How the FUCK do i get gud at total war games?
Is it really
>Melee units front
>Missile units back
HOW?!
How the FUCK do i get gud at total war games?
Brayden Morgan
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Blake Moore
>>Melee units front
>>Missile units back
Literally yes
Bentley Hernandez
haha hammer and anvil go brrrr
Connor Johnson
checkerboard until you want to try and git gud with more interesting tactics
Angel Turner
Establish front line w/ infantry, flank the enemy with cav, run down their missiles/artillery, then slam their main force in the ass while they are busy fighting your line.
Jacob Williams
missile front, melee back. when they approach charge your melee, retreat your missiles
Charles Sullivan
What interesting tactics are you talking about?
I mostly play skaven up to now but it's really jarring how much shit you have to down before you can take on a huge army.
Also your units seem to not respond sometimes
Jackson Gray
It really is that simple, the only variation is "checkerboad them" if you're using gunpowder, or maybe try your hand at chevrons if you're feeling brave.
Someone post that pic
Christopher Bennett
Skaven are very easy once you know the game but very difficult if you don't, try playing a simpler faction like HElves or lizards
Lucas Ward
units will "stick" together when engaged so you need to spam click to get them to start running away, also his the hold position command
Michael Ramirez
Imagine being shit at the simplest of simple tw gaem.
Liam Russell
Look just go like this
>Get siege weapons
>Win
It's that easy
Henry Wood
Dont use cav mid to late game. Infantry in front of archers. Lord in front.
Look into chevron formations for gunpowder units.
Blake Russell
It's
>Melee in front
>Missile in back
>Pause game
>Have all missile units hit the Enemy Lord
>Win by breaking Leadership
Isaac Phillips
>pick BALTHAZAR GELT
>get all the handgunner buffs in his tree
>make chevrons
>win
Aaron Myers
>pick BALTHAZAR GELT
>don't stack artillery
do you hate fun?
Nathaniel Anderson
Obviously you have some arty in there for spice but I personally really like infantry gunlines and Gelt turns them into monsters.
Luis Brown
having never played skrolk or skaven before, how to I deal with lizardmen early game? am I supposed to just colonize something at a high tier and get catapults?
Jace Nelson
>pick BALTHAZAR GELT
>have to deal with secession bullshit since they didn't bother changing the empire if you aren't the emperor
Jose Brooks
For Warhammer specifically:
>EMPIRE: ARTILLERY IS FuCKING SICK. GUNS ARE COOL TOO. YOUR TROOPS CAN HOLD THE LINE WELL
>VAMPIRES: USE YOUR RETARDED BONEMEN TO HOLD THE LINE WHILE CASTERS ASSAULT EITHER ENEMY LORDS (TO ROUTE) OR THE LINE (TO DEFEAT THE ENEMY STRAIGHT OUT IF THEIR LEADERSHIP IS TOO HIGH)
>DWARVES: HOLD THE LINE WHILE YOU USE FUCKING GIGABRAIN ARTILLERY TO PEPPER PEOPLE TO DEATH. BE MORE DEFENSIVE THAN EMPIRE.
>ORCS: YOUR UNITS ARE KINDA MEH, BUT YOU HAVE STRONG CASTERS AND A WIDE VARIETY OF UNITS TO PICK FROM. USE YOUR WAAAAGH TO PUNCH THROUGH ENEMY LINES WHILE USING GOBLINS TO EITHER FUCK UP THE ENEMIES WITH ARROWS OR USING THEM TO STEALTH AROUND AND STAB PEOPLES KNEECAPS. USE WAAAAGH ON THE MAPS TO SUBSUME EMPIRES IN THE GREENTIDE
>CHAOS: YOU HAVE ARMOR AND HIT GOOD. THE END.
>BEASTMEN: DO NOT PLAY THEM.
>BRETONNIANS: YOUR CAV, IN COMPARISON TO MOST OTHER FACTIONS, IS CRAZY FUCKING GOOD. IN EARLY GAME USE PEASANTS AND CAV TO BREAK THE ENEMY LINES. IN MIDGAME ON SPAM CAV UNTIL EVERYTHING DIES.
>WOOD ELVES: IF ORION, YOUR ARCHERS HAVE "MOVE WHILE SHOOTING" SO MICRO THE FUCK OUT OF THEM. IF PLAYING DRTHU, YOUR TREES ARE TANKY AS FUCK. EITHER BECOME GODLIKE AT MICROING OR BUILD A MASSIVE DEFENSIVE LINE.
