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Thanquol soon, friends!

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POV
you are a militia warrior of Ind, on the frontlines of a Chaos Dwarf invasion

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What did CA mean by this?

>>559405561
>>559406392
damn
that does look cool, please don't fuck it up

>>559414508
Ind would be a cool Warhammer army because of how crazy Indian military history and mythology is.

>>559415116
jeetmanii

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>>559415116
outside of the tigermen i think the only thing we ever see for Ind has been Assassins
pic being an indish cobra assassins cult called Sengupta's Cobra Cult

>>559415180
The people are gross but the culture is bonkers and fits into the larger than life feel of Warhamner Fantasy.

>>559415180
>poop throwers
>poop throwers (sling)

>>559415521
I mean stuff like Camel Guns and those guys who fight naked.

>>559415671
Camal units feel more Araby than Ind

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>>559414508
FAVSTIAN SAARPIRIT

>>559414932
Long time since I played the Chorfs.
Which one is the best deal here ?

>>559415116
>>559415401
Speaking of Ind... is it like, entirely beastmen/animal people?
Or are there suppose to be humans living there too?

>>559418045
If did it I'd gave humans and Beastmen loving side by side and using a caste system to promote some measure of harmony.
The Fantasy Himalayas keep most of the magic radiation for the Warp Gate at bay and beastmen are less nuts.

>>559418275
Iiving side by side*
God it's too late isn't it?

>>559415116
Rob: Importantly, this is a Warhammer take on India. Warhammer is a lot of things, but there are simple tropes that unite it: it’s skulls, it’s death, it’s grimness. But for cultural reasons, many of these signifiers don’t align with a Indian influence design language, so we had to think about which other levers we could pull to make sure it was Warhammer.
Owen: Both Creative Assembly and a Indian sensitivity team were very helpful, providing guidance documents to ensure we understood Ind and didn’t make the wrong move. There are various symbols to avoid, and referencing toilets or hands without feces on them as part of the Ind visual language were ones we were keen to avoid.
Mark: There are certain styles of designated shitting street which signify darker periods in Indian history. We had to be respectful of those, alongside these other considerations.

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>>559418601
Yeah they should have done it 30 years ago when you could make cool shit without having to canvas a bunch of Bashi Bazooks to see if they be mad about it.

>>559418275
>the ind beastmen are all lower caste and ungor
>the high caste beastmen are all Cow people
>the mid caste are the tigermen warriors

>>559417828
probably the gold

>>559414508
>>559417665
But what is it with the Indians and trains meme? What's the lore behind that? Neutral explanation, no /pol/seethe

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>>559418045
normal humans do live in Ind
pic being an example of some sent to the Empire

>>559419898
Indians travel by train a lot still. Like, you'll see trains way over capacity with tons of Indians hanging off the side and on top of it.
Indians also have an 'honor' culture where you earn 'Izzat' by doing stupid shit(to prove bravery).
So they fuck around and stand in front of trains and for some reason, quite often, they don't dodge in time.
They're a weird people.

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>interior battles
yeah no, this is not leaving this early preproduction stage lmao

>>559420560
yeah i will believe when i see it

>>559419898
They think it's cool to film themselves being narrowly missed by a oncoming train and acting nonchalant about it.
They often overestimate how much room they have.

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>>559419898
over 20k people die every year in india from train related accidents
poor maintenance and infrastructure help but there is also an all-pervasive complete lack of disregard for personal safety from many passengers
those images of trains full of people clinging to the outside are very real, as well as the occasional retards thinking that running on top of trains or talking selfies in front of moving trains is cool

on average about 60 or so get crushed to death or electrocuted every day

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>>559418045

>>559420560
We had this in empire total war over a decade ago.

>>559420560
but zoomer-kun, back in napoleon you could garrison buildings, fight inside them in melee or just bomb them into ruin

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>>559418045

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>>559420560
Occupying buildings and canons on walls are dark age lost technologies.

How many tigermen do you need to stop an iron daemon?

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>>559418045
The High Elves also have a port city under their control called the City of Spires, which is becoming a pirate city

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>>559422176
I wonder what other archeotech Medieval 3 will be able to uncover
mayhaps a lucky Magos will uncover the "dismounting cavalry" STC

>>559422391
Just further proof that empire was developed by an alien civilization using CA as a cover up, it is impossible to replicate this complexity with modern tech, much less 10 years ago.

>>559422391
They managed to create one singular dismountable unit in Dynasties as a proof of concept so that particular tech is definitely making a return for M3.

It just makes sense for Knights to be able to alternate between mounted and dismounted combat for siege battles and whatnot.

>>559422176
The wall cannons were janky as fuck and never worked reliably. I have such vivd memories of the game crashing from the sudden spike in pathing calculations as you try and click-drag a formation to line up just right on the wall so that the unit AI finally realizes it's supposed to garrison the cannons, only for them to never shoot the damn things anyways.

They mentioned today about considering a similar concept, with towers or walls perhaps having garrisonable bows or whatever for your units to man rather than having autonomous machine-gun towers that just always shoot.

>>559415116
funny how 10 years into Warhammer's life cycle, with all the monstrous units that are in the game, the original "monstrous unit" -- a regular old war elephant -- still isn't present. although admittedly feral mammoths are almost the same thing.

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>>559420560
IF and it's an if the size of the solar system everything CA says they're working on for the new engine works as they say and they're able to do all these cool things with it in future games, I'm personally going to be a bit mad that Warhammer is stuck in this spaghetti-coded nightmare of an engine for all time and it's the best Warhammer Fantasy is ever going to be.

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CA LIED

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>>559418045

>>559422391
>>559422840
I don't really give THAT much of a shit about dismounting midcombat but being unable to mount/dismount *between* combats is really dumb
>oops can't climb the ladders boys, we all forgot NOT to bring horses on this campaign
like we've been asking for Dismounted Grail Knights since forever but that should just be a toggle

>>559414932
That's cute because it's a harmless memetic reference rather than something sour and seething. I do not much like his 2nd term, so this isn't 'golden hat dawi zharr good' either

You seem well positioned with everything, though I'd favor oil.

If they re discover "dismounting" they should give it to Bretonnian knights asap!

>>559423681
It comes across a bit like naval combat where the absence is gratingly irritating, even if you didn't exactly covet it. I figure an issue is the AI being convinced when to dismount, but I'd be fine with it just dismounting at all times during a siege and never a field battle. Since yeah, cavalry can be nice in a siege but in such niche fashions it's easier to just have the AI ignore it.

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>>559423383
don't worry bro, surely the M3 engine will be so open and easily moddable that we will get a BOTET-tier WH mod for M3. we will have Orc Boyz fighting Skavenslaves inside houses in 2030 at the latest.

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>>559423681
There's a ton of shit that should just be a toggle or something you can change in a character screen. Like
>lord/hero weapon loadouts
>lord/hero armor
>Black Orc weapon loadout
>Elf/Slann spell lists
There's no reason why we need Asur Prince and Princess to be two separate lord types when we should just be able to choose their weapons. Same goes for every other lord and hero in the game with more than one weapon option. Maybe I want my Captain to have a greatsword. And not having fully customizable spell lists for characters that know more than one lore of magic is ridiculous.
Mazdamundi, Teclis, and pretty much every non-human wizard know at least more than one lore of magic and should be able to freely choose their spells from what they canonically know. Kairos' only unique part should be that he gets more spells since he has two heads. He should have the freedom of two full spell lists in combat, not Mannfred.

