Hello, Warhammer Fantasy fan here so seeing the post I downloaded it instantly
. Unfortunately I noticed ya'll havn't released the 3 of the 4 armies I like in TT: Skaven, Beastmen, Lizardmen..which is fine, I see them on the agenda thankfully.
I was always curious though (I played Warhammer Fantasy Mod in Civ 3 also) why human armies like Tilia, Nippon, Kathay, Estalia, Ind are featured in the mod? The most I've ever heard of Tilia is token units in games like Shadow of the Horned Rat and Dark Omen...a few smattering of references in the game manuals. Are they full featured armies in Europe that havn't ever been released in the US?
Minus the slightly off topic question I played a few rounds so far as: Chaos, Dark Elves, and Orcs/Goblins. 2 of the 3 games(I play on Noble, Standard Size Map) I've lost so I'm not very good
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- My first game as Orcs I could produce units like mad no doubt but since the units were weak compared to my neighbor armies I had to field multiple stacks which ruined my finances and my civilization eventually collapsed from units disbanding. I noticed Orc Warriors (maybe Black Orcs) were a couple techs in but I've never made it that far.
- My second game as Dark Elves was pretty uneventful. Their basic unit is a nice step up in mobility and damage from the Orcs. I quickly built all the buildings I could for each city hoping to build an infrastructure and reach that 2nd tier of units. Unfortunately I was declared on and was destroyed even though I thought I had a reasonable defense (4 units a city...spearman and archers I believe) but I was swamped quickly.
- My third game was my best by far and I played as Chaos. I went with Chaos simply because of my own bias. I've always seen them as completely overpowered and it seems every TT tournament has had a disproportianate amount of them versus other armies. So on a hunch I took them so I could hopefully get further than my last 2 attempts. Regardless, my theory still stands, I easily dominated 2 neighbors from the get go. The beastman starting units were more than a match for my neighbor starting units and I made my way up to Chaos Warriors that marched easily across the continent. My only problem eventually was that my empire was beginning to get too big...I was in the lead by a good margin so I didn't really have to worry about invading anyone, I needed an enormous army to invade any of the other big empires and I had built every building in every city. So...I just got bored and quit. I could have waited out the rest of the game but it was a foregone conclusion that I would win. Nothing could match my military if they invaded and controlling the number required to invade someone else became tedious so I ended up just producing units and then destroying them.
Overall, I dug it, the beginning is challenging for me anyways. I look forward to my favorite armies being playable. All my suggestions are contrary to the design statement of
"This is meant for you Warmongerers out there! - if you like peaceful Developement and Diplomacyvictories better look elsewhere!", so I'll just keep them to myself. Good luck, looking forward to more.
sigh i love this mod but unfortunatly its not ready fro prime time if you want i can email you a save game from my last auto save
