![]() Played almost LAN party stylee in the same room, I played on my high-end PC desktop with glorious shiny graphics level and insane speed, whilst my friend participated on his once high-end gaming laptop, now struggling to run even basic graphics and keep up with the demanding requirements of the game akin to an inebriated, hobbled sloth coughing up blood. The joint campaign didn’t reach its jubilant conclusion due to time constraints and hardware issues. Though all useful in helping understand the game better and practice my chosen race – the High Elves, they finished prematurely for varying reasons. This was actually the time spent playing in total, consisting of the celebrated completed campaign, a three-quarter-finished campaign and a half-finished joint campaign. The Hard Slogįear not prospective players, it is not 185 hours per campaign. If you are more vanilla human folk, like me, pick the Elves, buy the best archers in the game, sit back and shoot them to shit! 3. ![]() If you are a keyboard ninja, with cat like senses, preferably extra fingers and have memorised Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, you can pick one of the races that requires constant micro-managing of the units during battle, usually simultaneously. Do you like everything in order, in its place? Avoid Skaven like the plague then – literally, they’re disorganised, chaotic and plague ridden.īut more so than simple thematic preference, the game warns you which leaders are easier to get to grip with in the campaign, and which will feel like an uphill struggle… in a gale…with asthma… carrying your mum. ![]() Are you aggressive? Maybe don’t go High Elves. Pick the Army That’s Suits Your Playstyle.ĭo you like magic? Don’t pick the Dwarves then. Admittedly, all this information can be summoned from the great portal promptly if you worship the Gods of Google and YouTube, but it was information I inherently knew before setting out on my campaign’s beginnings 2. More so, it gave me a detailed understanding on a unit level, providing valuable information on how to both play and counter most unit types. Firstly, it gave me a solid insight into the different race characteristics and play styles: High Elves – magicy and defensivey, Dwarves – armoury and shooty, Skaven – tricksy and, well, fucking mental, and so on and so forth. The many years playing the latter would be valuable research for the future Total War game. Through this, I was introduced to the world of Warhammer, firstly as a teenager to the 40K universe of Space Marines and laser guns, “pew pew”, and then as a young adult to Warhammer Fantasy Battles. Fear not generations Z and Alpha, this is not a variation of the drug we all know and love, but the in-hobby nomenclature for buying plastic wargaming figurines, an addictive past-time. As such, hard earned pennies could be spent on other things, in this case plastic crack. This was mostly due to spending my childhood basically living at a friend’s house with access to first the SNES and then the N64 and so on, negating my need to save hard earned pennies. Plot twist the NES was the last system I would own until the latest generation of consoles! (I briefly had a Wii, but I’m not really counting that!). So, a gamer hooked early, years of learning game mechanics and practising – that’s presumably the preparation we are talking about? Actually, no. Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros II, Robocop (Fuck you Ed209) and many more games that would entertain me for years. ![]() Twas a Christmas that would change my life forever, as an intrigued 8-year-old nearly soiled himself with excitement at opening a NES System. To explain said preparation, I must first transport you back to the Christmas of 1986. No, not the song sang in sinister yet seductive tones from beloved national treasure Jeremy Irons, but genuine homework and graft. Greg’s Bespoke 5 Step Guide to Campaign Victory! Huzzah! 1. All hail the Elven master of armies! I have finally completed one of the beloved Total War series campaigns – namely Total War Warhammer II, and it only took 185 hours!īut, why so long? Why such elation? All will be answered
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