>>559423383
It's just the nature of waiting or getting your shit now. Antiquity fags are going to be right fucked by M3 even if M3 barely moves the dial on the battlemap if it really changes up the campaign map experience for the better.

Now you really wanna be mad? Age of Sigmar will get a total war before warhammer total war: The Old world (Warhammer trilogy II).

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>>559423385
what's funny is even if you could put a cannon on a wall in TWW you probably still wouldn't because they're so hard to defend and they can't pitch down to shoot at enemies close to the walls lol.

>>559424318
The difference there is that CA will almost certainly make a Rome 3 or Empire 2 at some point. I can't imagine them making another Warhammer Fantasy game. At least not one of this scale where we'll essentially have just about everything in the setting in-game represented in some capacity by the end of it. It just means that my favorite fantasy setting will be trapped in this awful engine forever.

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>>559424294
>>Black Orc weapon loadout
only Warriors of Chaos can do that, silly. it's literally black magic.

>>559424318
do you really imagine they'll make another Warhammer Total war in like a decade or two? I kind of doubt it, I mean who knows if the company will even still exist at that point? And I don't think there's demand for an Age of Sigmar: Total War ever

>>559423383
At least Warhammer's engine is made for PC only.

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>>559423385
Have faith in the siege rework anon.
>Siege Livestream Recap
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2514916135
>Steve - 6.3 toward the end of August (14:42)
>Steve - 6.3 TK and Lizardmen rework will not be the same scale as previous Kislev rework (they are doing: Tech-Tree rebalancing; buildings, Heroes recruitment and rank from buildings; TK are getting a new minor feature; Lizardmen are geting new Blessed units; bugs fix and tweaks (19:20)
>Steve - No Geomantic-web rework (21:02)
>Josh - around 20 new Unusual Location coming with 6.3 (25:45)
>Milcho - Gate bug is very hard to fix (52:40)
>Milcho - They are actively looking to allow spiders & Skaven units to climb Walls, and ghosts to pass through Walls in later siege Reworks (57:45)
>Milcho - They have thought about artillery on walls and wish to do it but are not working on it for now (01:00:22)
>Milcho - Reduced the cost of building Siege Equipments (01:02:57)
>>Milcho - Can toggle on/off the ass ladders for those wanting them (01:06:00)
>Milcho - New buildable ladders as Siege Equipment (01:07:49)
>Milcho - Working to make Gates harder to destroy but not just by giving them more health (01:10:27)
>Milcho - Walls towers are deadlier but have a shorter range (01:12:32)
>Milcho - Some characters had the Siege Attacker removed from them (01:18:58)
>Milcho - They may add a way to get some initial Siege Equipments (01:19:13)(01:34:05)
>Milcho - Next big part of Siege rework will be Garrison units, then they will focus on Barricade and Tower (01:36:02)
>Milcho - Want to work on Auto Resolve in general (01:37:50)

>>559424728
>It just means that my favorite fantasy setting will be trapped in this awful engine forever.
*cough cough* >>559424018

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>>559424761
Elf bolt throwers can change ammo at the click of a button and Lothern Sea Guard visually swap weapons depending on if they're shooting or using their spears. There's literally no excuse for not giving units that by, both rules and lore, carry more than one weapon the ability to switch between them on the fly with a button press. Need anti-infantry? Blorcs pull out the dual weapons. Need anti-armor? Click a button and they pull out great weapons. Need protection from ranged? Click it again for a sword and board. Simple as.
All the necessary parts are there. CA just sucks.

>>559425409
I'll believe it when I see it anon

>>559425658
Bold assumption that modders will be allowed to port essentially an entire fucking game into Med 3. GW and/or CA would probably kill them if they tried.

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Dear CA:
Please do not keep the "province" and "building slots" system in Med 3.

Thank you

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>>559425409
>TK and Lizardmen rework will not be the same scale as previous Kislev rework
TK don't need something that big but Lizards sure as fuck do
>Lizardmen are geting new Blessed units
For the love of god please gut the current system and replace it with a list of blessings from each Old One. I beg.
>No Geomantic-web rework
Fucking wot. It's the biggest thing people talk about for the Lizrdmen. How can they not rework this dogshit? CA officially hates Lizardmen confirmed.

>>559424909
>And I don't think there's demand for an Age of Sigmar: Total War ever
I can see it happening sooner rather than later. A fuckton of the assets are already done, and memes aside siggy probably has a bigger playerbase now than fantasy had in 2015. There's also been an absolute dirth of aos vidya aside from mobile shovelware and that one shitty rts, so no competition. Gw is also probably desperate for some aos secondaries given what those did for the popularity of fantasy/old world, so they'd probably be willing to rent out the ip quite cheaply.
I can see them testing out the waters with a saga title or something in a few years.

>>559426035
Actually what I meant is that WFB is already represented in Med 2's engine which is better than TWW's lol.
(But as for Med 3, as long as they aren't lifting models or other assets from TWW I think it should be fine in theory. There's an Attila mod which does some pretty impressive work)

>>559425880
Auto-weapon switching was in the series at least in the earliest TW game I ever played (Rome 1). I remember many cavalry units would switch from long spears to swords after their initial charge (no idea if that had any statistical effect because that game was obtuse as fuck), and also phalanx units would fight using short swords if caught out of formation.

>>559426338
Sorry anon but my recap >>559425409 is pretty old.
We already got patch 6.3 in September:
https://community.creative-assembly.com/total-war/total-war-warhammer/blogs/77-total-war-warhammer-iii-%E2%80%93-patch-6-3-dev-blog

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The empire in my games has regularly been doing some absolutely unhinged crusades.

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>I dont want them to focus on trying to make sieges "fun". Sieges should never be fun. Thats the whole point.
Sternpilled dourmaxxer.

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if 40k turns out well and commanding tanks and squads of soldiers with automatic weapons feels good
they should really consider Total War: 1942 as a histoid game

I know you wanna live out your chud fantasies in it anon...

>>559432459
What boasts would Hitler LL provide?

>>559423828
I'd rather just have dedicated knight infantry.

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>>559428231
>Auto-weapon switching
is implemented in Total Rebirth mod for WH2. so the code for it is probably just lying around somewhere.

>>559428231
>>559432652
I think the lack of weapon switching is because GW is autistic over the weapons the units use and doesn't want them to be switched mid-battle because you can't do that on the tabletop.

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>>559432584
>Diplomatic relations: -50 with Jews and Slavs
>Diplomatic relations: +20 with Fascists
>Upkeep: -50% for Armoured units (Lord's army)
>Recruitment cost: -25% for Armoured units

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Calm down

>end game crisis stacks are only at war with you
>they ignore your vassals and allies
whats the point

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>Rajesh still believes the siege rework is happening

Siege rework is coming after Bretonnia rework

>>559424018
>surely the M3 engine will be so open and easily moddable that we will get a BOTET-tier WH mod for M3
This will be the one mod in particular which will get instant C&D

Kinda reposting from /v/ because I realise that /vg/ still have general for this series.

