As Oda in my first campaign in Shogun 2, I captured Kyoto, unknowingly triggering the realm divide. My enemies outnumbered my field armies and were taking my undefended cities. Eventually, I quit and started a new campaign as the ODA, and I won. I kept the original save, though (I may send it to Legend of Total War). I want to come back to it and see if it's unsalvagable. What do you recommend doing in this situation where there is an early realm divide and all your armies are pinned and outnumbered while your enemies attack undefended settlements?

How do I gain dread? Specifically for my field officers? Ive been capturing and killing prioners, however i dont know what ekse to do to get it to go faster etc. I want my enemies to melt and rout when they see my generals.

I also tried exterimating a city to gain dread instead of sacking it, though I really dont like that or economic reasons.

Title. Ive never tried fighting them and I feel it would go poorly. They captured my southern settlements before they rebelled against them. Currently my main three field armies are tied up invading central eroupe and italy. I use cav alot however im not too sure how well theyll do against mongol cav. What army composition and tips do you recommemd to fight the mongols as right now I have no idea. (I have a spy folloing them and two assians killing whoevers close to level up to get their generals if possible, outside of that i have no idea how to fight them.)

So in the world of geo politics there are times when a country will have either access or control a territory that a rival is extremely wary of and may in fact hates the fact that they control or have influence over.

Notable examples throughout history include:

The cuban missil crisis, the current situation with Taiwan, Ukraine, Poland, Gibraltar, Normandy among others.

So my question is this. In the total war games is there a specific province or region that if you control it it is for lack of a better term a gun to the head. Meaning that if a rival or target does anything to provoke you. You can just have a deployed army launch an attack from that province and all of a sudden your rival is really in a world of hurt. Does this exist for you when you play a total war game?

For me at least the example I think of is Albion. Whenver I play as the Empire I want to take the island not only for the fact that the sea events are very lucrative and are always around that island. But because of Norsca. Whenver Norsca decides to attack I just order the army I have stationed there to invade at a moments notice. It works out very well.

I just wanted to recommend this expansion to anybody that has been holding off on it, as it is on sale for the Steam Autumn sale. I have only played the Changeling so far, but it is a great campaign. I played on VH/N difficulty.

Pros:

• Has some unique mechanics regarding stealth and how you navigate your armies. I think it's a mix of Belakor (with portals) and the Beastmen (multiple options for stealth with your armies).
• Some cool new units, especially the Mutalisk.
• Lots of flexibility, as you can pretty much go to any area and advance your objectives.
• IMO, much better than the OG Tzeench campaign from the base WHIII.

Cons:

• The ability to assume the form of other LLs is pretty Meh. There are some decent RP options, but it has little impact on the game.
• Eventually, the difficulty drops substantially with the campaign. You become very powerful, although it isn't the most absurd power creep of the recent DLCs. The early game is pretty good, as Tzench struggles during that time, and it makes it more enjoyable.

TLDR: The Changeling campaign from SOC is really good, and worth a buy now that the expansion is on sale. I look forward to the other campaigns.

I bought Rome 2 in the autumn salt, digging it so far. I've played Shogun 1 when I was a teenager and haven't played the series since.

I'm looking for a guide that explains stuff without giving you advice on what's good and bad. I just want to understand how the system work and go from there. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

Hello there, during the steam Sale Total Warhammer 3 is now 19.99 so i can afford it but i am unsure if i should buy it

I haven't really paid attention to it or it's updates, i did at one point own it but my old PC couldn't run it so i refunded it (i now have a PC that meets the requirements)

But is the Game worth buying now, i heard all about bugs and lack of content (i never got a chance to play it due to my PC not being good enough)

I own both total Warhammer games and own most of their DLC, do they carry over?

I however do not have the money to buy the DLC for this game, i don't have a lot of money left so i must be careful with my purchases

Thank you for reading and have a nice day

Edit. I will buy it, thank you for clearing up information for me

On the very hard mode. Around 18T, I've moving towards the eastern and there are around three ruins, Skavans keep coming, 4-5 full armies. Their lords seems can't be killed. How do I deal with them ? If I capture all ruins, will they keep coming back?

I'm getting an infuriating bug where sometimes after a battle in campaign the game decides to load back into the main menu instead of the campaign map. Has anyone else had this happen? It's driving me slowly insane.

