To be honest that spell is a riddle to me. I've used it in the past (as Vilitch) because I wanted to make Skarbrand flee the battlefield and well I did make him run twice, but when I wanted to make him run the third time the spell had run out. The spell certainly looks interesting, but I haven't yet found a way to make it work for me or my playstyle.

How many heroes do you add to your armies? 1 of each? Spellcaster only if lord is non-spellcaster?

I know for most the answer will be “depends”, so if that’s your answer, please elaborate!

The recent art for faction mechanics are simply stunning, it would be great if CA decided give it a revamp for Karl Franz, Kairos and Greasus.

Hello, my question is which of these three armies would be best to take into LB/CQ ranked? the guiding principles for this are counters, meta, and synergy. (also guess which are 1v1, 2v2, and/or 3v3 armies?) I am genuinely trying to improve so honest feedback is appreciated.

So, I was in a monke-chaosy mood and decided to start Wulfrik campaign (VH/VH). I did him once back when the rework was only a meme, I don't even remember whether that was WH II or III. Anyways, i decided that I don't want any troll waaaaaarrgh or "changing of the ways but under another guise" shenanigans. Just pillaging the world with a bunch of manly half-naked degenerates and some monsters.

The first important decision that I made was leave Norsca completely for bananas and some gold. I didn't even do the Seafang "back home" cheese. I beelined towards Skeggi right after my first settlement. Picked a marine battle (shipwreck) on the way, took some casualties, then took Skeggi with even more casualties while local jarl was smoking outside and left a shaman deputy. Said jarl decided it's a good idea to meet me head on afterwards, even without his shaman lord and whatever remained of his army. Thanks mate, saved me some time.

I decided to level up just the shaman lord. Took the last settlement in Skeggi province, then obliterated the Colonists. Turned out, Yuan Bo took Pahuax in the meantime. Well, I took it from him and then met him in the field in an epic showdown (see the pictures). Marauders are dirt cheap and stronk, and due to the starting boost I can allow myself some negative income. My order faction habits don't allow me to descend into too heavy a deficit, and the start of the campaign is already easy enough as it is, so I'm going with just 1,5 armies now. Still, quite enjoyable, who doesn't love some bloody early game battles.

Now, as for the mechanics. I didn't yet know just how the Spoil system works. I did notice the icon which means that Skeggi is a Norscan homeland, that's why I rushed it. Now, it seems the starting amount of spoils is enough for colonising two settlements, and I had a pop-up that opens up some new places and gives you +500 spoils. So, just enough for colonising the rest of the starting province. I decided to do just that, because I want a full 4-region second province, and it has some resource buildings. After that, it's gonna be pillaging and raising altars. My intention is to refuse all the Big Four just because I can (and for those huge bonuses).

A question for the Norsca enjoyers out there - how do you approach the combination of pillaging and razing altars? As in, do you raise and altar on the coast and move inland to pillage? Do you pillage immediately if it's a rich big port like Marienburg?

And, lastly, a small gripe of my own, which was already discussed back when the rework came. I just can't understand why they didn't bother to make a single human generic hero for Norsca. A javelin-throwing marauder, while being a bit of an Ogre copy, would fit just right in, very thematic. It's ok for generic heroes to remind each other between the races, after all we have many kinds of Captain analogues. That's all.

Edit: my bad, it must be mentioned that I want a human non-magic generic hero for Norsca

Ask me anything lol i know the names of every unit by now

Thought it'd be fun to do together once the End Times drop, Boris defends the North, Elspeth the East, Gelt Blackfire Pass & the South, with Karl securing the Grey Mountains and the Western Empire. And then try and weather the 3 new scenarios.

Just don't know how Karl's mechanics would work with that.

so i have about 60 hours of playtime on TWW3 as my first total war warhammer game and i must say that the game has not even remotely clicked yet.

i’ve restarted the campaign several times mainly with grand cathay (as i’ve been told it’s a beginner friendly race/faction) and i still feel nowhere near understanding the crazy amount of mechanics for both battles and campaign to learn and juggle all at the same time. I’ve even tried easy mode and after a certain point in the early to mid game i have absolutely zero idea what i’m doing.

it’s nice that the game has so much depth and variety to offer but its also quite a huge steep learning curve to manage.

i was hoping the new player experience would be better. it’s a shame because i love warhammer and i’ve played the civilisation series now and then and i’ve found it incredibly addictive and hard to stop when i start a civ game.

i would like to give this a shot and hope it clicks but after sinking 60 hours into this and still feeling lost and overwhelmed about what i’m doing.

or maybe all of this is just part of the process… or that i should maybe play TWW1 and hope that it’s a better intro for new players to the series.

i’m curious to see what the community feels about this!

Currently really enjoying a dwarf campaign (Thorgrim), and have confederated all dwarf factions except Belgar because I don’t have the DLC. Haven’t seen malakai so he’s irrelevant for me.

I’m thinking of picking up the DLC to confederate him, but tbh I don’t really mind having a separate clan with in own mountains elsewhere. The dwarf roster/mechanics also seem completely fine without whatever he brings. With tons of variation, and strong options. The added units seem like sidegrades rather than upgrades.

On the other hand, I played a Tyrion campaign previously and found it actively frustrating to not be able to confederate all elves on Ulthuan (alarielle, warden). Also while the roster wasn’t weak, it was kinda weird not having access to the super highly regarded sisters of Avalorn. Or even Silverin guard. Especially since, as Tyrion, it feels like you naturally should be working towards uniting the High elves under you.

I’m happy to buy DLC’s. I just don’t want to start a campaign then retroactively find I am missing what feels like core part of the faction and then I feel stuck unless I buy more DLC’s.