I started playing Total War: Medieval 2 and honestly don't understand how Im supposed to play it. I started playing on easy, this whole "grand campaign" and early game was quite okay, somewhat engaging but as soon as I started gaining more territory, game started to move towards annoying. Everyone seems to hate me for existing, I get notification about relations getting worse every few turns. Playing as Danes, first HRE started war for no reason, while I was occuped with them, France decided to attack too, then Venice, then Mongols came and started moving straight towards Cairo, which I was holding since crusade (pointless, really - even with multiple priests, full garnison and buildings for public order, I had to set taxes to low and races as frequent as possible to keep order at at least 90%) and all that while Pope either demand me to stop fighting (if I try to siege one of enemy kingdom castle or city) or demand me to join crusades, lately even demanded prince personally to join, because.

Is this a problem related to this particular game or whole series have non-functional diplomacy? I would rather try to form alliances and pick my targets.

>>559428271
Oh I thought that was a recent stream

>>559422176
I always imagined walls in the napoleonic era to be more sloped, to better redirect impacts of cannon fire.

>>559439256
Medieval 2 has an aggressive anti-player bias, its common for the AI to suddenly betray you and start wars, even moreso if not at war with a major faction, your best bet as a buffer is sending diplomats/princesses out and brokering an alliance/political marriage in the meantime as you deal with other threats. Your diplomats should be travelling out and befriending people that could threaten you at a moments notice, diplomats help immensely. Also, make sure to befriend the pope, send a diplomat down there and he'll usually accept an alliance for no issue and even pay you to be his friend, will make it so hes not as tough on you as you attack other Christian factions. Your economy is probably fucked because you have too many castles, you need towns to get good money too, dont move past land consolidation imo for public order issues, the squalor from the next farm isnt worth the growth imo.

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>>559425409
>ghosts to pass through Walls
Oh no no no. I'm going to hate this unless VC get a reword and make me want to play them again.
>in later siege reworks
>later reworks
>not this one
>when the game is at the end of its life
Confirmed for never happening, I guess.

>>559440568
So, this is game specific issue? I recall that other game I wanted to try, Shogun 2, have implemented mechanism that makes everyone hates you at some point (real divide) but don't know about other games like recently released on GOG Pharaoth (with "Dynasties" subtitle) and Three Kingdoms.

>>559441337
Its varying degrees, Shogun 2 also has a pretty aggro anti-player bias on top of realm divide. Meanwhile, 3K is the golden standard on diplomacy, its pretty good overall, right below it is Troy and Pharaoh Dynasties due to the 4X resources, you will constantly need to broker deals for resources, especially early game due to some lands not having what you need. Slophammer basically has 0 diplomacy due to it being the equivalent of a child bashing toys into each other, the diplomacy is "lore friendly" but they had to tone down the anti-player bias, which is still there despite their claims on fixing it like the AI waiting for you to do something and stacking nonstop armies, idling til you declare war. You can handle it but it takes a bit to get used to, Med2 definitely has it bad but its manageable.

>>559441838
Alright, noted. I limit myself to what is available on GOG since Warhamer games on Steam still have Denuvo I want to avoid.

What about Rome 2?

>>559442341
If youre newer into TW youll probably like it, not my cup of tea personally on account of all the DLC (games expensive as fuck still) and a good amt of it is recommended to play. Diplomacy from what I remember was shit (at launch) but now its a bit easier. I guess a reminder to have in this is diplomacy is usually surface level in this series, usually its there just to stop someone from attacking you for a time but usually, these games reward aggressive expansion and playstyle.

I hope CA doesn't go full histoid schzio with Med 3 and make sure the game is still fun. 0 chance of a TW game being good without a magic system, so Med 3 needs one.

>>559444057
>I hope CA doesn't go full histoid schzio with Med 3
I doubt they will

>>559443319
Okay, thanks.

How do you play changeling?

every single race has a building that raises lord recruit rank, correct?

>>559447319
For some races the effect may be limited to a single lord type, or be local, rather than global.

>>559448742
which ones? I wanna know what races are still unplayable

>>559441838
I Loathed S2's vanilla campaign realm divide but I felt like FOTS' was a perfect solution to most campaigns as ultimately in geopolitics you usually get people either bandwagoning behind the big power (the player) or rallying together against them.

>>559428231
I'd very much like to see auto weapon switching as it would eliminate the need for anachronistic and bloatcore units. No need to have legionary swordsmen in a medieval game if your knights can dismount and use swords for instance. Frankly I think switchable weapons is easier and would be easy for the AI to handle as with spearmanii it'd be a simple calculus of:
>Use spears if attacked by cavalry
>Use swords if attacked by infantry
Then just find a way to make them plan to use spears against infantry too. Like in M3 if cohesion is measurable (they were weird describing it, making it sound like it's not a stat but rather a vague sense of performance, like it is already?) then spears when cohesive and swords when not. What'd be really cool but never going to happen is have spears have HP and attrition where they slowly start to break. That'd introduce a novel method of combat where you send chaff to weaken them and then be better able to charge them after their spears are broken a'la Thermopylae.

As a boomer modder I can confirm R1 had different stats for the primary vs secondary weapon (at least for pikemen).

>>559451516
boomer modder can you tell me wtf the combat formula is in rtw?
is it just 50% to hit when attack and defence are the same? and also do you know if it's different in med2? i can't find this shit anywhere and I've been searching for so long. people are always talking about the "speed of combat" and I just want some kind of objective yardstick to measure it against

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gf's dad told me that i'm not rich enough to marry his daughter but is somehow ok with me continuing to see her
any LL recommendations for a total despair and suffering campaign besides daniel

>>559453513
damn he literally wants you to be alpha fux while beta bux.
nakai wh2
western roman empire attila

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>>559452759
I am afraid I don't recall that myself. What I can do is try and help you on how to find the answer yourself.
1) Check Total War center, but you've already searched. https://www.twcenter.net/threads/melee-hit-rate-how-to-calculate.802159/ This is in the M2 section and it says in the battle_config.xml you can adjust the melee hit rate. As for whether it's 50%, what I would do is make hyper exaggerated stats to try and test it out then do back of the napkin analysis. What you need to do is isolate variables to make sure you are getting a more pure analysis.

Like if you had me do it right now:

>Take two units, give them identical 100% stats.
Give them 50 attack
Give them 0 AP, anti-cavalry whatever bonuses.
Give them 50 armour and 0 defense skill (front and right side) and 0 shield (front and left side)
Fight on an open field, try and mitigate any level of fatigue (don't charge/run at the enemy, though they might run themselves - if they do start running to match them)

Do a time-to-rout measurement, and make a note of casualties. Do this maybe a few times, no more than five. The need for a mounted general complicates things - try and make them a general unit and then you can just count down to 'enemy/your general is killed'.

Continuing my idea next post and posting my wip assyrian mod yipee

>>559454075
Right is the new ones, left is the old ones for reference meant to say.

Once you've gotten an averages of time to rout and casualties and all that, now change the stats of one of those units. Make them have 100 attack, everything else the same. Repeat performance testing. Then make them have 25 attack, repeat the performance testing.

You can then, aside of general-rout-issues, get a rough analysis of what happens when attack stat is equal, half, and double what armor is. If you really wanted to be thorough repeat this test with defensive skill and shield, but armor I believe will either not suffer fatigue penalties or suffer reduced ones. But if you do this then either get the percentage difference or ask an LLM to do it for you (I'm dogshit at math).

