/twg/ - Total War General

>Estalia is razed to the ground by remorseless Saurus warriors in accordance with your interpreted wishes.
I kind of hope that the missions you get as lizardmen end up being like this even if it's just an excuse to go and fight some other dudes
complete missions to retrieve tablets of the old ones, but not all of them will be useful to progression towards campaign completion and will just provide some other bonus instead

Empire. Awesome.

I would say it pairs well with all tabletop Lords as well.

vampire counts, you will be pleasantly surprised. stop asking about steel faith and play it.

It won't be

the peasants have hard lives

>Estalia is razed to the ground
Bless this slan! Truly the plan is great!

Kholek 'Big Boy' Suneater vs Peasants

Remember when /twg/ pasta was good shit like Luca and not shit including tendies?

This shit isn't making me less suicidal

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>a-at least i have the lady

I hope this too. I was thinking the lizard campaign would be immediate threats in lustria - skaven/undead/visiting humies with large cities like athel Loren to hold and every few turns you get a mission and a teleport for an army to go *someplace* and do *something* these missions might be
Teleport to
>Norsca and beat up an army
>save this garrison in Barak Varr
>raze Black iron mine

All of these are inscrutable. Don't give a shit about diplomacy and reward you with *zoatibix* or something which assists in unlocking shit to better defend your existing cities and aide your slow verminicide of Lustria. Like a constant stream of quest battles matched to your army as much as possible.

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as he tires, more and more peasants wait patiently on a nearby hill to join in getting squished

Kill yourself then I liked it.

Peasants win. Feudalism 1, Chaos 0. just as the lady predicted.

P E A S A N T R Y

>astounding breakthroughs in Necrarch zombie-technology

cl-climb the mountain

I hate lumberfoots

LIZARDMEN RELEASE
LL
>Mazdamundi
>Kroq-Gar

Lords
>Slann Mage-Priest
>Saurus Oldblood (Can mount Cold One or Carnosar)

Heroes
>Skink Priest (Can mount Ancient Stegadon)
>Saurus Scar Veteran (Can mount Cold One or Carnosar)

Infantry
>Saurus Warriors (Hand Weapons and Shields)
>Saurus Warriors (Spears and Shields)
>Skink Cohort
>Skink Skirmishers (Blowpipes)
>Skink Skirmishers (Javelins and Shields)
>Temple Guard
>Kroxigor

Cavalry
>Saurus Cold One Riders (Spears and Shields)
>Saurus Cold One Riders (Hand Weapons and Shields)
>Terradon Riders
>Ripperdactyl Riders

Monsters
>Stegadon
>Ancient Stegadon (Engine of the Gods)
>Bastilidon (Solar Engine)
>Salamander Hunting Pack
>Razordon Hunting Pack

DLC (The Rat and The Serpent)
Themed around Sotek the Serpent God

LL
>Tehenhauin

New Units
>Jungle Swarm
>Bastilidon (Ark of Sotek)
>Skink Chief (Can mount Terradon, Ripperdactyl, or Stegadon)
>Troglodon

i appreciate this post, user.

Can I be mad for another day?

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>Bordeleaux
You make me sick.

>Tehenhauin
gonna screen cap this

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where's the picture of the female VC lord?
i can't find that right one on google and I know someone's always posting it here.

>Tehenhauin

I'm ready, a lord who exists solely to genocide Skaven.

Let Sotek's will be done.

It ain't much but I survived and that's ok. Lucky chain route.
I have no idea how to keep my softie elf archers alive when outnumbered like this, Durthu and the branch boys were dealing with the infantry, and the elves were getting banged by Chariots and dogs real bad after a strong start raining hell on infantry.

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I really love Dwarfs holy shit.

>that aesthetic
>that play style
>settlin grudges
>talking down to manlings
>best tech of any faction

Food for the trees now.

>they made neato animations for welves
>but didnt made new face models/hairstyle or hair colours for them

Trully triggering

>that play style

have you seen my pet dragon?

Now strap a dozen cannons to it. Get it drunk. Give it a Yorkshire accent, allow it to complain constantly about shoddy workmanship all while fending off horse/wolf fuckers and arranging flank charges with slow and steady infantry.

Also allow it to launch helicopters.

And flamethrowers.

I love Dorfs

What will they announce on March 31st?

Vampire DLC

Probably just the Old Friend
If we're lucky it'll be a teaser for the expansion

I'll be so mad if they just hype it up and announce some bullshit dlc for the old world. Don't we have enough vamp LL already?

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There can never be enlightened vampires and undead. Just wait user. Vampire orcs next. Then mousillion. Then tomb kangz. You thought you were safe in lustria? Vampire coast. Reddit rats? VAMPIRE RATS. CA got you covered.

*enough vampires and undead

I like this one

>all these w.elves owners
>and none of them are posting my one true waifu
>glade lord (female)-chan

Glade Lord (female) is shit tier.

But I do user and I love her tenderly started with orion but killed him asap, now shes my main LL

I really dislike him, not a fan of his design, VO, feels edgy and in the lore he throws random tantrums killing even elves on his meme-wild-hunts.

Also flying on dragons & sniping from a far is cooler than being green-wanabee-beastmen.

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Good. At least someone in this general has some taste.

I'm guessing that following the trend of other LLs being lamer than their non legendary counterparts, Orion can't even ride a dragon?

Howdy men of the empire
Check it out, I'm made of gold
t. Balthasar Gelt

Orion is too huge to ride anything, he's at least 20 ft tall. Makes Khazrak look like a puppy.

