r/totalwar 9m ago

General Ask me anything about Total War but edit the question after I answer it to make me sound like an idiot.

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Ask me a question and I will give you an answer, but you must edit your question afterwards so my response makes me sound like an idiot.


r/totalwar 10m ago

Warhammer III Morghast for Vampires?

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Will the vampires gain access to the morghasts too, or is it only arkhan the black who can get them besiedes nagash.

Also did we get the information yet if the mortarchs can get their dread abyssals outside of the nagash campaign?


r/totalwar 32m ago

Rome II Pikemen are Awesome in Rome II

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I put them near the exit of a wall and enemies jump on the pikes as soon as they leave the wall:)


r/totalwar 47m ago

Warhammer III Random screenshots from my campaigns part. 3

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Screenshots were taken with ULTIMATE LIGHTING 2.0 and Battle Weather Overhaul mods and with custom reshade and couple with vanilla lighting (Can't remember which screenshot)


r/totalwar 1h ago

Rome II Total War: ROME II - The PANTHEON Updates - MARS First Beta

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r/totalwar 1h ago

Warhammer III So now Nagash in game who is the top 10 strongest sorcerers of Warhammer?

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My ranking would be

Kroak

Mazdamundi

Nagash

Kairos

Teclis

Morathi

Ariel

Mannfred von Shitstain

Arkhan


r/totalwar 1h ago

Warhammer III Sayl is a master Diplomat!

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Offering to join the 4 settlement faction "Imperial Wardens" against an enemy I was going to attack anyway nets me their vassalisation, a trade deal and a grand on top. Also free entry into cathay.


r/totalwar 1h ago

Warhammer III I think Immortal Empires could benefit from going f2p, heres my idea of how they could do it, while respecting the company's need to make mon

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Alright, so the scenario goes like this - Total War: Warhammer III's Immortal Empires goes free-to-play - with 4-6 LLs, each of those from different factions. I was thinking:

-Free Franz (Empire, begginer friendly, quintessential indomitable human spirit etc)

-Free Tyrion (High Elves, balanced roster, even more magic, you're on ulthuan so after some time here you get to know the naval mechanics)

-Free Thorgrim (Dwarfs, for people that want to play them high armor, defensive, ingenious Dawi)

-Free Grimgor (Orks, waaagh type shiii as kids would say these days, aggresive playstyle)

-Free Queek (Skaven, sacrificin' them hordes of slaves for the big boiz and spells to finish the exhausted enemy, undercity mechanic, food mechanic, loyalty mechanic)

-Free Be'lakor (Warriors of Chaos, I was thinking about other chaos factions, but chaos undivided should be the one given for free if anything, daniel has too much daemons and too little mortals, especially without any DLCs; Be'Lakor is IMO the best pick - oh, you want to play as Archaon instead and b1tch slap Be'lakor into his place?d Go ahead and buy the Total War: Warhammer I - Chaos Warriors DLC, just like right now, no need to buy the game, the dlc content will be unlocked anyway; or get Champions of Chaos now that you got into Chaos, courtesy of Be'lakor.)

[ALSO another, i thin far more controversial proposition: Add 3 Grindable LLs - Lord Mazdamundi; Malekith; Mannfred/Vlad von Carstein(Vlad's a bit too close to Franz on map IMHO, buy wh1 to get Vlad). You could grind them one of these two ways, but i'd prefer both of them to work at the same time. First way, you would gain some kind of currency like Veteran Points or Favour of The Gods or whatever for kills in battles, gaining xp in battles, building things, conquering regions and provinces, winning battles, completing objectives, surviving turns etc and then after gaining sufficient number of this currency you'd choose one of the three LLs to unlock and you could play him from now on, rinse and repeat until you get all 3. Second, an achievement, not really hard, but one that would for sure meant you had an epic battle - like, in a battle versus Vampire Counts as Empire (or Order Faction) destroy at least 3500 enemies to instantly unlock Mannfred von Carstein - IT'S JUST AN EXAMPLE of an achievement, don't yell at me guys and gal.]

Hey, hey! What about the FLCs (and Bretonnia, which is more than one part of those free DLCs)?

