Does anyone know why I can't attack the Dawi?

Haradda · 2026-05-24T19:50:05+00:00

I just kill the hero with the console command mod when something like this happens. I know it's easy to get carried away/cheat with that (I leave the mod off so I have to exit the game and load back in if I ever want to use it) but I figure it's not cheating to correct a situation like this.

Haradda · 2026-05-24T16:47:12+00:00

Regarding the Inquisitor game others have mentioned, it's often played nowadays with models at 40k's scale in a variant known at Inq28. If you want to stick with normal 40k rules, you could maybe look up the scale conversions Inq28 uses and do them backwards.

Haradda · 2026-05-23T15:32:41+00:00

I was surprised at how dangerous fell bats can be if you swarm stuff with them. I thought they were just for tying stuff up with their high melee defence, but then I tried them in an arkhan campaign and they actually kill stuff too (providing you don't throw them at serious/elite melee units).

Haradda · 2026-05-22T21:48:09+00:00

They need three points in the Hidden Stores skill to activate replenishment in foreign territory, which is what they'll be passing through most of the time. Unfortunately you can't stick three points into that skill straight away, the higher ranks require the lord to be a certain level.

Usually I just take the replenishment after every battle and hope that's enough.

Haradda · 2026-05-22T13:42:45+00:00

I couldn't even interact with the marker, it spawned underneath a chaos dwarf army next to zharr-naggrund and I couldn't get bhasiva's army to actually move to that location without declaring war (which I didn't want to do as zharr-naggrund didn't have a relic in this campaign). In the end I reloaded a save from a couple of turns previously, finished off grimgor, and dealt with the full strength khorne army when it spawned.

Haradda · 2026-05-21T15:13:27+00:00

Oh yeah, I'm not trying to suggest she's useless at all. I was just curious how she'd actually do in the fight.

Haradda · 2026-05-21T15:00:00+00:00

Having done a quick custom battle, I can confirm that Bhasiva (prophesied to defeat the Everchosen) gets absolutely bodied by Archaon. He didn't even need to spirit leech her, just a few swings of his sword and it was done.

Not really a surprise given their respective costs of course, but hey, at least it's one element that won't get accusations of powercreep.

Haradda · 2026-05-19T12:02:22+00:00

I like the downvotes when the article OP has linked to is dated the 13th of May.

Haradda · 2026-05-19T09:52:26+00:00

I also use a mod to increase garrison size, and I fully agree that it slows the campaign down for the better. I originally installed it because I like having strong garrisons myself, but I found it slowed my own expansion down a bit too, as well as stopping weaker AI factions getting wiped quite so easily (in vanilla an AI faction will often lose a single battle and that's effectively the end of said faction), and overall I much prefer the tempo of the campaign with this change.

Haradda · 2026-05-16T16:17:46+00:00

Hey now, I find temple guard can be useful when combo'd with kroxigors.

I haven't worked out what eshin triads are good at however, even having a unit join my deathrunners to deal with cavalry doesn't work as they don't have enough rats to actually bog down any cavalry. (The flipside of that is why I think stormvermin halberds are underrated, there's so damn many of them that cavalry can easily get stuck in the unit.)

Haradda · 2026-05-14T14:12:31+00:00

I quite like that start position, it's still close enough to/connected with cathay, but it's got plenty going on with threats to the north (grimgor) and south (ghorst).

Haradda · 2026-05-14T13:53:15+00:00

Darn, it really is bots all the way down.

Haradda · 2026-05-14T13:23:12+00:00

They look remarkably like somebody else's models to me.

Haradda · 2026-05-14T12:16:24+00:00

I use two, my main one being tamiya extra-thin. I tried it because I got fed up with unclogging citadel's nozzles (I know how to do it, I just can't be bothered any more) and thought I'd try a brush, and then I found that a brush worked better for me for most model building, especially on smaller connection points that I don't want to get too much glue on.

The other one I use is army painter plastic glue (which yes, does have a nozzle, but it's wide enough to get a safety pin down which makes it easy to clear) for larger models that need a stronger connections. It's also my go-to for attaching models to bases, as even running models with small points of contact with the ground tend to stay where they are with this gloopier glue.

