Total War: Rule Britannia, literally.

[The Huskar Social Union]

The biggest siege battle I've had so far.

I disagree with the victory type though.

Well.... i can kind of see where its coming from like but yeah probably more of a Heroic victory. If they had say an extra 2k men or something then yeah Pyrrhic would probably fit the bill.

[Bloodshade]

IndyPride got his hands on the DLC and I thought Dread Saurians looked small for a second...until I saw the Carnosaur and Dragon Ogres next to them.

[Bloodshade]

The biggest siege battle I've had so far.

I disagree with the victory type though.

The game is kinda annoying when it comes to deciding whether a victory is heroic or pyrrhic. I guess losing two thirds of your force is still a lot to the game, despite the odds you faced. It expects you to not suffer a scratch for it to be considered a heroic victory and that can only happen with cheese tactics.

I think outcome decisions have gotten better in 3K. I've earned quite a lot of heroic victories from town defenses in my current Cao Cao campaign despite losing quite a few of my garrison troops each time.

[Impaled Nazarene]

I've been doing some thinking about Empire lately.
It was too ambitious for its mechanics and engine.
Large awkward provinces where a system like Three Kingdoms would have been better.
Failed attempt at focusing on colonialism when it was more convenient to just blob Europe.
No reasonable diplomacy, empty boring map, useless gift items,
Grand line battles that ended up boring because the ai can't manage itself and only cheats

The Ottomans got the shortest end of the stick. Being unable to make allies due to the Barbary Pirates being at war with nearly every faction. Being unable to secure the valuable province of Tunisia and the extra ports of the Barbary provinces. Imagine the Barbary pirates owning small slivers of land on the north african coast instead of letting all of north africa be food for spain or whoever ventures south first. The only way to secure the coast without warring a european state that takes a province first was to ally the Barbary pirates (which breaks the vassalage) but now that you're allied to them the opinions of all nations plummets meaning they won't negotiate with you unless their ai breaks or you give them all of the goodies. Endless war with Russia because they will re-declare every few turns if you make peace.

Though to be fair it does have two advantages to not being released now: It doesn't have day 1 DLC, and none of the factions were dlc. Thank fuck we avoided day 1 Russia DLC and waiting one year to pay $20 for the ability to play the Ottomans.

[Impaled Nazarene]

Won a campaign as Lu Bu. Was one hell of a challenge towards the end with former allies and vassals trying to back stab me. The Three Kingdoms in this one were Shu Han (Liu Bei), Ba (Shi Xie), and Lu Bu. Shocked to learn that not all leaders get their own kingdom name.

Liu Biao is still an asshole, maybe my next game will be him so i can spread the backstabbing and headaches to everyone else.

[Bloodshade]

Won a campaign as Lu Bu. Was one hell of a challenge towards the end with former allies and vassals trying to back stab me. The Three Kingdoms in this one were Shu Han (Liu Bei), Ba (Shi Xie), and Lu Bu. Shocked to learn that not all leaders get their own kingdom name.

Liu Biao is still an asshole, maybe my next game will be him so i can spread the backstabbing and headaches to everyone else.

Dong Zhuo's start is such a pain the ass. I remember doing well until like turn 60 when Liu Bei and his bros just marched all the way to Chang'an and took it while I was trying to get repel Zheng Jiang and Yuan Shu.

Lu Bu is worthy enough to have his name used as a kingdom.

If you haven't tried it yet, do a Ma Teng campaign! His start position is pretty cozy and he isn't universally hated by everyone like Dong. Ma Chao and his Qiang units are fun to use and if you're feeling cheesy, you can use the free horse upkeep exploit that TheSpiffingBrit found out about.

[Bloodshade]

I KNEW IT

Gotrek and Felix are coming to WH2! Brian Blessed is going to be the voice of Gotrek too! My life is complete.

