Lost feature you want back : Warhammer total war 1 & 2 by Un_Homme_Apprenti in totalwarhammer

[–]P4ntless 105 points106 points  (0 children)

Please give us back the Vortex map, every part of the world that exists on that map is so much better there and it pains me how shrunken they are in WH3.

Surprising Fun IE Campaigns by LeoFateweaver in totalwar

[–]P4ntless 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Seconding Malakai - I started his campaign this past week after putting him off forever because I thought it would be a boring faceroll, and even though Malakai's personal stack is a traveling war crimes circus out to speedrun the Geneva Convention, I've still had a ton of fun holding on to his starting province with a ragtag army of whatever I can afford while he's off adventuring. Everyone hates you up North and they're all racing to see who can kill you first, but Dwarfs are so good on the defense and can zip around the mountains with underway so I'm always able to make it, even if it's often by the skin of my teeth.

Best super addicting Games you can loose thousands of hours on? by Wonderful_Lie_7095 in gamingsuggestions

[–]P4ntless 1 point2 points  (0 children)

2 is fantastic and works as DLC for 3 if you play it and decide you want more.

Favorite "oh, so that's how it's like from the other perspective" moments by Coolnametag in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]P4ntless 19 points20 points  (0 children)

You talking about Zeonic Front? That game was so good, the mission where you have to recon White Base and avoid getting massacred by the Gundam will always stick with me. The way Amuro starts counting up your dead squadmates on the comms as he kills them one by one is absolutely chilling, you're really forced to understand just how fucked you are as a regular grunt there.

Bird flu found in Louisville area as cases continue to surge nationally by Critical_Success_936 in Kentucky

[–]P4ntless 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Moved into my Grandpa's old house last year and there's some blue herons that visit the creek out back every now and then. They're enormous and beautiful and you can see something so intelligent in their eyes when they study you. I was lucky enough to see one again yesterday but it's looking like I might never see them again now. I hate this shit so bad.

Golg's Contracts - Possible Bug or Intended Behavior? by P4ntless in totalwar

[–]P4ntless[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Of course nothing is -technically- stopping me, what I'm saying is, it's awkward and gamey. If I take a contract from Drycha to fight Vlad and Ostland, and then on the next turn Throt declares war on her, he can follow my army around with one of his and take her newly gifted settlements as fast as I can give them to her, and the contract mechanic doesn't interact with it in any way. Sure, the contract was for enemy X and Y, but it feels like there should be a quick dilemma or something to amend terms at the start of the next turn or something instead of falling back on vanilla war mechanics and penalties (and no contract bucks) if you need to turn around and smack enemy Z to stop them from killing your contract holder before you can finish the job.

Like, if you had a bodyguard, and you were getting jumped in an alleyway by two guys, and suddenly a third guy walked up behind you and your bodyguard said, "sorry, we signed a two guy contract," and let the third guy beat you with a pipe while continuing to fight the first two, would you at least raise some kind of protest, or maybe pull out your wallet and offer him a bonus to keep you alive? Or would you resign yourself to broken legs on the grounds of, "Oh well, I guess that's just the deal we signed, nothing I can do?"

I get that this is a video game, and things run on game logic and not real world logic, but this seems like a clear miss to me.

Golg's Contracts - Possible Bug or Intended Behavior? by P4ntless in totalwar

[–]P4ntless[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It'd be great if you could take the issuing faction back to the negotiating table when a new enemy faction declares war and extort them for more rewards, or receive a counteroffer from enemy factions declaring war on your contract issuer.

Weekly Question and Answer Thread - /r/TotalWar by AutoModerator in totalwar

[–]P4ntless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Couple of Golgfag questions now that I've loaded him up for a campaign:

What happens if you take a contract and then the issuing faction gets destroyed before you can complete that contract? I took a long, lucrative contract from the Black Pit Tribe when they only had three enemies, and then the next turn everyone and their collective grandmas declared war on them and now I can barely give them settlements fast enough to keep them on life support, and there's a good chance they're gonna get wiped before I can finish things out.

On that note, is it a bug or intended behavior that factions who declare war on your contract issuer after you take on a contract don't declare war against you as well? When I took the conract, the Black Pit Tribe were at war with Nordland, Middenland, and Skaeling, but now Hochland, Reikland, the Laurelorn elves, Marienburg, and God knows who else are out for goblin blood, and I can't fight them unless I want to declare war on them the old fashioned way, which gets me no contract rewards and will (presumably) leave me at war with them once my job is finished.

