Just Nagash survives and no one else, so the only person Nagash cares for will win so its acceptable losses. Especially if it takes down Settra without Nagash putting in that much effort.
I was expecting them to be tough to kill becouse i played khorne a lot and i know of the melee potential of those lunatics, but i was not expecting them to be THAT tough. The khorne "army" had just fougth a battle and was at half health too. I also had to fully utilize that one ability which summons skaven to its fullest potential
One thing i find hilarious about this screenshot is: The warriors were carving their way through. They were actually moving forward through the tide of rats that had befallen them. The lord in this battle spent the entire time getting pelted by rocks by skavenslave slingers and barely got hurt(he wasnt even high level)
The skaven were not made for melee. If i remember correctly, the skaven view outnumbering the enemy 10 to 1 unfavorable odds and now i see why.
The events that happened here are weird but very convenient. I took one of malekiths settlements. Malekith, as a rebuttal, sieged my army, which was stronger than his even without a garrison, but it would still cost me casualties. Thankfully for me, malekith was at war with a random beastmen tribe, and they saw that their enemy was engaged with an enemy of their own. They, clearly seeing the value of this, seized the oppurtunity and engaged malekith with my main army and settlement garrisons support.
One wrong put rigth, but The Great Book of Grudges, remains full.
I keep seeing people complain about places like norsca getting too crowded, or way too many factions being in the chaos wastes, or lustria being filled with every type of race... none of them compare to the decomposing carcas of the reigon which creative assembly keeps shooting with ratling guns: Southlands.
Norsca, the reigon with 3 factions, 2 of which ally, gets another faction added and its considered crowded. Well, the southlands are the truest form of psychological torture, with a end game option lord getting added there. Lets see the competitors of the southlands brawl shall we? The most fun to play reigon?(Yes, despite it being a tad bit crowded, its my favorite reigon and i wouldnt have it any other way)
Arkhan the Black, Repanse de Lyonesse, Volkmar the Grim, Skarbrand the Exiled, Malagor the Dark Omen, our newest competitor Nagash, Queek Headtaker, High Queen Khalida, Settra the Imperishable, Thorek Ironbrow, M*nfred von Carstein, Kroq-Gar, Tiktaq-to, Wurrzag Da Great Green Prophet and finally Teclis. With a grand total of 15 factions. Doesnt seem like that much, but the reigon isnt that big. The settlement count is low so it usually takes 2 turns to take one settlement. What this means is, after your starting ai enemy, you have usually at least 2 enemies on your borders.
But wait, these were just the people who start there. There are many more people who quickly get involved in this slaugther. And they are: Skrag the Slaugtherer, Skarsnik, Gorbad Ironclaw, Aranessa Saltspire, Oxyotl and to finish this list, Kairos Fateweaver.
If this was a place like Naggarond where half the factions fold by turn 10, this wouldnt be so bad, but heres the thing: All of these factions have a decent chance to win this carnage. No one is out from the start so, you will likely have to figth all of the factions listed above who dont like you.
Also, goodbye, Settra the Imperishable. One of the coolest charecters in lore, who rarely made it past turn 20 even before having Nagash next to his capital.
EDIT: A bonus grievance i have is wurrzag and the bullshit orc "WAAAGH" ability. TF you mean you get 2 armies per each army? And yeah, SURE, LETS PUMP THOSE ARMIES WITH SOME OF THE BEST INFANTRY! Oh, you want to add giants and giant spiders to the mix? WHY THE HELL NOT? What, are you suggesting we give the lord ridiculous spells which can easily flatten your infantry who is already losing to 20 orcs? SURE. I just thougth of something, lets also give the race which is busted in melee ARTILERRY AND A BUNCH OF ARCHERS! Oh, and also lets give them good cavalry, BECOUS OTHERWISE THEIR ROSTER WOULD SURELY BE INCOMPLETE! And i really dont want the campaign to be rough, so lets just put them next to people who get stronger WAY SLOWER THAN THEM!
Im just imagining the leaders reaction to this event. "Oh, so Skarbrand, the Khornate daemon who can only feel rage has invited an ambassador from every nation? Surely this gathering is a step towards world peace with no malicious intent whatsoever."
