Very helpful advice. Thanks. I found some of the traps on my own but this validates my conclusions because I thought I was crazy for doing some of these things. But you definitely offered some brand new insights and strategies I never thought of before.
Tbh, the insanity of autoresolve is why I rarely play without console commands mod now. The autores taking 30% of Kislev's army when it should be taking zero is noxious and I do not feel bad at all about taking easy autoresolves and then using "heal 100" when I would take zero losses by fighting it out. These autoresolve casualty penalties are supposed to promote fighting battles instead of autoresolving, but all it does is increase campaign fatigue with trivial battles, starting on turn 1. Absurd game design from CA, I'm with you 100% that modding it out somehow is the correct decision. TBH the force disparity bonus should be inverted- Smaller armies do not have an outsized impact, they don't punch up, if they're outnumbered they do that much *worse.*
I honestly don't understand the tip about Malakai's "Spirit Summoned" - you get +100 Oathgold and +20 airship crew growth (over 4 turns), why does it matter WHEN you get it? Why wouldn't you want to get the reward as soon as possible?
Because if you delay it you can benefit more from it. Essentially if you play it for a bit you get to Tier 4 faster. Basically think of it like this: If you delay getting that extra growth to Turn 4 you'll get to Tier 4 and Tier 5 much faster. The real pain of increasing settlement or horde army levels isn't early. It's the end. It's the benefit of getting it to Tier 3 fast vs Tier 4.
@@Costin_Gaming This is the part I don't quite get: how does delaying it help me with anything? It's +20 airship crew growth either way (which counts towards extra crew), it's not percentage-based, how is it beneficial to wait?
@@Costin_Gaming only important tier is 3 where u get infinite duration spirit summon and maybe dragon slayer on 2 you have all the important units accesible to recruit from global to other armies since kraka drak is tier2 it is possible to have full stack of gyros before turn 10 and steamroll everyone tiers 4 and 5 in spirit are kinda meh cuz canons with grapeshot>organ guns and barges are unbelivably expensive to rush for them
I don't know about that. Getting rid of the gem building gives you access to create troops faster. I don't see how throgg is dangerous except for his trolls. Having to deal with constant ambushing and 3-4 stacks of skaven seems way more annoying. And malakai is surrounded by enemies so it's somewhat tricky.
I Always appreciate your Work for the Community, at the same Time there is a lot of things i disagree with. As a 3000 hrs Player myself i can totally understand the boredom of the late Game and the stupid amount of Player traps. I do tho agree with most of your Stuff but at the end of the day i Always see the Game in the eyes of a Casual Player as Well. At the end of the day people wanna Play the Game to have fun and enjoy the Battles. You on the other Hand as myself, have Played this Game to such an extend that it has become more of a Job and win maxing it to a Point that the Challenge and fun comes just short at the end. I really Wish CA would go out their way and make the Game acutally interesting for the veterans. The way the AI is Coded just screams im gona be annoying but Not try to acutally kill you. You know that and i do that too. And thats why we can abuse that knowledge to Play that way. Its cheap, its boring and it does make feel Campaigns pointless after 30 Turns. However, over 90% of people Play this Game on normal or at best hard difficultys. These people have a hard time even to Beat the Game. And i can see both Sides and find a lot of the time that people Like you and me, more in the Hardcore spectrum (5-10%) of the Player Base are Not the targeted Players Here, sadly. Thats why i personally think the most important things cut most of the time short in CA's end. Sieges sucks, AI Auto Resolve modifiers are stupid, the late Game is boring because of how the AI Scripts are written. It all comes kinda down to that. All that cheese you can do and mods to make the Game less annoying to make it more effective dont fix the core Problems. And i find that in a lot of your Videos you are to much focused on how to win max and end the Campaign as fast as possible because of it. Then i have a question, why do we even Play in the First place ? Just my perspective on the matter. As Always i love watching your Videos and enjoy them as usual. Have a great new year! And lets Hope for a better Future on WH :)
One downside of the settlement swapping is that factions who already dislike you will HATE you really quickly once they see 10+ 'gifts' to a faction they also dislike. Having 2 wars is manageable, getting declared on by every faction who dislikes you, even ones you could have convinced of staying neutral or friendly, is another thing. I suppose if you get to str rank1 with a convincing lead, hate doesnt lead to war all the time, so that could be a bonus and useful. Though we dont play the same way, I play 120+ turn campaigns. (And not on legendary.) So for me, it would ruin the campaign if I did it without a second thought. Even my Golg campaign was almost ruined because CA didnt think about breaking treaties and the downsides of that. Dwarfs hated me for like a 100 turns for fighting against Angrund and Nuln ONE TIME, under contract even, and without a bit of savescumming, Id have been declared on by Thorgrim who was rank1. Its a good thing giving settlements to clients doesnt have a downside with him, otherwise Id have been done for.
Someone hates me? Good I'll take territory, sell it to their rivals, engineer a war between them and sit back and relax. That's how I sit back and sip wine as Katarin while Azhgag, Drycha and Vlad annihilate each other.
@@Costin_Gaming That I wasnt thinking of, kinda like gaming AI with the high elf system. Alright, that obviously works. The Golg thing is a genuine oversight (maybe not, idk) from CA though. You will break all treaties if you go up against factions in contracts you got treaties with.
Very helpful advice. Thanks. I found some of the traps on my own but this validates my conclusions because I thought I was crazy for doing some of these things. But you definitely offered some brand new insights and strategies I never thought of before.
Can’t believe I am watching this the second it comes out.
I can.
