u/Revenacious

I’m having my first battles with the Skaven as the High Elves, and every single time I try to fight them I get most of my ranged units wiped out by that nuke ability. I keep trying to keep my eyes open and move my troops out of the way when it pops up, but they’re too goddamn slow. I’m not even keeping them close together! This is so frustrating, and every single goddamn Skaven army has it. My friend told me it was just Ikit Claw who has it.

I’m just about to finish confederating Ulthuan as the High Elves, all I have left is Yvresse. But every time I confederate a faction, I get overwhelmed because they add at least three other lords and their armies to my roster. But I don’t know what to do with all these guys lol. I had three armies originally, and any more than that is honestly overwhelming and I can’t keep up with them all. But I don’t want to risk too many external threats surrounding me.

How many armies do y’all recommend someone out in the field? Any number of defensive armies for home, and external armies for expansion?

I work at a grocery store, and went to shop on my day off with my sibling and her friend. As we left after checking out, the loss prevention crew took us into their office and had my sibling’s friend hand over some items they’d stolen. I had no idea the friend had done this, and I made sure to let my coworkers know. The friend got processed and banned from the premises.

I’ve never been in a situation like this. Would my job have grounds to fire me or punish me in any way over this?

I’m trying to do my first quest battles as the High Elves, but it literally will never let me arrange my troops before the battle starts. So now I gotta scramble to get them in position and grouped up before the smell reaches me. This game is so frustrating and confusing, it makes me feel so stupid and I’m tired of it. I feel like I wasted a lot of money and time.

(I’m playing as High Elves btw) One of the parts that annoys me most about sieges is taking the walls. I’ll clear them out with artillery and spells, then get my melee units up there to capture them. But by the time the first few are up, the enemy already has lots of reinforcements intercepting them on the wall even after they’ve been cleared. I’m trying to capture the walls so my archers can be safe up there while my infantry does the main fighting on the ground inside the settlement.

The melee units just get bogged down in endless fighting and start routing, no matter what I do. So I never push much farther into the settlement and my stupid coward melee units just end up thinning out and retreating. I can’t hit the enemy with archers because they’re under the wall and the angle sucks, and they’re now in danger close range of offensive spells or artillery.

I’m new and really want to enjoy this game, but sieges are the most frustrating thing and just completely unfun. I spent a lot of money on my first gaming computer solely to play this game, but I’m having such a tough time just to enjoy it.

I’m starting out as the Lothern High Elves in IE, and I love their whole deal. But no matter how good my diplomatic ties are with the High Elf factions around me, they don’t aid me when I need it. I’m trying to take back the southeast from the stupid vampires, but Ellyrian won’t attack the target I have set up for him.

It’s been five turns, and I’ve had to re-load prior saves twice because Ellyrian gets their useless ass annihilated. I can’t possibly build up enough troops to take on the vampire counts at the southeastern capital, even with a full army. But none of the other factions actually help in battle. Goddammit. I just want to give this game up, nothing ever adds up no matter what guides or advice I adhere to.

I’m sorry to bother y’all with another super dumb question. I don’t have any friends who play this game to direct this to. But how do you abandon a settlement? I see it mentioned that you just need to demolish a settlement’s main building, but I never see that option. I see it for smaller buildings though.

It pisses me off every single time my settlement garrisons are never bolstered enough and it always results in a complete steamroll. I just want to abandon a settlement if the enemy is close so I don’t have to go through the rage and humiliation of losing another goddamn battle in real time. Oh boy, I sure do love having five fucking Dark Elf armies parading across my one and a half provinces at turn 20, while my main army takes forever to recruit for. Oh can’t forget also the wonderful time of not getting any new military units cuz the buildings take fucking FOREVER to construct, and they get sacked at least twice before they’re all done.

Such a fun fucking time.

I'm very new to this game and Total War in general. This is my first campaign as Cathay (since everyone said they're great to start with). But I keep getting met with armies like five times the size of mine. I was just starting to build my second army, 7 turns in, and get met with this steamroll. Is this normal/expected? I'm so ready to give this game up because I can't make any goddamn progress.