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This is my first ultimate endgame crisis. Do you suggest i hole up in ulthuan or try and defend my external territories. I have roughly 9 turns left before the hordes awaken.

"Kragg is the oldest and by far the most powerful living runelord - a gnarled old dwarf, strong and enduring as a weather-beaten oak. Despite being more than 1,000 years old, his expression is one of eternal disapproval, his beetling brow and granite-like face a withering condemnation of younger, more frivolous Dwarfs. This is quite normal for a Dwarf of his age, who has seen many wonders and watched the inevitable decline of craftsmanship and respect."

One of the few missing pieces left for the dwarfs along with josef bugman and grim burloksson, i think he deserves a spot alongside his lord thorgrim!

It's been 24 hours since I glazed praised the Wood Elves on this platform, and I still have pics to post, so I will do so again.

Unfortunately Reddit only allows 20 pics per post, so I can post at least once more sometime in the future.

If anyone has any WE art/memes/whatever to share, that would be welcome.

There is shamefully little art of them...

Btw, if anyone wants to do a good thing: please thumb up this bug report about the Twilight Spear:

https://community.creative-assembly.com/total-war/total-war-warhammer/bugs/5533-twilight-spear-doesn-t-give-buffs-to-army?page=1

I love their unit roster, and whilst it's not the best in the game, I find it to be pretty varied and relatively strong still. I want to like them, I really do. But my issue though is that every time I play them, I just think of them as inferior to some other faction.

In this case every time I play aggro on them, I just perceive them as worse Dark Elves. And whenever I play them diplomatically, I just perceive them as worse Dwarves. Mayhaps my brain had been stained too much by powertripping, but I always think in the mindset of "what does this race provide from x", and in High Elves it's nothing. I will say that for a time I did enjoy Teclis. I don't think his archmages are that special, since there are races with better solo spellcasters, but I thought it was still unique enough. Especially since by turn ~10 he can recruit level 22 ones, which is a breakpoint for a dragon mount, so they can now properly solo armies. But then I remembered I could just recruit saved characters provided I have the money, so pretty much most midgame Dark Elves (especially Lokhir who is what I mostly play), could pull off a Teclis thing whilst also being insanely economically strong themselves.

To compensate I've been trying to get into Eltharion's campaign, since his exploit should allow to turn him into a Dwarf deep like economy, but damn is it annoying to set up. And the start locations are just horrid, everything is so far apart from each other, you spend more of early game traveling than actually conquering. Which translates into immesurable tempo loss. I'll still try to go through with his campaign, but holy is it a sour taste in my mouth.

I've played Aislinn before, and I don't think he really impressed me. Then again that was when I was still a newbie at the game, so perhaps the times changed. But I still remember hating his resource mechanic, can never upgrade your dragonships until late game because otherwise you'll softlock yourself by not earning enough Elven Trade.

Everyone else doesn't really have a stand out mechanic to matter, at least more than those 3.

Gosh, there's just so many options. It's hard to choose!

CA, I don't want to harsh the vibe while you are genuinely cooking with the End Times content. But Foot Knights are right there on the tabletop since... (checks the numbers) March 16, 2024.

While we are at it, foot squires could be given halberds. Like the Beastslayers of Bastonne RoR has!

Or, has had.

Since 2017.

***Edit: Knightly virtue for the day: "Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker." C.S. Lewis

The memes will continue until morale improves.

*For Slayers

THEY HAVE WRONGED US!

Meet humble Boki, a level 24 Dragon Slayer

He Has 4638 health, 20% Ward Save and 5% Physical resistance (and 45% magic resistance and 25% missile resist for the curious). His ward save boosts to 40% when he dips below half health thanks to Iron Warden's Shield and Dragon Slayer's Fang. Then his Physical resistance boosts to 20% for his final quarter of health thanks to Extremely daring deathblow.

Now let's do some nerd shit. Comparing Iron Warden Tankard, which adds 75% to his health pool via Healing vs the Gate Keepers belt that adds 40% ward save for the final 25% health. Note that the tankard tends to keep you above half health, so I applied that health to the above half health stats.

Not only can Boki theoretically absorb more damage with a gatekeepers belt, nearly 70% of the damage he can absorb occurs in the last quarter of his health when he has +60% damage and +15 Melee attack from Extremely daring deathblow and Dragon Slayer's Axe.

Note: if you have and Armor of destiny, Talisman of Preservation, and tankard that's 48% damage reduction for the first 3 quarters of health, and 63% for the last quarter. Comes out to 16,512.63 damage absorbed. Still slightly less, but will perform more consistently for survival, but you will likely never see those slayer bonuses. So if you can, you want to save these for thanes/Lords.

Now go ahead, poke holes and point out horrific oversights in my methodology.

The Big Hat Gang grows ever larger.

New empire warhounds vs Norscan warhounds. They could beat base exalted daemonetes with like 3 ranks...

I will build 10 stacks of these if they're like this.

As the title says, I feel the urge to glaze praise the, in my opinion, best race.

Dwarfs are in second place, but they just come up a little short.

Enjoy the artwork I found on my PC.

I'm finally picking up Dwarfs after being introduced to TW3 a year ago. Its my understanding Dwarfs have been one of the most updated factions. Absolutely loving them but struggling to understand the flying machines.

Everyone seems to glaze the gyrocopters, but which ones better, the steam or fire ones? Ive ran about 3 in my armies and dont seem to be getting these outstanding results everyone's told me about. Are they really that good and I'm just trash?

I decided to replay High Elves as of recently, and was quite intrigued by Mists of Yvresse, initially I thought it was a corruption mechanic but for the High Elves, similarly to how Morathi is the only one with corruption mechanic out of Dark Elves. And I suppose it's kinda like that, but it only ever covers Ulthuan, not even Yvresse's territories in general like the ones they'll gain in Southlands. Which kinda defeats the purpose, since nobody ever attacks Ulthuan outside of Nkari & Noctilus who spawn there. Maybe Morathi if she occasionally defeats Ostankia. Unironically Ulthuan's biggest advantage as the safest region in the world, hurdles the whole point of the Mists.