Total War: WARHAMMER

Total War: WARHAMMER

Better AI
Païtiti 27 Apr, 2017 @ 10:49am
Some feedback concerning chaos invasion and Bretonnia
Hello,

I`m trying your Mod atm in a Bretonnia walkthrough. Difficulty is "very hard". Other mods I use are better camera mod and 10% Movement @home mod.

After 3 tries I`m about to give up. I dont know if it was intented but the Bretonnia factions are in constant war with each other from the very first rounds of the game. It give the first 50 rounds a bit more to do as you would be pretty save in Bretonnia as the other factions wont attack and you can confederate one after the other as you go.

But it is quite tough to be honest. In my first 2 tries Bordeleaux got pretty strong pretty fast by eating up smaller factions and declared war on me which I could not possibly win.

In my current game I befriended them, as they are very strong again, but cannot confederate atm because we are too close in terms of power (while I`m stronger thou).

So, I dont know if you guys intented the Bretonnia factions to actually fight it out instead of going the diplomatic route? Some feedback would be appreciated. If you intented it, the whole research tree of Bretonnia would be nonsense as it cost too many rounds to get the diplo bonus when 2 or 3 factions dont exist anymore because they were eaten up by others which you then cannot confederate because they are too strong.

Additionally as Bretonnia you have constantly trouble with Beastmen, the occasional Savage Orc Horde, the silly northmen with their unlimited supply of warriors and pretty aggressive elves. I had not one single round of "breathing space" and serious issues to hold my territory. It was quite challenging indeed but still do-able.

Then there is the chaos invasion. I`m usually not afraid of Chaos. Especially the first "invasion" is quite easy to do. Never had any serious problems here. But with your mod installed it is quite impossible to do. Honestly, I have no idea why you guys did what you did, but imo you overdid it^^

Somewhere between turn 40 and 50 Chaos spawned something like 10 full-fledged armies with not so bad generals. Additionally on the map there are another 12+ northmen armies. So all in all approx. 20-25 full armies.

To top it all off Chaos does not declare war on every faction on the map and ignores the undead lords and just smash everything in their way. There is nothing that could stop them as the empire is pretty much balkanized due to the constant war between the small factions, Bretonnia is not united due to the circumstances I described and the Dwarfs and Vampires are just being ignored by Chaos. Even with a united Bretonnia I must admit that I see no way I could beat them. I can field something like 4 good armies which is quite okay for turn 50. Even with, let`s say 6 or 8 armies those 20+ Chaos hordes would just crush me.

So, is this intentional? Is there a way to disable it? I mean, I like the challenge of having a more aggressive AI and stuff, but I dont see the point in spawning that amount of Chaos troups that early.

Greetings and Thanks