I’d never played anything from the Total War series before, let alone Warhammer. During the Steam sales, I bought Warhammer 3. I’d already played a few real-time strategy games and a few 4X games in the past, but my goodness, nothing compares to this game!

I’m 35, I’ve got a rubbish full-time job and not much free time, and I’ve always spent what little I have on gaming. But it had been years since I’d experienced anything like this. Within a week, I’d bought Warhammer 1 and 2 to get all the factions, plus another €35’s worth of DLC. All that before I’d even finished the bloody tutorial. I spend two or three hours on it every day, and I learn something new every day. I try out a new faction, try to work out how to play it, and this is teaching me to recognise them when I come up against them as enemies. This isn’t a game, it’s a bloody religion, and I’m glad I stumbled across it by chance. And that’s it, I’m proud to have entered this world, and I never want to leave it.

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Only Thunderbarges (3400) and Dread Saurians (3100) are more expensive (not including RORs)

Do yall think Nagash being next door neighbors with the Imperishable, Great King, Khemrikhara, The Great King of Nehekhara, King of Kings, Opener of the Way, Wielder of the Divine Flame, Punisher of Nomads, The Great Unifier, Commander of the Golden Legion, Sacred of Appearance, Bringer of Light, Father of Hawks, Builder of Cities, Protector of the Two Worlds, Keeper of the Hours, Chosen of Ptra, High Steward of the Horizon, Sailor of the Great Vitae, Sentinel of the Two Realms, The Undisputed, Begetter of the Begat, Scourge of the Faithless, Carrion-feeder, First of the Charnel Valley, Rider of the Sacred Chariot, Vanquisher of Vermin, Champion of the Death Arena, Mighty Lion of the Infinite Desert, Emperor of the Shifting Sands, He Who Holds The Sceptre, Great Hawk Of The Heavens, Arch-Sultan of Atalan, Waker of the Hierotitan, Monarch of the Sky, Majestic Emperor of the Shifting Sands, Champion of the Desert Gods, Breaker of the Ogre Clans, Builder of the Great Pyramid, Terror of the Living, Master of the Never-Ending Horizon, Master of the Necropolises, Son of a Bitch, Taker of Souls, Tyrant to the Foolish, Bearer of Ptra's Holy Blade, Scion of Usirian, Scion of Nehek, The Great, Chaser of Nightmares, Keeper of the Royal Herat, Founder of the Mortuary Cult, Banisher of the Grand Hierophant, High Lord Admiral of the Deathfleets, Guardian of the Charnal Pass, Tamer of the Liche King, Unliving Jackal Lord, Dismisser of the Warrior Queen, Charioteer of the Gods, He Who Does Not Serve, Scarab Purger, Favoured of Usirian, Player of the Great Game, Liberator of Life, Lord Sand, Wrangler of Scorpions, Emperor of the Dunes, Eternal Sovereign of Khemri's Legions, Seneschal of the Great Sandy Desert, Curserer of the Living, Regent of the Eastern Mountains, Warden of the Eternal Necropolis, Herald of all Heralds, Caller of the Bitter Wind, God-Tamer, Master of the Mortis River, Guardian of the Dead, Great Keeper of the Obelisks, Deacon of the Ash River, Belated of Wakers, General of the Mighty Frame, Summoner of Sandstorms, Master of all Necrotects, Prince of Dust, Tyrant of Araby, Purger of the Greenskin Breathers, Killer of the False God's Champions, Tyrant of the Gold Dunes, Golden Bone Lord, Avenger of the Dead, Carrion Master, Eternal Warden of Nehek's Lands, Breaker of Djaf's Bonds, and many, many more...will ruin his campaign permanently with the difficulty bar or could it be possible to defeat the great evil that is Nagash?

I love the new trend of additional items for some lords

Anyone else see the news story about Beau Lieurance, a 28-year-old Arizona man who just got sentenced to a year in jail for trying to kill his mother with an assault rifle?

"Prosecutors said his anger was possibly fueled by a "Total War" video game he plays up to 60 hours a week." And that "[t]There are concerns with the people that he plays with … that are based, possibly in North Africa, that have ties to Islamic extremists."

And I thought I played a lot.

Any guesses on what title he played?

Here is the link:
Son who pulled gun on mom over house 'entitlement' sentenced

DLC MONTH TIME!!!!!

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This popped up on turn 15, and requires $7,000 to remove. If this spawned in the late game in a province I don't care about, I could see it being kinda fun maybe?

