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That's always a worry for me with trying custom factions, too many come off as overpowered. I mean I play on normal because I'm bad and just want to have fun so I don't mind an easy fight but there's a limit.
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I can't remember: are Black Arks supposed to be able to recruit from port provinces they are garrisoning? Mine can't for some reason.
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Mar 29, 2021 00:41
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Been playing that one big grab-bag of custom factions mod and the balance is absolutely all over the place it's kinda hilarious. Their Amazons was like pulling teeth early game against Orcs and Lizards, but after that initial hump absolutely nothing could touch them. The Chaos Dwarfs faction's absolutely insane ranged/artillery and Bull Centaur cav was seemingly "balanced" by giving every other faction a 50-80 negative malus towards you so I was getting entire chains of war declarations, and the Albion faction proved shockingly counter to everything Malekith and co could throw at me. The true balance to all the fun is that weird design decisions that riddle each faction. Like the Amazon's massive kudzu tech trees, or Albion being stuck with unwalled settlements when their victory conditions want you to go wide while also defending Albion from constant Welf-style invasions. That was one campaign I had to abandon fast despite the fun of out-shooting Helves.
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Mar 29, 2021 00:56
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Are the Dark Ekves always cheering "for sedition" or are they just really big fans of Warhammer Fantasy 4th Edition?
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Mar 29, 2021 07:54
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does anyone know why my pc fans sound like theyre trying to kill themselves on the campaign map? its fine in battles but something about the campaign map is just very performance intensive apparently. also Rakarth is cool, do they mention the way he got his black dragon anywhere in-game? basically Rakarth's dad found this super strong black dragon that nobody could tame, like other beastmasters were getting torn apart trying it, and it was so bad rakarth's dad was just like 'gently caress it, i guess we just kill the drat thing and make him into shoes'. kid rakarth heard this and was like 'oh pa-pa, could i try to tame the beast, pretty please?' and rakarths dad was like 'yeah gently caress it whatever, don't come crying to me when he eats you.' rakarth walked out into the beast pen where bracchus was chained up, and looked him right in the eye. at that moment bracchus realised that rakarth was the only being in the world as cruel as evil as he was, and they immediately became best friends. it's like the classic black beauty style animal bonding moment from all those horse movies and poo poo, but the evil version.
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Mar 29, 2021 09:13
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SteelMentor posted:Been playing that one big grab-bag of custom factions mod and the balance is absolutely all over the place it's kinda hilarious. Their Amazons was like pulling teeth early game against Orcs and Lizards, but after that initial hump absolutely nothing could touch them. The Chaos Dwarfs faction's absolutely insane ranged/artillery and Bull Centaur cav was seemingly "balanced" by giving every other faction a 50-80 negative malus towards you so I was getting entire chains of war declarations, and the Albion faction proved shockingly counter to everything Malekith and co could throw at me. I really liked Albion's campaign after a few rough patches. It's definitely a mod that has some rough patches (way too many buildings and nowhere near enough slots for them) but it felt pretty balanced given what was being thrown at you. One campaign I ended up abandoning when both the Cabal (another Chaos faction from the mod) and Chaos both spawned in at the same time and beelined for me. The Albion economies are pretty lovely and reliant on raiding, similar to Norsca, and you spend so long being bottled up in Albion that I hadn't had a chance to get any kind of warchest going, so got overwhelmed. 1.5 stacks, even with lightning strike, just can't stand up to that. E: it's also nuts just how good their javelin infantry is early on.
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Mar 29, 2021 11:58
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juggalo baby coffin posted:does anyone know why my pc fans sound like theyre trying to kill themselves on the campaign map? its fine in battles but something about the campaign map is just very performance intensive apparently. Maps are all CPU, not GPU. To that end you might hear your CPU fans get a lil crazy! (Assuming it’s during turn calculations).
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Mar 29, 2021 14:20
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juggalo baby coffin posted:does anyone know why my pc fans sound like theyre trying to kill themselves on the campaign map? its fine in battles but something about the campaign map is just very performance intensive apparently. I have this issue as well. It is a known thing that they will never do anything about. There are a few mods that will do something about it although minor. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2416619222 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1291788801
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Mar 29, 2021 14:30
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juggalo baby coffin posted:does anyone know why my pc fans sound like theyre trying to kill themselves on the campaign map? its fine in battles but something about the campaign map is just very performance intensive apparently. Are dragons intelligent beings that can communicate in the warhammer world or are they just big lizard beasts?
