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Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Mukip posted:

Nothing will ever top the divorcing couple dividing up their beanie baby assets in court.

and i guarantee neither of them made a single cent off any of them considering how hard that market crashed

# ¿ Sep 26, 2017 21:17

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 17:43

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Democrazy posted:

I�m playing the first Warhammer as the Greenskins. How exactly does Vindictive Glare work? I�ve been using it as a way to deal with dwarf lords, but it doesn�t seem that effective. It also doesn�t seem to work when I have a mob already encircling the lords; I mostly see my guys flying around rather than any damage dealt to the dwarf. Should I be using it in a different manner?

Also, for a map that is entirely made up, and thus could be made to look like anything, CA did not do a ton to vary terrain between the large swathes of badlands followed by never-ending northern mountains. A little variation would�ve made for more interesting games.

Vindictive Glare fires an actual projectile where the people it hits are the ones it does damage to. If the enemy lord's being mobbed by your guys and you fire the projectile, you're just going to hit your own guys. Dwarves have inherent magic resistance, and are also small enough that you might just be missing them.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2018 00:53

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

anyone got any tips for beating chaos as skaven in multiplayer? it feels like no matter what i bring chosen and dragon ogres 1v10 my rats, even if i bring rat ogres they usually have some chosen with halbers who just own my life and then when im getting some decent flanks off kholek wanders over, empties out a trash can, and puts my lord in it

# ¿ Dec 14, 2018 02:10

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Yeah thanks for the advice all. I've been gunshy about using globadiers because its easy for forsaken or whatever to just mulch through the frontline and get to them, but at the same time its not like another unit of stormvermin is gonna stand up to forsaken any better.

The Crotch posted:

Is there any scenario where you don't take Skrolk in multiplayer? Queek for dwarves?

in theory i could see queek for dwarves but in practice you take skrolk for everything, yeah, you want a caster anyway and its not like queek is kholek or noctilus or something, you arent suddenly gaining some melee powerhouse if you bring queek out, dude still dies easily and cant stand up to most other melee lords even if he does a bit better against high tier infantry

and i dont even know what tretch is supposed to be good for. beastmen maybe?

# ¿ Dec 14, 2018 08:27

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

i love toddbringer because his name is toddbringer

# ¿ Dec 17, 2018 03:52

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Haven't played the game inam a minute. Is it just me, or is the Beastman campaign way harder now?

# ¿ Apr 27, 2020 19:14

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

if youre bad at morale you could play one of the undead armies

# ¿ Apr 27, 2020 22:09

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

yeah you got punked because that was a super anti-cav skaven army

# ¿ May 4, 2020 12:15

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

give greenskins a mechanic where when they retreat but dont get pushed off the map, a dozen or so guys come out and join the unit, to represent htem running away, talking aobut how there's a big fight, and then coming back to the fight

# ¿ May 7, 2020 14:11

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Nippon being in the game would be really funny just because of shogun total war, but also theyll probably never acknowledge Nippon again.

# ¿ May 10, 2020 14:58

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Internet Explorer posted:

Is there a reason why as Throgg I used to be able to "eat captives" after a battle to get health for my army back, but now I can't? I'm not sure what changed.

i think you cant eat some factions? tomb kings for one

# ¿ May 11, 2020 02:56

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

that's the fun part. besides, if you're playing with a friend who isn't an rear end in a top hat they'll probably go at least a little easy on you if their army has some insane shtick.

# ¿ May 18, 2020 03:33

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

tildes posted:

What is the unit with like a thousand kills?

The river troll hag death caster, innit?

# ¿ May 22, 2020 01:42

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Yeah ranged stacking is good in campaign because it minimizes your losses, not because its the only option to win. Its iust a function of how campaign is designed.

# ¿ May 25, 2020 20:42

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

smug jeebus posted:

Speaking of AI in game like this, coming from a bare minimum of coding experience, is it just like a giant bundle of if>then routines or is it something more sophisticated?

If its like most ai in games theres a degree of randomization on top of whatever decision making logic they use.

