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thanks man

No problem my dude.

Is it reasonable to have an army consisting of all black orcs in campaign?

might wanna doom diver to goad the enemy into not turtling up

>get shit done and are the most disciplined of any greenskins

Comparison falls off there.

Besides everyone knows ogres are the real nigs of Warhammer.

No. However, there is nothing stopping you from doing it besides money, so if you can afford it, go nuts.

Are any VC heroes worth using in battle?

Are any heroes at all worth using in battle?

No. First off how the fuck are you going to pay for that and secondly you need big boys for anti large infantry. Also you need cav. Doom divers are good too. Some black orcs are nice and a must for armored factions.

I like using bright wizards and exalted champions in battle. Necromancers are good, too.

Rollan!

Not gonna post the Beastmen one since I'm going to update it once the online encyclopedia is patched

banshees are utter shit, only run necromancer if you plan on keeping a beefy infantry presence alive

I want to be dominated by a best elf!

Why Necromancers? My Lords and LL can already heal/aura heal. Do they stack?

why Heinrich Himmler over Mannfred?

What are some good campaign strats for Empire? I'm a new shitter and have been rolling through everything on normal and I'm assuming thats because VC are broken since I don't have to worry about morale while spooking the shit out of everyone else. So i figured if I was to ever git gud I feel like Empire would force this. So, from what I understand I should immediately start heading north and securing the coast against chaos correct? Do I conquer everything between me and there, or do I try to diplomacy it up? Am I in the ball park or am I way off?

Invocation of Nehek has a cooldown longer than its duration. Having multiple of them rolling over and over is really powerful. Overcast 1, 1 is on cooldown, 1 expires, cast 2, 2 is on cooldown, 1 is off cooldown... etc. It will make your cluster immortal. They are also really good for splitting engagements. Their auras have limits to their range, so having multiple is good.

Neat, thanks for the tip, senpai.

Also (imo) Vampire Lords are better leaders than necromancers because they can actually fight in melee. Plus Lore of Death is still ridiculously good.

G O B L I N S

Which TW youtubers do you actually enjoy watching?

The only one I can consistently watch is Oakley.

Arch

Heirofcarthage

Try to ally with Nordland early for a quest you'll get, avoid confederating too early because it'll drag you into useless wars. Build up reikland until Chaos invades, then when you've dealt with them, you'll have a bonus that'll essentially give you free confederation.

>heirofcarthage

milkandcookies

enjoy his mp vids, particularly as he also does Beginning of the End Times vids with some lore explanation in addition

I like Arch

Oh? So I essentially just turtle up? What troops do I priotise. I know demi gryphs and steam tanks are a must. What about other artillery? Are light wizards as big a deal as I've heard they're made out to be? I know great swords are a must, but do they make a good...I'm not sure what the word is, I think its anvil? Sorry if these are dumb questions I've only really played VC while dabbling in orcs fro like 30 turns.

I don't remember his name, but there's a guy who ran a few vids awhile back, where he just boxed up some empire Arty and gunners up and had a massive hoard of zombies run at them.

What, not edgy enough for you, user?

What's wrong with they guy? His voice isn't cringe and he isn't autistic.

Worst thing you could say about him is that he's a little boring.

Heir, though I don't really watch his campaign vids (mostly let them run in the backgreound; I enjoy listeining to him rambling).
He does pretty neat commentary on battles though.
Plus he's an eengineeer like me, so that's something, I guess.

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Vampire Counts are truly the superior race.

desperately tries to affect the balancing of the game

Turn 1: Attack enemy army near Grunburg, beat it
Turn 1a: Move army to attack the settlement
Turn 1b: Move army back into Reikland, recruit 3 Swordsmen

Turn 2: Attack Grunburg if you didn't, else move on to the one in the Southwest, capture it, delete barracks in Altdorf since the SW settlement will have it, recruit 3 more swordsmen

Turn 3: Finish off rebels, capture Eilhart, recruit 3 more swordsmen.

Now is where it gets interesting. You want Marienburg to the west of Eilhart - it has a unique building that generates massive income, but it's very well fortified and generally has a 20 stack army in it as well as its garrison. If you are good at sieges, you can probably do it. If you don't want to attack the city while the enemy army is in it, set your army to ambush mode outside Eilhart and hope you don't get cucked by RNG. After that, attack Gorssel in the north. Sack it, then raze it. You don't want this settlement as it will suffer constant raids from Chaos which will generally do more harm than good from actually building the settlement up.

All the while doing this, you wanna build Altdorf up for either Reikguard, Demigryphys or Greatswords and if you want, the College to unlock Balthasar. In regards to the other factions nearby, you can keep vampires sweet by attacking orcs, but these usually die to other human and dwarf AIs nearby really early on. You also want to focus on forging a defensive (ideally not military) alliance with Nordland for the Reikland Runefang quest for Karl.

There are some settlements of relative importance you might want to capture if you want OP cavalry, namely the one directly north of Altdorf for the Knights Panther Chapter House and Couronne (Bretonnia's capital) for the Couronne training grounds. You will be able to recruit rank 6+ Reikguard and Demigryphys with both, rank 7+ with a tech. Grunburg (Reikland) also has a building that increases the level of Cavalry. It's ridiculously powerful but takes time to get.

What, multiplayer balance? I honestly don't give a shit about multi so meh.

>desperately tries to affect the balancing of the game
Whut?
You mean him pointing toward things he finds unbalanced?
How is that in any way a bad thing?

