Who are we?
We are a group of battle hardened Total War and Total War Warhammer players united in effort to improve this game so all of us could enjoy this beautiful game even more.

Why are we relevant?
Our team is consisted from players that have invested thousands of hours in Total War multiplayer games and especially Total war Warahammer multiplayer. Not only we play this game the most, but also participate in tournaments (combined, we have more than 60 trophies won) and each of us watched other people play it on YouTube and twitch for hundreds of hours. So yeah, we know what we are talking about.

What do we do?
We gathered with objective to help CA balance out the game by proposing suggestion how should they do it. We are willing to put our experience in this game, knowledge we have about game mechanics and how it works in practice to contribute to the community by improving multiplayer experience.

How do we do it?
Most of the hardworking is done on discord app, we pick a topic for a number of days, like race or general changes and then discuss about things that we think should be changed there. Then we open text channel named as some of issues detected, indentify problem and suggest solution(s). After that we debate about suggestions and try to reach consensus on changes we are going to propose. Sometimes there is couple of good solutions so in that case we propose all of them and let CA choose what they find the most fitting. When we finish a debate about certain topic we store changes to the steam group, and add comments to each change as arguments why we think it should be implemented. After all topics were finished we created a mod and added all changes we agreed on and that were possible to be implemented within current workshop limitations and tested them in real battle scenarios as well as in the ultimate competitive test, tournaments.

What we want?
Not all players who play Total War games play multiplayer. By some information we have number is between 5 to 10 percent. Some people generally dislike multiplayer, but a lot of them think it is unbalanced in the current form. They tried it few times, were faced against cheesy builds and that discouraged them from playing it. We want to help CA fix it, not only it will gameplay more relishing but will also attract new players to the multiplayer.

Why is multiplayer so important?
Multiplayer is the core of any Total War game. People who play it tend to buy all content more often (because they need it to have more options on the battlefield). So there is a clear economic argument about it, more people playing multiplayer = more DLCs bought = more profit for the company. Also they are usually the ones who stick with the game the most make it the most loyal fanbase. There are many previous Total War titles like Medieval 2, Napoleon and Rome 2 who are still very much alive thanks to people playing multiplayer.
When you play against AI, you know roughly how the AI will play and what they will do depending on the difficulty level and the specific races you are facing. Whilst Total War Warhammer does a very good job of retaining replay value by the variety of options, new mechanics, difficulty levels and legendary lords, at some point it becomes semi predictable.
However, when you start to play multiplayer, the whole game is turned upside-down and you have to start from scratch. You still know the rules, and how to play, but so do your opponent and you cannot predict what he/she may do. This introduces human factor and almost limitless possibilities for the mind games which makes multiplayer truly amazing.

Why Balance Assembly?
Are main goal is to help CA balance out their total war games, especially in multiplayer so that is where the balance part come from. As for assembly, because we represent a united front of players assembled in desire to make this game even better. It also symbolize our admiration for Creative Assembly’s work.

Our steam page:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/Balance-Assembly