[Impaled Nazarene]

Won a campaign as Lu Bu. Was one hell of a challenge towards the end with former allies and vassals trying to back stab me. The Three Kingdoms in this one were Shu Han (Liu Bei), Ba (Shi Xie), and Lu Bu. Shocked to learn that not all leaders get their own kingdom name.

Liu Biao is still an asshole, maybe my next game will be him so i can spread the backstabbing and headaches to everyone else.

Dong Zhuo's start is such a pain the ass. I remember doing well until like turn 60 when Liu Bei and his bros just marched all the way to Chang'an and took it while I was trying to get repel Zheng Jiang and Yuan Shu.

Lu Bu is worthy enough to have his name used as a kingdom.

If you haven't tried it yet, do a Ma Teng campaign! His start position is pretty cozy and he isn't universally hated by everyone like Dong. Ma Chao and his Qiang units are fun to use and if you're feeling cheesy, you can use the free horse upkeep exploit that TheSpiffingBrit found out about.

Oh god, thespiffingbrit. If there were ever a channel that needed a tl;dw its him. I get he's English but he needs to calm down with the stereotypical British memes they take up excessive amounts of time in some videos.
I tried Ma Teng once to try and do the snipe Lu Bu and Dong Zhou thing. I either suck that much or it was patched out. I should try him again but I'll do some more thinking. I can't wait for the faction packs to add more warlords.

[The Two Jerseys]

I KNEW IT

Gotrek and Felix are coming to WH2! Brian Blessed is going to be the voice of Gotrek too! My life is complete.

I don't care about Warhammer, but this is awesome because Brian Blessed.

[Absolon-7]

https://www.totalwar.com/blog/total-war-warhammer-ii-patch-notes-the-empire-undivided-update/
This recent update for WH 2 added tons of goodies, especially for the empire. The whole reclaiming sylvania and mareinburg and appointing your own elector counts to em is especially exciting

[Impaled Nazarene]

The fact they went back and added DLC to Rome 2 makes me wish they'd do the same with other games. Ashikaga faction pack when CA? Should be a challenge to rival Western Rome. Hell Shogun 2 needs a lot more dlc. More FOTS factions, a ROTS update. I'm glad its so heavily modded that it borders on being Paradox easy but the last real Total War game still needs love.

[Impaled Nazarene]

So uh the 3k campaign starts to break after 130 turns. As Gong Du I had already taken an emperor seat and reached the max rank but soon all of the minor warlords stopped fearing me and started declaring war despite me having a lot of armies and the largest territory.
Liu Bei and Lady Wu (Sun Quan and the other children must not be of age yet or are dead) are dug in to the point where it takes 3 armies to defeat them and given how many people are at war with me I cant afford to put 3 full stacks in one spot. The campaign was lost and so close to the end. Save files deleted, China doomed to eternal war and eventually anarchy.

The game also seems entirely biased to have Shu, Wei, and Wu as kindgoms. Cao Cao in this game was a vassal of Yuan Shao and still got the kingdom, and a few turns later Yuan Shao marched in and took it for himself. It seems that unless Liu Bei is very weak the historical three kingdoms will rise.

[Impaled Nazarene]

Found the most overpowered thing in Three Kingdoms.

If you have a general who can initiate night battles and has a full stack of decent units you are impossible to siege if you occupy a city. Because of how strong city garrisons are you normally have to bring two armies to besiege them and assault. With night battles no reinforcements are brought out so if an enemy has two armies you can defeat the besieging army even on auto battle. Since the siege army lost they lose all equipment built or in construction so even if you take heavy casualties you get a free turn to bring up reinforcements or even convince the enemy to retreat because they only have one army now and that is not enough to beat a stack + city garrison.

Zhang Yan did this to me and i had to fight a battle twice because he sallied out and initiated a night battle.

