Total War: Warhammer

[Sir Slash]

How do you even measure a Wight for Plate Armor size? With a 'white' tape measure? And would the pieces have to be labeled 'Wight-Side Up'? This could get confusing.

[Gusington]

Get off my cloud brah I'm spinning over here.

[Nefaro]

How do you even measure a Wight for Plate Armor size? With a 'white' tape measure? And would the pieces have to be labeled 'Wight-Side Up'? This could get confusing.

Being long dead warriors from the past, presumably they were buried in it.  ;)

Rather Tolkien-esque

[Sir Slash]

Good thing death doesn't add or retract from the old waistline.

[undercovergeek]

Got back into the dwarf campaign last night - turn 55, orcs eradicated apart from 2 castles at the very top of the misty mountains - red eye goblin clan - as suspected I'm going to have to initiate a dwarven civil war - grave times and very gw-ish

[FlickJax]

Good thing death doesn't add or retract from the old waistline.

Cynic :)

[JudgeDredd]

I'm drowning in this game.

With the other TW series, you could get through without really knowing the era or much about the units and the campaign was there for you...you knew about factions around you and how they may benefit/hinder your progress.

I know nothing about the TW world and so with the magic and the different lore and upgrades not to mention not really understanding what I'm meant to be "achieving" and who could hinder/help, I'm kind of lost.

I love it - but I'm lost.

[Gusington]

I will be right there with you soon. However I do have copies of Thunder and Steel as well as The Vampire Wars at the ready.

[Nefaro]

I'm drowning in this game.

With the other TW series, you could get through without really knowing the era or much about the units and the campaign was there for you...you knew about factions around you and how they may benefit/hinder your progress.

I know nothing about the TW world and so with the magic and the different lore and upgrades not to mention not really understanding what I'm meant to be "achieving" and who could hinder/help, I'm kind of lost.

I love it - but I'm lost.

I didn't think there was anything to it.

If you're familiar with the typical fantasy game genre, this isn't much different other than the theme being a bit darker.


Humans, Dwarves, Elves, Orcs/Goblins.  Nothing you haven't seen before. 


*shrug*



My only familiarity comes from the RPG... thirty years ago.  I didn't know who the hell all these named heroes are, nor some of the race specifics and troop types (which came from the minis wargame which I never explored). 

Don't need any background knowledge!  :-"

[undercovergeek]

Being familiar with the lore and table top game I never thought of it from JDs point of view, however nef is right - just because they're called reiklander spearmen or nuln swordsmen doesn't mean they're not spearmen and swords men of old they've just got some character to them now - it's still archer beat infantry, cavalry beat archers, spear men beat cavalry just in fancy costumes

[Nefaro]

Summary:

Humans are Late Medieval Holy Roman Empire flavored.  Complete with smaller fairly independent states within.

The rest is all Tolkien-derived fantasy with a darker, and possibly more xenophobic, bent.  Albeit "high fantasy" since wizards throw fireballs 'n shit.  It's Dark D&D.  <:-) 

[Geezer]

Was hoping some of the DLC might be on sale at Steam but no such luck.

[Gusington]

^+1  >:(

[undercovergeek]

you can have a free grey wizard!!

[Gusington]

What will that do for me?