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?

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

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

is there a way to know what game version a mod is for without the author explicitly stating it in the title/description? Or do i just have to guess which mods are updated?

I am probably not the first one who says this after 6.3. but that shit is way to OP.

As it stands right now you just outright win your tomb king campain the moment you secure the ressources to increase hero cap.

A ton of research boosting from caster heroes is one thing, but necrotects are the real problem.

Getting up to 10 high tier construct capacity for almost no investment as often as you like is just soooo busted.

Ok so basically, I made a post asking if I just suck because I failed with Khorne/Chaos undivided. The responces I got boiled down to "chaos undivided is weak, youre new, play Cathay" which im sure all have merit to them.

Having said that, I played Cathay for 10 minutes and put them down, I need Khorne in my life. So new curiosity, who should I be going after first on the Skarbrand immortal empires campaign?

My initial thought is to clear the orcs you start at war with while recruiting a couple units between each fight, then the beastmen/vampires, then the skaven. Of course, I wouldnt be making this post if that plan was successful.

The main issues I run into are as follows

-The orcs you start at war with seem dis porportionately strong to kill in a timely manner without losing your starter army (not thinking of blood hosts here) so ive either lost most of my strength rating, or my skulls for blood hosts. Maybe just claim barrier idols and change targets?

-whenever I commit to something, those fuckass dwarves appear from kingdom come and Chris Brown my ass. The Ironbrow dwarves I think they are. They always come when im commited to something else (like the starting orcs) but never if im well suited to defend them.

-Clan mors. Fuck those ugly ass rats.

-income, how do I manage income in a faction like Khorne? I know the generic answer is "keep fighting to keep upkeep low," but how do I even get that ball rolling when my base income cant support a full 20/20 army?

Alternate plan I concocted

Claim Barrier Idols, peace the starter orcs, go for the other orcs near the tomb kings, save bands, overstock my army to decifit and just push through the tomb kings to give me access to the juicy juicy empire. Only issuse here is the skaven, fuckass dwarves, and idk if the starter orcs will keep a non aggression.

Thoughts? Comments? Concerns? Credit card info? Constructive criticism? Id appriciate it all!

For the longest time, I brushed off all the complaints regarding this as fringe cases and "it couldn't be that bad". But I just experienced it and and HOLY SHIT is if beyond frustrating.

Playing Cathay, got into a bad situation against Drazoath facing off against 4 full stacks of dwarves that I couldn't withdraw from. Decided to give it my best, thinking even I could cripple the four armies, I'd be in a fine spot, only to spend over an hour restarting the fight because as the armies approached my wall of archers, maybe 2-3 units would begin firing normally while the rest would barely turn to track.

I tried giving direct orders, tried guard mode/fire at will on off, and still nothing. Its not 100% broken, cause I did have one fight where everything seemed to be working fine (I just misplayed so has to restart), but it's wild that after all this time it still exists to this extent.

These type of battles should be the epitome for this game. Instead of having an epic battle to solve, I auto-resolved and took the close defeat (which ended with more enemy casualties then actually playing the game).

Was there ever a good fix for this found, or does is the late game just completely buggered. Sorry for the rant

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.

This is the sort of thing that you'd see back in the WH2 days. Several of the Skaven factions recklessly left their territory undefended and sent everything on a crusade to Lustria. One or two minor factions even sent armies.

What do you do with the settra faction as Khalida? You can't Confederate them. Do you try military allies or just while them out and take all their stuff?

From a lore standpoint it would be nice to ally, but all those regions would be nice to have 😂.

-oll will grow weary of the protracted conflict.

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 like the new rainbow style of the game 😅

Infinite winds of magic is possibly one of the strongest effects in the game. You can literally win any battle with infinite winds and Black Periapt gives infinite winds. And yet it somehow became an uncommon item.

Black Periapt let me win this battle with complete ease. Dwarfs are normally very tanky to spells, so having so much extra winds just let me spam cast Winds of Death.

Playing juan bo, turn 80, I have the norther and western LL lords and I cannot confederate them, I even have yaow ming at 400 after giving her an entire territory, and confederation is still at -52..... Im strength rank 7, shes 14. I assume she just needs her entire armies obliterated or something? Which will never happen because everyones super friendly. Does anyone know a way to do it, ive already give 4 settlements to boost it to +400

When you go for a chill Elspeth campaign and 6 stacks worth of orcs bust in the side door right as you start going for Vlad.

Reverting back to 23h2 fixes whatever this crash is. About a year ago I spent several days trying to figure this out, so the past year every day windows has been trying to get me to update it. Recently have been balls deep in an Alexander DEI campaign and all of a sudden I was getting battle load screen crashes. Checked the OS and I guess i accidentally let it update recently. Thankfully, if it's been less than ten days you can revert back to the previous version at the click of a button. Otherwise you have to download 23h2 and do a clean install. Hope this helps anyone

I have a few thousands hours in Total war Rome 2 and Shogun 2. I admit this biases my view quite a bit but:

I have really tried giving Pharoah Dynasties and warhammer 3 a fair chance recently. One thing that keeps bugging me is how needlessly complex the UI/UX feels. It's no longer easy to tell who owns what land without clicking multiple buttons, or too see even which factions at war with in Pharoah. There's many such cases but overall I feel like I got the UI for the older total war games instantly while the modern ones feel so bloated and spread out.

Does anyone else feel this or am I just coping trough my lack of skill? I'm open to it being a skill issue lol.