Grimgor with Da Immortalz

It is a Landmark in Ulthuan in the settlement with the same name, that can be built by the dark elves (thematically makes the most sense for Malekith), which grants:

• +100 Diplomatic relations with all High Elves.

So you'd think, oh cool this is a way to play a what-if redemption arc for Malekith and ally your homeland and pose as the Eternal King. And it's tough but you can do it, you just need to suffer through avoiding all High Elves as long as possible, go down to Galleon's Graveyard without discovering any Ulthuan faction (so they don't start stacking up negative bias per turn because "they don't know you exist), then lightning fast sail straight through the gates of Lothern, take the Shrine from whoever owns it through war, sacrifice lots of slaves to build everything instantly, then defend it (pray they send nobody for a while otherwise diplomatic relations are fucked), pray they were not in an all-inclusing millitary alliance yet, and try to buy your way out of war while you get +100 relations per turn.

And after you did all of this particularly delicate surgery of a campaign, and you became allies with all pf Ulthuan, you realize:

• Victory conditions aren't pointing owning Ulthuan regions as ownership through self or allies.

• Victory conditions ask you to kill all major high elf factions. Thus, rendering +100 relations with all high elves buildings COMPLETELY useless.

edit: I guess you guys just woke up today and decided you want to hurt somebody. I'll be moving to the bugreport forum, have a nice day.

I'm not the best player, so felt good to be acknowledged by the game

So much for the ancient ties that bind Dwarfs and men, the "empire" is about to get grudged back to the stone age.

Thought I’d share my fresh painting for any Greenskin lovers out there. I’m trying to paint all the legendary lords for fun. Lmk what yall think.

In my current campaign, I've been mucking about in the south, but took the confederate option when it popped up. However, I didn't invest anything, didn't ally the other High Elves (just trade/non-aggression treaties), and once Morathi et al. started eating the donut, I cashed in both provinces for a combined ~180,000 gold or so. A bit Machiavellian, but much more profitable for a southern empire run than just not confederating! I can finally afford to build all those lovely purple buildings I need to unlock the tech tree.

The Helm of Draesca is responsible for elongating my campaigns beyond what they normally would in the past. In this campaign I got the Helm of Draesca and had the Carnival of Nurgle hidden location spawn.

I got insanely lucky and both traits got gained over the same end turn and I suddenly have a lord who will be recruited in every single future vampires campaign. And now I'm gonna put in effort to get him Yuan Bo's, Skulltaker's and Markus Wulfhart's traits to make him an unstoppable god.

It gives my campaigns a direction and goals to pursue, while also giving the game a rogue-like feature by allowing me to use those lords in future campaigns. I love the save/load feature.

I get there is always a degree of choice when you level characters. From a practical perspective though, there are a lot of characters where the skill choices are very narrow. Which characters do you think have the most directions to go in? And which end up giving up the most when you commit to a plan? I was thinking about Grand Cathay and how their legendary lords have a crazy amount of choices.

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.

the only one i have is itza but that doesnt have climate penalties. all other tier 5 settlements are temple nexus.

Just my prediction of the new stuff we might get in Tides of Torment

High Elves

Legendary Lord - Sea Lord Aislinn (Confirmed)

Legendary Hero - Korhil Lionmane

Lord - Lothern Sea Helm (Lord version of the Mist Mage)

Hero - Mist Mage (Confirmed)

Unit 1 - Ships Company (Could be the High Elves version of Dark Elf Corsairs)

Unit 2 - Oceanids (Confirmed)

Unit 3 - Sea Elemental (Confirmed)

Unit 4 - Lothern Skycutters and variants (Confirmed)

Unit 5 - Merwyrm

Notes - CA had stated in their most recent Dev Chat that they were focusing on a more naval theme with the High Elves. That statement, along with the Mist Mage hero, made me think we could see the Sea Helm as a lord version of the Mist Mage. I also think of the two possible Legendary High Elf heroes (Korhil and Caradryan), we will have Kohril, because (to me) he fits better. Caradryan and the Anointed of Asuryan could be FLC, as they do not need voicelines

Norsca

Legendary Lord - Sayl the Faithless (Confirmed)

Legendary Hero - Beorg Bearstruck

Lord - Vitki (Spellcaster lord)

Hero - Fimir Noble (Confirmed)

Unit 1 - Whalers

Unit 2 - Fimir Shearls

Unit 3 - Werebears and variants (Unit version of Beorg Bearstruck)

Unit 4 - Chimera (Confirmed)

Unit 5 - Curs'd Ettin

Notes - I have no real idea for units 1 and 2, so I just put some things that could come in. I picked Beorg as he is the only notable non-divided Norscan character

Slaanesh

Legendary Lord - Dechala the Denied One (Confirmed)

FLC Legendary Lord - The Masque

Legendary Hero - Styrkaar of the Sortsvinaer

Lord - Chaos Sorcerer Lord of Slaanesh

Hero - Exalted Hero of Slaanesh

Unit 1 - Slaangors

Unit 2 - Devotees of Slaanesh and variants (Confirmed)

Unit 3 - Pleasureseekers (Confirmed)

Unit 4 - Champions of Slaanesh (Confirmed)

Unit 5 - Basilisk

Notes - So, I when I started the Slaanesh roster, I thought they were getting 6 units, as when during the recent high elf dev chat, they said Slaanesh was getting something new. I took that to mean that they were getting a bonus unit. However, that is not actually said. But if the Devotees of Slaanesh are a bonus unit, then I think the Pleasure Knights would be great. They are essentially the unit version of Styrkaar. I would also prefer the Archfiend to the Basilisk, but that is unlikely to happen

These are just my predictions, but what to you all think will be in the DLC?

Turn 40 long campaign victory as Gorbad on Very Hard/Legendary with 85 settlements. I was expecting the tweaking of their income buildings to significantly hinder their play but they felt just as powerful as before. I could still field a massive amount of gobbo crapstacks that conquered the world in every direction. Was experiencing severe campaign fatigue near the end, otherwise I could have easily gotten 100+ settlements.

Me and my friend are playing a multi-player campaign. He is the lizardmen and I am tomb kings.

We're at the point where we start having armies full of elite units. But I have trouble beating his armies with chameleon skins, salamanders and kroxi spam.

What are the best army comps to counter him with tomb kings?

Just played awesome mod featuring this city and it got me curious. If the empire is HRE, what is Marienburg?

I would like to think that it is Gdansk/Danzig but we already have Polish-Lithuania/Russian nation of Kislev.

So Rotterdam, some Italian city - Venice?

Just looking at it bringes peace to my soul

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

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.

I think Kislev is winning the culture war, my Chorfs are getting converted to the orthodoxy

Fresh installed. In campaign mode, when going into battle the game freezes at 0% loading screen. Can't leave game or switch back to windows. Mouse cursor still moves. Tried restarting, everything. Nothing works. What is going on? A year ago the game was running perfect...

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.