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my boy Leon has seen some poo poo Sigmar preserve us! Morghur arrives under the banner of the Zero Upkeep God  this is my punchin' log : D   
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Can you actually confederate other welve factions near the start of the grand campaign? Or do you need a tech or council position for it first?
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Decus posted:Can you actually confederate other welve factions near the start of the grand campaign? Or do you need a tech or council position for it first? 2nd Oakland of Ages upgrade let's you do it.
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Decus posted:Can you actually confederate other welve factions near the start of the grand campaign? Or do you need a tech or council position for it first? You need a level 3 Oak of Ages. e;fb
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:So, I've managed to finish the WE campaign three times now: on easy, normal and hard. Every time, it has the same basic rhythm
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Dec 16, 2016 06:24
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Druthu with a 20 stack wrecking Norscan face is so cathartic. I've previously scorched Earth that continent with Dwarves, but with Wood Elves you can actually occupy their little shantytowns. You get a ton of ports that can fuel your economy. I wanna know how huge of a bonus people have managed to get with those sacrificial pits. They're obviously meant to have 20+ of them.
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Dec 16, 2016 06:33
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A friend of mine is having terrible load times in WH. Ingame FPS is great, but the actual loading is awful. is this a problem anyone else has had?
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Im reallly loving fed up with how CA patches this game. I posted a few pages ago when the DLC unlocked, and this update forced me to do a full uninstall. SteamMover is a half-baked piece of software that errors more than it works. I had nearly 30gb free and their 'hotfix' patch couldn't fit. gently caress this is annoying. I can't imagine living in a place with lovely broadband or bandwidth caps, I'd be locked out of my software in that case
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Dandywalken posted:A friend of mine is having terrible load times in WH. Ingame FPS is great, but the actual loading is awful. is this a problem anyone else has had? When I first load up my save and when I first load the battle screen is slow as gently caress, after that it's fine.
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Dec 16, 2016 06:38
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Finally got a semi-successful WE mini-campaign off the ground, due primarily to enemies actually leaving their settlements to attack me when they've declared war for once. Suicidal bastards. I own a cozy pocket of the interior forest with a nice buffer between me and the Brets (including Durthu). So far I've just been taking the territory of people who declare on my allies, no drama.
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Dec 16, 2016 07:02
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If you wanna make paper with Welf Outposts, you need to take over territories with access to the sea. The ports bring in the ducats.
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Dec 16, 2016 07:41
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Can anyone suggest addons to make the battles longer?
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Dec 16, 2016 07:50
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Today I was thinking about hilariously amazing a massive multiplayer Grand Campaign would be. You couldn't rely on conventional strategies because humans are both far more cunning and yet far more fallible than the AI. But some factions would be utterly hosed; I can't imagine how much it would suck to be Empire, for example, since you'd get your poo poo kicked in from multiple directions. Meanwhile Beastmen would be like friggin Pancho Villa, popping up right when someone reoccupied a ruins, left a settlement, or barely fought off an insurrection. Of course the nature of playing out all the battles would mean it would take forever, but at the same time most human players aren't the gosu 10000 APM micromanagement lords that the AI is capable of being.
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Dec 16, 2016 08:07
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Ravenfood posted:Why not use your diplomacy techs to get all your Amber from allies who haven't gotten their poo poo kicked in yet? If you do it early enough in the invasion everyone will love you but not been burned down yet, so you essentially race your Oak-building against their invasion. Fighting Norscans really builds up your appeal, money, and Amber too, both directly and indirectly by keeping the northern Empire factions alive.
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Dec 16, 2016 08:42
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Inevitably, some of your allies are gonna declare war on your other allies and force you break treaties, which makes you less trustworthy, which has a knockon effect that makes diplomacy much harder. Having a few full alliances is fine, but too many are gonna bite you in the rear end.
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Dec 16, 2016 09:10
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Once you unlock all the diplomacy upgrades you are looking at +70 diplomacy on top of whatever other good deeds you have done with that faction. If anything, it makes Wood Elves fun because you can either go the diplomacy angle or just wreck everybody's faces, whichever you prefer.
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Dec 16, 2016 09:28
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Inevitably, some of your allies are gonna declare war on your other allies and force you break treaties, which makes you less trustworthy, which has a knockon effect that makes diplomacy much harder. Having a few full alliances is fine, but too many are gonna bite you in the rear end. The trustworthiness penalty is temporary and goes away over time. It's not a permanent malus, and shouldn't discourage you from making friends with everyone you can.
