Dr Christmas posted:

Nagash’s old miniature is from the unified Undead army book, from before there was a split between Vampire Counrs and Tomb Kings. Google tells me he was an extremely high level wizard who was good in melee then too.

Lt. Lizard posted:

I mean it just shows how different are the tastes of people playing the game. For me, Mortal Empires was ignored afterthought of a game mode, while the various Vortex campaigns were the meat of the game I spent like 95% of time in. I have still not finished a single Mortal Empire campaign, despite being pretty much done with WH2, while completing something like 12 Vortex campaigns.

Kanos posted:

If they are, they failed pretty miserably, because having ranged units is a titanic advantage in them. Ranged units can usually arc fire over walls to support adjacent lanes and if you can take any sort of open space town square you can line your dudes up and focus fire just fine. Ranged units are also the easiest way to permanently shut down the towers everyone hates until you can take the objective controlling them. It's slightly more obnoxious doing the classic "select all range and click a unit to delete it" in city streets but you're still pumping a huge amount of DPS so it doesn't really matter.

I guess it's a nerf to 100% ranged armies with no melee units but three of the ranged-haver factions rely heavily on hybrid melee/ranged units, and the only faction with pure dedicated ranged units(Cathay) gets huge stat bonuses for sprinkling in some melee, so....

Doomykins posted:

On VH the AI certainly got a soul every time across 3-4 armies.

Go to Slaanesh every time it's up and give yourself sickeningly disgusting purples and big treasury stacks to take the edge off. The hardest part is going to lovely Chaos red clime lands to wipe out dangerous factions unless you're Chaos yourself. There's some sincere relief in things like Ogres not having Underway Movement stance for their long winding compact trails mountain lands.

Blooming Brilliant posted:

It's the generic "Corrupted by Nurgle" trait you get from being in a region with high Nurgle corruption. It's unremovable unlike the Realm of Chaos traits, and it affects your replenishment which is a death-nail for Slaanesh + Tzeentch cause they barely have any.

You can get round it by replacing lords or just recruiting new units, but it's horrible to get on N'kari or Kairos. Plus recruiting new units makes the later red line buffs fairly pointless.

Edit: Technically I do think it is removeable, but you have to be in a region with low Chaos corruption (it doesn't differ between the types) which y'know, you're playing as N'kari or Kairos

Communist Thoughts posted:

Is there a place for mods yet?

Zzulu posted:

Mordja posted:

I watched the semi+finals of Turin's latest tournament and Nurgle seems to be in a good spot, winning I think three of the five games they were taken in. Slow, and requiring a lot of foresight, but inexorable.

Twigand Berries posted:

Absolutely Chorfs will be on the chaos realms map. I bet they come up with a different kind of campaign with them.

Arghy posted:

There was always female knife ears and vampires but considering the human empires were modeled after 15-16th century culture it would be weird to see a woman not staying home and pumping out children. Heroes have always been unique so you can have whatever the gently caress you want as a hero and i imagine humans living in the tropics would naturally have darker skin through the generations of living there.

It's weirder to whitewash the problematic roots and paint this multicultural utopia haha thats some revisionist poo poo.

Lord Cyrahzax posted:

Really don’t get the Toddy love.

Cease to Hope posted:

disappointed we're getting a whole chaos warriors dlc and no slambo Chorfs

Hellbore posted:

Literally the only other one that comes to mind is Arbaal, and he hasn't been a thing since, what, 5th edition?

e,: Looking it up, he hasn't had a model since 5th, but was mentioned in the army books up until 8th, and was included in End Times, where he was killed by Caradryan.

Zore posted:

also Mazda and Kroq'gar's dino buddies are literally named after Transformers

kanonvandekempen posted:

Turn times look pretty rough sadly.

MikeC posted:

This was a mistake historically and remains a mistake today

OwlFancier posted:

surtha ek should have a whole extended family, flippin ek, blummin ek, ekcy thump

I want to know who thought "sukiyaki the inscrutible" was fine but felt it necessary to censor the top right. Like I can only assume it is spectacularly racist or something.

Tolth posted:

"Wow, there's really no units or factions left to add at this point. I hope they'll have enough material for future DLC, something that can fit on the RoC map..."

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