[Bloodshade]

So uh the 3k campaign starts to break after 130 turns. As Gong Du I had already taken an emperor seat and reached the max rank but soon all of the minor warlords stopped fearing me and started declaring war despite me having a lot of armies and the largest territory.
Liu Bei and Lady Wu (Sun Quan and the other children must not be of age yet or are dead) are dug in to the point where it takes 3 armies to defeat them and given how many people are at war with me I cant afford to put 3 full stacks in one spot. The campaign was lost and so close to the end. Save files deleted, China doomed to eternal war and eventually anarchy.

The game also seems entirely biased to have Shu, Wei, and Wu as kindgoms. Cao Cao in this game was a vassal of Yuan Shao and still got the kingdom, and a few turns later Yuan Shao marched in and took it for himself. It seems that unless Liu Bei is very weak the historical three kingdoms will rise.

The Wu faction almost always manages to get a huge foothold in the South that’s almost impossible to break. Come to think of it, that sounds historically accurate . Still though, I think CA needs to populate the south with some barbarian factions that can at least contest the power of Wu and stop them from snowballing into an army pumping machine.

My recent games usually end up with Song and Wu as the other two kingdoms. Although Yuan Shao isn’t as strong he initially was, he usually manages to get the north and defeat Gongsun Zan so long as the player doesn’t affect him.

My late game also has me having to fight a war on all fronts too. Everyone declares war on you, no matter your strength rank apparently.

[The Huskar Social Union]

They nerfed port income in warhammer 2 hard. I am upset.

[The Empire of Pretantia]

They nerfed port income in warhammer 2 hard. I am upset.

I say we nerf them back.

[G-Tech Corporation]

They nerfed port income in warhammer 2 hard. I am upset.

Fortunately there's a mod for that.

[Bloodshade]

They nerfed port income in warhammer 2 hard. I am upset.

CA_Mitch addressed that in Q&A last Tuesday. Fortunately, there'll be an opt-in patch this Monday which'll address the problem. I'm rather glad because some player on the reddit did the math and apparently, a tier 3 port will need around 200 turns for it to pay its cost back.

[The Huskar Social Union]

They nerfed port income in warhammer 2 hard. I am upset.

I say we nerf them back.

Agreed. Wulfhart needs his sea sheckles in order to continue colonising up in this bitch. Fuck with that and we will fuck with you.

They nerfed port income in warhammer 2 hard. I am upset.

Fortunately there's a mod for that.

There is, i found it yesterday after work.

They nerfed port income in warhammer 2 hard. I am upset.

CA_Mitch addressed that in Q&A last Tuesday. Fortunately, there'll be an opt-in patch this Monday which'll address the problem. I'm rather glad because some player on the reddit did the math and apparently, a tier 3 port will need around 200 turns for it to pay its cost back.

madness, absolute madness.

[Impaled Nazarene]

climbs out of cave covered in blood and dust
I just won as Huang Shao in Three Kingdoms.

Holy fuck it feels like the Yellow Turbans need more provinces than normal to win a campaign. I even captured all 3 emperor seats early. Sun Ce THANK FUCK put his capital/emperor seat near my border instead of on the south coast or south west corner of the map. Took an extra 60-70 turns to capture enough provinces to win, and with the Yellow Turbans having next to no diplomatic options even at max rank it was a slog.

[Impaled Nazarene]

The new TW game is Troy based off the Illiad

[The Huskar Social Union]

The new TW game is Troy based off the Illiad

They have my interest.


I also approve of the many Troy memes being made on the subreddit.

[G-Tech Corporation]

The new TW game is Troy based off the Illiad

They have my interest.


I also approve of the many Troy memes being made on the subreddit.

What, he's going to take the beach by himself, with 50 men? The man wants to die.

[The Huskar Social Union]

They have my interest.


I also approve of the many Troy memes being made on the subreddit.

What, he's going to take the beach by himself, with 50 men? The man wants to die.

Not gona lie that beach battle scene is fucking sick

[G-Tech Corporation]

What, he's going to take the beach by himself, with 50 men? The man wants to die.

Not gona lie that beach battle scene is fucking sick

If I get those combat animations for the new Troy, I'll buy two copies just to support the art.