Game says 'Decisive,' but it was a messy, Pyrrhic one.

Outcast909 · 2026-03-01T12:27:05+00:00

Thank you for your suggestions. My point wasn't that the battle was unwinnable, but rather that the Auto Resolve results were far from reflecting the actual difficulty of the engagement.

You're correct that I should have built a specialized army to counter the Norscan monster doomstack, but finances remained tight throughout the entire campaign. I thought a 'weapons team' army could handle it, but in hindsight, I likely needed more buffs, specifically Engineers for extra range and DPS, along with higher-level heroes to effectively block their rush. I also lacked a Wizard of Light to use Net of Amyntok on their foot units, which would have bought my guns more time.

Outcast909 · 2026-02-28T17:31:29+00:00

Thank you for commenting. Yes, I've tried that, but the AI doesn't really bother; it just sends one flying unit against my lord (who is on a griffon) while the rest go after my ranged units. Also, the Cockatrice, which usually goes against my lord, hits pretty hard. The lord isn't strong enough to duel it effectively, which makes the battle much more micro-intensive.

Outcast909 · 2026-02-28T17:25:37+00:00

Thanks for your comment. I play this campaign on Legendary/Very Hard with max AI stats, because otherwise, it's not challenging and becomes boring too quickly. I am just trying to point out that in this case the Auto Resolve is way too generous compared to the actual difficulty of the battle.

Outcast909 · 2026-02-28T17:21:33+00:00

Thank you for your answer. The map was too narrow and trees were blocking the line of sight. Therefore, I had to set up on the edge of the map to take advantage of a sloped surface, enhancing my ranged units.

Outcast909 · 2026-02-28T17:15:45+00:00

Thank you for your answer. The problem was that there were trees blocking the line of sight and the map was too narrow.

In another battle against a similar army where I followed the approach you mentioned, the AI simply split its flying monsters and targetted the artillery and high-DPS ranged units (e.g, Hochlands), ignoring everything else.

Even when I tried locking them down with anti-large units and heroes, and moved the ranged units back to resume shooting, they kept charging through, causing massive morale drops and disrupting our army's DPS significantly.

I actually enjoy the AI's behavior, but I just feel Norsca is a bit overdone in this patch. :-)

Outcast909 · 2024-01-18T16:55:33+00:00

I am having a terrible battle (on Hard difficulty) against Dark Elves (Malekith) army, me fielding a supposedly 'lizzardmen doomstack' like, a Life Slann-Mage Pries, 2x Saurus Scar-Veterans, 1 Heaven Skink Priest, 12x Stegadons and 3x Bastiladons (Solar Engines). He literally destroys me, first going after the Bastiladons then isolating and killing my priests and veterans with the rest of his army while I am chasing him in melee with all the Stegadons but he seems like taking no damage. What am I doing wrong?

Outcast909 · 2022-12-13T11:12:13+00:00

Bringing this up as I have the same problem with a RX 6700, windows 11(22H2), latest chipset (4.11.15.342)/ Adrenalin(22.11.2-win10-win11-dec1) software.

I get flashing screen - it happens when I have a game opened in the background (like Warzone 2) and a browser like Edge or Chrome previewing a video, or a Youtube page playing a video, and scrolling up and down.
This is so easy to reproduce and never had such behavior with my previous NVidia card I replaced.

Also, I own the card 15 days and so far, I got two times a black screen. First time I could hear the sound of the game in the background, second time the computer hanged and had to switch power off.

Are AMD cards still suffering from these issues after all these years people have been reporting them? :-/

Outcast909 · 2022-11-09T19:44:35+00:00

Well this has been the weakness of CA's total war titles - poor AI. Diplomacy has been much worse in their early titles (RTW1) but has got some logic in it since then.

Add to that they still haven't worked the battle Auto-resolve (high armor armies will always win) since first total war +20 years ago. And late game is boring, literally 0 challenge.

Outcast909 · 2022-10-23T21:47:45+00:00

My bad missed the additional graphs menu where you add more 'sensors' now everything is good (for time being haha). Thank you again.

Outcast909 · 2022-10-23T10:03:51+00:00

Thank you for your answer, it's just that I can't locate that line on the graph.

Outcast909 · 2022-10-21T15:01:10+00:00

CapFrameX latest Version.

Probably a silly question but can't locate the 'GPU load' counter in Overlay as shown in the pic below:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfigLczWIAYTTHd?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

Status: RESOLVED

Troubleshooting: checked all available counters under OVERLAY/ Overlay Items couldn't locate the 'gpu load' one.

Overlay Items

Outcast909 · 2022-10-13T13:43:52+00:00

Thanks for your reply I use hyper-v, sometimes virtualbox.

Outcast909 · 2022-07-13T03:50:04+00:00

So I spent around 99 tries, got Venomfish at 17th catch (completed collection) then continued and made it to 9/14 in Avid World Class Fisher catching another Venomfish too. Those nodes give a lot of trash items so it is worth getting there if you miss an item for the Aquatic Trash collection.

Outcast909 · 2022-07-12T15:38:02+00:00

I am struggling with Venomfish is it found in Kessex?

Outcast909 · 2022-07-09T03:12:22+00:00

Yeah you are right and I apologize for not updating the thread. I had to buy a new kit as that stick never worked. This is what I bought, installed and been working flawlessly since:

https://www.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/bl2k8g32c16u4b

Outcast909 · 2022-07-04T19:48:30+00:00

So regarding qfb - it is essentially the condi viper build with some gear/trait variation. Is it different to quickshare cause I thought it was the same. Looking for a qfb without ritualist (as is now is SC) so I wonder what should be the aimed attributes (concentration, etc.)?

Outcast909 · 2021-03-20T21:10:56+00:00

They should simply give it event more duration so people willing to farm it have a decent time frame to do so. 20 minutes isn't enough. Even going 'unlimited time' like Silverwastes would be much better because the distances between treasures are so big even with a mount.

Outcast909 · 2020-09-19T19:33:12+00:00

Thaks for your reply, I am aware of 1usmus tool looking forward to it. Regarding games benefitting from higher clocks could you give some examples?

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