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Best try the official forums for tech support.

My only other suggestion is - have you tried verifying the integrity of the game files? Right click on the game in steam, go to properties, then...

Chaos was pre-order DLC and is less developed and polished than the other four factions. Try them before dismissing the game. It's widely believed the third Warhammer TW game will flesh out Chaos...

I tend to find Greatswords underwhelming in the early to mid game: despite their high armor, they seem to die almost as quickly as much cheaper swordsmen. I guess it's partly the lack of a shield...

Um, Aenima, you have a lord too! On the battlefield, I tend to reserve my lord for dueling the enemy lord. It's why I dislike magic casting lords, but with those I would use a melee hero as a budget...

Sorry, "chimes" is primarily a musical term (a bell chimes at midnight) but can also be used in English to indicate agreement. So "chimes with my experience", means is consistent with what I've...

The best thing is probably to consult the forces drop-down list (top right of the interface). It shows you all your armies and heroes, with a bar for their movement points - blacked out if exhausted....

According to the official forums, the opposite is true: the slider removes the hidden stat buffs, but leaves the AI with a morale bonus.

That chimes with my experience. I usually play VH/N and...

Anyone else finding Chaos rather too absent in the early game, after the Wood Elves patch? I've played the starts of a few early games as Empire and they are no where to be seen, up to at least turn...

I just watched the first episode - Zama. It was fun, if a hard battle for the Carthaginians to win. Both generals committed their best assets unsupported and squandered them, which was sad. But both...

Um, sounds like I'll have to inspect that middle tree more carefully and have even more choices to make when levelling Karl Franz. Still more choices is good.

To further correct my earlier post,...

One thing to bear in mind is that your friendly dwarven neighbours will sooner or later be willing to confederate with you. Often they do it if the orcs are beating them up, or just because they like...

Good point. I was comparing absolute percentage point changes, but what matters is the relative effects and these vary. Trying to do the maths more systematically, I'm finding +9 att for Karl Franz...

The following post clarifies a lot of the mechanics:

https://www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/4m9sdw/how_melee_attack_and_defense_armor_and_damage/

For example, the chance to hit is "40% +...

It's a good question and I confess my knowledge about the maths behind TWW combat is sufficiently murky that I can't give a definitive answer.

It seemed to me looking at the numbers that lots of...

I heard the same thing about the Russian soldiers who were extras in the Waterloo film.



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Atmosphere - at least as WRE, it feels oppressive and apocalyptic. Up there with Shogun 1 and 2 for immersion.

Sustained challenge - at least as WRE, you have to juggle so many constraints and...

The difficulty of TW games often varies considerably with factions. I infer you are playing VC. They are one of those classic "central" factions that face threats from all around (Oda, HRE, etc) so...

I tend to max out on agents - they are all useful and fun. The witch hunter(s) do take an age for me to recruit - I have to wait for Marienburg to grow, as I want the special mage building in...

I think you need to tech up. Before you encounter hard core Chaos armies, you should be able to get the top end Empire troops. Spamming halberdiers and handgunners is not the best way to handle Chaos...

As Empire, I usually have one main army at the start and a second lord to pick up bonuses while governing the capital. I am usually fighting very little for the first 50 turns, so being parsimonious...

Speaking from an Empire perspective, tank heroes are pretty good. I think they are more powerful than a unit of state troops, for example. I find them particularly useful "tar pits" for enemy Lords...

I like the Empire campaign, but agree the replayability is not great. It tends to go the same way for me - defeat the VC, confederate the Electors and then crush Archaon.

I presume you've tried...

I've never liked AI combat bonuses - they always make the match ups weird (RTW peasants become good units in AI hands etc) and encourage the player to try to find cheesy work-arounds. Recently...

The basic deployment skill to raise growth is useful for teching up (e.g. getting a witch hunter from a province other than Reikland, if you go for the mage college in Aldorf rather than the...

192 hours played, this is not exactly first impressions but still, may fit here. It took me a while to warm to this game, I think trying it first on normal (as Empire) was a mistake. The first 50...

After playing a bit, the magic ladders don't bother me. In a well defended settlement, the AI tends to take the time to build siege towers as presumably they are a safer option.

Despite the...

I got 4 stacks of Norscans spawning in the waters off south badlands in my VH dwarf campaign. Quite decent balanced armies too. It was a bit of a shock, given I own the entire area but my nearest...

Well, the two cases I mentioned that were most suitable - knights and samurai - in real life did not function as "cavalrymen" per se, but as warriors rich and practiced enough to be able to fight on...

CAs rationale is that you can't dismount in the Tabletop game.

I agree it's a shame to see it go (was it in Attila? I don't think it was.) I guess it is most appropriate in Medieval and Shogun,...

I wasn't expecting a tough fight (I had no idea what I would face), so I brought my standard mid-game army: IIRC,

- Gelt: used his default spell vs ethearals (easy when they blob)
- 4 swords:...

In my latest VH Empire playthrough, Archaon had about 7-8 hell cannons in his stack. It seemed a tad excessive.

I liked naval battles in Empire: at least aesthetically, they were beautiful and impressive. I'm less keen on the pre-gun powder versions - ramming and boarding - perhaps because they require a...

Replayability does sounds a feature of this game. I was a little underwhelmed in my initial Empire campaigns on lower difficulty, but VH campaign/ normal battles is providing a surprising challenge....

The Norsicans don't seem to play such a big role since the beastman patch. There now seem to be two Chaos invasion events. The first, lesser one, on very hard, sees four half stacks of Chaos warriors...

I think you have the right idea, OP. The extent to which you can get alliances will depend on the difficulty level and some luck, however. In my latest VH playthrough, I'm struggling. It is possible...

IIRC, it's all about turn 1. You have to deal with the insolvency and instability of the Empire, before you have a solid foundation to fight off the hordes.

(1) Disband most of your units -...

You mean Reagan, not Carter, right? The contras came after Carter left office.

The contra affair was a big deal because Iran was a self-declared enemy of the US, involved in the Beirut bombing...

I think only the spears without shields are redundant, from a gameplay point of view[1]. This is quite an improvement on Attila, where you had different tiers of (for Romans at least) essentially the...

Wow, that's an impressive resource - thank you.

One suggestion would be to include a sheet with your preferred set up for your provinces (or, more ambitiously, one that maximises income subject to...

Unless you really want to play legendary (or graduate to Multi-player), just press pause. I came to the original Shogun as a turn-based player and so have relied on the pause button since the start...