Warhammer Total War: Warhammer III

[Tyrr]

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

The main prize for the player is demon.

So they're forcing us to play their fucking faction to unlock stuff?
All so they can say: "Look how many players played Cathay! It was a huge success."

 

[tabacila]

I think Be'lakor is the prize for ALL factions once the story is done. Pretty mindless stuff...

 

[baud]

I'm not sure you can start a campaign as Be'lakor, you just get him as lord in your current campaign once you've finished the storyline, not like Boris where you can start a campaign with him once unlocked with another LL from Kislev

 

[Lagole Gon]

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

The main prize for the player is demon.

So they're forcing us to play their fucking faction to unlock stuff?
All so they can say: "Look how many players played Cathay! It was a huge success."

Man, you really hate not-china.

 

[Mitleser2020]

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.

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

Future TWW3 battles be like.

 

[Lacrymas]

I predict everyone, especially cheeselords like Legend, saying "you should get military alliances with the Skaven ASAP and fill your armies with jazzails/rattling guns" when playing literally any faction.

 

[Tyrr]

I just hope they AI will not use outposts. (knowing the TW AI, this is very likely)

If it's just for the human player, I don't really care because I can just ignore it.

 

[baud]

I just hope they AI will not use outposts. (knowing the TW AI, this is very likely)

If it's just for the human player, I don't really care because I can just ignore it.

apparently they do (at 1:23:33, there's an IA Kislevite army with empire troops)

 

[underground nymph]

What a shitty mechanic indeed

 

[Raghar]

Well, we might see chaos army with horde of luminarks.

 

[Average Manatee]

I predict everyone, especially cheeselords like Legend, saying "you should get military alliances with the Skaven ASAP and fill your armies with jazzails/rattling guns" when playing literally any faction.

ackshully what you really want is poison wind mortars. They are by far the most disgusting units and they can get a thousand kills easily in sieges. Works best with only 1 or 2 per army as well.

Also its damn near impossible to get alliances with evil nations like Skaven without massive bribes. Even harder to actually maintain them (and from what I know if you lose the alliance you also lose the units). That said Helstrom Rocket Batteries for the entire ordertide will be both hilarious and a special kind of hell if the AI does it.

Wonder whether it will work with Tomb Kings. They are the one race that you can easily get alliances with and their whole unit cap thing would be bypassed.

 

[Tyranicon]

Watched all the WH3 videos on that account. Intro videos are pretty neat.

 

[underground nymph]

Poison wind mortars in sieges basically render any opposing force harmless. Thing is to choose the right spot to place them. Destroying a tower may be needed.

 

[zapotec]

Total War: WARHAMMER III File Size
The approximate installation size is
~120 GB
, so we recommend starting early. Please also make sure there is enough space available on your drive to install the game. There will also be at least one more patch prior to playing, so you'll want to have a majority of the files ready-to-go if you want to play on day one!

 

[Average Manatee]

Poison wind mortars in sieges basically render any opposing force harmless. Thing is to choose the right spot to place them. Destroying a tower may be needed.

It's actually completely hilarious because all the other artillery have the issue of not being able to kill infantry if they are positioned in certain ways or are at very low unit numbers, but poison wind mortars just barely need to clip a single model to take ~1/5th of the whole units HP. It's like an artillery that brings 25 Final Transmutations to overcast across the battlefield. I think every time I've used them against a full stack they've gone from rank 1 to rank 9 on the first battle. Even in non-siege battles where they might get only 300 kills they're still getting ~5x the damage of everything else because of all the models that they are degenerating down to 10% health before something else kills it.

 

[Olinser]

 

[Sunri]

I hope this game will be more optimized than 2.

 

[Raghar]

Total War: WARHAMMER III File Size
The approximate installation size is
~120 GB
, so we recommend starting early. Please also make sure there is enough space available on your drive to install the game. There will also be at least one more patch prior to playing, so you'll want to have a majority of the files ready-to-go if you want to play on day one!

They don't need to use denuvo anymore 120 GB is enough to deter a lot of pirates.

 

[Wulfric Pinewood]

It will Sunri, but anyway im buying new proc and ssd soon.

 

[Space Satan]

Just checked video card prices for WHIII and have to say that all fucking degenerate miners should die or be sent to gulags to work their worthless ands to the bones at uranium mines.

 

[Mitleser2020]

Found an interesting argument for a Southern Realms/Dogs of War DLC:

Call me crazy but I think the biggest reason that Dogs of War are coming to the game is that [Miragliano] is one of the 17 cities that let you achieve a long victory with many factions, which stands out as most of said victory cities are major faction capitals. Hell pit and Kislev were two other examples of cities like this that had factions announced for them after their cities previously held this status. Currently the only other non-playable faction that starts with a victory city (Not counting Kislev) in WH2 is the recently added Lahmia which points to Neferata being added as a Legendary Lord soon as well. I assume CA does this because a lot of WH2 mortal empires is being imported to WH3 and adding these cities and victory conditions now saves time later.

This city is closely tied to the DoW.

https://whfb.lexicanum.com/wiki/Miragliano

During his reign he founded several Dogs of War Regiments of Renown for specialisized work like Braganza's Besiegers or The Galloper Guns of Bronzino. The Marksmen of Miragliano recruit only in this city and Vespero's Vendetta - famed duellists - worked for Borgio until his mysterious assassination, that took place in his own bathtub.

 

[Fedora Master]

 

[Sunri]

It will Sunri, but anyway im buying new proc and ssd soon.

How did you play previous parts without ssd it was already tedious.

 

[Raghar]

It will Sunri, but anyway im buying new proc and ssd soon.

How did you play previous parts without ssd it was already tedious.

I used constellation ES.3 as HDD, it was fine. Only slow time was on load, and that was caused horde of Denuvo checks. Frankly, it feels weird when a person gets SSD, just to have shorter loading time.

 

[underground nymph]

Poison wind mortars in sieges basically render any opposing force harmless. Thing is to choose the right spot to place them. Destroying a tower may be needed.

It's actually completely hilarious because all the other artillery have the issue of not being able to kill infantry if they are positioned in certain ways or are at very low unit numbers, but poison wind mortars just barely need to clip a single model to take ~1/5th of the whole units HP. It's like an artillery that brings 25 Final Transmutations to overcast across the battlefield. I think every time I've used them against a full stack they've gone from rank 1 to rank 9 on the first battle. Even in non-siege battles where they might get only 300 kills they're still getting ~5x the damage of everything else because of all the models that they are degenerating down to 10% health before something else kills it.

One more way to cheese the game with skavens’ poisoned wind mortars is to ambush an enemy army but instead of instantly attacking troops, position your army somewhere far away and reveal yourself. AI will just wait absolutely passively while you can use all your ammunition and magic from afar.