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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:Supply lines jumping from 2% to 15% was my single most hated change in TW2, it ruined so many swarm factions like Skarsnik and vampires could only get away with it because the skeletons were all free so they didn't mind if the lords and any support was 1000+ per turn in upkeep. The supply line going back down to 4% is a potentially unintentional nerf of the tomb kings, who were unaffected by the inflated supply lines.
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Just make their basic skeletons suck a bit less. They should be a bit better than VC skeletons anywa.
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Jul 26, 2022 14:45
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Carcer posted:Just make their basic skeletons suck a bit less. They should be a bit better than VC skeletons anywa. Given that VC units got an across the board buff, it wouldn't be surprising to see TK get it too.
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Jul 26, 2022 14:48
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Reik posted:The supply line going back down to 4% is a potentially unintentional nerf of the tomb kings, who were unaffected by the inflated supply lines. AI basically ignores supply lines so it would only possibly be a nerf if you are playing a competitive multiplayer campaign.
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Jul 26, 2022 14:51
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Ethiser posted:AI basically ignores supply lines so it would only possibly be a nerf if you are playing a competitive multiplayer campaign.
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Jul 26, 2022 14:56
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Gotta say that turning RoC mechanics off entirely makes for a really comfortable baby IE. The campaign is hard as hell but that's because Nurgle has a very different feel then almost any other campaign and I made Kislev my first major enemy, though I did take Pragg and have broken Katarina and Kostalyn's stacks multiple times. Thinking of using the two big cities as my staging area to pillage hard southwest and get a new outpost buddy: Skragg. Artillery and cavalry is fun no matter the source, right?
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Jul 26, 2022 15:04
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festus trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh49KKpbZxQ 
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Jul 26, 2022 15:05
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Bretonnia doesn't have supply lines either, do they?
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Jul 26, 2022 15:07
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Festus article: https://www.totalwar.com/blog/tww3-introducing-festus/ He has a toggleable aura that switches between healing and damage. His faction bonuses are pretty standard Nurgle mechanics, except his army has an increased healing cap. I don’t think that has been varied before.
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Jul 26, 2022 15:11
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As a Goon I feel very seen by the inclusion of Festus
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Jul 26, 2022 15:14
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His model is awesome, as is that War Shrine. If he really gets to switch between toggleable AoE healing and a mortis effect that seems really good? A tough infantry wizard of a good lore of magic with a mortis effect sounds like hell to bring down.
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Jul 26, 2022 15:23
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Those Nurgle chaos warriors are way too clean looking. Also Festus looks like he will play as I thought I thought he would, just a small kugath. I do like his little buddy and rear end- tentacle holding his staff though.
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Jul 26, 2022 15:26
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Looks pretty good! I imagine with Azazel being the first example of the Champions DLC, we won't have as many surprises with the other three reveals. His plagues might be cooked up Grom-style with artifacts, which could be a neat spin on the mechanic.
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CA accidentally published the Lets Play, some intrepid souls managed to save it and have been posting screen grabs. Festus starts in Bretonnia apparently.
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Festus will start in the Brass Keep in IE. https://mobile.twitter.com/totalwar/status/1551940835633242114 Edit: 99pct of germs posted:CA accidentally published the Lets Play, some intrepid souls managed to save it and have been posting screen grabs. Hold up, what? … https://forums.totalwar.com/discussion/316435/festus-lets-play#Comment_3449811 Here’s the thread on the Total War forums where they posted this. They nuked the video. They might have extended the RoC map westward? Dr Christmas fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Jul 26, 2022 |
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Jul 26, 2022 15:44
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those nurgle warriors look sick Empire start is interesting. I'm sure it will be fun as the player but I imagine he'll get eaten alive by Karl, Tod, Katarin, etc., as AI.
