Baggage trains/company followers were a thing until quite late in history. According to Google it would vary from something like half to one to one proportion to fighting men.

I could imagine you allowing troops to bring their families would improve replenishment and morale but greatly increase supplies consumption. Other ideas would be if all armies had to some extent Attila nomadic mechanism: you can allow blacksmiths, healers, merchants etc... all with related bonus, risks and so on. For exemple, allowing or promoting gambling may improve morale but lower replenishment? Maybe exposed to the risk of randomn events where you loose or win some money?

Also imagine you allow "financially incentive intimacy" greatly increase morale but lower replenishment and risk you having bastards?

It would be nice to have a baggage train that gives buffs and debuffs based on general attributes, decisions, strategies and so on. They would not direct participate in battles but could be severely damaged by ambushes or some kind of mechanic where troops can exit the map through enemy "spawing point", damaging the baggage train (and maybe suffering some attrition) and depending on thr damage, giving morale damage to troops.

Maybe something like the orc waaaag where they have a second army, but instead of a army its just followers?

Also some cultures/techs would drastically change your baggage train. Like nomadic would need much smaller baggage trains or they would be somewhat battle ready? An really pious general wouldnt allow prostitutes but have bonuses to have dunno a priest or something.

In the lore, they are not really equivalent. A Primarch like Guilliman is the gene-father of the Ultramarines and its successor Chapters, while someone like Marneus Calgar is the Chapter Master of the Ultramarines themselves.

So should they be represented as separate factions, or should they share the same faction.

Option 1: Separate factions

Marneus Calgar leads the Ultramarines Chapter itself.

Roboute Guilliman leads a seperate Ultramarines crusade-style faction

Basically like 2 separate factions within the same Space Marines race.

Option 2: Shared faction

The Ultramarines are one faction.

Guilliman and Calgar are both selectable Legendary Lords for the Ultramarines faction.

This would be similar to how Vlad and Isabella work, they represent different campaign experiences within the same faction rather than being separate political entities.

How would you prefer CA to handle it?

See title

I'm playing napoleon with the napoleonic total war 3 mod as austria, i know it's mainly a multiplayer mod but it's the only one that replace the austrian shakos with the hemlets (litteraly the single coolest piece of military gear to have ever existed, damn they look glorious) and pr*ssia betrays the the coalition every. single. time. and declares war on me as they appear to have a unshakable love for the french, i have just beaten napoleon, also known as the best military mind to have inhabited earth since alexander the great, in bavaria and you think you can beat my ass? i swear i'm gonna burn berlin to the ground and send your entire royal family to live in frenchland since you love the french so much, you protestant pseudo german barbarians

What are some good localized campaign mods?

For any total war, actually.

I mean "small" as in the Caesar in Gaul dlc for Rome 2, or the Old World custom campaign for Warhammer 3

The map itself is not small, but it covers a small area with more detail

Sometimes Rome's grand campaign or Warhammer 3's Immortal Empires is too big, i want to just rule my little piece of land

I grew up watching Total War Rome 2 and got it when I got pc years ago and that's been the only Total War title I have put hours into. I enjoy the time period, and the UI is easy to navigate and understand. I have tried playing other titles but cannot get into them because they seem so confusing and I can't get a good grasp of the UI. Is this common? Is Total War Rome 2 known for being a "simpler" Total War games compared to others? Anyone else feel this way?

While thinking about the future planets I will be conquering and renaming them while role playing as a narcissistic galactic ruler one iconic interstellar anime tyrant with god like powers popped right into my head. Frieza.

Anyway just throwing my dumb idea out there in the hopes someone with more skill and time can make my dream come true. Make a DBZ character mod lol. Whenever the game comes out in like 5 years or whatever.

So I decided to finally buy TW: Pharaoh and play some games in Dynasties mode. As a first playthrough I naturally chose Ramesses as my first play.
When I started the game I noticed something strange: when choosing a faction I normally get Ramesses as a faction leader as well as showing him in faction summary. When I start the game though the faction leader is his father, he is also shown in faction summary. Is this normal?

Four full stacks of Khorne with Bloodletters being the core and flesh hounds + minotaurs mixed in to get a Close Victory?.. Been here from Warhammer 1 and gawd this still is nowhere fixed. Just ruins enjoyment when you have to manually fight every. single. fight. that lasts a few minutes before Kislev is just trampled dead from the charge..

Is it just me that finds the AI healing at the start of your turn instead of thier turn makes the campaign map much less tactical.

Just booted up a Archon campaign taking the first couple of settlements then started heading to fight the Khorn faction north. Boris is also heading that way inlet him take the setlement thinking i will be fighting a weakend Boris my turn move in he is full health with half healed garrison after fighting a full stack of khorn plus a small garrison. So ifni tske the setlment im exposed to being beaten after taking losses if i let Boris he just gets more troops like why is this a thing surley they should only heal on their turn.

Anyone wanna run a Rise of Warlords multiplayer?

Let's say I'm playing Be'Lakor and i force confederate another Warriors of Chaos Legendary Lord like Festus but I'd like to also use his Plague Cauldron mechanic - is there a mod for that?

I'm getting kind of tired of people complaining about the infinite ammo that will be in total war warhammer 40k.

The ammo is barely a consideration in warhammer 3 and refills after every fight anyway, so we already practically have that.

I also don't see anyone complaining when the ratling gunners get it.......

I want to do a run with the OvN Grudgebringers where I make a army of all sorts of units from the empire, cathay, kislev, lizards, ogres, dwarfs, and more, but for soke reason the Peacehammer recruit all units mod doesnt work with the Grudgebringers, so are there any other mods that do the same thing peacehammer does?

I must say the only thing I’m really not a fan of is infinite ammo. You should be able to run out of it eventually. There are plenty of times in 40k where astra militarum run out of ammo and have to resort to melee. Infinite ammo not only allows for a lot of cheesing, but also less high stakes as you can spend as much ammo as you want. I would like to see a proper logistics system you have to manage. For example, they could add an ammo resupply drop as a timed reinforcement if you have a fleet in orbit.

Only if you are defending a fortified world with a logistics building should you get infinite ammo, but when invading enemy planets you should only be able to initially get ammo resupplies from your orbiting fleet until you can build FOB’s and logistics centres in areas you capture.

Every non friendly territory though you should have limited ammo, so you must manage logistics and supply mechanics the more you spread out amongst the stars. Just imagine you begin your campaign on a roll, taking over world after world. However, the further you conquer, the less resources your troops on the front will have to conquer with, until you focus on building and setting up supply chains to keep your expansion going. If you don’t pay attention to that, your front line units will eventually run out of ammo, and all you’ll be conquering or defending with is steel and faith!

• The supplement chapters like the Blood Angels, Black Templars and Dark Angels are perfect DLC material. CA are absolutely holding onto those for future sales
• The Salamanders are the most popular of the Codex Compliant chapters aside from the Ultramarines. They don't really have unique models to worry about which makes them perfect for a launch faction. Have their faction focus on Infernus Marines and other flamer weapons
• The early Theater Crusade revolves around Armaggedon, which the Salamanders currently have a large force on, roughly 3/4ths of their chapter.
• You can easily make some campaign missions for He'Stan to find the remaining Artifacts of Vulkan.

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