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So, can I get some tips on playing beastmen? I've tried starting twice as One-Eye and it feels like no matter what when I start to feel comfortable enough to build a 2nd stack either a pair of Welf doomstacks or a loving Empire doomstack swoops in and destroys me. What should I be doing in my first turns? Should I just be targetting weaker settlements and leaving siege battles alone? Any help is appreciated.
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sorry about this, but does anyone have a link to that "that's a grudgin' " image from way back in the thread? I can't remember anywhere near what page it was on
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Nice, just picked up the 'Kill 100,000 enemies in battle' achievement.
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Panfilo posted:Once you unlock all the diplomacy upgrades you are looking at +70 diplomacy on top of whatever other good deeds you have done with that faction. Apart from sending a Waywatcher in for discovery purposes, there's no reason to set foot west of the forest as the Elves. You can have defensive alliances and firm handshake agreements with every Brettonian without any real effort before turn 30. The Lady in the Lake is a powerful Elf.
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Is there a decent mod that tweaks the AI's army composition? For some reason the Empire's AI really loves recruiting Flagellants. I'm facing entire stacks of them with maybe - if I'm lucky - a lost units of swordsmen thrown in. Also anyone know of a good mod that overhauls magic a bit? Buff and debuff spells seem okay, but the direct-damage spells feel rather weak. I'm playing with the largest unit size and apparently those spells were balanced for lower sizes? I'm not looking for something that lets me wipe out entire units with a spell, but them having a bit more punch to them would be nice. And while I'm on the subject of mods: Any good mods in general that worth checking out? For some weird reason the game doesn't close properly. After I quit the game, there's still a "Total War: Warhammer" process running that have I close via the windows task manager. Is there a fix for that? And one more question: How do Heroes' skills work while embedded in an army? For example the Banshee's Watcher skill. Does that work automatically, or do I have to move the Banshee out of the army and preform that action onto the army? Raygereio fucked around with this message at 12:08 on Dec 16, 2016 |
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Raygereio posted:Is there a decent mod that tweaks the AI's army composition? For some reason the Empire's AI really loves recruiting Flagellants. I'm facing entire stacks of them with maybe - if I'm lucky - a lost units of swordsmen thrown in. The AI is normally pretty good about army composition, with a few provisos. First, it only trains what it can and doesn't disband units once better are available (this is why early-game Empire armies are often filled with Free Company Militia); second, it seems to value higher-tier units more than others, which leads to a lot of Flagellant usage instead of Swordsmen once they're available. I'm not sure about mods, I've just lived with it myself, although it gets annoying sometimes (my most consistent bugbear is AI Bretonnia having armies of cavalry only because they often don't build the infantry recruitment building in their starting province). Damage spells are variable; some of them are actually pretty powerful, particularly in specific circumstances. As a general rule, projectile and vortex spells have more noticeable effect (often to the point of 50+ kills per cast) than direct damage spells do. My new favourite is the Penumbral Pendulum spell in the Lore of Shadows, which has got me 150 kills with a single cast against an already-engaged enemy line. The only mod I actually use at the moment is the Less Blood And Gore one, which keeps things bloody but no longer makes units entirely red after they've spent 15 seconds in combat. I like being able to see the pretty texture work of the actual units underneath the blood. The game not closing properly seems to be an inconsistent but longstanding bug. Rome 2 and Attila had the same issue sometimes. I don't usually get it with TW:W but it has happened to me. Heroes' army-embed skills work without you doing anything. Just embedding them in the army is enough to make those skills active.
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quote:Arena Team – Total War: ARENA The newest "What we're working on" update from CA. Interesting that they're thinking about throwing out some historical DLC for older games as filler, it's kinda unprecedented from them. The new content team already starting to move on to the pre-order DLC for the next game in the trilogy and planning out DLC for it probably means the Old World really is pretty much done after Bretts come out and we might not be that far from an official announcement on the next game.
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Dandywalken posted:A friend of mine is having terrible load times in WH. Ingame FPS is great, but the actual loading is awful. is this a problem anyone else has had? A solid state drive is practically a requirement for Hams. If hes using an SSD and its still terrible it it may be worth running the data verification tool steam has, or uninstalling and reinstalling. After that I'd say RAM, or the SSD is failing.