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Dr Christmas posted:
I believe the latter is correct, it looks like they filled in that part of the RoC map. edit: Yeah he starts on Albion in the Citadel of Lead on the RoC. 99pct of germs fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Jul 26, 2022 |
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Jul 26, 2022 16:08
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This is a fun sync kill
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Anno posted:This is a fun sync kill That is horrifying and amazing.
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Jul 26, 2022 16:33
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Why is Festus bigger than an ogre? He's way more disturbing as a regular humanish-sized dude who still looks like that and does the same things.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Why is Festus bigger than an ogre? He's way more disturbing as a regular humanish-sized dude who still looks like that and does the same things. He’s fighting the empires new unit, child spearboys.
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If you haven't seen Festus' tabletop model, it's very much like that sync kill, just dissolving someone's face off
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Recycled assets but it was pretty fun that his little helper picked up part of a Lizardman artifact and he waved it away.
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Leaked Festus stats:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eADssHrl8Rc somebody got the whole let's play before it got nuked. looks pretty decent, but i guess if you want better quality you can wait till tomorrow.
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Aurubin posted:Recycled assets but it was pretty fun that his little helper picked up part of a Lizardman artifact and he waved it away. It was an easter egg. The helmet came from the Beastman announcement and the gyrocopter from the Dawi announcement, while the lizardman thing was from the Noctilus trailer.
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I love that little blue guy! He's just so happy to help and stuff! 
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Some more interesting things from that thread; -Generic chaos wizard lords get Warshrines as a mount option. -The expanded map has Albion and the Marches of Courrone. Maybe Louen is there? -Festus has a unique tech tree. There’s a tech highlighted that unlocks Chaos Knights for warbands and gives them magical attacks -Festus uses both the WoC souls resource and the Nurgle Infections resource -The dark fortress hub building provides allegiance points for vassals, so they really want to make that system work -At least some of the troop upgrading system requires your units to reach a certain rank -Festus reached a non-aggression pact with a Greenskin faction, so WoC will be less omnicidal than daemons. Dr Christmas fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Jul 26, 2022 |
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DeathSandwich posted:Given that VC units got an across the board buff, it wouldn't be surprising to see TK get it too. Oh also Realm of Souls now resets to 0 after being used at level 3 and can loop multiple times, though I imagine that's mostly a domination MP thing. Sindai fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Jul 26, 2022 |
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Ralepozozaxe posted:Leaked Festus stats: Not a terribly killy lord, though that makes sense given that he sends to skew more toward troop support and splash damage and I'm guessing a plague wizard
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DeathSandwich posted:Not a terribly killy lord, though that makes sense given that he sends to skew more toward troop support and splash damage and I'm guessing a plague wizard And a walking mortis engine. He's a wizard as far as duels are concerned but may wipe people in melee
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Grumio posted:If you haven't seen Festus' tabletop model, it's very much like that sync kill, just dissolving someone's face off This. it rules
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Why is Festus bigger than an ogre? He's way more disturbing as a regular humanish-sized dude who still looks like that and does the same things. All Lords are pretty big. Look at Karl Franz 
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Slightly worrying that Festus didn't figure that out until midway through his invasion, to be honest.
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Wonder why they're tacking on just Couronne and Albion and not the rest of Bretonnia. Makes Skrag seem a little boxed in, starting with basically one direction to go in.
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Aurubin posted:Wonder why they're tacking on just Couronne and Albion and not the rest of Bretonnia. Makes Skrag seem a little boxed in, starting with basically one direction to go in.
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I just realized Festus as a unit has a very similar setup to two other lords: The Fay Enchantress and Hellman Ghorst. All can have a Mortis engine, though not the best combat stats, and have access to a lore of magic with healing. If the Fay Enchantress was slow they would practically be triplets.
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Whoops wrong yhread
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Eastbound Spider posted:I love that little blue guy! He's just so happy to help and stuff! i was very concerned that the Little Man might not make it in, but CA has pulled it off and hes there in all his glory. festus without his little man is no festus at all, hes been in every incarnation   i hope festus is fun to play because his face is probably my favourite of any nurgle unit 
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