1931

Repanse and Ser Gregor are, what we like to call, Trebuchet-bait.

1932

In ME Khemri almost always declares war on you before you can do it and then they’re attacking your newly confederated settlement basically the next turn.

1933

I’m playinge ME Repanse (Normal/Normal) as well, but you guys are discussing chess starting strategies, while my TW game is utter chaos and I mostly wind up reacting rather than planning. I’ve slowly worked my way to the east, but most of the territory I’ve taken has belonged to rebels. Khemri is up in the wastelands with the orks, who thankfully have ignored me. I’m constantly being harrassed by Sartosa and Kemri, and brayherds, but thankfully no Chaos as yet.

I was about to lose one of my provinces, but a Neutral came swooping down out of the wastelands, destroyed the besieging Khemri army and then scurried back north. That Neutral Army was eventually wiped out by a southern ally.

This game has amazing replayability, because the world is pretty dynamic around you. Thankfully, my ineptness hasn’t hindered the Empire and the Dwarfs from pounding on the Vampires and keeping Black Crag contained. Two or three Elven factions are making slow inroads into dark elf domain. The new world is mostly tamed by that Empire Hunter guy, and only The Awakened is roaming the coast with a badass army.

It appears pretty smooth sailing for me to continue acquiring Chivalry (just passed 800) by continuing my eastern march. Perhaps when I finish the Tomb Kings, I’ll need to finally head north or be on the lookout for some Chaos invaders to poach.

Between my new computer and the new patch, the turns were flying by before most of the good factions aligned with me.

1934

Yeah this is my problem, too. I don’t want to miss my allies’ moves, but they take so long! I should probably just skip them, though, and read the turn announcements.

1935

Just get a Damsel with Lore of Life and Repanse/Gregor can pretty much take on entire armies between the two of them. And don’t forget to do your Vows on your Paladins and especially on your Lords so you can use more high tier knights.

And you can toggle all the camera moves. I suggest setting allies and neutrals off and enemies to the fastest. If you are mid war and really want to see something specific you can toggle the factions individually. Also (and you may know this), if you press R on the campaign map, it toggles animation speed so you don’t have to watch your armies leisurely walk from point A to B. They sprint instead.

1936

I’d gone quite away into the campaign before seeing the Vows. Just like I’d gotten too far into my Skaven campaign before grokking their Food situation. Each faction really does play differently.

1937

THANK YOU

1938

You can also set the speed of your own troops to Fast or Fastest on the camera options.

Usually when I start a game I immediately do the following:
Me: Fast/Fast
Neutrals/Allies: Fastest/Fastest
Enemies: Fast/Fast

Sometimes I turn off the camera zoom for Allies and Neutrals as well (especially if you’re playing say Malus and don’t want the camera to sail to the other side of the planet constantly for Malekith wandering around).

Because, honestly, some animations for some units are stupidly slow. Even the ones that aren’t painful are pretty slow.

I just wish it allowed the host to do it for multiplayer.

1939

I figured out how to turn army and settlement icons on and off. It can only be done when when viewing the diplomacy screen, which is strange. It does persist when you exit the diplomacy screen though. I knew this, but forgot due not playing for a while.

1940

Any ideas why my new computer is refusing to remember any of my game settings? Every time I start the game now, I need to reset Minimal Advising and turn off Default to Run.

1941

Best strategic tactical game ever.

Add me in steam–lets play a round.

1942

Ah ok. Ive been playing me because of turntimes.

1943

I have no idea about this game in particular, but when I had problems with this sort of thing in other games in the past it turned out that it was because my Documents folder wasn’t on the C drive so the game didn’t know how to access it. Handily this is easy to fix with junctions nowadays.

1944

This happened to me and I forget the fix, Google around and you will find it. I think I had to do something with the appdata .ini file. Delete it, maybe?

1945

Could be your security settings. Try running it as admin.

1946

@belouski

I just remembered what I had to do - you need to disable the GeForce Experience overlay, that’s what was making my settings not “stick”. I also disabled the Experience optimization, I talked a little about it previously in the thread, but give that a try and see if it helps.

1947

This was it. I remember you talking about the GeForce overlay, but since it made so little sense that it would be the problem my old brain didn’t associate the two. Thanks!

1948

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1949

I’ve just bought this and the first part (mainly for the Mortal Empires campaign). My last Total War was the original Rome, so I’m a bit rusty and I see no tutorial in Mortal Empires.

Anyone mind to share some tips for beginners? It’s worth playing the first game? Time is not my best friend these days…

1950

Skip the first game if you have the second. It’s strictly a superset. Lothern is a good starting faction on easy difficulty to get your feet wet with. Very forgiving.

Simple start guide for high elves:

  1. Your leader is a combat monster. Do not be afraid to plunge him into the heart of battle. He’ll do a lot of damage and he will inspire the friendly troops near him.

  2. Don’t make any diplomatic deals with other high elves. Just conquer them all, one at a time, and forcibly annex their lands. I prefer to just go counter clockwise around elf island from the Lothern starting point but it’s up to you.

  3. Elves have all sorts of cool troops once they build up their provinces and unlock them, but their beginning armies are actually a cut above everyone elses low level troops. You can get a LOT of mileage out of archers and spearmen. Especially because Elven archers are basically the best archers. The spearmen are just there to tie up enemies until the archers can kill them with arrows. A simple strategy is to make an army of 50/50 archers and spearmen. The spearmen stand in front. The archers stand just behind them. The spearmen do nothing but play wall. Micromanage the archers so that you have 3-4 units of your archers targeting one enemy unit at a time. It will melt fast. Prioritize having your archers focus on enemy archers/cavalry first. The enemy infantry you can get to later since the spearmen will bog them down.

  4. When building provinces don’t get distracted by the cool buildings to unlock new troops. You need to build buildings that increase your income and your public order. Once you are rich and your provinces are secure then you can build the fancier stuff.