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[Tack]

Realm Divide in Shogun 2 is bullshit, though. Especially with even your vassals turning against you.

To be fair, the actual history involved a vassal supplanting their lord house.

[Antioch]

Realm Divide in Shogun 2 is bullshit, though. Especially with even your vassals turning against you. But then, diplomacy has always been diarhea in Total War. It is a shame, since the grand campaigns would be much better with passable diplomacy AI.

While it is most certainly bullshit, it does prevent an endgame where you just steamroll everything.

Though vassals turning on you was complete bullshit, since that just made making vassals useless.

[Teneb]

Realm Divide in Shogun 2 is bullshit, though. Especially with even your vassals turning against you. But then, diplomacy has always been diarhea in Total War. It is a shame, since the grand campaigns would be much better with passable diplomacy AI.

While it is most certainly bullshit, it does prevent an endgame where you just steamroll everything.

Though vassals turning on you was complete bullshit, since that just made making vassals useless.

And you can totally abuse the realm divide, as clans that spawn/respawn after the realm divide triggers won't hate you.

[umiman]

Realm Divide in Shogun 2 is bullshit, though. Especially with even your vassals turning against you. But then, diplomacy has always been diarhea in Total War. It is a shame, since the grand campaigns would be much better with passable diplomacy AI.

While it is most certainly bullshit, it does prevent an endgame where you just steamroll everything.

Though vassals turning on you was complete bullshit, since that just made making vassals useless.

And you can totally abuse the realm divide, as clans that spawn/respawn after the realm divide triggers won't hate you.

I wouldn't really call that "abuse". More like... convenient loophole.

Abusing is exploiting the AI and move order bugs to win a speedrun legendary difficulty campaign in 8 turns.

[Mech#4]

An article on Warhammer 2: Total War from PC Gamer UK has been shared online and it covers a number of points on what's coming in the new game. Taken from a thread on the official forums here;

Spoiler:  Summery of features (click to show/hide)

PC Gamer played through a Quest Battle, Lizardmen against High Elves. They had to stop the elves from completing a ritual, either by defeating the Elves or killing two chariot-riding wizards.
The battle map features a narrow bridge which the Lizardmen have to fight across. Judging by the pictures it's the same as the map shown in the recent Lizardmen trailers.
The "Out of Control" feature came in to play a few times, and the player says it added an interesting tactical aspect.   Mech#4: I wonder whether this'll be added to units retroactively. It would fit Squigs quite well.

Vampire Count and Human presence in Lustria confirmed!
"Ancient ruins can be explored for treasure, and will draw the attention of other armies"
The campaign map will feature "rogue armies: one-off armies made with no restrictions. Goblins herding dinosaurs!"   Mech#4: My thoughts went to the Beastmen armies that already spawn, but this is actually armies made from units across multiple factions.

High Elves will have a new settlement type called a "Fortress Gate" (presumably the gates between outer and inner Ulthuan).   Mech#4: I like this. The fortress gates are a big obstacle to overcome when assaulting Ulthuan.

Meeting certain criteria on the campaign map will unlock faction-specific battleground abilities. If the High Elves properly fortify their Fortress Gates, it allows them to summon Eagles when defending. The lizardmen can "summon velociraptors from space" "like a Star Trek away team". The player in this battle had three charges of this ability on a long cooldown.    Mech#4: This sounds like a summon spell like Raise Undead.

Sun Dragon confirmed for High Elves. Appears to be unmounted.
The player shoots down said dragon with lasers mounted on dinosaurs (Solar Engine Bastilodons), which he describes as "an extremely Warhammer moment"
Winning the Vortex campaign will require gathering certain resources. The article implies there will be several ways to collect these (it mentions questing, looting ruins and buildings as three sources)
You'll get a chance to resist being beaten suddenly in the Vortex campaign.
At the end they ask about Skaven: ""We will say that the list of races is yet to be... rat-ified", Roxburgh says, extremely pleased with himself"".
The game engine is the same but is updated with new rendering tech.

There was some images in the thread of the article. It had a number of small pictures from the battle the reporter played The map being as is described above, the one we saw in the Lizardmen in engine trailer (A bridge leading to a large temple).

Edit: I do have copies of the images I took before they were removed. There's nothing really new to them and they'll probably be up again in a few days once magazine subscription exclusivity is over.


Edit 2: There was one other thing. A video covering the Saurus Oldbloods riding Carnosaurs was released a few days ago.

[Tack]

As always you're the source that removes the necessity of me actually clicking on sites.

[Majestic7]

I hope they don't fuck up with rat-things yes-yes. They should fight-fight among themselves and not care about dead rats-rats. This is easily done by making their missile troops fire into melee-melee headless of friendly fire. Although I think they should have an easy way to replenish casualties for trash units then, maybe in the same way as the undead.

[Tack]

"Cleanrat and skavenslave units replenish past their cap, but carry public order and army upkeep penalties if they get too numerous"
Would be awesome.

[Mech#4]

It used to be a thing in 6th Edition that you could only have as many units of slaves as you had clanrats. I think it could work that for every unit of clanrats you field, you get a free unit of slaves that auto-replenishes to full between battles. The trade off could be, like in 7th edition, once the slaves break they scatter, dealing some damage to units around them, and don't reform.

