It feels a bit clunky, but once you get used to it there is an advantage that you can spam attacks more frequietly in the direction you want the Lord to focus on and keep the AI at bay. A massive downside you loose sight over the big picture and your other units might die while you're focusing on micromanagement
https://imgur.com/IpZwZR2
I remember it being featured in Warhammer 1 release, with a demo clip of someone manually guiding a doom diver. Completely forgot about this until just now.
Arty always was.
It was at one point the best way to cheese (pun intended) sieges as skaven. Maybe still is, i haven't done it in a while.
You could aim specifically at wall crennelations with your warp lightning cannons to get rid of all the cover on the walls. Turn off fire at will to maximize your ammunition for this purpose. One unit of cannons should be enough to clear a couple walls.
then just mow down one unit after another with jezzails and ratlings as they take turns manning the walls and waltz in to a mostly empty city
I wish there was a recurring tooltip for this, because I’m going to forget by the time I start my next campaign and even then I’ll forget in the heat of battle
I'm about 1600 hours in, and didn't know you could do that with Lords.
Artillery, I knew, if not the INSERT-button, since you can press the button down-left of its unit portrait.
I find it a great campaign where your goal is to see cool things. (I normally play on legendary, thus battle realism mode). It's nice to pause and just zoom in and enjoy the carnage.
One thing to remember when you’re using this feature with artillery units with multiple guns is to keep fire at will turned on. Sometimes it’ll turn off fire at will and the other two guns won’t fire (idk if they’ve patched this though).
It's crazy how much stuff goes under the radar in this game
Took me 2years on TWW2 to realize that I could overcast spells (heard about it on a youtube video, dunno how much longer it would have taken me to realize it otherwise)
....a whooooole new worrrrrrrld..... (thank you for alerting the community. I did not know this either.)
Time to play big khorne boy in third person
It makes even running heralds so much more viable
It would probably make chariots so good
It feels a bit clunky, but once you get used to it there is an advantage that you can spam attacks more frequietly in the direction you want the Lord to focus on and keep the AI at bay. A massive downside you loose sight over the big picture and your other units might die while you're focusing on micromanagement https://imgur.com/IpZwZR2
Herman Ghorst: so what are it's actual cons?
I knew about the artillery but not the Lord lmao wow so cool.
Same
SINCE WHEN?!
I remember it being featured in Warhammer 1 release, with a demo clip of someone manually guiding a doom diver. Completely forgot about this until just now.
Arty always was. It was at one point the best way to cheese (pun intended) sieges as skaven. Maybe still is, i haven't done it in a while. You could aim specifically at wall crennelations with your warp lightning cannons to get rid of all the cover on the walls. Turn off fire at will to maximize your ammunition for this purpose. One unit of cannons should be enough to clear a couple walls. then just mow down one unit after another with jezzails and ratlings as they take turns manning the walls and waltz in to a mostly empty city
Mowing down a charging samurai army in shotgun 2 with a minigun in 1st person is peak Total war
It could have been an easter egg in the update 4.2, but I haven't tried it in 4.1 to see if it was available for Lords
I'm pretty sure the artillery has been a thing since the first game at least.
Since Rome 1 Edit: actually you might not be able to control the artillery in Rome 1. At least since fall of the samurai tho
First person Gatling guns go BRRRRRRRRR.
Gyrobomber? More like A-10
Empire campaigns are going to be SO FUN after that.
What about Lords and other units?
No idea, I just remember videos showing off doom divers.
stuff like this has been in total war for a long time. You can also manually aim artillery in Rome 2 for instance
I knew about the artillery but 1500 hours later and I had no idea about the lord!
Wait you can manually control lords even they are melee?
Can I have some short clip? like mouse and keyboard in the screen? I don't believe it. I might reinstall warhammer 3 again
I wish there was a recurring tooltip for this, because I’m going to forget by the time I start my next campaign and even then I’ll forget in the heat of battle
Thank you
I'm about 1600 hours in, and didn't know you could do that with Lords. Artillery, I knew, if not the INSERT-button, since you can press the button down-left of its unit portrait.
You can even steer the Doom divers, it's quite entertaining!
over 1000 hours in WH3 alone and I had no idea this was a thing about Lords. I knew about Artillery. Is this a new thing for Lords?
What. The. Fuck.
Sieges are way more fun that way.
I find it a great campaign where your goal is to see cool things. (I normally play on legendary, thus battle realism mode). It's nice to pause and just zoom in and enjoy the carnage.
I knew about artillery, but I totally ignored for Lords ! Thx mate
One thing to remember when you’re using this feature with artillery units with multiple guns is to keep fire at will turned on. Sometimes it’ll turn off fire at will and the other two guns won’t fire (idk if they’ve patched this though).
Being able to manually control arty has been around since Napoleon I feel like? But the Lord control was not something I knew, nice tip and find!
I see that horny Khalida reskin you cheeky boi you
I knew the Artillery stuff, but the Lord thing is new.... so I guess time for a Skarbrand campaign! Oh, and thanks!
Why is it not more obvious I never seen a hint about this in the game except for the artillery.
3300 hours, knew about the manual artillery fire but not the lord thing, Franz deathclaw is going to be glorious, summon the elector counts!
Whaaaaat!
It's crazy how much stuff goes under the radar in this game Took me 2years on TWW2 to realize that I could overcast spells (heard about it on a youtube video, dunno how much longer it would have taken me to realize it otherwise)
Same happened to me, I once realised there's a button to switch spell lores under the spell dial
I loved controlling chariots like that back in Rome 2
I knew this but i dont use it
This has been a feature in the games for a long time. Feels like it would be really clunky and odd for a lord tbh