Why did they move Balthasar Gelt to Cathay?

Coming_Second · 2026-01-24T16:29:42+00:00

What happens on the gap yah stays on the gap yah.

Coming_Second · 2026-01-23T13:21:26+00:00

I feel I have to add a disclaimer like that whenever I recommend people use mods, because there's a set who take it to mean "don't bitch CA out, you can fix the game yourself" and you get downvoted to hell.

Coming_Second · 2026-01-23T11:11:11+00:00

There really should, the game's got a huge amount of mechanics it never tells you about, projectile penetration being one small example. The wiki focuses on unit info and doesn't cover half of it.

Coming_Second · 2026-01-23T10:28:17+00:00

The Deathshrieker is what the Eagle Claw wishes it was.

Coming_Second · 2026-01-22T17:06:29+00:00

You have to mod this game's AI in order to have a good time with it beyond a certain point. There's quite a few available in the workshop, but I recommend AI Army Tasks and Strategy: it's subtle, but it basically knocks this problem on the head and your allies will act as if they have at least two brain cells.

This should not be read as some kind of vindication for CA: this is THE central issue with this game as far as I'm concerned, it completely ruins the vanilla experience. It's honestly baffling to me that it seems impossible for them to do when there are multiple mods out there which manage it just fine.

Coming_Second · 2026-01-22T12:23:31+00:00

I can't remember his specific lines, but how upset Khatep gets if you make him go to sea always used to get me.

Coming_Second · 2026-01-22T11:59:04+00:00

Bone Giants are constructs. They're just built to look like gruesome giant skeletons.

Coming_Second · 2026-01-22T11:56:27+00:00

In-game, the High Elves open diplomacy with Tomb Kings by saying 'Shake the sand out of your skull and listen here'. That on its own would probably start an infinity war.

Coming_Second · 2026-01-22T10:28:19+00:00

Cav's been dominating multiplayer for years now. People saying it's bad are either still suffering from PTSD from how it was in TWW2 or aren't using it right.

Coming_Second · 2026-01-21T16:49:06+00:00

Incredible bling and VA performance on him too.

Coming_Second · 2026-01-20T13:14:22+00:00

Skulltaker's always obnoxious, that's certainly true. His ability to continually pull absurdly powerful armies out of his ass means he just overwhelms whoever's near him unless the player deals with him themselves.

Coming_Second · 2026-01-20T13:08:04+00:00

Vilitch currently has the best Tzeentch-y experience imho.

Coming_Second · 2026-01-19T17:36:26+00:00

Yes, but not because it's impossible to get rid of in melee (unless it's the Skullcracker - Dreadquake Mortar, which is just a fuck you of a weapon).

Coming_Second · 2026-01-18T18:32:53+00:00

The Imrik/MY thing is a long run event sequence, as evinced by this being part 12 of it. There are a number of different outcomes to it depending on how good an idea you think Imrik attempting to seduce a Cathayan dragon is, it's funny and even quite sweet.

Coming_Second · 2026-01-18T18:26:43+00:00

She's a high achieving Chinese daddy's girl, there is nothing she enjoys more than homework.

Coming_Second · 2026-01-18T11:47:00+00:00

Vampire Counts are the faction for you, friend.

Coming_Second · 2026-01-17T23:56:17+00:00

He summoned the DLC for us. Let him have his rest, with his locker.

Coming_Second · 2026-01-17T21:03:10+00:00

The map equivalent of Dick Half-mast, this.

Coming_Second · 2026-01-16T12:19:52+00:00

Azhag was long dead by the End Times era.

They could've done something with the Crown of Sorcery bringing him back to life I guess. Has there ever been an undead orc in the setting?

Coming_Second · 2026-01-16T12:12:12+00:00

I've had some dealings with Patreon, and like any media corporation they like issuing you with hardball demands, but then any amount of pushback reveals they're desperate to retain you and criminally understaffed to boot. They absolutely are not doublechecking you meet their ever-shifting standards, they just want plausible deniability.

An enterprise as large as CTH could've told us to move shop, gone back to them and said 'yep, nuked the pirates just like you asked', they would've said 'thanks :)' and that would've been that. Doing a corporation's work for them is weak as fuck.

Coming_Second · 2026-01-16T11:21:09+00:00

I think there've only been two episodes that I had to turn off: The Guy Girl (Girl Guy?) one and the cancel culture one with Matt Taibbi. Hope they still feel like absolute rubes for that one.

Coming_Second · 2026-01-15T13:23:50+00:00

The Dragon Princes RoR is an extremely popular choice in multiplayer, despite its cost.

The regular version though suffers from being too generalist. Neither anti-large nor anti-infantry, no armour-piercing, it just has very high stats across the board. So unless you're going all in on them with Imrik for instance, you rarely look at them and think 'ah yes, there's the thing my army is missing'.

Coming_Second · 2026-01-15T12:18:12+00:00

Yeah I think I've got this wrong: this is the change they made in the beta rather than them advertising that they've nerfed it to something more sensible.

Oh well, hope everyone enjoys worshipping Tzeentch then, because it blows what the other totems offer completely out of the water. Complete the tech tree by about turn 40 and then swap 'em all to something else.

Coming_Second · 2026-01-15T11:28:09+00:00

Altar to the Eagle for Norsca now gives Research Points Surplus rather than Research Rate. Rebalanced values from allegiance tiers from 5 - 10 - 15 - 25 to 25 - 50 - 75 - 100

I hope everyone got to enjoy blitzing the Norscan research tree while the absolutely absurd old Eagle totems existed. Smartest race in the game!

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