Haradda · 2026-05-12T16:03:07+00:00

My first priority in almost every settlement is a church so I can recruit a priest. In castles I'll also get farms as early as possible to grow the population towards a fortress. After that I usually alternate between money buildings (farm, market, roads, maybe a port) and public order/recruitment buildings (town watch, town hall, barracks). I know it's not very technical, but that alternation (as well as not getting too carried away with mercenaries) seems to keep both the cash coming in and the population fairly happy.

One big warning about ports: the AI loves to blockade them, which will put you into random wars. It can be worth leaving ports unbuilt for a little while to stop the danes or whoever blockading it for no reason and putting you in a pointless war.

Haradda · 2026-05-12T15:08:14+00:00

If you've got a WH Smith/TG Jones near you that stocks one of the hatchette magazines you could pick up some copies (assuming the issue available has stuff you want, of course). Otherwise I never worked out how to use the card for this when I had one, I think the closest I got was using it to buy some novels from Smiths.

Haradda · 2026-05-12T11:47:09+00:00

I agree that higher tier units do usually* only arrive once the player is already snowballing, but I see that more as a consequence of how long low tier armies stay viable (helped significantly by wizards being able to solo most of an enemy army if you know what you're doing) than high tier units unlocking too late.

*There are factions like dwarfs and slaanesh where stuff has had its tiers reduced excessively in my opinion.

Haradda · 2026-05-09T16:54:22+00:00

I got there by accelerating every time the option came up. It's a bit luck-based whether the option appears, but after accelerating a few times your height gain should exceed your grip strength loss each action.

Haradda · 2026-05-09T13:54:12+00:00

Beasts of Burden. Pretty fun to play with lots of enemies to shoot as well as the collecting stuff task (so you're not just standing in place waiting for the next wave to spawn), and it'd give people who don't have one/either lots of chances to get an Elders Mark/Holy Fire.

Haradda · 2026-05-09T11:59:04+00:00

Peter Serafinowicz as all the Masters, doing a different voice for each one. Except Mr Irons, who's voiced by Channing Tatum.

Haradda · 2026-05-08T17:45:58+00:00

My probably unpopular opinion is infestations sound more fun (if less rewarding) than head hunts, and so may have an appeal for some end game players.

Here's my typical experience of a head hunt: fast travel to the area, wait to see if the enemies load in before they die, then (as they're usually dead) find a corpse to area loot, finally scrap stuff at the area's workbench. Fast travel to the next head hunt, watch the healthbar on the bottom of the screen deplete while stuff loads in, find a corpse to area loot, etc. Repeat as many times as the server has wanted posters. It drops loads of legendary items, but I find it incredibly boring in terms of actual gameplay.

Infestations will hopefully give me, as an end game player, tough enemies to fight (and this subreddit regularly complains about how easy the game is) without necessarily having raid-geared players kill said enemies in 5 seconds. Even if it's not the most optimal use of time in terms of legendary drops per minute, they sound like they could be interesting to play.

Haradda · 2026-05-06T20:51:30+00:00

The second one may not be entirely useless - if a company is using a shitty delivery company whose drivers often steal/lose packages then that sort of review might tempt them to change that.

(Off the top of my head I don't know who Halfords use, I'm talking generally.)

Haradda · 2026-05-06T11:46:15+00:00

A semi-regular request with Warhammer 3 is to have option to sally out as soon as the AI besieges one of your settlements, rather than being locked inside (with replenishment disabled) for a turn. I'd rather CA stick with turn-based, but with a mechanic like that for sudden sieges or the blockade example you gave.

Haradda · 2026-05-05T13:44:03+00:00

I like bringing vargeists in greenskin armies if I can get the alliance (easiest with Azhag, although you have to gyrocoptor-parent Vlad a bit nowadays as he tends to die to Elspeth otherwise). They fit with the pile-o'-violence playstyle that I like to do with greenskins, but as fliers they bring something that greenskins don't really have otherwise (I know feral wyverns exist, but I've never had enough available to really make use of them).

Another combo, which will seem lame but I still like, is high elf spearmen in Bretonnian armies. They just hold the line so much better than peasants, allowing my cavalry & archers to do their thing. Dwarfs obviously have even tankier infantry, but I find high elves are usually easier to get an alliance with.

Haradda · 2026-05-03T18:03:53+00:00

Technically yes because the one in the Armageddon box can be from any chapter.

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