... been watching vids. Game looks pretty damn enticing, but unfortunately I can't afford it and I'm preeeetty sure I couldn't run it even if I could (the best processor I have access to is a 2.1 ghz dual core :V). Still probably the most attracted I've been to a total war game in ever. Anyway. Been watching campaign attempts. Wanna' see some more!
Would... would any of you be able to recommend one that's
not either entirely or sporadically what amounts to physically painful to watch? About the most competent one I've seen yet, I just watched complain about not being able to kill an ork general-whatsit when they had had a rank 6 Thorgrim at near full health sitting there doing nothing for most of the fight. It. It hurt. Every time he panned over the battle to show bossdwarf just standing there idle as the greenskin ripped into warriors or quarrelers. They've also spent, like. One or two episodes mostly kvetching about dwarven lack of calvary, naturally accompanied by making wide, easily flanked formations in some of the most undwarven displays of organization I've ever seen in my life. And I repeat. This is the
most competent campaign LPer I've yet found, out at least four or five different ones checked. At least he's only
mildly stupid about empire management (Yes, a 50% increase to that replenishment rate bonus, nevermind the extra growth on top of it, is worth 1k gold
) and non-battle decisions (we'll not talk about the other one that spent probably two to three episodes walking their main army back and forth across their territory doing literally nothing and forgot they were saving for an ancient armory probably five times before I went to try to find something that didn't hurt as bad).
Please. Someone, tell me where I can go to make it stop ;_;
... also, out of curiosity, because I'm not sure which of these guys have been being more stupid... do archers actually suffer some kind of penalty for shooting over allies? I can't tell, and because of that I can't tell whether the ones that have their melee lines sitting up front or the ones having them behind the crossbows inevitably failing to react to enemy charges in time are the more braindead, and it's been bugging me.