Like, in lore, i dont think even Karl Franz could pull this diplomatic feat off. Honesly, well done Skarbrand. Truly a respected member of society.
BHASHIVA, THE WHITE TIGER, or just some rats. The answer is rats. The rumors about the Stormvermin of Clan Rictus being stronger than the rest were true after all.
A unique building in the capital also gives immunity to psychology as well so they will figth to the last. Who said Tretch "The migthy warlord of Clan Rictus" Craventail had a bad campaign?
(the battle difficulty was easy becouse its more accurate to reality if you are playing skaven melee. A decisive victory in this battle was easily achieved. Also, half of this cats army fled before doing anything impactfull meanwhile no skaven routed)
I have to pay this asshole who isnt even a legendary lord for the privlege of giving him my settlement. Its not even a bad one. It was level 2 with a few buildings but i guess i have to pay this guy money just so i can have one settlement less than i do now
Elves are always so racist, am i rigth? What a horrible way to treat new neighbors.
Edit: Also, regarding this screenshot, i am not thrilled to see whats going on in brettonia becouse normally the elves have trade deals and alliances with factions like Brettonia or the Empire but this time theres none. Either they dont get along but still live(good option) or factions like chaos and vampire counts are sweeping the floor with ordertide(very bad option).
I just want to make it clear, they wouldnt be here if they hadnt taken a settlement i wanted while i was in lustria doing a challenge. This is purely their fault.
A very underrated legendary lord and campaign if you ask me. He has a vastly different battle style to any other lord, you kill m*nfred very early on, fairly safe starting position, starts in the best area(southlands), you can mix allied units like dwarven gyrocopters or elven dragons into your armies for added flair, the starting enemies lack aerial defenses on account of them being undead... the list truly does go on.
This hag dare tell me this? In her fortified magic island away from all war? Without a care in the world? Do you not see who im at war with?
I have spent the last 80 turns figthing Archaon, Arbaal, all of norsca, disciples of hashut and daemons of chaos on two fronts and my entire coastline. My random normal lord has fougth more battles than your entire stupid race you knife ear! I have lost countless soldiers and fougth a war of attrition on my own borders constantly losing and retaking settlements. I confederated thorek and fougth in the southlands(to be fair, that was rather simple compared to what i dealt with) and grombrndal with a dark elf 20 stack was rigth outside his borders and i have been figthing them too now! Valkia recently joined in the effort to kill me. I SAW BORIS SACRIFCE HIMSELF TO BUY ME TIME TO SET UP DEFENCES! I SENT AN ARMY THERE TO SAVE HIM BUT I COULDNT! The damn french took the last norsca legendary grudge settlement after i spent the entire game clawing my way towards it, for them to take it just as it was finally within reach.
All of this, just so the rest of the world wouldnt have to worry about whats coming from north. So that the world may be safe. So that peace may be achived. So wheres my "Thank you for your sacrifices" you witch! All i get is a racist remark telling me im greedy, in a TRADE DEAL YOU PROPOSED! You dare tell me im greedy when i havent had more than 6k gold for Grungni knows how long?
And then you knife ears complain when we tell "there will be no alliance with elves" ! THIS IS WHY! YOU ARROGANT IGNORANT PIG! In the last 80 turns, i have seen norscans marauders and chaos spawn with better etiqute! ARBAAL HIMSELF WAS NICER TO ME! At least he respected my provess.
I will personally see to it that multiple pages in the great book be dedicated to this insult!
Been playing as ikit and malakai, and there is one unit i just couldnt understand: Flamethrowers. Their range is too little so they dont fire that much before the enemy gets in melee distance, they cant figth in melee after the ranged fire(unlike some hybrid units who you can rely on for melee) so i have just been using them to guard flanks but even then, they dont get to fire that much before the enemy reaches them.
So i ask: How should i position them to get the most use out of them?
I decided to play ikit claw, got beat up by the beastmen and lost.
So i looked at a few guides, experimented myself a bit and the results are perfect. Main army is 4 shield spear frontline and then a colorfull(mainly green) mix of guns making up the rest of the army. I got a lord who buffed warpfire throwers, said fuck it, and decided to give him only those which has yielded fantastic results(as a side note, on ikits army, 2 units of warpfire throwers killed 500 people out of 1000 in autoresolve. They are built different) I even gave a chieftain 19 skavenslaves becouse, why not? Im planning to get an all ratling gunners army soon if the economy doesnt strave our "people"
I see now that this is the pinnacle of warfare. The skaven are truly lving their best life.
