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DiHK posted:This is the number 1 reason why this game is a contender best TW ever. Same, right down to the varghulf's name, but I charged Templehof on the first turn instead of the other way round, and fought him, his garrison, and the leader dude in the castle. Sniped his lord with Manny and Fluffy and spent the next 15 minutes managing Fluffy's HP.
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Shumagorath posted:What kind of sustained attack do I need to dislodge Hellstorm crew? I have Archaon and Sarthorel reinforcing each other with about ten cannons total and if I take those off the field with bats / wolves / vargs the battle is mine. In the fight that I'm about to post screenshots from, I sent all my fliers to the cannons while my ground units formed a line. The cannons just shot ineffectually at terrorgheists, and once Archaon's army walked far enough toward my ground army, I dropped vargheists, terrorgheists, and Manny on his cannons and ate them. Meanwhile, Sarth's army, which was reinforcing, spawned way too far back to shoot anything with its cannons and the army itself ran directly toward my ground army, leaving them way behind. One unit of regular bats ate all those cannons as the rest of my fliers went back to get ready to fight.
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Jun 10, 2016 23:22
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Manny and another lord that was just building up fighting Archaon and Sarthorael at Kislev. Autoresolve had the odds at about 4:1 in favor of Chaos. I only got the idea to start taking screenshots halfway through the fight  Using vargheists properly. Note the enemy already piled up on the ghouls and crypt horrors.  Someone didn't think his cunning plan all the way through...  A terrorgheist doing the goomba stomp off a dying giant.  The Everfailure wants no part of a fight with Manny. Manny doesn't even have his zombie dragon yet.  And another one bites the dust...  Sophie hits this line with soulblight right before she charges home. Hundreds of battle-hardened Chaos Warriors rout immediately from one girl with a bad hairdo as the vargheists fly off to engage another line.  The vargheists drop on the main battle line just as Archaon starts to rout. Johnny the chaos giant just right of center screen is about to have a bad day.  The big pile of dudes that ran from soulblight can be seen still running, just over the shoulder of that center vargheist. Manny finally runs the Everfleeing down.  A bird's eye view of the final push. That thing disintegrating on the left over there is some crypt horrors. I finally lost a unit of crypt horrors   Johnny almost got out. Seriously, the line is just a few yards in front of him.  Poor Johnny. So, I made a big mistake with this fight, not that it really mattered because VCs are so drat good. Can anyone tell me what it is? Hint: it did not happen in the battle itself.
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Jun 11, 2016 00:00
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Flavahbeast posted:has anyone looted a Seed of Rebirth? I got one. Once. Common, my rear end.
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Jun 11, 2016 04:22
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unwantedplatypus posted:Does this mean The Best Faction will be coming soon? I hope so. The only other factions I've seen mentioned ingame are the elves and the chaos dwarfs CA have stated that they will add every army that has a current army book as a playable race. So yes, barring the company collapsing or some similar catastrophe, there will be lizardmen eventually. And Skaven too, I guess.
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Jun 11, 2016 06:05
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Vargs posted:I tried putting them up 1v1 against the types of opponents that you'd think they should be excellent against, like Greatswords or Chaos Warriors w/ Great Weapons. Similar cost units who's strengths don't help much against ghosts. The enemy AP damage doesn't matter since wraiths don't have armor anyways, wraiths themselves can chew through highly armored units, and there's no magic involved. Unfortunately they get ghostbusted every time due to their poor offensive stats and incredibly low hp. They'll get more benefit from invocation of nehek than other undead, but why would you ever use it when you could instead spend those winds on death magic? That's not what wraiths are designed to kill though. Wraiths are for killing elite low model count poo poo like demigryphs and heroes. Greatswords are a full-size infantry unit, so they outnumber the wraiths, and they're an anti-infantry infantry, so they even get bonus damage vs cairn wraiths, though not against hexwraiths. I would have figured wraiths would at least come out about even vs chaos warriors though, that sucks.
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Jun 14, 2016 03:36
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Dandywalken posted:Isnt the Greater Demon/Keeper o' Change you see in the campaign kinda weak for what a Great Demon is supposed to be? Combat wise. Even though he's of course mainly a caster-type of demon I guess, I was really expecting a real badass motherfucker. Yes, he's pretty weak, even for a "caster daemon". Going by the tabletop rules, he should be able to fly, and should be about as strong as Franz on Deathclaw, only tougher. Also he should cause terror. And have access to another lore, but since lore of Tzeench isn't in the game yet, he's stuck with lore of Basically, greater daemons are not to be hosed with. even the relatively non-combat Lords of Change.
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Jun 23, 2016 00:00
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Dandywalken posted:The Trolls then were awestruck at the size of the city, failed a leadership check, and fled for the rest of the game I assume. Sounds about right.