Then you can apply that at length. This is imperfect as you're going to have three defensive stats to work with and unless you calibrate it all around a baseline of XX defense rating, then you're still operating off just a rough percentage. But this would let you get a rough idea that if attack is 1/2 of defense then the kill rate is X, if it's x2 then it's Y, and so to get the rate you want make it Z. I'm getting distracted by IRL shit so my brain isn't all here.

It should be identical for RTW to MTW2, if you can find something for RTW. If you haven't checked TWC then you will find the answer there, if anywhere.

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lore wise shouldn't wight kings be basically unstoppable?

>doesn't feel pain
>doesn't feel exhaustion
>impervious to most wounds
basically a skelly terminator

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>>559453513
>gf's dad told me that i'm not rich enough to marry his daughter but is somehow ok with me continuing to see her

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Legend was actually right about lords of shang yang HAHAHAHAHAHAH

holy shit

AHAHAHAHAHAHA

imagine being that guy who spent literally over a year smugly claiming he was 100% wrong and that the leak was made up

AHAHAHAHAHAHA

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>>559456148
>Legendfag goes through hours of footage to find a still of his oshi at a perfect angle so anons don't notice the lack of hair
devilishly tricky

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>>559455787
>Poison you to death with my poison arrows
What now ?

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why did he do that

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>>559460031
crazy stuff
advisorguy didn't deserve all that

>>559460031
Should GW give Advisor man a model?

>>559460031
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sq4RFDuVpI

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>>559460031
The dirty secret of Tzeentch is that he is Order's number one fan and would never allow Chaos to win completely. Every single Tzeentch worshipper is a cuck, and Tzeentch is the biggest cuckqueen.

>>559460207
>at last my master plan to attack archeon with 1 shitty stack of troops and lose

>>559467096
if he didnt do SOMETHING then archaon would be even more suspicious

>>559460207
>advisor doesn't chime in to tell me how awesome and cool I am for completing chapter objectives anymore
I'll kill the color blue for this

>>559477447
You are not worthy of narrator glazing. Only the hanmas are.

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>>559467096
>1 shitty stack of troops
there are three of these fuckers

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>>559478565
warsisters... we're BACK

>>559477997
What does the big bird like to watch?

>Medieval 3 battle gameplay reveal has ass ladders
It’s over…

>40k siege gameplay reveal has ass ladders
It's even more over...

>Shogun 3 siege gameplay reveals it has rock climbing
SHAMEFUR DISPRAY

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>game doesn't have ass ladders
>*CTRL + A right click gate
>game does have ass ladders
>*CTRL + A right click gate
What's the issue with ass ladders?

>>559480984
>space marines climb up wooden ladders that they pulled from nowhere
Please god let this happen I NEED the Volound meltdown

>>559481391
They're not made of wood. If you weren't a tourist you'd know that they're Siege Ladders first discovered in the 36th millennium by Rupert Nathaniel Siege, one of the greatest of the Dark Angel Librarians, and that they're made out of pure celliumite.

>>559481298
In older games you needed siege equipment to destroy gates.

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>>559481298
How do you destroy gate without Monsters ?

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>>559481818
Here are some examples.

>>559481298
Defensive sieges are way worse when your walls don’t actually keep the enemy out.

>>559481818
Just put a bunch of infantry units on it and they’ll eventually chop through. Axe infantry is the best for the job.
Or use arty/fire arrows to smash it or burn it down.

>>559482713
It depends. I like Shogun 2's sneaky rock climbing sieges.
It's just maybe that should be limited to a handful of units, rather than everyone. It'd be neat to have sappers or infiltrators that can unlock gates or cause havoc within a castle.

>>559482713
So then the AI sits afk for 1 turn, builds ladder, same thing happens.
But walls are great as is. I always pray those shitters climb up the walls. When they do, even a lone jade warrior can demolish a chaos warrior, it's great. They basically throw their entire army into a meatgrinder whenever they climb those walls. The ones that get into the gate chokepoint are more of an issue cause they can bring heavy mass units to punch through.

>>559482975
>So then the AI sits afk for 1 turn, builds ladder, same thing happens.
It actually doesn't because building enough ladders for a sizable portion of an army's infantry to climb at once would require multiple turns.
The units carrying the ladders to the walls would be slower than other units and can be stalled with focus fire. They're also far more vulnerable to a fast screening unit sallying out and attacking them on their approach, so they must be properly guarded, they can't just slither through any disruptive melee attacks to set and climb their ladders like infantry does now.
Without being able to just instantly send all of his infantry at the wall at full speed to tie up ranged units as soon as any infantry unit makes it to the walls the attacker has an infinitely harder time getting into the settlement without getting shredded, which elevates the importance of bringing sufficient artillery or constructing enough siege equipment.

>>559481818
In warhammer 3, dogs are better at breaking gates than trolls or any other monster

>>559483452
this is true irl too

>>559483430
Tie up ranged units? You aren't supposed to keep those on the walls. On the gate is fine but the rest are behind the walls. Dunno if you ever noticed but warhammer3 maps are mostly designed so that the area behind the walls is elevated. You place your ranged units there, the retards crawl up the walls, are held by your melee units and shot from inside.
And they would never sit there multiple turns constructing. I dunno if you ever watched the AI siege. There are 2 possibilities. The first, it attacks immediately or build for 1 turn cause it lacks siege attacker and then attacks, or it sits there for 10 fucking turns until it gets it's auto win. They aren't building for 3 turns and then attack. They don't value siege equipment, they simply make it when they lack siege attacker or passively over the 10 turns but they'll never attack u then.
And ofc we next get 40k so like.. nobody builds siege equipment. You simply drop pod into the city and call it a day.

>>559484610
>Dunno if you ever noticed but warhammer3 maps are mostly designed so that the area behind the walls is elevated
A lot of them actually have large sections where there is no high ground to shoot at enemies on walls, making units with arcing fire far less effective and units without arcing fire next to useless.
>The first, it attacks immediately or build for 1 turn cause it lacks siege attacker and then attacks
Then it's gimped heavily and the siege defense is far more favorable to the defender than normal.
>or it sits there for 10 fucking turns until it gets it's auto win
Then I send a stack within those 10 turns that wipes out the attacker with garrison support with trivial ease.
>They don't value siege equipment, they simply make it when they lack siege attacker or passively over the 10 turns but they'll never attack u then
Which would necessitate revamping how the AI weights siege equipment and how it decides to attack or wait.
>And ofc we next get 40k so like.. nobody builds siege equipment. You simply drop pod into the city and call it a day
Fortified positions in 40k actually often have sufficient aerial and orbital defenses that aerial or orbital insertions will see heavy casualties and necessitate suppressive bombardment or an alternate approach.

>>559484610
>Tie up ranged units? You aren't supposed to keep those on the walls. On the gate is fine but the rest are behind the walls
If you’re playing a TW game that has ass ladders maybe. For defensive sieges in Attila I put my ranged units on the walls unless some siege towers or ladders approach and I can’t light them on fire in time, then I pull them back.
The AI there usually waits at least 1 turn to make a little bit of equipment before a walled settlement siege, unless they have artillery.

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>>559478565
>french 40k lord
Vive le Dieu-Empereur !

>>559486219
TWWH siege maps didn't even regularly have elevated ground behind the walls until they entirely redesigned sieges in TWWH3.

>>559415116
>saar guard

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>>559486529
Ah.. u killed my sides

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That's so fucking funny...
The Saar Guard.
That was an honest 3-4min. kek. That was good.

