I frequently use Steam Notes for various games: combos and setups for Street Fighter characters, notes of what is the status of my ongoing Totan War campaign so I don't forget what's going on in the sandbox world when I cannot play for a week, routes I want to explore and not forget in a metroidvania / souslike like Lords of the Fallen.

The Notes button is categorized among all these buttons on the steam overlay, but not on the main Library Page. It should be absolutely up there.

Not everyone has 1,5 hours, or even a 15 minute youtuber summary because of limited data or whatever and I like to do these little things for the community, taking notes as I watch the stream. Might be a little late on this one, but hey scroll past this. Now, to business!

Updated heroes

• Astromancer has new skills.
  • Specialization (exclusive skill locking others out)
  • Spell Intensity
  • Enables magical attacks for the whole army (final skill).
  • New hero action: replenishment (Cathay had very little)
  • Rest were quickly shown for people who like to take screenshots.
• Gatemaster has new skills.
  • Specialization
  • New hero actions: can buff ammo / defensive stats of parent army

Effects:

• Techtree 2 divided into categories: Millitary and Provinces. They hovered over all the tech for screenshots, obviously cannot write them all here. Lots were updated, some buffed, some new.
• Central tech on the pattern is different for the tigermen faction.
• A balance pass on province commandments, called "Edicts" now. Some of the new tech buffs them.

Recruitment / Lords

• Longma rider down from T5 to T4.
• Sky Lantern updated: now a support unit. Has access to both Yin / Yang, providing passive buff auras, and Eye of the Dragon buff aura (forest spotting + ranged units buff pretty much). Movement speed roughly doubled. Range lowered accordingly.
• Terracotta Sentinel updated: smoother animations. Has tons of new grinding stone and falling dust vfx effects on itself.
• Generic lord recruitment changed, Ying/Yang points no longer part of the core trait and instead are unlocked via skill node (correct me if I'm wrong here, they used to have an inner ying/yang trait even after the global balance was removed in Cathay rework? Been a while since I played Cathay)

Bahshiva DLC (4,99)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4399460/Total_War_WARHAMMER_III__Bhashiva__Character_Pack/ (for screenshots, new UI)

• Tiger Warrior Sawai generic lord
• Clawspeaker: generic hero, a spellcaster melee expert with lore of life / beasts / shadows. Has prayer auras that effect only tiger warrior units. Transformation of Kadon summons a celestial lion in this case, not a manticore.
• Tiger Warriors (Tier 2 recruit, others unclear): anti-inf, damage dealer. When charges activates extra speed, devastating flanker. 30 armor.
• Tiger Warrior Stalkers. + Stalk + Dodge + 2 ammo throwing disc, can fire while moving, but only 15 armor.
• Iron Claw Tiger Warriors: antilarge AP variant, 60 armor.
• Bhashiva the White Tiger: Anti Infantry blender. Short range 2 minute cooldown teleport ability in battle.
• Start position: Vale of Titans (because the Village of Tigermen were not tiger themed enough as it appears). She works for Zhao Ming, but really hates the ogres.
• No Regiments of Reknown

Campaign mechanics:

