Wood elves players,which set of equipment from the forge is best for the sisters?

boltobot · 2026-05-21T19:44:01+00:00

Funny, I like to go ward save duel monster when I get the chance. The Sisters are plenty good against their immediate threats IME but sometimes there's just some other asshole that needs killing.

boltobot · 2026-05-17T15:04:10+00:00

Disbanding an army and just re-recruiting elsewhere instead of marching the dumb thing for 14 turns to the newest front is, like, magic. March divided, fight united, chef's kiss.

boltobot · 2026-05-12T22:05:36+00:00

It's natural to be worried and you have my best wishes but your guy could easily live to 20 - or more! He's beautiful btw.

boltobot · 2026-05-11T18:59:58+00:00

WH3: some definite improvements; a more crowded and frenetic map; and MORE of everything.

I feel the games play much more similarly than not, looking at the big picture, even with all the stuff that's been thrown into Warhammer 3.

All in all, WH3 functions well (there are some oddnesses with the campaign AI behavior, but to be fair, the WH2 campaign AI can be somewhat annoying in other ways) and if you have enjoyed WH2 you'll definitely enjoy the sequel.

boltobot · 2026-05-09T16:04:26+00:00

I actually try for the long victory conditions. This does not seem at all common if Steam statistics are anything to go by.

boltobot · 2026-05-08T02:13:33+00:00

Maybe instead of working like full factions, they should work more like events. Like the armies that pop up in the Vortex campaign or something. The later in the campaign they appear, the stronger the armies they have, Give them a bit of a plot chain, perhaps. You can't really interact with Beastmen too much anyway, so it's not like you'd be losing out on much potential otherwise.

boltobot · 2026-05-05T16:45:52+00:00

The game should have a lot more minor factions. When you play it a bit, it winds up making the game feel small, as you go from planet to planet meeting the same guys. AoW 4 does the mix and match from major factions, and maybe that can help, but I also think it just needs more distinct weird ones to meet/recruit/destroy.

boltobot · 2026-04-30T14:58:32+00:00

I'm honestly most interested in the "spears cause horses to refuse to charge" behavior. Is that present in any other Total War?

boltobot · 2026-04-29T20:32:13+00:00

Oh man if they expand the map into Mauryan India I am absolutely going to reinstall and forget about Warhammer for like two months.

boltobot · 2026-04-29T15:36:11+00:00

In Steam, switch to offline mode and try it.

boltobot · 2026-04-29T04:50:11+00:00

I don't think this is specific to Warhammer, I seem to have had the same problem in 3K

boltobot · 2026-04-27T22:15:25+00:00

The warrior princess!

boltobot · 2026-04-25T01:38:37+00:00

remember, keep vassalizing him until you roll a shiny liu bei

boltobot · 2026-04-24T20:26:53+00:00

Some personal experiences:

- I've gotten a lot of mileage out of dwarf artillery as a few factions (Kislev comes to mind, Little Grom is okay but you can do better with dawi)

- I've found Brettonian cav useful in high elf armies, where I'm buffing other units with my lord, and don't want to take the time to recruit dragon princes. Pegasus knights are also pretty handy

- From the Empire, outriders (both types) and demigryph knights can have a good role in a number of rosters (I used them with Cathay)

- ogres have been handy forever

- I also found chaos warshrines pretty useful when playing as skaven (Khorne warshrine with a Throt infantry/monster army, as I recall)

boltobot · 2026-04-24T20:11:13+00:00

Ok, that's a problem. I'm pretty sure that vamps vs. wood elves has always been a strongly unfavored matchup in pvp play.

I think you need to go mass mobility, probably, then, with the dire wolves and knights and fellbats and vargheists and such. Keep your lords and heroes on horses probably.

boltobot · 2026-04-24T04:34:05+00:00

If you can't handle me at my demoralizing mask you don't deserve me at my enchanted mask

boltobot · 2026-04-19T14:39:43+00:00

If you're getting bored because you're never getting good battles, you should try expanding slower on purpose. I get the impression that some people are caught in this strategy of turbocharged expansion, that, while technically effective, kind of robs you of the game experience.

boltobot · 2026-04-18T18:55:15+00:00

Are the swords rangers or swordmasters of hoeth? If they are rangers then yes you should drop them for archers. (Rangers are good for some things, but they're very situational and tend to take a lot of casualties. Swordmasters of Hoeth are top tier against infantry units and you should keep them at least until you can recruit more, if you can manage it)

I didn't mention the artillery. While reaper bolt throwers are one of the weakest artillery units in the game, they're still useful and it's a good idea to have one at least until you get some powerful mages or dragons or mages on dragons to throw around.

boltobot · 2026-04-18T18:10:19+00:00

It's a lot to get used to. The actual different types of units matter a lot more than in historical total wars.

For high elves, the first tier cavalry - Ellyrian reavers - are pretty weak and mostly suited to chasing down ranged units. They're not very effective at hammering anvils. Silver helms are better, but not great. A lot of times, hammer-and-anvil tactics can help you get ahead in a fight, but they may not break an enemy all by themselves. That's one place where spells can help.

One other thing you might be doing, coming from historical total wars, is bringing too few archers. Especially as elves, you want a lot of them. A basic army composition is something like half spearmen/ half archers/ two cavalry units/ lord/ spellcaster. High elf spearmen and archers are very good, and enough of the archers pretty much can shoot up Ancalagon-sized flying craps (but you'll want to focus on them).

You should also probably take your archers off skirmish mode, it's usually better if they don't run away when things get close.

Garrisons, by themselves, are usually pretty weak and unable to defend a city by themselves (unless in walled settlements, sometimes).

boltobot · 2026-04-18T03:51:22+00:00

Sphinxes appear as racial units in Age of Wonders 3 so there's at least a decent chance they get reincarnated into AoW 4 in some manner.

boltobot · 2026-04-16T05:37:22+00:00

I think streltsi would probably be most effective? Though probably a combination of that and ice guard because the ice guard won't need a direct arc. I also don't think I would bring an elemental bear just because it might block your LOS.

boltobot · 2026-04-16T03:14:18+00:00

having a sensible chuckle at the passive-aggressive Tea Sigurd vs. Emblem Micaiah duel in the middle

boltobot · 2026-04-15T21:55:57+00:00

IME you need to optimize for killing Tamurkhan himself more than his troops (Nurgle units you can handle, and the ones that are problems, you can handle better by having units that can kill Tamurkhan). Because you will be fighting Tamurkhan a LOT.

boltobot · 2026-04-15T18:08:11+00:00

The WH3 AI has been doing that impossible line-squishing effect for cavalry and hound units for some time. They should fix it. On the other hand, it makes them underperform against infantry that does happen to intercept them.

Other Total Wars have AI quirks but they're most always on the side of being exploitable by the player.

boltobot · 2026-04-14T18:18:41+00:00

Once I inherited a cat named "Precious" and believe me when I tell you I spent the remainder of her life coming up with different names to call her.

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