Tbh, the insanity of autoresolve is why I rarely play without console commands mod now. The autores taking 30% of Kislev's army when it should be taking zero is noxious and I do not feel bad at all about taking easy autoresolves and then using "heal 100" when I would take zero losses by fighting it out. These autoresolve casualty penalties are supposed to promote fighting battles instead of autoresolving, but all it does is increase campaign fatigue with trivial battles, starting on turn 1. Absurd game design from CA, I'm with you 100% that modding it out somehow is the correct decision. TBH the force disparity bonus should be inverted- Smaller armies do not have an outsized impact, they don't punch up, if they're outnumbered they do that much *worse.*
I can't believe the first words out of his mouth is *bad* advice.
I honestly don't understand the tip about Malakai's "Spirit Summoned" - you get +100 Oathgold and +20 airship crew growth (over 4 turns), why does it matter WHEN you get it? Why wouldn't you want to get the reward as soon as possible?
Because if you delay it you can benefit more from it. Essentially if you play it for a bit you get to Tier 4 faster.
Basically think of it like this: If you delay getting that extra growth to Turn 4 you'll get to Tier 4 and Tier 5 much faster.
The real pain of increasing settlement or horde army levels isn't early. It's the end. It's the benefit of getting it to Tier 3 fast vs Tier 4.
@@Costin_Gaming This is the part I don't quite get: how does delaying it help me with anything? It's +20 airship crew growth either way (which counts towards extra crew), it's not percentage-based, how is it beneficial to wait?
It's because higher tiers require more surplus points, essentially any growth benefit has an outsized impact when you need to save more.
@@Costin_Gaming only important tier is 3 where u get infinite duration spirit summon and maybe dragon slayer on 2
you have all the important units accesible to recruit from global to other armies
since kraka drak is tier2 it is possible to have full stack of gyros before turn 10 and steamroll everyone
tiers 4 and 5 in spirit are kinda meh cuz canons with grapeshot>organ guns and barges are unbelivably expensive to rush for them
I now understand why you struggle with malakais campaign now.
What struggle exactly?
In "malakai's campaign is insane" video from 2 weeks ago, the OG was still alive by turn 19. When i usually have him long gone by then.
Og=throg
And seeing you delete the gems building means not enough money for recruiting enough force to crack throg that fast
I don't know about that. Getting rid of the gem building gives you access to create troops faster. I don't see how throgg is dangerous except for his trolls. Having to deal with constant ambushing and 3-4 stacks of skaven seems way more annoying. And malakai is surrounded by enemies so it's somewhat tricky.
I Always appreciate your Work for the Community, at the same Time there is a lot of things i disagree with. As a 3000 hrs Player myself i can totally understand the boredom of the late Game and the stupid amount of Player traps. I do tho agree with most of your Stuff but at the end of the day i Always see the Game in the eyes of a Casual Player as Well. At the end of the day people wanna Play the Game to have fun and enjoy the Battles. You on the other Hand as myself, have Played this Game to such an extend that it has become more of a Job and win maxing it to a Point that the Challenge and fun comes just short at the end. I really Wish CA would go out their way and make the Game acutally interesting for the veterans. The way the AI is Coded just screams im gona be annoying but Not try to acutally kill you. You know that and i do that too. And thats why we can abuse that knowledge to Play that way. Its cheap, its boring and it does make feel Campaigns pointless after 30 Turns. However, over 90% of people Play this Game on normal or at best hard difficultys. These people have a hard time even to Beat the Game. And i can see both Sides and find a lot of the time that people Like you and me, more in the Hardcore spectrum (5-10%) of the Player Base are Not the targeted Players Here, sadly. Thats why i personally think the most important things cut most of the time short in CA's end. Sieges sucks, AI Auto Resolve modifiers are stupid, the late Game is boring because of how the AI Scripts are written. It all comes kinda down to that. All that cheese you can do and mods to make the Game less annoying to make it more effective dont fix the core Problems. And i find that in a lot of your Videos you are to much focused on how to win max and end the Campaign as fast as possible because of it. Then i have a question, why do we even Play in the First place ? Just my perspective on the matter. As Always i love watching your Videos and enjoy them as usual. Have a great new year! And lets Hope for a better Future on WH :)
One downside of the settlement swapping is that factions who already dislike you will HATE you really quickly once they see 10+ 'gifts' to a faction they also dislike.
Having 2 wars is manageable, getting declared on by every faction who dislikes you, even ones you could have convinced of staying neutral or friendly, is another thing.
I suppose if you get to str rank1 with a convincing lead, hate doesnt lead to war all the time, so that could be a bonus and useful.
Though we dont play the same way, I play 120+ turn campaigns. (And not on legendary.) So for me, it would ruin the campaign if I did it without a second thought.
Even my Golg campaign was almost ruined because CA didnt think about breaking treaties and the downsides of that. Dwarfs hated me for like a 100 turns for fighting against Angrund and Nuln ONE TIME, under contract even, and without a bit of savescumming, Id have been declared on by Thorgrim who was rank1. Its a good thing giving settlements to clients doesnt have a downside with him, otherwise Id have been done for.
Someone hates me? Good
I'll take territory, sell it to their rivals, engineer a war between them and sit back and relax.
That's how I sit back and sip wine as Katarin while Azhgag, Drycha and Vlad annihilate each other.
@@Costin_Gaming That I wasnt thinking of, kinda like gaming AI with the high elf system. Alright, that obviously works.
The Golg thing is a genuine oversight (maybe not, idk) from CA though. You will break all treaties if you go up against factions in contracts you got treaties with.
1. Feeding throt
How is this possible to get that camera angle on the campaing map?
Q and E rotate camera.
@@Costin_Gaming Found it, terrain quality setting changes camera angle after setting it on low and reloading save
please do cathay LL please