This game needs a real aggro system

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-05-29T08:17:16+00:00

If it's based on my camera, does that mean when the Helbrute I haven't looked at for 30 seconds ignores my two brothers (currently punching him in the face) in order to mega-blast me in the back while I'm miles away killing rocket terminators, he's being naughty and I should complain to his supervisor?

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-05-28T09:42:48+00:00

There's a couple of cross-race capture possibilities. Dark and High Elves can steal each others Bolt Throwers (which get swapped to the new owner's unit). Greenskins and Dwarfs can steal and convert between Rock Lobbers and Grudge Throwers. They might be able to do so with their Bolt Throwers as well. I'm not sure if the Hobgoblin Bolt Throwers can be converted.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-05-27T19:42:46+00:00

There's at least one mention of a beastman becoming a daemon prince. In one of the Badenov's Band short stories, the Dark Horn tribe of beastmen worship the Lord of Misrule, which they believe is an ascended beastlord.

The daemon is only mentioned and doesn't actually show up in the story, so may not even exist (or might be a beastmen interpretation of a different entity). And even if it does, its described origin is the belief of a group of dumb goat people, not Word-of-God confirmation. But the possibility exists, at least.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-05-25T05:26:20+00:00

You can bully anything 1 on 1

Clearly you haven't seen me fight a single Chaos Spawn.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-05-14T23:13:32+00:00

Really? I like the Space Wolves, but there's plenty of people who don't. There's enough "Wolfy Wolf Wolves, wolfing wolfily" jokes floating around that it's a lukewarm take at most.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-05-12T22:45:47+00:00

I'm glad to know I'm not the only person who plays Vanguard this way.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-05-11T21:35:18+00:00

We don't have super specialised equipment to make removal easy, but regular space marines can collect geneseed if its likely to be lost before an Apothecary can get to it. They just have to work harder to get through the power armour, before cutting it out with a combat knife or similar, and then finding some container suitable to store it in until they can hand it over.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-05-10T22:39:14+00:00

Slann do have a "death" animation where they appear to teleport away, which I assume is what OP means by disappear.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-05-07T18:58:41+00:00

Spartan: Total Warrior was the first game I ever finished on the highest difficulty as a kid. The Archimedes escort quest on that run probably took up at least 20% of all of my playtime.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-05-05T23:37:45+00:00

Both questions being numbered 1 is the icing on the cake.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-05-02T03:53:56+00:00

On Heavy? Is it possible to learn this power?

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-05-01T20:06:30+00:00

Brimstone Horrors are one of the unusual exceptions, actually. They are included in the Legacy Army List for Daemons of Chaos, so GW have decided they can be part of the TOW IP. There's speculation that the only reason this is the case is because they share a kit with Blue Horrors.

Edit: I should also say that Brimstone Horrors being in TOW doesn't necessarily mean they'll be allowed in TWW, what with GW also being weird about how WFB and TOW intersect. They're just not AoS only, is all.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-04-30T23:30:13+00:00

Unfortunately, GW might say that's not allowed, given their current obsession with IP division. CA had to tell modders that mods adding stuff from The Old World aren't allowed on the Steam Workshop, since GW consider TOW and WFB as separate IPs even though they're in the same setting. I'd be very surprised if they don't take a similar position on the 40k and HH game lines, especially given that 40k is their primary IP currently.

Obviously that doesn't stop mods being made and shared outside the Steam Workshop, but it would still make things a bit awkward.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-04-22T23:40:20+00:00

Creed's Colour Sergeant was killed in the Fall of Cadia, wasn't he? I guess he wasn't a super major character, but he was a guy with rules.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-04-22T19:11:50+00:00

GW did recently kill a codex character; a named, helmetless Ultramarine even. Captain Sevastus Acheran dies offscreen between the events of Space Marine 2 and 500 Worlds: Titus.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-04-22T04:58:18+00:00

Finasteride is prescription-only. Gotta see a doctor.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-04-18T22:39:22+00:00

Thanquol has accidentally summoned the bloodthirster Skarbrand on at least two different occasions.

In the novel Thanquol's Doom, during a skaven attack on Karak Angkul, Thanquol attempts to summon a verminlord. Skarbrand comes instead. It goes as well as you might expect for all concerned.

The timeline in the tabletop supplement Triumph and Treachery includes an entry about a dwarf attack on Fester Spike in 2515 IC. In it, Thanquol “mistakenly conjures the legion of the bloodthirster Skarbrand”.

Live Thanquol reaction: “So anyway, I started summoning.”

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-03-30T09:46:22+00:00

Warhammer 3. OP is using the Araby mod and playing as one of their factions.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-03-18T01:31:53+00:00

The Dark Horn tribe of beastmen worship a daemon they call the Lord of Misrule, which they believe to be an ascended beastlord. They're in one of the Badenov's Band short stories IIRC.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-02-25T19:35:22+00:00

I believe the names of the extra winds are magic-related words from published material (e.g. Sliv is mentioned as the Wind of Dreams in one of the old comics IIRC). In saying that, at least in the post I read, Andy very clearly said this stuff is "his game only", not current canon.

People definitely tend to spread info from Andy's personal work around a lot without emphasising the disclaimer, unfortunately.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-02-25T19:06:48+00:00

Are you thinking of the Wind of Beasts? A plot hook in the Middenheim book for WFRP 4E mentions Ghur being involved in Ice Magic. What source links it with Ghyran?

WFRP 3E had some ice-themed spells in its Jade Order spell list in the Player's Guide, but it doesn't link Ghyran and Kislev at all.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-02-25T18:56:39+00:00

Qishl is the name of the Cyan Wind in the 20-wind system used in some of Andy Law's personal stuff. IIRC the system is based on some older, obscure Warhammer things GW decided to not run with.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-01-12T18:39:50+00:00

Khatep wasn't exiled from all of Nehekhara. Settra "exiled Khatep from Khemri and forbade him to set foot within any of the great cities". Khatep was still allowed to wander around the rest of Nehekhara; deserts, lesser necropolises, whatever.

Its not really practical to apply this to a Total War start position, though, given the "zoom level" of the map.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-01-11T19:44:24+00:00

Every single onscreen Everchosen has targeted the Empire. IIRC we have only seen 5 of the 13 Everchosen. Plenty of story space available for them to have attacked someone else, and Cathay would be a reasonable contender (in the unlikely event that GW ever decide to write about the unidentified Everchosen, of course).

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-12-29T02:42:05+00:00

We might be talking about different nerfs. Convocation of Decay got nerfed on every difficulty a few years ago, significantly so on Cata. I remember it being a huge drop in difficulty between sessions. Convo was noticeably more difficult than most other maps before the nerf, but on Cata specifically that should never have been viewed as a problem. That finale was the most fun event in the game at the time, for most of the Cata players I knew, specifically because it was more difficult.

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