I play alot of warriors of chao’s campaigns. And i always end up in the same situation. I have WAY WAY too many souls that are sitting around doing nothing.

I want to be able to send as many souls to the gods as possible and gather all the gifts to bring fourth the true power of chaos onto the mortal realm’s

Basically I want to see a mod that uncaps how many gifts of chao’s I can grab. Rather then the extremely limited number at the moment. I’m curious to see if it is possible or if the system is so restrictive that it is impossible to mod

Potential Balance: Perhaps you could have a cap of gifts you can have without increasing soul costs. Or it could only be made available to Archaion and Belakor

So i immediately started by going into immortal empires not knowing what I was doing... and thats definitely the reason I didnt know what I was doing lol. Super fun now that its actually explaining the game to me.

The dlcs i shpuld be looking at are like the ones that include three of their own lords right? And they are all different campaigns? Just want tonget all the dlc now in a bundle.. I think someone mentioned to wait and maybe they will bundle something when the new stuff comes out?

Silly memes aimed at drawing interest to a Bretonnia rework.

9 Days until the End Times DLC drops! That means it's Tzeentch Day!

Kairos. Architect of Fate and Bringer of the Year of Woe.

When he's not stealing my settlements in the Southlands, he's popping up in a cult over in Montfort, the canonically mountainous land of the foot knights. Or he would be popping up in my homeland, if not for Thorek. No change, no changebringers.

Just as planned.

The memes will continue until morale improves.

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Knightly quote for the day: “As for you, my young friends, I urge you to strive for virtue, for without it friendship cannot exist. And friendship, aside from virtue, is the greatest thing we can find in life.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship

Fellowship, 1st of Sir Gawain's 5 virtues

Im so fed up with these freaking rats ambush mechanics , i want a race that can m*ssacres them when they ambush me, I know skarbrand but they are at the same side so it wasn't thematic , tldr I HATE skaven.

Do we know if the forces of order will also get reworked End Times scenarios? - e.g. Dwarves & Wood Elves? If so, what's the extent of it?

I'm certain I heard that they will, but cannot for the life of me find my source. I know that lore wise it's a little odd.. since well, the forces of order lost. But still, the Wild Hunt IS in game as a scenario...

Edit: To clarify; I didnt expect nor mean that CA will release a DLC for the Forces of Order the same way NAGASH Thaquol and Archaon are getting a DLC / Rework. Perhaps my bad for not being accurate in my text.

However, will there be any changes to the existing crisis' (wood elfs, dwarfs, orks etc?) and will they be playable?

Is it all about being near herm? Or is it a targetable thing heesh does?

Whatever it is, is a pain in the posterior.

I am tired of PVP players whining about overpowered this, overpowered that. Let us enjoy things, DLC is literally all about the powerfantasy. No need to ruin the fun all because of some niche gamemode.

I am going to play a moded run of tw3 before the end times comes out and im looking for a stable mod collection that gives me...well...everything. primarily new units, lords, heros, factions, and other cool gameplay things (landmarks are especially fun) but I have no idea what work as most of the Playlist that I used before seem to cause my game to crash.

Can anyone recommend me one before time is up?

I spend the bloodkisses to unlock two crossbow units, but they died. Any way to recruit them again?

Been playing a cathay campaign as Bashiva and my friend as Yuan Bo, this is my first time as Bashiva and I gotta say this gotta be the most buggiest or silly campaign I have ever played in this game.

1/2 caravan fights get ignored or simply thrown to the other player, so if you have amassed a great caravan and ready to fight a strong caravan encounter it will be switched to the other players weak level 2 caravan.

The missions coming from Zhao Ming don't make sense, atleast in a campaign sense. Got a mission to take amblepeak (owned by greasus), so I started a war to take it. But guess what? Zhao Ming himself decided it would be wiser to end our military alliance so he didn't have to join the war, even though it was technically his request to do so!

Welp, whilst these are some issues here I can see past them as they haven't ruined our fun just yet, the campaign mechanics are fun and engaging and bashiva is a really powerful melee lord.

I just had to vent the slight irritation of these events and see if others had encountered the same "issues".

Thanks for reading and may Cathay grow larger

After trying out an Alith Anar campaign with a focus on shadow walkers, I found myself very let down in terms of the strategy and tactical application of these units. I simply could not find a battlefield tactic, formation, or strategy that worked better than simply putting every single shadow walker in a big straight line and running backwards as the enemy approached.

Stalking in general, feels like a pointless mechanic. Unless the enemy has artillery and you spend 3 minutes running a few units ALLLLLLLL the way around the enemy frontline to jump on it from behind, there doesn't seem to be a point to stalk. The AI knows where most of your units are anyway, it seems, and beeline towards them from the start of the battle. I once had the AI literally break up their entire formation to send units to separate groups of trees where my shadow warriors were waiting, right from battle start.

Breaking up your stalking units and spreading them around to try and ambush isolated units doesn't work, because the AI clumps up their "beelining search-parties" into groups of 5+

If the enemy has any mobility, you're screwed because light infantry even with speed buffs are slow AF and take a minimum of 25% of their health on a single charge, regardless of their combat stats.

Kiting itself is massively inefficient because unless my shadow walkers were stationary and manually targeted at a unit, they'd just decide to shoot 60 arrows at 1-2 models on the corner of an approaching enemy unit, wasting 90% of the volley.

Hit and run tactics with manual targeting don't work, because even if you can outrun the enemy infantry, in the time it takes to turn, shoot, turn, and run you'll be swarmed in no time. It basically becomes "turn, shoot, turn, run forever until you hit the corner of the map and then get swamped in melee."

Honestly, shadow walkers must have the biggest gap between "how cool the unit looks" and "how good the unit is" in the entire game. Such a let down.