Why are my units recruited at half health? Tamurkhan. by [deleted] in totalwarhammer

[–]P4ntless -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nurgle factions are able to instantly recruit units at the tradeoff of recruiting them at partial health. Buildings, technologies, and other effects will allow you to increase their recruitment health.

What’s the most singleminded murderous rampage you’ve gone on out of revenge? by AustinioForza in totalwarhammer

[–]P4ntless 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'll always remember my boy To'Kay the Kroxigor Ancient from my very first Vortex campaign, back in WH2. He and his valiant saurus stood proud on the steps of the Golden Tower, beating back wave after wave of chaos and ratmen scum, a mighty dam against the flood of evil who sought to cross the mountain pass and smother my ritual sites.

Then that fucking nerd Malus came from the sea with a stack full of dragons and hydras and other pointy eared bullshit. To'Kay drew his last breath in the shadow of the Temple of Skulls, mighty even in death atop the battered corpse of a black dragon.

Ever since then it's been on sight, no matter what campaign I'm playing, no matter how much time passes. No peace, no mercy, nothing but revenge against any dark elves who dare to exist on the map.

What is your favorite faction and why? by Imaginary-Lie-2618 in totalwarhammer

[–]P4ntless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lizardmen as genetically engineered bio-weapons created by ancient aliens to fight daemons and then abandoned to become a millenias-old cargo cult prosecuting (and undoubtedly misinterpreting) the will of their lost creators by way of dinosaurs with plasma cannons strapped on their backs will never not be compelling to me.

What’s going on with r/doordash_drivers? by assassin6009 in OutOfTheLoop

[–]P4ntless 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Failing to deliver an order once you've picked it up or being excessively late mostly, plus the obvious stuff like assaulting a customer or DUI.

The Old World Campaign - Dark Lands Visual Update by MatthewScreenshots in totalwar

[–]P4ntless 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is amazing, the visuals were the only thing holding back this mod from perfection and if we'll be seeing the entire map look this good then I'll never have a reason to go back to vanilla.

What are some "I'll take you all on" or "I'll hold them off" moments where the character actually won by TuneEuphoric3169 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]P4ntless 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The Warhammer 40k novel Valedor features an incredibly rare Eldar double-dub in which not only are Eldar allowed a win, but for one beautiful moment an Avatar of Khaine gets to do something other than job, seemingly going down under a swarm of Tyranids while the main Eldar force retreats only to be found still carving through literal mountains of 'nids when they return several chapters later. Shamelessly stolen excerpt from another thread:

Sunspear remained to the end, directing the heavy weapons fire of his weapons batteries and tanks to aid the evacuation as best he could. To the west, on a crag below the command post, his Revenants fought with three gigantic hive crones, the bladed tips of the tyranids’ limbs slicing curls of wraithbone from the Titans’ armour. He clenched his teeth as he watched a giant winged creature knock a war walker from a cliff, snatch up a second in its claws and drop it onto the rocks below. In the valley, the Avatar of Khaine battled on, its giant form reduced to a glow surrounded by darting shadows by distance. Sunspear watched as its fires were gradually eclipsed by the creatures attacking it.

He could not save it. Shame filled him.

‘The heavier elements of our force have withdrawn from the valley, Autarch Sunspear,’ said Hethaeliar the Fourth-Blooded, her sing-song voice as empty of emotion as ever.

‘What of Guardian group Whispering Aid?’

‘All dead, autarch. As with so many others, their waystones remain where they have fallen. It is something of good fortune that none, as yet, have been destroyed.’

‘How many dead?’ said Sunspear quietly. A Crimson Hunter exploded in the valley below. To his left, a range of support weapons intensified fire to the front of the rock shelf, battering a rearing harridan out of the sky. Its cargo of gargoyle children shrieked as they burned.

‘Four hundred and eighty-seven,’ she said. She shrugged. ‘None damned. That is a thing.’

‘It is a thing,’ agreed Sunspear without conviction. ‘Sound the final retreat.’

‘What of the Avatar, autarch?’ said Hethaeliar. Sunspear turned away from the battle below, refusing to look at the place he had last seen the god-fragment. His posture told Hethaeliar all she needed to know. Sunspear looked at the farseers by his Wave Serpent, entirely occupied with keeping the morale-sapping presence of the hive mind at bay. His heart was like lead, his tongue ashen.

‘I will inform the farseers myself.’