I am a long time Total War player, but I haven’t played much over the last few years, my last long campaign being Vampire Coast in Warhammer 2. I finally decided to dip into Warhammer 3 and played through a Reikland Immortal Empires game until long victory but I mostly got through it with save scumming and autoresolve, which isn’t very satisfying. It started off okay, but the constant wars from multiple directions made it exhausting. Fight off the Vampires, here comes WoC, deal with them, Orc invasion, destroy them but oh look, Norsca armies in the north and Ogres from the south. After the early game, I don’t think there was a single turn without a battle and I had to constantly slap together armies of whatever was available to keep up. While this is thematically appropriate for the Empire, it meant I never got a good feel for a lot of the units and couldn’t consistently out perform autoresolve. I want to start a new game and do things properly, Legendary to force myself out of relying on save scumming and fight more battles to get a feel for tactics again. I am looking for a Legendary Lord that isn’t quite as beset on all sides as Franz, one where I can mostly be fighting 1 war at a time and have periods where I can focus on upgrading settlements and rejiggering armies with new units. I remember Grimgor in Warhammer 1 being a bit like this, since you focused on securing the badlands early then could decide where you wanted to go from there. I don’t really have preference as far as race, though of course certain mechanics force a highly aggressive play style that would incompatible with what I am looking for.

In my opinion I think the slaanesh dlc is most likely slaanesh vs high elves vs ???. Where the ??? Is the wild card.

I think it would be best to have one final 3 Lord pack to knock at least a few races that really need help. Kislev, tomb kings, brettonia, norsca and MAYBE vampire Coast are some of the factions that I can think of that need one final dlc (yes brettonia deserves a dlc!) and it would be fantastic to knock some of these out before we move on to a big vampire counts dlc or new faction so we can have most of the existing races in some form of "complete". Just my thoughts, maybe my thoughts are hot garbage, what do y'all think?

I played LOTS of hours on N/N and H/H but with patch 6.0 I'd like to go a level higher and try Very Hard for both battle and campaign. I don't want Legendary as not being able to issue commands during pause seems like something very annoying.

So which campaign is most forgiving to try higher difficulty? I was thinking Vilitch because I played him already, has the safest starting position in the game and I heard that artillery-based armies lose a lot as enemy actively avoids missiles. Any other picks? I think I'm decent enough with battles themselves, usually it's unexpected declaration of war on undefended border that usually finishes my campaign, so a cosy starting location is a big plus.

I'm wondering what mods you would recommend for a more up to date experience than med 2? I've seen conflicting reviews for 1212 so was wondering if that's any good or if there's better ones?

I don’t know why, but I always have this obsession with playing the United States in any game that lets me play it, and that includes in Total War. I just got empire recently because I don’t have a PC so I can only play TW on mobile, and I was wondering if there was a way to play as the US in a grand campaign.

I am running into a problem where I am having a bit of a problem with organizing my garrisons, I want to make sure all my garrisons are of the best quality but it is kinf of hard, with cities I just recruit the max amount of militia I can but I'm still having trouble giving them the best equiptment, I don't want to build an armoury in every city, and the more I have the harder it is to make sure they are of equal level, and what is the best way to garrison castles?

Hey! It's been a long time since I played the Total War saga, last time was Atilla with the 1212AD mod (which I really recommend for a "Medieval 3" experience) , but now I wanted to go back to my favourites: Shogun II and Rome 2.

Which are the best mods that do a complete overhaul to the games?: new units, better graphics, reworked existent units, new factions....

I really would want to experience like the same period of time of the games, but everything improved. I hope you can help me with that!!!

Thanks in advance all :)

Thank you

Maybe this is stupid, but after losing my deck gunners to some big uns on big boars because the deck gunners didn't fire, the 9 carronades didn't fire, the handgunners didn't fire, Queen Bess did fire but hit the town just over... All of this because of a bump and some crabs. Crabs are my fault, I'm really bad at protecting gunpowder units. The bump was well hidden.

Damnit Wellington was known to position his cannons behind hills to make counter fire harder, and here the best Sartosan army falls to an overly green prophet because no gunnery wight told a Aranessa "Ahoy boss, the lads can't shoot for shit there".

let's just say i would very much like a visual indicator akin to the real range of a direct fire unit for effective firing distance.

Skill issue?

You bet, but is it really a terrible idea?

So I remember this years ago, there was a mod that would have any units over the 20 cap added as a "permanent summon" ability on your commander for the garrison to get around it. I was looking around and can't find it now, did this get removed or am I bad at google?

I've been thinking about getting it for a while, and with the game finally getting positive reviews, I'm considering picking up Warhammer III. I know the full experience involves everything from the trilogy. The problem is, I don't really have triple digits to just drop on a game during a black friday sale.

So the question is, what do I need to buy to properly enjoy this game? Are there any features locked behind DLC, or is it all just factions?

Edit: Thanks for the replies, everyone. I just purchased the base game and am looking forward to trying it. Are there any factions that are especially worth buying?

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There was a post with this picture from 2022 or further back with Khazrak and the beastmen breaking through a gate door. I had it saved on my desktop but for some reasons tiny and in the quality you see here. Not sure why. It was a really cool picture and I am trying to find it for a buddy who loves the Beastmen (lol). I tried reverse image search and searching this subreddit but I cannot find the picture again. Any help would be appreciated.