I don't care about warhammer, but I need a total war game….is pic related worth it?

Are there any Total War games with good loading times? I tried a few of them but having to wait about 20 seconds between every battle-map transition just puts me off

What mods is everyone using? Currently using Steel Faith, a few cosmetic mods (better unit icons, better borders, better lighting, better black orcs, etc), and Bon's varied generals. Are there any decent VFX mods? VFX really looks shit.


TW:W is not mechanically the best one, but it's up there overall simply due to faction variation. All the factions play and look fundamentally different, which is extremely important. Medieval 2 is still the best one but TW:W is up there (all of this is with mods, no reason not to consider them). If only the DLC practices weren't so fucking Jewish.

As much as I like those, they are the weaker entries in the series. GC was still very very basic and Rome or Medieval 2 are superior in almost every way.

TW:WH ironically, because they managed to improve the engine and make it 64x

Actual titles and the best AI in the entire series in both the campaign and battles does not make for the weaker entries. Nor does fatigue and layered weather systems that aren't negligible.

R1 and M2 are only liked because they're a lot of peoples babbies first TW game and mods.

They also made impossible to units have more than 200 soldiers.

I don't see how that affects turn times. I do see how that would cause Darth to kill himself though, so that's good.

It doesn't.

Instead of expand and make the game with more than 20 units/ 200 soldiers, they are focusing on graphics and better performance at cost of shrink the battle part.

Med 2 is the best of all time but TW:W is very solid. Been playing since release as VC on hardcore and am not bored yet. I have more than a few moments of joy a night where I say, "I'm happy I bought this game."

Vlad is my necro bro.

I tried sitting back and the game didn't like that. I tried being nice, game didn't like that. So Now I just have quick little wars and then go peace. I am just making contact with chaos and the stupid elves allied with chaos.

I do with there was a diplomatic option to say, "Hey stop fucking around and get ready for chao." but that is the joy of the warhammer universe. everyone is stupid and short sighted. VC have to go thier own way. If you ally with empire and dawi as sooon as chaos is gone your diplomatic points for fucking them up fade and they both remember they hate you.

If you are poor with a toaster maybe wait. But there is nothing like raising an undead army,crushing an enemy army and then coming back after the battle and raising another army. non undead BTFO

Rome Total War aged pretty well.

They're so outdated from their UI to their combat and pathing

Just playing Shogun 2, Attila, or Warhammer is fine enough

Shogun 2 has the best balancing, it gets kinda bland once you beat your first opponent in the Sengoku Jidai, Attila has the hardest campaign to date and the best pathing and combat. Playing the Huns, western or eastern rome will give you at least 100 hours worth of playtime per campaign and will fuck you over hard if you don't know what you're doing. Warhammer is pretty bare content wise but each campaign is as cliche as it sounds utterly unique and interesting to play. Different factions need different strategies and so forth.

The only downfall to new total war entries is lack of mods, but the mods have always been just reskins of x series so whatever, and the overhauls usually make the AI derpier, the only good mod I'd recommend if you like history is Divide Et Impera from Rome 2. Sure a match will take likely 1 to 2 hours if you don't have proper shock infantry but it also is the only mod that delivers decent AI and combat fixes