Reload last turn auto save!

(again)

• First Total War, even though I was a RTS guy when I was growing up. Never had a thing for maps I guess apart from CIV5.
• First fantasy Warhammer game

tried it in 2024 but (a) had a shitty PC and (b) was not in the right mindset I guess

I'm doing my third campaign with Tomb Kings and I'm having a GODDAMN blast lol this is a lovely game

The Animations of the Toad Dragon are busted beyond belief, it keeps repeating the tongue smashing animation, killing exactly 1 model without interacting with any of the other models it just glitches through it. I dont remember it being this broken on release, it worked perfectly fine.

I wanted to do a Tamurkhan campaign but since almost always does this dumb "kill a single entity" animation without hitting any other models that puts a serious damper on things.

Thoughts?

ARCHAON VS NAGASH.

Which legendary lord will you be more pleased to be catching other legendary lords with in the new update/DLC?

Nagash and his Mortarchs, or Arcahon with his chaos demons and champions?

The number of Lords available is more than enough for me!

But I was just curious about how the interactions with Ghorst, Kemmler, and Nagash will play out; I can't really picture them opposing the Great Necromancer...especially Ghorst...

I don't think they can be obtained here; they aren't on the roster. So, will they be enemies?

I know Kemmler died before the resurrection, and I think Ghorst is only mentioned in the Blood of Sigmar book, but canonical lore—especially End Times lore—doesn't really exist in this game. Still, if Nagash can't recruit them, we'd end up with the bizarre situation of seeing them in-game as the only Vampire Counts LLs standing against Nagash! That would be hilarious!

Earlier this year I asked on a livestream after Tides release when will we know more about the Corruption / Control rework, that has numerous issues and both became ignorable as a whole mechanic after their W3 1.0 changes.

The TLDR version:

1. There are no natural rebellions (no consequence of mismanagement)

2. It's near impossible to generate rebellions (Control rubberbanding)

3. Corruption attrition damage became useless (bumped up AI attrition damage resistance cheat is so high they ignore it even without raiding / encampment, and allowing armies to move in encampment stance allowed the player to ignore it)

4. Increased corruption per kill in battle hidden multiplier lead to regions going from 0 to 100 or 100 to 0 corruption in 1 or 2 turns, removing the slow growth / hard to root out feel, and point 1, 2 and 3 included all practical use of corruption. The W3 exclusive corruption specific effects (bottom left panel) are just placebo because of AI cheats.

Thus, I kept posting about these in greater detail, asking for a rework for years, because these removed important strategic layers and an entire playstyle that was very much present in W1 / W2, in favor of people who don't care and just want to smash action figures without thinking. And lo and behold it's happening. I've been told, we can't say anything until later this summer.

It is september. 9.0 is on the horizon, coming at the end of the month. Fairly sure we are running out of summer.

Yet not a single word about overhauling / restoring the core Corruption mechanics / Public Order (Control) in any of the streams. Not a word if it's in 9.0, or 9.1, or 9.2 or this year even.

Some people seem to think the Azure Princes shouldn't be a Tzeentch infantry unit because there were "only 6" in lore. But that's not true: https://warhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Azure_Princes

In fact, the Azure Princes consisted of "a vast coven of acolytes" of Vilitch. However, the Azure Princes were reduced to 6 because Vilitch, during the End Times, "spent their lives so carelessly." However, nothing in the lore says Vilitch couldn't have simply recruited/trained more acolytes had the world not ended. And, in the lore, the Azure Princes are not loyal to Vilitch exclusively (which is why Tzeentch has to continually tip Vilitch off to prevent him from being undone by rogue ones).

In Total War: Warhammer 3, the player gets to decide what units to "carelessly" use. It makes total sense to have the Azure Princes be a recruitable unit based on the lore.

The Azure Princes are simply current or former highly-trained sorcerer acolytes of Vilitch, and Vilitch is continually training more because he thinks it impresses and pleases Tzeentch. If one recruits Azur Princes in an army that fights Vilitch, that could easily be explained as the result of one of Tzeentch's schemes/testing Vilitch or simply that these Azure Princes decided to betray Vilitch as many have in the past (and Vilitch doesn't worry about this because his homie Tzeentch watches his back).

The 6 Azure Princes who survive after Vilitch orchestrates the deaths of the other Azure Princes aren't important "heroes" or standouts. They are just the dregs of the elite warriors that Vilitch intentionally threw into the blender to be wiped out.