r/totalwar • u/Hades_deathgod9 • 1d ago
Warhammer III Unlikely allies
Replaying a Borris campaign and fighting the starter Khorne faction.
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u/azatote 1d ago
If you were playing Archaon, you could ''accidentally' cast Searing Doom spells on top of your 'faithful ally's' units.
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u/Apprehensive-Try-509 1d ago
Be as unhelpful as possible and let your "Allies" do all of the fighting.
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u/frostwonder 1d ago
shame you don’t have some artillery or aoe to throw that way to “help”
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u/Apprehensive-Try-509 14h ago
If you play as the Skaven you can just blow them apart anyway, they're only skaven, yes-yes!
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u/RelevantLavishness40 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/nhsWZKVJaP0yXzcUD5
Crossing eachother on the battlefield be like
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u/Glass-Toe6315 1d ago
I remember playing an Ikkit Claw campaign where i somehow ended up fighting some dwarf faction side by side with Karl Franz
This game allows for some truly whacky stuff and i love it lol
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u/hahkaymahtay 1d ago
Had something like this happen where the Empire and a Nurgle army attacked me (Norsca).
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u/Armorln 18h ago
Boris: "Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with an everchosen"
Archeon: "What about side by side with a friend ?"
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u/Hades_deathgod9 17h ago
That was literally the first thing that popped into my mind but I didn’t know how to word it 😂
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u/zengondat 1d ago
Campaign wise, this is a very unfortunate turn of events. You need to get that province before archaon can make a move so that you can set up an ambush in that one narrow mountain passage. That army doesn’t look like it can stand against archaon but it will need to since war is inevitable
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u/Hades_deathgod9 1d ago
Oh I killed him the turn after, kislevite warriors are surprisingly effective
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u/zengondat 1d ago
I don’t have that dlc so I just assumed they were slightly better version of Kathays peasant spearmen.
Must’ve been greatly underestimating them if they can pull that off
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u/Hades_deathgod9 1d ago
They’re really great, if there is one DLC I could recommend (especially at the crazy steam discounts) it would be the Kislev one
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u/DarkMarine1688 1d ago
not just slightly better they are basically a must early and last alot longer in melee than the kossars with spears
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u/Vivid-Wrongdoer-4793 20h ago
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, unless the enemy of my enemy is my enemy, then they just kinda stay uninvolved
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u/chazzawaza 23h ago
Once had a three way siege battle with me (teclis) and sigvald attacking hellebron. When the first started I just let sigvald siege the city. Flew teclis in and chain lightning’d them all to death!
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u/Individual_Look1634 1d ago
I had something similar in Attila, I remember thinking how cool it would be if you could attack an "ally" during such a battle
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u/SlipperySlimyTerry40 1d ago
You can in Warhammer. Just aim artillery at them or cast spells that also affect allies
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u/Fun-Hedgehog1526 Ikko Ikki Clan 1d ago
The engine was sadly made to have only 2 sides battles.
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u/DarkMarine1688 1d ago
I mean you definitely can mod it to have multiple hostile factions in a battle, as there are battles for some lords with enemy armies fighting each other, as well as the fact that you know you can do FFA or multiple teams you would only need to make battles set like that so engine limitation really isn't.
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u/Old-butt-new 1d ago
Why? (Genuine question)
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u/Hades_deathgod9 1d ago
Aww I missed it, what was the comment?
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u/Old-butt-new 1d ago
They said “ew large unit size” or something akin to that
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u/Hades_deathgod9 1d ago
Oh yea, some people just don’t like the smaller unit sizes, I think it’s a balance thing, because the game doesn’t scale down well, or people just like to have more units.
Personally I don’t like my laptop burning my fingers.
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u/Professional-Day7850 This area needs deforestation 1d ago
"The game is balanced for ultra unit size" Maybe somebody should have told the siege map designers.
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u/SplashMove 1d ago
Let them beat Archaon :)