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Workflow:
Finishing Kerillian episode 5, already started, halfway through, might finish it tonight or tomorow. Not sure wich one. Then the rest of the week gonna work on commissions. Got one that will make you AoS fan kinda happy =)
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The Total War Warhammer 2 owning!

Recently i decided to end faction by faction on very hard difficulties. For you folks that dunno what it means, in total war games, the AI difficulty don't say how much it think, it tell you how much it ll cheat.
Basicly, the higher the difficulty, the higher the upkeep for your armies for each consecutive armies. Mean, one army, no prob; 2 armies +15% upkeep to every unit you own etc etc.
On the opposite, the computer get like upkeep cost and unit buy divided by two, and they get auto exp lvling for free. Their cities grow faster and they got barelly none increase of upkeep by armies
It means that when you can barely manage 2 armies of low and mid tier units, at the same time the IA ll get 5 full of mid+High tier all veteran.
So it's basicly "SURVIVE" at the begining . So why make this to myself? The challenge! At one point the game become, not really easy, but quite streamline, playing in this mode force you to quickly adapt to situations. Plus it force you to become Good at the battlefield. Sometimes to make "bets", like, if i can force the 3 ennemy armies to attack me in this bottleneck map i can nullify their number and if i win, i would have cost them a Hella ressources and ll be able to counter attack with efficience!

Problem is, it's hard, so many peoples end by doing what we call, doomstacking. Meaning, but a hella broken expensive units and thow it at the ennemy.
I don't do that. It's fun to play once or twice, but quickly become "meh" in my opinion.
But in the same time i'm a "HIGH RISK HIGH REWARD" type of player, so don't take my opinion for more than it is!

The Faction i finished so far:

So, why i didn't do a Lord of Games about all of those? Simple, gotta lot of work to do already and can't just continue to apply stuff on myself to never finish it. Not healthy.
So here is a quick quick resume of all of those, if you wanna have fun:
The High elves: Played Tyrion, mister "totally not racist about the other races, but still would like they took a shower before we meet ". I basicly used a subttle mix of diplomacy, and bashing their head till they're dead, tactic on my fellow high elves, before turning to the "dark" cousins on the west and north. Made Morathi my bitch, then went to her son, explaining to him that now he had to call me daddy wause i wed his mommy.
That done, i noticed Bretonia was full of Skaven, i kicked they ratty butt to colonize it, befriend Karl Franz then waited for Chaos to come, kick they butt, it's a win. EZ PZ Lemon SQEAZY
The Dark elves: made a CYOA about it
Tomb King: Played Sethra. Basicly it was a game of trying to survive the time i got enough money to get bigger statue, in the first 15 turns. Attacked by savage orcs, other mummies, some Bretonian knights. Surprisingly, once the peace with those one was made, they became big big friends. I retook one by one all the pyramid of the fallen kings, rebuilt Nehekara and achieved victory
The wood elves: Played the sisters of Twilight (one model, two sisters), being super aggressive. At first wanted to keep peace between the two other elf races, but then Malekith attacked me, so it forced me in a LONG war against him. Good point, all the battle made me SUPER RICH, and allowed me to build a verry stronk army quite quickly actually. SO in the end of the game my waystalker archer were more or less missile battery. Destroying more or less anything that crossed my path with less than 20 to 30 casualties each time on my side, and total obliteration on the opponent part. After some times, healed my big three, destroyed beastmen at big last scripted battle, i won "yaaay"
ORCS: Played as GRIMGOR, BIGGEST BADDEST BRUTALEST ORC!
Orcs are one of my fav faction, like, most player count massivly on range unit, and there's a reason, on high difficulties melee infantery got massive debuff, and range quasi none. It's why playin with orcs is so rewarding when you win!  So went Full BIG THIN'KIN on that one. Playing dirty tricks, using gobbos as meat shield, Trolls as bashing tools and Black orcs as Anal prolapsus. At first was attacked by ALL SIDE, dwarf at east, send army, barelly win once or twice (God those midget are rough at the baggining). THEN The northern dwarves attack too! Was on the process of taking their last fortress when , oh god, Snitch at the east surprise attack my recent dwarf hold aquisition. And the Humies at the west too! I took on myself, bashed head there and there, then there and there again, Managed to get Gromm the Paunch, and Skarsnik in to my rank, used them with massive shitty gobbos armies to hold then bashj the humies, as Grimgor was slaying skaven all over the place! Making friend with Kallida, this one seemed to LOVE big fat Orkish... muscle.
At this point i get Wurzzag, the dancing green profet.. and one of my fav orc leader! Really, a blast to play!
When i finally finished the menaces, the south attack! A massive one, from all skaven from the south, one of the biggest empire in the game, 12 armies when i had only 4, full of Ratling guns and other joyfull things.
So i took my breath, and screamed as loud as i could a big "WAAAAGH" and i started to kick rat's asses once again, taking away the whole of their lands as mine. Then when chaos attacked, sent Grimgor north. One by one, he took the dozens of armies the chaos wasted spat into the world. Till he met, and destroyed archaon. Saving the world, and winning the campaign.... best game ever, and oh god, salt was in! But made the victory even better in the end! =D
TBH this one i almost ended making it a Lord Of games, took me days, was long and hard, but really rewarding, and had a lot of surprise attack, moment i tough i would be obliterated, and salt, Lot's of salt sometimes X)
But this is for such moments i keep playin those games =)

That 's about it
Talked a lot about total war, but had nothing else to say, and was fun to share about it

Thanks for reading this far!

And c ya soon!