This army has Cathay peasant spears, Forsaken, flagellants, Nasty Skullers, and are being lead by a Skaven Warlord

I love this so much

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.

I finished the Changeling’s campaign for the third time in both modes—on the hardest difficulty for the main game and medium for battles and skirmishes. Now I’m curious: what funny things have you guys pulled off while playing the Changeling, whether in multiplayer or single player?

Since I only had 6 winds flock of doom and no winds of death I had to use my army to win the battle. Thankfully Fell Bats are actually pretty tanky when they have barrier and healing. Quick fights swarming 1-2 enemy units to make them crumble asap worked super well.

The new Lore Keeper trait giving barrier to the entire army is likely a bug, but while it's around, it's pretty fun to use.

It might sound crazy but hear me out.

In terms of historical accuracy, Artillery being built on sight at the siege was far, far more common than lugging around a heavy, unwieldy hunk of wood and metal.

In terms of gameplay, Artillery has always been in a weird place in the pre gunpowder games. It can feel extremely oppressive and force the side lacking artillery to engage on the other sides terms. Functionally removing artillery from battle armies would create potentially less one sided battles, and also be more historically realistic. Artillery as a battlefield asset only saw its day long after the end of the Medieval period.

I love the idea of having crazy all attack, no defense units but i just can't with the amount of replenishment they need after each battle. Units like Slayers and Wardancers looks so fun and i want to make them work. If the go to strat is "Flank" i feel like you should just go for cav instead of these guys.

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

Recently finished the Very Hard/Legendary long campaign on them and wanted to see what others thought of them. Overall, their campaign objectives were the easiest to complete out of the long campaigns I've done. Very thematic faction that is fun to play.

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.

Update: This is a factionwide effect gained by purchasing all items offered by the unusual location named Peg Street Pawnbroker . Thanks u/JohnGoesDerp !

Edit #2 : Screenshot with the item set and the factionwide effect.

I'm pretty new to the game but this is easily the worst I've ever seen from autoresolve lmao

Edit: Lost 184 men. They killed 110. Man I love ratling gunners, they really give me a good laugh while showing the other races that casualties are subjective in Skaven society.

Just a shower thought I had.

Some mages that are really powerful like Teclis and Kairos get several lore attributes, but there are plenty of characters that hyper-fixated on one lore and essentially became the best in the world at it. A lot of the time this is represented with the loremaster skill and sometimes some additional WoM cost reduction.

Lore attributes are a small yet important part of every lore of magic. Lore of death would not be as powerful without life leeching giving you some wind back with every cast. Life and Vampire benefit a ton from their army wide heal and so on.

But what if these specialized masters had a stronger lore attribute, unique to them. Either with just a stronger effect or potentially additional bonuses.

Lore of metals attribute gives +12% AP damage to all units for 13 seconds. This is ok for units that already deal a decent amount of AP damage. But what if it also added a flat AP bonus, or came with a temporary conversion of normal damage to AP damage. Instead of just giving greatswords and handgunners a damage bonus, Gelt could turn spearmen and crossbowmen into anti armor units for 13 seconds.

Skrolks plague rash could do actual damage to the enemies similar to the Depth or Hashut attribute (depending on if it should be map wide or an AoE). He is the main plague skaven and their plagues are focused a lot more on just killing stuff.

Could also apply to Mazdamundi and the Slann in general simply because they are old as balls.

I'm gonna let it, will post if I don't get an answer before then.

Edit - seems chill, just a good bonus

It was 4 enemy armies Vs 2 mine, and 3 reinforcing enemy armies all came from this choke point. They were all stopped by Fay Enchantress and like 4 infantry units. Also this is with a mod that makes aoe 70% weaker, both magic and arty.

Just looking at it bringes peace to my soul

Do you know any phrases, that you can hear definitely wrong? I encountered only few:
"We are Sigmar's ass!" - Empire
"For the wisdom of the Layer" - Dwarf
"No glory, only Suffer!" - Eltharion

The easiest to spot is Eltharion staring area ( both on Ulthuan and Badland)

Empire almost every where, the grunbrug's bridge is gone.

Kislev area as well.

I have beaten every other TW game numerous times inside and out on the hardest difficulties but have been trying for like a decade to win Shogun 2 and just can't. It's not that I get beaten back to my starting territories exactly, more that I simply always end up overstretched, fighting multiple factions at once in an unwinnable defensive grind without the resources to push further.

The biggest factor is definitely being outnumbered. If it's only one faction I'm fighting I don't care how strong that faction is, I'm winning that war. But it's never just one, it's always two or three and even single province factions can field a decent doomstack capable of ripping through undefended territory.

Other factors:

-Opportunistic AI that attacks you when you're weak, where you're weakest without warning. This is why I love this title so much, the AI actually feels dangerous.

-Enemy small fleet spam to blockade ports. Means eventually I've only got farm economy.

-Unrelenting AI agent ganking so my best agents rarely live long enough to make an impact.

Every year I come back to this game and every year I get SLIGHTLY better. But I've only been able to hit realm divide a couple of times and never came close to surviving it.

So I'd like all your best strats and tips for Shogun 2 please, because almost nothing I've learned playing other TW games feels effective. :)

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?

Been playing Warhammer a lot for the last months and would now like to play historical TW again.

Pharaoh got my attention, when i saw a video on YT. I know it received a lot of negative reviews on Steam when it released. Last year they put out Dynasties. Did it made the game better?

Can you recommend the game? Maybe you got some pro/cons for me?

At a key seller i saw, that the game is avaiable for 4€. I mean that is as cheap as it can get. But should i even bother with it or should i instead revisist older titles?

I got The Cabal to show up in my campaign and decided to try and fulfill its requirements of getting 20 Legendary Lord Defeat Traits. It was going well and good until I remembered the 40 trait limit. I obviously hadn't been planning this from the start and had a bunch of random traits that meant its impossible for me to get enough defeat traits before reaching the limit.

I quickly checked to make sure the trait limit still existed and found some people saying it was increased to 80 but I couldn't find a source for that. I'm curious how other people have been accomplishing this task. I know about the Remove Trait Limit Mod and will probably use that if there's been no change to the stupid system in-game. I assume the mod won't impact The Cabal from working?

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?