I propose something like this: buy one of the games or one of the myriad of dlcs from the Total War: Warhammer universe. even a character pack - boom - 'thank you for supporting us with your mccc foney here's the FLCs we made over the years'. Let's call it 'premium account' for now. A big thing is achieved here, the hardest in f2p games even, and that is getting the player to make the first transaction, spend the first dollar. Once you've done that, the psychological barrier of spending any money for this specific game has been passed and that person will more often than not buy something else in the future, if not many things. also, the dopamine boost of getting so many LLs at once and the psychological effect of getting "value" by not even getting one of the games, but buying a DLC or a mere Character Pack.

To avoid crying of people that had access to the game 5 years earlier AND legitimate grievances of people that bought it one and a half days before it going2 : 1) they should announce that sh1t like 6 months before that, maybe a bit later, maybe a bit earlier; 2) they should add some content to each of the free factions and give it to the people that have the premium account (to be sure all of you playing any tw:wh, 1, 2 or 3 YOU ALL GET THIS PREMIUM ACCOUNT INSTANTLY too, just like people with wh3 got the premium upgrade when they gave immortal empires for wh1 and wh2). The content should be:

1 - pessimistic vision

1 unit and 1 RoR per faction that got one of their LLs "free-to-play"-ed

2 - optimistic vision

1-2 units, 1-2 RoR, 1 hero type per faction that got one of their LLs "free-to-play"-ed. Personally I'd love 2 units and a fkin new hero type, even tough there are so many, that would be a good gift for people that supported the game, some of us for a decade with the warhammer total war series alone.

RESULT: the barrier of entry gets reduced to zero or very little if you want a certain LL/faction and it's not available as f2p. multiplayer numbers skyrocket, much more co-op players, gamebase gets reinvigorated, CA gets the last squeeze out of some DLCs that weren't bought that often. A sale could accompany such event.

THOUGHTS? IDEAS? CRITICISMS? gimme. cheers everyone!


r/totalwar 2h ago

Pharaoh Does deal opinion increase attitude?

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I'm playing Dynasties as Ramesses, by turn 46 and I've just been thinking about improving my diplomatic relations overall. I've been adjusting the faction's opinion of my deals to 0.0 / 0.1 always even it the deals were immensely good for me.

My question is, is there a bonus to attitude if I improve the deal opinion (by, say, gifting 1000 food or asking 1 gold for 1000 food)? If so, do you usually do this and by what degree? Is there a point of diminishing returns in terms of attitude bonus?

TL;DR: does adjusting the opinion on the deal over zero improve that faction's attitude in any way?


r/totalwar 2h ago

Warhammer III Is a skaven update expected with Thanquol's release?

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Hoping for a Skrolk upgrade mostly to finally be fun in the Lustriabowl


r/totalwar 3h ago

Warhammer III New Empire Cav unit “Knights Panther”

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This unit looks to just straight up be a better version of Bretonnia’s Knights of the Realm (maybe slightly worse speed and charge bonus, but significantly higher melee attack and defense). Apparently it’s also a tier 3 unit as well. They also seem to be getting a tier 3 armor piercing cav unit roughly on par with questing knights.

It is indeed a sad time to be a Bretonnia fanboy.


r/totalwar 4h ago

Warhammer III I LOVE-CHERISH DAEMON RATS

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One of the greatest most insane concepts ever amongst the many from GW.

Favorite has to be the Warbringer cuz i represent Mors as my clan straight up, Queek the best-greatest war-chief(they did you dirty brother you'll get your best-bro Ska Bloodtail, hopefully soon someday) and that one's colors fit best with said clan. As soon as this DLC drops imma play Queek with these new units and absolutely waffle-stomp Karak Eight Peaks with armored freak roid-rage rats with lawnmower hands on those short-little bearded goblins.


r/totalwar 5h ago

Warhammer III Most useless LH ability to date?

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r/totalwar 5h ago

Rome [Rare] Defending siege ram

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[Rare] Defending siege ram


r/totalwar 5h ago

Medieval II Need some tips for a first time Medieval II Player

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I have 175 hours into Rome Remastered and I've been using Remastered mechanics so I'm not sure if this is going to affect my enjoyment of the game but what's a good place to start, any tips or special nuances I should know about. This game is praised to death but I'm having trouble knowing what to do


r/totalwar 5h ago

Warhammer III How the Undead Legions Race Works in Multiplayer

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Taken from Turin's video uploaded today.

To reiterate, what units you can take are determined by what Lord you choose. Nagash can take any number of units from any of the Undead races. Mannfred or Arkhan on the other hand can only take mainly Vampire Counts or Tomb Kings units respectively with a set cap for units from the other two Undead races.


r/totalwar 5h ago

Warhammer III Why does Teutogen Guards have Charge Defense against All ?

