Looking forward to Total War: Warhammer?

[xLegionx]

Any fans of warhammer present? What faction are you playing as in total war: Warhammer? Playing vampire counts here all the way!! May the dead forever rule the realm of the living muahaha!!

[Face]

Greenskins of course... Waaaaaaaaaag!!!

[tfunke]

No way, didn't know this was a thing until I saw your post! Makes so much sense to merge the two games.

I never played the tabletop warhammer, but I played THQ's turn-based strategy warhammer games and they were fun. Of course, total war games are amazing too, so this will be great.

[TheLier]

From what I seen...it is maybe too focused on heroes and epic battles.

Plus some lore things bug me, but I'm Warhammer Fantasy fanboi, so the latter is expected.

[Karond]

Played both tabletop and most of the total war series. Preordered the day it was announced!

Going to play dwarves, of course

[Moltrazahn]

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Somehow... that makes me think "Spawn in Eastern Farmlands with my wizard"
Wish we had them graphics tho... Imagine if our game looked like that X.X *Drools*

[Hawke]

As a fan of Total War,,,,,,, and of course Warhammer, I preodered it.

I have not had a chance to jump in yet.

[Wyatt]

Why, that is just my game.

[kleomenes]

So now its been out for a few weeks, how are people finding it?

[Considerate_]

Overall, it's a good game. I completed it playing Vampire Counts on realistic, Hard mode (I love strategy games, especially End Turn ones).

It takes a little getting into the hang of it. The start is difficult, but once you've hit a certain 'peak', you become more or less unstoppable and just continue spitting out one army after the other.

I like how the different races/factions have a completely different feel to them and units. The undead are masters of the sky, the human loves their artillery, and dwarves are so heavily armoured you need to bring a can opener if you want to even dent them... and the greenskins? WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!


I do have critique though:
- The storyline is... very thin. I don't feel like an ancient evil vampire, when I got a living 'servant' who dictates what I must do. The standard messages are not geared towards playing undead, you get messages that's supposed to be disheartening like "the only victor here is death"....
- The 'quests' feels weird and forced, and weird... Did I mention weird?
- You can't occupy all the settlements on the map, without using an addon (which is more or less faulty). The dwarves and greenskins can steal each others settlements, and the vampire counts and humans can steal each others settlements. It makes for some interesting play, but really would like it was optional.
- AI is not geared to handle flying foes. It leaves nothing to protect their artillery from my flyers, making it pretty much obsolete.
- Town Management is pretty boring, I have a standard template for every region save for my main one which spits out troops 24/7.
- Why can't I use more keyboard shortcuts.... Stop forcing me to mouse click every other message!

[kleomenes]

You see I am sidestepping much of that by playing Chaos!

- No storyline AT ALL. Chaos does not have those initial walkthroughs that guide you to your first province. I figured they were kind of a tutorial myself.

- Weird quests matter not when you serve insanity itself. They are presented as almost visions from the gods of Chaos! And that works.

- You burn ALL settlements (barring the Norscans, who you can "awaken") so no issues with what you can and can't occupy. And no boring town management! Even the horde management is pretty similar.

Its a fair point about the keyboard controls and the AI. Although the AI is an improvement over most Total War games! Total War: Warhammer is probably the first TW game I have been able to play unmodded (although I did then mod it. The battles were too quick!). I am missing naval battles a bit as well. Sieges I was not sold on at first but I see how the AI can actually handle them and I am warming up.

I've been quite enjoying how true to lore the game is, considering, and how different the factions are. And I'm really enjoying the customisably of the heroes. I've given all but vampires a taste so far.

I'm giving it 8/10 so far.