Total War: Warhammer

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Yeah, 86% positive reviews after >5k reviews is good. I will be getting this. Will be my first ever from the Total War series.
 
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I am holding off. I like the era they are doing but the split campaign thing is weird and I dont like all the attention on specific characters.
 
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LouderVol said:
I am holding off. I like the era they are doing but the split campaign thing is weird and I dont like all the attention on specific characters.
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So I got three kingdoms and it has been really meh.

Battles are just kinda weird feeling after warhammer. Sieges are fun being back to last man standing.

Campaign map is beautiful.

They really need to stop changing factions names. I generally dont even know my own factions name as it will change at least twice in about 150 turns. Keeping track of all the changes is rough.

I haven't dealt with spy/traitor stuff yet but I can see it being huge issues. Dealing with the characters just adds another thing of micromanaging with out any added fun or real benefits. But plenty of negatives.

Diplomacy received a major rework in a good way. They tell the values.for each part so it makes it easy to see the benefits vs losses. Factions generally like trade now, yay. And trading provinces is a thing again.

Dealing with city management blows, having to try and deal with population sucks and seems so arbitrary. I like what they are generally doing with buildings but it makes no sense.

Now when undersiege you use the resources in that one city or town until it runs out then you take attrition. Well the resources a city has is entirely based on what that city produces vs what it uses. Without considering the province as a whole. So for large cities you.only have the base amount pretty much no matter what.

Turn times are great, no issue with old comp. Early to mid game is a legit 30 seconds or less. Even later game is only about a minute. Haven't won yet so dont know the worst of it but right now this is the best thing.
 
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LouderVol said:
So I got three kingdoms and it has been really meh.

Battles are just kinda weird feeling after warhammer. Sieges are fun being back to last man standing.

Campaign map is beautiful.

They really need to stop changing factions names. I generally dont even know my own factions name as it will change at least twice in about 150 turns. Keeping track of all the changes is rough.

I haven't dealt with spy/traitor stuff yet but I can see it being huge issues. Dealing with the characters just adds another thing of micromanaging with out any added fun or real benefits. But plenty of negatives.

Diplomacy received a major rework in a good way. They tell the values.for each part so it makes it easy to see the benefits vs losses. Factions generally like trade now, yay. And trading provinces is a thing again.

Dealing with city management blows, having to try and deal with population sucks and seems so arbitrary. I like what they are generally doing with buildings but it makes no sense.

Now when undersiege you use the resources in that one city or town until it runs out then you take attrition. Well the resources a city has is entirely based on what that city produces vs what it uses. Without considering the province as a whole. So for large cities you.only have the base amount pretty much no matter what.

Turn times are great, no issue with old comp. Early to mid game is a legit 30 seconds or less. Even later game is only about a minute. Haven't won yet so dont know the worst of it but right now this is the best thing.
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I've played a small bit of it so far. This is my first game of the Total War series so I am just learning everything from scratch. I had some fun with it when I was able to play it. Need to find time to play it more. I will say I absolutely hate the camera on this game. Either that or I'm dumb and haven't fully figured it out yet.
 
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zhangliao04 said:
I've played a small bit of it so far. This is my first game of the Total War series so I am just learning everything from scratch. I had some fun with it when I was able to play it. Need to find time to play it more. I will say I absolutely hate the camera on this game. Either that or I'm dumb and haven't fully figured it out yet.
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Just the angles or what?

For me the game does a lot of things pretty good but nothing great. Cant speak to any historical aspects of its accuracy .
 
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LouderVol said:
Just the angles or what?

For me the game does a lot of things pretty good but nothing great. Cant speak to any historical aspects of its accuracy .
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It's about as close as you can get for accuracy aka the right areas under control, correct deaths, and accurate subordinates under each ruler.

Have you ever played any of the RotK series?
 
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LouderVol said:
I haven't.
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I don't know how much they are anymore, but RotK 10 is good. I also have 11 and I have more trouble with it than I did with 10. Makes for a good strategy game when you don't just run rampant through the game even on Hard Mode. In 11 on Easy Mode I have quite a bit of trouble. The furthest I got was having half of China under my control with the other half under Lu Bu. His policy in the game is basically attack everything with as much force as possible so we are gridlocked in one area that I just can't seem to pull away from. I keep defending and he just keeps sending in more troops lol. Thinking about just starting a new game.

Anywho, you should at least look into it.
 
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zhangliao04 said:
I don't know how much they are anymore, but RotK 10 is good. I also have 11 and I have more trouble with it than I did with 10. Makes for a good strategy game when you don't just run rampant through the game even on Hard Mode. In 11 on Easy Mode I have quite a bit of trouble. The furthest I got was having half of China under my control with the other half under Lu Bu. His policy in the game is basically attack everything with as much force as possible so we are gridlocked in one area that I just can't seem to pull away from. I keep defending and he just keeps sending in more troops lol. Thinking about just starting a new game.

Anywho, you should at least look into it.
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I am struggling with three kingdoms. The alliance system makes full blown wars across all fronts way too likely. Had to restart several times.

Really really frustrated with my enemies vassalizing themselves under one of the other kingdoms in order to get peace with me.

Got about 20% maybe 25% directly under me. Western China is all LouderVol territory. North eastern and middle China are a bunch of vassals. While southern China is divided between the two other kingdoms. Need the other two kingdoms to go at it so I can move on the one I am bordering.
 
