Total War Warhammer III is inhibiting my alcoholism (Also, CAMPAIGN LORE)
TW: Alcoholism, nicotine, dipres dipres stuff
My bottle cabinet is overflowing TwT
Why bother finding the answer at the end of the bottle when I can jus- SUMMON THE ELECTOR COUNTS
So for a while, I've been down in the dumps. Chasing the next high and drinking-to-forget. Kinda hate myself but oh well. Recently however for the past week, I have been locked in playing my warhammer III campaign as Karl Franz and I absolutely love the head canons I'm developing. Im playing with a ton of mods, mainly with a change to Karl Franz's confederation mechanics. Instead of just full annexing the electors, I just vassalise them. Honestly its much harder that way and doesnt give me a benefit, but I love the look of the diverse empire of man with all the canon electors. AAAA And when they join you in battle it feels like I'm playing the warhammer III trailer.
It's also so cool that you get to see them develop to their fullest extent. In order for them to grow, you gotta give them a lot of gold as if you're investing in them, and in turn they give you more dividends on your vassal income. It's so cool to see helmut feuerbach or the elector count of ostland go toe-to-toe with the legions of chaos. They're not half-bad as I thought:
Im telling you, with enough gold and time, Ostermark and Ostland CAN THROW HANDS
Me and the boys about to bring fate, steel and gunpowder against the forces of chaos
Personally, I love the developing head canons with karl franz's army. I'm playing with Nanu's regiment of renown and most of his units have been with me since the start, fighting in battles from Bretonnia against the skaven, to the greenskins of the badlands and the norscan and chaos raiders of kislev. I started naming them for their feats that i never thought they'd be able to pull off.
During the siege of brass keep, there was a failed attempt to gain a foothold within the fortress so I had to send 2 hand gunner units as a sacrifice to hold a doomed rear-guard action so the rest of the army could escape. Despite only being handgunners (With +20 armour thanks to a mod, though it was still miraculous), they held the line for several minutes against Chosen, Chaos Knights and Nurgle Marauders so that a battery of cannons could enter the fortress complex and blast away at them. They didn't get the RoR status effect after the battle but to me, they will forever hold the title as the "The Sternmen", for facilitating the retreat at the cost of their own (They actually survived dw).
\"Fix bayonets!\" The captain ordered, facing the foetid legions of chaos with sword in hand.
Imperial forces conduct an orderly retreat due to mounting losses and dwindling ammunition.
The first siege of brass keep wasn't all too bad actually. Half their forces were absolutely decimated and their walls aren't gonna be repaired any time soon. While preparing for another attack, something interesting came up. Mercenaries, ogre mercenaries.
I've never played ogres before, I dont have the DLC, so I had no idea what their play style was. However, I needed all the help I could get, and there started my favourite head canon between my sole demigryph unit and the ogre maneaters (With pistols).
The plan was to soften them up with artillery and conduct an offensive action by breaking through the beleaguered defenders with my demigryphs and ogres, and then set up a gunline to secure the perimeter. I mean, all this talk about ogres mounting an unstoppable charge had me hooked. Let's see if those rumours are true >:D.
\"They'z all'roight\" Captain of the 1st Gorge Company talking about the statesmen
From now on, the ogres and the statesmen form my elite shock corps, the primary offensive arm when I want a unit destroyed or to break through enemy lines. From the Brass Keep, to the Skaven of Bretonnia, to the demons of Kislev and the wights of Sylvania, the ogres and the knights have fought side by side in the thickest of battles. Hey, supposedly (Totally canon trust), the ogres of the gorge company would only consider the demigryphs as their "second" meal option instead of their first :D.
During the siege of Jakova and the liberation of Kislev, I decided to recruit a unit of hippogryphs.
You'll have all the roasted skaven you can want later.
Yeah, I've been having a lot of fun with unit head canon interactions lol
So far, i've been busy trying to liberate kislev and resurrecting the faction. The faction (The empire as a whole) is being besieged at all sides by greenskins, skaven, norsca and chaos, but its gonna take a lot more if they wanna get past Talabecland now >:D
I... don't know what to caption this
I might relapse but honestly been having a blast and never really thought my attention could be grabbed outside of alcohol. Anyway, Warhammer III is so fun when you have your own head canons and how you look at the campaign.
Ooooo I wanna get a bottle of gi- SUMMON THE ELECTOR COUNTS
THE NATION CALLS