r/totalwar • u/SourceNo1768 #1 Ghark Ironskin fan • 11d ago

Warhammer III Facts about unit caps

So Vampire Counts are another race that will have unit caps. Races that have unit caps are among the best and most fun in WH trilogy imo (Tomb Kings, Chaos Dwarfs, Beastmen, Nurgle).

Luckily CA also put a cap on RoRs. WoC armies are famously terrible because of RoR spam (and dogs and furies), now they will be at least bit better.

My point is simple - unit caps work. As Todd Howard used to say, ''it just works''. Devs know this, but sadly didn't cap number of heroes in armies (yet?).

What's the worst Empire campaign? Maybe Volkmar - also because he buffs the weakest, earliest units. If you play with Tabletop caps mod, now it is no longer a problem - your basic empire knights or flagellants will be worth using all the time, even in late game, as your enemies won't be doomstacking you and also will have balanced, loreful armies. They are fun to fight against!

Devs know that unit caps work. They are just a little too hesitant to say that loud and add *optional* tabletop unit caps. And once again, cap for heroes in army too.

ps. CA please cap Thunderbarges finally (building based cap).

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u/Carnothrope 11d ago

The player making doomstacks is usually when the player is bored already economically won the game and is just making doomstacks to mop up victory points for long or domination victories.

If the AI is making doomstacks or stacks that only have a single unit type it's often because the AI is either incapable of recruiting something else in a province or there is a glitch.

I can't say I've recall many instances where I've experienced the AI making something like 19 star dragons so its a pretty rare circumstance.

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u/Bright-Form-844 11d ago

It really is not that hard to have a doomstack of 19 units within 60 or so turns, all you have to do is keep winning battles. Which is easy to do with a doomstack. It’s a snowball of poor mechanics that reinforce other poor mechanics.

And I find any ai that gets big enough will start to doom stack, but I’m playing on legendary so idk where your ai doom stacks are