>>559486805
and the ror version is the sirs of the morning

>>559427752
The bitter truthpill you AoSfags have to swallow is that your game will never have mainstream appeal in a million years. All the "legally distinct version of fantasy term X" causes an instantaneous revulsion in any normie that hears it. It gives old Trek vibes - nerd shit, but not the cool nerd shit people are familiar with, just cringe nerd shit nobody wants to hear about.

Calling space elves Eldar isn't a problem any more than calling space orcs Orks. It's understood what you're getting at and hits the ear of people who have heard of elves and orcs right. Calling high fantasy orcs "ORRUKS" is equivalent to calling them "Orkinators". Turning every fantasy race from oldhammer into Temu versions of themselves solely for IP reasons fucked AoS at the start in this regard, and it's never going to come back from that.

I'm sure you have very nice models and great tabletop rules, but that's all AoS can ever aspire to. There will never be an AoS total war game, nor will any smaller studio dare to try their hand at an AoS dawn of war after Realms of Ruin flopped so spectacularly.

>>559414218
>medieval 3 will have interiors
40k cucks have been officially cucked, 40k total war is just a cashgrab to fund the real banger

>>559480874
>Medieval 3 battle gameplay reveal has ass ladders
not only they said the game won't have ass ladders in the final game, they also said that these super long temporary ass ladders as that long to accommodate the various wall sizes, meaning there are different walls too
it's truly over for 40kucks, this game is the definitive total war, 40kuck total war will be super arcade

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>>559487572
the ROR sits on the trains the chorfs have and when they take damage they fall off and und it's wheels.

>>559421538
>>559422176
>>559421259
it's not the same thing, occupying buildings in empire and napoleon was like a toggle like entering in a bunker in starcraft or entering a tavern in skyrim, here the buildings belong to the rest of the world, like in the witcher

watching turin's ovn faction tournament and I have to say, the fimir faction is full of scary looking mofos. real horror movie type stuff, very cool

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>>559489431
>Calling space elves Eldar isn't a problem
Lol it's exactly the same shit, but you apply double standard because it's convenient for you.
Like all the "white nationalists" that push for billion H1B Indians, because "they're the good browns, not like all the other browns"

>>559491739
India derangement syndrome ahh post

>>559489431
You say that, but then you look at the tabletop and it has succeeded in exactly what fantasy failed to do at the end of its lifespan; attract the normies. And from what I hear that's not because the rules are particularly great. Do hear good things about the models though.

>>559492469
Saar
SAAR!

>>559492574
I've heard zero age of sigmar talk among normies, my friends and brother and sister and dad know what 40k and warhammer fantasy are to some degree, almost all of them don't even know age of sigmar exists. The only people who care for it at all are just tabletop whales.

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>>559494793
>my sister knows what warhammer 40k is, even knows there is more than 1 warhammer

>>559494793
40k is a different beast, but sigmar has proven itself capable of attracting enough little timmies to try out the game as to reverse the course of warhammer fantasy at its tail end in terms of sales.
Total war (and vermintide) made warhammer fantasy explode, not the other way around. Before those two it was a lot smaller than aos is now.

>>559495006
She went to a store and bought models from both for me as a present, I painted a couple of them with her.

>>559491739
You do realize GW was not even the first to use the term Eldar for elves, right?
Literally Tolkien used that name first for some of his elve races.
Even then calling Space Elves Eldar when they are elves in space makes more sense than having Ogres and calling them Ogors just because you need a legally distinct name to trademark.
>>559492574
>Attract the normies
Topkek. It's a tabletop game,ffs. You think normies will touch tabletop games with a pole in normal circumstances?
>>559495032
>Total war (and vermintide) made warhammer fantasy explode, not the other way around.
Similar argument can be made about 40k, how many videogames did it have throught the last two decades specially compared to fantasy?

Insane how /vg/ is so obsessed with brown guys. If anons aren't obsessing over flips and BRs it's indians. You don't see this weird obsession in other boards nearly as often.

>>559494793
everyone in the west can relate to this story, the problem here is that you're talking to a bangladeshi that runs a bot farm

>>559495413
Normies in this case is relative anon. 40k and sigmar players are normies compared to people playing kings of war or turnip28 or whatever. Warhammer in general has exploded over the last decade, the new people have to come from somewhere.
>Similar argument can be made about 40k
Well yeah I'm glad we're in agreement that good vidya will do wonders for a tabletop game's popularity.

>>559495483
You absolutely do see it, It's not an obsession so much as part of a broader issue of all trust in the internet being dead due to the extremly high % of bots and brownoids on every site

>>559496164
You're a newfag if you think it was different before. People just suck when they're protected by anonymity. Before blaming brown people it was blaming the Chinese. Before that, Russians, Jews, Brazilians, Mexicans, nigerians. Literally any group CIA want you to hate at this moment.

>>559419898
Do a bit of search of the term izzat and jugaad online. And also about the indian fascination with the juggernaut (moving land temples). This is not a joke.

>>559495721
>that good vidya will do wonders for a tabletop game's popularity
Neh, Corona just ubercharged nerd hobbies. DnD, card games, miniature war games. They're all at their peaks now

WARLOCK ENGINEER

Is it possible to backport WH2 or WH3 content to WH1 directly?

total hams 3? warhams 3? 3hams? ham? twwh3?
which do you guys prefer?

>>559496297
you dont need the cia to hate any of those groups, saar, just looking at them plainly is more than enough

>>559497585
It definitely helped, but gw was already massively on the upswing compared to pre 2015 times. Also for fantasy specifically the impact of total war is hard to overstate. Space marine 2 did something similar for 40k in recent years, though not nearly on the same scale because 40k was already doing well whereas fantasy was dead.

Funny how even /gsg/ had more Intelligence than blindly trusting ebin /pol/ infocharts and grifters. Guess the difference was them being mostly east Europeans so they had the basic critical thinking retained, while this general is mostly west and south Europeans drunk on soi milk.

>>559419898
indian guy made music video of him walking away as a train narrowly passes by him
other indians want to seem cool and try to copy it
indians are fucking stupid so they don't understand that the train extends past the tracks and die
additionally, indians, being so stupid, hang onto the outside of trains to scam free travel then fall off and die
Combine these things with the fact that indians used to let themselves be crushed by giant mobile temples because they thought the holiness would give them a better roll for their next life and the memes make themselves

>>559505949
>the fact that indians used to let themselves be crushed by giant mobile temples because they thought the holiness would give them a better roll for their next life
I was told this was a myth then I discovered primary sources that stated otherwise.
It's no Irish need apply all over again.

>>559507069
Nah bro it was just those evil british colonizers making up random bullshit
like the murder cult that pretends to be roadside travelers is just a racist invention despite the fact that the indian government itself had a department dedicated to removing the thugees before the british even took over
"The more one learns about india the more one wants to vomit" but trying to tell people completely factual information about the 3rd world and its behaviors is like trying to tell them lovecraftian horrors are real, they simply will not believe it without seeing

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Can you people stop be such dipshits with the leaders of the Total War community?
First, you bullied Legend into retiring. Now, you idiots are also pissing off Costin that is lowkey treatening to walk out too, of we arent united in the anti-CA war

>>559508798
What is this schizo babbling about?

>>559508798
who?

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>pre-alpha gameplay
>already has better pathfinding than Slophammer ever had
Its over for Slophammer sissies

>>559508798
bro legend is on a break so you have to post another lolcow?

