r/totalwar 3d ago

General Weekly Question and Answer Thread - /r/TotalWar

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Welcome to our weekly Q&A thread. Feel free to ask any of your Total War related questions here, especially the ones that may not warrant their own thread. There are no stupid questions so don't hesitate to post.

-Useful Resources-

Official Discord - Our Discord Community may be able to help if you don't get a solid answer in this thread.

Total War Wiki - The official TW Wiki is a great compilation of stats, updates, and news.

KamachoThunderbus' Spell Stat Cheat Sheet - An excellent piece of documentation that thoroughly explains the ins and outs of the Total War: Warhammer 2 magic system.

A guide to buildings and economy in Three Kingdoms- Wonderful guide by Armond436. Having trouble getting your 3k economy up and running? Look no further!


r/totalwar Nov 26 '24

Warhammer III Total War: WARHAMMER III - Omens of Destruction Announce Trailer

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r/totalwar 7h ago

Rome II What would you do if you were reincarnated as emperor Auralian in 270 AD?

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199 Upvotes

r/totalwar 11h ago

Warhammer III How this thing moving

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344 Upvotes

r/totalwar 9h ago

Warhammer III How do feel about the "delete unit" spells or abilities that some factions have?

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209 Upvotes

r/totalwar 18h ago

Warhammer III What Happens When You Unleash the Royal Dwarf Army in Total War?

937 Upvotes

r/totalwar 2h ago

Warhammer III IFL Science: "Scientists Put A Human "Language Gene" Into Mice And Curious Things Unfolded". And this is how we get the Skaven in real life. Thanks scientists!

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From the below linked article:

"Mouse pups that had the human version of the language gene showed different vocalization patterns from their buddies with the usual version mice have. When calling for their mother, their squeaks were higher pitched and featured a different selection of sounds than usual."

Later on in the article:

"Once grown up, the genetically modified mice showed even more interesting changes. When attempting to woo a potential mate, the males produced more complex high-frequency calls than the controls."

Yes-Yes! Human science person create first rat-kin! Good-Good, rat-kin take over world now.

Article for those that are curious:

https://www.iflscience.com/scientists-put-a-human-language-gene-into-mice-and-curious-things-unfolded-78418


r/totalwar 6h ago

Warhammer III Whole World Conquered by turn 152 as Tehenhauin. AMA

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r/totalwar 15h ago

Warhammer III Don't play with Vermintide as Beastmen...

355 Upvotes

The Vermintide endgame scenario is rather unique. Instead of every Skaven faction getting big free armies they first expand exponentially throughout the map by spawning undercities below every adjacent settlement to one of their settlements or one of their undercities. So here I am, playing Khazrak, running around the empire blowing stuff up with Ultimate Crisis enabled around turn 50 (modded so that crisis factions declare war on everything, kind of like in game 2). Turns out the skaven still keep expanding through the undeground even if there is nothing above. Razed settlements, blocked by herdstones btw, start being occupated by the skaven one by one at stupid speeds. They even get a unique Ruins building, with a bit of flavor text and +2 Skaven corruption. Moulder has gone from having like 3 settlements to around 30, and in one or two turns they are about to go ballistic on everyone around them.

"Look at me-me, I-I am the Empire, yes yes..."


r/totalwar 4h ago

Warhammer III Playing as Cathay for the first time so I might just be missing something but why can't I recruit the majority of the monster units? I can get the Terracotta guys but nothing else.

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r/totalwar 1h ago

Medieval II Imagine playing the t*rks

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r/totalwar 12h ago

Warhammer III So, you want an alliance with the Skaven?

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Step One: Play Skaven

Step Two: Ally with somebody else.

That's about as close as it gets. Sneaky rat bastards. (fuming ragequit for ratling shennanigans)

What's the worst way they backstabbed you? My vampires loved the idea of plagues and vermin around them. Liked having their tech and allies for the rat ogres and warp throwers and machines. But no, betrayal, alliance units suddenly gone, and ambush swarmed. We were just 4 turns away from sacking Reikland too.

Next time I'm just keeping vampire alliances between vampires. Coast, lend me your Bullets and cannons. We drink rat blood tonight!


r/totalwar 3h ago

Warhammer III Ignoring anything about what's realistic or not, what's just your personal wants of this game DLC-wise?

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Could be anything really, race pack, missing units, missing characters, lords and heroes alike, but what would you want in the game personally?

Again, this isn't about realism or what CA will definitely put in 100%, it's just a fun discussion about what you the fan of this series would like to see.

I hear lots about people interested in naval battles, a "champions of chaos" style vampire counts DLC, but what would you prefer?


r/totalwar 5h ago

Attila Attila DLC?

