I'm a bit confused regarding the interaction between town growth, taxes, and happiness/repression. I just finished my first campaign and I noticed that my recruiting province with a blacksmith was earning by the far the most amount of income per turn.

It was generating 8.5k vs the next best province which was only 6.5k. It only has 3 economic buildings: the market chain, a farm, and a French port. There was a geisha in the settlement, but I had 4 more in provinces that were exclusively income buildings. One of those provinces had the market chain, cottage industry, fertile soil farm, and a gold mine.

The only thing I can think of is that due to military presence and repression that province had crazy town growth (maybe repression influences tax rate?) and over the course of 80 turns it outperformed the other ones. For reference, my tax strategy for the entire campaign was alternating max/normal. This was causing a bit of negative growth on the max cycle, but I figured it was negligible considering the massive boost in income.

I want to know what could be causing this and how I could use it to my benefit. Any suggestions?

What it says in the title. After the latest update, none of the Mods I try to use (even the newer ones I get) work. I've tried rolling the game back to earlier versions on Steam, still nothing. I tried unsubscribing from my Mods then subscribing again, still nothing. I even tried playing with Mods that only have green check marks and still nothing.

Did something happen? Is something wrong with me? Should I uninstall then reinstall the game? Is anyone else having this issue?

Hexes are my favorite kind of magic. Lore of Death is my go to because Overcast Doom and Darkness is really good and so is Soulblight for it's AoE targeting. Given Kislev hags also have a 50% bonus to Hex duration, I am curious what you all think is the best lore for hexes. You do not have to limit it to only the 4 available lores for Hag Witches since I just like them in general.

I think Lore of Death, Hags, and Slaanesh are the best ones, but the Deep spell, Fog of the Damned might be the best Area Hex spell, for the mana cost. Curse of Anraheir is amazing but pretty expensive.

So I decided to leave my comfort zone of the last decade and play a mod besides Darthmod, and Lionheart had just started his Britain campaign with empire II, so I gave it a shot. Suffice to say I have been deeply unimpressed, between the absolutely horrendous size of the mod and the overall lack of polish or really quality to begin with. So I went for a clean install of empire, completely wiped all the files from Empire II I could find, but I’m still seeing features from empire II in my vanilla and darthmod installs, most noticeably the railgun speed fire from infantry and cannon, and ships zooming around like I’m playing the Great War mod for Napoleon, has anyone else had this issue? And if so how did you fix it?

Finally completed my greatest TW exercise in self hate today. M/M OnlyPeasants run, global conquest. Brutii. I think I can rest now. Including the last two pics to show my sidequest of eliminating all dark spots on the mini map. I do not have a reason for doing this and will take no questions. No mods, just pain.

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So, im on turn 26, and my elector counts have taken the Brass Keep, the took the Black Pit, they seem to be holding their own rather well against the Vampires, not having lost any settlements yet, what happened? I always remember them just getting uber stomped almost immediately by all the enemies surrounding them, and usually not taking the brass keep or black pit? Then again, its been around a year or so since ive played. BTW difficulty is very hard campaign, if it matters.

Armor: Adequate Breastplate

Morale: Ain't gonna be running

Missile strength: Solid (with Armor Piercing!)

Range: Excellent!

Attack: PDG (Pretty Darn Good)

Defense: ARG (Actually Really Great)

Cost: NOT BAD!

They're just so fuckin' good!

Constantly, repeatedly, I will tell my units to attack something, and within 5 seconds they will just stop and stand there. I can literally leave them highlighted and just watch them stop, immediately. I do not have guard on, and even if I did, the enemy is not fleeing. They just fucking stop. To kill an enemy lord, I have to sit there and babysit mine and retarget theirs every two goddamn seconds. Is there some army ability that orcs and skaven have that causes this? Or does the game just have shit coding? I am not going to play an entire campaign like this, how do I fix it or mod it or what do I have to do to stop it from happening?

Amidst seeing every Elector Count getting catastrophically bodied by Beastmen, Festus, Vampires and angry Trees, you have the opportunity to occupy, raze, sack settlements as well as returning them back to Elector Counts for the fealty point. Would you still get the fealty point if you instead just occupied it and then traded it back to them for say... gold, trade agreements or joining a war? Or could you only get the point immediately after winning a settlement fight by ceding it to them?

I’m about to start a Clan Verms campaign because I’m looking for a challenge and Skaven are just… fun. I have heard a lot about of how difficult this faction is to play so any input is welcome!

Again...

Bought Warhammer 1 today. Code worked and game downloaded.

Clicked to start and up cam the launcher.

Launcher runs for a second then stalls.

TW Rome 2 works fine from the same launcher.

Tried running from the exe and it tells me I need 64bit Windows. I am running 64bit Windows 11.

Absolutely confused and lost.

Literally constantly attacked by huge armies. Especially on border with Ikko-Ikki factions — it feels like Scavens in TWW3. Though the scariest part is when 2 bots randomly decide to gather several of their armies at your castle that had just beaten another 2 full stacks (same mid-turn).

It’s turn 10

I was one stup away from destroying malekith before warriors of chaos come and ruin my campaign I destroyed one army but my army's get a lot of damage and there second army destroyed me I hope they destroy malekith but if they didn't go for him how should I deal with them as high elf or other's?

So the gist of it is that a few hours ago i could start up the game perfectly fine, but now suddenly even though i hadn't changed any of the mods or there having been an update (it was still 5.3.1) the game refused to start and kept crashing. Does anyone have any ideas why?

All your friends die immediately (except maybe King Slayer will survive ) , the surrounding lands get razed by hordes and you constantly get attacked on multiple fronts. I really like this experience, it is more of an apocalypse than anything I have ever seen. Definetely recommend.

After I quickly defeated Skarsnik, I was attacked by 3 Skaven clans, defeated one, now facing a beastmen invasion,..

Are there any other factions like these?

Is there any drawback to just going legendary campaign difficulty with easy battle difficulty? Don't you get the same achievement despite the battle difficulty level? Or am I missing something?

I really enjoyed the podcast and thought you all might like it, too. Not sure if you guys have heard of the Critical Moves podcast, but they just dropped an episode about Total War. They even threw around the idea of a Star Wars: Total War, which was news to me before the pod. Could it actually work? Worth a listen if you’re into speculation and strategy talk.

Hi, I don't know what happened, but My wishlist on Steam has listed Total War: Shogun 2 as not available in my region. I'm in central Europe, I have not heard any new as if why this happened. Total War: Three Kingdoms is still available, as is Warhammer 3, I am just totally confused. Also, there are other games that aren available in my region as well, but they're not CA related.

Thanks for reading.

Update: Well thanks all, I didn't even know about this until now... What a fooking mess! I guess I have to get it another way, else I'll never be able to buy it.