• Cannot declare war on Zhao Ming. Tigermen are refugees in the desert under his protection as they were running from Tzeench, in exchange they help protect the warpstone desert.
• Tiger Court mechanics:
  • Collect Relics by conquering certain settlements. Spend Relics in the Tiger Court to upgrade one of 3 "Banners" (not equippable, just a new "tech tree" with this name). Each banner has 5 levels. All of them buff Tiger Warriors in various ways.
  • Relics have fixed locations, no RNG. They are spread out so it still feels sandbox but gives direction to the players where to go, which settlements to attack that gives narrative goals within the sandbox for those who need it (I do!)
  • Certain buildings get new effects based on which upgrades you go for. For example additional Tigermen enter battle as reinforcement in the province if it's not a siege battle.
• Armies of Shang-Yang:
  • Bhashiva collects Favors of Zhao Ming, a new resource for her to spend here.
  • + Ogre contracts mechanic (maybe with better premade missions?) working for Zhao, rewards Favour and sometimes items
  • + chorfs unit upgrade screen, but those upgrades are called Insignias which you equip on certain units greenskin / woodelf UI style, the goal is to really make each unit in smaller forces unique so more player attachment.
  • + beastmen unit capacity feature, just prettier because Cathay is Cathay. Do missions for Zhao Ming, get his Favour, spend it on unit buffs or unit cap increases.
  • She has limited max number of armies TK style, and can increase the limit by completing a series of prewritten objectives (not classic missions, more Elspeth engineering objectives style) from all the features above: sustain X number of Y units, spend Z Favour, kill N+1 units etc. These ranks also unlock access to buildings (looks like she can't build everything by default, for example Crane Gun Hall building is unlocked by completing the 3rd rank, of the 5). Reaching certain levels and goals in the new system is part of the victory conditions.
  • No access to Wu-Jing Compass
  • No access to Great Bastion (unclear what this means)
  • Still uses Caravans (identical mechanically but rethemed so you only "protect them", fancy words and new artwork for this faction), Harmony (provincial). Tigermen currently are not implemented as units offered for other Cathay playable factions when new units join their Caravans in form of an Event. "We'll consider it for the future". (Would be a nice little demo for people who don't own the DLC, wink-wink).
  • She can still confederate other factions but the removed features stay removed.
• Taoyan The Merciless (FLC)
  • Legendary Hero, martial artist woman with regeneration
  • Unlocked: same as most others, when faction leader is 12 level(-ish?), you get a mission chain.
  • Antilarge, but animations use both a two handed trident and a sword.
  • Can give Fear to all units in her army (Bhashiva does that too for Tigermen, maybe not put them together in the same army). Access to Greater Wounds, a damage over time / defense reducing effect. Took down Kholek with like 10% HP loss.
  • Lore: she just executed everybody when she cracked down a rebellion so she is not the honorable warrior stereotype that usually goes with Cathay's theme, she is tolerated but frowned upon, and lives as a traveling mercenary.

Other noteworthy comments.

• Rich dropped a fun little thought: Cathay is a rich culture, they have humans, dragons, ogres, tigermen, and "they say there are some monkeys down South"
• Egrimm van Horstmann. "Maybe one day" (obviously cannot confirm anything right now even if he is next).
• VCO (Victory Conditions Overhauled) mentioned as a question from chat, if official support / updated victory conditions are coming. Rich has a huge smile and says "not in this DLC. The team is busy working on some stuff there".
• Climate Adaptation: it was thrown around as an idea for this DLC, but they don't have the technical side ready for something like this. Rich is unsure if it's going to be part of the End Times DLC, but "would be cool to add".
• Oh look so many questions, what a shame I don't read any more of them, see ya next time!
• Content creators / embargo drops:
  • Friday: battles
  • Sunday: campaign

It was always "nooo the counts have ranged units", and to a degree I agree it should not be their focus, but with every race getting access to everything these days (VC were the only one with heal back then, dawi had no magic whatsoever), is it really that much of a big deal to give something ranged to them? Not skeleton archers, but catapults.

https://community.creative-assembly.com/total-war/total-war-warhammer/bugs/13024-raise-dead-allows-more-units-to-recruit-than-your-treasury-allows?page=1

Not here, but on the official forums.

The current bug allows all Nurgle / VCounts / VCoast "instant raise" units to be added to the recruitment list endlessly up to 20/20 army limit, even if you can only afford to pay 2. You add, let's say 15 units to the recruitment list, press "Raise Dead", and only 2-3 units get recruited, depending on how many you can afford.

How it worked for 10 years and how it should work again: when you click units from this list, the cost gets subtracted from your treasury and when you run out of money, the rest of the units in the Raise Dead / Nurgle equivelant UI gets greyed out, unable to be added to your army. This way you recruit as many units as you added to your army on the UI, instead of the game falsely showing you that you can recruit up to army limit of 20, then picking the first few from the list as actual recruitment, making the whole process needlessly difficult.

Thanks for your support, remember you are also doing this for yourself.