With bugs still being ironed out and its first DLC on the horizon, Warhammer 3 seems on the verge of joining its predecessor in S-Tier. As well as a slew of quality-of-life improvements, Warhammer 3 expanded Mortal Empires into Immortal Empires, a truly vast sandbox campaign featuring hundreds of playable factions and three continents worth of conquest. Total War: Warhammer 3: Despite some lingering difficulties with its story campaign and settlement battles, Total War: Warhammer 3 represents the culmination of the Total War: Warhammer trilogy. Following on from the continent-spanning maps of Empire and Napoleon, many players appreciated the return to a narrower focus, where local politics, resource management, and settlement building became much more important. The return to 16th century Japan was an immediate hit with fans and critics alike, praised for its refinement of the classic Total War gameplay as well as its immersive setting. Total War: Shogun 2: In 2011, Creative Assembly brought players back to the series' original setting in Total War: Shogun 2. Combining the maps and factions of Warhammer 1 and Warhammer 2 into a single, gigantic sandbox campaign called Mortal Empires, Warhammer 2 allowed an unprecedented level of replayability, as well as a world that felt both dynamic and familiar. As well as a slew of quality-of-life improvements, Warhammer 2 featured something never before seen in a Total War game, a campaign that combined the content of two different titles. Twice the missile damage and +50 range is huge! In a shootout they would cull the numbers of your mid tier archers by half before those would even come into shooting range to fire back.Total War: Warhammer 2: Total War: Warhammer may have been the series' first foray into fantasy, but it took until Warhammer 2 to show what the collaboration with Games Workshop could really do for Total War. For example the Onyx Dragons are absolutely incompareable to regular archers AND they have very decent melee stats on top of it. They will always be far more effective than troops of lower upkeep. They cost a ton to recruit, but have actually pretty efficient upkeep, meaning that they are a superior investment in the long run (except the Onyx Dragons which are nearly 3x as expensive in upkeep). This means though, that you have only a single approach to battles, which is boring to say the least.Įlites are worth it, but only as some kind of luxury. I see, so you are basically using mid-tier units with trebuchets, which cost more upkeep than most elite-tier troops actually. The result is that basically no high level unit is worth the cost, and my catapults tear through any mid-high level units attacking me.ĭoes anyone use anything other than the basic tier 1 units? and if so.why? Once you level up your basic archers (etc), they'll be pretty powerful, and still cheap. If you look at the numbers, the archer unit that is often 3-4x the cost, will only kill 30-50% (roughly) more in any battle.

The one exception is the shielded guys that can make a turtle formation-they're worth it. Opprinnelig skrevet av ekidhardt:I've played with several factions now and beaten the campaign on all of them (normal mode, starting hard now) -and to be honest, I just use the most basic archer and most basic spearmen + 4 catapults. Not that it's all that much fun to play like that, but it's certainly doable. The AI brought spears? Not like it matters when you hit them with three vanguards and chain AE attacks and morale debuffs. If you want to be really cheesy you can forego troops entirely for many of your armies (up to the midgame at least) and just hire generals - the base upkeep of a general isn't any higher than that of a single unit, and there is no early game army that 6-9 generals won't faceroll w/o breaking a sweat.

At least here you don't need to invest all that money into infrastructure to actually recruit the troops (which made using samurai in Shogun 2 downright idiotic - the cost of the buildings alone could pay for entire armies of ashigaru.) Shogun 2 was easy enough with nothing but ashigaru (especially if you were playing Oda) - base units are just far more cost effective than elites will ever be. Warhammer increased the cost of every unit by a multiplier of your # of armies (how high the multiplier was depended on your dificulty setting), which meant that stacking armies with elites was the way to go, but without that mechanic numbers will always be more economic. Once you're able to field multiple armies you can certainly get away with fielding only militia, but this isn't exactly a new thing.

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