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So, I've finally picked up a faction that starts in the immediate vicinity of the snake bitch, namely - Balthasar Gelt. Long story short, I took my damn time doing quest battles after dealing with the CatNam partisans (Burning Wing Nomads) - the first two ones for Gelt himself, as well as the G&F one. Finally, after paying her off one time she extorted me, I've went to war while she was finishing off Nakai and his vassal (which she promptly did).

Oh boy, thank the gods I've done it this way, when my heroes and lord have gained some experience. In particular - my Death Wizard, which I've spent the early Arcane Essays on (along with a Heavens and Life wizard). Also, by this time I've accumulated some ancillaries which give you WoM. I would be properly fucked otherwise.

This bitch is something else. It's one thing reading the posts/comments and memes here, you need to play against it to really understand. She slithers around the battlefield with the speed and power of a freight train, and packs the same punch. As an empire, you just don't have anything to tie her down at this stage of the game (pretty early, I would say, my capital isn't Tier 4 yet). She can't be bogged down by spearmen chaff, I tried, it simply doesn't work, she slithers away just like that [snaps fingers]. The only way to counter her is to have Gelt and the Amethyst Wizard follow her on their Pegasuses and dump all the current winds on Spirit Leech/Final Transmutation. No other spells take precedence until she's put down or made to retreat. If they were still grounded, I guess it would be game over as well. Btw, good luck catching her when she does retreat.

One woman army, indeed.

It's not that I'm complaining, that was actually fun, finally some challenge. Everything snakey from the ToT just moves so damn fast, and is almost impossible to pin down.

Some factions have "Brainless" armies, as I call them. I call them that because even a numbskull would be able to grasp how they work. They auto-resolve away most armies, especially on easier difficulties, or at least making it easy enough to just send them in and watch them grind the enemies into pulp in melee. There are less brainless doomstacks on harder difficulties, but I am sure they exist, if Okoii is any suggestion.

Anyways, now that I have defined my question, let me state it. What is the hardest faction to brainless?

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Playing Warhammer for the first time in 3+ years and decided to go with my guy Greasus because I love ogres.

My tiny kingdom spans from the firemouth to the dragon-isles, and at turn 79 I am currently the 10th strongest faction out of 80 which I feel like isn't good for a player.

To the East is a grand coalition of Cathay and the Brass Wizard, to the North and most of the West is Grimgor Ironhide, who is the #2 world power.

I tried attacking Greenskins because I figured I could lightning strike them and snag their valley settlements, but alas my efforts were in vain as the Waaaaagh! 40-unit doomstacks descended upon me.

I watched in horror as my Mournfangs, Thundertusks, and Ironguts route from waves of arrowfire. This army, which had defeated Herman and Kugath, was routed by Greenskins. Even my 4 units of leadbelchers, which racked me up thousands of kills across battles, couldn't handle the horde.

I ended loading an old save from before the war, I'm the problem I know and yes it is a skill issue on my part. Did I wait too long to deal with Grimgor? Does he need to be snuffed out early? How could I do better in the future or what units should I utilize more? I can provide any information if there are further questions.

i'm coming back to the game and heard of The old world mod, i have questions if anyone may want to help understand something ?

1. Is the AI dangerous or at least active here ? i wonder because there are lots of subfactions on the map, i really like not to fight major faction all the time like in Immortal Empire, but i really need those lesser factions to put a decent fight.

2. Same for major factions actually, do they just actually dont care or are they gonna try to conquer the world like in TWW2 ?

3. Any warning ?

Hello, I have been going back to older total war titles trying to knock some of these campaigns I never did or wasn't able to do. I just did Date and Otomo. So now it's on to the one I have been preparing myself for, Uesegi. From what I have been trying to think, there seems to be 3 ways to focus my start of the campaign:

1. go the traditional way, war with Jinbo and then deal with the takeda/Hojo/Imagawa trio.

2. abandon the vassal, rush sado then go toward fukushima and then sweep down toward takeda and Hojo.

3. is more of a hair brain idea, but what if I stayed north/moved west and tried to put the ikko ikki out before they get out of control.

My big questions are: is the knock against diplomatic relations and lower honor worth not joining the war against takeda? The question, I haven't used the warrior monk units before; where do I want to build my warrior monks, bow warrior monks? The shrine for experience or smiths/fletchers like usual samurai units?

Thank you for any advice or any other ideas for this campaign you have.

Tier 3 engine building gives +10% campaign movement speed and says "The Spirit of Grungni will no longer disengage during battle". But the army ability still says 120 seconds duration, and it still does disappear during battle.

Hi! Been looking for a good sail naval combat RTS. It's a pretty niche genre. I know Total war empire has some naval gameplay, but wondered how much of it was actually naval combat? If it's too occasional that might not be what I'm looking for. I've only played a little to TW Napoleon and not this one.

So in your experience and the time that you had on this game, would you say naval combats play a dominant part in it?

Thanks.

So i need help with this-whenever i try moded multyplayer {allow auto resolve for story missions} each time i try to join lobby it says incorect version even tho in mod menu i can see its corect one-anyone know way to fix it?

Hey guys, quick question.

I know I'm supposed to use my political influence to do reforms.

But where the hell do I do that in the campaign screen ? I swear I feel like i've visited every menu.