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Jun 23, 2016 22:53
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WHAT A GOOD DOG posted:What unit are VCs getting? SKELLINGTON ARCHERS!?!? Naw, that's TKs. VC don't get any ranged units, period. I'm hoping for the Mortis Engine, but my money's on Blood Knights.
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Jun 24, 2016 16:37
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Kaza42 posted:Final Transmutation is good at sniping lords who aren't near their armies (read: none of them) Final Transmutation doesn't spread its damage across all affected units, it spreads its damage across all models in each unit affected. It will do full damage to each unit in the AOE.
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Jun 24, 2016 19:05
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alex314 posted:Just had a battle where Slayer King probably fell off the wall. I wasn't paying attention to him as he climbed the ladder and I've ordered some quarellers to nuke wall defending savage orcs and then I suddenly get "Lord wounded" message. He was at least at half HP. He fell through the wall. I had Grimgor do it - he climbed up the ladder, jumped over the ramparts, and promptly fell to his death inside the wall model. It happened again when i reloaded and played the battle again, sending him up the same wall, so it's an issue with some wall models, I think. When I sent him to a different wall following another reload, he was just fine. Where did it happen for you? It was one of the cities in Blightwater or the southern badlands for me, I think.
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Jun 25, 2016 00:45
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The Lone Badger posted:Does anyone know what circumstances cause which traits? I hear if you spare enemy units too often, you get "Likes (race)", but sometimes you get it even if you murder them so  . Grimgor had Likes Dwarves but unless the subtext was "for dinner" I don't even know, because I never repatriated a single dwarf. I ate those motherfuckers.I also know that attending the Grung Zint Imperial Military Academy turned every single one of my lords crooked as gently caress, but I don't know if that has to do with the process of beating down the greenskins or if it was them replenishing in or near Marienburg, which in the lore is a real wretched hive.
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Jun 28, 2016 06:46
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The Lone Badger posted:Could be all the looting? (Lots of sacking rather than the more militarily legitimate occupying/razing) I didn't sack often. If you sack it too much, it will rebel, and the rebels will take over the city, and then you have to raze it. So most of the time I only killed the lord that respawned every turn and only sacked the settlement if I failed to kill all the garrison troops, which left me stuck in the city aggro radius.
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Jun 28, 2016 07:13
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The Lone Badger posted:Crypt Horrors just picked up a nerf, see how that goes. It would have to be a hell of a nerf to make them as bad as trolls. Horrors are probably the single best unit on the VC roster and one of the best units in the game, period.
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Jun 30, 2016 04:25
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Verranicus posted:W10 comes bundled with literal spyware and is uglier and less functional than 7 in every way. What literal spyware is this? I've been considering windows 10 for DX12 but I'm definitely not interested in free spyware.
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Jun 30, 2016 21:51
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Is there any way other than war to eject a trespassing army of a non-hostile foreign power? Brettonia is trespassing in Marienburg with the clear intent of destroying the Imperial Military Academy, and if they do, they're gonna become the new IMA. But they're friendly, and trade partners, so I don't want to kill them if I don't have to.
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Jul 2, 2016 00:16
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The Lone Badger posted:You could Siege the IMA for a while? It seems that you can't attack a settlement while someone else is sieging it. You know, I hadn't thought of that. I'd rather be able to tell the shitbags to get the gently caress out of my house, but this will do in the mean time. Thanks.
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Jul 2, 2016 00:36
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The Lone Badger posted:What makes orc/goblin and bret archers good? Cheapness? They aren't good. But they are the "best archers" by dint of being the only actual archers. Crossbowmen and quarrelers are crossbowmen, handgunners and thunderers are riflemen.
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Jul 3, 2016 01:02
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I'm really looking forward to nuking some poor bastard with a giant fuckoff laser cannon from the back of a dinosaur.
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Jul 3, 2016 01:06
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Rygar201 posted:Wood Elfs shtick was skilled and fragile Elfs backed up by really tough Forest Spirits. And warhawk riders. You thought norscans were annoying with their full stacks of missile cavalry? Just wait until they can fly and don't suck at shooting. 
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Jul 3, 2016 01:22
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unwantedplatypus posted:I also love the fact that I can outflank the enemy by summoning a unit of social justice warriors behind enemy lines. Look, I know zombies are stupid and worthless, but this is just insulting.
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President Ark posted:there's a chrome extension that changes "S.J.W." to "skeleton" Skeleton? I must not get  . I've heard them referred to as zombies but never skeletons.
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Aurubin posted:I never played the tabletop; wargaming isn't my thing. But I did read a few wikis to help fuel my speculation on units. I hope they keep the thing where you can fire into your own units as Skaven, while we're on the friendly fire topic. Since you can already do it as everyone else, I'd say that's guaranteed.