[timferius]

It used to be a thing in 6th Edition that you could only have as many units of slaves as you had clanrats. I think it could work that for every unit of clanrats you field, you get a free unit of slaves that auto-replenishes to full between battles. The trade off could be, like in 7th edition, once the slaves break they scatter, dealing some damage to units around them, and don't reform.

Yes, a mass swarm of exploding slaves was always great. I always head-cannoned it that they had skyre-approved explosive collars.

[Teneb]

An article on Warhammer 2: Total War from PC Gamer UK has been shared online and it covers a number of points on what's coming in the new game. Taken from a thread on the official forums here;

Spoiler:  Summery of features (click to show/hide)

PC Gamer played through a Quest Battle, Lizardmen against High Elves. They had to stop the elves from completing a ritual, either by defeating the Elves or killing two chariot-riding wizards.
The battle map features a narrow bridge which the Lizardmen have to fight across. Judging by the pictures it's the same as the map shown in the recent Lizardmen trailers.
The "Out of Control" feature came in to play a few times, and the player says it added an interesting tactical aspect.   Mech#4: I wonder whether this'll be added to units retroactively. It would fit Squigs quite well.

Vampire Count and Human presence in Lustria confirmed!
"Ancient ruins can be explored for treasure, and will draw the attention of other armies"
The campaign map will feature "rogue armies: one-off armies made with no restrictions. Goblins herding dinosaurs!"   Mech#4: My thoughts went to the Beastmen armies that already spawn, but this is actually armies made from units across multiple factions.

High Elves will have a new settlement type called a "Fortress Gate" (presumably the gates between outer and inner Ulthuan).   Mech#4: I like this. The fortress gates are a big obstacle to overcome when assaulting Ulthuan.

Meeting certain criteria on the campaign map will unlock faction-specific battleground abilities. If the High Elves properly fortify their Fortress Gates, it allows them to summon Eagles when defending. The lizardmen can "summon velociraptors from space" "like a Star Trek away team". The player in this battle had three charges of this ability on a long cooldown.    Mech#4: This sounds like a summon spell like Raise Undead.

Sun Dragon confirmed for High Elves. Appears to be unmounted.
The player shoots down said dragon with lasers mounted on dinosaurs (Solar Engine Bastilodons), which he describes as "an extremely Warhammer moment"
Winning the Vortex campaign will require gathering certain resources. The article implies there will be several ways to collect these (it mentions questing, looting ruins and buildings as three sources)
You'll get a chance to resist being beaten suddenly in the Vortex campaign.
At the end they ask about Skaven: ""We will say that the list of races is yet to be... rat-ified", Roxburgh says, extremely pleased with himself"".
The game engine is the same but is updated with new rendering tech.

There was some images in the thread of the article. It had a number of small pictures from the battle the reporter played The map being as is described above, the one we saw in the Lizardmen in engine trailer (A bridge leading to a large temple).

Edit: I do have copies of the images I took before they were removed. There's nothing really new to them and they'll probably be up again in a few days once magazine subscription exclusivity is over.


Edit 2: There was one other thing. A video covering the Saurus Oldbloods riding Carnosaurs was released a few days ago.

It's also, more or less the same, in PCGamer's site.

[Mech#4]

You know, I avoided using the word "explode" to describe the rule so people wouldn't think the slaves literally exploded.


More information has been released about the sequel. Various articles are now able to be read on journalist websites, listed in the thread linked.

There's aslo various screenshots of gameplay that accompany these articles. I've listed several below.

Image 1
Image 2
Image 3
Image 4
Image 5


Skimming through one of the articles a few things were mentioned;

Legendary Lords for a faction now have different starting locations. Tyrion is in Ulthuan, Teclis elsewhere (probably Lustria). This also means they are two seperate factions in gameplay so you'll have to confederate to get both lords.

The Lizardmen power laylines they see across the map can link settlements together, conveying bonuses, I believe, to the cities as well as through the decleration/edict system.

High Elves have a faction ability called "Influence" that they can gain through events and spend to change diplomatic relations between other factions.

[Teneb]

Tyrion is in Ulthuan, Teclis elsewhere (probably Lustria)

The PCGamer link I posted confirms he starts in Lustria.

[Mech#4]

Oakley, IndiePride and PixellatedApollo (3 YouTubers who focus on Total War games) did an interview with Creative Assembly on Warhammer: Total War 2.

IndiePride - Interview Part 1
IndiePride - Interview Part 2

A few other details are mentioned;

A Free-for-All mode for multiplayer (so, 3 armies all against each other rather tahn in 2 teams).

Dragons will have breath attacks.

Fortress Gate battles will have abilities the High Elves can use tied to them. I think the two mentioned were calling in giant eagles and an ability called the "Hammer of Vaul" that destroys walls.
Also, apparently siege equipment won't be used in Fortress Gate battles.

There was a mention that magic for the likes of Mazdamundi and Teclis would be different from other mage lords. They probably won't have all the lores available to them like in the tabletop but something else to represent their magic power.

Raiding and pillaging locations in Lustria for items and gold. There was also a mention of sea monsters.

[umiman]

Raiding and pillaging locations in Lustria for items and gold. There was also a mention of sea monsters.

I suspect sea monsters will probably just be events or attrition. Doubt you'd actually be able to fight them considering they won't be doing naval battles at all.