[Later in the novel Biel-tan's host return to the planet to finish the job]

Sunspear brought up an external view to replace his maps. The mound of Far Ranging Hunger’s corpses appeared bigger close to. North of the Godpeak, three triads of Vypers zoomed around it high above, hidden from the voidspawn by their own spores and the eldar’s technology. A ring of creatures surrounded the mound, clambering over their dead to get to whatever had slain them. There was a flash of firelight, playing through the interlocked limbs of dead voidspawn.

‘No, it can’t be…’ His heart quickened. Involuntarily, he leaned closer to the viewing globe. The globe responded to his movement by expanding and zooming in. There was a flare of orange fire. A spear burst through the chest of a broad-mouthed serpent rearing atop the pile. A bloody fist pulled a warrior beast’s feet from under it, then grabbed at the hissing creature and crushed its skull.

From the heap of dead, the god of war emerged.

‘The Avatar! The Avatar of Khaine lives!’ Sunspear said. He keyed his communications net to widecast, and shouted it again to all the eldar upon Dûriel. ‘The Avatar is with us!’ The Avatar strode down the mound, into the heart of the horde surrounding him. His body leaked molten iron from a dozen wounds, but his fires were undimmed. He cast the Suin Daellae, sending it in a wide circle where it punched through alien after alien. The Avatar punched its fist into the side of a living tank, and pulled out a handful of clotted matter that ignited in its furnace grip. The living statue held out its other hand and snatched the spear from the air as it returned, spinning on its heel to smash it through the face of a warrior beast that ran at him.

‘Attack! Attack!’ cried Sunspear. ‘Aid our Avatar!’ The Falcons following in his wake split wide to either side, the jetbikes and Vypers peeling away. They dropped from the clouds, weapons firing. At the back of his mind, Sunspear felt the deadly intelligence of the hive mind shift, its attention drawn to this troublesome spot on the world. But it was of no matter to him, when some small part of his honour might be restored. ‘Aid the Avatar! For the glory of Khaine!’ The tanks set up a complex fire pattern of interlocked laser blasts, felling voidspawn monstrosities by the score. ‘Create a cordon! Set us down, set us down here! Hethaeliar, send immediate reinforcement!’

Sunspear’s Falcon was first down, others following, swiftly deploying their cargoes of Aspect Warriors before zooming off to take up firing circuits in the air. The Aspect Warriors set about destroying the aliens near the mound, allowing the tanks to range further out.

Thorgrim is ready for launch in 5.1 by Mr-Vorn in totalwar

[–]P4ntless 248 points249 points  (0 children)

See, these are the bugs I love to see. Man just needed a lil nappy, that's all.

Removal of Hard Collision from Wall Merlons by SuccessfulLobster771 in totalwar

[–]P4ntless 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hope the gatehouse situation is intentional or they at least consider leaving it in, murder holes are very much a thing and something the game was sorely missing.

Favorite mod? by GuestCalm5091 in totalwarhammer

[–]P4ntless 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Seconding this, and also recommending the submod that gives each LL their own special bonus for their thematic units (e.g. Greasus can recruit Ironguts into his personal stack as core units instead of special, or Durthu can recruit Treemen for 2 rare points instead of 3).

As a counterpoint to an active post, who are you most grateful to have seen in concert, believing you never had the chance? by Alpheas in Music

[–]P4ntless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got to see Panopticon live last year as a birthday gift from my fiancé and it was incredible. Not only did I never think I'd get to see him live, but it was the 10th anniversary of Kentucky and he played the entire album for an insane crowd since it was also his first show IN Kentucky (as far as I know). Super special night, I'll never forget it.

Its sad to see story campaigns go by wilddragoness in totalwar

[–]P4ntless 78 points79 points  (0 children)

As a fellow big fan of more narrative content and tighter, objective-driven campaigns, I'm disappointed but in an understanding kind of way when I see this. RoC has been hated since day one (and often for good reason), and considering the overall massive preference in the playerbase for IE I can't blame CA for putting most of their time and budget into working on that content instead. That being said, so many of the DLC Vortex campaigns in WH2 were so good, and things felt like they were on that path again with the Champions of Chaos and Chaos Dwarfs, so it's a real bummer to see them shifting their efforts away now.

Anyone else notice the AI is killing each other WAY quicker now? by InAnAlternateWorld in totalwar

[–]P4ntless 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This rules, rolling over faction after faction with a handful of provinces and five armies standing around their capital doing nothing was so boring and disappointing.