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Ammanas posted:Im reallly loving fed up with how CA patches this game. I posted a few pages ago when the DLC unlocked, and this update forced me to do a full uninstall. SteamMover is a half-baked piece of software that errors more than it works. I had nearly 30gb free and their 'hotfix' patch couldn't fit. gently caress this is annoying. I can't imagine living in a place with lovely broadband or bandwidth caps, I'd be locked out of my software in that case I agree but with less rage. I have 65GB partitioned on my SSD and im getting worried. I had to uninstall every other game in order to patch Total Warhammer
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Dec 16, 2016 18:54
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They make big cheap SSDs now guys.
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Rygar201 posted:They make big cheap SSDs now guys. Games are pretty big too, and I don't think my 2 TB of SSD space is normal. I've filled up 1 TB pretty casually once I started paying less attention to which drive games went onto.
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I have a 250gb and a 180gb ssd. I still don't have enough space for all the games.  I just put games that I play less on the platter drives.
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madmac posted:The newest "What we're working on" update from CA. Interesting that they're thinking about throwing out some historical DLC for older games as filler, it's kinda unprecedented from them. My guess is that game 2 is probably going to be High Elves/Dark Elves/Lizardmen/Skaven with Daemons of Chaos, Skaven in the old world (pre-order bonus?), and Greenskin or Vampire pirates being the post release DLCs. Game 3 will be a return to the badlands and the surrounding areas, Consisting of Tomb Kings, Chaos Dwarves, Ogres clans, Dwarves, and Greenskins with Nagash's vampire apocalypse being the endgame. At that point all the 'major' races are pretty much accounted for and you could do DLC for Araby, Border Princes and some of the separate-ish subfactions, including Ogre mercenaries for all the other races. DeathSandwich fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Dec 16, 2016 |
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Southpaugh posted:A solid state drive is practically a requirement for Hams. If hes using an SSD and its still terrible it it may be worth running the data verification tool steam has, or uninstalling and reinstalling. After that I'd say RAM, or the SSD is failing. Gonna let him know this. He said his hd was almost full, and since its not an SSD that's probably what hosed him.
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Nice, a map that's just a 45 degree slope covered in trees. Thank gently caress the autoresolve is completely in my favour.
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That map has to have been made by someone who hates people and wants to see them suffer. It's the worst.
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Rygar201 posted:They make big cheap SSDs now guys. That's great... Just annoyed that to patch my game I have to download it all over again, with no option to change the download directory vs the install directory.
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DeathSandwich posted:My guess is that game 2 is probably going to be High Elves/Dark Elves/Lizardmen/Skaven with Daemons of Chaos, Skaven in the old world (pre-order bonus?), and Greenskin or Vampire pirates being the post release DLCs. It'd be cool if CA added in a Neferata campaign styled after the King in the Warlord where she travels from her lair up north to reclaim Lahmia from the Tomb Kings. They'd need to rework how regional occupation works by then though, because her current home base is in an old dwarf settlement near Karak Ungor.
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Exmond posted:That's great... Just annoyed that to patch my game I have to download it all over again, with no option to change the download directory vs the install directory. Yeah, that always struck me as the easy fix that steam could implement. Just let us specify a temp directory for downloading and then do the merge as per normal. edit: Actually, never tested this, but would that essentially be the case if you installed steam to your HDD but the game to your SSD?
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fnordcircle posted:That map has to have been made by someone who hates people and wants to see them suffer. It's the worst. They really need a 'disable all foliage' option. Leave the stumps or shadows so I know where the forest is, but let me see what is going on.
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Decus posted:Yeah, that always struck me as the easy fix that steam could implement. Just let us specify a temp directory for downloading and then do the merge as per normal. Sadly no, im in the exact situation. Steam is insalled on my HDD, Ive specified that Total war is installed on my SSD. All updates to Total War get downloaded to my SSD.
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It's actually not too difficult to move a game from one HD to another. Steam just doesn't give you any kind of UI to do it from within Steam.
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drat Dirty Ape posted:They really need a 'disable all foliage' option. Leave the stumps or shadows so I know where the forest is, but let me see what is going on. Get rid of it all and make "forest" a different colour as if it were water or something.
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