Total War: Warhammer is coming

[Valmy]

Bretonnia is a little too bland for my tastes. Just knights and lots of them. I will certainly give them a shot though.

[Valmy]

I am going to AAR my first spin with Total War: Warhammer so you can all laugh at how much I suck having not played a Total War game since the first Rome.

[Lettow77]

I'd like to see it. Will you be starting with the Empire?

[katmai]

Since game is only coming out on PC to start I guess I'll be waiting till Aug at earliest to pick this up.

[Valmy]

I'd like to see it. Will you be starting with the Empire?

Yep.

[Lettow77]

Settling in to my first battle I confirm what I'd suspected- the morale for undead is a complete port of other races. The arcane magicks by which skeletons are kept bound to their master would appear to be easier to maintain at the crest of a hill rather than the base of it. 

[Valmy]

The mystical rituals are more powerful in the high places in full site of the gods you see.

[The Brain]

Yeah undead like their barrows and mounds.

[Lettow77]

Very Hard is punishing. I overextended out of Sylvania and was immediately faced with bankruptcy, rebellion, attrition in untainted lands, and an elector count-dwarf coalition. I won't restart, but I'm set to lose both my stacks in the next turn, and if I can survive a defensive campaign depends on the enemy's dedication more than any force I can field. 

As expected, the undead healing spell Invocation of Nehek is so weak as to practically be a placebo. It can be useful for healing low hp high damage units not in combat, such as dire wolves, but as something you cast on skeletons engaged against even the most feeble opposition it is almost unnoticeable.

[Razgovory]

You guys will forgive me if I wait till they put out all of the DLC factions.

[Lettow77]

 Probably a good call if you want value for money, but it could be a very long time. They are planning to make two separate stand-alone expansions and aren't looking to have it done sooner than 2020.


(Doesn't it sound really far away if you express it as "2020?")

[Razgovory]

Yeah, it does.  Four factions seem kind of paltry for a Total war game.

[Lettow77]

 Well you're right. The factions are more distinct than they've ever been though, and there's in practice five, since Chaos is out and is free for the first week of purchases.

Five is still a bit scarce, though. The continent they are portraying doesn't feel right due to some absences. The Empire's woods are supposed to lurk with Beastmen, so that the Empire is under siege within as well as from without. And Athel Loren is egregiously vacant.

It's understandable Skaven aren't in yet- that's clearly a flagship race for the next expansion, and as dwellers of an under-empire whose existence is denied it makes some sense they aren't there. The game makes allusion to them as well.

But the game needs Beastmen and Wood Elves. The forests of the old world were the part I always liked the most, and they are empty.

[Josquius]

So it's like every other games workshop game these days. Dlc city

[Valmy]

I don't really care. So many of the Warhammer Factions are just stupidly over the top. The factions I actually want to play are mostly already there. The Brettonians would be nice at some point.

Hate the Dark Elf and the other new world factions so glad to be free of them for a bit.

At least here the factions are really different in how they play. In Rome the factions played basically the same way.