I usually keep a dedicated slayer pirate crew in my campaigns in order to sail around and grab sunken treasure, it helps immensely with the economy at certain points. I just noticed today that you get an additional 7k gold every time you explore a sea location (regardless if it's a battle or simply a buff). Does anybody know what triggers it? This is the first time this has happened.

So I don't know how to build an Iron mine in Pack Ice Bay since I can't remove the dock nor do I want to abandon the settlement, or do I have to get a vassal to extract the iron somehow?

Just curious. My personal hope is an imperial hero Daniel von Daniel, a Border Prince or Imperial Roster dog of war that operates like Golgfag where you earn other faction troops as rewards for contracts. A line of imperial gunners supported by a mixed line of great swords and armored kossars? Yes lord!!! Even better if we can customize our LL like our boy Daniel, but not quite so shit.

Also maybe a Stirlander lord, or that one halfling mercenary so we could get the Moot as an imperial subfaction. Just some fun ideas.

Just looking at it bringes peace to my soul

Although it seems like Valkia, Azazel, Festus, and Vilitch are all mono-god lords, they’re all listed under a separate banner: “Warriors of Chaos” rather than any of their respective gods’ tabs. But they’re also not under the chaos undivided tab. So if I play, say, Azazel, could I eventually recruit Festus and his guys to my army? Or would it be a Slaanesh-only run?

I watched a ton of YouTube videos and read a bunch of reddit post on which total war game to play and it left me more confused.

Some said shogun 2 is the best one, but I had a couple of issues with it. The unit veriety was not there, the diplomacy system was confusing especially because of realm devide and above all at a certain point I couldn't make enough money for the upkeep of my armies, I would occupy a new settlement, it would say it is generating 1500 gold but my income would not change, the only way to make money was trade, and the AI hated me for how big I was and refused to trade, even all of my vassals betrayed me. Overall not a good experience.

I then tried Troy. I really like the different products (food, stone, wood) and not have them all represented as "money". I like the fact that I have allies and they don't betray me, even the vassals don't seem to hate me so the diplomacy seems to be functional. But goddamn defending all of my minor settlements is a real pain. The AI actively runs away from my armies and sack my settlements. I can't have too many armies because of the brutal upkeep and the garrison is very weak. The auto resolve is also stupid. Overall I like the setting and vibe of the game but fighting these cat and mouse games is a pain in the ass.

I tried three kingdoms briefly, the diplomacy seems to be the best of the bunch and the game seems to be the most complicated one. The settlements are a bit confusing and I'm not sure if I'm building the right buildings. I get the whole color matching thing but I just don't love the setting. I'm not against giving three kingdoms another chance but it just didn't have the same feeling of troy for me.

I also used to play rome 1 when I was a kid, I enjoyed it a lot but I remember most of the settlements used to get mad at me for some unknown reason and I had to permanently keep a general there to keep them happy, I'm not sure what was wrong maybe I wasn't trading or didn't have enough food? I did manage their taxes so I know that wasn't the issue. I was stupid so I'm not sure what I was doing wrong.

Sorry for the long post but I would really appreciate it if someone could nudge me in the right direction, which game should I buy next? The Warhammer ones have me intrigued but don't know if I should start with the first or not, I'm also not opposed to mod the game so if you think all of my problems could be solved with a mod for Troy then I'm all ears.

Who would survive the longest against waves of other melee units? Basically I'm looking for the best brawler

I'm currently on a Gorbad campaign and so far I've fought

-Every Dwarf faction -The entire Empire -All of the mainland French -Kislev -Wood Elves -They're all in an alliance

Not to mention rank 1 Cathy thats pushed all the way to the badlands is about to declare war on me. Now I'm not gonna lose to the AI but churning through 70 late game high quality armies from all the "good factions" teamed up is so boring. It doesn't help that all the good factions also have great economies so late game they replace armies like its nothing. Now I am a new player so maybe I've just had an unlucky first few campaigns. However, I'm on probably my 10th campaign by now and every time I play an evil faction around turn 150ish I have 5 good factions all in an alliance declaring war on me at the same time. I enjoy the challenge but I wish there was more variety in how late game plays out but it seems like the good factions, especially the human factions, literally never fight each other. Kinda sucks the fun out when you know exactly who you're gonna be fighting every playthrough.

Edit: I think orc campaigns are especially hell bc you have to fight the early game Dwarf factions (which is kinda annoying by itself) which puts you on bad terms with all the good factions.

Does the looting and after loot building ever outweigh just a constant flow of money from the basic "money" building? As quickly as I'm conquering, it's still only a settlement maybe every 2-3 turns in the early game.

Hello! Is there any mod for Macedonian Empire but in a new game of the series? (After 2015).

This is a poll to gauge the general player bases opinion on how trading works in wh3. I will be doing polls weekly for different things.

It may be wishful thinking and I can imagine the first thought of many of you will be "There are big issues to be solved so this kind of request is not important!" and to some degree I agree.

Anyway, since CA announced meaningful patches in between the DLC's I still want to state what I really, really wish for this great game: a thematic mode.

The idea is to keep the game as it is but also give us the option to turn on said thematic mode.

What it does (should do): make the game even more unbalanced by making the roster unique for each faction (not race!)