>NORSCA: YOU HAVE A LOT OF ANTI-LARGE UNITS, BUT STRUGGLE AGAINST NON-LARGE ARMIES. YOUR BASIC INFANTRYMEN ARE NO JOKE, BUT YOUR REAL STRENGTH IS IN THE FEROCITY OF YOUR INFANTRY AND YOUR WAR MAMMOTHS. SPAM THEM.
>HELVES: THEY'RE REALLY OP. JUST SPAM ARCHERS AND DO WHATEVER HONESTLY
>DELVES: RAID AND ACQUIRE HUGE STACKS OF CASH TO FINANCE ARMIES THAT CAN COMPARE TO THE HIGH ELVES IN QUALITY. USE THOSE BLACK ARCS YO
>LIZARDMEN: YOUR INFANTRY ARE POINT FOR POINT BETTER THAN MOST ARMIES BUT YOUR ARCHERY SUCKS SHIT. USE INFANTRY TO BEAT THE OPPONENTS LINE, SKINKS TO KITE, AND DINOSAURS AS A STRONG AS HELL CAV SUBSTITUTE.
>SKAVEN: USE CLANRATS TO HOLD DOWN EVERYONE WHILE STORMVERMIN, ARTILLERY PIECES, OR RANGED WEAPON TEAM GO TO WORK.
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Mason Price
>TOMB KINGS: INFANTRY IS SOME OF THE WORST IN THE GAME, BUT IT'S FREE TO RAISE AND HAS NO UPKEEP SO IF YOU WANNA PLAY THE AUTORESOLVE GAME THESE ARE YOUR GUYS. YOUR CONSTRUCTS ARE FUCKING *GROSS* AND YOUR CAVALRY IS GREAT BUT THEY CAN GET STEAMROLLED EARLY SO WATCH OUT BRO
>VAMPIRE COAST: LIKE SKAVEN, BUT A LOT SLOWER. USE MOBS TO HOLD DOWN PEOPLE WHILE YOUR GUNNERY MATES SHOOT EVERYONE TO DEATH. NECROFEX COLOSSI ARE BROKEN AS FUCK AND YOU HAVE A LOT OF AMAZING TOOLS FOR HOLDING PEOPLE DOWN WHILE THEY GET PEPPERED WITH AMMO.
Generally, you need to figure out which archetypes you like and then adhere to them. Like Tomb Kings? You'll probably like Bretonnia or Beastmen. Like Skaven? You'll probably like Orcs, Vampire Coast, or Empire. In battle every faction has a good strategy so just do whatever you like with the tools they offer. I've seen some fun strats here and there.
If you need MORE help: youtu.be
Watch this guy. He's great.
David Roberts
Is the Eye of the Vortex worth playing or should I just stick to the Grand Campaign?
Brody Wilson
>ECROFEX COLOSSI ARE BROKEN AS FUCK
I had never played Noctilus up until a week ago but holy fucking shit are those things broken. Constantly fighting the urge to just build a 18 colossi + queen bess and gunnery wright memestack
Isaiah Hernandez
Vortex map is nice but the Ritual is garbage, some vortex races have non-ritual objectives (TK, VC) that they don't get for Mortal Empires.
Adrian Miller
I'll actually try this out, thanks a lot for the tips really helped me out.
How about campaign tips? Any of those? What should i build first and foremost?
Samuel Bennett
Growth.
Always growth.
Andrew Jones
How many people use battle pause? I'm genuinely curious.
Daniel Evans
i do for being scummy to mass target Enemy Lords with missiles or artillery if the battle is gonna be a tough one
Nicholas Turner
A beastmeme rework is coming, right?
Please...
Adam Adams
in game 3 if you're lucky
Jordan King
>"DWARVES"
Camden Hall
Growth and bunker/wall up your villages - unless you like loosing tier 3 settlements from a shitty ass brey herd thay spawns next to it.
Also, always scout ahead with a hero first before making any move into enemy territory. The AI has a funny habit of spawning three armies in the fog of war just out of nowhere so deny it that power by always scouting and monitoring its activities.
John Harris
use autoresolve and double-size doomstacks and just play campaign mode as if it was Civ4 at first.
use agents to assassinate enemy leaders to cripple their armies and to open the gates on fortresses you're trying to take.
roflstomp everything until eventually the whole realm unifies against you and you have to hold out for 20 turns.
once you have the hang of that, actually play out the strategic battles.
a lot of it is basically just learning how to cheese the enemy AI and beat them with near-exploity tactics like corner camping n such.
play an easier faction like Dwarves.
skaven are weak and rely on kiting tactics and heavy micro.
dwarves you just make an unbreakable front line and barrage with crossbows.