>>559508798
literally who?

We will never be free of shilltuber/vtumor cancer, will we? Fucking grim, grave even.

>>559508798
Why are so many Total War youtubers mentally unstable narcissists?

>>559512540
Same reason military officers all fashion themselves as the next napoleon and try to appear deep

>>559512982
Yikes they must have like no interest from CCs besides secondary fantasois

Hey, let me remind this dead general that Armoured Kossars are a tier 2 unit that can:
Hold the line
Inflict respectable damage against melee enemies
Shoot people

They are just like regular Kossars... but with more armour!

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>>559509572
I'll take the bait.
Us Warhammer players won't even think about touching medieval 3, it's not Warhammer, simple as.
Why would we care about what a non warhammer game has?
I mean.. 3 kingdoms I think had total wall destruction and all that while in Warhammer only sections break. Nobody cares tho. We play Warhammer3.

>>559512982
Thats kinda…. Desperate looking.
Considering they give free early access to any spic or jeet youtuber with 200 subs.

>>559512982
>Legend's gone
>Macedon is now a Fortnite streamer
>Lionheart is Legend's successor
>Carthage is gone
>Volound is gone(?)
>Turin doesn't care for singleplayer
All they have is Cummies, Grudges and Fagtek. Oh and Damneders I guess but who gives a fuck about top 10 slop.

>>559515130
Even turin is doing a lot less TW lately and desperately branching to other rts’s hoping anything sticks.
I think TW and espeically Warhammer TW is just tired and done at this point. Endtimes really is the finale.
I used to think that with dread, now I just accept it as a part of life and death. It had a good run.

>>559508798
What the fuck is this whiny little gopnik crying about this time?

>>559508798
kek, why's he schizoing out?

>>559515130
don't you dare talk about /ourguy/ damneders like that

>>559508798
This spaz?
He always has shit takes.

>>559515130
Out of those 3 Grudges is decent, the other two are cringy faggots.
>Volound is gone
He has been 'gone' since Rome 2 the only content he made since Rome 2 was shitting on 'nu-total war', not a creator CA wants to have kek

Old thing good new thing bad

>>559522572
Yes

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>>559522572
based

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Just tried to play Bretonnia after a long time and I had to stop because an immense wave of sadness overwhelmed me, I genuinely am having suicidal thoughts right now and I feel so emotionally flattened I just want to lie on bed and die. How can a faction be such fucking garbage? How? Why is this allowed? How can they ignore one of the most classic and important factions like that? Everything about them is trash and completely outdated. And yet it is so fun to just charge back and forth with some of their cav, especially at the beginning of the campaign when you get grail knights with the Fay and you are facing trashy greenskins, if only they got a bit of love from those greedy animals at CA.

>>559526981
You will buy furry indian dlc and you will like it.

>>559508798
>calls himself a "deep learned person"
>grammar mistakes out the ass
>can't even spell the word "title"
I'm not buying it.

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Yikes.

>>559423818
>>559414932
I thought this was a reference to jews.

>>559423257
Even betterino is that Araby and Norse Dwarfs, which are the factions that run elephants nad mammoths, would be microfactions for Bretonnia and DWrafs and easy to implement. Easier, in fact, than making new tiger things for Cathay.

>>559418045
I assume everyone already told you but the poojeets who live there worship things like Tigermen as lesser divinities and are known as a land of a thousand gods, with even chaos entities having temples alongside mundane gods.

>>559419898
>Neutral explanation, no /pol/seethe
You're a timetraveler from 2016 lmao or the biggest npc, it is impossible to understand india without /pol/ and even nromalfags hate them now.

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>>559531123
SEXO!!

>>559532592
The other anons did it just fine

>>559526981
The problem is that 'love' is correlated with new units, so that would be something like Beloved Sons who ride on hippocorns and use magic and have the ethereal ability.

>>559532775
India can stop being closely linked with /pol/ when everything horrible about them stops being 500% true and normalfags stop hating on jeets for being the worst thing to happen to countries like canada, Singapore, Japan and the UK ever. And that's not understating it, every country with significant indian immigrants now has their social media full of people complaining about them smelling like shit and being rapey a nd scammy. It's mainstream and it's reality.

>>559531123
Who are the A-team for rape in the old world; Slanneshi Norscans, Fimir, or Beastmen?

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>>559440117
You would be correct, it's probably an engine compensation for artillery and line of sight issues

>>559534863
I would say Fimir just because it's their sole means of reproduction, but I don't think there's enough of them to outdo the sheer scale of rape that the other two do. I'd put Beastmen on top just because of their numbers and the fact that they're a constant threat to the Empire and the Old World in general while Norscans only go raiding when it's the right season for it.

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>>559531231
"the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals ever" is 100% Trump

>>559414932
The golden hat a reference to the Chorf forum that unofficially supplied a lot of the inspiration behind the DLC, to the point that I think some were looped in as a ‘screen-test’ crowd to see if the feel of Chorfs was done justice.

Fan acknowledgement, pretty based.

I don't understand how to play N'kari

>>559526981
What new stuff do you want from Bretonnia in terms of new units, faction mechanics etc?

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Got a windows XP retro computer set up for old games and nostalgia, and I happened to find a demo CD with Rome total war
Crazy that this could run on a Pentium 3 and even on Win98

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In the Total War Shogun games can you play as a faction led by the monkey who built a fort in just one night?

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>>559539526
>I would say Fimir just because it's their sole means of reproduction

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Who will be the next Legend!

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>Just tried to play Bretonnia after a long time and I had to stop because an immense wave of sadness overwhelmed me
>I genuinely am having suicidal thoughts right now and I feel so emotionally flattened I just want to lie on bed and die.
>A videogame faction is out of date, therefore I'm thinking about unironically killing myself.

Part of me hopes you do anon. When I feel that a faction is underpowered I stop playing at absolute worst, but most of the time I just keep playing. I don't want a Bretonnia rework because of churls like (you) and your incessant need to baby the game down.

Fuck your gay, men in tights, elite ranged units. bows are dishonorable in bretonnia
Fuck your elite melee infantry knights shouldn't have to walk anywhere like p*asants whom you should have buffed out the ass.
Fuck your cheap units. You shouldn't be knight spamming in the first place.
Fuck your magical melee infantry I have magical melee cav.
Fuck your need for bullshit mechanics that plague this entire game since prophet and warlock. I will not bow to your lack of skill.

And most of all, fuck your whining, get gud.

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>>559559150
>elite ranged units
>elite melee infantry knights
>elite melee infantry knights
>overpowered bullshit mechanics
Bretonnia is probably getting all of these in the rework and lose every drop of SOVL it has.

>>559444057
fucking hell every time i come to this thread theres a really, really bad post like this one

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>>559562895
>>559559150
>elite ranged units
Squires (bows)
>elite melee infantry knights
Foot Knights
>elite melee infantry knights
Hermit Knights
>overpowered bullshit mechanics
Uhh ... Warbands / Knights upgrade ?

>>559444057
There should be a magic system in med 3 but it should be as realistic as possible.

>Most of it's just technology and science, but is deemed witchcraft by retarded peasants.
>Extremely low chance of divine intervention if and only if you are pious and heroic. So rare you think the Lord himself saved your campaign.
>Far more common but far more costly underground occult dealings that give temporary buffs but curse you in the long run. Will have to kill your virgin daughters for it.

You know. Just like real life.

