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PaperclipPerfector  5mo ago (text post)   2324 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for December 1, 2023

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Any fans of Warhammer 3 or Victoria 3 here? I’m not a serious gamer at all, picked them up on a Steam sale and just find them confusing. Only game I’ve played seriously is the last three Civilization entries and even then I only have 600 hrs on Civ 6 since 2016.

Have you got prior experience with Total War games? Warhammer 3 isn't the easiest game for a noob to the genre, especially given the far less simple archetypes for units, let alone magic.

I'm a big fan of the series, the very concept of merging Warhammer Fantasy and Total War is one of those chef's kiss things that tells me that we're capable of occasionally picking up the low hanging fruit out there. There's nothing like desperately maneuvering your handful of normal human units and using all the fire power they possess to hold off a horde of Chaos forces that can rip them apart limb from limb.

If you only have W3, I suggest Cathay as a starting faction. The concept of their units is simple and recognizable, and it'll teach you to use infantry to screen, how to position ranged units, the application of cav and so on.

I'd also highly recommend the SFO mod, can't play without it, it makes the battles and campaign so much more fun.

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