I have been playing Morrowind for the first time after so many people were praising it, and i gotta say, pretty nice game. I am enjoying my time but its definetly not something id play more than once. It is a game i am playing for the story and definetly not the gameplay, but its definetly not a bad game.
But that isnt why i made a post. That was simply context. My actual complaint is: the people of morrowind are terrible ar giving directions. These "people" couldnt tell me where the local tradehouse was even if their lives depended on it. I could tolarate their proud resistance against pointing to a place on a map, or even looking at a map in the first place... screw it, i could even tolarate their insistance to not keeping track of the roads they use every day, until i joined house redoran. That damn questline hasnt given me a SINGLE good direction so far. They tell me "-take the first rigth" which is a rather weird way of saying: walk 5 kilometers while skipping multiple rigth turns, enter a different timezone, kill 39 cliffracers, get tuberculosis from the cliffracers reducing all your attributes to 10, and then FINALLY turn rigth.
I know the modern bethesda way of quest markers distracts you and whatever other complaints you can give it are also valid, but is it so hard to just point your finger to a place on the map and say "here is where you need to go" I am not even asking for quest markers. Just give me the location on the map and i will be on my merry way. This is made even worse with some quests actually SHOWING YOU THE LOCATION! Also, why is the only time this game shows locations the times where i could find it on my own?
So i need to know, am i the idiot? Are the directions crystal clear and its just me who cant follow them or is this a common issue? I really dont think its just me who listens to the npcs directions and end up searching an entire area only to realize the thing isnt even there.
Recently i decided to try the game and i gotta say, its way more fun and much easier than people say. But this post isnt about gameplay, its about the lore portion of morrowind.
Before playing morrowind, i saw people say that the racism isnt as bad as people make it out to be and its only inm certaian places. Slavery isnt even that common they said. You wont have troubles they said. After not that much time in the game, i can say with certainty: They are correct, its not bad as they say it is, it is far worse. And since i am fairly early,, i expect it to get far worse from here.
I expected it to be welcomed in most cities and see a few slaves every now and then and have a minor reputation debuff as an Argonian with the way people were talking about the situation. What i did NOT expect was getting an average of 25 reputation with everyone(the guard average is 20), people sniffing when im nearby, getting accused of borrowing a leigon armor which was given to me when i joined the leigon, everyone and their ancestors telling me to get lost, the imperial leigon in question protecting slavers rigths(Not equal rigths. Thats cringe. We protect slavers rigths here in morrowind) which means i need to help people who enslave my kind if i want to stay in the leigon. Im losing money on every quest becouse i need to pay people money just so they will talk to me becouse they hate me for existing(i occasionaly kill them to get the money back which feels good)
I have not met a single person who doesnt insult me the first time i talk to them(other other than argonians but im not counting that as a point for morrowind) and i gotta say, i love it. Its very fun to get the "minority experience" instead of skyrim where even the "racist" faction blesses the ground you walk on after you sell them a singular cabbage you took from their farm.
With that said, morrowind is absolutly as bad(if not worse) as people say it is when it comes to racism. But so far, thats the most fun part of the game for me. It feels SO GOOD when i put a spear inside a slaver and steal their inheritance.
Jorhul Kul is the starting hero for belakor so i didnt expect much when i put him in my army. Thougth he was just another generic melee specialist.
Turns out, i was not familiar with his game. Im not sure if all champions of chaos heroes are as efficent as this man becosue he is the only one i consistently used, but he has singlehandedly killed countless legendary lords and heroes throughout the campaign putting in even more work than belakor(belakor gets more kills in total but he uses spells to kill infantry so not really fair). And appearantly, he gets a manticore mount, so he has been going around the battlefield at mach 5, killing everything with a red arrow pointing towards it. Doesnt matter if its large groups or single units, this man can kill it. On top of all that, chaos and norscans have abrely any ranged units so they are powerless while Jorhul solos their leadership.