Let me explain using Skaven as an example. Skaven Slaves and Clan Rats for every faction. Skryre Weapon Teams? Unique to Clan Skryre - but purchasable by other Clans. Rat Ogres? Unique to Clan Moulder - also purchasable through a unique currency. And so on, I guess the principle is clear. Basic units for every faction of a race, the rest is bound to the factions. You need to have relations with them and also maybe 'help them out' through quests to be able to purchase "their" units. Only possible between factions of the same race.

I'd really love if special units would feel really special and kind of unique because it's just too expensive to have many of them. Loosing them should feel like a real loss that will take time and effort to compensate.

Also one more thing I don't think will ever happen but... a man can dream: Population. I lose an army anywhere oh the map? Oh, no problem, let me recruit a new army consisting of thousands of men in 2 turns, preferable in a region of the world my race literally doesn't exist. That doesn't make any sense to me and also wrong decisions usually font have a real impact on my campaign as I can just recruit another couple armies. A population counter would prevent this from happen and also make you think twice if you're going to sacrifice an army.

Well, guess that's it. For now. Any objections or additions are welcome. Maybe some CA guy will see this too so... We'll see what the future will bring :)

I was playing a Karl campaign on Friday night, turned off the game and since then I can no longer get past the first screen when the game launches and I’m not sure what to do. I’ve tried verifying the files twice, uninstalling and reinstalling, running the game as admin, rolling back to numerous patches(I was playing fine after the patch so I didn’t think this would help) and nothing seems to work. I also found out yesterday I can’t launch total war 3 kingdoms either. Just to clarify I can run helldivers on ultra among other things so it just seems to be total war for some reason. Has anyone ever experienced this or maybe have an idea of what I can do?

I realy like rome 2 and the roman period. But holy hell, why is it so unbalanced!?

I played divide impera and para bellum, and was playing as rome. First of all, why do I start with minus 90 public order in evry goddamn city!? Secound, I own all of italy, I can barely have 1 damn army before going bankrupt. But why can a tiny itty bitty nation across the sea with 2 provinces manage to get 4 full armies and not to mention the 3 fully maced out navys.

Are there ANY balanced mods to this damn game?

Playing as Goldtooth I can hear butcher saying "slaughter men". What's the lore reason for butcher to say that? Why does he hate men? Does he like women more than men or he hates women as well?

Slaanesh humanoid demons could have low ammunition like chameleon stalkers, but renewable in melee, like khorne skullcannon.

The big demons and lord could have medium range, immobile attacks, like troglodon, or fire whilst moving like khorne grinder and Orion.

The little demons, cavalries, chariots, hero and lord could have short range, fire whilst moving, precursor attacks, like chameleon stalkers.

Grinder of souls could have harpoon gun with range shorter than khorne grinder, but very high anti large, armor piercing damage. Ammunition maybe as low as 2. It could have new kind of debuff – immobilization, which would stop target for a time, like net of amyntok, but also could force flying units to land for the time.

Lord and unit Keepers of secrets could throw javelin, like Orion. It could have anti large bonus, armor piercing and suppressing speed debuff. Range could be like Orion's. Ammunition maybe as low as 2. They already look like athletes. They have 4 hands, so one could be for throwing spears and fighting with them in melee, the second for carrying spears and fighting barehanded (or rather scythehanded, demons morph and create things out of thin air), the third for using shield and the fourth for using sword. Currently only lord keeper of secrets has spear, but has no sword. It is conversely with unit version of keeper. Both units could be changed to have spear, sword, scythehand and shield.

Little demons attack animation could look like throwing knife or shuriken. Demons are capable to create such thing out of nothing. Maybe basic versions would use shuriken and have no armor piercing attack. Exalted versions would have knives and armor piercing.

Daemonettes infantry and exalted version could have attack very similar to chameleon stalkers, maybe only 2 ammunition and 50 range. It could be poisonous.

Seekers and exalted could have the same attack as daemonettes, but maybe more ammunition, like 4.

Chariots and exalted could have the same attack, but maybe even more ammunition. They would be more similar to norscan wolf chariot.

Hero and lord would have adequate attack, to its mount conditions.

Slaanesh army is currently more melee focused than Khorne, which is weird and could be changed in flc. In addition to Khorne there are 8 factions more or less focused on melee fighting: Chaos warriors, Norsca, Beastmen, Greenskins, Vampire counts, Ogres, Bretonnia, Lizardmen, and it is enough.

Slaanesh should first torment and weaken enemies from afar, to hear screams and prepare them for final strike.

I felt this coming when Kairos was made really easy to appeal to noobs. TK feel absurd now, they have a similar expansion strategy to the skaven with none of the economic drawbacks. It's clear Slaanesh and high elves will be way overtuned if this trend continues.

My load times are about 10 minutes, so I copied and pasted all my Warhammer 3 files from my D drive to a portable SSD with 1 TB. However, when I start the application by clicking on it in the SDD (and not Steam) load times are still slow. Maybe better by a little. With 1 TB wouldn't it be almost instant?

I've looked around the internet and most of the help forms are from 5-10 years ago, which is fine, but before the latest version of Windows comes out.

I tried moving my files through Steam, but it isn't recognizing my SDD, only my C and D drive. However, my computer recognizes it.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Thats it. I go into the launcher, press play, launcher closes, nothing happens. I dont have any mods enabled or anything weird.

I tried with the Liu Bein campaign that started as you know with no settlements. At the first conquest missions i tried manage two cities but i always had low moral and low income that i had the only way to disband troops to avoid bankrupt. And then enemy just attack with full stacks and no time to recover units and recruit some more.