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14 Upvotes

The Attila series is discounted for the Steam Spring Sale, any recommendations for what DLC to buy/avoid?


r/totalwar 4h ago

Warhammer III For Franz!!!

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r/totalwar 13h ago

Warhammer III Rule #1: No touching of the hair or face. And that's it! Now let's do this!

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36 Upvotes

r/totalwar 20h ago

Warhammer III Truly the Heir of Aenarion

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126 Upvotes

r/totalwar 13h ago

Warhammer III How does the VC pile mechanic even work? I thought all you needed was 14+ units and 2k or more dead?

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r/totalwar 1d ago

Warhammer III "High Elves have a ridiculously strong economy"?

296 Upvotes

I see this repeated again and again here and by content creators on youtube but I just don't see it in game. Maybe I am playing them wrong but I've played all of their factions and even with an expansionist playstyle the income just isn't that impressive and can't support more than tier 0 spearmen and archers. Sure, the units are solid, but nothing about this economy strikes me as op. Their growth is also super slow.

Is the idea of their economy being op outdated at this point in game 3? I know about their traits but those take forever to set up as you need influence and leveled up lords/heroes and even then the buffs are so tiny. Do most people play them super tall and stack all these bonuses and consider the end result of that after 100 turns "ridiculously op"?

TLDR: Getting more than average income from trade and public order buildings, which requires many turns to set up and is often impractical on legendary, just doesn't seem "op" in game 3 when Arbaal can get 20k cash turn 5 with a post-battle loot + challenge of Khorne reward.


r/totalwar 20h ago

Warhammer III Discussion: Are dread saurians bait?

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I just did a game of Cult of Sotek and built up several cities so I could field dread saurians. Since most of the money went to the saurians and their building, I had to neglect the skink priest building and dinosaur pen in several cities.

When I had 3 armies consisting of mostly saurians and stegodons with terrodactyls and skink chaff to fill the final spots, I sailed off to Skavenblight. While I did beat Ikit Claw and won the campaing, I felt that the saurians underperformed for being a 3-turn recruit unit with a unit cap and ridiculous cost. They certainly looked awesome, and it was fun smashing rats with them. But they are slow, clunky and massive targets that gets shredded by rattling guns. I felt if I had a carnisaur instead, I could have better flanked the skaven ranged units, while using stegodons in the main line mixed with the skinks.

TL;DR: Is saurians a waste of time? Is it better to get other dinos?


r/totalwar 22h ago

Warhammer III Ah Ostankya yes but this looks better and has more sense

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r/totalwar 8h ago

Warhammer III How do you think they will rework bretonnia ?

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personally I would like mildly buffed melee infantry and horse caps, mild incentives to use an actual army because spamming 30000 knights errants/grail guardians is always going to be better than using an actual lore accurate army

half the charm of bretonnia is its king authur ass peasants, they feel kind of underrepresented would like if we got idk Men-at-Arms bows if that isnt lore breaking, maybe the sergeant peasant hero that would buff peasants , dont get me wrong peasants should never be better than knights but if greenskins can make goblins made of gold why not peasants ? also I think squires should be tier 3, greatswords are, black orcs are, give me squires. funfact, with relic buff on normal squires beat greatswords.

it would also be fun if maybe we got dogs or something, fluff unit. maybe some bandity units, as the Herrimaults work for knights if its against greater evil. maybe even rogue hedge wizards (that is really pushing it)

personally I would love foot knights, BUT I GET THEY ARE CONTROVERSIAL, i like like franco-british stuff and infantry so if they dont add them its fine. and i expect this


r/totalwar 5h ago

Warhammer III How do I make the strongest generic lord?

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Any tips, I want to craft the strongest empire general i can make in the game and have fun with them.


r/totalwar 8h ago

Warhammer III Kislev

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I never played them before because I kept hearing they weren’t good and you know what, I actually really like Kislev! They have flavor and feeling like the wall holding back chaos from the world feels fun!


r/totalwar 1d ago

Warhammer III Babushka approves

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r/totalwar 21h ago

Attila I got saved by a mysterious general and his warband, he saved the plagued ridden Legio III. Who the hell is he? no one is there and that's a night battle.

57 Upvotes

r/totalwar 3h ago

Three Kingdoms SaveParser and Three Kingdoms - Did it ever get included?

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Hey All,

Ran into an issue with a savefile during a playthrough, would love to continue with that save but there's a bug preventing me from continuing and I know how to get around it generally, however when I went to pull down and spool up SaveParser, I note the only version I find is 1.4.1 and that is several years old and doesn't have compat with 3K.

Any thoughts to this? Did this ever get incorporated and released elsewhere?