bandit and guan yu out of the criminal liu bei’s faction and into whatever cool one I’m playing instead?
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Senor Dog posted:How hard will it be to get the swarthy bandit and guan yu out of the criminal liu bei’s faction and into whatever cool one I’m playing instead? They may not have been born on the same day but they will die on the same day So presumably pretty hard, knowing CA though they'll do some weird screw up where theyr the most treacherous allies in the game though
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A lot of the big tw streamers don't like the mustering thing, I guess they skipped over ToB.
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:Do faction leader characters age/die in this or are they just immortal like in warhammer? They age and die.
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ad090 posted:They age and die. Yesssss
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Senor Dog posted:How hard will it be to get the swarthy bandit and guan yu out of the criminal liu bei’s faction and into whatever cool one I’m playing instead? Me, next week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucRAzxS9r0c&t=152s
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Senor Dog posted:How hard will it be to get the swarthy bandit and guan yu out of the criminal liu bei’s faction and into whatever cool one I’m playing instead? At least a couple of streamers have been able to get Liu Bei to sell one of his brothers (via marriage) for a lump sum.
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May 17, 2019 18:28
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Is it possible to send spies somwehre in particular? Or do you have to just send them out into the world and hope your target picks them up?
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Hentai Jihadist posted:They may not have been born on the same day but they will die on the same day Well, Liu Bei is kind of a professional traitor, so...  Or is that  ?
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May 17, 2019 18:52
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Gay Horney posted:Is it possible to send spies somwehre in particular? Or do you have to just send them out into the world and hope your target picks them up? When sending out spies you choose which faction they go to and then you have to hope that said faction recruits them.
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Note however that they scout along the way to give you campaign map line of sight whether or not they end up employed.
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Unlucky7 posted:Well, Liu Bei is kind of a professional traitor, so... I thought that was Lu Bu
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Tythas posted:I thought that was Lu Bu Despite what the novel may try to say Liu Bei did many questionable things even as he proclaimed his nobility.
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Hunt11 posted:Despite what the novel may try to say Liu Bei did many questionable things even as he proclaimed his nobility. To be fair, it is likely that at worst he was no better than any other warlord at the time. His bros are kinda lovely though. That said, the takeover of Yi Providence, which formed the basis of the Shu kingdom pretty much was a huge act of betrayal. I am torn. I am never able to get into Total War for long even though I love the idea of the games, but I really do like Three Kingdoms stuff and the actual history behind them. Unlucky7 fucked around with this message at 20:21 on May 17, 2019 |
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