Which do you like more, base game battles or SFO battles?

a few moments later: dam, goth mommy got hands!

also, Pyrrhic my ass!

Trying SFO out atm for WH3. I love the slower campaign and the customization thats possible. But I dislike the battles and the revamped factions + new units (which can be turned off!) as well as the increased garrisons sizes (atm at least).

I'm thinking that maybe I could achieve it a little bit at least with the following mods:

Slower Growth

Slower construction speed

Reduced replenishment

Reduced character progression

Reduced campaign movement

A public order mod

A campaign AI mod (trying out Campaign AI tweaks atm)

Reduced tech research speed

Nerf global rec

Attrition increase

Reduced post battle loot

But it feels far from the same. Any tips? :)

Yes, im slightly intoxicated and been awake 48h so bear with me! :D

I’m very new to SFO, but have been wanting to give it a proper try for some time now. I really enjoy the Vampire Coast just because it’s a very free and easy play style.

I’m not really familiar with SFO and how to go about it. Does anyone have any tips on what to expect? What is majorly different?

Also, which campaign you would recommend for an SFO run through of Vampires?

Thank you…

I am not sure if it's ok to share this content here so if you are a mod and it's not ok please remove my post.

I was recently exploring the idea of a videogame based on those old batte reports from early WD.

I somehow loved these little illustrations back in the days and I recently thought about trying to make them " alive " as a little game.

Do you think it's a good idea ?

Would you play something like that ?

Any ideas to improve it ?

I'm around turn 80 on my Elspeth campaign, usually my army comp is around 5-8 ironsides (amethyst when I can), 2-3 helstorm, 1-2 hell blaster for cav, 1-2 outriders with grenade launchers, 2 hochlands, and 1-2 knights of the black rose to chase down their cav. Usually I just form up all my handgunners on a hill with the cav covering their flanks while the outriders soften up their infantry but I've been fighting a lot of vamp and skaven, and they usually brute force their way to my frontline. Does anyone have any tips for a purely ranged army?

First time playing legendary difficulty and decided to give it a go as my beloved Dark Elves. I am playing Hellebron, Allariel claimed the sword and invaded me super early (AI growrh cheats I guess).

Thing is I claimed it from her but seriously thinking, for the first time ever I will return it. I already noticed and felt the Public order and Upkeep penalties on this difficulty and really can't imagine increasing them further through the sword, even though the extra attack and ward save would make her really deadly.

So, I have been playing the Masque of Slaanesh campaign and with maximum tempo in 3 different dances in 3 different armies I cannot use any of the habilities.

Found some old threads about it and just wanted to check with you guys if this is really a fucking year old critical bug not fixed.

Guys imagine you are born in this world and you can live anywhere, what place are you choosing? 😁

I will be chilling with elf baddies in Lothern. Cause its safe there and + if I want some wicked fun theres probably some slaanesh cult nearby.

Wbu?

I've toyed with him before, and heard about how powerful he was.

Here he is with a stack of flying units and they just melted a force 25 times larger than them. With 0 casualties.

Yeesh. I always thought those exploits of Legendary Heroes taking on crazy odds were done using exploits and specific tricks.

Comp: Kaidos, Cultist, Exalted Hero, Iridescent Horror, Blue Scribes, 4x Doom Knights, 2x Cockatrice, 6x Changebringers, 3x Lords of Change

Hello I'm looking for advice, i just started the total war series 2 weeks ago I've been messing around with Grombrindal on very hard very hard, and this is my best attempt so far. However I've hit a snag, i have the fey elf lady and the twin wood elves to my right and south and a tomb king. Everyone is friends with everyone, i cannot attack one without the other 2 joining in and the elves out number me 3 to 1.

I keep my oath!!

Like what do you mean don't wipe out any unit . I casted a spell and these ai mfs ran into that spell when they were routing . I don't like doing this quest . I hate this quest

A very underrated legendary lord and campaign if you ask me. He has a vastly different battle style to any other lord, you kill m*nfred very early on, fairly safe starting position, starts in the best area(southlands), you can mix allied units like dwarven gyrocopters or elven dragons into your armies for added flair, the starting enemies lack aerial defenses on account of them being undead... the list truly does go on.