I'd support faith abilities on the campaign map, but a battle magic system is retarded. Real life is a low fantasy setting AT BEST.

>>559562895
>elite ranged units
It'd be ok if they had a slightly higher-tier ranged unit; not necessarily tier 5, just higher tier than peasant bowmen.

>elite melee infantry knights
I don't think it would spoil Bretonnia's theme if they had foot knights. It would make other types interesting playstyles possible.
imo foot knights should have some kind of special buffs for foot squires in particular if they are nearby, that way it would encourage players to bring both instead of just foot knights.

>overpowered bullshit mechanics
Definitely hope they don't get anything OP.

>>559566806
I'm thinking more in line of Merlin LH for England and holy magic for the Pope LL. And witchcraft (similar to Grom's pot) for pagans.

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>>559512982
Why, they only need one

>>559569548
I feel like the only reason he isn't a convicted sexual predator is because he's never been left alone in a room with a girl before.

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>>559569519
If they make Merlin and his power to turn hot kings into futas to breed even hotter incest homonculi, I'll consider playing medieval3.

>>559569548
Ok, what the fuck game was being streamed for this kind of reaction?

>>559569548
holy YIKES

>>559570965
He's simping over a vtuber model.

>>559571883
I see. Which vtuber?

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CAbros... the cheaters are making us look bad again...

>>559572140
Don't know.

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>>559404220
>Plate armour of the era was designed for use on horseback and was too heavy and restrictive for marching on foot.
No the fuck it wasn't, plate armour was about as heavy as modern soldier kit actually lighter in some cases, for example American kit in Afghanistan was heavier than the average plate armour and that weight was better distributed over the body
What it was, was REALLY expensive. Too expensive to give to foot soldiers, and by the time it might have become somewhat more economically feasible gunpowder had evolved to the point that full plate armour was ineffective, so people mostly just went with cuirass and helmets

>>559569548
He is anti-40k.

>>559571883
Buffpup?

>>559569548
He really is /our/guy

>>559572768
He isn't anti anything CA releases

>>559526981
>I genuinely am having suicidal thoughts right now and I feel so emotionally flattened I just want to lie on bed and die
If you're having suicidal thoughts over a Total War faction of all things I don't think anything anyone here says is really going to help or harm you
You can say "give me a Bret update or I'll kms" but at that point you're probably just going to do it anyway

>>559573061
That's why he says "I'll try it when it comes out, but I probably won't play it" and not "40k is CHUD!".

why do you people obsess over ecelebs so much

Magic was mostly an early modern phenomenon, not a lot of it around in the middle ages.

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Kinda sad we wont have anything except orks to fight when 40k releases. Really think they should have gone for a 5th faction like Chaos or Nids

>>559575259
Exactly why I can't get hype for that game. I don't wanna fight retarded orks all day long and I don't care for these boring ass human factions so I'll probably just play one campaign of screeching lesbians and then go back to warhammer3.
Not being able to map paint also sucks ass. That hole talk about we can't just flatten the galaxy makes my dick so soft.

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>>559575259
The poiinty eared xenos horrificus?

>>559577037
Why does every 40k fan do that meme about killing eldar. Those are space high elves, they are allies.

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>>559577037
Eldar are friends

>>559575259
Eldar and orks as the choice is just so bone headed to me. Unless they use the IG to represent lost and the damned or there's some epidemic of secessionism, that's one faction you shouldn't regularly be fighting. You sure as shit should never be fighting space marines but once in a blue moon, so it's just eldar and orks.

To me it's like if WH1 was on release:
>Bretonnia
>Wood elves
>Orks
>Dwarves

GRAIL ARCHERS!

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>>559577294
>>559577295
>allies
>friends
Would a friend or an ally send Orks to Armageddon?

>>559580471
I don't understand the question

I really like the inspiring speeches archaon gives before his quest battles but I can't take him seriously at all it's so fucking funny seeing the cinematic camera pan over to him sitting on that stupid tiny horse

Did I get it right that in Aislinn campaign I should only take token settlements not the whole provinces?

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>>559577037
>>559580471
Nigger

>>559582968
Best settlements to take are capitals with ports

>>559577294
The relationship between eldar and the imperium is infinitely more antagonistic than the relationship between the empire and high elves. They're absolutely not friends.
They're one of the less hostile xenos by the imperium's estimate but that still puts them at a 50/50 chance they'll shoot eldar on sight depending on the commander of the particular encounter.

>>559582968
take whole provinces and give them to other elves
focus on ones with trade goods because you can build warehouses in them which give you tons of elven trade
for your colonies your priorities should be to focus on elven colonies that are province capitals, then world ports like marianburg or bordeleaux, then on none-capital elven ports
always have at least one spare open colony slot or failing that an elven port that isn't high enough level to give you a free colony slot yet

>>559583973
>The relationship between eldar and the imperium is infinitely more antagonistic than the relationship between the empire and high elves.
Yeah because Imperium isn't an Empire it's space skaven. And Eldar are lame in general.
>They're absolutely not friends.
Yeah they are imperium's cumdumps

>>559509572
Game name?

>>559586563
MED 3

midieval 3

>>559584205
>Empire it's space skaven
Redditor meme.
The space humans are equivalent to the fantasy humans.

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>>559588501
>The space humans are equivalent to the fantasy humans.
Yeah humans such as
>Neoth
>Erda
>Sigillite
>primarchs

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>>559588906
Are they really forcing atheism to combat chaos? That's not how that works..

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>>559424543
they could just do this
chorfs and dorfs definitely could anyways

>They are keeping the 20 unit cap for Medieval 3.
It's over.

>>559588906
He's the "god emperor of mankind", not "god emperor of skavenkind".

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>>559489431
>Calling space elves Eldar
this is no longer the case in 40kek since we got aeldar and drukhari for ip reasons aswell
i do agree that smegmar total war never ever though

>>559589980
It’s what they tried during the Great Crusade. As you might imagine, it didnt work very well.
Ever since the Horus Heresy the Imperium began worshipping the god-emperor of course. And this actually seems to work pretty well since all that concentrated belief empowers him in the warp.

>>559589980
Older lore inconsistently indicated the gods were heavily empowered by belief in them or willingly engaging in acts that feed them. That's kind of why people invoke them in rituals in the first place, that's why slaanesh didn't exist until the eldar gooned too hard.

I want Medieval 3 to be worse than Warhammer 3
I don't want the histfags to win

>>559590848
>He's the "god emperor of mankind",
Yet "humans" in his empire
- technically not a humans anymore (proved by genetical screening durring Great Crusade)
- live like skaven, unlike humans of The Empire

yeah but is the god emperor actually alive or dead

>>559591040
>And this actually seems to work pretty well since all that concentrated belief empowers him in the warp.
Only for Emperor. Not mankind

>>559591435
>technically not a humans
They're humans.
>live like skaven, unlike humans of The Empire
Just as squalid slums are not universal living conditions in the empire, hive city slums aren't universal living conditions in the imperium.
You will never find skaven living in harmony in a picturesque ranch on an emerald green land of plenty, you can find humans living like that in the imperium.

>>559591582
His physical body is constantly on the verge of death and his spirit, fed by a lot of sacrificial psykers every day, seems to do most of the work psychicly preventing his body from fully expiring.

