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Ralepozozaxe posted:There are books of nagash everywhere on the map, Mannfred could make a move towards lustria. you'd rather fight the ubersauria that are Lizardmen? wtf are skelebois going to do to saurus warriors or salamander hunting packs poor Mannfred is going to cry in the corner no matter where he goes
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Ralepozozaxe posted:There are books of nagash everywhere on the map, Mannfred could make a move towards lustria. Mannfred And Harkon sittin' in a tree... Ect ect. Though to be fair, Mannfred and Harkon starting next to each other would make great frenimies.
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DeathSandwich posted:Thorgrim is going to be in direct competition with Skarsnik now though, and the latter isn't going to be near as bottled up as he was before.
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What’s the current best guess for release because the hype has once again begun to build to dangerous levels.
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Real Cool Catfish posted:What’s the current best guess for release because the hype has once again begun to build to dangerous levels. Mid-August. CA pushed back the big multiplayer tournament final to August 13/14 so it could be played on the 2.0 patch, so Immortal Empires is probably coming on the Thursday right before or right after that weekend.
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I think Skarbrand will work himself out in that even if he endangers a majority of his neighbors he isn't going to methodically carve out a multi-province domain and get a bunch of free confeds for normal fights or just existing(which is how Grimgor and Malekith/Thogrim do it.) He will also auto-dec everyone he meets and risk having his land taken even as his 1-2 starter stacks feast on cheap skellies and zombies.
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orangelex44 posted:You realize that you exchanged Rakarth for Be’lakor, right? Things haven’t really improved from the Empire’s point of view there. I feel like, for the Empire, Belakor will be funner to fight. I just don’t like fighting dark elfs okay still, extremely hype for IE. Here’s hoping for either performance improvements or cheaper GPUs
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The snake hints seem like it could be amazons not khuresh. Theyr a bit better known too
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Communist Thoughts posted:The snake hints seem like it could be amazons not khuresh. Theyr a bit better known too It’s Pontusssss.
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Communist Thoughts posted:The snake hints seem like it could be amazons not khuresh. Theyr a bit better known too Hyedum posted:It’s Pontusssss.
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Communist Thoughts posted:The snake hints seem like it could be amazons not khuresh. Theyr a bit better known too Give me Amazons that are bodybuilders juicing on Old Ones tech or give me death. by snusnu Wanna bully chaos with laser guns and lady guns Triskelli fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Jul 13, 2022 |
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:
Ai doesn't tend to spam them nor use them well, and they have awful leadership. If you can keep them from hammer and anvil-ing your troops you are fine. The biggest annoyance is that you can't really turn guns and crossbows on them until they are already in on you. If you are playing as skarsnik and can use then well, they own though. 420 shiv dwarfs erry day.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Or this. Please CA. Mithridates hungers for grognard tears.
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Hyedum posted:It’s Pontusssss. I really do wish they’d port over a single real-world civilization from another total war game and say a chaos portal did it. Just a completely non-fantastical spearmanii faction. And then they reveal that it’s Pontus, lol
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Queek and Skarbrand could become good friends. Daemons don’t auto declare on Rats.
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jokes posted:I really do wish they’d port over a single real-world civilization from another total war game and say a chaos portal did it. Just a completely non-fantastical spearmanii faction. I'm legit surprised nobody has ported over any Three Kingdoms lords yet for Cathay
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jokes posted:I really do wish they’d port over a single real-world civilization from another total war game and say a chaos portal did it. Just a completely non-fantastical spearmanii faction. Or if they just wordlessly dropped Grimgor into 3 kingdoms or Rome III or the like. Like a random endgame crisis, they just bomb in on a random province and start a big rear end Waaagh
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jokes posted:I really do wish they’d port over a single real-world civilization from another total war game and say a chaos portal did it. Just a completely non-fantastical spearmanii faction. BRB modding in the nuke general for Cathay. Eat nuclear helicopter you nerds!
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Looking at the east, it's obvious where the chorf void is. We know Kholek starts somewhere north of the Mountains of Mourn (so either roughly east or northeast of Grimgor), and Archie very likely starts near or at where he did in ME (so roughly west or northwest of Grimgor, and South-ish of Boris). So that might spice things up a bit. The absence of hats of incredible size is very noticeable though. Once they show up that area might be a lot more busy. Sigvald is likely somewhere up in the northwest corner of the map, so he gets to I'm wondering where they're going to put the 4 DLC lords. There's a lot of space down in the southern wastes (poor Oxyotl is noticeably alone down there), so that could be one or even two of them, but where else could they go?
