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Shazbot's Empire Sketchbook - TWH3
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Shazbot's Empire Sketchbook - TWH3

Description
I really oughta get some updated pics of these unit stat cards up but for now they should give an idea of what they do.

I made this mod for myself back in Total Warhammer 1 when I got the pack file manager to play with making my own army dudes to play with, and later released it because I thought maybe other people would have fun with it too. Here's Total Warhammer 3, and my activity with the game has waned but now that the Empire is around, getting back at least a little into playing with the pack file manager has been kind of fun.

For the Empire, you get a host of mid-to-late tier units beginning as a step above state troops. Starting with the medieval warriors theme, you get mid tier Warbands with spears, shields, swords, polearms, and horses. Knights, mounted or on foot, are great at crushing your enemies with lances, greatswords, and pollaxes while archers and crossbowmen rain steel from afar. You even get a Dwarven ballista and Bretonnian trebuchet.

Playing with the potential of Empire technology, I made some units fit for 17th-19th century warfare. Three flavors of musket armed line infantry capable of shooting and engaging in melee, balanced out by a weakness to cavalry and low armor and hit points. You get skirmishing snipers, grenadiers with quicklime, carbine and saber cavalry, and some insane war machines including a heavy and light tank, both with exploding mortar shells, a gyrocopter with guided rockets, gyrobomber with explosive bullets, a Dwarven organ gun re-armed into a Volley Howitzer with explosive shells, and War Wagons that carry Helblaster Volley Guns loaded with canister shot so they're giant 9-barrel shotguns. These are my favorite units.

You get a selection of hero and officer units as well. The Enchanter, Battlemage, Ranger, Paladin, Berserker, Druid, Shaman, and Shadowknight each bring their own abilities to use in battle. For Officers, the Colonel carries a rifled repeater with superb range and area effect leadership buffs while the Banner Lord imbues himself with contact effects to lead by example in the thick of the fight.

If I get back into it, I may be adding more units here in the future.
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SpooNNNeedle 7 hours ago 
finally, even with those critiques, it's awesome to see fireballs flying over the empire's rifle or late-medieval battle lines. I'd really like to see some human variants of these "spellcasters." Even a direct copy stats-wise to the current Asur mages for a formation of Bright wizards, and then giving the Asur some battle abilities (even something simple, where the mages all channel together to unleash a cooldown or battle-limited, single-target, high-damage fireball to give them some good anti-monster potential) would be super cool!

regardless, this mod is absolutely going into my quintessential unit mod picks, I don't think I'll ever play an Empire game again without a line of infantry and carbine cavalry!

(ps, the ranged units in this mod pair very well with the Empire Dwarfs of the "Dwarves of Legend" mod, the human riflemen can shoot right over the dwarves into the enemy)
SpooNNNeedle 7 hours ago 
even as a supporting ranged infantry unit, I haven't been able to get them to work very well in battles where the enemy has any sort of ranged coverage. These guys go down too quickly in the face of archer or gunfire. I have gotten some success using them to flank around a locked melee frontline and hitting the flanks of the frontline for some surprisingly effective chip damage, and if this is their intended role I'd definitely rebalance their damage to favor AP the slightest bit more (9--> ~15?).
SpooNNNeedle 7 hours ago 
The asur skirmish mages are really cool! You'd think that there'd be more mods with similar concepts floating around lol. I have found them to be somewhat weak, though. Their effectiveness as a skirmish unit is weakened pretty severely by their small numbers, the moment the enemy turns any ranged units on them, they go down very quickly.

Their role is also contested pretty heavily by Outrider Grenadiers, who can accomplish the exact same task but faster, and for much, much cheaper.

Other AoE ranged units also outclass them in DPS, and other places too, such as displacement (which the skirmish mages lack entirely) or contact effects.

I can't suggest much outside of maybe increasing the number of models in the unit to compensate (with the exact same stats as now, it'd push their DPS over their competitors'), or increase their range and increase their AP explosive damage (whether for more total dmg per projectile, or shifting 36 base/9 ap to 26/19).
Earth Burger®Fishless Sandwich™  [author] 14 hours ago 
Strange. I would hope I'm not missing the tier 4 barracks entries for my units, I'll check that next chance I get.
SpooNNNeedle 17 Jul @ 7:46pm 
I am running a mod + submod that could possibly (but doubtfully) be related: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2869542954&searchtext=shazbot
SpooNNNeedle 17 Jul @ 7:45pm 
You lose the ability to recruit units from the Tier 3 barracks (ie Rifleman, Colonel) once you upgrade to Tier 4
Earth Burger®Fishless Sandwich™  [author] 5 May @ 2:29pm 
Oh dear. I'll look at it.
Ītzpāpālōtl 5 May @ 4:54am 
war wagon hellblasters(canistershot) has crewmen floating in and out of the wagon
Earth Burger®Fishless Sandwich™  [author] 28 Mar @ 9:36pm 
All right, I think it should at least not be crashing. Let me know if anything else crops up, I've gotta fix my RPFM and stuff. Midnight at the moment though, so bedtime for me.
Earth Burger®Fishless Sandwich™  [author] 28 Mar @ 8:03pm 
... i do not understand at all what is amiss with the record returning the error, or why this is crashing now when I didn't change it at all in the course of updating.