>>559591650
>They're humans.
They aren't And they even ruled by inhumans.
>Just as squalid slums are not universal living conditions in the empire, hive city slums aren't universal living conditions in the imperium.
Average lifespan on paradise planet is 35 years.
>you can find humans living like that in the imperium.
No you cannot. This is why Astra Millitarum looks miserable like Russian conscripts.

>>559591619
It works very well for mankind because the imperium effectively ceases to exist overnight if the light of the astronomican that the emperor produces ever goes out.

>>559591865
>It works very well for mankind
It doesn't since Emperor doesn't give a damn about humanity beyond his need to fed on psykers

>>559591650
The vast majority of humans live on hive worlds, one spire in Necromunda holds a population of multiple feudal knight worlds.

>>559591650
>you can find humans living like that in the imperium.
Yeah in Tau septs.

>>559591040
>>559591151
>willingly engaging in acts that feed them
That's why I said that can't work cause like.. a soldier shedding blood, even if he kills demons or nids, will feed khorne. I mean they are all "yeah, let's kill for emperor, bla". And slaanesh is usually seen as the strongest cause nearly everything feeds that fucker.

>>559591792
>They aren't
They are, 40k humans on average are physically identical to real life humans.
>Average lifespan on paradise planet is 35 years
Poor living conditions are not universal.
>No you cannot.
Yes, you can. The imperium is almost the entire galaxy and it's heavily decentralized. On at least one planet in that mass you will find people living generally pleasant, uneventful lives comparable to our own.

>>559591958
>Emperor doesn't give a damn about humanity beyond his need to fed on psykers
Irrelevant, him being alive keeps the astronomican shining and the imperium functioning.
If the astronomican went out most of humanity would die relatively quickly.

>>559591792
>Astra Millitarum
cringe

>>559592176
>Poor living conditions are not universal.
>Yes, you can.
>To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be relearned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.
Literally opener for nearly every 40k book (wargame, ttrpg or BL)

>>559592303
>If the astronomican went out most of humanity would die relatively quickly.
Only imperial humanity.

can the Aeldari be born with down syndrome?

>>559592481
>40k introductory blurb
Hyperbole that is meant to convey the focus of the setting. Looking beyond that, there are many worlds that go hundreds or thousands of years without seeing invasion or catastrophic civil conflict.
>Only imperial humanity.
That is the overwhelming majority of humanity that exists. By a lot.

>>559592650
They all born with it

>>559592662
>Hyperbole
According to who? Your coping mechanism?
>there are many worlds that go hundreds or thousands of years without seeing invasion or catastrophic civil conflict.
Yep they live miserably because that's what Imperium is.
>That is the overwhelming majority of humanity that exists. By a lot.
Well they chose it.

>>559592662
>Hyperbole that is meant to convey the focus of the setting. Looking beyond that, there are many worlds that go hundreds or thousands of years without seeing invasion or catastrophic civil conflict.
Anon, you are talking to one of those retards that takes everything in le books as gospel and cant comprehend the fact that "there is only war" is a marketing slogan for GW.
Very likely a reddi/tg/oy

>>559592869
Is there any chance you are a russian?

>>559592856
>According to who? Your coping mechanism?
>there is only war
>look inside
>there are other things

>>559592934
>muh russian boogeyman
redditus...

>>559592967
>>there are other things
Such as..?

>>559592992
It was simple curiousity, no need to be so angry ivan. Now go into the trench.

>>559593042
>Such as..?
holy kek the absolute state

>>559593086
>no arguments
Okay lol

Reminder that if you are a good person in the Imperium you will be hunted down and sacrificed to consecrate a single round of ammunition for Grey Knights.

>>559593129
not the guy youre arguing with sweetie

>>559593042
Such as worlds that aren't in an active state of war? Worlds that aren't being invaded by anyone at the moment? Worlds that aren't being torn apart by civil war at the time? What do you mean?
Do you think literally every planet in the imperium is constantly experiencing some violent conflict for the setting's entire history?

>>559593160
A good person wouldn't mind

>>559593160
wat
t. 40k lorelet

>>559593292
There's an entire short story about it, basically some priests have the side job of kidnapping good people and sacrificing them to consecrate rounds for GK's. The protagonist in the story broke free and tried to threaten the priests with a stolen weapon but they said that his wife would be killed if he did anything so he volunteered to have his throat slit in the end.

>>559593205
>Such as worlds that aren't in an active state of war? Worlds that aren't being invaded by anyone at the moment? Worlds that aren't being torn apart by civil war at the time?
Even without active state of war Imperial worlds are totalitarian dystopia. If you aren;t fighting in war you are working yourself to death for protein bars made out of refined corpses.
Even canonically nicest planet to live Macragge lifespan doesn't reach 40 years.

>>559593604
Cruelest and most brutal regime imaginable means that Imperium is worse than Somalia and Best Korea. A few people in those places do live well and given Imperium's population you still get billions of happy richfags.

>>559593604
>Even canonically nicest planet to live Macragge lifespan doesn't reach 40 years.
Canonically = one marvel comic btw

>>559593671
Sure nobles, high clerics etc
Nothing about average Joe.

>>559593859
Average joe can subsist on corpse starch and worship the Emperor. With a bit of luck his son becomes a gangbanger at the age of 8 and gets recruited by Space Marines.

>>559593604
>Even without active state of war Imperial worlds are totalitarian dystopia. If you aren;t fighting in war you are working yourself to death for protein bars made out of refined corpses
They are not, the imperium is decentralized and most of them are locally governed and loosely overseen by higher imperial authorities.
There's a world that's just people herding weird space elephants across green fields for their entire lives. They export whatever they don't need and don't see major conflict from within or without their planetary societies.
Your perception of the imperium is that of a stereotype applied to millions of worlds and it's simply not accurate.

>>559592481
>>559593604
theres a million imperial worlds in the galaxy, on average only 100 planets at most are being besieged each year, and some of them take years to resolve, thats literally 0.01%, if even, the average imperial is more likely to die to a mugging by a ganger or a rad leak in the lower levels than some daemonic or xeno invasion

>>559593838
And it's still canon.
Deal with it alt kek

>>559594146
>40k
>canon
kekkeroni

>>559594084
Yeah but the numbers are 'tarded in 40k. All the numbers are 'tarded.

>>559594006
>They are not,
[citation needed]
>, the imperium is decentralized and most of them are locally governed and loosely overseen by higher imperial authorities.
And..? They still ruled either by local nobles or by administratum clerics, and they still need to pay tithe.

>>559594084
>the average imperial is more likely to die to a mugging by a ganger or a rad leak in the lower levels than some daemonic or xeno invasion
That's exactly my point. Live under Imperium's regime is equally miserable in war or peacetime

>>559594261
This is what GW itself says
>There are no goodies in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. None. Especially not the Imperium of Man. Its numberless legions of soldiers and zealots bludgeon their way across the galaxy, delivering death to anyone and anything that doesn’t adhere to their blinkered view of purity. Almost every man and woman toils in misery either on the battlefield – where survival is measured in hours – or in the countless manufactorums and hive slums that fuel the Imperial war machine. All of this in slavish servitude to the living corpse of a God-Emperor whose commandments are at best only half-remembered, twisted by time and the fallibility of Humanity. Warhammer 40,000 isn’t just grimdark. It’s the grimmest, darkest. The Imperium of Man stands as a cautionary tale of what could happen should the very worst of Humanity’s lust for power and extreme, unyielding xenophobia set in.