Legend can be cool

ok alright will do boss. I very much appreciate the highly detailed strats. Here have my rarest slann pepe in return

Does Darren count?

>dwarfs are already called dawi in warhammer
>for some reason age of sigmar calls them duardin instead of dawi

THEY CAN'T EVEN DO THAT RIGHT

7 HOURS REMAINING FAGGOTS.

7 HOURS REMAINING.

Orcs are based on football hooligans from the 80s. They're not niggers.

Beastmen are based on the barbarians that sacked Rome and stuff. They're not niggers.

The only niggers you'll find are pygmies.

>The only niggers you'll find are pygmies.

What about Araby?

It's funny because they have 30 years of history to draw from that they spent money developing and they don't use any of it.

How GW are still in business I have no idea.

>mfw i won't be able to play bestmen for another week

Araby are based in Fantasy. They're sand niggers, but cool sand niggers like Saladin.

Oh right. Then I got nuthin.

I wouldn't say that...

Wouldn't the savage orc tribes in the dark lands fit the bill?

Ultimately based on football hooligans though. Hence the facepaint and all.

So is there a lore reason for all the Skull heads carved into the mountains all over the grand campaign map? Or just a creative art decision by CA?

What are those three areas that you can't pass in the map? The forest in Brettonia, the swamp thing in Tilea, and the weird murky thing in the Badlands? I think the swamp one is the Skaven city apparently??

So forget the Empire then, Tilea and Estalia are gonna be boned if both Beastmen, some Orcs, and Skaven start there.

is Arch quickly becoming the Radious of TW youtube?

>The forest in Brettonia

That's where the Wood Elves are.

>I think the swamp one is the Skaven city apparently

Yes.

>skulls on mountain
I think its a religion thing, kind of like putting up big crosses throughout the country. skulls seemed to be the symbol for their religion

Was the razorgor chariot in the roster when it was first announced?

So Sauron (before getting his hand cut off) and his legions of Orcies and whatnot all magically appear in the Old World, Mordor gets shoved in somewhere in the Darklands, or Badlands south of the Border Princes, maybe by Ekrund and a nice big path or two get opened up to the Old World. He's no friend of chaos. He's got the Nazghul, Trolls, Oliphants, a few legions of easterlings too.

How fucked is he/ the Old World?

>all these poor faggots complaining on steam reviews for having to pay less than an hours pay
>complaining about DLC on the page of the main game

When the polar gate collapsed, not even the mountains were safe from the wave of corruption, so they turned to skulls in the name of grimdark.

It's people like him that are the reason hoplites and pikemen are killable in Rome 2! Greeks are superior, you shouldn't be able to loose as the Greeks!

Skulls are the primary means of decoration in all GW universes

I don't recall there ever being a hoplite meta.

I came into Rome2 during the days of evocati/oathsworn spam

most of complaints are from kids

the regional pricing is awesome, I got the DLC for something like 7 bucks

It's 22 dollarydoos here with the 10% discount. A little bit ridiculous

yeah that's basically the same in £££. It's funny, since it's the #1 steam seller right now.

>It's 22 dollarydoos here with the 10% discount.
wtf, where do you live?

>dollarydoos

Take a guess

rolling for when beastmen are out

Somali?

Antigua and Barbuda
Australia
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Bermuda
Brunei
Canada
Cayman Islands
Dominica
East Timor
Ecuador
El Salvador
Fiji
Grenada
Guyana
Hong Kong
Jamaica
Kiribati
Liberia
Marshall Islands
Federated States of Micronesia
Namibia
Nauru
New Zealand
Palau
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Singapore
Solomon Islands
Suriname
Taiwan
Trinidad and Tobago
Tuvalu
Zimbabwe

Where?!?!

Well I imagine there are kangaroos in the Federated States of Micronesia, so that would be my guess.

>dollarydoos
>kangaroos
But I can't be sure that's actually the link, maybe he's mentally retarded? which would hint at Australia again, I guess you're right

cant wait for another day of no mods

>needing mods
Casual or no taste?

>better ai recruitment and armies
>better camera
>larger units

is that shit taste?

Almost all heroes are extremely cost effective

dwarf heroes are really tough. i'd make a wall with 3 or 4 to protect my gunline by not only tying up enemy troops, but also giving my guns obstructed views of them.

Dollarydoos comes from didgeridoo you retards

>better ai recruitment and armies
shit taste
>better camera
casual
>larger units
shit taste

nah, you're ok but what does better camera do?

Oakley and Indypride are my favorites. Oakley is a loveable goof and Indypride likes to show off mods. Both are great at multiplayer while also sometimes playing meme games against one another

This, you can have heroes tie down an enemy unit while gunners fire at them with minimal chance of FF. You can do the same with artillery but it's more risky

>thinking I care about 'even worse than niggers', former english prisoners, and their isolation island
I'm sorry you weren't born in a civilized country

Better camera allows you to zoom in and out about 3-4x as much. It's quite handy, esp. on a large monitor.

You forgot Molay's magic mod

Unobstructed*

>Handgunners flanking the enemy line
>Rape, death, murder, can kill hordes with minimal effort

>Thunderers flanking the enemy line
>Basically the same unit, do fuck all damage, are slower, are fat, don't kill anything

Am I missing something here?

Fuck me I still can't decide if I'm going to buy the DLC

I mean I can afford it, but I don't know if I should, the ratio price/fun doesn't seem very good

Skill.

you don't know much about other countries or much of anything really, do you