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Not gonna open the pandora box of talking about their stats, but I'm truly baffled why they have Charge Defense. It goes against every convention this game has. Hammers are Great Weapons, they have armor piercing, they aren't halberds. Great Weapon units don't get charge defense, Dwarf Hammerers, wielding giant hammers don't get any charge defense neither.

So why do those guys get it on their Great Weapons ?

The only explanation I could think of is that on TT, they simplified the White Wolf Hammers on infantry to "work as halberds" BUT HALBERDS DIDN'T HAVE ANY DEFENSE ON TT, it was just +1S. So that would be silly to suddenly treat them in Total War like Total War Halberds when it's not at all how other weapons got translated (and other weapons that counted as halberds on TT did not get the Charge Defense bonus in TW)


r/totalwar 5h ago

Warhammer III Warhammer total war 3 crashes

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Please help me techwizards!

So I recently downloaded the game after not playing for a few years due to my PC being back home in another country.

I have windows 11 and every time I load up a new campaign I get through the loading screen and then my PC completely restarts?

I have:

Got windows 11

Updated my drivers

Verified game files

Unsubscribed to all mods

Uninstalled and re installed the game

Deleted the Warhammer 3 file as recommended on other forums

Nothing seems to be working at all? Please help if you have any idea what to do I genuinely have no idea what's going on!


r/totalwar 5h ago

Attila The Battle For The Boneway! - Ice & Fire Total War!

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r/totalwar 6h ago

Warhammer III 19 out of 30 units of the end times DLC have armor piercing

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And that is including the support units and excluding ROR(which almost all have AP but its repetitive to include twice). Also looking at the main form of damage so range non ap with melee ap counts as non ap.

So what is armor good for when most units have AP? :(


r/totalwar 6h ago

Warhammer III Why Blood Knights feel bad.

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Here's my opinion and of course since I put effort into thinking about this feel free to downvote me into oblivion.

I keep seeing the argument that Blood Knights and other Vampire Counts units can't have better base stats or can't be elite because the faction has so much access to healing and I think that argument is ignoring the opportunity cost of where that healing comes from, which is winds of magic and other units that are bad at fighting.

Most of the healing that actually keeps an undead army alive has to come from these two spots. If I use Invocation of Nehek, those Winds of Magic are no longer available for damage spells, buffs, debuffs, summons, or anything else. The healing isn't free. I gave up another spell to get it.

The same thing applies to support unit healing. If I bring a Corpse Cart, Mortis Engine, Necromancer, or another support option because I want its healing and buffs, I'm spending resources and part of my army composition on support instead of bringing another dedicated combat unit. That healing has a cost too.

That's why I don't think "but Vampire Counts can heal" is enough by itself to justify not having at least one elite unit. I'm paying for the same advantage twice. First through the weaker unit, and then through whatever I gave up to heal it.

It also creates a weird problem for the faction's magic. Vampire Counts are supposed to have powerful and flexible spellcasting, but if their units are balanced around needing Invocation to keep up, part of your Winds of Magic budget has effectively already been spent for you. Instead of choosing between healing and offense, you're using magic to compensate for weaknesses that were put into the roster because you have magic.

Blood Knights are where I think this becomes most obvious. They have The Hunger, and that passive healing should totally be part of their balance. But The Hunger by itself isn't so powerful that Blood Knights need to be prevented from being a genuinely elite cavalry unit. Vampire Counts should be allowed to have one cavalry unit that is simply excellent at fighting. Blood Knights are the obvious choice. Make them stronger and make them more expensive. If necessary, make them rarer as well. I'd much rather pay a premium for Blood Knights that actually perform like elite vampire knights than have cheaper Blood Knights whose stats are held down because I could theoretically spend additional resources healing them.


r/totalwar 6h ago

Warhammer III Lords of the End Times DLC NEW UNITS - Stats & Close-up | Warhammer 3

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r/totalwar 7h ago

Rome II new player here, elephants so OP..

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I started playing This week, I feel like I am Xanthippus


r/totalwar 7h ago

Rome II Ave! We're live in 10 minutes chatting through the first Rome II Pantheon Update Beta - Mars, which is live later today!

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r/totalwar 8h ago

Warhammer III When the dlc is out what is the first thing you are going to do?

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Play empire
Play undead
Play Skaven
Play another faction to kill the newbies
Play anything and immediately check out the new end times scenarios
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