Total War: Warhammer

[Nefaro]

Fine, you bastards.  I'm adding this to my Steam wishlist.

Just gotta get da Teefs to afford it?

[undercovergeek]

The bob mission as it's known

[bob48]

...get me da denchurs.....

[Sir Slash]

Dentures are great. It's the only way you can bite someone and run like hell from them at the same time. I keep a spare set with me at all times just for this alone. Or you can go to a fancy steakhouse, order a steak, sink your dentures into it, and then call the waitress over and ask her if they have one, "A little less tough". You'll be in free steaks for life at that place. Or go out with friends, order a pitcher of beer, slip them in when nobody's looking, and wait to see who gets the prize at the bottom of the pitcher.  :DD  Dentures are the gag that never fails to score.

[Gusington]

  'demand teef' 

[HoodedHorseJoe]

We're trailing a new series of articles on The Wargamer that look more in-depth at milestone Patches and how they change the 'meta' of warfare in games. Our first was with EUIV and Patch 1.19, and next up is Update 5 with the Wood Elves DLC: http://www.wargamer.com/news/meta-wars-total-war-warhammer-and-update-5realm-of-the-wood-elves-dlc/

Let us know what you think :)

[Jarhead0331]

FYI - the last patch fixed my CTD problem. Awesome!

[Nefaro]

FYI - the last patch fixed my CTD problem. Awesome!

Did you see my post about a CTD fix being mentioned in those patch notes? 

I figured it was your culprit.  \m/




Had to restart my Vamplord campaign, to make sure the Welves are in it.  Hadn't got too far with that one yet anyway.

[Gusington]

How are you liking that Vampire Lord campaign? Just the idea of it makes for good moist loins.

[Nefaro]

How are you liking that Vampire Lord campaign? Just the idea of it makes for good moist loins.

Not terribly far in it yet, this second start. 

The Vamp Lord himself seems to be more powerful than your average leader at the start, being capable in both melee AND with spellcasting.  I tend to give him new attack & debuff spells with each level-up, but he can still stab people fairly well too.  All other things being equal, he may be more powerful than others due to this dual-purpose flexibility.  Since he's spec'd for throwing spells, and later attacking an enemy hero, I tend to give him the best magic weapons & armor I find on the battlfields.  He also starts with a huge Varghulf which, aside from cutting swaths through human-sized troops, can also tear through castle gates kinda like a battering ram.

Still working on getting their heavily armored units, with which he has bonuses, unlocked again.  Needless to say, the regular skeleton swords/spearmen are very lightly armored and don't stand up too long holding the front line against beefier units.  Fighting dwarves with them, in the early game, means you gotta get your fast & flying units around into their rear ASAP.  Because them dorfs is punishin face-to-face.  And that is one area these undead armies are good.  Grabbing the Vargheist unit early on (12 big flying feral bat-monster vamps per unit) has been essential in getting around and hitting the bastards in the rear.

Also managed to have a pretty big battle with lots of casualties early on.  This left one of those trademark TW "epic battle" markers on the campaign map.  The vamp lords have a special ability that allows them to instantly recruit up to three undead units into an army every turn, no matter where they are.  Usually it's just their basic light crappy units (zombies/skellies) but if you do so in a location with a big historical battle, you'll be able to raise better troops types that you've unlocked via buildings there.  So I've also managed to get a couple of the armored skeleton cavalry units and foot without actually having built all the requisite buildings for them yet.  But you can only get one of each per turn and I'm not sure if you eventually run out of available battlefield corpses to raise.

Game mechanics aside, I think CA has done a superb job giving this one some atmosphere.  The sound work and voice acting is amaze-balls.  Plus all the graphical flair in the UI, the faction-specific music (and I rarely even leave music on in most games) is tops. 

[Gusington]

Congrats you just moistened my loins further.

So the vampires do have heavily armored, top tier units? That is just grand ❤️

[Jarhead0331]

The Vampire Counts are a major pain in my Imperial arse. I've managed to unite 95% of the Empire, but I am assailed on all fronts now by terrible enemies. To my South, I have Orks, to the north, Chaos, to the east, Vampires...chaos and vampiric corruption is spreading through the land. Its a scary time to be human. Only a handful of dwarves and bretonians stand firm with us against the tide of ruin.

[mikeck]

For me it's not the Vampire armies that are a pain. It's the damn corruption they spread to neighboring lands. I have to buy lords and buff them for chaos/corruption buffs AND, switch my city bonus thingy to chaos reduction to get over the hump.

Is there a way to fight at night? I saw a screenshot with the undead guys having glowing eyes and it looked like it was at night. May have been photoshopped

[Nefaro]

Congrats you just moistened my loins further.

So the vampires do have heavily armored, top tier units? That is just grand ❤️

Yes. 

They have the Grave Guard which are plate-armored units of wights with shields (or Great Swords if you want that option).   They also have equivalent mounted troops called Black Knights.

Choosing Manfred von Carstein as your Lord, at the beginning of the game, gives you some bonuses to Grave Guards (cheaper iirc?)



http://wiki.totalwar.com/w/Vampire_Counts_Army_Roster

You also get the opportunity to recruit a Wight King hero early on in the campaign.  I've been generally using mine as a spy and assassin, but occasionally have him join an army with an open slot right before battle to go hack up the living.

For me it's not the Vampire armies that are a pain. It's the damn corruption they spread to neighboring lands. I have to buy lords and buff them for chaos/corruption buffs AND, switch my city bonus thingy to chaos reduction to get over the hump.

Is there a way to fight at night? I saw a screenshot with the undead guys having glowing eyes and it looked like it was at night. May have been photoshopped

You get darker 'spooky' maps when you fight in areas of heavy vamp corruption, from what I've seen.  Or the maps are just darker when you play the Vamp faction.  The background sounds and music are definitely different for them.  8)

[Gusington]

^That is just...so...fantastic. Plate-armed wights??