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Total War: Warhammer – Gaining A Foothold
March 8, 2017 by crew
Join MrStainless001 once again as he powers on with his Total War: Warhammer Let's Play. Sam is taking control of the Bretonnians from the newest DLC pack and will be gaining a foothold in the Old World.
Do you think he's going to be able to push back the enemy at his door and secure a future for his resplendent army of brightly coloured knights?
Follow along to find out and don't forget to check out his Youtube Channel for more videos on plenty of other games!
Who is your favourite Total War: Warhammer faction?
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So frustrated my laptop can’t run this!
I know you can find this online, but would anyone please post what the minimum requirements for a computer to run this game are and then what you have that makes the game actually work. Thanks.
@pschwag what follows is on the back of the game.
PC min. specs.: operating system: windows 7 64bit, processor: intel core 2 duo 3ghz ram:3GB hard drive:35gb video card: directx11,AMD Radeon HD 5770 1024MB, NVIDIA GTS 450 1024MB or Intel HD4000
I always found the TW games super demanding on PC’s let alone laptops 🙁
That they are. After I played it on my old pc a couple of moths, i decided to upgrade my pc, and oh boy that changed the graphic and the loading times of the game. I got so badly beaten up because I was so busy looking at my armys fighting, that I more or less forgot to control them 😉
Yeah I had to upgrade my PC to play this. New graphics card, power supply etc. But, it was worth it!
Great LP btw @stainless001 – looking forward to more 🙂
I liked playing with the warriors of chaos, the only thing I found a bit annoying was the damage you took when they were to close to each other.
I still have to play two factions and I haven’t got the extra DLC for the dwarfs and goblins so it might still change.
Ooh, so are Dwarfs and Goblins the two factions you haven’t played as?
@stainless001 I have played the Dwarfs and Goblins before the DLC was out but I am going to play them again later.
I am currently playing the Wood Elves but I have only started a while ago and the Bretonnians is the last if they don’t release a new faction.
coconuts and flight of the Valkyrie at the ready, lets do this
a great looking game loved the other versions of Total War.
I’ve only played total war, Rome, all the way, though.
Have the Oriental one but can’t remember its name, or even be able to spell it off hand, I think. (Show gun) that kind of rings a bell now I’ve written the above.
This game looks good to me, and one of my Warhammer Armies is Bretonnian. So I’m keen to find out new things which never came to the gaming table about my army (if only).
Glad to say we still play Warhammer in our club and the clubs members from nearby clubs, still filling are armies with new models from now I have to say more manufacturers than gw which still fits the old books. sorry to say (well no I’m not) none of our clubs members moved forward with games workshop new game, which we tried and give up as a bad joke. and as I write this can’t even think of what that’s called and I hope many people will not shout and scream But is my feelings.
Or some of our clubs members use their armies in what they like to say lifted the torch when games workshop dropped it, over to Kings of War, which myself has not tried either, but next month I have said I’ll try. (lol with my Skaven Army) not Bretonnians.
This was not what I was here to write about.
But as this title says its War Hammer and that’s what I’m into.
So although that was fast, a quick session on the screen, I already, even when I don’t understand everything about what you did, you have my Thumbs Up.
really love this game and in many ways filled the gap that was left when wfb ended for me .Was I big fan of shogun and rome total war series of games combine this with the proper warhammer setting makes this so additive just the brets and the wood elf /beastman add-0n to do .Only down side is I seem to spend more time on this than painting and playing with fantasy my armies these days
I play Brettonians since 2 weeks and last weekend I started new because there are so many things you have to look after during the starting phase.
1st: Get rid of those Greenskins as soon as possible! I managed it in 2 rounds after this debuff apeared.
2nd: Military Allies are no reason for not getting confederated. After 90 rounds I was confederated with nearly every Brettonian faction (only Carcassone denied).
3rd: You need a quick victory over Marienburg because if it takes too long they flee into confederation with the Imperium… as they did during my besieging attempt.
4th: Your Men at Arms are better than their reputation. I won a battle against Marienburg with far less troops. But because my Man at Arms hold their ground it was possible for me to get behind the lines with my knights.
I did play the other factions as well but there is no bigger disadvantage for the Brettonians than the peasents. The other faction can place armies at every spot needed (as long as they can pay for it). My Brettonians are rich… but with only 2 or 3 real armies around it is not easy to counter every threat in time.
I guess my question is what is your goal with this article series? There are many videos on YouTube showing play throughs of Warhammer total war. In your play through, you went very quickly through the gameplay so Hoyt explaining much of how the game is played. That means it’s not really a detailed “how the game plays” review. You also didn’t take the time to
Compare/contrast the game to the tabletop game/armies.
Basically, my question is, what is the “Beasts of War” Warhammer total war video series going to provide us over the other Warhammer total war videos on the internet?
Foehammer888, I guess my main question in response to your question (sorry for answering a question with a question, I hate that) would be this: is it ok if this series’ sole purpose is to provide entertainment?
So for me, I’m a video gamer first and a tabletop gamer second. I’m incredibly new to the hobby and am still learning how everything works, am being introduced to new games etc. For me I’m knowledgeable about the TW series, and thereby I’m knowledgeable about TWW. I’m not knowledgeable in how the tabletop runs as I have yet to play it, for me therefore I would see it as unwise and potentially insulting for me to talk and compare it to the tabletop under the guise that I am knowledgeable about it when in fact I’m not.
This was the first episode of the series and hopefully over time you’ll see what I am hoping to achieve with it and where it is going. For me audience interaction is incredibly important, so don’t be shocked if you hear me discussing your comments and tactics that you’ve shared in new videos as I chat you through the decisions I’ve been making and the tactics that I’ve used.
For me, another goal of this series as a whole is to say ‘if you’re a tabletop gamer and like this form of tabletop game/universe, chances are you’ll love this video game.’ The decision was made to start of with TWW and see how you all respond to it, if it’s a series that interests you all and you guys are all ok with how I’m presenting it, then I’ll get to show off other titles to you too.
At the minute, as you’ve pointed out, I play very quickly so that’s something I need to work on for upcoming episodes.