Warhammer Total War: Warhammer III

[Tyranicon]

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This needs 100% less clothes.

 

[Trithne]

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This needs 100% less clothes.

Probably have to find the artist's kiketreon for that.

 

[baud]

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This needs 100% less clothes.

well, I searched a little and considering the artist is mostly doing art with 100% less clothes, that version could exist, but I didn't find it (could be behind a patreon paywall)

 

[gerey]

Who needs women anyway?

Many enjoyers of this game.

Where's the mod that removes the female soldiers?

 

[Tyrr]

Who needs women anyway?

Many enjoyers of this game.

Where's the mod that removes the female soldiers?

I hope it will use this thumbnail.

 

[Fedora Master]

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This needs 100% less clothes.

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[baud]

also in other news, it seems recruiting from allies isn't limited to tier 3, but rather all the units that are available in the settlement where you put the outpost.

 

[Lacrymas]

Terrible. But maybe it will force people to see the factions aren't as different from each other as they think.

 

[tabacila]

also in other news, it seems recruiting from allies isn't limited to tier 3, but rather all the units that are available in the settlement where you put the outpost.

I think the last level of the outpost gives you access to the global recruitment of that faction, which is even worse imo...
If you really have access to all the units of an allied faction they should have really reduced the total number of allied units to 1 or 2, but fuck faction asymmetry right?

Hopefully there will be some mods to fix this crap.

 

[Nahel]

Honestly I am not that excited. The improvements compared to warhammer 2 are barebones. Like a big DLC with cosmetics which fixes none of the gameplay flaws.

 

[tabacila]

Like a big DLC with cosmetics which fixes none of the gameplay flaws.

Was anybody really expecting anything else?

 

[Jaedar]

PR dude on Ind, Kuresh and Nippon factions:

"We're never gonna say never because there should always be the opportunity to bring these new races in or new nations, but you know I've seen the road map and these nations aren't on there now. There's no plans to do them in the immediate or even long-term future. We've still go so much to do with Cathay. Honestly the stuff I've seen it'll curl your toes in the best possible way. [...] People are kinda desperately hanging on for one of these other nations. [...] Don't lose any sleep, it's not happening anytime soon. Probably never, I'm afraid.
Cathay was a brillant coup for us. Doesn't mean it's gonna be repeated"

 

[Lacrymas]

They will run out of factions to milk DLC from, so I'm almost 100% certain they'll introduce these at some point.

 

[Wulfric Pinewood]

Only 7 days left , mmmm.

 

[zapotec]

Yea that would be stupid to not do that.
Should we expects the other old factions to be reworked for a 2nd/3rd time?

 

[Fedora Master]

I assume that at least Norsca and WoC will get reworked.

 

[tabacila]

After they showed the map it was pretty clear there wasn't much hope for Nippon and Ind tbh.
They didn't even do the unused greyed out stuff like they did for the Darklands in Mortal Empires. The map just ends.
Cathay seems a 'let's see if this works' kind of idea. I think they decided to do Cathay when they were riding high with 3K before or shortly after its release. It sold really well, but the player base evaporated and they didn't make enough on their DLCs.
Kislev makes sense since it was just a bland Empire clone, but Cathay was probably at least partially a 'let's get that demographic' choice for both CA and GW.

In the meantime they have clearly better candidates for new races like the Chaos Dwarfs (huge unsued space in the Darklands) and the Dogs of War/Southern Realms (last Empire copy paste clones in the world map and more extreme use of the allied recruitment/missions mechanics). Not to mention that huge parts of WH1 factions' lands are in the WH3 game so we'll lots of those stupid vs DLCs involving WH1 and WH2 factions.
As for re-works, besides the obvious chaos factions, the Dwarfs never had one and the Empire's mechanics only really make sense if you're playing as Reikland.

 

[Average Manatee]

After they showed the map it was pretty clear there wasn't much hope for Nippon and Ind tbh.
They didn't even do the unused greyed out stuff like they did for the Darklands in Mortal Empires. The map just ends.

They've expanded the scope of the map multiple times for mortal empires. Also having unused room for Nippon would kind of look screwy with the polar map projection I think.

 

[Tyrr]

PR dude on Ind, Kuresh and Nippon factions:

"We're never gonna say never because there should always be the opportunity to bring these new races in or new nations, but you know I've seen the road map and these nations aren't on there now. There's no plans to do them in the immediate or even long-term future. We've still go so much to do with Cathay. Honestly the stuff I've seen it'll curl your toes in the best possible way. [...] People are kinda desperately hanging on for one of these other nations. [...] Don't lose any sleep, it's not happening anytime soon. Probably never, I'm afraid.
Cathay was a brillant coup for us. Doesn't mean it's gonna be repeated"

I'm worried about the fact that they're so proud about Cathay, a faction I have zero interest in.

 

[Average Manatee]

I get the feeling that they intend to milk TW3 with DLC far beyond the scope of WH1 and 2. Cathay is a test run to see if they can create an entire OC donut steal faction not present on the tabletop and sell it (+ milk it) to a crowd of players who could easily be way less interested in non-tabletop extensions.

 

[Lagole Gon]

 

[tabacila]

They've expanded the scope of the map multiple times for mortal empires.

What they had was a huge grey area with nothing in it INSIDE the existing map. It's not the case here.

You do have some unused spaces in around the edges and corners, but definitely nothing like we had in Mortal Empires.
They could of course release an update that changes the map, but I'm just saying that taking what they did for Mortal Empires makes me think Nippon/Ind are not likely.

I'm worried about the fact that they're so proud about Cathay, a faction I have zero interest in.

I'm not sure if it's just standard marketing spiel or they are actually happy they made a fanfic cringy China faction.

 

[Jaedar]

You do have some unused spaces in around the edges and corners, but definitely nothing like we had in Mortal Empires.

There's a pretty big unused space north of the sea of dread. I'ts currently mountains, but nothing says they can't change that.

 

[Average Manatee]

They could of course release an update that changes the map, but I'm just saying that taking what they did for Mortal Empires makes me think Nippon/Ind are not likely.

Maybe. But if Nippon/Ind are already undetermined whether they should be developed in the first place it'd make sense not to leave empty space for them. And I'm ~80% certain that Mortal Empires did shift things around and expand the map a bit if you compare the original mortal empire map to the current one.

 

[Mitleser2020]

If you want to get spoiled: The finale of a Chinese Cathay campaign

The main prize for the player is demon.