# ¿ May 26, 2020 07:44

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Tiler Kiwi posted:

the deathblob issue is in every nongrog war game because none of them are brave enough to create systems reflecting how horribly ludicrously obnoxious and awful it is to get any large body of people to do drat anything at all. oh boy you can only march your giant army five miles a day because you have to move in a column on a poo poo road and by the time your dudes in the front have been going for six hours the people in the back have finally been able to start walking. oops time to eat whoops the river literally ran out of water and now everyone is loving dead

the saying is something like "an arrow is strongest at the start of its flight"; you could basically destroy an army by just staying back a bit and it would eventually collapse into total disorder.

but in games you just click all mans and roll them forwards and being a big faction with a lot of territory just means your soldier katamari is bigger instead of meaning you blow a decades worth of your gdp just trying to get your dudes to deal with an angry band of street preachers

i like it when orcs hit other orcs

# ¿ May 26, 2020 21:15

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Tiler Kiwi posted:

imagine a rat screaming endlessly as its buried under more and more paperwork relating to skrye weaponry parts acquisition. it claws pitifully, trying to keep its head above the tide. but you keep slowly pouring on more documents, this time about just in time shipping of warpstone caches along a march route. then you pour on cement. and you build a reasonably sized statue of a king, and there you have a park. where you have peace, and picnics, and discuss the comings and goings, but under you, the rat is still there. with the paper. and its screaming. screaming. just, endless, SCREAMING.

this game, could be yours. if you were only to dream of it.

Dont post your porn fanfic in this thread plz

# ¿ May 26, 2020 21:54

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Who are they meant to be? The Warhammer World seems to be roughly based on the real one, who is their equivalent? Poles?

Generically eastern european, theyve got some russian about them, some polish about them.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2020 14:04

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:

I know diplomacy in this game is weird, but...

Thanks Grimgor!

wants to mash our factions together

# ¿ Jul 18, 2020 20:37

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Sega 32X posted:

For those of us that have been waiting for a sale since the summer, looks like most of the DLC is half off on steam.

Warhammer II itself is 20 bucks and Warhammer 1 is 15 bucks. Warhammer II is also having a free weekend. Great time to pick up stuff.

Relatedly, do you need Warhammer 1 installed to pick up the free DLC for it?

# ¿ Oct 9, 2020 22:16

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:

I have heard otherwise from some, but yes I needed to have WH1 installed to get the FLC for it installed. Its a pain but worth it.

Actually, an update on this, I was able to get it by just starting a download for WH1, pausing it, and then adding the free DLC off of the Total War official site. Everything worked fine without actually downloading the game beyond 0.001 mb, and I removed the game from my download queue on steam after and it all still worked fine. Good trick if you have a data cap or low storage space on your computer.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2020 16:45

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Noir89 posted:

Wait hold the gently caress on, this can't be true? I know they did it for poison but the poison wind mortar DoT aswell? The only weakness was the horrendous friendly fire they caused!

They did it for all poison effects across the broad and across all factions.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2020 23:43

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Hammerers are really good if you're fighting other Dwarfs, but that's vanishingly unlikely to happen by the time you can even get Hammerers in a campaign.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2020 15:04

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

infantry is fine, useful, and balanced in multiplayer. single player will never be balanced and you can win by spamming infantry if you want because the ai sucks, unless you're playing hard but why would you make it so that goblins are ironbreakers. the current situation is fine imo.

# ¿ Nov 1, 2020 07:18

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

ive played this game for hundreds of hours and i literally had no idea loyalty existed until this second. thats my story.

# ¿ Nov 7, 2020 15:51

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

what this game needed was for ranged to be better

# ¿ Nov 21, 2020 01:46

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

I think Halberd Grave Guard would fill a hole in their roster that they kinda need. Blood Knights and Terrorgheists can mulch cavalry but they cant really bog them down, plus they both lose fights to large units that are anti-large themselves.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2020 15:30

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 17:43

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

coast were already the best faction in multiplayer by a mile

# ¿ Nov 23, 2020 03:54

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