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These awesome combined LPs convinced me to pick this game up at full price, because I'm dumb and missed the sale. I've been playing along with the Von Carsteins on Hard, and am running into a pretty big roadblock in that Imperial peasants don't seem to like me for some reason. I help myself to one meager province, build every order/corruption building I can and prance a bunch of heroes around to push corruption further, and public order is still deteriorating with a full stack hanging out in the capital. I'll probably break even on order soon once the buildings get upgraded, but corruption is hitting diminishing returns and this seems like a pretty unsustainable way to conquer the world. Any advice? Should I just be subjugating people and giving them their towns back? Can you even give people towns in this game?
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The big counter-modifier is "local populace". At the moment I only have one influential hero, with my other hero specced as a dedicated caster (and because I am, as stated above, dumb, I skipped the Mad Count building to go straight for the proper vampire crypts). I have indeed helped myself to the entire province, and I am indeed researching the hell out of the Book of Blood. I'm currently 65% corruption trending to 89%, with the public currently orderly even with no military presence (assuming moving the heroes away doesn't tank it too much). Could be I exaggerated the problem, though I'm not looking forward to having to spend this long conquering each province. Having only two provinces on Turn 44 is bad feels, especially where the target is 15 or 20. Thanks very much. I'll try being more aggressive and just dealing with the rebels. That seems like the Warhammer way.
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Apr 1, 2017 18:58
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I was sort of hoping for a lesson in "how to not get hosed by those omnipresent dwarf bastards", but watching them get beaten up by Greenskins seems like a decent second prize. I also totally underestimated the value of keeping Templehof around as a pet - I missed that you could assign war coordination targets. Godspeed, our filthy cheating AI friend.
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Apr 10, 2017 04:08
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My issue is less beating them on the open field and more that they can strike into my heartland at pretty much any time. And while I'm trying to slowly wade over to their towns through the mountains, another one will likely declare and make my life miserable elsewhere. Compact isn't compact enough to deal with this crap, even with three stacks. Could be I should forego vassalizing Templehof to avoid antagonizing them and just bribe the hell out of every dwarf faction I share a border with, or maybe I should just swallow my pride and drop to Hard mode until I have a better feel for the campaign's broad strokes.
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Apr 10, 2017 16:47
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Interesting. In the past they've been relatively on-the-ball about recolonizing , but maybe I haven't been insistent enough about striking deeper. I'll try to be more stubborn about bringing the Dwarfs low before directing my attention elsewhere and funneling the raid money into Sylvania.
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Apr 10, 2017 17:15
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Oh, that would definitely explain it. All the guides have been saying "raze the dwarfs' border towns so you have a buffer zone", and it hasn't appeared to result in a buffer zone so far. Dwarf genocide it is.
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Apr 10, 2017 18:52
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Trujillo: First person ever to say "we should cut the dwarfs some slack to preserve the balance of power with the greenskins"?koolkevz666 posted:This LP and The Empire run has convinced me to buy this game as soon as I can. It looks like a hell of a lot of fun and after Rome 2 I could use a fun Total War game. quote:Karak Hirn is easily the most annoying faction in the entire game. If you are the Elves, Vampires or Empire they will declare war on you just because you happened to share a continent with them, same with the Bretonnian factions by the midgame. I always make a point of razing them. Doopliss fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Apr 14, 2017 |
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Apr 14, 2017 22:17
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EDIT: I am a dumb person.
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Apr 14, 2017 22:19
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I'm very sorry to hear that - it was a high quality LP, and I was very much enjoying it. Still, I'd understand if you didn't want to run through the whole campaign to turn 70 again to pick it up again.
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Apr 15, 2017 03:53
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The Chaos invasions are always a huge roadblock for me as vampires. No stationary targets to attack, a big east-west border they can hit me along, and a foe that's willing to retreat out of your terrain if you bring too much force. Eventually I just started conquering Kislev so I could intercept them at the Wastes and abusing ambush to stop them prancing all over the place.
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May 22, 2017 15:38
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ZearothK posted:You appear to be somewhat overstretched, but I tend to take the campaign more slowly anyway.
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May 23, 2017 14:31
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Oh, Kislev. So deeply, deeply inept. I'm looking forward to seeing how a skilled player deals with a Chaos invasion when they have a big east-west border. In my experience, the Northmen are very good at plonking a full Siege Attacker stack wherever is least convenient at any given time. On the bright side, after the collapse of both the Empire and Brettonia, it seems like smooth sailing once the unholy (well, differently-unholy. The wrong kind of unholy) hordes are beaten back.
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