Total War: Warhammer - Page 20

So I finsihed the game on hard with the empire (im a human supremacist in most games). By the time you actually get to build lategame units you're already close to victory, I'm also pretty sure all that is required to beat anything are loads of steamtanks.

I also found that autoresolving often gave better results than on the field, especially when you have the advantage.

The chaos invasions are anti-fun bullshit. The damn rats just bypass all your settlements with fortifications, and if you don't intercept them they go raze an undefended town somewhere in the back of your country where you keep your economy. They are also always a step ahead with more moving range so it becomes a stupid chase. The only exception was the last wave which besieged the first castle they found. Razing their towns along the northern coastline didn't change anything, so the game forces you to defend all the time which sucks. I also expected massive army stacks moving from east to west but they split up and start taking weird paths to backstab you.

The only scary army by the vampires was the castle draken-something garrison, and at the beginning their huge amount of heroes in the army. After a few victories I just autoresolved through most battles without too much trouble. The ideal army composition I believe are tons of artillery, heroes, spears/halbers and crossbows. But crossbows and swords works too, I feel like when you have equal numbers you always win.

Put captains into the army to fight big guys, witch hunters are assassins on the strategy map, warrior priests are support, mages for aoe damage (screw the buffs). Would be cool if the game told me that before I had to find out.

Stomped a few greenskin armies which proved to be laughable with demigryphs and tanks and came back to write this.

Game overall is fun to watch (the units flying around during a charge). Magic was really unspectacular, and is totally incohemprensible how much damage an ability deals, they should have implemented much stronger spells, that would have been epic, not the shitty buffs which just make a minimal difference with armies of that size or area of effect spamming spells.

Unit formations dumbed down to the max. No loose formation, no square formation for spear units so they always get flanked easily unless you constantly micromanage them. You can pick between a line and a box and all units will always face the same direction. Pretty dumb warfare considering the cavalry AI always flanks.

Buildings are dumb as well. Shrines of Sigmar belong in every province capital unless you like being corrupted, that means you will never have a single province able to produce every unit available. The growth system is tedious as fuck and the benefits of upgrading towns are really scrawny income and PO wise.

Warrior priests don't have useful spells, only good passive abilities, they might make good replacements for shrines of sigmar tho.

Fire mages suck, the lightning guys are decent, Balthazar Gelt seems like a badass but sucks until he's high level, final transmutation deals ok damage against big monsters.
Speaking of which, the scripted quests are pure boredom (send this guy here, beat this army with that army somewhere in a shitty far away corner of the map).

The total war series has become super streamlined and simplified but we know that since Rome 2. And screw their DLC whoring. What saves this game are visuals and cool units, gameplay wise it's really dull.

Conquer the bretons to the west first and the vampire fraction there. Befriend the dwarves, the east and the north, they will be your buffer for the chaos invasions and the vampires. Never agree when an ally asks you to go to war with someone. When chaos razed stuff in middenland, work your way up from there and rebuild stuff without going too far north (Dietersomething is a pain public order-wise and cause invasions), so then you go west, Ostland buffers you from chaos in the northeast and you can start stomping vampires while intercepting chaos armies heading for your undefended settlements.