>implying a dragon couldn't carry him

Oh man it's going to be cool when the sequel is revealed and each race still only has 2 starting LLs and no alternate start.

>not at war with bjornling
typical

Have we even got a lord without a unique start since... vlad?

I'd hate to be a game dev. Every time I improve something, even if it's an effort that exhausts me, it isn't good enough, it should have been done sooner, everything else in the future must have that same level of polish and sophistication, and by fucking god come up with something even better the next release you fuckface.

What do after unifying Reikland? Marienburg is too tough a nut to crack. Do I try and burn the Skullsmasherz hold and help the dwarves kick out the night gobbos while I wait for gifts to lead to confederating?

Figure out whether Middenland, Talabecland, or Wissenland spawned with Underdog. Whichever one did, wait for them to go to war with someone, then join them in that war.

Once you confed them, growth the fuck out of their province to reap the benefits of their tasty rank 5 building bonuses.

>Marienburg is too tough a nut to crack.

It is not, and you should crack it. But if you can't do it for the time being, getting rid of skullsmasherz is a good start. They're secretly allied to burger. Let Crooked Moon fuck up Wissenland til they confederate with you, and only then go to war with them. Same with vampires fucking up stirland and averland. Don't take talabecland, don't go north of the river Reik.

Followup: Also worth mentioning as far as tip toeing around to avoid trespassing negatives while doing this, that you start with military access to Stirland. Can be useful if Ostermark fights Talabecland (Not too out of the ordinary) or you can use it to recolonize anything Wissenland loses to Skull-Takerz / Crooked Moon without stepping on their land.

>still only one start for Empire
>literally the largest faction in the game with the most diverse sub groups
>one start
>Vampires have two and five fucking lords + a unique campaign lord the Red Duke

Not who you're responding to but last couple games I played Marienburg spawned with defensive and sat 3 stacks on their capital the entire game. Even after Nordland came and took Gorssel.

I still dont feel like I'm using missle cavalry right. I try to get them behind enemies to shoot from behind but it still feels like they don't do anything
Is there only real purpose to annoy the enemy and hope they'll draw frontline troops away to attack them?

>skarsnik's squig hoppers get over 70 melee attack if you go red tree
this is insane, they literally melt any enemy unit they hit in seconds

Yea they are amazing anti-infantry.

They have pretty bad movement for cav though and get rekt by enemy cav

More than 50% of the nations that I can confed, have imperial distrust and that seems to be the normal any time I play empire. I rarely, if ever get an underdog.

Which missile cavalry in particular? Some of them have decent enough melee stats to work as utility players; either running down ranged infantry or shooting at or shooting exposed enemies.

If you're talking about pistoliers yes, you either use them to run an enemy unit away or try to target the lowest armor enemy unit on the battlefield. Except any other ranged unit since they will also fuck you up.

Bad movement?
They're faster than regular squigs and don't charge as deeply into formations so they're easier to cycle unless it got changed

their role is flexibility. jack of all trades while being not as good as specialists. You can bait enemy cav out of the fight, if you don't have to do that you can charge skirmishers, if you don't have to do that you can get behind the infantry and start unloading, and if you don't have to do that you run down routed enemies. Just having one or two of them is nice to fill in any gaps that other specialized units are too busy to at any given moment.

I always try to check diplomacy affixes on turn 1 with empire, and if a valuable province doesn't have underdog I'll break the NAP with Mannlet as soon as I can so I can gank his gold mine worry free.

everything on the greenskin roster gets rekt by enemy cav though

Can anyone confirm that All Tabletop Lords works with SFO and is balanced for it?

Like if it works and it turns out savage orc warbosses are way off in stats compared to the rest of greenskins comparatively, I kind of don't want to use it.

just use gifts, 2 or 3 medium gifts only costs about 5-6k all up and lets you get NAPs and trade agreements to stabilise relations

>play anyone but Dwarfs
>hate doing battles so auto resolve a lot or basically just avoid any 50/50 battle
>play Dwarfs
>love playing battles and watching my stunties smash fools

I am just bad right? I rely a lot on the fact that they are so hard to break, and I've never been a big fan of cavalry.

If you can play comfortably with Dwarfs you can surely expand to other factions. Just apply yourself and you'll probably find it fun.

Indeed, Half of Bretonnia's lore is about running down Greenskins with Knights, the other half is running down Beastmen

Liking dwarves doesn't make you bad, but liking autoresolve makes you deserving of crucifixion.

>Try Steel and Faith Welves
>Eternal Guard have 75% missile block, mid 40's attack and defense, and 35 weapon damage.
>Archer damage buffed across the board
>Numbers are piddly small compared to other factions (140 swordsmen vs 80 Eternal Guard)

Now this feel like an Elf Campaign.

Is an all-cav build as the WRE viable?

is there a way to make your reinforcements come in one stack at a time in really large battles? it's a pain getting your entire infantry line then having ranged trickle in behind them

They'll make up for it in Araby.

Not really, no.

Micro, honestly. Harass early, divert enemy formations, etc.
Most Missile Cavalry have decent enough melee stats, making them good for some back strikes, as well as chasing.

the strangest thing is all unist that are still viable and good even when you can afford/recruit elite ones

I'm surprised we don't have our own version of the Ancap Ball here involving violations of the NAP

>When a Bretonnian Peasant chops down a tree on the outskirts of Athel Loren, violating the NAP so you call the Wild Hunt and raze 10 Bretonnian settlements

Big'uns actually do quite well on the charge and function solidly as regular infantry
they don't really have a good dedicated cav counter though, I agree
closest option is pinning them with chaff and foot of gork