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Gonkish posted:
If I had to guess, Tzeench in Cathay to put pressure on the wall, nurgle in Lustria to play with Skrolk, Khorne probably wedged in between Morathi Mazdamundi and Cylostra, and then new Slaanesh lord gets the south pole to fight Oxyotl. That or they spring a FreeLC norsca lord down south. Edit: God the Khorne champion getting dropped between Mazda, Morathi, and Cylostra would be such an absolutely beautiful clusterfuck killbox. Way more fun Skarsbrand fighting forever skeletons and skaven slaves. DeathSandwich fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Jul 13, 2022 |
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Remember Andy Hall directly stated "We're never gonna say never because there should always be the opportunity to bring [Ind, Kuresh and Nippon] in or new nations, but you know I've seen the road map and these nations aren't on there now. There's no plans to do them in the immediate or even long-term future." Don't get your hopes up
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Grumio posted:Don't get your hopes up No
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Grumio posted:Don't get your hopes up Personally, my hopes are turgid. 
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Wouldn't dare get my hopes up But let me say, Khuresh's T2 archers are so underpowered. Between that and their lackluster lord skills (5% missile resistance in ambush stance as a quest battle reward? WTF CA) it's obvious that the developers are incompetent. They better fix it, and soon. I can be their best friend... or their worst enemy
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DaysBefore posted:Wouldn't dare get my hopes up I hated Warhammer 3 at launch and swore off CA games forever. Yes, I have bought all the Total Warhammer DLC,
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Grumio posted:Remember Andy Hall directly stated "We're never gonna say never because there should always be the opportunity to bring [Ind, Kuresh and Nippon] in or new nations, but you know I've seen the road map and these nations aren't on there now. There's no plans to do them in the immediate or even long-term future." Sure, but I can't imagine them only doing a single DLC race pack, so they will need something after Hat Dwarfs. Other than Dogs of War, which seems like a stretch, what other options are even out there?
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I dont know posted:Sure, but I can't imagine them only doing a single DLC race pack, so they will need something after Hat Dwarfs. Other than Dogs of War, which seems like a stretch, what other options are even out there? Amazons and Halflings I guess? They have Blood Bowl teams and enough lore to mine to make a full faction.
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Excited for the “Oops! All humans” expansion, where they release Araby, Ind, Amazons, Nippon, and halflings— all of whom use generic Empire voices
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I dont know posted:Sure, but I can't imagine them only doing a single DLC race pack, so they will need something after Hat Dwarfs. Other than Dogs of War, which seems like a stretch, what other options are even out there? I mean Amazons are out there, but I don't know if they'd actually get around to it anytime soon. I feel like they're too close, aesthetically, to lizardmen. Meanwhile the Naga having a Cambodian vibe and being literal evil snake dudes would at least be "reptiles, but different" and might be distinct enough to get people on board. But who the gently caress cares, I'm gonna buy it no matter what. 
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They could always add little groups as tww2 ogre mercenary camps style recruitables. Half kings can always be recruited in the moot, amazons in what we the Amazon province is, etc. they could consist of maybe 3 - 4 specific units, that would be an easy way to add littler groups.
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jokes posted:Excited for the “Oops! All humans” expansion, where they release Araby, Ind, Amazons, Nippon, and halflings— all of whom use generic Empire voices Also the generic Empire Beards.
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I dont know posted:Sure, but I can't imagine them only doing a single DLC race pack, so they will need something after Hat Dwarfs. Other than Dogs of War, which seems like a stretch, what other options are even out there? From most to least likely IMO: Dogs of War Dogs of War* (with substantial numbers of units from minor races, which are integrated into limited-roster factions) Hobgoblins Ind and/or Khuresh Kurgan Nippon Amazons (note that this is the last nation that I actually think is a realistic possibility) Literally Pontus Araby Fishmen Halflings Albion
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I would rate Halfling appearing in some capacity as having pretty good odds. They're all over the lore, have had models in the past and are even a playable race in the RPG and Blood Bowl.
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 haha yes, free wfh monitor from work just in time for IE
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I like of the four original lords two of them have new starts, Grimgor is on a journey of rediscovering his roots and Mannfred is getting kicked out of the house by mom and dad.
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It'd be absolutely hilarious if they released amazons and they were just straight up that all female gang from necromunda with las pistols and all.
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DaysBefore posted:Thinking about a possible Ind and Khuresh, what's the sensitivity response to Cathay been like? It's all broad stereotypes but has it been received in like a good way or in a 'oh yeah these guys made the pygmies' way. Because seeing more non European-based human cultures would be sick but I have no idea if we can really trust them with it. As someone who's ethnically Chinese, I can't speak for everyone obviously but I really liked Cathay and thought they were rad as hell without falling into stereotypes. A few mainland China communities I know also enjoy it a decent amount. Also, as someone from Southeast Asia, hell yeah make us super cool snakemen.
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So has there been even a hint of what's coming in the Lord Pack and more importantly is there a hint of whether it's an existing race or a new one?
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orangelex44 posted:From most to least likely IMO: 
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That list sucks. Forget Ind, Nippon, etc, give us ANZAC with croc cavalry, crazed wombats, drop bears, boomerang missile infantry and kickin rad taiaha-wielding maori spear troops. Don't forget the sharks.
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