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Mar 29, 2021 14:31
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Zzulu posted:Are dragons intelligent beings that can communicate in the warhammer world or are they just big lizard beasts? If I remember right they are intelligent and they were some of the original inhabitants of the planet before the Old Ones terraformed the place.
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Mar 29, 2021 14:46
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I think Caledor is supposed to be special for still speaking dragon tongue while the rest of the elves don't, or something like that
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Mar 29, 2021 14:53
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The real question is whether bears are as intelligent as humans in Warhammer, or if they're actually smarter.
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Mar 29, 2021 15:25
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Yeah, Imrik's whole thing is talking to dragons. That's why he can opt to get knowledge from them. Black Dragons are warped by dark magic, possibly insane, and all-around emo dragons. They still possess some form of intelligence, however.
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Mar 29, 2021 16:57
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Ethiser posted:If I remember right they are intelligent and they were some of the original inhabitants of the planet before the Old Ones terraformed the place. This is correct. Think old ones made it too hot/cold for them iirc which is why many of them gently caress off and find places to sleep.
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Mar 29, 2021 16:59
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That janky custom faction blender mod (OvN) is great and awful. It has an all-troll faction that's the polar opposite of the other factions; almost no researches or buildings and a tiny unit roster - but one of the units is the Troll (Bone Thrower), their only non-infantry unit. Imagine a squad of 12 javeliners with 130 range and the added bonus of every javelin being an AoE armor-piercing artillery shell that does 44AP/20Normal damage to the target and 25AP/20Normal damage to about 1/3 of their unit. Also they're well-armored, have missile resistance, and regenerate passively. 4 units of them literally ragdolled a Tomb Kings skeleton army and sent bones and shields clattering all over the map
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Mar 29, 2021 22:01
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Zzulu posted:Are dragons intelligent beings that can communicate in the warhammer world or are they just big lizard beasts? They're at least somewhat intelligent because Imrik's whole backstory is he fought on a battlefield because he believed in dragons more than any of the other elves and when he fell some dragon sensed it and came to his aid and rescued him off the field. That said I don't think they're quite up to D&D level of "can polymorph into a human shape and speak Common" full intelligence.
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Mar 29, 2021 22:12
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Zaphod42 posted:They're at least somewhat intelligent because Imrik's whole backstory is he fought on a battlefield because he believed in dragons more than any of the other elves and when he fell some dragon sensed it and came to his aid and rescued him off the field. There's like 20 species of dragon but the ones we see in game are at least human level intelligent. They probably just can't be bothered to speak human or elvish because gently caress you that's why. quote:When the Old Ones first crafted their Gates from the substance of stars, I was there to assist their labour. Down the long ages I have come, watching the rise and fall of you lesser races and your civilisations. I’ve laid waste to knights and cities, burned fields and routed armies in my years. I could tell you much of the world that you have forgotten and more that you never knew, but I think not. You and yours are suited for nothing more than to provide me with amusement and the occasional graceful bauble for my lair. I see little else worthwhile about you. Telsa Cola fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Mar 29, 2021 |
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Mar 29, 2021 22:43
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Oh and one of the campaign options when Imrik encounters dragons is to consort with them (which grants tons of Intrigue) so yeah I guess other than not speaking Common they can carry on a conversation
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Mar 29, 2021 23:11
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Look they're millennia old, they don't want to deal with whatever weird young person slang kids these days are communicating with. Learn to roar properly!
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Mar 30, 2021 00:05
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Look dragons just follow the poncification scale demonstrated by Imrik and Caledor. Caledor is where the most arrogant rear end in a top hat elves live, Imrik is the most arrogant and most assholish, thereby the dragons are even poncier, even more arrogant, even bigger assholes.
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Mar 30, 2021 00:28
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Dragons are just tired as poo poo, like the Dragon Ogres, the other original race (and maybe the Fimir were that old, too?) on the planet. The Old Ones showed up, changed everything, which the current residents were pretty much mixed on, threw down some weird new bipeds, then all of history happened, and now dragons are still expected to care about whatever's going on on this continent that didn't use to exist in their day when it's so loving hot out thanks to the change in planetary orbit? gently caress that! They're not total dicks, they're just real old and powerful and most of the things that would be "nice" just aren't worth the effort when time moves so fast you'll probably just get burned for trying. One of the RPG books implies that there used to be a friendship between Dwarfs and Dragons that ended on a bitter note that was probably the Dwarfs fault, and so it was entirely blasted from Dwarfen history. I thought that was a nice example of one of the setting's unexplained mysteries.