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Jul 3, 2016 11:43
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Aurubin posted:I meant intentionally, and not with artillery. Skaven have a rule where they can shoot through their weakest units as if they weren't there. I know they do. And you can do it with dwarfs now. Put a row of thunderers behind a row of warriors and when the warriors get attacked, order your thunderers to fire at the attacker. They will, and they'll hit a lot more warriors than enemies, but they will still fire.
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Executing captives gives you a chance (and it's high, about 20%) to get Unjust, which is -1 global public order, and Untrustworthy, which is -5% income in local province (eventually evolves into Dishonest and then Deceiver, -10% and -15% respectively).
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Ilustforponydeath posted:E: Oh, you were talking about traits not rep. Nope, mannfred von carstein is still gandhi as far as his subjects are concerned over a hundred turns in. About forty battles or so and always murdering or dominating captives. Might just be an empire/dwarfs thing. Don't think I've ever seen Manny with harsh/unjust either, though I have had vampire lords pick up untrustworthy out on campaign. Guess the bad guys are supposed to kill their enemies but the good guys are supposed to parole ork savages and demon-worshiping vikings because "it's the right thing to do." drat bleeding heart liberals.
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Sjonnar posted:Don't think I've ever seen Manny with harsh/unjust either, He says, right before Manny picks up harsh after capturing a city. 
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KillerQueen posted:I'm personally hoping for a Strigoi ghoul-king that's just a horrifying melee monster. Like a grimgor that regens. Close. I'm guessing it'll be Konrad.
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Jul 7, 2016 07:09
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wiegieman posted:VC legendary lord will be the Red Duke in Mousillon, so you can start out conquering Bretonnia. That would be pretty cool, though he'd be the first lord to start out in a minor region, not a major one. That might be a tough start.
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wiegieman posted:Well, Blood Dragon, so he'd be a mounted Grimgor if they do it right. Just charge down an entire infantry unit all on his own. I meant strategically. Mousillon is the minor town in the Lyonesse province, which is only a two-region province, and has no big money building, if I remember correctly. Unlike KAK, Black Crag, Sylvania, or Reikland.
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The Lone Badger posted:There is a mod that changes trait triggers to 'make sense', and disabled purely negative traits like Harsh. If you're referring to Prometheus' mod, it doesn't disable Harsh. I still had Manny pick up harsh after a city fight. What it does do is drastically reduce the chances of getting those poo poo traits, including Untrustworthy, after executing captives. It also disables certain traits on your LL, like Fearful, and stops you from getting traits that don't make any sense, like Likes Dwarves on Grimgor.
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Schizotek posted:TLDR: Zombies are actually good? No. But they're cheap, and you can have a lot of them. As Uncle Joe says, sometimes quantity is a quality of its own. 
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Gonkish posted:For your gratuitous violence needs, Minotaurs charging things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIU6BmuHtI0 
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stopgap1 posted:I wonder if they need to make it do morale damage or something, because at this point it's pointless. What they need to do is turn it back into a magic missile, like it is on the drat tabletop. Or if they absolutely have to model the individual shards to distinguish it from the other magic missile spells, turn it into a breath-type attack like 'eadbutt and have it spawn X shards that then fly forward to fill the cone, like a magic shotgun. That way, even if a shard misses one target, it could conceivably hit the guy behind him. And buff final transmutation back to vanilla strength. Jesus CA, metal is already the worst lore. What about it made you look and go "yeah, this needs nerfs"?
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FutonForensic posted:I won my recent campaign by having an Empire Captain assassinate Archaon in the middle of his doomstack. See, when you say it that way, it sounds metal as hell. In reality, it's a miserable, anticlimactic note to end the game on.
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Doctor Schnabel posted:does the +corruption effect for adjacent provinces from balefire Yes.
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Vox Nihili posted:Looks like the healing hard cap is 60% of a unit's total HP. It's going to be a pretty drastic change. Is that per spell/effect or per fight? Because if it's per fight, that sucks rear end.
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PSA: If the healing hardcap bothers you as much as it does me, there's already a mod on the workshop that raises the healcap to 500%. Not quite as good as uncapping it completely, but I'm sure that will come in time.
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Deified Data posted:I like how the intro text sets Vlad up as the new head honcho of the VC with Mannfred retiring to seek out lost lore, even if it's Mannfred still on the diplo screen. You can just pretend he's your ambassador. A really, really bad ambassador. He's looking for even more powerful spooky magic with which to Starscream even harder.
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Gejnor posted:I can agree with this sentiment and i DID get the mod i mentioned after the very first battle, the VERY FIRST battle as VC my Blood Knights (i went Vlad the Mad Dad of course) and Vargheists could not be healed by Invocation of Nehek because they'd reached their Cap. You sound mad. Are you mad? Yes, it is a bad, hamfisted change. No, raging about it on SA will not fix it. Mod it out, smoke a bowl, and chill out man.
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