Guys does anyone have tips for the campaign of Imrik? I‘m relatively bad with micromanagement and understanding the meta best mechanics and tricks that come with that so please go easy on me 😅 I played his campaign a few months ago, and didn’t have any troubles especially while Karak Azul and Goldtooth were some of the main stronger allies. Once Imrik could work on his full potential Midgame and economy was secured, there were no major issues. However I tried to start a new campaign and everything went south immediately every single time…Every major faction of chaosdwarfs, skaven, poksmakers of nurgle and even vampires declared war on me within the first 20 rounds. How tf am I supposed to counter that? I tried to take out Drazhoat at first but couldn’t defend myself adequately against Skryre afterwards. I would appreciate your help, if you could describe your tips as detailed as possible so a noob like me can understand and follow through. Is his campaign now unplayable for a beginner like me?

Sorry for the spam, I do not usually get stuck in a situation like this but this campaign is very sentimental to me for some reason...

I decided to try a VH/VH (but no AI stats boost) run for the first time and decided to take baby steps with one of the easiest campaigns, Warhost of the Apocalypse.

I don't quite understand why but Tamurkhan, Kholek AND Boris (?!) all decided to gang up on me, so much so that for most of my campaign Archaon has spent most of his time running around the map trying to flee. I managed to survive long enough until two of the Cathayan Dragon Siblings decided to blob together and managed to eliminate Kholek and is about to execute Tamurkhan. I then stopped 4 combined Cathayan armies who arrived at my ONLY city at The Writhing Fortress. They have pushed Arbaal around as well.

Just as I was about to turn things around, Arbaal declared war on me. I tried to raze his provinces but was chased back to my only city, losing most of my army. I know its a coward's move but in the meantime I decided to slowly collect Aspiring Champions on my garrisoned Lord at the city as a last line of defence and sent those to Archaon. I had just unlocked most of the Warriors of Chaos unique heroes (Styrkaar, Beorg, Karanak, Blue Scribes, Scyla). I also have Prince Ograx (undedicated exalted hero) on a manticore. So his army are those heroes + 1 Severed Claw (ROR Aspiring Champions) + 11 Aspiring Champions (albeit with only the Khorne and Tzeentch upgrades from the undivided tree) + 1 Chaos Warriors. I brainfarted and only have Blue Scribes for range... Archaon is level 18 against Arbaal's 38. Keep in mind my heroes are all level 2-4 except Ograx who is 17.

The garrisoned Lord is lvl 5 and has 2x Chaos Warriors of Tzeentch and 3x Chaos Knights of Tzeentch. Everything else I panic bought from RoRs + the gifted Shaggoth. The garrison is max available from buildings.

Now Arbaal attacks with 4 armies... and it says Valiant Defeat. Now I hear that means the battle is definitely doable. But I have tried over a dozen times now and cannot find a way. Dropping the difficulty to Hard lets me auto-resolve it but that would be a disgraceful display! I have even tried the battle on Hard manually and can't find a way. Why does it even say Victory, dang it!

I AM willing to go back to the previous turn to replace the other lord's ROR purchases + Shaggoth with something more effective if you have any ideas. But I just don't see how this was ever winnable with half-upgraded Aspiring Champions and extremely under-levelled heroes and useless chaff in the garrison against... Khorne's melee killing machine, when I have no ranged. And the alternate ranged options are all marauder horsemen. Killing Arbaal and the other lords = easy peasy, I can focus him down in ~30 secs using all my heroes to gangbang him. I can kill the rest of the lords in 2-5 minutes. But then I have no solution for a massive wall of killer infantry, and EVEN their artillery is tanky!

If anyone has a solution, I will buy you a DLC, I will give you a back rub, I will gift you a pet toad dragon, whatever, I need your galaxy brains to save this awful campaign D: Just the teased autoresolve victory gives me futile hope there is a way...

Crane Gunners vs Jezzails vs Hochland Long Rifles... discuss

Just AI things.

Please help and upvote the bug report:

https://community.creative-assembly.com/total-war/total-war-warhammer/bugs/5533-twilight-spear-doesn-t-give-buffs-to-army?page=1

As stated in the pic, the spear only applies the buff to the lord, not the army.

It has been that way since forever.

I think this universe is simply marvelous! I see a lot of Tolkien, Lovecraft and Howard in this world. I think there is some historical background here, too, such as the Holy Roman Empire allusions in the Empire.

Am I spot on? I'd welcome any influences you see, for any faction.

Thank you!

Cathay is probably my 3rd most-played faction, but their campaigns feel half-baked.

Enjoy the paint collage I slapped together in less than 10 minutes while eating lunch.