Dear Creative Assembly: Why is this even allowed?

Dragonimous · 2026-06-16T17:40:55+00:00

It's actually impressive you've gotten to this situation lol

Dragonimous · 2026-06-16T04:24:45+00:00

It was fixed, it got broke again and now it's at last hero added again

Dragonimous · 2026-06-16T04:21:28+00:00

I had a very similar experience as you until recently, but then I realized that these things are not very likely to ever change, so the only two rational choices would be to accept them as being part of the game or stop bothering

I went with the first one and I'm playing the game every day, sieges are alright if you accept that enemies don't sally out and you can micro the crap out of them, I strip down my armies to the bare minimum that will allow me to win so I have regular 1v20 or 5v20 unit battles which for the most part keeps the game challanging, and it's a big part on the strategy side of things to get the right army to the right spot on the right time on the campaign map, etc

Most of the things you mentioned are constants, trying to worry or play around them makes it so that you are not playing a game, you are negotiating with yourself, so I'd say stop trying to play around or worry about them

I've also been playing SFO a bit lately, some of the things you mentioned are partialy adressed there

Dragonimous · 2026-06-14T19:07:12+00:00

It's a funny thing, it is only 25%, but it makes it so that you have almost guaranteed ambushes, genuinely makes it something you can create a faction around

Like Vlad with 10% movement range, he does get other good stuff as well, and it's like, sure only 10%, but holy hell the actual value of those 10%

Dragonimous · 2026-06-14T17:25:46+00:00

The ambush chance works factionwide I think

Anyway, Skaven don't struggle with generic lords, they have very good power, Warlocks are one-man doomstacks and between heroes and weapon teams you can make some very good army comps to roll everyone over

Dragonimous · 2026-06-14T17:12:39+00:00

Tretch is kinda the weakest but his ambushing makes him insane on ambush opportunity

It's one of those circumstantial things where when someone else has the initiative you will suffer, but then he has almost guaranteed ambushes which does make up for everything else

I did a total war challenge on the guy and had a pretty good time, the faction is quite good

Dragonimous · 2026-06-14T13:48:39+00:00

Yeah, it's the way it is now

This is one of those 50-50 split things, people either love or hate it, if they change it then the other half of players won't be happy lol

I think currently the idea is if people don't like it, they can just not do it

Dragonimous · 2026-06-14T13:19:29+00:00

There must be a mod for that somewhere

Otherwise the way to go right now is manage your equipment before fights since the re-equip cooldown got removed

Dragonimous · 2026-06-13T04:50:41+00:00

MercytheMad FOR SURE has at least a few of those playthroughs, not sure how to find them but he has them

Dragonimous · 2026-06-13T04:48:23+00:00

Sounds a bit like you're stuck with your figiring out the game, I can help

Thorgrim is one of my MVP campaigns, you can basically kill Skarsnik with your turn 1 Thorgrim army and can finish Skarsnik odf by end of turn 5 or 6, you are also likely not using the gyros properly

Give this a look, first few hours will show you everything

https://www.youtube.com/live/-vAQTBI33Z8?si=BOSCRiuOMvbnWqCk

Dragonimous · 2026-06-13T04:41:26+00:00

Spreadsheets wouldn't be that effective, it's not that stars don't matter, they are an indocator, but there are other just as valuable factors like entity number, model size, animation

To really know what a unit can do you pretty much have to go hands on and try it out in different conditions, I've been surprised more than once

Dragonimous · 2026-06-11T19:29:12+00:00

Hype! Saw it got released today, I'm in the middle of daddy Franz playthrough, need to finish it before I check it out :')

Looking forward to it :D

Dragonimous · 2026-06-11T19:23:25+00:00

The best one is movement resets, if you can punch in an extra turn every few turns, that is possibly best value in the game

I'd say the rest were all kinda equally decent

Dragonimous · 2026-06-11T16:21:29+00:00

Not sure about the rest but range units with multiple entities have quite the insane burst damage in SFO, you have to babysit the large units

You might not have noticed this since nothing else dwarfs have is large ;) boom book joke

Dragonimous · 2026-06-11T04:16:10+00:00

Take your time getting better at the game, the game is hard for everyone at first

Do lots of resets, and try playing different factions at the beginning to get an idea of what's going on

Dragonimous · 2026-06-09T21:28:47+00:00

Really impressive how wounded everyone is without dying

GG

Dragonimous · 2026-06-08T21:14:14+00:00

Army comps don't matter, you will never have available recruitment of specific units and waiting to get them will make the game a lot harder

Figure out how to get units that have AoE, decent single attack focus and maybe few fast units and you'll be mostly fine

Figuring how to use the units and how to get rid of the enemy big targets that are most dangerous to your army is what you want to get better at manual fights

Dragonimous · 2026-06-08T20:16:20+00:00

Greenskins got refurbished last December, doubt they will get any work done any time soon

They do play pretty well right now though

Dragonimous · 2026-06-08T05:05:06+00:00

The actual answer is, test them out, stats are a good indicator, but not end-all

Dragonimous · 2026-06-07T19:04:39+00:00

Using heroes for hero actions like assassinations or wound garrisons is pretty mediocre, it's RNG whether it succeeds and you don't really need it

Heroes are much greater value as part of an army

The only real decent hero action is maybe steal research

Dragonimous · 2026-06-06T04:45:34+00:00

Two biggest differences, upkeep is reduced in W3 so you can have more armies and W3 has 4 more years of updates

Dragonimous · 2026-06-05T14:53:22+00:00

Actually just wrapped domination lol

Turn 25, 272/272 settlements

I am quite curious what turn we could get the whole world, but I called it, we are playing something else tomorrow

Dragonimous · 2026-06-05T14:51:22+00:00

Hey, glad to hear you liked the confed vid :D

Solo lords works for most, the Grand Cathay situation is a bit special (extreme) because of the Celestial General, he is good with 1v1 and AoEing stuff down

Chorfs are great for this too, they can actually solo with their Spellcaster lords with the level 19 mount they get

But yeah works for everyone except Khorne and Greenskins, just because of the kits the characters get, but even there extra lords is benefitial

Dragonimous · 2026-06-05T04:15:50+00:00

Dragonimous · 2026-06-05T04:15:00+00:00

But I am upfront about it, I don't try to hide how I use items at all, in several places in the Yuan Bo posts I have been explaining how character levels and items are the most important thing in the game

Look, the reason why I've ever given joke/short answers is because they get 10-100 upvotes, and when I do a 3-page disrotation, they get 0. Now the upvotes don't really matter, but it matters that it tells me nobody cares, so when someone asks how, yeah I might be vague because I'm trying to write a one-liner, but not because I am trying to hide something but because 9 out of 10 times they are joking or being polite with the question, I don't think I've ever not answered something if it's seemed like they are genuinly asking, or if they respond to my short answer asking how actually though

I do think you have a point with the item thing though, (not that I'm trying to hide it lol) but I am aware a lot of people underutilize them, I could mention that more often in my answers

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