TOTAL WAR WARHAMMER THE UNLIVING HOST UPGRADE

And while the size of the faction list currently feels a bit disappointing coming from Mortal Empires, all of the newly introduced factions are inventive and just plain fun on the campaign and battle maps.

The Chaos Realms cleverly draw these larger-than-life figures together, so even those from remote corners of the world will be able to test each other's mettle. Total War: Warhammer 3’s single-player mode presents us with a tense, challenging, multilayered campaign driven along by a compelling story and a memorable cast of rivals. Just be careful if you're playing against a friend who's way better than you, because if they want to mess with you, they can really grind your campaign to a halt by taking control of your enemies in every engagement. So it's possible to have some truly epic four-vs-four showdowns that give everyone something to do, even if they have no stake in either army on the campaign map. Once on the battle map, the leader of each army can assign any units, lords, and heroes to any player on their side. They can also choose to control any reinforcing armies, if there are any.

Everyone gets to make their own decision about whether to join one side or the other, or just to spectate. Even if the battle just involves one human player against an AI faction, up to eight people could theoretically become involved. When you get to the combat resolution step, though, that's where the real fun begins. But it’s definitely an improvement over having to wait for everyone's turns to resolve one at a time. It can be fun to race a rival to an objective, too, but the fact that it's twitch-based means you might have to prioritize moving one army quickly at the expense of another being beaten to the punch by a third player, which doesn't feel very Total War. So I might click on the tech and not see anything happen for a couple seconds, which makes the UI feel annoyingly unresponsive. If my friend is auto-resolving a battle and I'm selecting a technology, those can't both happen at the same time. For one, you'll sometimes be held up while the engine decides what to resolve first. die.There are some things I like about this and some I don't. Again I want to point out the synergy between a Zombie + Crypt horror frontline (say 7 zombies, 3 crypt horrors). The usual 'uselessness' of low tier units is usually that they die too fast while zombies can get very tanky. Units with high attack will hit anyway, the +Attack bonus of undeath resurgent has the strongest use when with low attack skill minions. This investment is even stronger with undeath resurgent. Just wanted to point out that zombies are useful early, mid and lategame for the cheap cost of just skilling up unliving host alone. Note that I'm not trying to place zombies on a golden pedestal here as in 'Drop elite units, just get zombies!'. So much infact, that I ended up healing zombies vs chosen and other elite infantry multiple times because the zombies simply had THAT much staying power. With the poison debuff, your zombies which are already tanky, will have a lot of staying power. Also, Zombies have amazing synergy with Crypt horrors. With undeath resurgent, zombies turn into killing machines for a short while.

They are tanky as hell by default, has fear and deal decent damage if you (and you should) skilled unliving host. If you need money or have to be economical about army composition, or simply want to field more armies, you can replace graveguard with zombies as your main infantry line. Note that a Zombie upkeep is 50 (half that of an empire swordsman) and that Zombies have fear by default, and are very, very tanky. A zombie has the following stats:ĭefense: 11 Weapon strength: 28 (18+10) with 2AP (2AP looks little but is per zombie)Īdd in 'Undeath resurgent', which I consider a very powerful skill and you have:Īttack: 32 Defence: 30 Weapon strength: 28 Charge bonus: 16

TOTAL WAR WARHAMMER THE UNLIVING HOST UPGRADE

Meaning that recruiting zombies that start with 3 silver upgrade gets exactly +3 attack and +3 defense.įor a charging Zombie on a unliving host skilled lord & the zombie tech. Unit upgrade is 0.5 attack and defense per skill upgrade. With unliving host the bonus is increased by +12 attack and +10 charge bonus. With tech zombies gain +10 armor, +3 attack, +3 defence. Armor: 15 Attack: 5 Defence: 5 Weapon strength: 18

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