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Got Attila via the Steam Summer Sales. Can't wait for the Campaign to be released for the Medieval Kingdoms 1220 AD mod
 
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Paper_Towel said:
Got Attila via the Steam Summer Sales. Can't wait for the Campaign to be released for the Medieval Kingdoms 1220 AD mod
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Going to ruin the campaign for Attila for you. Visigoths, the huns show up and ruin your plans.germand or Brits, the huns show up and ruin your plans, eastern tribes? The huns show up and ruin your plans. Either Roman empire, all the barbarians show up and ruin your plans.

Attila is the total war I spent the least amount of time on.

Key to winning. Get out of the way of the huns and fleeing tribes and just repopulate behind the hunnic expansion.

Also I hope you enjoy having to kill and defeat Attila and his all gold army at least 3 or 4 times.
 
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LouderVol said:
I am struggling with three kingdoms. The alliance system makes full blown wars across all fronts way too likely. Had to restart several times.

Really really frustrated with my enemies vassalizing themselves under one of the other kingdoms in order to get peace with me.

Got about 20% maybe 25% directly under me. Western China is all LouderVol territory. North eastern and middle China are a bunch of vassals. While southern China is divided between the two other kingdoms. Need the other two kingdoms to go at it so I can move on the one I am bordering.
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Yeah I need to get back into this. I just need to wait on my replacement GPU to get here. My previous one caught on fire lol.

Can you pick where you start in the game? And can you be your own character?
 
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LouderVol said:
Going to ruin the campaign for Attila for you. Visigoths, the huns show up and ruin your plans.germand or Brits, the huns show up and ruin your plans, eastern tribes? The huns show up and ruin your plans. Either Roman empire, all the barbarians show up and ruin your plans.

Attila is the total war I spent the least amount of time on.

Key to winning. Get out of the way of the huns and fleeing tribes and just repopulate behind the hunnic expansion.

Also I hope you enjoy having to kill and defeat Attila and his all gold army at least 3 or 4 times.
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Have 0 plans on going that far into an Attila campaign. Already started an Ancient Kingdoms one.
 
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zhangliao04 said:
Yeah I need to get back into this. I just need to wait on my replacement GPU to get here. My previous one caught on fire lol.

Can you pick where you start in the game? And can you be your own character?
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Not really. You can choose which character to be, and they each have their own starting location. At least in the "records" mode it tries to be historically accurate so it doesnt start out as a "sandbox". So you will either start allied or fighting Dong Zhou. But you arent tied to that if you dont want.

Honestly Three Kingdoms would be a rough total war to start on. As a purist/cranky old guy to the total war series I am not a huge fan of a lot of the extra stuff you have to do. With all the family/generals management you have to do.

Mods are now active and I am always surprised with some of the things they do. So you may look into that. You cant get there thru the launcher, "mod manager" and the steam workshop, assuming you are on steam, is pretty easy.
 
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LouderVol said:
Not really. You can choose which character to be, and they each have their own starting location. At least in the "records" mode it tries to be historically accurate so it doesnt start out as a "sandbox". So you will either start allied or fighting Dong Zhou. But you arent tied to that if you dont want.

Honestly Three Kingdoms would be a rough total war to start on. As a purist/cranky old guy to the total war series I am not a huge fan of a lot of the extra stuff you have to do. With all the family/generals management you have to do.

Mods are now active and I am always surprised with some of the things they do. So you may look into that. You cant get there thru the launcher, "mod manager" and the steam workshop, assuming you are on steam, is pretty easy.
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Yeah, I'm on Steam. I'm going to give it a go and play as Liu Bei to see how far I can get. It will be interesting to see what people come up with for this game. I played a few battles already on my laptop and thought they were cool. However, my desktop is where I will be playing from here on out, but I'm waiting on my replacement GPU since my previous one decided to catch on fire.
 
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zhangliao04 said:
Yeah, I'm on Steam. I'm going to give it a go and play as Liu Bei to see how far I can get. It will be interesting to see what people come up with for this game. I played a few battles already on my laptop and thought they were cool. However, my desktop is where I will be playing from here on out, but I'm waiting on my replacement GPU since my previous one decided to catch on fire.
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Yeah total wars are power hogs. Although the turn times are not bad at all in this one.

Battles are typically where I think total war stands out.
 
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LouderVol said:
Yeah total wars are power hogs. Although the turn times are not bad at all in this one.

Battles are typically where I think total war stands out.
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I think you'd like RotK 11. You should look up some vids and see if it is of your taste. And yeah, I had to play with everything on low settings when on my laptop. Once I get this replacement card I'm going to play on max everything lol
 
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zhang I looked up RotK and it is still 60 bucks. thats really steep. wouldn't mind giving it a try, but its going to have to be in the 20 buck range, looks like it came out in 2016.

have you tried Oriental Empires? its a Civ like game set in the same period. you don't get much of the history with it. but it was a decent find for me. That was one i got for 20 so I didn't mind spending on it. even if I have played less than 50 hours on it.
 
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Paper_Towel said:
Yeah, it's actually called Ancient Empires.

It essentially turns Attila into a modded Rome II campaign.
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why? rome 2 came out like less than 2 years before attila.

always felt like attila was another of their attempts to focus from a bigger timeline that failed. like Napoleon.
 
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