I felt the need to appreciate this man after my battle with azazels main army where Jorhul Kul killed azazel, every flying unit and every spellcaster with barely any health loss. Also, it was very entertaining watching a spellcaster run for their life while Jorhul kept diving through teh sky, beating them up and taking fligth only to dive them 5 seconds later.
I am fine if belakor dies, but i will be devastated if this madman gets wounded
I played arbaal as my first campaign and that was rather easy becouse you can just ally with archaon and that covers your north so you can focus going towards kislev and empire while you can create buffer zone vassals if you feel like being "diplomatic" and i managed to get a long victory.
So, as the logical progression, i tried skrabrand next(after a short victory with N'kari for a palet cleanse) and, it feels like a way rougher start becouse everyone on your borders hate you(the beastmen dont but they bully me for my lunch money[it was 400 gold but im still salty about it] and non-aggression pacts) they all have a full stack with extra armies, the dwarves will eventualy declare war on me no matter what i do, i cant afford to have more than one army becouse money is rough in khorne early game(at least from my experience)
Is there any early game advice i can get becouse its been rough so far
I recently realized that despite you being encouraged to be liked by the high elves at some point(even after you destroy all but one settlement) their friendly dialouge doesnt really work well with N'Kari at all.
I repeatadly opened the diplomacy tab with this guy and everything he said was nonsensical. He even said he was glad to see a friendly face... N'Kari is the so called "friendly face"
EDIT: I just noticed my strength rank at this moment is Slaanesh approved.
The man owns 35 settlements. Most of them came from me either direclty giving the settlements to him to get a good buffer zone or by him taking the empire settlements i razed. I am his trusted friend at a comfortable 613 and improving, but he just doesnt want ot wassalzie and i cant even pay him for it. This is made more confusing by Kairos Fateweawer, someone i havent encountered the whole game and a strength rank 9 dude with the entire south of the map, being fully willing to PAY ME to be my vassal after i was planning to sell him a settlement i accidentally occupied from one of the challenges of khorne.
Im fine with ignoring ALL OF THAT, but this isnt even his most heinous crime. I have to purposefully disable "call allies for help" whenever someone declares war on me becouse if i do, this man(who i am in a military alliance with) fully terminates our alliance and removes every outpost if he is even ASKED if he wants to be on my side(and the allied recruitment units from him are quite good so thats an issue) becouse i wanted help with some elves.(also, kairos turned from "i dont know you" to my ride-or-die after one settlement deal and is at war with everyone who im at war with and he is the only ally i have at dealing with the balck pyramid. Shoutouts to that absolute chad)
Is there a mechanic im not aware of at play here or is Throgg just being a prick?
EDIT QUESTION : I got an extra question about this campaign with everything im told, Why has kairos been such a bro? Considering everything you guys have said his actions dont make sense. The only bargaining tool i needed to own him was a worthless settlement when he was doing pretty well for himself and had the entire south of the map with a solid strength rank 9. AND ON TOP OF ALL THAT, when i vassalized him, altough not as much as the current situation, i was at war with a large chunk of the world and he full sent being my ally and accepted vassalization knowing very well what he was getting into, and proved my most usefull ally by immideatly mobilising against all my enemies next to him. Tzeentch works in strange ways i suppose.
You can determine your favorite unit by whatever metric you like. The one you always catch yourself using, the one you like to wacth figth, the one you like the design of, or for any other reason of your choice.
For me: Its Brawler by a landslide. I have attempted multiple challneges where i try to beat campaigns using only him. Something about his figthing style resonates with me. Bash with a shield and while the opponent is recovering, hit them with the axe. Not to mention, that axe can kill a good chunk of units in one hit AND the ai is proficent using it.
Also, his use cases are infinte. Frontline battle? Brawlers are(in my honest opinion) the best frontline unit when you consider the cost and will 1v1 most units in that price range. Need to rush ranged units? That shield is very effective. Need to kill one beefy unit? Their damage when in groups is insane since their damage and attack speed are both fairly high.
He is also very good for formations and flanking so when i feel like using actual strategies, he is my first pick.
On top of all that, he doesnt have any abilites unlike the newer units who all have at least one to be viable. He is just an unit with his stats, his shield and axe. Simplicity is a virtue when it comes to balance.
AND YOU GET ALL OF THIS FOR 220 GOLD
I kinda went on a bit of a Brawler rant but he deserves it.