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Telsa Cola posted:There's like 20 species of dragon but the ones we see in game are at least human level intelligent. They probably just can't be bothered to speak human or elvish because gently caress you that's why. Eimi posted:Look dragons just follow the poncification scale demonstrated by Imrik and Caledor. Caledor is where the most arrogant rear end in a top hat elves live, Imrik is the most arrogant and most assholish, thereby the dragons are even poncier, even more arrogant, even bigger assholes. Sounds like dragons in WH are essentially giant, fire-breathing house cats.
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Why did no one tell me that Isabella, Vlad, and a vampire murder squad is so drat fun?
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Nash posted:Why did no one tell me that Isabella, Vlad, and a vampire murder squad is so drat fun? my favorite strategy is to either have Isabella with free skellies or just her and some heroes followed by vlad and the real army in constant ambush stance. It never fails to draw in some poor hapless AI to get slaughtered
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TheHoosier posted:my favorite strategy is to either have Isabella with free skellies or just her and some heroes followed by vlad and the real army in constant ambush stance. It never fails to draw in some poor hapless AI to get slaughtered This is the best strategy for any faction that can field a lot of cheap chaff and I highly recommend it to anyone that wants to murder poo poo on the cheap.
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Mar 30, 2021 02:57
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Zzulu posted:Are dragons intelligent beings that can communicate in the warhammer world or are they just big lizard beasts? i think they're smart but i don't know how smart. i dont know if theyre like dungeons and dragons ones where they are like super anime geniuses even smugger than elves, but i think they can talk in dragon language
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Mar 30, 2021 02:58
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I imagine it's hard to properly gauge the intelligence level of a creature that is older than your civilization
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Mar 30, 2021 03:15
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Dragons are very old and judgemental and want to watch they're programs and take a nap. But if you touch the drat thermostat like those last hooligans you're gonna get it
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Playing Wurzag for the first time and, man, Foot of Gork loving slaps. Never going to get tired of watching it take off 80% of the green bar and fling bodies everywhere. I’d just leveled the skill that reduces its winds by 9 or whatever when the next chapter, entitled, “put the boot in” began. I think the future is an orc boot stamping on a dawi face, forever.
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juggalo baby coffin posted:i think they're smart but i don't know how smart. i dont know if theyre like dungeons and dragons ones where they are like super anime geniuses even smugger than elves, but i think they can talk in dragon language As a nerd, dragons are very smart in warhammer. They're perfectly capable of learning human or elven tongue. Theyre just also, as you said, smugger than elves even. It also varies on dragon type, but even the comparatively dumb ones are capable of speech and communicating difficult concepts.
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Lawdog69 posted:Playing Wurzag for the first time and, man, Foot of Gork loving slaps. Never going to get tired of watching it take off 80% of the green bar and fling bodies everywhere. I’d just leveled the skill that reduces its winds by 9 or whatever when the next chapter, entitled, “put the boot in” began. I think the future is an orc boot stamping on a dawi face, forever. I'm playing Grom for the first time and all is for Grom. Thank you for reminding me to go make sure Wurzzag is for Grom too.
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Wurrzag makes sieges hilarious because foot of Gork can be used on walls and because walls are utterly hosed pathing-wise it makes the spell even deadlier.
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I'm getting pretty impatient for news. I hope there's an insane announcement on the 1st and that it's real.
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Sinteres posted:I'm getting pretty impatient for news. I hope there's an insane announcement on the 1st and that it's real. They usually lead their reveals with a small teaser the day before, nothing happened today so I'm not holding my breath for anything tomorrow.
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Sasgrillo posted:They usually lead their reveals with a small teaser the day before, nothing happened today so I'm not holding my breath for anything tomorrow. Yeah I'm not optimistic. With all the attention being paid to the Rome remaster, and it actually being released late next month, I'm starting to wonder if that'll be the only April release since nothing seems to indicate this is heading for early April yet.
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why did they make buying DLC for this game an insane nightmare?
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I didn't know it was. What's the issue?
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Apr 1, 2021 08:53
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Eh? You buy DLC for the faction/s you're interested in playing, the end. If you're not interested, then you don't buy it.
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Tbh I'm kinda surprised they haven't tried a subscription model like paradox has Also, correction: you buy all the DLC like a fuckin stooge even tho you never play rats or empire or vsea
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The base game + the sequel + all the DLC is ridiculously, grotesquely expensive. If you're the kind of player who wants to "try most of the factions and units" and not just limit yourself to a portion of the game, then you're gonna have to spend some big bucks just to see it all. Isn't it close to 300 dollars now?
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